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| Three More Thugs Arrested in Pakistan |
| 2002-07-08 |
| Pakistani paramilitary forces raided houses in Karachi Monday and arrested three men suspected in recent deadly bombings at the U.S. Consulate and a hotel in which 11 French engineers were killed. One official said the three were members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. Pakistani officials working with the FBI have detained dozens of militant suspects in the past few weeks. No charges have been laid and it was not immediately clear whether those arrested Monday had been charged. Authorities are also searching for possible links between the bombings and the kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl earlier this year in Karachi. Sounds like a joke, doesn't it? "How many Lashkar-i-Jhangvi thugs does it take to blow up a consulate?" It sounds like the Pak coppers carried out a throw-it-against-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks investigation, rounding up everybody and sight, and their wives, kids, and dogs, and something actually stuck, to whit, nabbing Akram Lahori, the Sipah-e-Sahaba supremo. Dismantling the entire Sipah-Jhangvi operation would be a major accomplishment and would do wonders for the peace and tranquility of the nation. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |