A slip of the tongue?
I missed this one earlier: And there are few militants — there are hand-picked people, militants who are disturbing this peace. Emphasis mine. That was Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani at his press conference Monday with U.S. President George W. Bush. As Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai points out, Gilani probably meant to say ...
I missed this one earlier:
I missed this one earlier:
And there are few militants — there are hand-picked people, militants who are disturbing this peace.
Emphasis mine. That was Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani at his press conference Monday with U.S. President George W. Bush. As Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai points out, Gilani probably meant to say "a handful of people."
It’s tempting, though, given this week’s revelations, to see Gilani’s gaffe as a Freudian slip.
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