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Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To 'Damage the US Economy' (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the sickening-news dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Al-Qaeda's official online propaganda magazine, Inspire, contains a montage of violent images -- things like guns and blood -- next to an image of Bill Gates. The terrorist group is urging its followers to murder successful business folks, such as Gates, which is absolutely sickening. The terrorist group says that murdering high ranking people can damage the U.S. economy.

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  1. Wow, they really are stuck in the past by damn_registrars · · Score: 5, Funny

    While I wish no harm upon Bill Gates - in spite of being vehemently anti-Microsoft myself - I don't see what Al-Qaeda could expect to accomplish by killing him. He stepped down how many years ago from the top of Microsoft? This seems about as logical as watching too many reruns of ER and then deciding to kill George Clooney to harm our health care system.

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    1. Re:Wow, they really are stuck in the past by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I agree. They would be much better off targeting Donald Trump.

      Man, we would be so screwed if they did that. The whole country would probably be in chaos instantly if they went after Donald Trump. I don't know how we would handle such a thing

      I sure hope they don't set their sights on Donald Trump instead.

    2. Re:Wow, they really are stuck in the past by myowntrueself · · Score: 5, Funny

      Al-Qaeda's the Jeb Bush of terrorist orgs. Once respected, they coasted for too long, grew fat and lazy and lost their edge.

      Like Jeb Bush, Al-Qaeda has an excellent donor network to fund future activities.

      And, similarly, they will be spending those donations on hookers and blow.

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    3. Re:Wow, they really are stuck in the past by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      One million? No way!

      640K ought to be enough for any terrorist!

    4. Re: Wow, they really are stuck in the past by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Fortunately for us, they said they were only going to target successful businessmen.

    5. Re:Wow, they really are stuck in the past by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

      So, really, they're the Microsoft of terrorist organizations!

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  2. Woohoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, the year of the Linux desktop

  3. Richard Bin Stallman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now we know what the B stands for and why he has a beard.

  4. Of course Al Qaeda is pissed by NewtonsLaw · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess Al Qaeda woke up to find their Windows 7 had been automatically upgraded to Windows 10 then? That's got to piss them off.

    1. Re:Of course Al Qaeda is pissed by TFlan91 · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's how the CIA found their next drone target!

      Once Win10 was started, triangulation was acquired and.... 3... 2... 1... "boom".

  5. I hope they don't go after Steve Jobs by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, if they're going after Gates, might as well try to take out Apple too...

  6. Re:Top people are completely replacable by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Top people in Western society are completely replaceable

    Perhaps the one thing our economic policy ensures: the wealthy are almost criminally worthless and the most replaceable of the lot, to the point of being huge boat anchors.

    Knock yourselves out Al Qaeda, purge us of our parasites, that'll show us!

  7. This explains a lot by overshoot · · Score: 4, Funny

    The terrorist group says that murdering high ranking people can damage the U.S. economy.

    They've been reading waaaaaaay too much Ayn Rand.

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  8. More likely Windows Vista by Roger+W+Moore · · Score: 5, Funny

    His philanthropy may even be what is irritating them, who knows?

    Actually given how out of date they seem I suspect that it may be because they have only just upgraded to Vista.