(Reuters) – Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s plane was fired on as it took off on Friday from a military airfield in Rawalpindi, an intelligence officer said.
Musharraf’s plane arrived safely in the southwestern town of Turbat, where the president visited flood victims. The military initially denied there had been any attack.
General Musharraf came to power in a military coup in 1999 and enraged Pakistani militant groups by abandoning support for the Taliban harboring al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after al Qaeda’s attacks on the United States in 2001.
Militants were further angered by his pursuit of peace with India over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
Here are some facts about previous attempts to kill the Pakistani leader:
* Musharraf narrowly escaped an attempt to kill him on December 14, 2003, when a bomb blew up a bridge in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, next to the capital Islamabad, minutes after his motorcade passed it. He described in his autobiography how the blast caused his car to fly into the air.
* On December 25, 2003, Musharraf survived a second attempt on his life within two weeks when suicide truck bombs were driven into his convoy on the same road a few days later. The president’s heavily damaged car made it through the carnage to reach his home, with blood on its bodywork. Fourteen people were killed in the attack.
* Pakistan’s Supreme Court in September 2006 upheld death sentences handed down to 12 men, including soldiers and civilians, convicted of taking part in the two attempts on his life. A man named Islam Siddiqui was hanged in August 2005 after being convicted of taking part in one of the attempts.
* Pakistan’s military has said no senior officers were involved and that the principal planners were Abu Faraj Farj al Liby, the so-called al Qaeda “number three” and Amjad Farooqi, a Pakistani militant. Farooqi was gunned down in 2004.
* Pakistani intelligence officials said in May 2005 that they had foiled a conspiracy to kill Musharraf with a series of arrests, including the capture of Liby.
* A Pakistani court in October 2003 convicted three Islamist militants of involvement in an assassination plot against Musharraf in April 2002, handing down 10-year jail terms to each of them. The militants belonged to the al-Almi faction of Harkat-ul Mujahideen, a group also blamed for masterminding a suicide attack outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi the same year in which 12 Pakistanis died. The anti-terrorism court said the men had plotted to kill Musharraf on his way to address a public rally in Karachi.
The rockets launchers were shown on AL Jazeera being dismantled by the Army . they were fixed on the top of a house , and were used a few times when Musharaf plane was in the air (this is the 6th attempt on his life )
He is also exagerating . he is carrying his war on terror too far. he has been killing his people especially in Waziristan , many people died , many disappeared , thousands disappeared since 2001 .
the people in the Baluchistan region are being robbed of their resources . when they complain he sends the apaches to destroy their homes and kill their men . the Area is extremely rich in Gas but the locals have no gas, no roads, no schools , no running water , nothing . they showed them on a regular basis last year on AL jazeea showing women and children on the floor dead .
Pakistan journalists who have insisted on going there to find information , have been threatened , or found dead , or kidnapped by the police and later found dead (iqbal kazami, Maqbool hussain siyal etc..)
America also never wanted a peace between him and the Tribal leaders. the last time they were very close to peace , (Nawab Akbar Bugti got killed .
Musharaf has also become very unpopular , they call him Bush dog . he also arrested the Much more popular judge Iftikhar Chaudhry and tried to smear his reputation , that backfired .
people are noticing lots of things that they do not approve of like porn movies being sold in the open , massage parlors (owned by chinese , where more than massage was taking place ) more corruption , more bribes et…
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