ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani paramilitary forces killed one of the most wanted militants in the country Sunday, a government official said.
Amjad Hussain Farooqi was killed in an early morning raid in Nawab Shah, southern Pakistan, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told CNN.
Several others were arrested in the raid, he said.
A U.S. official told CNN it was not certain Farooqi had been killed, but “that appears to be the case.”
Farooqi is believed to have been involved in assassination attempts against Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president, and also in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002, the U.S. official said.
“Farooqi was a key al Qaeda figure, a real bad guy,” said the official.
Asked if there was any U.S. government involvement in the operation that led to the killing, the official said: “We work very closely with the Pakistanis in efforts to thwart terrorism” but refused to comment specifically.
OK, sounds like the Pakistani Government is finally serious about their upcoming election. Of course, with 40 percent of the registered voters female, the radical islamonazis will be thrashing and screaming and trying every way possible to usurp the voting process.
These "Tawhid and Jihad" terms that are bandied about so freely should be called by what they actually mean:
TAWHID="One religion for everyone on the whole planet, no others allowed".
JIHAD="Holy War, God tells us to kill everyone who is not a believer in our religion".
IN OTHER WORDS, these radicals are vowing that anyone who does not subscribe to their particular brand of twisted Islamism is to be killed. In fact, if they are Muslim, and they do not subscribe to the radical views, they can be killed just like anyone else because their brains must have been contaminated, so kill them all and let God sort them out.
Anyone else find it just a bit unbelievable that anyone could actually believe this concept… Let alone that "God" would have "72 virgins" waiting for these "Al-Tawhid Lions" endless pleasure if they got smoked in their "Tawhid & Jihad"? Sounds like a concept preached to their followers by those leaders who do not plan on being the one getting smoked.
Confuses me for sure.