If the Department of Homeland Security ever gets around to issuing another terror alert bulletin (isn’t it curious how quiet they’ve been since Bush surged ahead at the GOP convention?), it might be to watch out for terrorists operating under a new disguise:
Iraqi security forces captured a suspected terrorist operating on Baghdad’s blood-soaked Haifa street — cornering him today in a cupboard as he was disguising himself with his wife’s underwear.
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Acting on tips by local residents, Abdullah said Iraqi security troops backed by Us forces caught Kadhim al-Dafan as he hid out in his home. The suspected terrorist reportedly told Abdullah he was hurriedly trying to disguise himself with his wife�s underclothing.
Beware of suspicious-looking men wearing women’s underwear.
I thought this kind of thing was supposed to be “the height of insult” to Arab men? Wasn’t that one of the things were learned with the Abu Ghraib thing – that dressing Arab men as women was horribly degrading? If that’s actually true, why would one do so purposefully?
Makes you wonder how many of those taboos were really taboos.