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BREAKING NEWS: Pakistan in a Media Blackout due to Unrest
CNN | Nov 3 2007

Posted on 11/03/2007 6:05:50 AM PDT by Global2010

OK Freepers...

Dice and slice...this breaking news.

Pakistan has declared a State of Emergency.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: asia; islamofascism; jihadists; nukes; pakistan; radicalislam; sasia; southasia
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To: Global2010
No.....this is much worse.

Nukes are involved.

We just entered a very dangerous phase.

61 posted on 11/03/2007 7:27:36 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Global2010

Kinda. This is a little different- but Musharraf took over power in Pakistan in a coup, I think it was in 1999- and has run the military and government til the unrest before the elections recently.

He’s in a tough situation- with Al Q and their coalition on one side and the more moderate Western-friendly Bhutto on the other.


62 posted on 11/03/2007 7:27:41 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Global2010

63 posted on 11/03/2007 7:28:12 AM PDT by Gritty (Musharraf remains Pakistan's least worst hope - Mark Steyn)
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To: Dutchguy

Is that Judge panel the Supreme Court?


64 posted on 11/03/2007 7:28:21 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Dutchguy

CNN: Martial law has been declared. Also, Bhutto is returning to Pakistan from Dubai a week earlier than expected.


66 posted on 11/03/2007 7:29:07 AM PDT by waimea.man
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To: Dog

CNN just reported that Bhutto was out of the country and is now on her way back to Pakistan. This may all work out- but it’s a scary moment- depending on how far AlQ is willing to go.


67 posted on 11/03/2007 7:30:02 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Gritty
DAWN is reporting Pakistani troops have entered the Supreme Court.

Uh oh.

68 posted on 11/03/2007 7:30:12 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Dog

Seems so:

BREAKING NEWS — AFP: PRESIDENT OF PAKISTANI SUPREME COURT BAR ASSOCIATION ARRESTED. — BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS —

PAKISTANI TV: PAKISTANI’S CONSTITUTION SUSPENDED — BREAKING NEWS 23 minutes ago from web


69 posted on 11/03/2007 7:30:50 AM PDT by Dutchguy
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To: exit82

Did B. Hussein Obama nuke them? According to him, that’s his foreign policy.


70 posted on 11/03/2007 7:31:23 AM PDT by MichiganCheese (Pray for our nation's boys, our future will be determined by the kind of men we bring them up to be.)
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To: SE Mom

Right now its not AQ I’m concerned about....its the Pakistani military...will they back this move or...seize power from Mushy.


71 posted on 11/03/2007 7:31:53 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Dutchguy
He is going for broke..

This is going to get very dicey...

72 posted on 11/03/2007 7:32:46 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Global2010

New on Yahoo News:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071103/ts_nm/pakistan_emergency_dc_4&printer=1;_ylt=AuwviVMHT7j4.swXuCIxuOJg.3QA

Pakistan’s Musharraf invokes emergency rule By Kamran Haider
45 minutes ago.

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has decided to impose emergency rule, state-run television said on Saturday, in a move expected to put off elections due in January.

Nuclear-armed Pakistan’s internal security has deteriorated sharply in the past few months with a wave of suicide attacks by al Qaeda-inspired militants, including one last month that killed 139 people.

A senior security official told Reuters that Musharraf would seek approval for the move from the cabinet later, after which there were expectations he would address the nation.

The cabinet was due to start meeting at 7 pm.

Witnesses said paramilitary troops were deployed at state-run Pakistan Television and radio stations ahead of the announcement, which follows weeks of speculation that U.S. ally Musharraf might impose emergency rule or martial law.

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73 posted on 11/03/2007 7:33:24 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!"- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007))
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To: SE Mom

I will bet you....Mushy blocks her return....or seizes her at the airport.....she is a distraction he doesn’t want right now.


74 posted on 11/03/2007 7:35:28 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Grampa Dave

You know, Bin Laden sent out a very UNhappy note stating things weren’t going well in Iraq - wanna bet this is his payback for a bad 07 - Time for the Daisy cutters to make a huge swath across the northwest region of Pakistan - along the tribal area that has been nothing but a hiding spot for Al Queda - DO it now before Pakistan is taken over...


75 posted on 11/03/2007 7:36:39 AM PDT by princess leah
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To: nuconvert

Here’s another piece, taken from the Paki section of GEO TV:

Emergency imposed in country, New PCO issued
Saturday, November 03, 2007
ISLAMABAD: Emergency has been imposed all over the country and a new PCO has been issued.

The Chief of the Army Staff has announced the imposition of emergency throughout the country and the constitution 1973 has been suspended while the chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has been removed from his office.

The sources said that President General Pervez Musharraf is likely to address to the nation tonight in this regard.

There are reports that the transmission of the private television channels have been terminated in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.

On this occasion, an important meeting of the Supreme Court Bar Association has been held in which it has been decided to strictly resist the imposition of martial law or emergency by the government.

It has also been decided in the meeting that any extra-judicial and extra-constitutional action will be strongly defied.
http://www.geo.tv/geonews/details.asp?id=13299&param=1


76 posted on 11/03/2007 7:37:12 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68 (CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
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To: Global2010
>Geeze sore losers in our Country get Academy Awards and Nobel Peace Prizes../sarc

But wouldn't it be
... interesting ... to witness
Marines taking charge

of our Congress and
CNN and the networks?
That would shake up things!
77 posted on 11/03/2007 7:37:15 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: SE Mom

Keep an idea on news out of the tribal areas....he may have given us a green light to take out a few targets.


78 posted on 11/03/2007 7:38:20 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Global2010

IS MUSHIE SAFE?


79 posted on 11/03/2007 7:38:44 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Grampa Dave

From
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920453/posts

Five people were killed and six others wounded when a missile, allegedly fired from a US drone, hit a suspected militant compound near the Pak-Afghan border in the restive North Waziristan agency on Friday.


80 posted on 11/03/2007 7:39:29 AM PDT by waimea.man
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