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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: FJB who wrote (7826)10/31/2006 1:15:43 PM
From: Ann Corrigan   of 224748
 
Here's a suspicious report...tangled web of international intrigue: Eighty Die As Pakistan Bombs Madrassa Linked to Militants

Belfast Telegraph , 2006-10-31

At least 80 people were killed in a helicopter missile attack on a madrassa in Pakistan yesterday.

The Pakistani military said the madrassa, or religious school was an al-Qa'ida training facility and the dead were all militants. Madrassas are the only source of education for millions of Pakistanis, but many have been accused of fomenting extremism. The Prince of Wales, who is on his first visit to Pakistan, last night cancelled a visit to Peshawar after the madrassa attack.Chingai is inside the tribal agency of Bajaur, which the Pakistani government has declared off limits to foreign journalists.

A spokesman, Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan, said that the strike had been ordered after intensive surveillance had confirmed that the madrassa was being used "for terrorist activities and as a training camp". He said that 80 people were confirmed dead, and claimed they were all militants - half of them Pakistani, and half from other countries.

The attack came on the day the Pakistani military was supposed to sign a truce with the local tribes in Bajaur similar to one already agreed with tribesmen in North Waziristan, another tribal agency where foreign militants are believed to be sheltered. The man who was supposed to sign the deal, Maulavi Liaqat Hussein, was believed to have been killed in yesterday's attack.
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