I might believe the "death ray" stuff but I have a real hard time believing the "angel of death" story.
First of all, the Afghanis know radio. They have radios. So since when would a voice over radio be anything special?
Number two, according to the beliefs of Muslims angels are not female. They are genderless beings. Furthermore when they do appear to people with human or human-like attributes they are invariably male. I'm confident that it's common knowledge among even poorly educated Taliban Muslims that the angel of death is Azrail who is represented as male always.
Not to mention that for a Muslim to suddenly believe that Azrail is working directly for Uncle Sam requires an incredible change in core beliefs.
If the surrendering part of the story is true at all then he probably told the troops to surrender because "they've got some chick in a plane up there who's gonna blow you up."
Where I live, rural Maine, and in other places like it, if you can't get around in a car you starve - or live off the charity of neighbors. You've *got* to have a car to live. It makes my blood boil to hear people talk about our necessary right to transportation as a "privelege."
Now that I've downloaded a message with the title "Al Qaeda... sic 'em!" onto my computer they're gonna ship me off to Guantanamo Bay.
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If it wasn't for OpenBSD's easy install I might still be using Windows.
I tinkered with Mandrake and Redhat for a while as Windows alternatives but didn't have great experiences. Then I stumbled on OpenBSD, did an easy slick ftp install and presto! Bye-bye Bill. The installer's fast and takes less brain cells than Linux.
(Don't get me wrong, though. I don't mean to put down Linux. I'm writing this on Redhat.)
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I might believe the "death ray" stuff but I have a real hard time believing the "angel of death" story.
First of all, the Afghanis know radio. They have radios. So since when would a voice over radio be anything special?
Number two, according to the beliefs of Muslims angels are not female. They are genderless beings. Furthermore when they do appear to people with human or human-like attributes they are invariably male. I'm confident that it's common knowledge among even poorly educated Taliban Muslims that the angel of death is Azrail who is represented as male always.
Not to mention that for a Muslim to suddenly believe that Azrail is working directly for Uncle Sam requires an incredible change in core beliefs.
If the surrendering part of the story is true at all then he probably told the troops to surrender because "they've got some chick in a plane up there who's gonna blow you up."
Just wait till you do or say something that makes *you* the unwanted one.
"But they'd never target me! I'm not a $ENEMYTYPE_OF_CURRENT_ADMINISTRATION" you say...today.
How could driving be a mere "privelege"?
Where I live, rural Maine, and in other places like it, if you can't get around in a car you starve - or live off the charity of neighbors. You've *got* to have a car to live. It makes my blood boil to hear people talk about our necessary right to transportation as a "privelege."
Tyrants. Probably urban tyrants.
Now that I've downloaded a message with the title "Al Qaeda... sic 'em!" onto my computer they're gonna ship me off to Guantanamo Bay.
If it wasn't for OpenBSD's easy install I might still be using Windows.
I tinkered with Mandrake and Redhat for a while as Windows alternatives but didn't have great experiences. Then I stumbled on OpenBSD, did an easy slick ftp install and presto! Bye-bye Bill. The installer's fast and takes less brain cells than Linux.
(Don't get me wrong, though. I don't mean to put down Linux. I'm writing this on Redhat.)