Pakistan leaders' 'narrow escape' - Democratic Underground

jannyk

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Mon Sep-22-08 04:46 AM
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Pakistan leaders' 'narrow escape'

Source: BBC

Breaking on BBC

>>Pakistan's top leaders were to have been in the Islamabad Marriott hotel when it was bombed - but changed venue at the last minute, officials say.
Interior Ministry head Rehman Malik said the president, prime minister and military chiefs should have been there. He told journalists "it would have been a great catastrophe" but did not say why dinner plans were changed.
A suicide bomb devastated the hotel on Saturday killing at least 53 people and wounding more than 266.<<

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7628964.stm

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nolabels

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Mon Sep-22-08 05:54 AM
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1. Just another one of those co-winky-dinkies

Like who would of thought, i mean unless those people who had prior knowledge by tapping phones, intercepting other communication or paying for large spy contingency with a bottomless pit of money. Yea, just another co-winky-dinky :shrug:

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