Samson Option

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xeonmc · 2h ago

> When the Lehi militant group were discussing ways to assassinate General Evelyn Barker, the British Army commander in Mandatory Palestine, a young woman volunteered to do the assassination as a suicide bombing. She said "Let my soul die with the Philistines" as a reference to the Samson story in the Hebrew Bible.

Reportedly to be carried out with a belt-load of explosive Samsung phones[0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/fqrc5GD.jpeg

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Samson Option

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