Bombs targeting paramilitary kill 25 in Pakistan: Police

Source: Straits Times

PESHAWAR (Pakistan) - TWIN bomb attacks targeting a paramilitary training centre in north-west Pakistan Friday killed 25 people including seven paramilitary personnel and wounded 31 others, police said.

'There were two bomb blasts. Eleven people, including seven paramilitary personnel, are among the dead,' Mr Jahanzeb Khan, a senior police officer in the Shabqadar area of Charsadda district where the attack took place, told AFP.

Read more: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_668181.html

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Twin bombings at Pakistan paramilitary base 'kill 50'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13385597

charge not the civilian government, which angers Pakistanis. Just like with Mubarak in Egypt. How long before these radical groups in Pakistan step in where bin Laden left off if the USA doesn't do stuff to make Pakistan a better democracy.

I think this kind of strike cannot help but be creating ever more USA-hating terrorists.

Obama has enough blood on his hands already with his drone stikes, he doesn't need this one to add to it.

Reuters: FLASH: Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for bomb at paramilitary academy, revenge for bin Laden's death - spokesman

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...maximum carnage double strike it seems. One wonders when the Pakistanis will tire of this and hold ISI accountable for what their pets are doing.

Pointless. Tragic.

The US was solely responsible for the taking out Osama.

So instead of targeting the US, these terrorists go after the locals who had NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

Don't you people have any sympathy for the people of Pakistan?

that's how they work.

Source: Yahoo! News

SHABQADAR, Pakistan — Two suicide bombers attacked paramilitary police recruits heading home after months of training in this country's northwest, killing 80 people Friday in what the Pakistani Taliban called vengeance for the U.S. slaying of Osama bin Laden.

The militants said they hit the recruits out of anger at Pakistan's armed forces for failing to stop the U.S. incursion that killed bin Laden, and promised more attacks would follow.

The attacks came as Pakistan, an uneasy U.S. ally since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, battled suspicion that elements in its security forces harbored bin Laden. Military leaders told lawmakers Friday that Pakistan was instrumental in diminishing al-Qaida's infrastructure, but admitted negligence in tracking the Sept. 11 mastermind, who had lived in the northwest garrison city of Abbottabad for years before dying in the May 2 raid by U.S. Navy SEALs.

The suicide bombings Friday occurred roughly three hours drive away in Shabqadar, at the main gate of the facility for the Frontier Constabulary. The paramilitary police unit is a poorly equipped but front-line force in the battle against al-Qaida and allied Islamist groups operating along the Afghan border. Like other branches of Pakistan's security forces, it has received U.S. funding to try to sharpen its skills.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110513/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan

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A Pakistani security official stands guard at the site of bombing in Shabqadar.

If I were the Pakistani government, that's what I'd have done to keep you there to protect the government.

Is it possible that there are free-lancers that work for both sides?

Pretty sure some wild hair set of a couple of wanna-be's who have no clue regarding the long term ramifications of what they just did.

nt

Could be yet another LIHOP/MIHOP

Who knows?

:shrug:

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