Afghan Insurgents Cross-Dress To Escape U.S. Marines

CNN:

(CNN) -- Insurgents locked in a standoff with U.S. Marines tricked them by dressing up as women to escape, a task force spokesman said Monday.

Women and children had been caught in the standoff between the armed groups, but some of the women were not what they seemed, according to task force spokesman Capt. William Pelletier.

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Comments

[slaxx]

there must be something in the koran about cross-dressing.

[Whinger]

This is news?

The uniform of a terrorist is that of the people!

[been2there]

I agree that sparing civilians is more important than nailing every one of the insurgents. The US has more need of civilian good will than of a "capture." The Marines were right to hold their fire.

[Raster]

This will be one of the chapters in a future edition of "Obama's Folly: Trying to Be the Lucky Seventh Empire to Win in Central Asia". The other six collapsed after engaging in war in the area.

[marco01]

This kind of thing was happening under Bush too.

[darthmaul]

I thought that one of the advantages of having women marines, was so that they could directly deal with Afghan women without violating local customs. Whats up with this?

[ltyr2002]

HELLOOOO!!!!!!

Who's shocked?

[Talossa]

Yet more evidence that don't-ask-­don't-tell is stupid policy!

[ohmetoo]

Which way did they go George, which way did they go! LMAO

[GoodwithWood]

Hey, I got it! Lets start a web campaign to out the gay Taliban, they do hate women after all. Lets brand them as a gay mens organization. That should really piss them off and throw a cog in their wheels.

[Ohioan730]

When the anchor on CNN was reporting this earlier, I swear it looked like he was on the verge of giggling. The details of the story are something out of a Farrelly brothers movie the way he was telling it. "The soldiers noticed that the women had broad shoulders and hairy feet but they had a few kids with them..." (paraphrasing from memory)

[MikeDu]

I wonder if this is all a "big lie", a psy-ops propaganda stunt. An excuse to explain why they're doing so poorly atfinding the enemy in their sweeps.

Do you recall when Ronald Reagan tried spreading absurd rumors about Qadaffi cross-dressing? Or how about that idiotic report about one of Hussein sons having a framed picture of a Jenna Bush? Or how about Noriega's camou fatigued teddy bear? The CIA seems to think we were born yesterday. You can't really trust a word of these press releases, y'know.

[Paula Ann]

I believe it...many common robbers and thieves use this technique in the Gulf States.

[toadicux]

They have to explain all the civilian casualties somehow.

[HC4BO]

I knew those burkas had to be good for something ... !

[KriTiKiT]

see that's why you need gays in the military...
we have gaydar!

[PAposter]

hahaha...gaydar doesn't pick up on hetero cross dressing...does it? hahahaha!

[chronic]

Um, yes it does.

[bismillah001]

LOL

[Ponderus]

Really, in all fairness, the GOP has been disguising itself as human beings for years.

So what are we complaining about here?

[toushe]

they were dems disguised as perez hilton

[slaxx]

wonderful...the army stopped firing on insurgents if civilians are nearby or if they use them as human shields, but now what are they supposed to do?

[MikeDu]

Isn't if funny how every civilian the U.S. guns down in the street just happens to have been a 'human shield'? Like that Italian agent who had just rescued the woman reporter and was on his way to the airport. I understand there was an insurgent just standing there, right behind the car, when they shot it up, killed him and wounded her.

[escobar]

Go home where you belong and look for a usefiul job?