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Afghanistan/South Asia
No Qaeda camps in Pakistan: FO
2005-06-10
Pakistan on Thursday denied claims that one of two terror suspects arrested in California had received training at an Al Qaeda camp in the country. "There are no training camps in Pakistan," senior Foreign Ministry official Naeem Khan said when asked to comment on reports in a number of newspapers in the US and Pakistan.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
"We are the frontline state in the fight against terrorism. How could we allow such camps in our country?" he said, adding that Islamabad had asked its embassy in Washington to get details of the charges from US authorities.
"Find out how much they know!"
The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday that the FBI had arrested a Pakistani American father and son with suspected links to Al Qaeda in Lodi, California.
Posted by:Fred

#4   CNN Interview
ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPT. CORRESPONDENT: You mentioned that Rawalpindi is where the military has bases, but also the ISI has bases there. Would it surprise you if any al Qaeda camps existed in the same area?

KHURSHID KASURI, PAKISTANI FOREIGN MIN.: What Rawalpindi? Where Rawalpindi? A village? A hamlet? City? Town? Where? Very Happy Rolling Eyes Laughing

KOPPEL: Would it surprise you that al Qaeda camps existed on the outskirts, essentially, of your capital city?

KASURI: No, no. It wouldn't surprise me, but what I'm trying to say is that just because somebody says such and such a camp is an al Qaeda camp, I don't know. I don't know nothing. Laughing It won't surprise me and I don't wish to rush to judgment.
Posted by: john   2005-06-10 22:13  

#3  B-52's? What B-52's?
Posted by: tu3031   2005-06-10 11:18  

#2  I'd like to say FO to the FO.
Posted by: Jackal   2005-06-10 08:28  

#1  If there aren't any training camps, then nobody who isn't there anyway will object if it suddenly doesn't disappear from the face of the earth, leaving no survivors, right?
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-06-10 07:34  

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