Pakistanis rally, condemn U.S. bin Laden killing

Pakistani school children carry placards during a protest at the site of the demolished compound of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in northern Abbottabad on May 2, 2012 on the first anniversay of the death of Osama bin Laden. / SAJJAD QAYYUM/AFP/GettyImages

(AP) QUETTA, Pakistan - More than 1,500 supporters from a pro-Taliban Islamic party have rallied in southwestern Pakistan to condemn the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces a year ago.

The protest came a day after the President Barack Obama visited neighboring Afghanistan on the anniversary of bin Laden's killing.

A spokesman for the Jamiat-e-Ulema Pakistan Party said more than 1,500 supporters burned U.S. flags at Wednesday's rally in the southwestern city of Quetta.

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Spokesman Abdul Sattar Chisti said the party handed out free food to hundreds of needy people. Muslims distribute food to seek God's blessings for their beloved ones after their death.

The U.S. commandos killed bin Laden in a secret operation last year without informing Pakistan in advance.

[technocoffee]

..that little girl should be holding a sign that says " Dear Taliban: please don't honor-kill me or throw acid in my face in the future if I want an education or to choose my own husband"...

[sandiegopete]

Pakistan has 175 million people. 1,500 people is an insignificant number in a country of that size. There have been larger anti-war demonstrations in San Franciso in the past couple of years. The media plays it up like the entire nation is rising up against the U.S. Anyone who takes the time to research the Pakistani economy will learn that the country is doing better than it ever has and the better the economy the less likely are the chances of a radical takeover.

[rpiny82]

-I'm curious why none of you liberals are giving the terrorists a -"fair trial" or "innocent until guilty"...

-now your President uses drones as the Judge-Jury-Executioner with no -trial, except trial by hellfire (missle)......not a peep, no rule of -law, just rhah, rhah, shish-boom-bah, drones.


by EmpireGeorge-_____---- May 2, 2012 3:51 PM EDT

No doubt you would prefer the pansy assed approach of George W. Bush
and return KSM to the Saudis where he can engage in art therapy and finger painting.

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American officials agreed to send the two terrorists from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an "art therapy rehabilitation program" and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials.

One program gives the former detainees paints and crayons as part of the rehabilitation regimen.

A similar rehabilitation program in Yemen was stopped because so many of the detainees quickly joined with al Qaeda or its affiliates, the official said.

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/12/bush-released-two-plotters-of-northwest.html

Killing these bastards where they stand is good policy. And by doing
so Obama is saving your collective ***** like it or not.

[jetjohn]

So I guess if the Taliban killed over 3,000 Pakistani's, they would still be defending them? I think not!! Seems to me the Taliban uses kids as suicide bombers, human shields, and the like. The Taliban are nothing but cowards!

[GTR5]

We need to stop all money aid to Pakistan and stop issuing Visas to the Pakis to come here. The Pakis here are a national security threat anyway and they should have their Visas revoked and be sent home. No more money and no more Visas.

[jetjohn]

I so agree GTR5!!! Cut the money flowing into this country! I don't want my tax dollars going over there! They hate us and nothing is going to change that!!

[notparicular]

Drones are beating the living Crappss of the Pak. Let them protest.

[Zann-Zel]

Sad they would use those kids for a political message.

We didn't ask BinLaden to kill over 3,000 of our people either!

[Johnston1212]

Taliban want it both ways. They don't mind killing children but are unhappy with an unfortunate mistake by the US stop blowing everything and everybody up and things will change. They are only unhappy because drones are so effective and killing Muslim mooderers.

[thechooch1]

Wow! A whopping 1,500 folks! We get more than that protesting red slime!

[Geeman11]

It's pretty low to use kids as props - pretty nice handwriting for 5-year olds!

Ironic that the OBL raid - the reason for the protest - did not require bombs or drones (at least not bomb-dropping drones).

Maybe the Taliban will stop using kids as human shields - the best way to prevent such tragedies.

[Rafterman11]

Using kids as props - the Taliban are getting soft as that's actually an improvement from kids' normal role in the Taliban of "forced suicide bomber".