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2007-09-16 India-Pakistan

Angry mourners chase away Pakistani officials

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Posted by john frum 2007-09-16 08:48|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 Some angry mourners chanted "Death to Musharraf" a reference to Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and "death to America." Some threw stones at enclosures in the stadium where senior government officials were present, shattering windows. No injuries were reported.

Posted by john frum 2007-09-16 08:50|| 2007-09-16 08:50|| Front Page Top

A Pakistani boy throws a stone towards a room where officials had gathered for the funeral ceremony for Maulana Hassan Jan in Peshawar. A chanting throng of more than 100,000 mourners chased away senior Pakistani officials from the funeral of a leading pro-Taliban cleric.

Posted by john frum 2007-09-16 08:51|| 2007-09-16 08:51|| Front Page Top

#3 That's 100,000 terrorists - present or future - who will eventually bring down Pakistan (hard to believe there IS a 'down' but there is) or die trying.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-09-16 09:46|| 2007-09-16 09:46|| Front Page Top

#4 a situation crying out for a MOAB drop

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-09-16 11:09|| 2007-09-16 11:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Nah.. use the Russian version.. that is environmentally friendly...

Posted by john frum 2007-09-16 11:18|| 2007-09-16 11:18|| Front Page Top

#6 A few canisters of napalm would have put a stop to these chanting "students". I hope the Pak police were videotaping the event, so they can identify future suicide bombers.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-09-16 13:02|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-09-16 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Looks like they need a few more days of ramadamadingdong to work on that introspection thingy.

Posted by Phinater Thraviger 2007-09-16 13:20|| 2007-09-16 13:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, I see I'm in good company here - my first thought was 'target rich environment', but hadn't really got to what device ought to be used.

I guess a MOAB in a stadium would pretty much kill everyone in it, wouldn't it? (from wikipaedia) It has 18400 lbs of H6 in it, which is 1.35 times more powerful than TNT, so that makes it 25245 lbs of TNT, so I guess the answer is probably, yes.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-09-16 13:44|| 2007-09-16 13:44|| Front Page Top

#9 globalsecurity.org has the blast radius of the US MOAB at 150m (the russians say theirs was 300m :rolls eyes:), so unless that's a *very* big stadium, I'd say they would all have been smoked up like a kipper! ;)

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-09-16 13:49|| 2007-09-16 13:49|| Front Page Top

#10 If Pakistan weren't so busy pissing in this world's punchbowl it would be hilarious to watch these Taliban terrorists devour the politicians who spawned them in the first place. Musharraf has ridden the tiger for so long he's forgotten that you can only dismount onto the dinner plate.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-16 13:54|| 2007-09-16 13:54|| Front Page Top

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