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| Pakistan slams US for 'mind-boggling' envoy sting |
| 2004-08-09 |
| ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan angrily accused its close ally the United States of endangering the life of one its top envoys in a reported sting operation, describing it as bizarre, dangerous and regrettable. Whereas Pakistan's breeding of the Taleban and countless other terrorists poses not one whit of peril to the outside world. It was responding to claims that a US secret agent posed as a terrorist seeking to buy missiles to kill Munir Akram, Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations, in a bid to catch potential money launderers. "At one level this is a bizarre story; at another quite dangerous," government spokesman Masood Khan told a weekly press briefing about the New York Times report. The projection of a fictitious threat to a senior envoy from a close ally of the US was "regrettable," Khan said. "It is mind-boggling why they could not use the name of an American functionary," he said. Sorry guys, all of ours have been taken for some time now. We needed fresh Khan added: "This has increased our ambassador's and our mission's vulnerability. This technique and methodology is tantamount to autosuggestion and could have endangered the life of our ambassador." Whereas the recent attempts on your prime minister and high ranking military officers are merely anomalous abberations that signify nothing as concerns persistent and deeply entrenched terrorist activity within your own borders. Note to Pakistan: You have placed your own nation and all others in danger by proliferating nuclear technology. Any questions? The Pakistani government, one of Washington's most pivotal partners in the war on terrorism, has lodged a complaint with the US embassy in Islamabad. "We hope that the US will realise its mistake and give instructions for rectifying this faulty methodology," Khan said. Two men were captured in the operation and are being held by US authorities. Pakistan's outburst came in the midst of a high-profile crackdown on suspected top Al-Qaeda operatives hiding out in the world's second most populous Muslim nation. The July arrests of Tanzanian terror suspect in the 1998 east Africa US embassy bombings Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and Pakistani computer whizz Naeem Noork Khan have led to the uncovering of a worldwide Al-Qaeda wing which was plotting fresh terror attacks in Britain and the US. |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #2 Wonderful, they're running a Walmart for illicit nuclear technology, virtually created the Taliban, and are constantly flirting with the world's first nuclear war with their reckless brinksmanship over Kashmir. File this one under "C" for Chutzpah. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5984 2004-08-09 3:58:56 PM |
| #1 in the words of Sgt Hulka: "Lighten up, Francis" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-09 3:57:43 PM |