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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:29 PM
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Phone transcript released of Taliban leader discussing Bhutto assassination

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/bhutto.dhs.alqaeda/index.html

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN -- U.S. officials suspect a Taliban leader may be behind the plot to assassinate former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a senior official said Friday.

...

In the phone intercept that Pakistani officials released Friday, Mehsud is apparently speaking in the Pashto language to another militant, whom he called Maulavi Sahib, or religious leader. The following is from the transcript:
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Mehsud: Congratulations to you. Were they ours?

Maulavi Sahib: Yes, it was us.

Mehsud: Who was there?

Maulavi Sahib: Saeed was there, second there was Bilal from Badar and Ikramullah.

Mehsud: All three of them did it?

Maulavi Sahib: Ikramullah and Bilal did it.

Mehsud: Then congratulations.

Maulavi Sahib: Where are you? I want to meet.

Mehsud: I am in Makeen . Come over. I am at Anwar Shah's house.

Later in the conversation, Mehsud said, "Fantastic job. Very brave boys, the ones who killed her."


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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:31 PM
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1. call me skeptical, but terrorists giving the name of the person who's house they are at?? bullshit
Edited on Fri Dec-28-07 03:31 PM by spanone
over cell phones??? naw

i just don't believe they are that fucking stupid.
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:31 PM
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3. "come over we'll have some kababs, and kick back"
:sarcasm:
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:33 PM
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5. stay away from the Hummus, it makes everyone gassy
and may reveal our position.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:46 PM
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21. Get your hands offa my hummus.
Best diet, ever.

Without altering anything else in my food/drink intake, I lost 25lbs in four weeks by eating hummus and flat-bread for lunch every day.
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:51 PM
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22. I bet you also lost all your friends.
:)

Seriously, it's good protien but a lot of carbs. I do love my spicy hummus though.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:39 PM
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17. Did they leave directions on how to get to Anwar Shah's house?
"Mehsud: I am in Makeen . Come over. I am at Anwar Shah's house."


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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:43 PM
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18. I'm sure you could find it on Mapquest
Or maybe Google Earth.
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:32 PM
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4. But it's being reported by the
Most Busted Trusted Name in News

How can this be??
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:38 PM
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15. it's damned comical....
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truebrit71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:53 PM
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23. ..the only thing missing was the address...
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:31 PM
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2. no way, that can't be real. it's so cheezy.
and it sounds like the taliban guy sounds like a narc. "so who was there...?". that's just a weird exchange.
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:33 PM
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6. Mehsud: "Wazzzzzup!?"
Maulavi Sahib: "Drinking a bud, watching the news...."
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:33 PM
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7. ROFL
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:35 PM
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8. !
:spray:
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:35 PM
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9. YOU!
:spray: :spray: :spray: :spray: :spray: :spray:
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:36 PM
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10. This is so stupid. They really think we'll believe this shit?
:eyes:
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:37 PM
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11. no, but freepers will
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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:43 PM
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19. Freepers will believe almost anything
After all, they believe that all those Bin Laden videos are authentic.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:38 PM
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12. We may not believe it right now...
...but after the 1000th repetition of catapulting the same bullshit, enough of us will probably believe it to make the rest of us look nuts if we don't.

That's kind of how it tends to work...
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:45 PM
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20. Yep,. Conspiracy nuts, that's us.
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:38 PM
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16. Unfortunately, many will.
All the more reason for those warrentless wiretaps.
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 04:13 PM
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25. Hate to say it, but how many bought the story about passports flying out of the 911 wreckage?
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OzarkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:38 PM
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13. So the assasination took them by surprise...
but now they suddenly have tapes of the Taliban plotting it? Well that was quick. :sarcasm:
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:38 PM
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14. Sounds amazingly like the intercepted calls they played for the UN
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 03:59 PM
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24. interesting ----seems she was a backer of the taliban
"The Taliban took power in Kabul in September 1996. It was during Bhutto's rule that the Taliban gained prominence in Afghanistan. She viewed the Taliban as a group that could stabilize Afghanistan and enable trade access to the Central Asian republics, according to author Stephen Coll.<10> He claims that her government provided military and financial support for the Taliban, even sending a small unit of the Pakistani army into Afghanistan.....

More recently, she took an anti-Taliban stance, and condemned terrorist acts committed by the Taliban and their supporters."

maybe they did`t like her anymore.

yet the source is from the people who have the most to loose.



stephen coll--------- http://www.cfr.org/publication/8096/
Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars Wins the Council's 2005 Arthur Ross Book Award - Council on Foreign Relations

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594200076,00.html
Ghost Wars - Steve Coll - Penguin Group (USA)
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-28-07 04:45 PM
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26. Ikramullah and Bilal made her bang her head on the SUV?
those terrorist bastards!

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