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."
I was thinking more along the lines of below the belt oddity.
Absolutely agree with you on this at least as far as being able to board public transportation.
They should have castrated him. At least force him to continue wearing a burqa while in prison.
I think he was a victim of his own culture. They beat down and repress women to be meek and humble, but they themselves walk with a swagger. I don't think he knew how to carry himself the way those he oppresses do.
Someone said that Ann had purchased offensive language credit offsets before her speech so she was offensive language neutral.
She bought them from (ACOLCTC) Ann Coulter Offensive Language Credit Trading Company, Inc.
I believe James Carville has been asked to start up a "non-PC Insults Offset Trading Company". When he does I'll be glad to contribute to an offset account for Ann Coulter so she can continue to speak freely while a lefty pundit somewhere is paid to keep his/her mouth shut.
They are kinda kinky:
http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/afghanistan/afnews009.htm
I just realized! He could run for president!
Can anyone refer to the place in the Koran or any Islamic "holy" documents from the time of Mohammad -- where it dictates the wearing of the veil or full body burqa?
Semper Fi
Lucky for him he was captured. If they'd blasted him outta his boots, he'd have been wearing his own shroud.
This guy:
"can i see the naked breast of my wife, on computer as i am far from here
was smacked down. :)
Damn, now both of us are going to need rehab.:)
Announce that any terrorists caught in female attire will be castrated, then offered to the most hardened vicious prisoners we can find as "companions" for life...... I don't think we'd see too much more of this sort of thing.
They should take pictures of this guy in his burka and post them on every corner and every rock.
Is the pic of the perp?
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