Sep 21

Ex-Afghan president Rabbani killed by exploding turban

Do you think Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard might have been on to something?

(Hysterical laughter)… I have to admit, I laughed out loud when I saw this, it’s great humor in a sick, twisted, dementedly morbid sort of way. I’m sorry Burhanuddin Rabbani was murdered, but you have to admit, this is hilarious. The very first thing that ran through my mind was Kurt Westergaard’s turban bomb cartoon, the next was pure Wyl E. Coyote getting the short end yet again by the Roadrunner. Beep, beep! HA! HA! HA! LMAO!!! I know it’s not funny, but it is!

The former president of Afghanistan – a major figure who was leading peace talks aimed at ending the war – was killed in his home Tuesday by a suicide attacker wearing an exploding turban.

Burhanuddin Rabbani died when he hugged his assassin, who triggered the bomb, officials said…

Rabbani, a former college professor who fought the Soviets in the 1980s as a major Tajik warlord, served as Afghanistan’s president in the 1990s. Read it all