Who knew???
Under the heading of too fooked up to make up, it appears that some of
the Western world's current most sworn enemies like the Beatles too!
In a week long serialization in the New York Times, entitled "Held By The Taliban," a harrowing tale of a Times reporter kidnapped and held hostage by elements of the Taliban, a little early 60s pop culture seeped into what is supposed to be highly religious world.
In the 5 part story, the kidnapped reporter recounts how that while Taliban guards forced him to sing jihad songs, the guards had no problem singing their "favourite song," She Loves You!-
Yes, it musta been quite a hootenanny, what with the extremists in their robes and head wraps and Kalashnikov, belting out those "yeah, yeah, yeahs."
In any event, the reporter escaped and lived to tell the bizarre tale of beards and mop-tops as one.
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Geez, I wonder if Apple should comp these guys a couple new box-sets, so as to keep their minds and hands off wayward westerners.
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But we hope that the natives don't find out what John Lennon said about God!
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Link to Times' piece:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/asia/18hostage.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=held%20By%20the%20taliban&st=cse
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