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British Airways suspend ses vols vers le Pakistan

Publie le lundi 22 septembre 2008 par Open-Publishing
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Attentat du Marriott : British Airways suspend ses vols vers le Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - La compagnie aérienne British Airways a annoncé lundi la suspension de tous ses vols vers le Pakistan, deux jours après l’attentat contre l’hôtel Marriott d’Islamabad.

"Nous avons provisoirement cessé nos vols au Pakistan à la suite de l’attentat suicide de samedi", a déclaré à l’AFP Sohail Rehman, porte-parole de British Airways dans la capitale pakistanaise. La dernière liaison aérienne depuis Londres jusqu’à Islamabad, la seule assurée par la compagnie britannique pour ce pays d’Asie du Sud, remonte à dimanche.

"Notre siège à Londres évalue la situation et, pour le moment, nous ne sommes pas en mesure de donner la moindre date de reprise de nos opérations", a dit le porte-parole.

L’attentat suicide au camion piégé a fait 60 morts samedi soir à l’hôtel Marriott, un établissement de luxe fréquenté par les élites pakistanaises et la communauté étrangère expatriée.

22 septembre 2008 08h11

http://www.romandie.com/infos/News2/080922061108.6blea3dk.asp

Tirs du Pakistan sur deux hélicoptères américains

MIRANSHAH (Pakistan) - Des forces de sécurité du Pakistan ont ouvert le feu sur deux hélicoptères de combat américains qui avaient violé l’espace aérien pakistanais au-dessus des zones tribales frontalières avec Afghanistan, ont annoncé lundi des responsables officiels.

"Des forces pakistanaises ont tiré sur deux hélicoptères de combat américains (...) et les ont forcés à retourner en Afghanistan", a déclaré à l’AFP l’un de ces responsables locaux des services de sécurité.

L’incident, dont la date exacte n’a pas été précisée, a eu lieu près du village de Lwara Mundi, dans le district tribal du Waziristan du Nord, où l’armée pakistanaise se bat contre des combattants islamistes proches des talibans et d’Al-Qaïda.

22 septembre 2008 09h12

http://www.romandie.com/infos/News2/080922071226.225i8nrl.asp

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  • l’enquete sur l’attentat du Marriott a ISLAMABAD devient polemique et suscite une tension croissante entre le Pakistan et les USA :

    On apprend que l’hotel devait heberger une rencontre diner au sommet entre personnalitées officielles dont l’amiral Mike Mullen ? et Primier Ministre Yousuf Raza Gilani,qui s’etaient deja vu dans la journée,etc et donc fut l’objet d’un deploiement de Marines US,devenu suspect :

    Pakistan MP : US Marines Put Mysterious Steel Boxes Into Hotel

    By : Ansar Abbasi on : 22.09.2008 [06:45 ]

    Was it an attack on US Marines ?

    Sunday, September 21, 2008

    By Ansar Abbasi

    ISLAMABAD : Was there a top secret and mysterious operation of the US Marines going on inside the Marriott when it was attacked on Saturday evening ? No one will confirm it but circumstantial evidence is in abundance.

    Witnessed by many, including a PPP MNA and his friends, a US embassy truckload of steel boxes was unloaded and shifted inside the Marriott Hotel on the same night when Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad.

    Both the main gates (the entrance and the exit) of the hotel were closed while no one except the US Marines were either allowed to go near the truck or get the steel boxes unloaded or shift them inside the hotel. These steel boxes were not passed through the scanners installed at the entrance of the hotel lobby and were reportedly shifted to the fourth and fifth floors of the Marriott.

    Besides several others, PPP MNA Mumtaz Alam Gilani and his two friends, Sajjad Chaudhry, a PPP leader, and one Bashir Nadeem, witnessed this mysterious activity to which no one other than the PPP MNA objected and protested.

    A source present there told The News that after entertaining them with refreshments at the Nadia restaurant at midnight when Mumtaz Alam, along with his friends, was to leave the hotel, he found a white US embassy truck standing right in front of the hotel’s main entrance.

    Both the In-gate and the Out-gate of the hotel were closed while almost a dozen well-built US Marines in their usual fatigues were unloading the steel boxes from the truck. No one, including the hotel security men, was either allowed to go near the truck or touch the steel boxes, which were being shifted inside the hotel but without passing through the scanners.

    Upon inquiry, one of the three PPP friends who was waiting for the main gates of the hotel to open to get his car in, was informed that the suspicious boxes were shifted to the fourth and fifth floors of the hotel. Mumtaz Alam was furious both at the US Marines and the hotel security not only for the delay caused to them but also for the security lapse he was witnessing.

    On his protest, there was absolutely no response from the Marines and the security men he approached were found helpless. Mumtaz Alam told the hotel security official that they were going to endanger the hotel and its security. He was also heard telling his friends that he would never visit the hotel again. He also threatened to raise the issue in parliament.

    One does not know whether the PPP MNA revisited the hotel after that mysterious midnight but his brother Imtiaz Alam, who is a senior journalist, was in the same hotel when the truck exploded at the main gate of the hotel. Imtiaz Alam had a lucky escape and found his way out of the hotel with great difficulty in pitch darkness.

    One of the lifts he was using fell to the ground floor just after he forced the door open on the 4th floor and got out of it.

    http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=17401

    http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/176036

  • Two US marines killed in Islamabad explosion

    Monday, September 22, 2008

    ISLAMABAD : The US Department of Defence at Pentagon has confirmed the death of its two marines in Hotel Marriott blast in Islamabad. According to GEO News, the Pentagon said on Sunday its two marines succumbed to injuries in the blast. The soldiers were deployed in the US embassy in Islamabad, it said. Pentagon said the names of the US marines could not be revealed prior to informing families of the victims.

    http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=17440

    US Hands Over Suitcase Nukes To Al Qaida In Pakistan

    By : Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

    Russian Military Analysts are reporting in the Kremlin today that the massive blast that caused 53 deaths at the Islamabad Marriott hotel in Pakistan was an operation conducted by India’s foreign intelligence agency The Research and Analysis Wing [RAW] in an attempt to ‘decapitate’ Pakistan’s entire leadership, including their President, Prime Minister and Military Chiefs all of whom, at ‘the last minute,’ changed the location of their planned meeting with the United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, who had arrived in their country unannounced.

    These reports continue by stating that India had become ‘alarmed’ by the United States Defence Intelligence Organization [DIA] and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence [ISI] plan to provide Al Qaida and Taliban terrorist forces with 37 suitcase nuclear weapons to be used against Western Nations in the coming month.............

    http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1145.htm