Tel-Chai Nation

Weird, you say? But apparently, it's true, Canadian troops in Afghanistan captured a one-armed terrorist described as the "mad bomber":

ZHARI DISTRICT, afghanistan–The mad bomber has one arm.

Which suggests he's committed at least a single painful miscalculation in his life as an explosives alchemist.

And yet, even one-handed, he had been making life miserable for Canadian troops in this grim western corner of Kandahar province, his handiwork a constant threat and sometimes terror.

When he got it right. When the planets and fates aligned. When a military vehicle crunched its thick wheels over one of his roadside specials or the stride of a combat boot made dreadful contact with just that tiny piece of Ground Zero, death-in-a-canister.

The bomber isn't really so mad. As an expert in improvised explosive devices, he was quite the abominable genius, dexterous with just five fingers.

His craftsmanship was readily recognizable for those who knew what they were looking at.

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This bomber we shall call Omar because his name hasn't been formally released.

But they nailed him.

It doesn't take much to tell that the mad bomber must've had his arm blown off during one of his manufactuing jobs. It's just too bad that the whole of him didn't go with it, or the troops would've had one less fiend to deal with in the nightmare that is Afghanistan.

Labels: jihad, terrorism, war on terror