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...perhaps, I had once dated or wanted to date or would like to watch having wild dating with another person. But a few months ago my followers exploded from hundreds to hundreds of thousands, and I felt compelled to entertain. It was like being shoved on stage in front of 700,000 screaming, adoring, clothes-rending fans begging for statements of less than 140 characters...
Today's attack took place at 3 pm, moments after Kazmi left his ministry. At the scene, his black car lies badly damaged on the side of the road. There are bullet marks on three sides of the vehicle, the front windscreen, and on both sides of the backseat. Broken shards of glass lie strewn on the road nearby. The steering wheel is smeared with blood, as are the cars seats. The minister's blood-stained turban and prayer beads were left abandoned as he was rushed to hospital. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...
...According to Muntazir Khan, a policeman at the scene, two suspected gunmen were on motorbikes. They shot at the driver from the front, apparently killing him instantly. As the vehicle veered to the left side of the road, the attackers turned their guns on the minister, sitting behind blacked-out windows on the back seat. On the left side, eight bullets are punched into the window, four on the right side. The gunmen then managed to speed away...
...relations with China. "We Tibetans are not seeking separation," he replied. The Dalai Lama has been pursuing "meaningful autonomy" for Tibet and the preservation of his people's culture and religion, but China sees him as a separatist, and is wary of his interaction on the global front, especially in Taiwan, which China also sees as part of its territory. A day after Taipei announced his visit, China denounced the decision and lashed out at the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, who invited him, for their "attempt to sabotage the hard-earned good situation in cross-strait relations." On Monday, Beijing...
Natascha Kampusch's story is perhaps even more troubling. The Austrian girl was abducted at age 10 and held for eight years in a windowless cellar by her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil. She ran away in August 2006. Yet upon learning that he had thrown himself in front of a train a few hours after she escaped, she reportedly burst into tears. "All I can say is that, bit by bit, I feel more sorry for him," Kampusch said in a 2007 documentary intended to mark her first year of freedom, calling Priklopil a "poor soul - lost and misguided." (Experts note...