NYT- Rebels Dressed as Women Attack Iraqi Police Station

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 5 - Insurgent attacks across central Iraq, including one in which the guerrillas disguised themselves as women, left at least 16 dead on Friday as Shiite Arabs across the country began celebrating the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

In the deadliest assault, insurgents dressed in women's clothing attacked a police checkpoint in the town of Buhriz, 35 miles north of Baghdad, killing at least 6 police officers and wounding at least 10 others, American and Iraqi officials said. The guerrillas were armed with Kalashnikov rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, and pulled up in five cars, an Interior Ministry official said. The police officers killed at least two of the gunmen, he added.

Maj. Steven Warren, a spokesman for the Third Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, which is charged with controlling western Diyala Province, said the insurgents were disguised as women.

The area around Buhriz and Baquba, the capital of Diyala Province, has been plagued by a recent string of insurgent attacks. On Oct. 29, a suicide car bomb exploded in a market in the predominantly Shiite village of Huwaider, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30 others.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/05/international/middleeast/05iraq.html

Anybody remember who the Sicarii were? 1st century C.E. Hebrew zealots, they made an art of dressing as upscale women in Jerusalem and slipping up and running the shiv between some Roman's ribs.

Oh, Dog! I can hear the flames already.

But you are right on here.

Was it a Trojan Clotheshorse?

But look at that- 5 car loads and all but 2 got away.

What a mess.

Restaurant quality!

:headbang:

Perhaps this will lead to the banning of wearing veils for safety reasons.

"Killer Queen"

"She keeps Imam and Ayatollah
In a pretty cabinet
Says "Wait there abdullah,
the C-4 isn't ready yet."

Since both peoples are "people of the Book," in the case either of the Sicarii or the current crop of murderers, does the Old Testament proscription promising a hearty stoning for any man who "puts on the raiment of a woman" apply?

That's the tough part of religion: figuring out just exactly what pisses God off most. A mis-step can, apparently, be lethal.