Massive protests over Zawahiri attack (US attack on Pakistan town)

[Bhaisahab]

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=86021

ISLAMABAD, JANUARY 15 : Islamic groups across Pakistan staged massive protests on Sunday condemning President Pervez Musharraf and the US for the deadly air strikes in a remote border village that were intended to target Al-Qaeda No 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Thousands of people chanting anti-US slogans took part in rallies in Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar. The country’s main Islamist alliance, Muttahida Majlis Amal, took out protest rallies in the port city of Karachi condemning the missile attack.

Significantly, pro-Musharraf party and ally, the MQM, also took part in the rally. The marches were held in the backdrop of Musharraf’s appeal to his countrymen not to harbour foreign militants. “If we kept sheltering foreign terrorists here, our future will not be good,” Musharraf said in an address broadcast by state-run PTV.

“We want Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to cancel his visit to the US as a protest,” deputy chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Senator Prof Ghafoor told the rally. Aziz is scheduled to pay a week-long visit to the US from January 17.

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[lumpy]

1. Mc Cain declares in defense of the

bombing in Pakistan quote "the war on terror has no boundries". Apparently that is true, re. bombing of sovereign nations, no boundries set forth in the US Constitution, no boundries regarding international law and treaties, no boundries against torture and incarceration without legal recourse.

[High Plains]

2. No boundaries

On what constitutes acceptable tactics: Our government is ready to murder innocent men, women, and children on the chance we might be able to murder someone we really don't like.

[EFerrari]

3. We've been duly warned. n/t

[Born Free]

6. better for 1000 innocents to die than one guilty go free

years ago it was the opposite, better that a 1000 guilty go free than punish one innocent person

[bpilgrim]

4. IMAGES

http://GlobalFreePRess.com

peace

[Eugene]

5. Condoleezza Rice: "These are not people who can be dealt with lightly..."

Rice says U.S. will not deal lightly with al Qaeda
16 Jan 2006 09:25:07 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Sue Pleming

MONROVIA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday Washington could not
deal "lightly" with al Qaeda in Pakistan but promised to address Islamabad's concerns after a U.S.
attack on a Pakistani village.

A U.S. air strike believed to have been aimed at al Qaeda's second-in-command killed at least 18
people, including women and children, in a village near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan last
Friday, according to Pakistani and U.S. sources.

The attack sparked a rash of anti-American demonstrations and the Pakistani government summoned U.S.
ambassador Ryan Crocker to protest the strike, which was aimed at al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahri.

Speaking to reporters en route to Liberia, Rice declined to provide any specific details on Friday's
attack but she said the Pakistani-Afghan border had been "lawless" for some time and was a very
difficult area.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16731317.htm

Repub Senators are also singing the same tune.
It's such hard work to avoid killing
innocent people!

[NJCher]

7. I wish there could be mass protests like that here

As a group, we should be enraged that our government is killing innocent people like this in our name. I'll bet, though, if I took my sign down to the corner on Main Street and stood there, no one would join me.




Cher

[HereSince1628]

8. They're just dead-enders. Pakistan loves being a US puppet.

Musharraf has the right idea, don't worry. Move along, nothing to see here.

[anotherdrew]

9. every US commander who did this deserves to be jailed for life

they are just becoming mad dogs. This is unacceptable, bush should be physically torn from office and dragged to jail for life.

[Toots]

10. Significantly, pro-Musharraf party and ally, the MQM, also took part in th

This is significant. War is getting closer. A real war not like Iraq....