Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2202-1001137934-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:53:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9546 invoked by uid 510); 22 Sep 2001 05:52:43 -0000 Received: from n23.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.73) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 22 Sep 2001 05:52:43 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2202-1001137934-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.222] by ck.egroups.com with NNFMP; 22 Sep 2001 05:52:18 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 22 Sep 2001 05:52:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 4624 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2001 05:52:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.1.222 with QMQP; 22 Sep 2001 05:52:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 22 Sep 2001 05:52:17 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id WAA04282 for iwar@onelist.com; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:52:17 -0700 Message-Id: <200109220552.WAA04282@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Three.Killed.in.Pakistan.as.Anti-U.S..Demos.Rage] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Friday September 21 2:23 PM ET Three Killed in Pakistan as Anti-U.S. Demos Rage By Scott McDonald and Imran Maqbool PESHAWAR/KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least three people were shot dead and dozens arrested Friday as thousands of protesters across Pakistan demonstrated against their president's decision to help the United States track down Osama bin Laden and punish his Taliban protectors. Most of the violence was in the southern port city of Karachi, where police fought pitched battles with protesters and fired tear gas following Friday prayers during which some Muslim clerics gave sermons in support of bin Laden and the Taliban. Further protests have been called across the country including one in the capital, Islamabad, Sunday. Police said gunfire erupted in a poor quarter of Karachi's Sohrab Goth suburb after midday prayers. A spokesman said it was unclear who fired the shots, but two people were killed and three others injured. Another man was shot dead when police opened fire on a mob trying to ransack a cinema in the Quaidabad area, police said, while a fourth man died of a heart attack while defending his store against looters. More than 50 people were arrested, police said, adding that they were mostly Afghans. Nearly 2 million Afghan refugees live in Pakistan. BOISTEROUS BUT PEACEFUL Elsewhere, the protests were boisterous but largely peaceful, but they underscored the divisions in Pakistan following President Pervez Musharraf's decision to cooperate with the United States in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The rallies were called by radical Muslim groups that have close links to the Taliban and have been allowed to flourish over the years as Pakistan sought to influence its unruly northern neighbor. At the biggest demonstration, held in the ancient city of Lahore, about 20,000 people waved flags and banners representing a coalition of 35 Islamic groups that called the protests. ``If America attacks, we will turn Afghanistan into their graveyard,'' announced one speaker, to the cheers and chants from the assembled faithful. In Peshawar, home to over a million refugees from Afghanistan, about 5,000 turned out to denounce Washington. Demonstrators burned an effigy of President Bush. The crowd was mostly in a festive mood, shouting ``God is Great'' and ``Down with America.'' ``We have to show and tell the people how unjust America's actions are to try to attack the Taliban without any concrete evidence,'' said Abdul Khaliq, spokesman for the hard-line religious party Jamiat Ulema Islam. ``The government should know what the people are thinking,'' Khaliq added. DECISION FAILS TO PLACATE BIN LADEN SUPPORTERS A decision by Afghanistan's senior Islamic clerics for Kabul to persuade Saudi-born bin Laden to leave of his own free will appeared not to have eased the angry mood. ``If Musharraf supports the Taliban that is good, if not he is our enemy,'' said one protester in Peshawar who described himself as a mujahid, or holy warrior. Shops in Peshawar and most other cities were closed -- some in support of the strike but many fearing retaliation from radicals if they were seen to be ignoring the call. In the commercial capital, Karachi, home to 11 million people, armored personnel carriers, police vans and paramilitary rangers protected the U.S. consulate and patrolled the city. The business center was virtually deserted. Large groups of police were deployed around the city in protective riot gear, some armed with semi-automatic weapons but most carrying long sticks. Army trucks patrolled the streets, packed with soldiers in combat gear and with machine guns mounted in front. Government officials in Peshawar warned foreign media to avoid the narrow streets of the city's bazaars. The government asked hotels to post the warning prominently. In the western city of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan, police ringed hotels and prevented local and foreign reporters from leaving, saying the situation was too volatile. A snap poll by Gallup Pakistan this week showed 62 percent of those questioned opposed Musharraf's decision to stand by the United States in what it has called its war on terrorism. Musharraf's stance has been denounced by religious leaders. ``This hasty decision made by the Pakistani government does not enjoy the support of the masses since this is tantamount to mortgaging the national sovereignty for mean and petty games,'' Qazi Hussein Ahmed, head of Pakistan's largest Islamic party Jama'at-e-Islami, said in Islamabad Thursday. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE VeriSign guide to security solutions for your web site: encrypting transactions, securing intranets, and more! http://us.click.yahoo.com/XrFcOC/m5_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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