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India-Pakistan
Taliban attack party to stop music
2006-04-05
TANK: A group of Taliban stormed a wedding ceremony to disrupt a music programme, wounding one man a few days after they ordered Bhittani tribesmen to grow beards, eyewitnesses said on Tuesday. Naib Nazim Haji Abdur Rehman told reporters that dozens of Taliban attacked the music programme at the wedding of Haji Saeedullah’s two sons in Maghzey village of Tank district. “They came by vehicles and opened fire at the participants in the music programme, wounding one late on Monday evening,” the naib nazim said.

Riaz Kundi, Tank district nazim, confirmed the incident but gave no details. “I am still gathering information,” he said. “Everyone ran for cover when the bearded Taliban attacked the programme,” the naib nazim said. “The music was stopped and all the frightened music-lovers went home.”

The attack came three days after a Taliban chief in Jandola, a town on the Tank border with South Waziristan, ordered Bhittani tribesmen to grow beards within three weeks. “Maulana Asmatullah, who claims to be the Taliban chief in Jandola, asked every adult to grow a beard or severe punishment will be awarded after the deadline expires,” a shopkeeper in Jandola bazaar told Daily Times.

Meanwhile, key tribal commander Baitullah Mehsud denied on Tuesday that the Taliban had set up a parallel government in the tribal areas. “Reports about the establishment of a parallel administration or parallel government in Waziristan are baseless and it is a media smear campaign against Islam and Pakistan,” he said in a statement issued in Tank city.

His statement comes after reports from Waziristan that a Taliban-style parallel administration was set up disperse justice under Sharia. The Tuesday statement is the first from Mehsud since his peace deal with the South Waziristan administration on February 7, 2005. “We want development and peace in our areas and Pakistan is our country and we have to uphold its constitution,” Mehsud added. He said the local population pressed his force to help them against criminals and their illegal activities. “We are helping our people who asked for help,” the Taliban commander said.
Posted by:Fred

#11  Thanks Eric, earworm intact, now I've got my IPod Zevon'd out....
Posted by: Frank G   2006-04-05 22:45  

#10  Eric. You do realize this could get him killed. I know he's already died, but they will be looking for him now.
Posted by: plainslow   2006-04-05 22:19  

#9  Zovon??

Mohammed's Radio is a great Warren Zevon (RRIP) song :-)
Posted by: Frank G   2006-04-05 21:15  

#8  I feel a Warren Zovon song coming on!


You know, the Sheriff's got his problems too
He will surely take them out on you
In walked the village idiot and his face was all aglow
He's been up all night listening to Mohammed's Radio

Don't it make you want to rock and roll
All night long
Mohammed's Radio
I heard somebody singing sweet and soulful
On the radio, Mohammed's Radio
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2006-04-05 21:11  

#7  From a Hadith: 'Rasulullah Peace be upon him has said: 'Amongst the fitrat (Deen) of Islam is the cutting of the moustache and the lengthening of the beard for surely the Majoos (fire worshippers) lengthen their moustaches and cut their beards so oppose them by cutting your moustaches and lengthening your beards'.

In other words, to separate the muslim cult from others. They would have been better off shaving their heads and selling flowers at airports.
Posted by: ed   2006-04-05 18:04  

#6  The fools are by and large illiterate, and rely on old on-eye to interpret the Koran...and he's as illiterate as they are. What a bunch of maroons. Fools leading fools...and none of them could tell you what the Koran really said if there life depended on it.
Posted by: anymouse   2006-04-05 17:47  

#5  What's the deal with the beards? As if life wasn't shitty enough in that part of the world, now you have the Tallywhackers pestering you. If they can't rule Afghanistan in the open, they'll subject the highlanders to their miserable islamic lifestyle, berift of any fun or simple pleasures. What an attractive way of life. I can see why people would flock to it.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-04-05 11:02  

#4  C'mon. It's really not a wedding in Wazoostan without at least some small arms fire.
Posted by: tu3031   2006-04-05 08:49  

#3  rofl - the ironing board :) oh thats funny, lol i've got a picture of Koranimals svagly attacking Ironing boards now in my head, Stoning it and jumping up and down on it shouting down with housework! Sorry but some things like this just make me laugh.
Posted by: ShepUK   2006-04-05 08:43  

#2  The things that irritate these guys is so stupid. Cartoons and they kill each other. Music, and they atttack it. I had a dog like that once, everytime we brought out the ironing board, he'd attack it. He did'nt grow a beard though, so I did'nt mind.
Posted by: plainslow   2006-04-05 08:13  

#1  fckin scumbags - i say set up a giant acoustic system balsting out every kind of music they hate over a 1000sq km area - think massive 'ghetto blaster' but when they come and try to shut it down gun the fck outa them. These chumps can't be hard to decieve like that, hell why arnt we doing just that sort of thing to lure them to us instead of us hunting high and low for them!!!! makes no sense with people this stupid, were making life hard for ourselves by not using their own stupidity and hatred against them! Argghhhh the dumbness of it all!
Posted by: ShepUK   2006-04-05 07:59  

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