Suicide Bomb Instructor Accidentally Kills 22 Students in Iraq

The would-be suicide bombers were all at an Iraqi camp, presumably huddled around their commander, learning how to blow themselves up amid a crowd of people, when their teacher accidentally obliterated his own crowd, injuring 15 and ending the lives of 22.

The instructor was unnamed in a New York Times report, so little is known about the man other than he failed to realize his bomb belt was chock full of live explosives before showing his students how to detonate it. According to reports, all the students were and are members of a group called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, an Al Qaeda faction that has been at war with the Iraqi army throughout the country's Anbar Province for years. After the blast, eight militants were arrested while trying to get away. Read more...