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Operation is a triumph: Aziz
 Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Tuesday the killing of Lal Masjid deputy cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi was a triumph for the government.
| I'd hardly call it a "triumph" when you first let a situation grow, then get out of hand because you're too timid to act. It wasn't a triumph when the beturbaned storm troopers were escorting the veiled harridans of Islam through the streets to kidnap, thump, and threaten their fellow citizens. It wasn't a triumph when the arrogant brats set off an international incident with the Chinese. And it certainly wasn't a triumph when the army had to be called in to dynamite the place and shoot it out with gunnies both domestic and imported in the heart of the nation's capital. As long as they're shooting people, they should shoot Shaukat, too. |
Addressing the federal cabinet and later the PML Policy Planning Group, he expressed satisfaction over the successful operation and said any attempt to use madrassas to promote militancy and extremism was intolerable.
| In that case, why did you tolerate it until you needed artillery? |
The two cleric brothers always challenged the writ of the state due to which a grand operation against them was inevitable.
Posted by: Fred 2007-07-11 |
