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Recursion

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Mon Nov 11, 2013, 12:17 PM Nov 2013

Nasiruddin Haqqani: Senior militant 'shot dead' in Pakistan

Source: BBC

One of the most senior leaders of the Haqqani militant network has been shot dead near the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, reports say.

Nasiruddin Haqqani, who was in his early 30s, was the group's financier and a son of its founder Jalaluddin.

Reports say his body has been taken for burial to the North Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border.

It is not clear who shot him or why. Nasiruddin Haqqani was on a US list of global terrorists.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24898804

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Good riddance. cosmicone Nov 2013 #1
 

cosmicone

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1. Good riddance.
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 12:27 PM
Nov 2013

A few more terrorists please!

Another puppet of the Pakistani ISI and funded by the Bedouin Arab fiefdoms of Saudi Arabia and Qatar -- the same people who want an Islamic republic in Syria by destroying a secular, non-misogynist government.

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