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Customer at Market in Springfield Cuts Off His Hand
The Washington Post ^ | Tuesday, July 25, 2006 | Karin Brulliard

Posted on 07/25/2006 10:09:22 AM PDT by photovoltaic

Customer at Market in Springfield Cuts Off His Hand

By Karin Brulliard Washington Post Staff Writer

Tuesday, July 25, 2006; B01

Igbal Asghar reached across the counter at Super Halal Meat market and passed two butchered chickens to the man with the familiar face. Then he ducked into the walk-in freezer to fetch the customer's second order, goat meat. When the butcher stepped out seconds later, the customer's severed left hand lay on the floor by the meat saw, Asghar said. The customer ran down the Springfield store's center aisle and into the front parking lot, leaving a trail of blood and yelling repeatedly that he was "not a terrorist." Outside, another witness said, the man announced that he had used the meat saw to cut off his hand "for Allah." Rescue workers arrived minutes after the incident Saturday evening and took the man -- and his detached hand -- to Inova Fairfax Hospital. "We are shaking still when we are talking about it." Nothing seemed amiss when the man approached the meat counter with his teenage son, Asghar said. The butcher said he recognized the man, whose name he did not know, as a fellow Pakistani. The man chatted on a cellphone as Asghar cut his chicken.

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The man was holding aloft his bleeding left arm -- sliced several inches above the wrist -- and using his right hand to hold up a photo identification badge that hung around his neck. "We thought it was fake," Sinsunwal said of the limb. Then they heard the man mumbling calmly but angrily in a mixture of English and Urdu about working in the area and his children attending school here. "He said, 'I did this for Allah' -- God," Sinsunwal said.

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KEYWORDS: islam; virginia; wacko
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Give that man a hand...I don't post too often, but this bit of strangeness caught my eye.
1 posted on 07/25/2006 10:09:23 AM PDT by photovoltaic
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To: photovoltaic

tastes like chicken


2 posted on 07/25/2006 10:11:33 AM PDT by petercooper (Is this where I get me a huntin' license?)
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To: photovoltaic
WWAD?
3 posted on 07/25/2006 10:13:22 AM PDT by MarineDad (Whenever mosques and JDAM's meet, civilization benefits.)
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To: photovoltaic

" the customer's severed left hand lay on the floor by the meat saw, Asghar said"

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I "SAW" it, too.


4 posted on 07/25/2006 10:13:24 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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To: photovoltaic

There it goes--cutting off the hand that feeds ya.


5 posted on 07/25/2006 10:14:25 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: photovoltaic

"I don't post too often, but this bit of strangeness caught my eye."

Got to hand it to you. Your post is disarming;)


6 posted on 07/25/2006 10:14:35 AM PDT by bwteim (bwteim = Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: photovoltaic

uh....OK....that's...odd....


7 posted on 07/25/2006 10:14:44 AM PDT by GodfearingTexan
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To: photovoltaic

No more patty cake for that bakers man.


8 posted on 07/25/2006 10:15:22 AM PDT by b4its2late (Liberals are as confused as a hungry baby in a topless bar.)
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To: bwteim

Nice. I started my first pun thread...


9 posted on 07/25/2006 10:15:51 AM PDT by photovoltaic
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To: photovoltaic

I guess he's not a very handy man to have around anymore...


10 posted on 07/25/2006 10:16:19 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod (Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
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To: photovoltaic

Muslims are Darwinists?


11 posted on 07/25/2006 10:16:32 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: photovoltaic

Islam = demonic. So this shouldn't really be too surprising.


12 posted on 07/25/2006 10:16:49 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
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To: photovoltaic

So then wouldn't this be a hand job?


13 posted on 07/25/2006 10:17:25 AM PDT by tvguru
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Customer at Market in Springfield Cuts Off His Hand


14 posted on 07/25/2006 10:18:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
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The police found that Igbal Asghar did not have his hand in all this.
15 posted on 07/25/2006 10:18:38 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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Muslims are Darwinists?

He (unfortunately) didn't seem to damage his reproductive organs with the saw. So he can still reproduce -and doesn't qualify.
16 posted on 07/25/2006 10:19:42 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: photovoltaic

This man is obviously a member of the Religion of Pieces.


17 posted on 07/25/2006 10:20:06 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Going partly violently to the thing 24-7!)
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To: 1rudeboy

How will he wipe after using the can? They don't use toilet paper, rather their left hand.


18 posted on 07/25/2006 10:20:30 AM PDT by Ingtar (Prensa dos para el inglés)
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To: Junior

How many hand stories we gonna get today?


19 posted on 07/25/2006 10:20:46 AM PDT by cjshapi
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To: kiriath_jearim

Have they fingered the guy who did it yet?


20 posted on 07/25/2006 10:20:57 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (Issuing my fatwas from the holy city of Auburn, California.)
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