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Britain
New London terror warning
2008-09-14
AMERICAN raids on Taliban and Al-Qaeda targets in Pakistan could provoke terror attacks in London, Pakistan's high commissioner to the UK warned yesterday.

Wajid Shamsul Hasan said the US bombings had killed hundreds of civilians but had failed to eliminate any Al-Qaeda leader. "This will infuriate Muslims in this country and make the streets of London less safe," he said. "There are 1m Pakistanis in the diaspora here and resentment is mounting. I'm being flooded by text messages from community leaders saying we must organise our anger.

"The Americans' trigger-happy actions will radicalise young Muslims. They're playing into the hands of the very militants we're supposed to be fighting."
"Nice country you have here. Shame if anything happened to it because of those frisky Americans ..."
Pakistan's newly elected president, Asif Ali Zardari, arrives in Britain today on what was to have been a private visit to see his daughter off to university in Edinburgh. Instead he will hold crisis talks with Gordon Brown and David Miliband, the foreign secretary. He will appeal to them to exert their influence to halt the unauthorised bombings.

"We hope they will help convince the Americans to stop it, to give space to our fledgling democracy and revive our economy," Hasan said. "Otherwise the army will take over. Is that what they want?"
Posted by:john frum

#4  Sounds like the Pakis want all their emigrants to be shipped home.
Posted by: ed   2008-09-14 17:09  

#3  I thought they were going after the subs.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-09-14 16:46  

#2  
"We hope they will help convince the Americans to stop it, to give space to our fledgling democracy and revive our economy," Hasan said. "Otherwise the army will take over. Is that what they want?"

Yes, that is EXACTLY what we want. Police your own damn boarders or we WILL do it for you.

Pakistan has cancer (al Queada and the Taliban) and the only cure is radical surgery. You don't worry about the medical bills you are about to get when you have a life threatening problem.
Posted by: DLR   2008-09-14 16:46  

#1  For a second, I was starting to worry about my buddies in East Lyme.
Posted by: Penguin   2008-09-14 16:33  

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