 DUBAI: The daughter of a wealthy Indian fugitive accused by Washington of links to Al Qaeda married the son of a top Pakistani cricketer in Dubai on Saturday, in a high society wedding with all the trappings of a Bollywood film.
| I saw this in a movie once. See, the bride's brother, Mike, he's just home from the war. His sister, Connie's marrying Carlo, who's a pretty boy. His older brother, Sonny, is boffing Lucy, the bridesmaid... |
Indian businessman Dawoud Ibrahim, whose whereabouts are not known, was said not to have attended the ceremony.
| The Don, see, he's inside, with his consigliere, Tom, and he's meeting with his paisans, 'cuz it's his daughter's wedding day, so by tradition he has to honor their requests... |
Former Pakistani cricket captain Javed Miandad confirmed earlier this month that his son Junaid would marry Connie Mahrukh Ibrahim, whose father is accused by India of a wave of bomb attacks in Bombay in 1993 that killed 260 people.
| The Don's put off meeting with Solozzo, the Turk, see? That's 'cuz he doesn't want to have to tell him "yes"... |
Police with sniffer dogs patrolled the grounds of the Dubai five-star hotel where a small crowd of media and onlookers gathered on a balmy night after news of the venue was leaked.
| But the feds are out front, writing down the license numbers of the people who went to the wedding and maybe taking some pictures, too... |
News of the exact location had earlier been kept secret.
| It was at the Don's estate on Long Island... |
| The toll booth? Nothing to worry about ... |
Ibrahim, put on a US Treasury list of global terrorists in 2003, would have risked arrest by turning up. One person at the ceremony said Ibrahim had not attended, at least not during the first hours of a long night. The stream of guests arriving including Javed Miandad, dressed in a white suit. The hotel management cordoned the area off and refused to comment on the guest list. Junaid met Mahrukh in London, where he is studying.| Suddenly I'm craving cannoli... |
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