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Afghanistan
Armed woman among several militants killed in Afghanistan
2008-03-17
KABUL - An Afghan armed woman and several Taliban militants were killed by US-led coalition forces and seven more insurgents were killed by indigenous police forces, officials said on Sunday.

Coalition forces killed several militants including an armed woman during a search operation in Tani district of south-eastern province of Khost on Saturday, US military said in a statement on Sunday. After the first round of engagement, in which several Taliban militants were killed, the combined forces identified an armed militant, who made “threatening gestures and presented an imminent threat,” the statement said.

“Coalition forces responded in self-defence, engaging and killing the armed individual,” it said, adding, “Coalition forces discovered the dead militant armed with an AK-47 assault rifle was a woman after the engagement.”
It's an old joke, but I do wonder whether she gets 72 virgin boys ...
Two other militants were arrested by the combined forces, who told the joint forces that the armed woman was sent out to determine coalition forcesÂ’ locations.

Meanwhile, four militants were killed after they attacked a police outpost in Nangarhar province, near border with Pakistan, Abdul Ghafour, a police spokesman told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. The attack took place in early hours of Sunday, he said, adding that there were no Afghan police casualties during the firefight.

Three other militants were killed in a fight with police in Musa Qala district of southern Helmand province on Saturday, said Mohammad Hussain Andewal, provincial police chief.
Posted by:Steve White

#14  It's that difficulty in discriminating between true asses and overly subtle humour that led to the use of smileys like ;-) and pseudoprogramming tags like /sarcasm or /end sarcasm. There's interesting information on the Site Meter in the right column, for those more clever than I to interpret, as well.
Posted by: trailing wife   2008-03-17 23:57  

#13  It's that difficulty in discriminating between true asses and overly subtle humour that led to the use of smileys like ;-) and pseudoprogramming tags like /sarcasm or /end sarcasm. There's interesting information on the Site Meter in the right column, for those more clever than I to interpret, as well.
Posted by: trailing wife   2008-03-17 22:38  

#12  I think he is not troll but someone who tried to make a joke.

Nah, it's the Toronto Troll. It obviously failed the standards for Canadian Comedian Export.

You can dislile it but he was not trying to make us angry.

Of course not! Everyone knows that folks from the Toronto region don't do that. Why, they's cosmopolitan, donchaknow! A little piece of urbane and sophicated Europe right (or should I say, left) here in North America!
Posted by: Pappy   2008-03-17 21:56  

#11  I think he is not troll but someone who tried to make a joke. You can dislile it but he was not trying to make us angry.
Posted by: JFM   2008-03-17 19:58  

#10  You call that a troll?

Piss poor.

No: BusHilter
No: The US armed the Confederacy
No: Lizard Peeps
No: Bilder Burgers
No: Windsor Cocaine Trade
No: Crop Circles of Doom
No: Pearly Whites
No: Sharks with Lasers

Ain't nothing but a moron.
Posted by: Zebulon Angavick7428   2008-03-17 14:02  

#9  Where did we go wrong?

When Canada allowed mental defectives internet access?
Posted by: Pappy   2008-03-17 13:22  

#8  Since in Islam a woman is only "worth" half of what a man is, I'd assume they'd get 36 raisins, instead of 72.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2008-03-17 12:07  

#7  I find it difficult to believe a ?culture? that denies women the right to an education, a job or a car will welcome them as fighters.

Its an old saying that 'when they send the old men and boys out to fight, you know they're losing'. When a culture that so devalues the female gender as much as the muzzies do, it's the same thing. Sort of on the last desperate actions of the Confederacy to 'free' slaves who'd enroll in the army.

The idea of arming slaves for use as soldiers was speculated on from the onset of the war, but not seriously considered by Davis or others in his administration.[5] Though an acrimonious and controversial debate was raised by a letter from Patrick Cleburne[6] urging the Confederacy to raise black soldiers by offering emancipation, it wouldn't be until Robert E. Lee wrote the Confederate Congress urging them that the idea would take serious traction. On March 13, the Confederate Congress passed General Order 14, and President Davis signed the order into law. The order was issued March 23, 1865, but only a few African American companies were raised. Two companies were armed and drilled in the streets of Richmond, Virginia shortly before the besieged southern capital fell.
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see here

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Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-03-17 11:40  

#6  I find it difficult to believe a ?culture? that denies women the right to an education, a job or a car will welcome them as fighters. More likely carrying guns and ammo that were too heavy for some limp wristed lion of pisslam to carry. All the goats and mules were out on "dates"...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2008-03-17 11:27  

#5  So that's how you want to do it in Toronto, troll? Be my guest to try.

Here in the US some of us women respect ourselves and our men more than that. Not to mention being NRA life members and able to defend ourselves if it comes to it.
Posted by: lotp   2008-03-17 10:57  

#4  Stop humiliating their women. These guys have it made. Wouldn't it be nice if us normal guys could just throw a sack over our wives heads and tell them to shut up and get us a beer. And if we want to upgrade, we just gotta say I divorce you three times. Where did we go wrong?
Okay folks, THIS is a troll. Chew him, slap him around, make him cry for his mommy, but don't feed him. AoS.
Posted by: pipstorm   2008-03-17 10:52  

#3  Nope. Koran does not mention anything about sex for women admitted in Paradise. If they get to it, a big if since there will be very few of them, they only go to the lower of Paradise's seven layers.
Posted by: JFM   2008-03-17 10:33  

#2  So much for the baby ducks and fluffy bunnies.
Posted by: treo   2008-03-17 10:06  

#1  It's an old joke, but I do wonder whether she gets 72 virgin boys ...

Judging by the kill ratio, I'd say 72 freshly planted virgin jihadis.
Posted by: ed   2008-03-17 01:00  

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