Al-Qaeda = A Gentlemen’s Club

Al Qaeda linked Pakistani militant commander Baitullah Mehsud denied his involvement in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Mehsud heads the Tehrik-i-Taliban in Pakistan (TTP), a newly launched united movement of Taliban and Al Qaeda militants in Pakistan’s tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

A spokesman for Mehsud said:

“This is absolutely wrong to say that the Taliban or any member of the Taliban were involved in murder of Benazir Bhutto,”

“I strongly deny it. Tribal people have their own customs. We don’t strike women,”

Nice and gentlemanly, aren’t they?

I suppose this means that suicide bomber training includes instructions to separate the women from the men before detonating, or choosing men only targets (toilets, changing rooms, etc). Also that the 9/11 hijackers screwed up their orders in not first ensuring that the planes used were male only and that all women had been evacuated from the World Trade Centre and Pentagon before crashing into them.

What suicide bomber training should include is a live practice in their barracks before they get sent out on their real missions. After all, they clearly need as much etiquette training as possible to become the gentlemen that Al-Qaeda thinks they are.