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| JUI stages protest over al-Libbi capture |
| 2005-05-08 |
| Thousands of pro-Taliban tribesmen rallied against Pakistan's hunt for Al-Qaeda-linked militants on Friday and torched effigies of US President George W Bush, witnesses said. About 5,000 people attended the rally, called by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) party to call for an end to the "illegal military operation", they said. "Down with the United States," shouted the protestors in Miranshah, the main town of the tribal North Waziristan region which border Afghanistan. The rally took place just two days after Pakistan announced the capture of Al-Qaeda number three Abu Faraj al-Libbi. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |