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2006-10-25 India-Pakistan

Former brigadier's son plotted rocket attacks

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Posted by Fred 2006-10-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It it Intermission yet?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-10-25 02:52|| 2006-10-25 02:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow, a PakiWaki General's son, huh?

Dad must be so proud!

No, really. Heh.

Posted by .com 2006-10-25 05:12|| 2006-10-25 05:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I still think its a coverup to show the West he is under pressure whilst doing nothing to rein in the Talibunnies!!!!

Posted by Cheregum Crelet7867 2006-10-25 05:13|| 2006-10-25 05:13|| Front Page Top

#4 One bullet or rocket away from Osama running the whole shebang.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-10-25 07:16|| 2006-10-25 07:16|| Front Page Top

#5 one of them is an engineer who was technically aware of making circuits.

Well golly! I, too, am technically aware of making circuits -- in a fit of ambition I even took Physics 113 (for science majors!) at university -- but we really, really don't want me actually attaching a power source to any of my concoctions. Given the level of science instruction in Pakistan (the effects of djinni on electrical current being one of the textbook chapters, I understand), I may have a better grasp of the situation than the young gentleman now lodged in the police guesthouse.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-25 07:56|| 2006-10-25 07:56|| Front Page Top

#6 the effects of djinni on electrical current being one of the textbook chapters

After 30 years of communications/electronics maintenance, trust me. There are djinni, or as we call them in the west, gremlins.

Posted by Steve 2006-10-25 08:26|| 2006-10-25 08:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Steve, there is a dark secret known to those of us who use, design, and test military electronics. We keep the gremlins for the home folks and put djinns in the export models. As they say, that's not a bug, it's a feature.

Posted by RWV 2006-10-25 09:06|| 2006-10-25 09:06|| Front Page Top

#8 RMV: After having to implement the software on some of the hardware systems we get, I can attest that our domestic equipment has gremlins, djinn, bugs, and many others.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-10-25 10:57|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-10-25 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 here is a hint I learned the hard way after trying to complete Mrs' RET's request for more circuits: they (the circuits)no longer work after you let the magic smoke out of the wires.

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-10-25 14:04|| 2006-10-25 14:04|| Front Page Top

#10 *sigh* No wonder I failed the lab section. I thought all I had to do was convince the wires to lie down neatly like they did in the diagrams. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-25 17:23|| 2006-10-25 17:23|| Front Page Top

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