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2007-05-22 India-Pakistan

Baton-wielding brigade braces for showdown

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Posted by Pappy 2007-05-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 May 22 (Bloomberg) -- Clerics released police officers being held at a mosque in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, ending a standoff with security forces. ``The Red Mosque clerics have released all the policemen they had taken hostage from outside their seminaries,'' Tariq Azeem, the junior minister for information and broadcasting, said in a telephone interview today. ``There was no need for use of force.''
Security forces were withdrawn from around the mosque known as the Lal Masjid, he said.

Damm

Posted by Steve 2007-05-22 08:13|| 2007-05-22 08:13|| Front Page Top

#2 My father in law was a TPF cop in Boston back in the 60's. One of the unknown perks of the job he liked was standing in a line abreast of fifty cops, tapping your nightstick in your hand, smiling at the hippies and seeing the looks on their faces when they realized what was coming...

Posted by tu3031 2007-05-22 15:04|| 2007-05-22 15:04|| Front Page Top

#3 smiling at the hippies and seeing the looks on their faces when they realized what was coming...

"COUNTRY DEEJAYS KNOW THAT I'M AN OUTLAW
THEY'D NEVER COME TO SEE ME IN THIS DIVE
WHERE BIKERS STARE AT COWBOYS
WHO ARE LAUGHING' AT THE HIPPIES
WHO ARE PRAYING' THEY'LL GET OUT OF HERE ALIVE"

Posted by Steve">Steve 2007-05-22 17:25|| 2007-05-22 17:25|| Front Page Top

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