05 July 2011

Who's Zoomin' Who?

You think the biggest threat to the western world was some middle-aged, blanket-wrapped, has-been jihadi sitting on the floor watching himself on tv?

-- Think again. --
“Every indication is that this was a deliberate, targeted killing that was most likely meant to send shock waves through Pakistan’s journalist community and civil society,” said the official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate nature of the information.

A spokesman for the Pakistan intelligence agency said in Islamabad on Monday night that “I am not commenting on this.”
These guys aren't worried about the law... they are the law...
A Pakistani reporter, Waqar Kiani, who works for the British newspaper The Guardian, was beaten in the capital after Mr. Shahzad’s death with wooden batons and a rubber whip, by men who said: “You want to be a hero. We’ll make you a hero.”
Pakistan is hanging by a thread. Try imagine a nuclear-armed Islamic nation... ruled by fanatical fundamentalists.

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RELATED: Holy War... by the numbers
-- TORONTO -- Most of the major terrorist plots against the West since 2004 had links to Pakistan, including two that targeted Canada, says a study to be released today by a U.S. think tank.