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| India-Pakistan |
| Chinese militant ’shot dead’ |
| 2003-12-23 |
| What's with the scare quotes? After he was 'shot dead' he started to 'rot.' A man China put top of its first "terrorist" wanted list has been shot dead in Pakistan, Pakistan’s army and Chinese state media have said. That was fast. Hasan Mahsum, who China says set up the East Turkestan Islamic Movement with al-Qaeda’s help, was shot on 2 October, a Pakistan army spokesman said. Well, no, I guess not. He was one of eight people killed when troops besieged a suspected al-Qaeda hideout in South Waziristan. The spokesman did not elaborate on the delay in reporting the incident. "Hey Ahmed, this guy the Chinese are looking for, doesn’t he look familiar?" "Could be one of the guys we bagged couple months ago, anyway, all those chinese look alike to me." Earlier, two Chinese official publications, the Beijing News and the International Herald Leader, reported Hasan Mahsum had been operating on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. They said he had been killed in a joint Pakistan-United States operation, but the Pakistan military spokesman, Major General Shaukat Sultan, told the BBC that "Nope, no Americans here, never happened." "DNA tests were conducted to determine it was him," he said, adding that China played a part in identifying the body. Guess we need to mark him down as a "maybe". |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 Fred, the Beeeb..... Voice of the unwashed left in England. Of COURSE they look stoopid. Lately, though, it's been even worse. I'm sure they've been getting help from the US Democrats. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-12-23 1:28:36 PM |
| #2 I know. But it still looks "stoopid." |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-12-23 12:05:19 PM |
| #1 "What's with the scare quotes?" It's the beeb. BBC News "does" that. |
| Posted by: Korora 2003-12-23 11:36:24 AM |