A burka-wearing suicide bomber today detonated explosives that killed at least 15 people at a crowded police checkpoint in north-west Pakistan.And in oh-so-politically-correct Canada... this type of tactic would be totally unstoppable.
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.
"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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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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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.