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[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 130 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The guy on the right is Ben Innes from Aberdeen. He posed for a picture to post on social media next to Seif Eldin shortly after he hijacked a plane in Cyprus whilst wearing what turned out to be a fake suicide belt. Ben didn't know it was fake at the time of course.

[–] GTG3000@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago

He also said later that it was to try and get a better look at the bomb.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 25 points 1 week ago

Cool, if morbid, photo to have afterwards, though!

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's a big smile for not knowing

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 1 week ago

I mean if you think it's your last photo, wouldn't you wanna look good