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| Pakistan bomb attack 'revenge for Bin Laden |
| 2011-05-13 |
| The Pakistani Taliban said today it carried out the twin blasts at a Frontier Corps training centre that killed at least 69 people, nearly all of them recruits, to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden. The attack is the bloodiest in Pakistan since the US raid that killed the al-Qa'ida chief on 2 May. Ahsanullah Ahsan, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, told The Associated Press in a phone call that its fighters conducted the attack on the Frontier Constabulary in Shabqadar in retaliation for Bin Laden's death. A suicide bomber detonated at least one of the blasts at the main gate of the centre for the Frontier Constabulary, a poorly equipped, but front-line force in Pakistan's battle against al-Qa'ida and allied Islamist groups close to the Afghan border. Like other branches of Pakistan security forces, it has received US funding. Dozens of people were wounded, said police official Nisar Khan. He said a suicide bomber, a man in his late teens or early 20s, set off one blast. Many recruits were boarding vehicles to go home for a short break at the end of a recent training session. A vegetable seller at the site said some recruits were sitting in white minivans and others were loading luggage on top of the vehicles. "There was a big blast," he said. "I saw smoke, blood and body pieces all around." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 Pak public seem more upset re the OBL seals mission and getting away with it unchallenged than the fact OBL was on their soil for many years which does not seem to surprise anyone bar the Pak Government! |
| Posted by: Paul D 2011-05-13 10:57 |
| #3 I think we should build a high wall around the place, close all of the airports and cut their internet access. They can feed on each other until it's the last mullah standing. They are just self destructing. Imagine, they are so mad at the US that they go out and kill 80 of their own young men...from an organization that obviously knew nothing about the operation to get OBL...recruits at that. What do the crazy imans say about killing each other? Other moslems, same sect? Pakistain is committing a Jonestown on a national scale. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-05-13 09:55 |
| #2 i heard a bbc reporter saying today what surprised him most that the talk in Pakistan is not the shock that OBL was staying in the country for 5+ years but that US were able to carry out an operation without the army knowing! Says it all about the bastion of Islam! |
| Posted by: Sliling Grumble1797 2011-05-13 09:19 |
| #1 Popcorn. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-05-13 04:54 |