New Suicide Bombings Kill 29 in Pakistan

Source: Agence France-Presse

New suicide bombings kill 29 in Pakistan
by Rana Jawad

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Two suicide bombings, one of them targeting Chinese workers, killed at least 29 people in Pakistan on Thursday, fuelling a mounting sense of chaos in the South Asian nation. Authorities were investigating whether the blasts were part of a wave of attacks sparked by the storming of the pro-Taliban Red Mosque in Islamabad last week which have already left over 150 people dead.

In the deadliest of Thursday's attacks, a suicide bomber blew himself up as a convoy of Chinese citizens and Pakistani security forces passed through the southwestern town of Hub, killing at least 24 Pakistanis, police said.

Hours earlier, another attacker drove his explosives-laden vehicle into the gates of a police college in the northwestern town of Hangu as recruits carried out a morning drill, killing at least five people, they said.

Both attacks left a trail of body parts, blood stains and mangled vehicles. "The wave of suicide attacks is aimed at creating chaos and unrest in the country," interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema told AFP, without saying if either was believed to be directly connected to the mosque siege.


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The Iraq war is fueling extremism everywhere.
Withdraw the troops now!

They set up the Taliban, more or less, through the madaris and official funding.

Then the Taliban got their medieval asses kicked without an infidel power giving them useful weapons. Many poured back across the border. The Deobandi extremist movement was already growing, and this helped it by leaps and bounds.

It's quaint to think that Iraq is fueling this. But since ul-Haq decided to make Pakistani Islam into political Islam, merging faith and state into a toxic whole that could be nicely exported to Afghanistan, it's been ascendant. Moreover, while the Wahhabis have supported the madaris, most of the madaris are mostly homegrown Deobandi.

If you want to blame anybody, you can blame it on the jihadis during an uprising against the British in what, the 1850s or '60s? They got their asses handed to them, and the response was to say that if they were righteous like the old times Muslims in the first generations after Muhammed then they'd win. Fundie, but with a statist power-grubbing core. Righteousness not for righteousness' sake, but for Islamic supremacy. Reconstructionism writ violent and turned upside down, with an interim pan-Islam mandate.

Iraq? The US isn't nearly that important. All politics is local, just not local to me or you.

You're clearly well versed on the subject. How can Musharraf turn the tide against these home-grown terrorists?

they signed with Musharraf back in October,2001, if events like these leak into the Chinese media.



`Allah was kind' as suicide blast misses Chinese

About 10 Chinese technicians and engineers were on a minibus leaving a lead extraction plant at Dudhar in Baluchistan for Karachi because of security concerns.

The convoy was passing through the main bazaar in Hub when a moving car blew up next to a police vehicle.

Hub police chief Ghulam Mohammed Thaib said 29 people were killed, including seven police. About 30 people were wounded, some critically.

Major General Saleem Nawaz, a commander of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Constabulary, said it was fortunate the Chinese workers were not hurt by the car bomb.



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Much of the violence has been in North West Frontier Province, especially the frontier region of North Waziristan, where pro-Taleban militants last weekend ended a 10-month- old truce. The government has since been trying to revive it.


Musharraf insists the accord - under which the military scaled back its operations in the US-led "war on terror" in return for pledges from tribal leaders to contain militancy - offers the best hope of pacifying the region.

US intelligence analysts say the pact has given al-Qaeda opportunities to strengthen operations in Pakistan, Afghanistan and beyond. ASSOCIATED PRESS


http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=17...

Western MSM ignores the near miss and in China, stories such as these are kept out of the state controlled MSM headlines.
How long til the "freedom fighters" of Pakistan start to hammer the Chinese for ransome when they take their "engineers" hostage? Musharraf has been lucky allah hasn't killed many CHinese workers in his country.

Eventually, if events spin out of control, the Chinese just may be forced to honor their pact and put 'boots on the ground' in north or south War-a-stan.

and realize their true enemy is the UK and US.

Updated Sat. Jul. 28 2007 8:15 AM ET

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Investigators sifted through the wreckage of a bombed-out restaurant in Pakistan's capital and scoured a government database on Saturday to try to identify the remains of a suicide attacker who killed 13 people a day earlier.

Officials also vowed to launch a top-level inquiry into why intelligence that warned of a potential attack at the busy downtown marketplace where Friday's blast occurred was not acted upon to prevent the attack.


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The attack at the open-air restaurant frequented by police happened shortly after protesters clashed with authorities as the city's
Red Mosque reopened for the first time
since the army ousted Islamic militants in a bloody raid two weeks ago.

-snip

Authorities had hoped to restore normalcy to the once-staid Pakistani capital by reopening the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, .....But religious students on Friday staged protests inside the mosque compound and occupied it for several hours.They daubed red paint onto the walls and dome to restore its namesake color after a government restoration left it pale yellow.

They also rose a black flag with two crossed swords -- meant to symbolize jihad, or holy war.......

...Soon after, a huge blast went off in the restaurant at the Muzaffar Hotel, located in a crowded Aabpara market about a quarter-mile from the mosque.



An injured police officer shouts as he is helped by his colleagues at the site of a bomb explosion in Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday, July 27, 2007. (AP / Anjum Naveed)

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jeeze,
I sure wish they "quoted" what the cop was shouting. But thats just me, always asking more then what the writers think is pertinent to a 'suicide' bombing story.

well,
at least it is happening half a world away and so we can ignore it.

But China taking on the Taliban might be a good thing. The Chinese DO NOT mess around.

during the Afghan war. Not to mention turning a blind eye to all the poppy grown to fund the Islamic resistance against the Soviets.