Terrorism can be defined as an expression of political strategy and secret acting of individuals, illegal organizations through illegal use of force or violence or property in order to apply pressure on the government and population, in order to achieve political or social goal.
Terrorist action of certain organizations tend to diver the attention to problems of those groups and fractions, and the best way to achieve those goals are murders of state representatives and innocent citizens and attack on social good. In recent years we can see ever growing increase of terrorist attack. Prevention and fight against terrorism are main priorities of most western countries. However, not all attacks are finished in the way terrorist planed it. Sometimes from ignorance, and sometimes from stupidity of main actors, these actions finish with a fiasco. This attachment about top 10 dumbest terrorists testifies to this.
10RICHARD REID
Richard attempted to detonate a shoe bomb on a transatlantic flight in 2001. His foot sweat dampened the fuse, rendering it useless.
09TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBER
In Southern Afghanistan a Taliban suicide bombers vest blew up prematurely. It didn’t just kill him, it took out another six terrorists. No one else was hurt.
08SALAMAN AL-TAEZI AND WALID ASHIBI
While building a missile, Ashibi shuffled across the carpet. Static energy built up and ignited the missile, kill Taezi, before Ashibi himself collapsed dead.
07IYMAN FARIS
This naturalized US citizen had a devilish scheme. He wanted to bring down Brooklyn Bridge by cutting through its suspension cables with a blowtorch.
06MOHAMMED SALAMEH
Mohammed was one of the 1993 WTC bombers. Returned to the rental agency to reclaim the deposit for the van he had just blown up thus walking straight into the hands of the FBI.
05SULLIVAN PLOTTERS
Sullivan was wanted to ram a US Navy Destroyer with a boat full of explosives. They loaded so many explosives onto their boat that it sank.
04UMAR FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB
Umar tried to explode his underwear on a flight. Covering himself in a blanket, passengers heard popping, saw his underwear on fire and just restrained him.
03KAMEL BOURGAS
Kamel was plotted to kill hundreds by rubbing ricin onto car door handles. However, ricin actually has to be ingested or injected to be lethal.
02BILAL ABDULLAH AND KAFEEL AHMED
They tried to ram and blow up Glasgow Airport, but hadn´t seen the concrete bollards. Crashed their car and caught on fire, before one was knocked out by someone waiting for a flight.
01BIRMINGHAM TERROR GROUP
This group led Chubbs, a man too fat to receive proper terror training. They lost 13.500 of their budget when one went to make a cup of tea while betting online. After that, they bought ice packs to use ammonium nitrate to make bombs. However, ammonium nitrate is no longer an ingredient in ice packs.