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| Afghanistan |
| 'Bits of burka' found at bomb site |
| 2009-09-19 |
| TWO children were killed when a suicide attacker believed to have been a woman blew herself up in a crowded area of western Herat city this morning, a senior police official said. A 10-year-old boy and a girl aged seven were killed in the attack. Another young girl, a woman and an elderly man were wounded in the attack, said Ikramuddin Yarwar, police commander in western Afghanistan. He said pieces of blue cloth that looked like they had been part of a burka, the all-covering article of clothing worn by many Afghan women, had been scattered around the site of the blast. "Some pieces of burka were seen at the site, so we are investigating if the attack was committed by a woman," he said. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #8 Don't let's forget male and female, like that poor South African runner who had no idea. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-09-19 21:54 |
| #7 Bits of burka narrow the field of suspects down to male or female. No it doesn't there have been several reports of men wearing Burkas as a disguise. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-09-19 21:48 |
| #6 Or they could be doing in Afghanistan what they started doing in Iraq which was to rape and drug young women to the point where they felt like they had no choice but to strap on the bomb. O, brave lions of Islam, it sure is a funny kind of a war you fight, doing this kind of thing to your own people and blaming it on us. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2009-09-19 18:05 |
| #5 Sounds like another specimen for 'bits of burka' collection. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-09-19 16:17 |
| #4 Bits of burka narrow the field of suspects down to male or female. Was Herat hot, like Helmand, warwise? Or was this an isolated incident? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-09-19 14:44 |
| #3 Smoked Burka bits with fries please, and extra hot sauce. |
| Posted by: Besoeker in Duitsland 2009-09-19 14:32 |
| #2 Burka bits? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-09-19 13:21 |
| #1 "Some pieces of burka were seen at the site, so we are investigating if the attack was committed by a woman" Or a talibunny spurned by his goat. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-09-19 12:04 |