Posted on 09/26/2004 11:05:20 AM PDT by HAL9000
Babble Fish?
Either way, I'm glad they got him.
PonG
X Farooqi
Another one bites the dust
Pakistani Officials: Troops Kill Top al-Qaida Suspect
VOA News
26 Sep 2004, 17:36 UTCPakistani officials say government troops have killed a gunman believed to be a top Pakistani al-Qaida suspect.
The officials say authorities are trying to determine whether the man, killed Sunday in a raid near the southern port city of Karachi, is Amjad Farooqi, the country's most wanted terrorist.
Local officials say the troops also arrested two accomplices who tried to flee after the gunfight.
Farooqi was allegedly involved in an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf and was indicted in the murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl.
Pakistan is a key U.S. ally in the war on terrorism. Its security forces have been engaged in operations against members of the al-Qaida terrorist network and remnants of Afghanistan's former Taleban regime.
Remeber some liberals were calling for invasion of Pakistan. They're our best ally in that region, fighting terrorists and even taking substantial casualties for us.
I appreciate that they have cooperated with us since 9/11, but at the same time, I am outraged at their role in the proliferation of nuclear weapons to rogue states.
And a sad reminder that Daniel Pearl was beheaded BEFORE we went into Iraq.
That too! I wouldn't be too surprized if we told them either to become our ally or expect to get nuked after 9-11. Then again, I am a conspiracy fanatic who thinks Israel has been extorting us with their own nuclear weapons for 30 years (though I do happen to support Israel, generally).
Five paragraphs;
1st;The most wanted terrorist involved in assasination attempt on President Musharaff and implicated in the murder of Daniel Pearl was taken out by security forces according to on/those covering/in charge of reporting...etc.
5th; it's=his. Super news.Clearer than I could get in a downtown street.I need to find out about this babblfishy thing.
Wonderful News!!!!!!!
Most of Israel's nuke & missile arsenal is mainly indegnious with a bit of help from France(till 1967) & South Africa(till the 80s).Pakistan's nuke arsenal is primarily Chinese in origin( so that China could keep India tied down in the subcontinent) & it's missiles are painted variants of Chinese & of late North Korean weapons.Most of Pakistan's early nuke programme was funded by Saudi Arabia & Libya(ever heard about the Gadhaffi cricket stadium in Lahore??) & Israel is not known to have proliferated nuke tech to any country ,though there are reports that it is cooperating with India(an established nuke power) in this field.Pakistan on the other hand is not the same .....................
Yes. Mirabile dictu.
Nations do not have friends, they have common interests.
Ur right on that-but does that explain why Israelis don't blow up Americans & Indians don't go on a Jihad against Russia is it because that India-Russia or Israel-US alliance is long lasting or because it has one crucial element-common values.No Islamic nation shares any common values with the US-so we see them occcasionally backstabbing you just as on Sept 11th when elements which were born out of Saudi,Pakistani & Yemeni extremism went berserk
The name babel fish comes from a plot devise in "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy." a novel by the late (lamented and demented) Douglas Adams, a sometime writer for Monty Python. The Earthling has a babelfish stuck in his ear, thereby enabling him to understand the alien language being spoken.. unfortunately, in his case, it is Vogon poetry...and where were you in the late 70's?
from wikipedia
Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Asgoths of Crea. During a recitation by their poetmaster Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in my Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the mid-galactic Arts Knobbling Council survived only by gnawing one of his own legs off.
Grunthos was reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled "My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. Vogon poetry is mild by comparison.
Listening to it is a similar experience to torture as seen when Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are forced to listen to the Vogon captain's poetry prior to being thrown out of an airlock.
Excerpt:
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my
blurglecruncheon
See if I don't.
the qualifier "some" is required by the presense of engrish.com and the video game that launched the immortal all your base...
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