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India-Pakistan
7 'flour looters' shot in Chaman
2008-04-24
Frontier Corps (FC) troops on Wednesday shot and injured seven people who tried to rob a truck laden with flour bags in Meeszai Adda near Qila Abdullah in Chaman, Geo News reported. According to the channel, the flour was being distributed among the poor when people attempted to rob the truck. The channel quoted its sources as saying that the Quetta-Chaman highway had been blocked after the incident.
Posted by:Fred

#6  We'll know it's serious when we read about in the RAB, of course then it will known as a 'crossflour....'
Posted by: USN,Ret.   2008-04-24 14:59  

#5  I can't help but wonder if this isn't like The bogus and caused by a Johnny Carson joke and a LOT of idiots Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 197-whatever.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-04-24 12:19  

#4  The Great Food Panic of 2008 marches on...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-04-24 12:09  

#3  Anyone have the phone number for Blackwater?
Posted by: Seafarious   2008-04-24 10:41  

#2  Maybe Costco and Wal-Mart can get NGOs to deliver grain shipments as long as they have armed escort through Berkeley.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2008-04-24 04:48  

#1  Chaman. Is that in the Bay Area? I heard Costco was planning on limiting rice and corn purchases.
Posted by: anymouse   2008-04-24 00:39  

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