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RED 3.. the hunt by terrorists for a fictional super weapon - cbelt3 - 11-20-2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/magazine/the-doomsday-scam.html
"The hunt for the ultimate weapon began in January 2014, when Abu Omar, a smuggler who fills shopping lists for the Islamic State, met a jihadist commander in Tal Abyad, a Syrian town near the Turkish border. The Islamic State had raised its black flag over Tal Abyad several days before, and the commander, a former cigarette vendor known as Timsah, Arabic for ‘‘crocodile,’’ was the area’s new security chief. The Crocodile had an order to place, which he said he had received from his bosses in Mosul, a city in northwestern Iraq that the Islamic State would later overrun."
A great article, it goes on to discuss the search for a doomsday weapon used as the "McGuffin" in the recent Film RED 2. Except this is an entirely fictional thing.
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Re: RED 3.. the hunt by terrorists for a fictional super weapon - Speedy - 11-21-2015
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