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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 11:29 AM
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Meet Pakistan's version of the Freeper
Edited on Thu Feb-19-09 11:29 AM by BurtWorm
I loathe right-wingers wherever they live. Loathe them!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/world/asia/19pstan.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print



February 19, 2009
Pakistani Reporter Is Killed After Celebration of Truce
By JANE PERLEZ

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A rally to celebrate a day-old peace deal between the government and a hard-line Islamic cleric in the Swat Valley ended ominously Wednesday when a Pakistani television journalist was shot and killed after covering the march.

The body of the journalist, Musa Khan Khel, 28, was found in an area controlled by the Taliban, according to Imran Aslam, president of Geo Television Network, Mr. Khel’s employer.

The rally was staged in Swat by the cleric, Maulana Sufi Muhammad, after the government agreed to a truce to end hostilities between the Pakistani Army and the insurgents in exchange for the acceptance of Islamic law in Swat, a region about 100 miles north of Islamabad, the capital.

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Mr. Khel was based in Mingora and had been covering the fighting in Swat for many months. He was a familiar face on one of the most widely watched channels in Pakistan, and one of two reporters covering the march for Geo.

Toward the end of the day, Mr. Khel broke away from the march, apparently to head for what he hoped would be an exclusive interview with Mr. Fazlullah, said Mr. Aslam, Geo’s president.

It was not clear who had shot the reporter, but it appeared that there had been an attempt to behead him, Mr. Aslam said.

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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 11:31 AM
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1. Are those the fucks that go around whacking people if a stray hair shows from the Burka?
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 11:32 AM
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5. Yes.
And then they behead you to show how close to god they are.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 11:34 AM
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6. Ahhh yes - nothing shows piety more than hatred and mass bloodshed
Because, after all, god just wants us to kill each other off
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 11:31 AM
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2. They're identical.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 11:35 AM
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7. Plus or minus brutal military control of a territory. nt
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 11:32 AM
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3. extremists, be they right or left, are a detriment to society
and by 'extremist' I mean those people who believe they are so right about something that they have no problem at all killing others to show just how right they are.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-09 11:32 AM
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4. .
Edited on Thu Feb-19-09 11:33 AM by BurtWorm
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