Bombs kill 15 in Pakistan, US drone down

The bombing are just another reminder that muslims specialize in murdering other muslims.

Nahal Toosi, 8 March, 2009 (AP)
Three separate bombings killed 15 people in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, while authorities investigated reports that a pilotless US drone crashed elsewhere in the militant-plagued region bordering Afghanistan.

The bombings, coming days after gunmen attacked Sri Lanka’s visiting cricket team, were a fresh reminder of the militant threat in Pakistan, where Western leaders worry that a growing political feud could distract the government from tackling the extremists head on.
-islam is about territory and intimidation. By murdering muslims and claiming that their allah was somehow encouraging then to punish the other muslims the practitioners of the worlds longest operational blood cult can justify extreme violence. Doc and I often point out that most of the victims of islamic terror are muslims. A simple look at the islamic nation of your choice will prove us right.

Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are believed to use pockets of Pakistan’s northwest as bases to plan attacks on US and NATO forces in Afghanistan. The US has used drones to stage missile strikes against militants in the area, prompting protests from Pakistani officials who say the attacks fuel anti-American sentiment.
-A stupid statement; what do you expect the people that are targeted to say? I have yet to ever see anyone on the receiving end of a high-speed kinetic people cruncher take the time to thank the person that sent it toward them.

Saturday’s reports of a drone crash came from Angoor Ada village in South Waziristan, a tribal region where the main Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is based.

Army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said authorities were investigating the reports. Two intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media, said their informants and agents had yet to locate wreckage.

The US rarely discusses the missile operations, and the drones are believed to be CIA-operated. Colonel Greg Julian, the top US military spokesman in Afghanistan, declined to comment on reports of the crash.

Militants have staged numerous attacks against Pakistani security forces in recent years, but one on Saturday – a car bombing – was unusual in that a body was used to lure police, officials said.
-Trickery is not unusual; finding a muslim that will stand and fight-now that would be unusual.

Local police chief Rahim Shah said police went to the Badaber area after an unknown caller told them of a body in a parked car. Residents and police had recently evicted militants from the area, prompting threats of retaliation.

“They found the white car. They also saw a body inside, but when they were pulling it out, the car bomb went off,” Shah said. Seven police and a bystander were killed.

Meanwhile, a roadside bomb killed three civilians and wounded four troops in the town of Darra Adam Khel.
-When I was in the service they trained us to never move a body, as they were most likely booby-trapped, I guess these guys did not get the memo.

In the Khyber tribal region, a suicide bomber killed four people and wounded five at a mosque that served as a headquarters for the militant group Ansarul Islam, government official Sadiq Khan said. Ansarul Islam is the rival of another extremist group, Lashkar-e-Islam, Khan said.
-The murdering of muslims inside of mosques never seem to draw the same type of anger that a westerner drawing a cartoon does, very strange and yet it speaks volumes and totally discredits most islamic propaganda. It is hard to spin the lie of islamic brotherhood when most of your victims are muslims.

Pakistan has staged military offensives in parts of its northwest, recently declaring it had defeated insurgents in the Bajur tribal region, but is also pursuing peace talks with militants in the region’s Swat Valley, where it has promised to impose Islamic law.

Western leaders worry that Swat could turn into a militant haven, but Pakistan has persisted with the talks. On Saturday a top regional official said authorities decided to release 12 Taliban militants.

The 12 had been arrested “on charges of extremism”, Syed Mohammad Javed said. “We are now setting them free.”

In violence elsewhere in Pakistan, heavily armed gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team in the eastern city of Lahore last Tuesday, killing six police and a driver and wounding several players before fleeing unscathed.

The assault bore some resemblance to November’s terrorist rampage in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai. The Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba has been blamed for that attack, in which 164 people were killed.
-Eventually a muslim group will attempt an armed assault in the USA; I expect it to end with dead muslims littering the floor.

The group’s chief spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi, in a call on Saturday to AP, denied it was involved in the attack on the Sri Lankans. The group also denies involvement in the Mumbai attacks.

The Sri Lankans were attacked in Punjab province, the stronghold of Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif.

The federal government recently dismissed the provincial government, led by Sharif’s brother, after a court disqualified the Sharifs from elected office. Their party plans to participate in a massive march on the capital in the coming week organised by lawyers calling for an independent judiciary.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Friday it was “vital” for Pakistani politicians to stop feuding and “unite against the mortal threat that Pakistan faces, which is a threat from its internal enemies.”
-He might as well have asked them to sing Christmas carols.

Sharif has showed no sign of backing down, encouraging Pakistanis to join the march and warning President Asif Ali Zardari he would lose support if he does not restore the deposed chief justice and reduce some presidential powers.

“Zardari, you will have to pay a heavy price,” Sharif warned.

In response, federal information minister Sherry Rehman, a ruling party member, said Pakistani politicians should think about the “larger interest”, “see the dangers this country is facing, and do not engulf it with flames of instability”.
-To stabilize Pakistan the evil that we call “islam” would have to be banned.

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