Some Like It Hot

It's spring, the sun is shining on the mountain peaks, the snow is melting in the mountain passes, and a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of Waziristan and a renewed offensive against Al Qaeda.

The CSM tells us that for Osama, being on the lam from the CIA, the ISI, and the Pakistani and US militaries has become a drag.  Or maybe Osama has simply been filling his free time enjoying the old Tony Curtis / Jack Lemmon / Marilyn Monroe comedy classics:

When bin Laden's group moves, says Hussain, they go in caravans and dress in women's clothing to avoid detection by satellite.

"Now I have also given orders that when every vehicle is checked, the women are asked to say something so that you can make out whether it is a male voice or a female voice," he says.

Comments

[Al]

Now I know why we haven't caught UBL yet. I am seeing the following:

ISI Agent #1: "There's something odd about that 'woman'."
ISI Agent #2: "I don't see anything."

ISI Agent #1: "She's got an awfully low voice."
ISI Agent #2: "So?"

ISI Agent #1: "And she's terribly tall."
ISI Agent #2: "That doesn't matter."

ISI Agent #1: "And," (ripping off UBL's wig) "she's a MAN!"
ISI Agent #2: "Well - nobody's perfect."

[Kim]

Oh heck, you beat me. My comment was going to be "Nobody's perfectly safe".
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[Paul Zrimsek]

I was picturing something more along the lines of a soldier asking "Are there any women here?" in John Cleese's voice.

[ras]

OBL better not travel to Palestine or to Saudi Arabia. You can get in a lot of trouble in those places dressed like that.

[dsquared]

Are the *beards* not a bit of a giveaway? There are two possibilities here:

1. Despite having burned down barber shops for committing the sin of cutting the beard within a fist's width of the chin, Osama and gang have decided that this is one of the bits of the Koran that's more or less optional.

or

2. The Christian Science Monitor will believe more or less any old rubbish as long as they're allowed to look all gee-whiz and James-Bond by sourcing it to "the intelligence community"

My money on this one is on the same side as that of George Galloway's libel lawyers.

[TM]

Well, "to avoid detection by satellite" is pretty broad, and probably does not require, for example, a fetching wiggle in your walk.

As to beards, burkhas">http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/i/iroy/fall%25202003/CA%2520120%2520FA03/CA120%2520assts%2520FA03/NYTIMes-burkha%2520ad.jpg&imgrefurl=http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/i/iroy/fall%25202003/CA%2520120%2520FA03/CA120%2520assts%2520FA03/CA120%2520written%2520asst2%2520Oct%252029.htm&h=761&w=480&sz=39&tbnid=44DtQXCKDIsJ:&tbnh=140&tbnw=88&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dburkha%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN">burkhas might cover that point.