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Posted on 10/15/2010 5:01:19 PM PDT by Eyes Unclouded
Pakistani police have arrested seven men suspected of plotting to kill top government officials, highlighting the growing threat Pakistan faces from groups it has historically given a relatively free rein to operate. Abid Qadri, chief of the Bahawalpur police, told reporters late Thursday that the men had been captured after a shootout Wednesday night. They apparently had planned to use an explosive-laden vehicle to kill Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gillani and other senior officials, including the foreign minister on a visit to Mr. Gillani's hometown of Multan, but were thwarted as their plot was “almost complete.” According to police, the arrested men were members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni militant group with growing ties to Al Qaeda and the Taliban. “These arrests show that Pakistan is very serious in confronting those terrorist groups who until some years ago weren’t seen as a threat, but are now targeting the state and its institutions,” says Badar Alam, editor of Pakistan’s Herald magazine and an expert on militant groups. Caught with gold, silver to fund plot Police said the same group of men had been involved in attacking the offices of the notorious Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in the city of Multan last December, in which seven people were killed. The ISI is known to have trained Islamist jihadis to use as proxies in Kashmir and Afghanistan.
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seven men suspected of plotting to kill top government officialsProbably just some happy-go-lucky jihadists going through an initiation, or maybe a double-dare. Thanks Eyes Unclouded.
That has to be it. Cause according to this guy--
"ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has not received any credible intelligence report about the presence of Al Qaeda leadership inside its borders, Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Abdul Basit said on Thursday. “We have not come across any authentic intelligence which would indicate that Al Qaeda leadership is in Pakistan, and we do not attach importance to speculations,” Basit said in a weekly briefing."
No credible evidence of Al Qaeda presence in Pakistan, says FO
Heh. And there’s no such thing as organized crime.
Throwin the kaffir a bone!
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Gee I wonder how many of the usual suspects they’ve got to choose from. BTW, did they ever find out who shot Bhutto?
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