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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 02:29 PM
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BREAKING: Jobs, affordable health care "surrounded" in Pakistan
SLAMABAD, Pakistan (DNN) -- Pakistani forces have surrounded what may be a "high-value" production job in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf told DNN.

"We feel that there may be a high-value target," Musharraf told DNN. "I can't say how big the benefits package."

The Associated Press and Reuters reported that officials believe the surrounded job carries medical, including dental, and a good vision plan. The AP attributed its report to three anonymous Pakistani officials.

Musharraf said the ferociousness of the surrounded fighters indicates that they are protecting a particularly significant job.

The military asked locals to leave and is flying helicopters overhead, "pounding" the area with artillery, he said.

Word of the standoff comes after Pakistan announced it has launched a fresh offensive against suspected employers near the Afghan border. Hundreds of Pakistani troops backed by heavy artillery and helicopter gunships raided homes in the nation's tribal region of South Waziristan, after rumors circulated that the matching contributions to a 401(k) were astronomical.

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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 02:32 PM
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1. ROFLMAO!
(thunderous applause...the crowd is on it's feet).

Extremely funny!

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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 04:27 PM
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3. Thanks, I'll be here all week
...And look for me in the Leopard Room at the Tulsa Holiday Inn, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. :)
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a_random_joel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 02:33 PM
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2. Good stuff robb!
Maybe Ken Lay is out there with the missing energy documents and the anthrax killer as well.
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felonious thunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 04:29 PM
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4. This man is no dingbat
I sure hope we're able to catch those jobs!
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