'Washington Post’ Columnist’s Car Explodes (WTF)

[Are_grits_groceries]

Anne Applebaum, editorial writer and columnist for The Washington Post, is under police protection after her Jeep’s engine exploded in mysterious circumstances.

Applebaum, wife of Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and author of “Gulag,” a Pulitzer prize-winning history of the Soviet Gulag, was driving in a Warsaw suburb on Saturday when she heard strange noises from under her hood and got out to investigate. Shortly afterward, the engine blew up, The Times of London reported. Applebaum was unhurt in the explosion. Polish police are considering it a technical problem, but she has been assigned bodyguards while the car’s remains are examined further.

She and her husband are vocal critics of the Kremlin

http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/12/washington-post-columnists-car-explodes.html

Wow!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. UH-OH.

[HopeHoops]

2. What, no pelonium 210?

Exploding engines are sort of low-tech for the Kremlin.

[951-Riverside]

3. Seems like an exaggeration

Her car likely had engine problems and it suddenly burst into flames when she opened the hood. This happened to me many years ago.

[valerief]

4. Talk about Jeep-ers creepers. nt

[Libertas1776]

5. Probably just those pesky little

gremlins from the Kremlin:sarcasm:

Always a good idea to have one of those automatic starters attached to your car keys that you can click from a safe distance, especially if you are going to be critical of the Kremlin.

[havocmom]

6. one more event to suggest that Blackwater isn't the only bad guys to change their name

And let us never forget the glowing report when bush looked into Putin's eyes.