Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Well That's Simply Sad

My how the mighty have fallen. The once fearsome jihadis who embraced death rather than fear it, can't even get volunteers for a ticket to Paradise any more (from my Jane's email updates):

Ansar al-Islam, an Iraqi militant Sunni Islamist group, released an electronic pamphlet to jihadist forums in October that announced it was building vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED) that can be steered to their targets by remote control. The pamphlet admitted the vehicles were difficult to control but said the problem had been offset by the installation of video cameras[.]

One question: what jihadi genius responsible for the Mark I version thought it could be steered with no cameras?