Some ally. Some terror opponent. From AP, with thanks to Teri: ALBANY, N.Y. – An FBI sting operation that used a purported assassination plot against a Pakistani diplomat to snare two leaders of an Albany mosque has drawn complaints from Pakistan, which issued a protest Tuesday. An FBI informant who said he was an arms […]
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Pakistani arrested with videos of Southern cities
Kamran Akhtar was one busy tourist. A dam, transit systems, banks. Hmmm. I guess the folks back home wanted to see some infrastructure. From CNN, : (CNN) — A Pakistani citizen who was arrested while videotaping buildings in Charlotte, North Carolina, was charged with federal immigration violations, authorities announced Tuesday. Kamran Shaikh — also known […]
Pakistani national arrested in N.C. on immigration charges
He was videotaping skyscrapers. From AP: CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Federal officials have charged a Pakistani citizen with immigration violations and said Tuesday the man was detained last month after being spotted taking videotapes of downtown skyscrapers. Kamran Akhtar, 36, was arrested July 20 after being taken in for questioning by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Anthony Maglione. […]
Pakistan: Suspect Had Photos of Heathrow
Pakistan is playing a double game like the Saudis. Perhaps to compensate for continuing to aid the Taliban, they have turned over valuable intelligence material to the British. From AP: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan gave British authorities images of London’s Heathrow Airport and other sites that were found on the computers of two arrested al-Qaida […]
Pakistan Allows Taliban to Train, a Detained Fighter Says
More evidence that Pakistan is an epicenter of the global jihad. From the New York Times: KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 3 – For months Afghan and American officials have complained that even while Pakistan cooperates in the fight against Al Qaeda, militant Islamic groups there are training fighters and sending them into Afghanistan to attack American […]
Pakistan opposition leader: UN should declare defamation of Muhammad an international crime
Which do you think the UN is more likely to do? Defend the rights of those who leave Islam, or make blaspheming Muhammad an international crime? Note also the insistence that the Ahmadis, who reject violent jihad, are heretics, and the denial that the Islamic religious schools in Pakistan (madaris) are preaching terrorism. No word […]
al-Qaida May Be Behind Pakistan Attack
Al-Qaeda trying to influence political policies through assassination? Don’t they know jihad is an inner spiritual struggle? From AP, with thanks to DC Watson: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network may have been behind the failed attempt to assassinate the country’s prime minister-designate, a senior Cabinet minister said Saturday, though investigators are still […]
Iraqi jihadists claim to kill Pakistan hostages
Is this story connected to the theological green light that was just issued? From AP: BAGHDAD, Iraq – A militant group holding two Pakistani contractors hostage said Wednesday it had killed the men but freed their Iraqi driver, the Al-Jazeera television station Al-Jazeera reported. The group, calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq, had announced […]
Osama being treated by Pakistani Army
More misadventures of that staunch U.S. ally, Pakistan. From the Times of India, with thanks to Fanabba: WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s intelligence officials knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks, a well-known American analyst has said, based on a ”stunning document” that he claims was given by a Pakistani source to the 9/11 Commission on the eve […]
Pakistan: “˜650 prisoners still want to wage Jihad”
Once again: jailing jihadists doesn’t do a thing to convince them to stop being jihadists. If someone believes he is on a mission for almighty God, do you really think that a stretch of prison time will make him give it all up and go home? Yet neither the US nor the Pakistani governments can […]