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Pakistan Warehouse Explosion Kills Four(including man wanted in the killing Daniel Pearl )
Washington Post ^

Posted on 12/19/2002 9:00:28 AM PST by milestogo

Pakistan Warehouse Explosion Kills Four

By Afzal Nadeem
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, December 19, 2002; 10:58 AM

KARACHI, Pakistan –– A chemical storage warehouse exploded in this southern port city Thursday, killing four people including a fugitive wanted in connection with terrorist acts against Americans.

Police said the warehouse was a bomb-making factory.

The body of Asif Ramzi, wanted in the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and the June bombing of the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, was found in the warehouse ruins, Deputy Inspector of Police Fiaz Leghari told reporters.

The powerful explosion ripped through the chemical storage warehouse in the eastern Korangi neighborhood of Karachi, a teeming and violent city of 14 million people. The identities of the three others killed was not known.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: southasialist; terrorwar
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To: Aggie Mama
Probably Arab incompetence at work.
61 posted on 12/19/2002 12:23:10 PM PST by Man of the Right
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To: Aggie Mama
Probably Arab incompetence at work.
62 posted on 12/19/2002 12:23:12 PM PST by Man of the Right
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To: Aggie Mama
Probably Arab incompetence at work.
63 posted on 12/19/2002 12:23:14 PM PST by Man of the Right
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To: Aggie Mama
Probably Arab incompetence at work.
64 posted on 12/19/2002 12:23:15 PM PST by Man of the Right
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To: Aggie Mama
Probably Arab incompetence at work.
65 posted on 12/19/2002 12:23:15 PM PST by Man of the Right
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To: swarthyguy
Initially, yes.

Then Musharraf basically said that because the crime was committed in Pakistan that he should be tried in Pakistan after giving the US a guarantee that no matter the evidence he would get the death penalty.

The US basically figured it was the best deal that they could get and ran with it.
66 posted on 12/19/2002 12:23:28 PM PST by Angelus Errare
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To: Angelus Errare
>>he would get the death penalty.


Parsing, he never claimed it would be carried out.

Yes, i'm an ubercynic.
67 posted on 12/19/2002 12:54:38 PM PST by swarthyguy
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To: Poohbah
You owe me some new panties.
68 posted on 12/19/2002 6:54:49 PM PST by txhurl
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To: swarthyguy
I'm sure a forensic DNA analysis was done if possible; otherwise, a passport or some docs offer incontrovertible evidence. Right.

Well, well, well. Lookee here, from today's FNC website.

"We cannot say with complete assurance that Asif Ramzi is included among the dead," Malik said. He said police were searching for Ramzi's relatives to gather DNA samples. Police also found a prepaid mobile phone calling card in the rubble believed to have been used by Ramzi. Investigation chief Leghari said the same phone number and card code had been connected to telephoned terror threats in the past — another indication that Ramzi was at the blast site.

69 posted on 12/20/2002 9:12:03 AM PST by Coop
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To: Coop
Well, coop, how do you judge that statement.

It's hardly unequivocal, they have to do a DNA and the rest of the 'evidence' seems rather circumstantial.

To me that FNC statement doesn't say conclusively that it was Ramzi. How do you read it?
70 posted on 12/20/2002 9:39:05 AM PST by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy
It's not unequivocal at all. I was just responding to your mocking statement that they would not consider DNA to determine the identity.
71 posted on 12/20/2002 10:28:09 AM PST by Coop
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To: Coop
MY mocking statement had to do with the fact that the original report stated it was Ramzi.

What i was mocking was the swiftness of the declaration that it was Ramzi.

And then you came down on me.

So do you think it's Ramzi?


72 posted on 12/20/2002 10:31:16 AM PST by swarthyguy
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To: Coop
>>they would not consider DNA

Try and comprehend a little first.

I never said they would NOT DO Dna. Just that the results were in so fast.
73 posted on 12/20/2002 10:32:50 AM PST by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy
Yes, I think it's Ramzi. FYI, the title of this FNC article also states that it is Ramzi, even though the text shows some room for doubt.
74 posted on 12/20/2002 10:50:18 AM PST by Coop
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