[Pakistan's] Interior Secretary Tasneem Noorani said, ''This is not a local-style operation,'' contrasting the apparently well-planned car bombing with the drive-by shootings that characterize many of Pakistan's sectarian killings.
The French victims were part of an 80-member team attached to the French Defense Ministry to provide technical assistance during construction of the submarines. Pakistani officials said the bomber appears to have studied the route and timing of the team's travels to the shipyard.
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Actually, the Karachi terrorist attack is similar to the bombing of US embassies in Eastern Africa in 1998: a van stuffed with explosives is driven close to the target by clueless underlings... while a second team watches it and remotely triggers the car-bomb.
Whereas France's PM J.-P. Raffarin clings to the diplomatically correct statement that "countries involved in the fight against terrorism are being targeted...", most of the local press/medias claim that the attack was not aimed at "Westerners in general" but specifically targeted France, French personnel and, ultimately, the French governement's foreign policy regarding Arab countries, the Mideast, etc.
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