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| Thousands of Islamists make faces over Iraq |
| 2003-03-02 |
| Tens of thousands of Islamic party activists have rallied in Karachi in Pakistan's biggest protest so far against a possible US attack on Iraq. Karachi police chief Tariq Jamil estimated the crowd at more than 100,000 while a spokesman for the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), which had vowed to bring one million people on to the streets, claimed half a million had already thronged the city's main boulevard. Still seems kind of anticlimactic after Khalid getting nabbed yesterday... Protestors carried portraits of Osama bin Laden, chanted "Jihad" (holy war) and "no blood for oil" and burnt effigies of US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The participants, including a large number of women, shouted "the world says No to war" and "drop Bush, not bombs". That's why they call 'em jihadis. They known far and wide for their wit and their originality of thought... Snaking two kilometres through the city centre, it was the biggest demonstration witnessed in Karachi since the US-led war that ousted the fundamentalist Taliban regime in Afghanistan in late 2001. Police have beefed up security by barricading roads, especially around the US consulate, where two police guards were shot dead by a lone assailant on Friday local time, and other diplomatic missions. Not that the two are connected, of course. And it was only coincidence that Khalid was nabbed at a JI thug's house... Earlier, Pakistani tribesmen at an anti-US rally in the MMA-ruled North West Frontier Province (NWFP) threatened to target American interests if Iraq was invaded. Oooh. Is that a threat? The rally in Jamrud town, some 10 kilometres west of the provincial capital Peshawar, was attended by about 3,500 ethnic Pashtuns living in the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. The participants, some armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, torched a US flag and chanted slogans against war on Iraq. "If Americans attacked Iraq, we would be free to target America at any place," Malik Ismail, an elder of local Torkhel tribe told the gathering. So that means we're free to target you right be, right? Fair's fair... "Iraq is the second important place for Muslims after Mecca," march organiser Hafiz Abdul Malik said, claiming Muslims would wage a Jihad against the US if it attacked Iraq. I thought the second important place was Paleostine? Make up your daggone mind... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 I thought it was Mecce,Medina and the Dome of the Rock in order of importance.Oh!I forgot every rock and scrub bush is holy in the Middle east. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-03-03 06:28:20 |
| #3 "Earlier, Pakistani tribesmen at an anti-US rally in the MMA-ruled North West Frontier Province (NWFP) threatened to target American interests if Iraq was invaded. " I have a gunsight film from an AC-130 these schmucks need to watch... |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-03-02 23:44:48 |
| #2 Women?? They let them out? Or were they MBOs or is to BMOs? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-03-02 13:00:37 |
| #1 "About 100 members from Pakistan's minority Christian community also staged a rally in Peshawar on Sunday local time, calling on the US to resolve the Iraq crisis through dialogue." Please don't kill me. |
| Posted by: Arthur Fleischman 2003-03-02 10:12:12 |