(STR/AFP/Getty Images) Kakar, just over 5ft tall, became a revered figure in Kandahar after dispatching three assassins in a shoot-outFrom Times Online:
Lieutenant-Colonel Malalai Kakar was Afghanistan’s highest-ranking female police officer. She was a champion of oppressed women in the wartorn state and portrayed in the international media as something of a fearless feminist action hero. As Kandahar’s deputy commander of police she vigorously enforced her own brand of justice, unafraid to beat criminals that she caught. Kakar carried on with her duties despite attempts on her life and a succession of death threats. Even the Taleban acknowledged her bravery in their death threats.
Kakar was the first woman to become a police detective in the ultraconservative Kandahar — a dangerous place for any police officer let alone a woman. Kandahar, the birthplace of Taleban extremism, is the largest city in southern Afghanistan and its surrounding province of the same name has a population of about 900,000.
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My Comment: Appeasement with monsters never works. They have to be defeated on the battlefield.
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