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To: Nandu who wrote (12241)	6/14/2002 7:58:15 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

The tragedy is that neither country can afford to spend so much money on N-weapons. India has the largest number of impoverished people in the whole world. Just think of that.

To: Nandu who wrote (12241)	6/14/2002 8:52:36 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 12475

For the US, is Pakistan going to be the next Afghanistan? Arial bombing, smart bombs, flush out the terrorists, smoke them out of their foxholes. Pakistan a history? Everything now seems to be coming out of there. The terrorist recently apprehended in the US flew out of Pakistan, the US shoe bomber visited Pakistan several times. Should India even care to move their troops beyond the LoC or should they await and greet the US troops and special forces who will comd the country from the Afghan border and meet up with the Indian troops at the LoC. 11 killed in Karachi suicide blast Bomber crashes vehicle against security perimeter outside US consulate in apparent Al-Qaeda-linked attack; 45 hurt KARACHI - In an apparent Al-Qaeda-linked attack, a suicide bomber crashed his vehicle into the security perimeter outside the United States consulate here yesterday, killing at least 11 people. The blast was so massive that it incinerated a dozen cars and sent debris flying a kilometre away. The blast, which left 45 other people injured, was so massive that it incinerated a dozen cars and sent debris flying a kilometre away. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but Pakistan police intelligence sources said they suspected Al-Qaeda and Taleban fugitives from Afghanistan in collaboration with local extremist groups. 'These groups are deeply angered by President Musharraf's resolve to help the international community fight against terrorism and to rid his own country of extremism and militancy,' said one intelligence official. The blast came on the heels of a visit to Pakistan by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He left the country on Thursday. The White House condemned the attack, saying that it was 'a vivid reminder of the fact that our nation is at war against terrorists who use any means at their disposal to harm Americans and others'. The US Embassy in Islamabad was closed to the public immediately after the Karachi attack, as were the consulates in Lahore and Peshawar. Police said the bomb was concealed in a white Suzuki van that the driver smashed into a police guard post. The vehicle exploded after careening into one of the metre-high, sand-filled concrete security barriers that encircle the compound. The blast, heard several kilometres away, disintegrated the barrier, along with a section of the steel-reinforced wall behind it. Another barrier inside the wall was reduced to rubble. The adjacent Marriott Hotel and other nearby buildings were also damaged, including the Japanese consulate 300 m away, where a Japanese employee was hit by flying debris. Some of those killed were blown apart, making it difficult to determine exactly how many people died. The victims included four Pakistani police constables, a passer-by and the bomber, police said. Among those injured were a US Marine and five Pakistani employees in the consulate, which has been operating with a skeletal staff since non-essential workers were sent home last month due to concerns over terrorist attacks. Mr Sharif Ajnabi, a private security guard, was sitting in a park across the street from the consulate when the bomb went off. 'I heard a deafening explosion,' he said. 'Moments later, I saw a man's body flying in the air, and it fell near me...before we could give him water or medical help, he died.' Violence against foreign targets has increased since President Pervez Musharraf threw his support behind the US-led war in Afghanistan. Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered in Karachi in January while working on a story about Islamic militants, and suicide attacks - once unheard of here - have occurred twice. On March 17, a suicide grenade attack at a church in Islamabad's diplomatic enclave killed five people, including two Americans. Last month's bombing in front of the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi killed 14 people, including 11 French nationals. Both were believed to have been carried out by Al-Qaeda terrorists. A senior police official said the authorities had been on alert for the past week for another Al-Qaeda attack, possibly to avenge the arrest in Pakistan of some 300 of its members. 'The modus operandi appears to be a work of highly-trained people, which is unlike the local activists of any militant groups,' he noted. Said political analyst Rasool Bakhsh Rais: 'The clear message is that we are around, we are alive and we are capable of doing harm.' --AP, AFP straitstimes.asia1.com.sg