Archive for the 'Pakistan' Category
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 […]
Posted in FBI, Movies, Fashion, Terrorism, Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, Pakistan, S-E-X, Radio, Violence, Saudi Arabia |
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
Posted in Osama bin Laden, Pakistan |
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 […]
Posted in Bush, Books, Al-Qaeda, Pakistan, War |
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: […]
Posted in Religion, Society, Pakistan |
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 […]
Posted in administration, Pakistan, Condoleezza Rice |
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Posted in Pakistan |
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 […]
Posted in Al-Qaeda, Pakistan |
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 […]
Posted in FBI, India, Nuclear Issues, CIA, State Department, North Korea, Pakistan, War, Weapons, Libya, Turkey |
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 […]
Posted in Movies, USA, Pakistan |
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 […]
Posted in Books, Pakistan, Literature, Benazir Bhutto |