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Pakistan: Taliban fighters hold bin Laden memorial
AP via Yahoo! News ^
| 05/09/2011
| ISHTIAQ MAHSUD
Posted on 05/09/2011 3:55:00 AM PDT by arderkrag
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – An intelligence official and local tribal chief say several hundred Taliban fighters held a memorial service for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan's tribal region.
They say the mourners hailed the slain al-Qaida chief and shouted slogans against America and Pakistan. The service took place Monday in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan.
South Waziristan was the Pakistani Taliban's main sanctuary before the army launched an offensive in 2009.
The intelligence official and local tribal chief Ghanam Shah Wazir say the army allowed the service to occur because it was led by Maulvi Nazir, a Taliban commander who is believed to have a peace deal with the government.
The intelligence official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with agency policy.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: laden; osama; pakistan; pakitrash; taliban
Please, keep the conspiracy-theory-laden "He's not really dead/the earth is totally flat" posts out of this thread.
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posted on
05/09/2011 3:55:03 AM PDT
by
arderkrag
To: arderkrag
Talk about a target-rich environment…
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posted on
05/09/2011 3:57:22 AM PDT
by
cartan
To: arderkrag
Sounds like it could be a temporary Aberdeen Proving Ground.
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posted on
05/09/2011 4:06:04 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Tagline under construction: Your American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars at work.)
To: cartan
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posted on
05/09/2011 4:07:21 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
To: arderkrag
SpongeBob has just confirmed that Bin Laden was seen eating at the Krusty Krab.
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posted on
05/09/2011 4:09:13 AM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: cartan
While we’re sniping at each other, that would be a fun way to spoil the Paki’s little peace deal as payback.
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posted on
05/09/2011 4:14:06 AM PDT
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
To: arderkrag
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posted on
05/09/2011 4:14:48 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed. (Proverbs 12:24))
To: cartan
Talk about a target-rich environment…
...dont be stingy
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posted on
05/09/2011 4:20:09 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: arderkrag
No drone attacks on the gathering of terrorists???
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posted on
05/09/2011 4:44:08 AM PDT
by
mulder1
("The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.")
To: arderkrag
Pakistan: Taliban fighters hold bin Laden memorialAlternate title:"Taliban fighters perform stationary target maneuver" - in other knews, Obama enjoyed another 16 hour break following request for drone attack.
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posted on
05/09/2011 4:45:17 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: arderkrag
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posted on
05/09/2011 5:17:59 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: arderkrag
We knew, beyond a doubt, that there were going to be muzzie gatherings to "mourn" OBL.
Why, then wasn't our Air Force pre-loaded and ready on the ramp to launch missions to cluster-bomb those "self-assembled mass targets of opportunity"?
We could have seriously "thinned the core jihadist herd" by doing so.
~~~~~~~~~
ANSWER: That would have required required real strength and leadership and the ovoid pair that Øbozo very obviously lacks.
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posted on
05/09/2011 5:21:30 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: arderkrag
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posted on
05/09/2011 5:28:43 AM PDT
by
paulycy
(Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
To: arderkrag
Osama needs a memorial service like he needs a hole in the head.
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posted on
05/09/2011 5:31:43 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
To: arderkrag
“An intelligence official and local tribal chief say several hundred Taliban fighters held a memorial service for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan’s tribal region.”
And this was not bombed because?
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posted on
05/09/2011 7:11:10 AM PDT
by
Grunthor
(http://www.hermancain.com/index.asp)
To: arderkrag
Well,it is the religion of peace doncha know. Surprized Mikey Mooron isn’t there making a documentary about it...???
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posted on
05/09/2011 7:39:02 AM PDT
by
Leep
To: arderkrag
Afterward, they had a celebratory wake. Achmed the local goat herder brought in his finest herd for the occasion.
The goats weren't for eating....
(And everyone’s right....we should’ve bombed the #$%^ out of the gathering.)
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posted on
05/09/2011 7:51:05 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
(Help stamp out crack-pull up your pants.)
To: arderkrag
Target Rich Environment. Where were the UAV drones?
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