Leave the word female out of the title and you have a truism that every person who has the least bit of love for their life – or someone else’s – should be able to agree on. The AFP: Explosives strapped to two mentally impaired women were triggered by remote control in co-ordinated attacks that…
Category: Terrorism
American Woman Kidnapped in Afghanistan
From the Houston Chronicle: Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early today, a provincial governor said. The two were stopped by gunmen outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, said Gov. Asadullah Khalid. He blamed the kidnappings on the "enemy of Islam and the…
Lebanese General Assassinated
Just in case anyone was wondering…Yes, there is a war on and no, the other side isn’t exactly playing according to the Marquis of Queensbury rules of warfare. From the NY Times: A powerful car bomb killed a senior Lebanese army general and his guard in an eastern suburb of Beirut on Wednesday, army officials…