Posted on 03/07/2007 5:38:12 AM PST by listenhillary
KANDAHAR: Afghan troops captured a senior Taliban commander who tried to escape a manhunt disguised as a woman wearing an all-covering burqa, the NATO force said on Wednesday.
Soldiers at a checkpoint in the southern province of Kandahar Tuesday "spotted the oddity" when the militant tried to pass them hidden under the garment, which has a grille over the face, it said in a statement.
The man, identified as Mullah Mahmood, was an "extremist commander and suicide attack facilitator" for Kandahar province. He was trying to escape from the Panjwayi area 35 kilometres west of Kandahar city. The area was the scene of heavy battles between the Taliban and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in September.
The puritanical Islamist 1996-2001 Taliban government forced women to wear the burqa or be publicly punished. The garment is a tent-like cloak still worn by most Afghan women in rural areas.
With international forces under pressure after US troops were accused of killing around 20 civilians in action at the weekend, ISAF said the use of a burqa to escape showed the Taliban were willing to risk the public's safety.
"It just shows you they are willing to put people in danger because they are posing as civilians," ISAF spokesman Colonel Tom Collins told reporters.
ISAF and the coalition say civilian casualties are often the result of militants mixing with normal people, sometimes using them as human shields.
Collins said criticism about civilian casualties "held the international coalition to a much higher standard."
He said however that rights groups did not complain about Taliban suicide bombings that killed scores of civilians because "they know it is futile" and would "fall on deaf ears because the Taliban are immoral."
You were going to flame me because I used the word faggot? Does that make you a faggot flamer and me a flaming faggot?
At least he didn't have a magnet in his "lower body cavity".
Another reason to outlaw the Burqa.
Pray for W and Our Troops
He is incorrect. Only the deaf Islamofascists. They all have selective hearing when it comes to the truth. You are excused from the burden.
I heard he was released so he could be John Edwards...err..."running" mate...for the election, yeah, that what he meant...for the election.
His aide was last seen wearing a burqini...
Jefferson Davis ping.
I'm surprised it took so long for the Davis mention! :)
This was in a Malcolm in the Middle episode.
you see if we stop using the f-word then they have won!!
So... FAGGOT
Yeah Al Queda's version of Max Klinger.
So when he's told that he runs like a woman, they're right. Cowards.
Here's my favorite question:
"I start beating my second wife after getting a phone call from my first wife. She is pregnant and starts crying, after sometime I get cool down. Is it due to black magic of first wife or Jin at home?"
Those pesky Jinns, no telling what they can force a good Muslim to do!
So, brave women are trying to get out of the burqua and brave men trying to get into one.
Hmmmmmmmmm.....
allah has cursed you for neglecting your first wife, they should be brought together and beaten with equal vigor./ sarc
IF....the good Colonel was quoted correctly...I'd say, "No @&*&!! Sherlock!!"
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