Machete-wielding woman outside White House

CNN ^ | August 13, 2006 | CNN

[Sunshine55]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A 32-year-old woman wielding a machete was arrested Sunday outside the White House, the Secret Service said.

Spokeswoman Kim Bruce said Ashwak Saleh was taken into custody and charged with possession of a prohibited weapon after she displayed a 13-inch machete on the sidewalk outside the White House.

Saleh was arrested at 2:20 p.m. and taken to Washington Metro Police Department 3rd district for processing.

Witnesses said Saleh was sitting on the sidewalk when she pulled the machete out of a leather sleeve and began sharpening it on the edge of the sidewalk.

The witnesses said passersby then alerted Secret Service officers, one of whom approached the woman and told her to "Drop the blade."

To that, Saleh said, "What are you going to do -- shoot me?"

[Sunshine55]

"What are you going to do -- shoot me?"

Too bad the answer wasn't a resounding "YES!"

Gee, I wonder what HER religious affiliation is?

[mosquewatch.com]

To that, Saleh said, "What are you going to do -- shoot me?"If I were the Secret Service, no such statement would have been made by Mrs. Saleh.

[AdvisorB]

A dress rehearsal for the American intafada?

[gaijin]

SALEH, hmmmm...what kind of name is that?

[Texas_Jarhead]

They should have tazered her dumb ass.

[mosquewatch.com]

For G-d sakes, can't you recognize a good Irish name when you see one ? </sarc> ;)

[cripplecreek]

Too bad the answer wasn't a resounding "YES!"bang bang bang bang

[Ken522]

Witnesses said Saleh was sitting on the sidewalk when she pulled the machete out of a leather sleeve and began sharpening it on the edge of the sidewalk.

... what an eeeeedeeeeiot!

[AntiGuv]

Machetes don't kill people; machete-weilding Muslim whackjobs kill people..

[Gordongekko909]

Stop resisting! Stop resisting!

[Humal]

Fox News reported that a woman set off "a small explosive" in front of the White House today. Is this the same woman?

[Jet Jaguar]

This would be another woman.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Sheehan? McKinney? Sarandon? Streisand? Heinz? Ditzy Chicks?

[digger48]

http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/

[RedRover]

So unless news reports were garbled, there were two thwarted attacks by women on the White House today. An earlier report was about a woman with small explosives.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682959/posts

[gaijin]

Small explosions, cell-phone chips, machetes, baby-bottles, exploding babies....

What else are these people making us put up with, these days...?

Add yer own!

[Doctor Raoul]

To that, Saleh said, "What are you going to do -- shoot me?"

Those USSS Uniformed guys and gals are better than me. It wouldn't be that I'd take it personally, it's just that when someone who is doing something obviously wrong expresses so much contempt for society and it's the fundamental social contract that it would blow my mind. Not sure I could handle it.

[Nickname]

Um.... Dog bombs?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683001/posts

[ladyinred]

o that, Saleh said, "What are you going to do -- shoot me?"

Ah, yeah, if you don't drop the blade!

What a nut case!

[RedRover]

Doubt I could resist the temptation either.

[ladyinred]

What else are these people making us put up with, these days...?

Themselves, which is a horror all by itself.

[Sunshine55]

No, that turned out to be a woman igniting her own farts...honest!

[gaijin]

Dog bombs, yes. That's a good one. I'd forgotten.

[Paleo Conservative]

Here's a close up.

[synbad600]

"She is a good neighbor; we never had any problems." Her parents say that she is being profiled and she was always a good girl who never got into trouble.

[piasa]

Now that does look like a dogbomb

[freedumb2003]

SALEH, hmmmm...what kind of name is that?

Menonnite -- just like the presumed backgrounds of the perps of the Emgland airline terror plot.

[SaveTheChief]

I sadly see this event as but a mere foreshadowing on what we should be prepared to expect in the upcoming years.

[Malacoda]

The Amish must be getting restless.

[weegee]

Wonder if the media would've aired that beheading video?

JFK's exploding head can be seen on tv, we can see bodies in Lebanon, but forget about ever seeing a dead American while there's a threat.

[freedumb2003]

Small explosions, cell-phone chips, machetes, baby-bottles, exploding babies.... What else are these people making us put up with, these days...?

Exploding hams.

[Deo volente]

According to this, there's an Ashwak Saleh from the Class of 1991 at the American University in Beirut. Not sure if this is the same person.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:RoXXaxXQHOAJ:wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~webdevpt/class_reunion/class_1991.html+%22Ashwak+Saleh%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=safari

[Paladin2]

She could always be the target of the tranquilizer dart, and then hauled off to the pound.

[chichilarue]

I have an idea...let's get the Hutus from Rwanda a million machetes and let them loose in the Muslim world, including Leeds, Dearborn, Manchester, Paris, etc.

[SittinYonder]

For G-d sakes, can't you recognize a good Irish name when you see one ?

Thank you for pointing out the ignorance on this board. Yet again, Freepers are jumping to conclusions and casting stereotypes.

Ashwak, IIRC, is an old Mormon name, so clearly this is another Mormon woman angry that she has to be the only wife of a drunken Irishman.

[Paladin2]

Yes, but is it profiling if the captee is in fact a perp?

[SittinYonder]

According to this, there's an Ashwak Saleh from the Class of 1991 at the American University in Beirut. Not sure if this is the same person.

At 32, she's the right age.

[synbad600]

According to CAIR, yes.

[CindyDawg]

IMO she wanted them to see it.

[Porterville]

those f**en Quakers piss me off.

[mosquewatch.com]

Thank you for pointing out the ignorance on this board. Yet again, Freepers are jumping to conclusions and casting stereotypes.

Apology accepted, just because Muslim TERRORISTS are filling baby bottles up with chemicals, trying to blow up planes, actually blowing up planes, using dogs as bomb carriers, flying planes into buildings, rioting, killing millions in the Sudan, shooting kids in the head, making the others drink their own urine, lopping of heads of kids in the phillipines, HOW DARE WE FIND ANY COMPARISON TO ISLAM AND TERROR......(Sarcasm ends now)

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Zabasearch


ASHWAK SALEH
1741 GREEN RD
ANN ARBOR, MI 48105


ASHWAK H SALEH Born Aug 1973
7335 ASBURY PARK
DETROIT, MI 48228

[Petruchio]

So unless news reports were garbled, there were two thwarted attacks by women on the White House today. An earlier report was about a woman with small explosives.

Is PMS Contagious?

[mosquewatch.com]

Is PMS Contagious?

I just asked my Wife, she told me to get off the computer you big dope!

[toddlintown]

"Ashwak"

There's a joke here!

[mosquewatch.com]

AFLAC!!

[RoseofTexas]

The MOOSLIMS have a whole bunch of nerve marching in DC after the foiled terrorists plot to blow up hundreds of folks in the air! You'd think they would be up in arms over those MOOLIM TERRORISTS defaming their evil satanic religion!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!! I think we should demand they LEAVE our country before they start a civil war and it ain't gonna be pretty!! Time to purchase a handgun!

[arasina]

What's Zabasearch?

[yankeedame]

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[mass55th]

"Gee, I wonder what HER religious affiliation is?"

Probably a Cynthia McKinney donor.