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| Pakistan Taliban Preps 500 Female Suicide Bombers |
| 2014-02-11 |
| The Pakistani Taliban has as many as 500 female suicide bombers ready to act, a representative of the group involved in peace negotiations said, underscoring the risk of further violence if talks fail. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan -- known as the Pakistani Taliban, or TTP -- sees no urgency to reach an agreement with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government, Maulana Abdul Aziz, one of three negotiators representing the TTP, said in a Feb. 7 interview at his Islamabad seminary. The two sides started talks last week. "You should know that at the moment they have at least 400 to 500 female suicide bombers in Waziristan and other tribal areas," said Aziz, former head cleric of Islamabad's Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, referring to the TTP. "The government should realize the situation and their demands." "They are fighting for the implementation of Sharia," Aziz said at the seminary, where some 1,300 female students are studying. "It's the law of nature that when people don't get their rights, they pick up arms." The number of female suicide bombers mentioned by Aziz "is a very exaggerated figure," said Muhammad Amir Rana, director of the Islamabad-based Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies. "The Taliban are way ahead in the propaganda war, and they have given a tough time to the state," he said. "Female suicide bombers have been used, but not too many." |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 Hello! My name is Peggy. I am your bomber today. Please answer a few customer service questions before we start. (Or something like that.) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-02-11 19:29 |
| #8 Why has Waziristan not been carpet bombed? Easy! Lack of enough concentrated infrastructure to make carpet bombing cost effective. More bang for the buck with swarms of autonomous killbots. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-02-11 19:16 |
| #7 TTP with PMS |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2014-02-11 19:07 |
| #6 Grande idea gals. 72 male virgins, your afterlife would last all of 30 seconds. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-02-11 18:42 |
| #5 LOL (!!!) don't hit me! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-02-11 18:26 |
| #4 What does a female martyr get in poobahs heaven? 72 virgins? Unlikely. |
| Posted by: irishrageboy 2014-02-11 16:44 |
| #3 The use of rhetorical questions Exceeds all our expert projections. An exhausted supply Of who what where when why May promote more assertive inflections. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-02-11 16:25 |
| #2 I dunno, Paul. Why hasn't it? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-02-11 09:57 |
| #1 Why has Waziristan not been carpet bombed? |
| Posted by: Paul D 2014-02-11 06:01 |