From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Subject: US/UK Attacks Stir Up Pakistan Hornet's Nest

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Monday October 8 1:56 AM ET

Anti-American Protests in Pakistan Spread
By John Fullerton

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Chanting ``Death to
America,'' angry anti-U.S. demonstrators marched
through the streets of several Pakistani cities Monday
to protest against the U.S.-led strikes on Afghanistan
with bombs and missiles.

Security forces throughout the country were on high
alert, with key installations heavily guarded and
police and paramilitary forces stationed around
diplomatic compounds and other sensitive areas,
witnesses said.

In the western city of Quetta, several hundred Angry
youths marched through the streets chanting ``Death to
America.'' They set tires on fire and hurled stones at
police, witnesses said.

In the volatile port city of Karachi, long grappling
with law and order problems, armored personnel
carriers with mounted machine guns were parked
opposite the U.S. consulate. Main roads were sealed
and hundreds of police and paramilitary rangers were
deployed at key installations.

``Requisitioned vehicles have been parked across the
roads leading to the U.S. consulate and other offices
and we are not allowing anyone to cross the barbed
wire barricades,'' one policeman on duty said.

Police used tear gas to break up several protests in
the northwestern city of Peshawar, near the Afghan
border, as angry students and some Afghan refugees
tried to demonstrate against the attacks.

Witnesses said police used teargas to disperse
students, who blocked a road in one section of the
frontier city, not far from the border with
Afghanistan.

SECURITY TIGHT

One police official said security had been further
tightened at airports, ports, railway stations, power
stations and government offices.

In the capital Islamabad, United Nations staff were
asked to stay at home and not go to their offices.

Security forces in Karachi were braced for expected
anti-American protests near the central Empress Market
later in the afternoon, while one company of soldiers
had been positioned at the airport, a security
official said.

Authorities in Pakistan Sunday detained the leader of
a pro-Taliban Islamic party, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, at
his home in another part of North West Frontier
Province.

It was unclear whether he was still detained Monday
after one of his aides said security forces had left
Rehman's home overnight.

Rehman heads the powerful Jamiat Ulema-i-Islami (JUI)
party, which has held several demonstrations to
protest against U.S. efforts to force Afghanistan to
flush out Osama bin Laden, the main suspect behind the
September 11 suicide hijack attacks on the United
States.

Rehman has been one of the more vocal party leaders in
Pakistan, denouncing both the United States and
Musharraf for supporting Washington. His hard-line
party had already said it was recruiting fighters to
go to Afghanistan in case the United States attacked.

A JUI spokesman told Reuters the group would hold
protest rallies across Pakistan Monday during which
calls would be made for a holy war against the United
States. 


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