Pakistan complains of "mind-boggling" U.S. sting

[Snazzy]

Pakistan complains of "mind-boggling" U.S. sting
Mon Aug 9, 2004 08:58 AM ET

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has protested to the United States about an FBI sting operation involving a fake plot to kill Pakistan's U.N. ambassador, describing it on Monday as a mind-boggling and dangerous mission.

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The operation involved money laundering, a shoulder-fired missile and the fake plot to kill the Pakistani ambassador.

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"At one level this is a bizarre story, at another quite dangerous," Khan said.

"This has increased our ambassador's and our mission's vulnerability. This technique and methodology is tantamount to auto suggestion and could have endangered the life of our ambassador," Khan added.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5911892

[underpants]

1. It's official-they don't know what they are doing AND....

it is all for press releases.

[Dover]

2. Apparently you haven't yet received their latest 'auto-suggestion'

((((((terrorist plotters will disrupt the election))))))

I have a sudden craving for ORANGES.

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I'll bet Plame has some ideas about this little lapse in judgement.

[cprise]

4. Its something they desperately want

Remember the political futures market that Poindexter was cooking up? Wealthy unknowns could plunk down cash to bet that leader-X would be assasinated, and others who bet the same way then had this strong incentive to cash-in by actually bringing about the assassination (or other 'change').

[underpants]

5. Yes that too was mindless

See! The terrorist alerts were for real See! See?!?!?!?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2182592

[cal04]

3. Pakistan protests over US sting

Pakistan said the plot had put its envoy at risk
Pakistan has protested to the United States over what it says was an FBI sting operation involving a fake plot to kill Pakistan's UN envoy.
A spokesman said it had endangered the life of Munir Akram, Pakistan's permanent envoy to the United Nations.

Two men are being held in the US for allegedly laundering money for an agent posing as a militant who wanted to use a missile to kill Mr Akram. Pakistani foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan asked why the US authorities had not picked an American "target" instead.

"It is mind-boggling why they could not use the name of an American functionary," he told a news conference.

He said that Pakistan had spoken to the US embassy in Islamabad and that it hoped America would "realise its mistake and give instructions for rectifying this faulty methodology".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3549200.stm

[bemildred]

6. Signs of stress.

Trying to pull that rabbit out of the hat, whether there is one in there or not.
Look for more fuckups.

Why has the FBI not been disbanded yet anyway?
Weren't the revelations about Hoover's habits enough?
:puke:

[struggle4progress]

7. kick

:kick:

[Rex]

8. Good thing the FBI is hard at work protecting the Homeland.

Since when did they become an international organization?

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Huh??? Are the Bushies crazy?

[kodi]

10. ah the islamabad candidate?

thank god the adults are in charge, eh?

these clowns make bozo look like einstein

[sattahipdeep]

11. Keep breathin that oxygen

Why is the name of the official that disclosed Khan's name not being revealed?

Is it that Khan was about to reveal information that not only connected to 911
but to other past and perhaps future terrorist acts in the US.

Maybe Khan could connect the dots to this administration or financial sources.

Schumer Questions White House
Over Leak

Mon Aug 9, 8:43 PM ET

Add Politics - U. S. Congress to My Yahoo!



By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - A Democratic senator asked the White House on
Monday to explain why the name of an imprisoned al-Qaida terror
suspect was disclosed to reporters even as the suspect was cooperating
secretly by sending e-mails to terrorists so authorities could trace their locations.

National security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites)
acknowledged Sunday in a televised interview that Khan's name had
been disclosed to reporters in Washington "on background," meaning
that it could be published, but the information could not be attributed by
name to the official who had revealed it.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040810/ap_on_go_co/terror_threats_leak_3

[Snazzy]

14. This is the Albany FBI entrapment trumped up

terror thing.

The disclosure of Khan's name is a different scandal.

Pakistan is pissed we are putting forward the idea of shooting a missile at its ambassador to the UN in NY.

So, Pakistan score card for fake code orange cover your ass after getting Kerry of boob tubes:

>> blow cover of joint UK/Pakistan al-Qaeda mole: check!

>> suggest to terrorists that blowing up Pakistan's ambassador is a good plan: check!

>> claim Pakistan is harboring terrorists: check! (however true, diplomatic it's not)

Musharraf: "with friends like this...."

[Snazzy]

12. US assures probe into FBI sting operation

US assures probe into FBI sting operation
Muhammad Najeeb (Indo-Asian News Service)
Islamabad, August 10

The United States has assured Islamabad of a "thorough" probe into a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sting operation which involved a put up assassination attempt on Pakistan's UN envoy.

Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan told IANS it was regrettable that the US agency used this hypothetical situation to project a fictitious threat to the Pakistani ambassador.

"It is dangerous and mind-boggling," he said.

"We have made a demarche to the US embassy here," he said, adding, "We hope that the US will realise its mistake and give instructions for rectifying this faulty methodology."

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_939752,00050001.htm

[gasperc]

13. well, we can't understand why a baffoon is president of our country

so mind boggling, we're boggled each and every day