
You just never know
Only in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Saudi Arabia is everyone just fine with the full covering of the face.
“Suicide Bomber in Pakistan Kills 15,” from Reuters (thanks to all who sent this in):
ISLAMABAD, Oct 1 (Reuters) – A suicide bomber wearing a woman’s burqa set off explosives in the northwestern Pakistani town of Bannu on Monday killing up to 15 people, including four policemen, security officials said.
The blast was the lastest in a wave of attacks, most in the northwest of the country near the border with Afghanistan, blamed on Islamist militants based in tribal areas on the Afghan border.
Military spokesman Major-General Waheed Arshad said 11 civilians and four policemen had been killed in the suicide blast in the town, which is in North West Frontier Province.
An Interior Ministry spokesman said 11 people — four of them policemen — had been killed.
“A burqa-clad bomber — either it was a woman or a man in a burqa — set off explosives when police approached,” said ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema….
The surge of violence comes as army chief and president Pervez Musharraf is preparing to try to win another term in an Oct. 6 presidential election.
Many Pakistanis disapprove of Musharraf’s staunch support for the U.S.-led war on terrorism, which they blame for stirring up militant violence in the ethnic Pashtun areas along the Afghan border.
Yes, if he just didn’t oppose the jihadists, they would all go home.