Quotable: The potbelly was a dead giveaway
AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images A Pakistani security official had this to say about the dramatic capture of a leader of a besieged radical mosque in Islamabad: Our men spotted his unusual demeanour. The rest of the girls looked like girls but he was taller and had a potbelly.”
AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images
A Pakistani security official had this to say about the dramatic capture of a leader of a besieged radical mosque in Islamabad:
Our men spotted his unusual demeanour. The rest of the girls looked like girls but he was taller and had a potbelly.”
Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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