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| Pakistan detains girl with suicide vest |
| 2011-06-20 |
| PAKISTANI police say they have detained a nine-year-old school girl allegedly strapped with a bomb and told to blow up a police checkpoint in the country's troubled northwest. Although her intentions could not be confirmed independently, it was the first time such a young girl has been reported carrying explosives in Pakistan and could signal a disturbing new tactic for the Taliban and other militants. She was arrested about 50 metres from the Islam Darra police checkpoint on the outskirts of Taimargara, the main town in the district of Lower Dir, where Pakistan in 2009 fought to put down a Taliban insurgency. Police said the girl claimed to have been abducted several days ago in the main northwestern city of Peshawar and to have been taken to Lower Dir near the Afghan border. "She was wearing eight kilograms of explosives which was quite heavy for her age. Her body language was suspicious," Qazi Jamil-ur-Rehman, the regional police chief said. "She is an innocent school girl and was scared. She is with us and we are trying to reach her family," Rehman added. The girl appeared on national television wearing her blue and white school uniform. "They kept me in a house and they told me to push the button when I reach near policemen," she told reporters during a press conference. Police said they were hunting those responsible. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 Disposable female child? Check. Killing infidels (meaning Christians, Jews, Crusaders or Muslims of the wrong flavor)? Check. Morally reprehensible? Check. To paraphrase some old Juice lady, we will have peace when the Muslims care more about their children than committing mass murder. Until then, I have no problem with SEALS whacking people in their living rooms in the middle of the night or the RAB committing 'crossfires' at oh-dark-hundred in some upazilla. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-06-20 21:14 |
| #3 I don't think the majority of Pakistanis are at that point just yet. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-06-20 15:14 |
| #2 At some point one hopes there will be enough of these atrocities to turn the majority of Pakistanis away from the siren call of their pet jihadis. In the meantime, may all those involved in this, and all who support such people, whether this particular bunch or others, soon find themselves burning forever in the deepest level of Hell. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-20 15:11 |
| #1 At some point one hopes there will be enough of these atrocities to turn the majority of Pakistanis away from the siren call of their pet jihadis. In the meantime, may all those involved in this, and all who support such people, whether this particular bunch or others, soon find themselves burning forever in the deepest level of Hell. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-20 15:10 |