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Sunday, November 04, 2007

Pakistan, one big freaking mess. Oh yeah, and they've got nukes.

No one could have ever imagined that a dictator would act like a dictator. From AP:

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf suspended Pakistan's constitution and deployed troops in the capital Saturday, declaring that rising Islamic extremism had forced him to take emergency measures. He also replaced the chief justice and blacked out the independent media that refused to support him.

Authorities began rounding up opposition politicians, cut phone lines in Islamabad and took all but state television off air, defying calls from Washington and other Western allies not to take authoritarian measures.

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