Reality very often outdoes imagination. Tom Clancy said in a September interview that he could never have sold a story whose plot depended upon 19 suicidal, homicidal maniacs working as a team. Black humour on the net in both verbal and cartoon form soon toyed with the concept of training camps for bin Laden’s crack suicide squads. They posed the weighty question: “How can they have a final exam?”
With the assistance of CNN’s crack reporting squads, we now know the answer:
Northern Alliance commanders said pockets of Taliban fighters continued to fight, some taking shelter in bombed-out buildings, while other Taliban trapped behind the opposition advance were blowing themselves up with hand grenades and land mines, rather than surrendering.
I guess they passed.
