01 October 2007

The perfect cover...

For the vilest sort of religious outrage...
A burka-wearing suicide bomber today detonated explosives that killed at least 15 people at a crowded police checkpoint in north-west Pakistan.

The bomb, which injured 22 others, is believed to have been in a rickshaw that was being examined at the checkpoint at about 8.25am (4.25am BST) in the town of Bannu, police said.
And in oh-so-politically-correct Canada... this type of tactic would be totally unstoppable.
"We have confirmed that the passenger sitting in the rickshaw was wearing a burka and detonated the bomb, but we are checking whether the suicide bomber in a burka was a man or a woman," the interior minister's spokesman, Javed Iqbal Cheema, said.
It's only a matter of time.

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RELATED: Thank goodness they're such dumbasses
Austrian police say they have arrested a man who attempted to enter the US embassy in Vienna with a bag containing explosives and nails.

The suspect is a 42-year-old man of Bosnian origin from the north-eastern province of Lower Austria, police spokeswoman Michaela Raz said.
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LAST WORD: Hey Jack, negotiate this
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.

The 15-year-old boy was hanged from a tree on Sunday in Helmand, the most violent province in the country and the world's No. 1 poppy-growing region.