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Iraq: Islamic State jihadists using video game controller explosives to murder Yazidis

May 29, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

There are no limits to the jihadist hatred of infidels, or to their impulse to murder them. “Bomb detection units in Iraq uncovered a plot by the Islamic State to detonate bombs against Yazidi people hidden in video game controllers, a film highlighted by the UK Telegraph on Monday found.”

While the Islamic State has been dismantled “as a geographic pseudo-state, jihadists cunningly planted what experts believe to be millions of hidden explosive devices throughout communities as a way of spreading fear after the Islamic State moved on. As well as planting devices in video game controllers, other common targets include children’s toys such as teddy bears and playing cards.”

This particularly sinister tactic is nothing new for jihadists, who will use any method they possibly can to kill and “cast terror into the hearts of disbelievers” (Quran 8:12). In Gaza, a similar means is employed: balloons, kites and other toys have in many cases been laden with explosives.

“Iraq: Islamic State Using Video Game Controller Bombs Against Yazidis,” by Ken Kew, Breitbart, May 26, 2020:

Bomb detection units in Iraq uncovered a plot by the Islamic State to detonate bombs against Yazidi people hidden in video game controllers, a film highlighted by the UK Telegraph on Monday found.

Telegraph, citing a newly released documentary, reported that should one of the controllers have been picked up and played with, four bombs would have detonated and destroyed most of its surroundings.

The booby trap is one of a number of bombs disguised as household items unveiled through the film. The documentary, Into the Fire, follows Hana Khider, a Yazidi woman and team leader from the Mines Advisory Group charity that helps detect hidden explosives.

“The controller was in a house in Sinjar district and was attached to four large explosive charges placed around the building, enough to completely destroy the house,” Mines Advisor Group spokesman Jonathan Caswell told the newspaper. “Pressure on the controller buttons or joysticks would set them off simultaneously.”

The Yazidi people were victims of what is increasingly recognized as genocide at the height of the caliphate’s power from 2014 to 2016 when jihadists slaughtered thousands of people and systematically raped and abducted Yazidi women and girls.

While the Islamic State no longer exists as a geographic pseudo-state, jihadists cunningly planted what experts believe to be millions of hidden explosive devices throughout communities as a way of spreading fear after the Islamic State moved on. As well as planting devices in video game controllers, other common targets include children’s toys such as teddy bears and playing cards.

The film, commissioned by the Nobel Prize, was released last week on the National Geographic YouTube channel. It is directed by the filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel, who won an Oscar for his film 2016 The White Helmets about volunteer rescue workers of the Syrian Civil Defence.

“I’m often drawn to stories of hope in the face of extreme adversity, to stories about ordinary people who show extraordinary courage, dignity and resolve,” von Einsiedel said on the film’s release. “Even after unimaginable tragedy, people don’t give up. They rebuild. In the difficult and dark times we are all living through, I’m finding it helpful to be reminded how resilient humans can be.”….

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Filed Under: Iraq, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: "Into the Fire", Hana Khider, Jonathan Caswell, Sinjar district, Yazidis


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  1. mortimer says

    May 29, 2020 at 11:00 am

    Islam is an ideology of supremacism and conquest based on the premise that Allah hates kafirs and wants Muslim believers to hate them too. This teaching (Al Walaa wal Baraa) is genocidal in nature. While many Muslims do not know about Al Walaa wal Baraa, it is the ones who DO KNOW of it that are worrisome … as this report makes clear. They believe they are doing Allah’s work.

    The only thing that can stop jihad is to stop belief in the supernatural origin of the Koran. Once Muslims perceive the Koran is of human origin, they drop out of Islam. All Western countries should create a secret plan to debunk Islam using all legal means. The tranquility of the world depends on it.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    May 29, 2020 at 1:55 pm

    One of the explanation as to how such totally unconscionable, ruthless, vicious actions and murderous are committed by the Muslim terrorists who compose the brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS is answer in the following . The jihadists of ISIS are engaging in the Islamic doctrine of “Muruna” which is the dogma of Islam that teaches committing evil for the greater good is a noble part of the jihad for Islam. This is, in essence, the same type of “philosophy” that the communists had gone by in the twentieth century.
    That it’s a “good thing “ to commit many evils to obtain a “worker’s paradise.” Likewise, during World War II even the Nazis had this line of thinking.” To express, as in to illustrate this idea, even more, is by using a twenty-first century movie. Near the end of this movie, just before the final defeat of the super-arch –villain General Zod , that super villain said “No matter how brutal and deadly I was I did it for the greater good.” That is the common mindset of many villains including those of ISIS.

  3. keith O says

    May 29, 2020 at 4:33 pm

    These incidents are a page straight out of the gorilla warfare hand book.
    Booby trapping common items left on a battlefield with explosives has been going on since at least the first world war.
    The main difference here is that it is acceptable to do it to F@#k up enemy troops, but these vermin are doing it to non combatants, women and kids, and that, is a whole new level of subhuman behavior.
    I personally can respect an enemy who pulls on a uniform and fights me toe to toe, but this, this is just sickening.
    There is no honor in this.

  4. gravenimage says

    May 29, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    Iraq: Islamic State jihadists using video game controller explosives to murder Yazidis
    …………….

    So evil–glad they were stopped.

    And this is how Muslims use video game controllers. There is almost nothing they can’t turn to evil. If only they used this creativity for something other than murder.

    • James Lincoln says

      May 30, 2020 at 8:24 am

      gravenimage says,

      “There is almost nothing they can’t turn to evil.”

      Grimly so…

      Even a shoe:

      I’m sure that you remember Richard Reid the “Shoe Bomber”, the islamic terrorist who attempted to detonate a shoe bomb while on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami in 2001.

      I hope that he’s enjoying the “fine amenities” at ADX Florence…

      • gravenimage says

        May 30, 2020 at 10:32 pm

        Yep.

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