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India-Pakistan
Osama and 9/11
This madman was a colonel in the Pak army

By Lt Col (R) M Zaman Malik

Having gone through a number of books written by Tariq Majeed of Baitul-Hikma-, Lahore, I have almost lost my belief that any factor other than the Zionist’s could have been behind the success or failure or rise and fall of any nation, in the history of mankind; even if the fault seemingly and clearly was committed by the nation concerned. A glance over the books mentioned below would reveal Jews’ conspiracy “Waters Flowing Eastward (Jewish against Christians); Lous Marschalko who wrote, “ The world Conquerors - The Real War Criminals; The International Jew - The World’s Foremost Problem; Pawns In The Game by Guy Carr; World revolution - The Plot Against Civilization, by Nesta H Webster; The Hoax of the 2oth Century, by Dr Arthur R Butz; The Case Of Israel - A Study of Political Zionism, by Roger Garaudy; The Dissolution of Eastern European Jewry, by Walter N. Sanning;
They Dare To Speak, by Paul Findley; What Price Israel, by Alfred M. Lilienthal; Memoirs of An Anti-Zionists Jew, by Elmer Berger; A Global Game For a New World Order, by Tariq Majeed of Lahore Cantt; Master Minds of Air Massacres of Aug 17 in Pakistan and September 11 In America, by Tariq Majeed, again.

Why did it happen to them, is not difficult to understand? Well, they are conspirators, and fabricators who even propagated against Moses the moment He was away from them, though only for a short while. Why were they made to live in the wilderness; the Mono Salva didn’t suit them.

Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden share some unmistakable similarities. Hitler was portrayed as the greatest villain of the world, exactly as Osama is being portrayed now. The Nazi band was labelled as enemies of mankind, just as the Al-Qaeda band is branded now. The similarities must exist, as the same satanic schemers created both the characters and their teams. Zionists masterminded both the so-called Holocaust and September 11 Terror. Studying Hitler and Holocaust makes one quickly understand the Zionists Jew’s game built around Osama and September 11.

Holocaust was always suspect in many views. To kill six million Jews by the methods and in the period as claimed by the Jews was physically impossible. If thousands of Jews were being gassed to death in Germany daily for four or five years, it would have fetched headline news everyday, but it was not even mentioned as a historical event in the World War-II. The foremost in this regard was his decision to let the beleaguered British and French armies escape when a superior German strike force, having cornered them off Dunkirk, was poised to destroy them, very early in the war. “Guderian’s tanks had swept up past Boulogne and Calais and were crossing the canal defence — line close to Dunkirk when on May 24, 1940; an order from Hitler not only stopped their advance but actually called them back to the canal line. Evacuation of British Expeditionary Force had already begun on 23 May.

“By June 24, when the operation came to an end, 198,000 British and 140, ooo French and Belgian troops had been saved.” These troops were saved in the words of Western war historians, “due to Hitler’s fatal order of May 24 halting Guderian.” Hitler was never even secretly contacted by the Allies assuring German’s victory at Germany’s terms. To say that Hitler was not a ruthless aggressor will be travesty of the facts. Yes, certain record exists supporting Hitler’s aims set only at liberating German’s lost territory in the First World War and no more. But actions speak louder than words.

Adolph Hitler was a programmed Puppet, like today’s US- planted Heads of the Governments in the Muslim World. Why did Hitler open the Eastern Front - launched aggression on the Soviet Union with which he had no - aggression Pact? The information of “Barossa” was passed on to the West by a Western Agent from Japan. Throughout the world, the media heap abuse on those who express doubt about the orthodox version of the Holocaust.
In the German speaking countries, publically expressing doubt about the Holocaust is a political offence punishable by long prison sentences (Section 130 Paragraph 3 of German Penal Code; Section 3h of Australian Penal Code; Section 216 of Swiss Code).

This alone should be enough to arouse the suspicion of anyone who has the capacity to think critically. (CHP, PO Box 118, Hastings TN 34 3 ZQ, UK,emails:frage@vho.org). Osama bin Laden was more of a micro manager than he has often been portrayed as: The Commission says bin Laden personally gave Muhammad the go-ahead to begin laying the groundwork for the attack at a meeting in Kandahar - Afghanistan, in early 1999. Over the following 12 to 18 months, bin Laden chose or accepted oaths from all 19 of the eventual hijackers and appointed Muhammad Atta as the mission leader. Throughout the planning stage, bin Laden was the one who scaled back the more ambitious proposals...The Commission dispels the idea that Laden is worth as much as 300 million dollars. Though he did collect One million dollars a year in inheritance until he was cut off in 1994, he relied on fund raising to support al-Qaeda’s 30 million dollars annual budget.”

It may be of no surprise that 9/11 Commission was almost wholly a Jewish body. Eight of its 10 members were known or thinly-disguised Jews. They were: Thomas H Kean (chair) Lee H Hamilton (vice Chair), Richard Ben -veniste, Jamie S Gorelick , Slade Gorton, John F.Lehman, Timothy J Roemer and James R Thompson. The other two, Fred F fielding and Bob Kerry, were most probably also Jewish, but deeply disguised, like John F Kerry who was revealed to be a jew only after he had emerged as the leading challenger to Bush in the 2004 US elections. The Commission’s Staff, Executive Director Philip D Zelikow and Deputy Executive Director Chris Kojm, and General Counsel, Daniel Marcus were also Jews. To ensure that its verdict would keep the world misled on 9/11, the Commission employed a crafty tactic. Instead of investigating the situation on September 11, it situated the investigation!

The Commission adopted the bogus cover story, that Osama and Al-Qaeda were responsible for 9/11, as a belief and made it the starting point of its inquiry. This was a conspicuous feature throughout its proceedings. Are the Jews a cursed or a blessed nation; the record of their existence speaks for the real answer.
Posted by: john || 01/29/2007 18:53 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The thought that people like him have operational control of nuclear weapons should give you nightmares tonight
Posted by: john || 01/29/2007 18:58 Comments || Top||

#2  To kill six million Jews by the methods and in the period as claimed by the Jews was physically impossible

Ironically the Pak army killed three million Bengalis in a period of nine months using non-industrial methods. They surpassed the SS.

In Rwanda, the Hutu Interahamwe required only 100 days to murder 500 000 Tutsis.
Posted by: john || 01/29/2007 19:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Whenever I read insane Islamodribble like this horseshit article, I wonder if we wouldn't have been better off-- and everyone else, really-- if we'd just obliterated this fucking pigsty called "Pakistan" the afternoon of 9/11.
Posted by: Dave D. || 01/29/2007 19:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Not that it has any relevance in context, but this passage is hilarious:

It may be of no surprise that 9/11 Commission was almost wholly a Jewish body. Eight of its 10 members were known or thinly-disguised Jews. They were: Thomas H Kean (chair) Lee H Hamilton (vice Chair), Richard Ben -veniste, Jamie S Gorelick , Slade Gorton, John F.Lehman, Timothy J Roemer and James R Thompson.

This guy wouldn't know a wasp if it stung him!
Posted by: Jumble Thraiter8446 || 01/29/2007 21:07 Comments || Top||


Bomb Wounds 5 in Mosque in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A bomb exploded inside a Shiite Muslim mosque Monday in the northwestern Pakistan city of Bannu, wounding five people, two seriously, police said.

The bomb went off as people were arriving in the mosque for a gathering in connection with the Shiite mourning festival of Ashoura, said Sadullah Khan, a Bannu police officer.

Dozens of people were inside the mosque as the blast happened, and two of the five wounded were in serious condition, Khan said.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 01/29/2007 09:56 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:


India to set up aerospace command
Gandhinagar, January 28
An aerospace command will be established soon to exploit outer space and control space-based assets, Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi said today. The Indian Air Force (IAF) was in the process of establishing this command by integrating its capabilities, he told reporters here.

Air chief Tyagi’s remarks assume significance in the wake of reports that China successfully tested an anti-satellite missile. “As the reach of the IAF is expanding, it has become extremely important that we exploit space and for it you need space assets,” Air chief Tyagi, who is due to retire in March, said. “We are an aerospace power having trans-oceanic reach. We have started training a core group of people for the aerospace command”. Air chief Tyagi, here to attend a station commanders’ conference of the South Western Air Command, was non-committal on the exact time frame for setting up the command.

“We will take the help of ISRO for the aerospace command but it will have distinct features as it is a military command,” Air chief Tyagi said in reply to a question on the role of the space agency in setting up the proposed formation.

The command would combine various components like satellites, radars, communication systems and fighter aircraft and helicopters, IAF officers said. This would be done while taking into consideration diverse needs like communication, reconnaissance and battlefield damage assessment as the reach of the IAF had increased, they said.

To a question on China’s military modernisation drive, Air chief Tyagi said, “They are ahead in some fields (in comparison to India) and in some fields we are ahead. That country has huge resources due to their rapid economic development”. He said the role of the IAF had changed with the times. “The IAF needs to transform itself to adapt to new requirements. Its basic role to protect airspace and borders of the country is still there, but we have to protect our global interests. We plan to have strategic reach to meet our needs of new strategic boundaries.

“We have drawn the road map for the transformation of the IAF and we are on the right track”. Air chief Tyagi further said the IAF's interaction on a global scale has increased and it has done joint air exercises with several countries in recent times.

Speaking about accidents involving IAF aircraft, Air chief Tyagi said the percentage of such incidents has been considerably reduced. “In relative terms, no other air force in the world has registered such a drop in the number of air accidents”.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 01/29/2007 03:52 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  George Bush realized the potential of India the way nobody else in Washington did. Despite their initial reluctance, prodded by Bush, they are now doubly amazed at how rapidly India is adapting to its new status as a world power.

And because of Bush's direction, the US is right in the middle of things, cultivating this new and potentially very powerful ally.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/29/2007 9:25 Comments || Top||

#2  By the Eye of the Vishanti this is excellent news!
Posted by: Excalibur || 01/29/2007 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Speaking about accidents involving IAF aircraft, Air chief Tyagi said the percentage of such incidents has been considerably reduced. “In relative terms, no other air force in the world has registered such a drop in the number of air accidents”.


For a while the IAF had a truly horrfying accident rate - not quite as bad as that of the early jet years of the USAF and USN (when a pilot stood a 25% chance of not coming back from peacetime training missions, but damned close. A lot of that was due to their aging and increasingly decrepit fleet of MiG-21s, which IIRC have since stood down.
In a LOT of ways, the IAF has turned itself into a unique image of the USAF, and it will be interesting to see what happens in the next ten years or so.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/29/2007 14:06 Comments || Top||

#4  While the older Mig-21s have been mothballed, they still have an awful lot of Mig-21s. And they need those squadrons and they need to fly them hard.

Now however they are building their own Mig-21 engines, have more reliable Russian spares.
This has brought down the accident rate.

They badly need replacements though and it looks like either the F-16 or the F-18.

Posted by: john || 01/29/2007 14:41 Comments || Top||

#5  The purchase of Hawk trainers from the UK, with the initial batches of junior-pilots and instructors being trained by the RAF has also helped.

The Mig-21 is an unforgiving beast. Pilots used to transition from propeller trainers to the single engine Mig-21 which lands at 500 kph.

One mistake while learning and they died.
Posted by: john || 01/29/2007 14:46 Comments || Top||

#6  I thought the Mig-35 is the probable MiG-21 replacement. The Russians have even been using their influence (tech tranfer, denial of engines to Pakistan, nuclear reactors) to close the deal. Anything change that perception?
Posted by: ed || 01/29/2007 17:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Manmohan Singh owes Bush a few favors (purchases) for the nuke deal. Russia has managed to sell new reactors before GE can get in the door.

They are going with Sukhoi for a 5th gen heavy fighter so the Russians are assured of revenue.
They already have orders for additional Naval Mig-29s (for the two aircraft carriers - 1 being refurbished in Russia, the other being built in India).

A split MRCA order is possible.

They might very well increase the numbers from 125 to 200 (the air force wants more squadrons and the Navy wants shore based strike aircraft to carry their new BrahMos supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles) and split the order between the US (say 120 F-16s) and Russia (80 Mig-35s).
Posted by: john || 01/29/2007 18:10 Comments || Top||

#8  The Indian government has deliberately delayed the tenders for the MRCA aircraft so that they go out after the 123 agreement and final congressional approval of the US-India nuke deal.

Posted by: john || 01/29/2007 18:17 Comments || Top||

#9  Thanks.
Posted by: ed || 01/29/2007 18:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Thanks for the inside scoop, John.

And I was just sittin' here *smirking* over China being caught between a rock (Japan) and a hard place (India), lol! Cornering 'em in, we are.
Posted by: BA || 01/29/2007 19:58 Comments || Top||


Taliban Terror Recruitment in Pakistan GWOT "Ally"
By RIAZ KHAN AND MATTHEW PENNINGTON

SHABQADAR, Pakistan (AP) - Near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, pride mixes with grief and anger over dozens of young men lost to a stepped-up recruiting drive for the Taliban.

Like the anti-Soviet rebels of the 1980s and the pre-9/11 Taliban, the recruiters of today have turned to this cluster of about 25 ethnic Pashtun villages in search of volunteers.

The father of one dead enlistee says he feels honoured, but with many of Shabqadar's young men dead or feared missing on the battlefield, mujaheddin recruiters are no longer welcome here.

A shopkeeper says 100 or more young men have gone missing, including his cousin, a 10th grade student, who mysteriously left home during the summer vacation and is believed to have gone to fight.

People here are religious, and recruiters play on that sentiment, "recruiting the youth with raw minds," he said.

The shopkeeper, like many others interviewed, requested anonymity for his own safety.

Pressure from residents and the shooting and wounding of a local newspaperman who reported about the "martyrs" of Shabqadar compelled authorities in November to shut a local office of Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen, an outlawed Pakistani militant group. It had circulated jihadist literature and CDs and recruited mostly jobless young men to go to Afghanistan - like their fathers who fought the Soviet occupation of that country two decades ago.

Following the closure, recruiting has dried up, according to one former recruiter. But Samina Ahmed, an expert with the International Crisis Group think tank, warns that the upsurge in Taliban attacks on NATO forces is boosting the morale of sympathizers in Pakistani border areas and attracting recruits who are susceptible to militant propaganda and believe the Taliban can regain power...

Posted by: Ebbolurt Whereger2708 || 01/29/2007 02:16 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I read an article recently that ISI are actively terrorising local villagers to fight in Afghanistan!!!!
Posted by: Crinens Claviting2862 || 01/29/2007 12:27 Comments || Top||

#2  One would think the Pashtuns have second thoughts after just one border province lost 7000 jihadis during the 2001 taliban ass kicking. Sons never to return and take care of papa in old age. Though memories are long in Waziristan, math skills are deficient.
Posted by: ed || 01/29/2007 17:24 Comments || Top||

#3  There are still plenty of spare sons emptying the refrigerator and causing trouble I suspect, ed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2007 19:29 Comments || Top||


Petition filed against US forces' attacks
ISLAMABAD — Lt Gen (rtd) Hameed Gul, a former chief of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), has filed a constitutional petition in the Supreme Court (SC) seeking protection of the fundamental rights of citizens with special reference to a recent attack of US-led coalition forces in Shawaal area of North Waziristan agency in which a Pakistani soldier was martyred.
Cheez, the ACLU is everywhere.
The petition appeals to the court to order an inquiry into the attack, compensation for martyred soldier's family and an end to the operations in the tribal areas.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey, where's Hammed live? And are those coordinates on a cruise missile someplace?
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/29/2007 9:11 Comments || Top||

#2  This guy seems to be running the show.We should take him out asap!!!
Posted by: Crinens Claviting2862 || 01/29/2007 12:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Perhaps Hamid would like to personally deliver the petition. The address is: Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo, APO BR549.
Posted by: ed || 01/29/2007 17:32 Comments || Top||

#4  ARCLIGHT Peshawar and watch this kind of crap dry up. Of course, Pakistan will seethe, so ARCLIGHT Rawalpindi and Islamabad the next day to get the remainder of the idiots.

I have no sympathy with Pakistan or any pakistani. It's a "nation" that needs to disappear.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/29/2007 17:52 Comments || Top||


No foreign troops in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — There is neither any foreign intervention in Pakistan nor are any foreign forces operating from the country, Defence Secretary Lt Gen (rtd) Tariq Waseem Ghazi told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) during a meeting here.

"Pakistani territory is fully under our control and there is no foreign intervention at all," he said, responding to a question of Aasyia Azeem, a PAC member. Quoting a news item, Aasyia said Nato had made arrangements with Pakistan to launch military operations from its territory which could undermine sovereignty of the country.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As long as our special operators stay out of uniform, I guess that's technically true.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 01/29/2007 10:24 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't think we're the bone of contention here...
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/29/2007 10:26 Comments || Top||

#3  i think they are worried Quetta might be targeted
Posted by: Crinens Claviting2862 || 01/29/2007 12:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Hey, where is Baghdad Bob these days? Did he get caught up in the big net? Haven't heard much about him or Tariq Aziz lately. In fact, they may want to bring him back to brief our deadass media types over there. Wouldn't do any more harm than Jemail Hussein has done.
Posted by: Jack is Back || 01/29/2007 13:35 Comments || Top||

#5  As I recall, Jack is Back, Baghdad Bob tried to turn himself in, but nobody wanted him. So he wandered off to Dubai or someplace on the Gulf, I think.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2007 19:36 Comments || Top||


12 killed as Pakistani train passengers electrocuted
(Xinhua) -- At least 12 people were electrocuted while scores of others injured when people sitting on roof of a crowded passenger train were hit by an overhead power line on Sunday in southern Pakistani city of Shikarpur, the private Geo TV reported. The train with hundreds of people on board was heading southeast from Jacobabad to Rohri to join a Muharram mourning procession.

Many of the passengers were sitting on roof of the train, when an electric wire fell on the train near a rail crossing...
Many of the passengers were sitting on roof of the train, when an electric wire fell on the train near a rail crossing in Shikarpur, some 380 km northeast of Karachi, the capital of south province Sindh. Initial reports say at least 12 persons died and dozens of others injured in the incident, said the television report. The train was stopped after the incident, and those injured have been rushed to local hospitals. The fatalities and injuries were caused as people were either electrocuted or tossed off the top of the moving train after they were hit by the high voltage power line, said the report.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please clear the platform, frieght and baggage areas. Boarding ladders at the ready please. The
the Shikapur Shocker will be arriving momentarily.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2007 4:21 Comments || Top||

#2  "passengers"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2007 8:14 Comments || Top||

#3  I"ve seen pictures of a train in that area with literaly thousangs of people hanging all over every available inch outside and top, wherever they could get a fingerhold. I always wondered if the railways had any tunnels to scrape off all those "hobos", there"s no way they would fit between the train and the tunnel walls.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 01/29/2007 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  No word on the flash-fried goat.
Posted by: Excalibur || 01/29/2007 9:27 Comments || Top||

#5  The Yahoo news story on this includes the following additional info on why the "electric wire fell on the train".

Many of the passengers sitting on the train's roof were Shiite Muslims who were traveling to attend a religious gathering, said Ahmed Khan, a railroad official in Sukkur. Khan said the train was crowded and those who could not get inside clambered to the roof.

Some of those on the roof carried religious flags and other symbols that apparently struck the overhead electricity line, he said.


If you're sitting on the roof of an electric train, stay away from the guys with the flags on long poles.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 || 01/29/2007 10:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Inshallah.
Posted by: imoyaro || 01/29/2007 11:33 Comments || Top||

#7  As bad as the commuter rail is...it isn't this bad.
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/29/2007 11:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Shocking story. So, those that were killed or injured got promoted to conductor. Nice!
Posted by: Chuck Darwin || 01/29/2007 12:13 Comments || Top||

#9  I"ve seen pictures of a train in that area with literaly thousangs of people hanging all over every available inch outside and top

I know the picture. It is from Bangladesh, and the train was transporting pilgrims back from a religious event.
Posted by: john || 01/29/2007 16:04 Comments || Top||


Peshawar suicide blast: Hunt on for 3 LJ activists
The Interior Ministry has directed law enforcement and intelligence agencies to arrest three activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) for their suspected involvement in Saturday’s blast near Qissa Khawani Bazaar’s Qasim Ali Khan Mosque. Peshawar Police Chief Malik Muhammad Saad and DSP Khan Raziq were among the 15 killed in the attack. Saad has been buried in Kohat, while DSP Khan Raziq has been buried in Nowshera.

Daily Times learnt that LJ activists Jalil Ahmed, Ilyas Moawia and Nazir Ahmed are suspected of orchestrating the Peshawar blast. The Interior Ministry issued the directive following reports that the three had been planning to target Shias in Peshawar and Hangu during Muharram. Sources said that law enforcement agencies had been directed to use all resources to arrest the three “terrorists” and crack down on the LJ network in the country.

Meanwhile, a senior police official said three teams had been formed to investigate Saturday’s suicide attack, and police had been deployed in extra strength for peaceful Muharram processions. “Teams for the collection of evidence, investigation and arrest purposes have been formed,” the new Peshawar police chief, Abdul Majeed Marwat, told Daily Times. Majeed said that statements by injured policemen and other people had not yet been recorded, but when this was done, it could provide police with more clues. Majeed said it was difficult to suggest whether the suicide bomber was targeting police officials, but Adviser to Chief Minister Allama Ramzan Tauqir said that police had been targeted in the attack.

Heavily armed police and security forces in pickup trucks and armoured personnel carriers patrolled streets in Shia-dominated areas of Peshawar. NWFP Governor Ali Jan Orakzai did not rule out “foreign involvement” in the attack, but said it would be too early to name the country that masterminded the attack.

A report submitted with the Interior Ministry says that a group of LJ activists, led by Wali Dad, has been planning attacks on Shia processions in Parachinar. Similarly, a four-member group of the LJ, led by Izatur Rehman, is working to disrupt peace in Sindh, and is likely to carry out suicide attacks on Shia gatherings in Karachi or Hyderabad during Muharram. Another report mentions that a few Shia leaders are triggering conflicts by inciting young people to avenge the murder of Syed Agha Ziaud Din. The provincial home secretaries, the chief secretaries of Northern Areas, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the Islamabad chief commissioner have been directed to improve interaction with Shias, and monitor the activities of some “dissident elements”.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:


'Suicide bomber targeted cops'
Police officials, who were injured in Saturday’s Peshawar blast, said on Sunday that the attack was a “target killing of senior police officials”. Peshawar Police Chief Malik Saad and DSP Raziq Khan were among the 15 people killed in the attack. Three injured policemen, including Muzzamil and Zahid Hussain, told Daily Times at Lady Reading Hospital that they saw an unidentified man wearing a shawl blow himself up among a police convoy that was deployed for a Muharram procession in a narrow street of Dalgaran Bazaar, near Qissa Khawani. “The suicide attacker moved so quickly into the police convoy that police officials did not notice whether he had a beard or not,” said the injured cops.

Inspector General of NWFP Police Muhammad Shareef Virk also described the attack as a “target killing of police officials”. Nadeem Khan, a local, told Daily Times, “We condemn the attack that killed police officials who were trustworthy and brave.” He said the blast was so powerful that blood and flesh were found on an outside wall of the fifth storey of a building. Some local nazims, including one from a minority, branded the attack a “failed attempt at sectarian violence”. “The suicide attacker’s target was Najmul Hassan Kararvi Imambargah in Dalgaran Bazaar, where Shias had gathered for a Muharram procession that was supposed to be taken out 30 minutes after the blast,” Union Council Nazim Haidri and a minority councillor told Daily Times. Dr Riaz confirmed that 15 people died in the blast. Riaz said the blast also killed three Shias. He said that of the 19 indoor patients, 17 were police officials.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


Rockets fired at Levies check post in Salarzai
Unidentified people fired rockets late on Saturday night at a Levies check post located in Salarzai, 10 kilometres from Khar in Bajaur Agency. After the rocket attack, the attackers used heavy weapons. No one was hurt in the attack, but it caused enormous damage to the check post. The political administration has not made any arrests so far.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:


35 tribesmen released in Waziristan
Thirty-five tribesmen held hostage by rival clans in North Waziristan were released on Sunday after a negotiation breakthrough, a private television channel reported. According to the report, the Dawar tribe had taken hostage three members of the Bakakhle tribe, who had seized 32 Dawar members, following the murder of a tribesman. Local tribal chieftains and Ulema negotiated between the two clans, leading to the release of all detained members.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Howard UK || 01/29/2007 5:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Bunch of total and utter loonies. Can we nuke em now?
Posted by: Howard UK || 01/29/2007 5:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Can we nuke em now?
ARCLIGHT. Nukes mess up the environment.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/29/2007 15:58 Comments || Top||


Islamabad police raid seminaries to arrest clerics
Police raided several seminaries in Rawalpindi and Islamabad early on Sunday to arrest clerics “as a pre-emptive measure to maintain peace during Muharram”, while a meeting of clerics was underway later in the day to evolve a strategy against the demolition of some mosques by the government authorities and raids on madrassas.

“Special police squads raided several seminaries to arrest clerics as a pre-emptive measure to maintain peace on Ashura and implement a ban on the use of loudspeakers,” sources told Daily Times. Police raided Jamia Muhammadia in F-6/4, Madrassa Ma’araful Quran in Karachi Company, Madrassa Haqania and Jamia Qasmia in F-7 and offices of the Khatam-e-Nabuwwat Pakistan and Jamia Sadda, and arrested Mian Muhammad Naqshbandi, Maulana Khalid Alvi, Maulana Tayyab and Mufti Khalid. However, Senior Superintendent of Islamabad Police Sikandar Hayat said that only two clerics had been arrested during the last 24 hours.

“We have arrested them over misuse of loudspeaker,” he said. Maulana Zahoor Alvi said that a meeting of the clerics to discuss raids on madrassas and demolition of mosques was in progress. He said the meeting would evolve a strategy to deal with the prevailing situation.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What other religion openly supports/encourages violence??????

Religion of peace-not!!!!!
Posted by: Crinens Claviting2862 || 01/29/2007 12:55 Comments || Top||


Pipeline bombed in Dera Bugti
Unidentified people blew up a gas pipeline in Dera Bugti, Geo television reported. The channel quoted their sources as saying that miscreants planted an explosive device near the gas pipeline from Zafar Colony to the purification plant. The explosive device went off and fire erupted in the 8-inch diameter gas pipeline, the channel reported. Officials reached the scene and suspended gas supply to the purification plant to repair the line, it added.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We're Bugtis and we hates cylinders Yar!
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 6:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Must be outta pylon bombs...
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/29/2007 8:59 Comments || Top||



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