At least 20 people were killed and over 50 injured when Kalashnikov-wielding Taliban jacket wallahsIt occurred to me that carrying an AK when you're about to detonate yourself is kind of redundant, but I guess they had to shoot their way in.
stormed a crowded minority Shia mosque in Pakistain's restive northwest during Friday prayers,
Always the best time to find a crowd and kill them.
opening fire and exploding bombs in a Dire Revenge attack, the latest in a series of sectarian violence to hit the country.
Revenge for what? Were the Shia making faces at them again? Did little Abdulaziz come home with a bloody nose again?
The attack comes exactly two weeks after a suicide kaboom inside a packed Shia mosque in Pakistain's Sindh province during the Friday prayers killed 61 people, including children, in the deadliest sectarian attack to hit the country in recent times.
Guess what's gonna happen two weeks from now? The government goes through the same cycle of a day and a half of outrage and then it's
"Another hard day at the legislature, dear?"
"Nah. The usual routine."
"Poor dear! You get so bored!"
"Did somebody stop by to leave me a blank envelope with some money in it?"
"That nice Mr. Chaudry came by. It's on the mantle."
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit for the attack at the Imamia Masjid Imambargah
...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are...
in the posh Hayatabad area here where worshippers had gathered for the 'Zuhr' afternoon Friday prayers and warned that Friday's was the first in a series of Dire Revenge attacks.