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| Lashkar-i-Jhangvi blamed for attacks |
| 2002-08-13 |
| The government on Monday identified the outlawed militant network Lashkar-i-Jhangvi as the group suspected of launching two attacks on Christian targets last week in which 11 people died. Lashkar-i-Jhangvi has also been linked to the suicide car-bomb attacks in Karachi outside the Sheraton hotel in May and the US consulate in June, and the murder of abducted US journalist Daniel Pearl this year. Police have detained "six or seven" people for questioning over Friday's grenade attack on the Christian Hospital chapel in Taxila, 25km from Islamabad, he said. A day or two ago they thought it was Jaish-e-Mohammad. This type of thing is much more up Lashkar-e-Jhangvi's alley, though. Of course, if we ever get a close look at the rolls of both organizations, we'll probably discover that there's not much difference between the two — probably the average Jaish gunny is a little brighter than his Lashkar counterpart, and the average Lashkar snuffy is more vicious than his Jaish counterpart. I'd guess that many of the same thugs work for both organizations. Which brings me back to the same old question: How do you buy groceries when you spend all your time running around killing people? Where does the money come from? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |