CUI BONO, readers?
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"Pakistan blast death toll at least 50; Police raid Islamic school; 7 are arrested" by Riaz Khan, Associated Press | December 22, 2007
SHERPAO, Pakistan - Pakistani police raided an Islamic school and arrested seven students yesterday, hours after a suicide bomber killed at least 50 people inside a mosque packed with holiday worshippers at the home of the former interior minister.
Suspicion for the blast, which left bloody clothing, shoes, and pieces of flesh scattered across the house of worship, focused on the pro-Taliban or Al Qaeda militants active near the Afghan border, where the attack occurred. It was the second suicide attack in eight months apparently targeting Aftab Khan Sherpao, who as interior minister was deeply involved in Pakistan's efforts to combat the Taliban and drive out Al Qaeda.
Sherpao was praying in the mosque's front row at the time of the attack, but he escaped injury. "Yes, I'm fine," Sherpao said in a brief telephone interview. One of his sons was wounded, and witnesses said the dead included police officers guarding Sherpao.
President Pervez Musharraf condemned the blast and directed security and intelligence agencies to track down the masterminds, the state Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
After the bombing, dozens of police and intelligence agents raided an Islamic school in the nearby village of Turangzai and arrested seven students, some of them Afghans, two police officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. The officials declined to say whether the raid was connected to the attack.
The blast deepened the sense of uncertainty in Pakistan ahead of Jan. 8 parliamentary elections, which Sherpao, as head of the Pakistan Peoples Party-Sherpao, is contesting.
Ooooooh, he is contesting Bhutto, huh?
I just got a shitstink of a Cui Bono, readers!
The bombing turned a prayer service crowded with hundreds of people celebrating the Islamic holy day of Eid al-Adha into a scene of carnage at the mosque inside Sherpao's residential compound in Sherpao, a village 25 miles northeast of the city of Peshawar.
The bomber was in a row of worshippers when he detonated the explosives, provincial police chief Sharif Virk said.
Iqbal Hussain, a police officer in charge of security at the mosque:
"There was blood and body parts everywhere. There was panic everywhere. People were running. Some people were injured in the chaos."
District Mayor Farman Ali Khan said between 50 and 55 people were killed, and authorities were collecting information on their identities. The police chief, Feroz Shah, said more than 100 were wounded.
Strange that Gates just came out and said the real "Al-CIA-Duh" threat is now in Pakistan, and as if on cue... BOOM!
The hospital in Peshawar was wracked with chaos as the wounded arrived in pickup trucks, ambulance sirens wailed, and the injured screamed for help. The bomb contained between 13 and 17 pounds of explosives and was filled with nails and ball bearings to maximize casualties, according to the head of the bomb unit at the scene.
A bulldozer was brought in to help volunteers dig graves for the dead next to the mosque.
Minhaj Khan was digging a grave for the dismembered body of Shah Jee, 28, a father of two from the village:
"He was a poor laborer. Now who will look after his family? It is nothing but extreme cruelty to kill people on such a holy day for Muslims."
Which is why I DO NOT SUSPECT Muslims!
They WOULDN'T DO THIS -- not even the most pious "Al-CIA-Duh!"
Hussain, the police officer, said everyone entering was forced to pass through a body scanner and was searched with metal and explosive detectors:
"We don't know how the bomber got in."
INSIDE JOB STINK!!!!
After the blast, Sherpao's house was protected by about a dozen police and paramilitary troops. As interior minister, Sherpao oversaw one of Pakistan's civilian spy agencies, police and paramilitary forces involved in operations against militants along the Afghan border.
The army says the most recent attacks could be retaliation for a military operation against militants in the Swat valley, where it claims to have killed about 300 militants since last month."
Yeah, 100 added to the death toll and we have HARDLY HEARD ABOUT IT in the Zionist-controlled War Dailies!
Pfffffffttt!
And when it makes page one of the Times, you know it is good, government propaganda.
"Bomber Kills 48 in Mosque in Pakistan by DAVID ROHDE
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide attacker detonated a powerful bomb inside a crowded mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 48 people and wounding 100 as they celebrated one of Islam’s major holidays with the country’s former interior minister, state-run media reported.
The bombing was the second assassination attempt in eight months on the official, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who was the country’s top law enforcement official until last month and who is running for Parliament in elections planned for January.
He was unhurt, but his son and two grandnephews were among the wounded. The local police estimated that hundreds of people had been inside the mosque, a modest white building constructed by the former minister’s family in his ancestral village, Sherpao.
In a telephone interview, Mr. Sherpao said he believed that Islamic militants linked to Al Qaeda were responsible. He said that the bomb exploded as he and his relatives prayed in the front row of worshipers.
Mr. Sherpao, his voice shaking with anger: “It was a massacre. I can tell you that.”
After the bombing, police and intelligence agents raided an Islamic school in the nearby village of Turangzai and arrested seven students, some of them Afghans, The Associated Press reported, citing two police officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly. The police officials declined to say whether the raid was connected to the suicide bombing.
Since the government and everybody are pointing at "Al-CIA-Duh," that's the last suspect on the list, right?
Mr. Musharraf has cited an ongoing offensive by 20,000 Pakistani soldiers in the Swat Valley, a famed tourist area in northwestern Pakistan, as a sign of progress. Military officials say they have routed militants who have seized control of the area, killing 300 and driving the remainder into surrounding hills.
How come we in the west hardly ever hear about that particular war front?
Instead, I get a paper made out of shit everyday!
But suicide bombings have continued in northwestern Pakistan, possibly in response to the offensive. The mosque attack, with its high toll and its timing on a major holiday, represented a stepping-up of the violence.
The holiday, Id al-Adha, the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice, marks the end of the annual hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, and celebrates the willingness of Ibrahim, or Abraham, to sacrifice his son when ordered to do so by God. Islam honors Abraham, like Jesus and many other biblical figures, as prophets.
Throughout Friday, Pakistani television stations showed images of blood-spattered prayer caps and clothes scattered across a white marble courtyard outside the mosque. Trails of blood marked where the wounded had been dragged from the building. Dozens of shoes lay abandoned.
An unidentified victim, in a television interview: “The blast occurred as we were prostrating during prayers. I was in the fourth row and then I saw bodies all over the place.”
After the bombing, local men frantically dug graves in an effort to bury the dead before sunset, in keeping with Muslim tradition. Standing before a long line of coffins in a local graveyard, tall, bearded men wept. Thirty-eight people were buried in the village, Reuters reported, and some body parts were buried separately in a collective grave.
Pakistan has suffered an unprecedented number of suicide attacks this year by militants with ties to the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The attacks have killed hundreds of Pakistani civilians this year."
You get enough selling of those lies, readers?
Why do these stories appear when they do, reader?
What is with the SELECTIVENESS of AmeriKa's MSM coverage, readers?
