“Nightmarish Proportions”
Dawn of Pakistan:
The Day Of The Suicide Bomb
THREE suicide bombings killed 54 people on Thursday as the wave of attacks buffeting the country after the Lal Masjid operation assumed nightmarish proportions, spreading from the north to the south.
The series of bomb attacks mostly targeting the security forces has claimed more than 285 lives this month — at least 180 since July 14 alone.
Thirty people were killed in Thursday’s deadliest strike at Hub, 50kms from Karachi, when a car bomber, apparently targeting a vehicle carrying Chinese workers engaged in mining activities, rammed into a police van escorting them. The Chinese were unhurt, but all seven policemen in the van and 23 bystanders were killed.
In Hangu, NWFP, a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives when guards prevented him from entering the police parade ground. The bomber killed six bystanders and one policeman. Scores of recruits were undergoing training at the time.
The third bombing — possibly the most ominous since it took place at a mosque inside a cantonment — killed 15 people in Kohat.
Thursday’s bloodshed followed President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s assertion the previous day that battle lines had been drawn between moderates and extremists. The president backed up the statement on Thursday with an exhortation to the nation to rise up against ‘terrorists out to destroy the country’.
The spate of bombings has also begun to weigh in on the capital market. The Karachi Stock Exchange’s main share index fell by 3.4 per cent on Thursday, extending a slide which began the previous day, with analysts saying the violence had scared off investors.
“We have to take the country forward, and with extremist activities all economic achievements made over the years will go to waste,” President Musharraf told a gathering of students in Islamabad.
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I hope Pervez isn’t trying the Kumbaya thing. He should know by now, what works with terrorists and what don’t.
Give ‘em a lead enema Pervez.
July 20th, 2007 at 7:13 amSpeaking of Pakistan, wasn’t there a report from a Paki news agency that OBL died in Tora Bora of a lung ailment?
That would sure explain why all the footage from the recent OBL vid is so old; and the only clown we see anymore is his butt buddy or the traitor from CA?
The link is on the Foxnews web site.
July 20th, 2007 at 7:17 amIll tell you what, Musharaff better commit to this and go in like a lion if he wants to rid his country of these scumbags. Tit for tat doesnt work well in Guerilla war, you will never find them in large concentrations but they will always find the general population in large numbers and the casualty rate will be very uneven. they need to push thousands of troops into the tribal region and sustain until the mop up is over
July 20th, 2007 at 7:21 amI suspect PM is thinking of this push as a way to raise his standing and set up an extension of his tenure. Hard to imagine a pol not thinking that way, actually.
July 22nd, 2007 at 12:43 pm