Airstrike Sends Suicide Car Skyrocketing, Then Bomb Detonates at Perfect Time
Never let anyone tell you the U.S. military lacks generosity, because the truth is our men and women in uniform are very generous — so much, in fact, that two years ago they kindly helped an Islamic State group militant briefly touch the heavens.
In a video recording of this very generous act that BBC reporter Feras Kilani posted to Twitter on Tuesday, the lucky militant’s vehicle could be seen being catapulted into the sky after a ground explosion of some type that Kilani attributed to a “US missile” strike.
After about five seconds of floating in the skies, another explosion occurred mid-air, engulfing the car in a tiny mushroom cloud of fury and, presumably, killing the militant.
It appears to be the quickest way for a suicide car bomber to reach Heaven by exploding in the sky after US missile hit him near #kirkuk pic.twitter.com/08YG8kIBhd
— Feras Kilani (@FerasKilaniBBC) September 19, 2017
What’s unclear is what really happened. According to a report filed by The U.K. Daily Telegraph in April of 2015, a Kurdish fighter from Iraq had uploaded the video to LiveLeak after observing the explosions live.
The problem is that “(r)ival explanations have been offered as to what triggered the initial explosion, though all agree that the car belonged to an Islamic State suicide bomber attempting to attack a Kurdish peshmerga, or army, position near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.”
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Writing on Twitter, Kilani shared his belief that a U.S. missile struck a car bomb that had been lying near the vehicle, causing both the vehicle and another car bomb to fly into the air before the second bomb exploded as well.
Others believe the car had simply hit a landmine, but the truth is that neither explanation is necessarily correct.
“Neither explanation seems credible, given the force of the explosion, which is of a size normally detonated by a major booby-trap of the sort often used by the jihadists themselves,” the Telegraph noted. “It is possible that a major explosive device detonated early, taking a passing car with it, which then exploded due to the fuel in its tank.”
Unfortunately, we still don’t know for sure what really triggered the explosions. What we do know for certain is that one very lucky Islamic State group militant and savage got to both touch the skies and go to hell.
H/T The Daily Caller
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