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Fearing death, Bin Laden’s band marry off their women
Hindustan Times ^ | 11/04/01

Posted on 11/04/2001 3:01:59 PM PST by Mahone

Fearing death, Bin Laden’s band marry off their women
London

In the first signs that they do not expect to survive the war, Osama bin laden's elite bodyguards have begun marrying off their daughters and sisters to Afghan men around Kandahar.

The secret weddings took place last week in suburbs and villages around Kandahar and involved Arab women getting married to locals who agreed to look after them in return for large sums of money, The Sunday Telegraph reported today.

"The Arabs came at night bringing large numbers of women and suitcases of money," the newspaper quoted Abdul Razza, a teacher from Kandahar who witnessed some of the negotiations.

"They asked that the people look after their womenfolk and protect them in the war."

"The fact that the Arabs feel they can no longer protect the women is the first sign that they believe the war is not going their way," the report quoted a western diplomat as saying.

The women were completely covered but Razza believes some were as young as 12 and that they brought their mothers with them. Local mullahs carried out the quick marriage ceremonies.

An estimated 2,000 Arabs from Sudan, Egypt, Algeria and the United Arab Emirates, among other countries, lived in Kandahar before the war but fled last month before the start of the American campaign.

Some managed to escape, but many are thought to be in Uruzgan, a mountainous province with a network of caves that is the home province of Mullah Omar, Taliban's spiritual leader.

According to Razza, however, there was no shortage of men agreeing to take the Arab women as wives. "Normally we have to pay for women so they were happy to get brides who came with their own money particularly at the moment with so many shortages and high prices for food and fuel. They also believe it is their Islamic duty to protect these guests." Many of the Arabs marrying off their women are believed to be from bin Laden's elite 055 Brigade, a crack squad of 500 Arabs set up five years ago.

Over the past two weeks, Americans have stepped up the bombing of caves where bin Laden and his guards are thought to be hiding.


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Our press may not know it, but the Taliban know they are doomed.
1 posted on 11/04/2001 3:01:59 PM PST by Mahone
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To: Mahone
I guess it's a cultural thing, so I should be reluctant to criticize ... but it sure is an odd thing to marry off your family to complete strangers.
2 posted on 11/04/2001 3:05:18 PM PST by AngrySpud
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To: Mahone
Our press may not know it, but the Taliban know they are doomed.

Our President knows it's either them our us and he chose them to be the victims. Civilization cannot withstand a band of outlaws with megabucks and weapons of mass destruction.

3 posted on 11/04/2001 3:06:00 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Mahone; JMJ333
In a followup article:

YURTYAK, Turkmenistan (Rooters) -- Iben Shall'aa'am,
president of the local PETA of Arabia, announced today
that, following the wholesale liquidation of human bridal
stock in sales to the Taliban, the Society of Nanny Goats
is filing suit for a-a-a-alienation of a-a-a-a-ffection.

4 posted on 11/04/2001 3:07:43 PM PST by gcruse
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To: Mahone
We'll drop off a wedding present -- please forward co-ordinates.
5 posted on 11/04/2001 3:13:09 PM PST by drstevej
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To: gcruse
lol
6 posted on 11/04/2001 3:21:44 PM PST by Ann Archy
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To: Mahone
The Arabs came at night bringing large numbers of women and suitcases of money

that sounds backwards. you'd think they would have sold them.

7 posted on 11/04/2001 3:28:14 PM PST by glock rocks
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To: Mahone
"..."They asked that the people look after their womenfolk and protect them in the war."..."

Dear Taliban Morons,

When we finish with killing you, and the sand-goblins you married your women to, your women will need to shift for themselves.

Fortunately, there will be numerous employment opportunities for them as cocktail waitresses, singers, bartenders and entertainers at the numerous nightspots that pop up like mushrooms around an American garrison.

They'll learn about things, and have experiences and adventures, that would humiliate and enrage you, if you were alive to know about them.

But don’t worry... You won't be.

Now… Don’t despair that this is a blind alley for your genes. Although you will be a dead end, with no stake in the future, your women will have descendants.

They just won’t happen to look a bit like you. (snicker...)

8 posted on 11/04/2001 3:37:22 PM PST by DWSUWF
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To: Mahone

9 posted on 11/04/2001 3:41:03 PM PST by KLT
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To: glock rocks
that sounds backwards. you'd think they would have sold them.

But then, you haven't seen their women!

10 posted on 11/04/2001 3:43:36 PM PST by Mahone
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To: Mahone
"...But then, you haven't seen their women!..."

Has anyone?

11 posted on 11/04/2001 3:48:55 PM PST by DWSUWF
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To: Mahone

"Ohhhhhh, me foist, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck"

12 posted on 11/04/2001 3:49:36 PM PST by Gumption
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To: KLT
This is just tooooo good.
13 posted on 11/04/2001 3:54:26 PM PST by Deac
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To: Mahone
A faceless, fatherless, shotgun wedding. Sweet.

How many times did potential grooms request the trigger be pulled?

14 posted on 11/04/2001 3:57:34 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Gumption
Yipes! No wonder they make them wear burkhas!
15 posted on 11/04/2001 3:59:26 PM PST by Mahone
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To: glock rocks
The Arabs came at night bringing large numbers of women and suitcases of money... that sounds backwards. you'd think they would have sold them.

Sounds to me that these women are about as ugly as the Hillary. I'd bring bags of money to to get rid of her.

16 posted on 11/04/2001 4:44:33 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: gcruse
I decided I don't believe this garbage...

The secret weddings took place last week in suburbs and villages around Kandahar and involved Arab women getting married to locals who agreed to look after them in return for large sums of money, The Sunday Telegraph reported today.

"The Arabs came at night bringing large numbers of women and suitcases of money," the newspaper quoted Abdul Razza, a teacher from Kandahar who witnessed some of the negotiations.

"They asked that the people look after their womenfolk and protect them in the war."

Now, if they were asking those guys to take care of their livestock I might be inclined to believe this story, but take care of their womenfolk????? Like they give a rats ass about the women. Sorry...don't buy it.

17 posted on 11/04/2001 5:09:46 PM PST by JMJ333
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To: JMJ333
Like they give a rats ass about the women.

But the women were paying, instead
of vice versa!

18 posted on 11/04/2001 5:15:45 PM PST by gcruse
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To: gcruse
heh!
19 posted on 11/04/2001 5:32:31 PM PST by JMJ333
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To: AngrySpud
I guess it's a cultural thing, so I should be reluctant to criticize ... but it sure is an odd thing to marry off your family to complete strangers.

No stranger than shooting your mother in the head because she showed her ankle in public..these are nomad heathans....

20 posted on 11/04/2001 5:36:35 PM PST by RnMomof7
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