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2009-03-22 India-Pakistan

Don't fire rockets because target not there, Pakistani official tells U.S.

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Posted by john frum 2009-03-22 11:48|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Since 1980 Quetta has been the obverse, actually the hidden side, of the Peshawar coin. It is loaded with crazies and should have been a target of opportunity many many years ago.

Posted by balthazar 2009-03-22 12:51|| 2009-03-22 12:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Taliban students studying peacefully in religious schools in Pakistan are not the same as Taliban militants fighting in Afghanistan, he added.

Yeah, the Saudis have spent a lot on "educating" them, so give them a chance to see some return on their "investment" otherwise they might stop funding the madrassas and then what would they do with all that excess of cannon fodder?

Posted by tipper 2009-03-22 12:56|| 2009-03-22 12:56|| Front Page Top

#3 US: We are gonna shoot some people in Balichistan.
PK: NO! Don't! He isn't there!
US: Where is he, then?
PK: We have no idea but we know he is absolutely positively NOT anywhere in Baluchistan.
US: So you don't know where he is but you know with absolute certainty where he is NOT?
PK: Yeah, that's the ticket!

Posted by crosspatch 2009-03-22 14:37|| 2009-03-22 14:37|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2009-03-22 17:20|| 2009-03-22 17:20|| Front Page Top

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