unrepentant old hippie

Oh noez!

Quick! Deploy the Depends, I'm shitting myself! Afghan suicide squadz: they're in ur country, attacking ur doodz.

ABC News is reporting that a fresh batch of suicide squads has just graduated (graduated?) from Terrorist Training Camps Inc. in Afghanistan, and they've got a date with destiny:

"WASHINGTON (CP) - There's a report that large teams of newly-trained suicide bombers are being sent from Afghanistan to Canada, the United States and other countries.

ABC News is reporting the recruits were introduced at an al-QaidaTaliban training camp graduation ceremony in Afghanistan earlier this month. According to the network, a Pakistani journalist was invited to attend and take pictures as some 300 recruits, including boys as young as 12, were supposedly sent off on their suicide missions."

Oh, great snappin' assholes, I can just imagine the response to this from our favourite reactionary, racist right-wing blogs -- the propellers on their beanies must be spinning at redline. As for me, they lost me at "Washington"; call me cynical, but I tend to look askance at any news story about terrorists-coming-to-fight-us-here that originates in Washington DC. Especially when its timing dovetails so nicely with a failed military strategy elsewhere in the world that the powers-that-be would just as soon draw attention away from (78 killed today in a single attack in Iraq -- how's that surge working out again?). So they give the shiny car keys another shake and say "Taliban? Wanna go Taliban?" hoping we'll roll over.

I guess our own Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day didn't get the memo that said this was supposed to be Diversion of the Month -- Stockie says it's just a "PR move" by the Taliban. Riiiight, because when dressing for public relations success, one should always remember to wear an explosives vest. Bad Stockie, back to your crate.