Posted on 09/16/2007 10:24:18 AM PDT by SevenMinusOne
Pro-Taliban cleric killed in Pakistan 15 Sep 2007, 2102 hrs IST,AP
SMS NEWS to 58888 for latest updates PESHAWAR: Assailants opened fire on a car carrying a prominent pro-Taliban cleric in troubled northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing him before fleeing, police said.
Maulana Hassan Jan, a senior leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam _ a religious party which controls the provincial government in Pakistan's North West Frontier province _ was traveling through the city of Peshawar when gunmen attacked him.
Imtiaz Khan, a local police official, said Jan was going to a mosque for evening prayers when ``terrorists shot and killed him.''
Ghulam Ali, the city mayor, confirmed the killing, but provided no further details.
Jan, a former lawmaker who was also head of a local seminary, was regarded as a friend of Taliban chief Mullah Omar.
He was in a group of Pakistani clerics who traveled to Afghanistan in late 2001 in an attempt to convince Omar that he should expel Osama bin Laden from Afghanistan to avoid American attacks.
Omar rejected the plea and a US-led invasion later ousted the Taliban from power
bummer
Not too subtle, if the Musharraf regime was behind this, but I guess its the only approach that kind respects.
Hmmm, is terrorism a river that flows two directions? I wonder...
In truth this was probably not terrorism. A leader of the Taliban was taken out. This wasn’t the bombing of a center full of shoppers. A specific leader of anti-government forces was eliminated.
Not as if THEY haven’t been trying to kill HIM every two weeks...
Blood Feud?
``terrorists shot and killed him.’’
My kind of terrorists
Exactly.
We should be doing this all over the M/E.
We wouldn’t kill a close friend of Mullah Omar all alone, we’d follow him to Omar himself. We would also be less likely to kill one of the few Talibani clerics who wanted to turn over Bin Laden rather than go to war against the U.S.
So this wasn’t our hit. This hit indicates that the Taliban is infighting.
I didn’t imply that we did this. I might add, I think it would be a mistake if we were to adopt the policy you suggest.
It’s more important in he long term to allow the people of these regions to resolve the issue.
If there is Taliban infighting, or internal forces are cleaning house without U.S. help, that’s something that will last. If we did it, things may quiet for as long as we remained, but would be likely to go south when we left.
I would agree.
Sucks to be him. Good riddence.
Ding! Dong!
A ****head’s DEAD!
A ****head’s gone all bloody shred!
Ding! Dong! a wicked ****head’s dead!
And, in the immortal words of N. Muntz:
HA! HA!
Tali on tali or queerda on tali, or tali on queerda. It’s all golden goody. May all of them hound each other to early graves in heaps and bunches.
Could be an El Salvadoran type situation developing....
LOL! I LOVE IT!
Nice shooting! Now, we only have 1.3 billion to go. LOL!
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