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| Geelani gets passport for medical treatment |
| 2007-03-09 |
| India has provided a passport to a hardline Kashmiri separatist to enable him to travel abroad for cancer treatment, officials said on Thursday. “We have handed over Syed Ali Geelani’s passport to his son,” an official at federal passport office told AFP in Kashmiri summer capital Srinagar. The vehemently anti-India Geelani has not been allowed to leave the country since an insurgency began in Indian-held Kashmir in 1989, except in 2005 when he was permitted to visit Saudi Arabia to attend the hajj. Geelani, 72, heads the hardline faction of the region’s main separatist alliance, the Hurriyat Conference, which supports union with Pakistan. The ailing leader had a kidney removed two years ago after doctors found cancer and now the disease has been detected in his second kidney. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Be sure to include the GPS tracker and remote grenade before closing. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-03-09 14:37 |
| #6 Jeebus, how do turds like this guy get to come to the US for treatment? Are we really that in-tune with our "human rights" to allow this crap? It's akin to allowing one of Mussolini's generals into the US for gangrene during WWII. The mind boggles. |
| Posted by: BA 2007-03-09 13:18 |
| #5 Ah. Allah General all booked up is it? Inshallah... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-03-09 12:48 |
| #4 Mr. Geelani plans to come to the US for treatment, tu3031. There was an article about it here a few days ago. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-03-09 12:44 |
| #3 If the Indians have a cruel streak, Waziristan. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-03-09 08:59 |
| #2 Coming soon, to a medical center near you! |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-03-09 08:55 |
| #1 And just where might he be heading for said medical treatment? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-03-09 08:43 |