Archive for the 'Pakistan' Category

I wonder what he’d look like viewed through beer goggles.

Friday, January 15th, 2010

New Osama Bin Laden PICTURES: FBI’s Digitally-Enhanced Images Of How He May Look
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TodayHuffington Post/AP First Posted: 01-15-10 11:32 AM   |   Updated: 01-15-10 12:23 PM
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Osama Bin Laden may look drastically different today than he did just a few years ago, and the FBI has released new pictures showing what he may look like today.The digitally-enhanced images […]

‘You can hide, but you can’t run!”–LOUIS, JOE

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

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Images: (Osama) AP Photo via today’s nydailynews.com; (duck) freefoto.com; (movie poster) grandamovieposters.com; (Buick Dynaflow) chromeplatedclassics.com

A bomb turns the Islamabad Ramada Inn to the Al-Qaeda Arms and the Pakistanis attack us.

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

 Could it be that W’s perennial best-seller translates poorly into Urdu?
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Pakistani troops fire on intruding U.S. choppers
By Augustine Anthony Mon Sep 22, 5:07 AM ET
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani troops fired on two U.S. helicopters that intruded into Pakistani airspace on Sunday night, forcing them to turn back to Afghanistan, a senior Pakistani security official said […]

Pakistani Women Buried Alive ‘For Choosing Husbands’–London Daily Telegraph headline

Monday, September 1st, 2008

It seems as if they make it up as they go.

If being a sinner means I won’t share paradise with these guys,
I’ll take my chances.

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Pakistani women buried alive ‘for choosing husbands’
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A Pakistani politician has defended a decision to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands.
By Our Foreign Staff
Last Updated: […]

A Bitter Rivalry Shatters Pakistan’s Ruling Coalition–New York Time headline

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

 Vincenzo Kolchak asks and answers the question:

What’s the smallest number in the world?
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The number of people outside Bush’s inner circle who are surprised by
this story. 
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(”I have this recurring image of Condi (looking very much at sea)
talking to her chief SW Asia adviser who just happens to be the
Disney cartoon character, Goofy, and he is looking […]

• Pakistani Authorities Arrest Three Suspected Suicide Bombers–Yahoo headline, June 5, 2008

Friday, June 6th, 2008

No comment!

Heckle ‘n Jeckle had retired after the Trujillo job, Daffy Duck was in re-hab and Bugs who was filming in Mexico.

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

U.S. won’t say who killed militant
Pakistan too is mum on who launched strike on a top Al Qaeda leader.
By Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
February 2, 2008
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WASHINGTON — The top U.S. military officer on Friday described the airstrike that killed a leading Al Qaeda commander in Pakistan as an important victory, but he refused […]

Let us hope our stupidity and arrogance has not reached critical mass.

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Because Part I of this series was so incredible, I could not believe it was true. Patapsco Creek Jack wrote the other day about a
Washington Post on-line discussion with Dana Priest.
Voila.
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PART THE THIRD 

From the Sunday London Times…
January 27, 2008
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Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe
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Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria in Washington
AN investigation into […]

Musharraf to West: ‘We have our own brains’–CNN.com headline, January 24, 2008

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf is lashing out at what he calls Western “intellectual arrogance” toward his country, angrily dismissing claims that rising unpopularity has undermined his authority. He also dismisses allegations that he cannot be trusted to hold free and fair elections as “totally absurd.”
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“You see?! You see?! Brains we got.
Arms and money we need.
You […]

Jesse James, Zachary Taylor and Yves Montand…Is Ms. Bhutto next?

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

This online CNN story struck Vincenzo Kolchak as strange and
threw him into a reverie which produced the vignette below the image.
Bhutto exhumation okay, Pakistan official says
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — The Pakistani government has no problem with officials from Benazir Bhutto’s political party exhuming the slain opposition leader’s body if they see a need […]