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India-Pakistan
Explosion at Pakistani Church Kills Three
2002-12-25
Two assailants dressed in women's clothes covered in burqas, a traditional women's garb, tossed a grenade at a small church during Christmas services in a Pakistani village Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 11 others, police said. All three of the dead and most of the wounded were women or girls, in the attack in the village of Chianwala, in Daska township about 40 miles northwest of Lahore, police said. At least one of the dead was a young girl, said Brig. Javed Cheema of the Interior Ministry.
That's the kind of target Islamists like best...
About 40 people, mostly women and children and all Pakistanis, were attending a Christmas Day service at the church when the attack occurred Wednesday evening. The two attackers escaped after the attack, said Iftikhar Ahmed, spokesman for Pakistan Interior Ministry. Four of the injured were in critical condition, said Malik Mohammed Iqbal, chief of police in the nearby city of Gujranwala.
It's that "religion of peace" thing. And "tolerance."
Witnesses said the attackers wore burqas, the traditional all-encompassing garment worn by women in some Islamic countries, said Amanat Ali, a police official in Daska. But it was unclear whether the attackers were women or disguised men. Ali said witnesses reported the attackers were taller than most women. Male Islamic militants in neighboring Afghanistan have worn burqas because they're into cross-dressing to hide their identities in at least one recent attack there.
The bravery of the act just takes one's breath away, doesn't it?
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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