Female Turkish Suicide Bomber Suffers Work-Related Injury

You know sometimes you get up for work and you just know it's going to be a shitty day. The toast burns, you hit traffic, you get a flat or the damn explosives you strapped to yourself in an attempt to kill a former Turkish leader fail to detonate fully leaving you injured but alive and facing life in a Turkish prison. I hate days like that:

This woman believed she was going to die today.

But instead she survived, a failed suicide bomber who managed to harm no one but herself.

Paramedics rushed the woman away today after she tried to blow herself up at a university in Turkey.

Disguised as a student, she detonated her bomb at the Ankara university as a former justice minister visited.

The blast occurred just a metre from where former minister Hikmet Sami Turk was standing.
But something went wrong, and the blast did not kill either the woman or Turk.
Instead she was detained and two separate explosives with fuses were found on her.

Turk was hated by left-wing organisations for his policies when he was in office. Turk also said he had received death threats.

So what do female suicide bombers get in Paradise anyway? I guess if she was a virgin, she could have been Adam Gadahn's or Osama bin-Laden's plaything. Instead she's going to jail or maybe worse.

Did the US Liquidate Adam Gadahn?

Hopefully yes. It's inconclusive at this point and the military is saying we missed him but he's either gone underground or is buried underground.

I tend to lean towards Allah's thinking here, but would the military be vocal if we did get him? First, Gadahn is an American citizen regardless of the fact he supposedly tore up his passport and renounced citizenship. The military wouldn't exactly trumpet the fact that they are targeting Americans--even Americans who've sided with a mortal enemy that killed 3,000 in NYC.

Second, and this is more important; by advertising the fact that we exterminated the scumbag, wouldn't that bring congressional investigations as a purely political move? The anti-warriors like Murtha and Rangel would love to have our top brass answering as to why they targeted an American citizen--even though the story is that he wasn't targeted but just happened to be there. The torture issue is settled, Abu Ghraib is in the past and we are succeeding in Iraq as never before, the retreaters need an issue and Gadahn's death could well be that issue.

Think about it, the NY Times could write of Gadahn being a wayward young man who fell for Islam much like John Walker Lindh and David Hicks of Australia did. He was just a misguided American lad who needed guidance and Islam gave him that. What did the mean old Bush administration do? They murdered him in cold blood, they murdered a young American man and they should be held accountable.

This story has largely not yet made the American press but if it turns out that Howie is correct and we did indeed get the vile Gadahn, it will break quickly.