Posted on 05/15/2009 8:06:18 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
KOTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Taliban fighters are shaving off their beards and trying to flee from a Pakistani army offensive in their Swat bastion, the military said on Friday, as it relaxed a curfew to allow civilians to get out.
The army launched an offensive in the Swat valley, northwest of Islamabad, last week to stop the spread of Taliban influence which had alarmed the United States and other Western allies of nuclear-armed Pakistan.
More than 900,000 civilians have fled and the United Nations has warned of a humanitarian tragedy unless Pakistan gets massive assistance.
Clashes had erupted in various parts of the region, the military said on Friday, adding it was achieving successes.
It also appealed to civilians to identify Taliban fighters trying to flee.
"We have confirmed reports that these Taliban terrorists, after shaving off their beards and cutting their hair, are fleeing from the area," the military said in a statement.
"We request the people of Swat to identify them," it said, while providing a telephone number for informants to call or send text messages.
Taliban members and supporters usually have long beards and many of them also have long hair. There was no immediate comment from the Taliban about the military's statement.
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Graphic on Pakistan's northwest, where tens of thousands of civilians are trying to flee fighting between government and Taliban troops. Pakistan's military suspended a curfew Friday in a northwest city where it is fighting Taliban guerrillas, officials said. (AFP Graphic)
Supporters of Islamic political party Jamat-e-Islami rally in Islamabad against military operations in Swat district and Buner. Pakistan's military suspended a curfew Friday in a northwest city where it is fighting Taliban guerrillas, officials said, allowing tens of thousands of civilians to flee the area. (AFP/Farooq Naeem)
shaving beards and donning burkhas.
Seems they have rethought the dieing and 72 virgins thing.
The cowards are probably wearing burkas, too.
If they also bathed and traveled with women without burkas, that would really fool them. They might even realize there is a better way.
Are they wearing eye makeup too! Cowards. All of them.
Taliban are all cowards. They can’t stand and fight. They have to hide behind women and children and escape wearing burquas.
OK, but what are the men doing?
Just shoot anyone with a beard shaped facial tanline.
If any of the muzzies had a capitalist bone in them, they would set up a Quick Cutz & rake in the cash.
Check under those burqas too.
Too bad the players in these "news" stories all have an IQ of under 35...
Just make sure that for the first week, all men with "5 O'clock shadows" of pale untanned skin are shot on the spot when found.
I can't think of a better self imposed death sentence screaming, "here I am! come and get me!"
They also dress in burqas to escape
Like all simplistic solutions, yours have drawbacks.
1. People forced to grow beards over the last year by the Talibs, and now have recently shaved them.
2. Tan lines, pale skin, you guys looked at pictures of people in this area.....some fair, some positively akin to people of Euro descent, but the vast majority are darker than Obama.
But, on the serious side, one should assume they are now infiltrating into Islamabad, Lahore and the whole Punjab, the heart of Pakistan.
Behead the Jews
Beat my wives with a stick
I’ll save my own neck
With a ten cent Bic
Burma Shave!
******
Killed my own sister
Abused an infidel
Molested my goats
Clean-shaven is swell!
Burma Shave!
*******
Rioted in Swat
Burned an American flag
Now it looks like
I’ll be civilized with a Krag!
Burma Shave!
*******
The Predator Drone
Looks down from the sky
Without that filthy beard
I sure is fly!
Burma Shave!
*******
The Greater Satan
is looking for me
but without a beard
a Jihadi they won’t see
Burma Shave!
LOLOL Thanks!
A month ago
no beard sent me to Hell
The only question now
Is foamy or gel?
Burma Shave!
****
Shaving is evil
the Imam said at my mosque
but I wanna live
no matter what the cost!
Burma Shave!
****
It’s filled with lice
it’s dirty and stringy
sorry Allah
hand me that razor thingy!
Burma Shave!
****
I wipe with my left
I eat with my right
Shaving my beard
will keep me out of sight
Burma Shave!
****
We stoned a woman
for having an affair
but surely Allah
will forgive no chin hair
Burma Shave!
In this vale
Of toil and sin
Your head goes bald
But not your chin.
Burma Shave!
*****
Predator’s fly today
So to live to fight
Get that beard away
And you’ll be alright.
Burma Shave!
***
What was that?
It’s annoying
to fear the predator’s swat
so the beard must be going.
Burma Shave!
***
The Predator’s flight
You are a’feared
Survive the night
Remove your beard.
Burma Shave!
***
Drones are flying
I must be saved
Don’t mind lying
My beard I shaved
Burma Shave!
***
Allah will just
have to understand
Taqqiya’s just
a shave cream can.
Burma Shave!
***
“I shaved my beard
‘Cause I’m a dweeb –
Please spare my life!”
Begged the Talib.
Burma Shave!
***
Allah save my virgins
All I have heer’d
Is the drone of engines
Today I shave my beard
Burma Shave!
***
Death to America
Israel too!
Death to Osama?
Just one thing to do…
Burma Shave!
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