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| Afghanistan |
| Gunnies in drag shoot up Kandahar market... |
| 2002-09-20 |
| Gunmen wearing burqas fired shots and threw grenades at a vegetable market where Afghan soldiers were shopping on Friday, injuring two soldiers and sending other shoppers scrambling for safety, witnesses said. The two attackers, disguised in the head-to-toe veils used by Afghan women, pulled up to the market in Kandahar in a car driven by another man. Witnesses said the assailants were both men. Never would have happened on a warm day in New Joisey. That's the difference between Merkins and Afghans. They get all worked up over naked thighs and rounded bosoms; we get all worked up over people shooting up markets. After the assault, people surrounded the car, grabbed the driver and turned him over to police, but the two gunmen got away. "Duh! I was s'posed to drive the getaway car, but they ain't come back yet... Oh. Hello. Were you indignant citizens looking for me?" The reason for the attack and the identities of the assailants was not immediately clear. Oooh! Oooh! Ask me! The reason for the attack was to kill people. The identities of the assailants: they were Bad Guys... The two soldiers were being treated at a Kandahar hospital, and both were in serious condition, said Mohammad Shasi, another soldier who had gone to the hospital to check on the injured. Witnesses said another four or five people were injured but had not been taken to the hospital. Apparently the |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |