Job offer on closed Internet forum seeks applicants who are utterly committed to completing their mission
Apparently low on bombers, al-Qaeda is running a (short-term) employment advertisement on its Shumukh al-Islam Internet forum. Under the heading “Area of activity: The planet Earth,” the ad seeks jihadists to carry out suicide attacks.
Applicants must be Muslim, mentally mature, dedicated, able to listen, and utterly committed to completing their mission, the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Tuesday.
Several email addresses are provided for applicants. While their real names are not required, candidates are asked to send details of their nickname or handle, their age, marital status, languages spoken and a list of passports in their possession.
The ad on the forum, which is accessible only to al-Qaeda members, specifies the targets of the terror attacks that applicants will be expected to carry out, including “People who fight Islam and Muslims” and enemy “financial, military and media targets.”
The ad indicates that the anticipated attacks will be solo operations: “Only one person will be in charge. He will gather all of the intelligence, he will prepare the operation — and he will complete the attack.” However, it continues, “a military panel” will oversee the bomber’s training and select the target.
The job description promises only a “very slight chance of being caught.”
The ad has elicited several positive responses, the Yedioth article claimed. One forum participant requested that Germany, Denmark and Sweden be specified as potential targets. The same participant warned the forum to be very careful about what it publishes, for fear that the enemy may see what the group is planning.
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Tattoos: Vintage photographs reveal incredible head-to-toe ink on women in the 20′s, 30′s and 40′s
From bike gangs, to star-crossed lovers and rebellious teenagers, tattoos are often thought of as modern day markings, usually of the wayward and tough.However tattoos are far from a new cultural phenomenon. Decades before Jimmy Buffet sang ‘It’s just a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling’, women all over the world were proudly adorning their entire bodies in defining ink.Whether it was 1926 in the Bronx, the Thirties in England or 1946 in Japan, these incredible vintage photographs reveal how tattooed ladies paved the way in tattoo design for the rest of the world.
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Stressed Men Eye Curvier Women
Heavier women, do not despair; researchers have found that men experiencing stress tend to find curvy women more attractive. In regions where food is scarce, and people are presumably stressed due to their subsistence lifestyle, heavier partners are the ideal. Western cultures idealize thin women, but it appears that even short-term stress in an otherwise resource-rich environment can cause a shift in body-size preference. In a recent study, men placed in stressful interview and public speaking scenarios ranked women with higher BMIs more positively than did men who were more relaxed.
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Thai MP Boonsong Kowawisarat ‘accidentally kills secretary’
Police in Thailand say that they will charge a member of the Thai parliament with causing death by negligence for accidentally shooting his secretary dead with a submachine gun.
They say that the accident happened in a restaurant on Sunday night.
Senator Boonsong Kowawisarat took out a 9mm Uzi submachine gun while waiting for food, the Bangkok Post reported.
He told police the gun accidentally discharged and his secretary was shot in the stomach.
Police say that the shooting happened in Phrae province, northern Thailand.
Police say that because Mr Boonsong was in shock after the incident, the restaurant owner rushed the secretary to hospital where she succumbed to gunshot wounds.
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For Shark Week!
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At long last, we can find “F-bomb” in the dictionary — the word is among the latest additions to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, alongside “sexting,” ”man cave,” “earworm” (e.g., “Call Me Maybe”), and 96 other colloquialisms.
(For the record: Merriam-Webster defines F-bomb as “a lighthearted and printable euphemism” for something far more offensive.)
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In honor of Shark Week, the Discovery Channel asked fans on Twitter to submit pictures of themselves “photochomping” their TVs.
Naturally, everyone got it awesomely wrong – instead of hands on head, like a fin, nearly all the submissions are of fans nom nomming their TVs.
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Originally posted 2012-08-14 13:03:17. Republished by Blog Post Promoter