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“This is so funny,” said Raad Hashim of Baghdad, Iraq. “It shows how stupid they are, those dogs and sons of dogs.” He laughed when told of the events at a terrorist “training camp” in Salahuddin Province, north of Baghdad. A member of The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which grew out of an al Qaeda group, was showing students how to set off a suicide bomb strapped to his body. The instructor, who was not named, though the Iraq Army noted he was a “prolific recruiter,” accidentally blew himself up, killing 21 students and wounding 15 others. Eight others were arrested as they tried to flee when the army responded to the explosion. News of the accident quickly spread around Iraq, with most Iraqis celebrating. “I hope that their graves burn and all the rest of them burn as well,” another man said. “I was not happy with the number killed, though: I wanted more of them to die.” (RC/New York Times) ...Hopefully they got video of that to show future classes, since that’s exactly how it should be done.