Jill Carroll via The Christian Science Monitor Part VI: One morning at the location I knew as the mujahideen clubhouse I awoke to find fresh dirt in the bathroom, dirt in the shower, and dirt in the washing machine. I didn’t think much of it. Maybe they were washing their shoes.

But I quickly learned that the appearance of dirt meant that someone in the house had been out planting bombs – IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices, the mujahideen weapon of choice. I knew from my reporting, and the time I spent embedded with US Marines, that IEDs were now responsible for about half of all US combat deaths in Iraq.
Not all their explosives were offensive weapons. At least one of my guards – Abu Hassan, a serious man – wore a suicide vest inside the clubhouse.

One night, he was leaning over a little gas-powered stove, cooking eggs and potatoes in oil, and then he sat back and pushed the open flame away, saying something like, “Oh, have to be careful!”

The suicide vest was under his shirt, sort of swinging back and forth. He was afraid the fire would ignite the explosives. And if it did, we’d all be dead.

He used to complain about how heavy it was. He’d wear it at night. He would mime for me what would happen if soldiers came, showing how he’d put it on, with shoulder straps, and then how two wires would connect. Then he would move his hands outward in a big motion indicating an explosion, look upward, and go, “BOOM!”

Part VI.

Part V.

Part IV.

Part III.

Part II.

Part I plus relevant links including Jawa and Christian Science Monitor archives here.

Cross posted at Howie's Moisture Farm and The Dread Pundit Bluto. I replace the quote and changed the links. Two posts would be close together I thought.

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POOf!

and al-Abra Kadabra..

The year is 2015..Berkeley Caliphornia

Yes I can see them all now..

..Yes there she is I can just make out an older Jill Carroll still 'making a difference'...why yes, there she is.. marching proudly again along with like minded folk, and they're locked in spirtual solidarity with the resistance!

[reaches for the Tums]

Peace be upon thee

Posted by: Aluminum Clairvoyant at August 22, 2006 08:57 AM (H58Sh)

2 Jill Carroll

Posted by: Aluminum Clairvoyant at August 22, 2006 09:01 AM (H58Sh)

3 Clairvoyant, shit, government warnings should be required before anyone is allowed to see that link. My.....rickin...eyes....re.......wate.ing.......I'm.........goin.........blin...................

Posted by: jesusland joe at August 22, 2006 10:20 AM (rUyw4)

4 I hate this womans picture!

Posted by: greyrooster at August 22, 2006 11:24 AM (/GBNb)

5 Then I'll have to use it more often

Posted by: Howie at August 22, 2006 11:29 AM (YdcZ0)

6 It is to bad the vest did not blow up while the dude was cooking. I am tired of looking at this ass hat.

Posted by: Leatherneck at August 22, 2006 09:52 PM (D2g/j)

7 I think you're using your own picture and claiming it to be another bitch.

Posted by: greyrooster at August 23, 2006 06:24 AM (dQaun)

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Yeah rooster but you're my bitch.

Posted by: Howie at August 23, 2006 08:33 AM (YdcZ0)

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Posted by: tehcpfan lykjad at January 29, 2007 06:12 PM (HhPIK)

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