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Afghanistan
More on the Afghan "work accident" - would-be boomer was a crossdresser
2006-06-02
A suicide car bomber was killed yesterday close to a base for US troops serving with a Nato-led peacekeeping mission in western Afghanistan when his bomb went off too soon, a provincial governor said. The suicide blast, the latest in a raft of such attacks in Afghanistan, rocked the small provincial capital of Farah in the countryÂ’s far west, a relatively quiet area that is seeing an increase in militant violence.

A suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosives-filled car while being chased by police through the city centre, provincial governor Isatullah Wasifi said. The intended target of the suicide bomb was not certain although the bomb exploded near a Nato peacekeepersÂ’ base and governorÂ’s office. Wasifi said a 22-year-old man wearing a burqa, the all-covering garment worn by some Afghan women, was detained near the site of the blast on suspicion of helping the attacker detonate the explosives.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#17  "work accident" - ROFL

Must be hard to get a workers comp policy in this place.
Posted by: Intrinsicpilot   2006-06-02 15:44  

#16  Is that a bomb in your burqa, or are you just glad to see me?
Posted by: Zenster   2006-06-02 14:23  

#15  #11 - LOL, DB!
Posted by: Throluting Thravimble3768   2006-06-02 14:21  

#14  Joe keeps this up, we're gonna have to make him a moderator.

Strobing ultraviolet.
Posted by: 6   2006-06-02 14:19  

#13  Joe keeps this up, we're gonna have to make him a moderator.

Or I'm going to have to become his campaign manager in '08.
Posted by: Steve White   2006-06-02 12:04  

#12  There is no right to drive
Pursuit of Happiness isn't in the Constitution is it? Rats. Should be implied, like the right to privacy and free medical care.


Posted by: 6   2006-06-02 12:03  

#11  "Does this burqa make my butt bomb look big, Hamid?"
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-06-02 11:12  

#10  There is no right to drive. If the states passed a law that only naked can drive, then a lot of folks will have really great tans.
Posted by: ed   2006-06-02 10:28  

#9  If I recall correctly, even in Saudi Arabia women must bare their faces for identity document photos. And of course, they aren't allowed to drive, so that whole burqa-d while driving question is moot. On the other hand, .com had some pungent things to say about Saudi men driving while wearing the kuffiyeh (?) headwear, which apparently cuts off all peripheral vision.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-06-02 10:06  

#8  This reminds me of the contraversy in the U.S. and I believe in Australia over photo ID's. Muslm women who prefer to wear a Burqa while driving; another mystery to me for safety reasons, want their ID's like driver licenses to show them with the full head covering. The problem is that there is no way to properly identify them during a traffic stop for example. The women and men argue religious freedom and privacy, but law enforcement argues security concerns and identification. Particularly if it is a male terrorist dressed as a women.
Posted by: Delphi2005   2006-06-02 09:28  

#7  haute le sac

har har har!
Posted by: 6   2006-06-02 08:52  

#6  Story sez the cross-dresser wasn't the boomer, just his boyfriend helper.

a 22-year-old man wearing a burqa, the all-covering garment worn by some Afghan women, was detained near the site of the blast on suspicion of helping the attacker detonate the explosives.
Posted by: Steve   2006-06-02 08:07  

#5  Good thing he blew himself up, because, you know, you can't shoot the innocent women (& children). And how do you tell the difference between a pregnant woman in a burka and a man wearing a big bomb in a burka?
Posted by: glenmore   2006-06-02 07:23  

#4  I have a feeling quite a few of the I-slamic terrorists are self-repressing homosexuals.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2006-06-02 07:22  

#3  I guess some want to get 72 virgins and others want to be one of the virgins. Equal opp splodeydopes.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412   2006-06-02 06:46  

#2  LOL Joe!

haute le sac

it's the latest rage for any respectable splody.
Posted by: RD   2006-06-02 06:28  

#1  Michael Jackson moves to Yemen and starts wearing women's clothes, now all Islam has gone to hell, or at least copycatting. Sniff, sniff, even the Spetzies-Radics have gone le chic alternatist.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-06-02 01:11  

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