Humour is a rare beast in these days of conflict but I did hear one nugget from one of the leaders of the Northern Alliance (the Afghan opposition force).
I regret I have no cite but I read it in a respectable newspaper today (you’ll just have to believe me).
When asked what he thought of the Taliban, the Opposition leader replied:
"They’re a bunch of pricks.
Even the Russians were better. At least under the Russians you could have a drink or do what you wanted."
That was so direct it just cracked me up, since the Taliban are quite obviously “a bunch of pricks” as even fairly extreme muslims seem to admit.
Even “Islamic Jihad” (the outfit who send suicide bombers into Israeli restaurants) condemned the attack in America.
They said something like:
“Yeah we hate America and stuff but even we think that was going a bit far.”
If even Islamic Jihad think you were out of order then you know you must be pretty extreme.