Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes

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Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday October 28, 2012 @05:40AM from the think-differently dept.

First time accepted submitter Serious Callers Only writes "According to reports, Imran Khan was detained yesterday by US officials for questioning on his views on United States drone strikes in Pakistan. Glenn Greenwald writing for the guardian: 'On Saturday, Khan boarded a flight from Canada to New York in order to appear at a fundraising lunch and other events. But before the flight could take off, U.S. immigration officials removed him from the plane and detained him for two hours, causing him to miss the flight. On Twitter, Khan reported that he was "interrogated on [his] views on drones" and then added: "My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop." He then defiantly noted: "Missed flight and sad to miss the Fundraising lunch in NY but nothing will change my stance."'"

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Re:What they were doing in Canada? by farlukar · 2012-10-28 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny

What the hell were US immigration officials doing in Canada, if I may ask?
Spreading freedom.

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Where's Pakastan? by Arancaytar · 2012-10-28 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny

I can't find it on the map. So embarassed. I hope we're not at war with it; I'd hate to be that stereotypical American.
1. Re:Where's Pakastan? by gman003 · 2012-10-28 05:59 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You missed the joke.
  Pro-tip: It's spelled "Pakistan", not "Pakastan".
2. Re:Where's Pakastan? by Nidi62 · 2012-10-28 06:40 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It's right next to Uzbekibekistanstan
  
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3. Re:Where's Pakastan? by Arancaytar · 2012-10-28 07:05 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I know people are saying it's the same as Pakistan because it's only one letter removed. But look at Iran and Iraq and see where that kind of assumption gets us.
  :-P
4. Re:Where's Pakastan? by Arancaytar · 2012-10-28 08:35 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I got all the countries the US has gone to war or threatened to go to war with in recent years, but very few of the rest.
  I can only conclude that the American foreign policy is a desperate effort to improve Americans' knowledge of geography.
Re:What they were doing in Canada? by Arancaytar · 2012-10-28 05:47 · Score: 4, Funny

And democracy.
Re:What they were doing in Canada? by davester666 · 2012-10-28 06:09 · Score: 5, Funny

And peace and joy to the world.
(tearing up)
It's Santa's work. He would have wanted us to carry on after we accidentally killed him with a drone strike for attempting to move towards the US while carrying a gun, funny thing is, it turned out to be a toy gun, afterwards the analyst was quite sheepish about the whole thing, admitting that yeah, the orange color of the gun should have really given it away, but he figured terrorists would know this and just paint their guns orange, so better safe than sorry.

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Re:Swing and a miss! by Serious+Callers+Only · 2012-10-28 06:23 · Score: 4, Funny

Worse than that, this bit of the title was the only change made to the submission! oh well. Hopefully an editor will fix it at some point.
Re:What they were doing in Canada? by JustOK · 2012-10-28 06:40 · Score: 4, Funny

It's a national capital

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Re:Disgousting behaviour by Dekker3D · 2012-10-28 07:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Hey, I resent the thought that we dutchmen need mexicans and kenyans to make a mess! We're perfectly capable of making our own bleached-blonde islam-hating messes..
Re:Disgousting behaviour by Grishnakh · 2012-10-28 07:06 · Score: 5, Funny

The US government is elected by the US citizens. Corporations have no control over that whatsoever; all they can do is spend money to influence politicians and citizens' views in elections (through PACs and the ads they create), but ultimately it's the People who make the decisions on their voting ballots. So if you're looking for someone to blame about the state of the US government, look at the citizens who elect it.