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2006-11-30 Afghanistan

An Afghan bomber's tale sheds light on motives

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Posted by Fred 2006-11-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A foreigner? Caught planting a roadside bomb? In Afghanistan? Still alive? WTF?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-30 03:02|| 2006-11-30 03:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Three tries, three failures? That shadowy and sinister Abdul Rahman isn't a very good teacher, it seems. It sounds, too, like dear little Mumtaz Ahmad was sent from the extra special school -- if the family doesn't know or care what he's been doing, he's a throw-away kid. People keep track of successful offspring.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-30 08:37|| 2006-11-30 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 "People keep track of successful offspring."

Well, not always. Mr. exJAG and I each have one batshit looney tunes parent who hasn't bothered to contact us in years. His mom became a nun and started her own order (Bleeding Eyes of Jesus or something); and my dad lives underground in a decommissioned missile silo, with cameras ringing the perimeter hooked up to a TV that functions as his "window." They don't even know what country we live in, or care.

No doubt there's a huge cultural rift between neurotic American boomers and Pashtun villagers (or maybe not, heh) -- just sayin, could be his family is all jacked up too.

Or, they're lying, so as not to implicate themselves.

Posted by exJAG 2006-11-30 09:36|| 2006-11-30 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 "I realise now that these foreign forces came here to help us, not disgrace us, he said. Its too late now. I know I was deceived.

I wonder how many Gitmo detainees have said much the same thing as Ahmad, were later released, and then returned to the battlefield. Far too many I suspect.

Call me a cynic, but I don't put much stock in sudden moral conversions by captured suicide bombers. Unlike say, the Saudis, the Pakis, the Yemenis, and the Indonesians etc.

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2006-11-30 10:49|| 2006-11-30 10:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Looks like one fine job of "repentin".
Yeah, if he was in Saudi Arabia, he'd have been out years ago.

Posted by tu3031 2006-11-30 10:52|| 2006-11-30 10:52|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm sorry, exJAG. Probably best they aren't in too close contact, although I don't offer that as comfort. I should have said Normal parents..., but they'd keep track of unsuccessful offspring, too. Darn it! What kind of people throw away kids, anyway?!? Never mind, they must be lying to protect themselves.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-30 11:07|| 2006-11-30 11:07|| Front Page Top

#7 OT: exJag - Minuteman or Titan?

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-30 12:01|| 2006-11-30 12:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Atlas F. It would be cool, if he was something other than a leftie lunatic hiding from the Patriot Act, defense satellites, and black CIA helicopters.

Posted by exJAG 2006-11-30 18:04|| 2006-11-30 18:04|| Front Page Top

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