The new issue of
The Atlantic has
an article about incompetent terrorists -- clearly inspired by DisasterMan's blog posts. :-) They cite the same incidents described in DM's
Idiot Terrorists, Part 1 and
Part 2, and also provide a few more fun facts.
The Case for Calling Them Nitwits
...it’s fair to say that the Taliban employ the world’s worst suicide bombers: one in two manages to kill only himself. And this success rate hasn’t improved at all in the five years they’ve been using suicide bombers, despite the experience of hundreds of attacks—or attempted attacks.
