Palestnian Ambassador to the CZ killed by safe explosion - Polidicks

So apparently the Palestine ambassador in Prague managed to kill himself with a faulty safe security measure. To make matters more interesting, it wasn't on the current embassy grounds, so the police was able to go in, and find a large number of unregistered firearms on the premises. And to make it even more fun, his daughter is claiming that it couldn't have been the safe security measure and that he was assassinated by the MOSSAD instead and is claiming the safe was also used daily. [quote] The Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic was killed in an explosion when he tried to get into a safe which had been sealed for 30 years, the Palestinian foreign minister said. The ambassador, Jamal al-Jamal, died of his injuries at the hospital after the blast in his home in the Czech capital on New Year's morning, Czech Republic Foreign Ministry spokesman David Frous told NBC News.[/quote] [URL]http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/01/22133291-palestinian-ambassador-in-prague-killed-by-security-mechanism-on-safe-sealed-for-30-years-report?lite[/URL]

Clearly it wasn't a very safe explosion if he died from it

Doesn't sound like it was a safe explosion to me.

how would his daughter know the details of how frequently he used the safe?

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;43405651]Clearly it wasn't a very safe explosion if he died from it[/QUOTE] You whore.

So it's like a safe with two combinations, however the "correct" one doesn't cause a bomb to explode when opened?

Yeah, I have been following it a bit and the entire thing sounds [I]very[/I] shady overall. Obviously, my first twitchy thought was "of course, Mossad!" but nobody managed to explain the unregistered firearms the subsequent police investigation performed - illegal weapons aren't that common here and it's Kinda a Big Deal, plus, nobody presented any theory of how would have Mossad done it. There has been several versions of how he actually got injured and I think that the final and most repeated one was that he was trying put some kind of boobytrap into the safe; something that would at the very least destroy the materials before anybody not meant to get in got to them, and that he died by fucking the installation up. I mean, sure, I guess he couldn't be sure who to trust, but still, an ambassador himself installing booby traps into his safe? It just sounds fishy. There was also something about the safe being unopened for decades and going kaboom as he decided to open it for the first time since then, and it seems what this article is going with. The entire thing is a pretty nasty mess and I don't really know who to believe and what to think.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;43405734]Yeah, I have been following it a bit and the entire thing sounds [I]very[/I] shady overall. Obviously, my first twitchy thought was "of course, Mossad!" but nobody managed to explain the unregistered firearms the subsequent police investigation performed - illegal weapons aren't that common here and it's Kinda a Big Deal, plus, nobody presented any theory of how would have Mossad done it. There has been several versions of how he actually got injured and I think that the final and most repeated one was that he was trying put some kind of boobytrap into the safe; something that would at the very least destroy the materials before anybody not meant to get in got to them, and that he died by fucking the installation up. I mean, sure, I guess he couldn't be sure who to trust, but still, an ambassador himself installing booby traps into his safe? It just sounds fishy. There was also something about the safe being unopened for decades and going kaboom as he decided to open it for the first time since then, and it seems what this article is going with. The entire thing is a pretty nasty mess and I don't really know who to believe and what to think.[/QUOTE] The most common story I've heard these days is that he wasn't trying to put the bomb into the safe, but he wanted to check on the content of the same after it got moved to the new location. Either the safe was not used for long enough, or something broke during the move and the bomb exploded instead. While it may have been designed to just destroy the materials, it seems to have been bigger than expected and killed him. Of course the story is getting more convoluted as a lot of local palestinians including his daughters keep claiming it was Mossad in retaliation for the ambassador not liking Israeli settlements. According to them, the explosion came from beneath the safe as opposed from inside of it. Couple that with the illegal weapons and you almost had the police actually wanting to make a raid on the actual embassy, but the ministry of FA is against that, so it didn't happen, because the only way that would not become an international issue is, if the embassy was indeed connected with arms smuggling. Which is something no one knows for sure atm. [QUOTE=pentium;43405689]So it's like a safe with two combinations, however the "correct" one doesn't cause a bomb to explode when opened?[/QUOTE] It's basically a cold war trick, where you had a small scale, usually incendiary explosive attached to a safe with multiple ways of disarming them. Sometimes it was physical and you had to be very careful when opening the safe door and unhook the explosive, at other times it was attached to a seperate code lock and had to be deactivated first as well as multiple other methods of doing it.

OK... that does a sound plausible especially with how paranoid the KGB/CIA are, if he found a locked safe and wanted to open it out of curiosity and didn't realise that it was some cold war relic he could have blown himself up by accident I can't wait to hear how they spin this in his home country

It's a trick that was popular during the cold war. That doesn't mean it's still in use today. But digital is kinda hurting the whole paper documents thing.

guess it wasn't safe after all