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Posted by Fred 2006-05-08 00:00||
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#1 Malalai Joya said bearded and turbaned MPs who were once warlords in the country's decades of conflict had to be restrained from physically attacking her after a heated session of the four-month-old parliament. The uproar, in which several MPs rose from their chairs shouting, was shown on television. A cameraman from a private television station said one of the MPs had slapped him across the face while he was filming the scuffle.
Joya, who has had death threats against her after a similar outburst during a meeting to draw up a post-Taliban constitution in 2003, alleged that she had heard a prominent former warlord telling his men "to stab me with a knife". "Several of them threw water bottles at me and many others rushed towards me to beat me up,"
Democrats™, Send in Cynthia McKinney and let the jirga begin.
Posted by RD 2006-05-08 08:58||
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#2 Afghan copycats! Can't the Taiwanese have something to themselves?
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-08 10:47||
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#3 She's lucky those bottles were just filled with water.
Posted by tu3031 2006-05-08 12:13||
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#4 Now thats speaking truth to power.
Posted by DMFD 2006-05-08 23:45||
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