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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (4189)	1/28/2007 2:48:25 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Pakistan probes suicide bomb blast POSTED: 7:15 a.m. EST, January 28, 2007 cnn.com PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -- Pakistani police were on high alert in Peshawar on Sunday, as more than 2,000 people gathered for funerals of a police chief and fellow officers among 15 victims of a suicide bomb attack in the northwestern city. About 30 people were wounded in the blast on Saturday evening, that went off shortly before Shiite Muslims, observing their holiest month of Moharram, were to begin a procession in the heart of North West Frontier Province's capital. Badshah Gul Wazir, provincial Home Secretary, described how the suicide attacker had struck as police came out of a Shiite religious center before the procession was due to begin. "The man was standing in the street and as police came out of the Imambargah, he made his way into the police team and blew himself up," Wazir said. Peshawar police chief Malik Mohammad Saad, along with several fellow officers assigned to guard the Shiite procession, was among those killed. "According to the last information we received, 15 people including the suicide bomber have been killed and some 30 wounded, some of them critically," Wazir said. Mourners attending the police funerals were frisked before being allowed into the enclosure where prayers were held, while traders and shopkeepers closed in protest against the attack. It was unclear who was behind the explosion, but Pakistan has been braced for a fresh outburst of sectarian violence during Moharram, when the country's Shiite minority mourns the death of one of the heroes of its sect. Peshawar, home to a large Afghan refugee community, also suffered a wave of suicide attacks late last year, that analysts believe were a spill over from a conflict in tribal lands, where the army is fighting pro-Taliban militants and al Qaeda. Second day running The Peshawar blast came a day after another suicide bomber killed a security guard and himself outside Marriott hotel in a high-security zone of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. A report in "The News" daily said intelligence agencies suspected Friday's attack in Islamabad may have been carried out by Al-Furqan, a splinter group of Jaish-e-Mohammad, one of the most feared militant groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir. Al Furqan is believed to have forged links with al Qaeda, and is more anti-Western than Jaish. But the motive for the blast at the Marriott remains unclear, as the hotel, which is frequented by western diplomats and businessmen, was also holding a reception later that day for the Indian High Commission to celebrate Republic Day. The explosion on Saturday night in Peshawar occurred just meters away from Qasim Ali Khan mosque, the largest Sunni mosque in the city, and the Shiite community center, which had just been visited by the police caught in the explosion. Police had found the remains of the suspected suicide bomber but had not identified what group he might belong to. The timing and location made it possible that the motive was sectarian, but the slaying of the chief of police raised possibilities that it was militant groups, possibly sympathetic with al Qaeda or the Taliban, who want to destabilize President Pervez Musharraf's government. While the sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shiite extremist groups harks back to the 1980s, some of the most feared Sunni groups have forged links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda. Al Qaeda has used such groups as foot soldiers in attempts to assassinate Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. But there is also the possibility that the attack was revenge for the Pakistan army's air strike earlier this month on a militant base in South Waziristan, a semi autonomous tribal region on the frontier with Afghanistan, where Taliban and al Qaeda count on support from tribesmen.

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (4189)	1/28/2007 2:57:30 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

A leopard does not change its spots. len

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (4189)	1/28/2007 2:59:57 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

From the LA Times.....simply unbelievable! Personally, I thought we were restrained. Was 9/11 really that bad? (I KNEW IT WOULD COME TO THIS) Los Angeles Times ^ \| 1/28/07 \| David A. Bell latimes.com Was 9/11 really that bad? The attacks were a horrible act of mass murder, but history says we're overreacting. By David A. Bell January 28, 2007 IMAGINE THAT on 9/11, six hours after the assault on the twin towers and the Pentagon, terrorists had carried out a second wave of attacks on the United States, taking an additional 3,000 lives. Imagine that six hours after that, there had been yet another wave. Now imagine that the attacks had continued, every six hours, for another four years, until nearly 20 million Americans were dead. This is roughly what the Soviet Union suffered during World War II, and contemplating these numbers may help put in perspective what the United States has so far experienced during the war against terrorism. [snip] Has the American reaction to the attacks in fact been a massive overreaction? Is the widespread belief that 9/11 plunged us into one of the deadliest struggles of our time simply wrong? If we did overreact, why did we do so? Does history provide any insight? [snip] The people who attacked us in 2001 are indeed hate-filled fanatics who would like nothing better than to destroy this country. But desire is not the same thing as capacity, and although Islamist extremists can certainly do huge amounts of harm around the world, it is quite different to suggest that they can threaten the existence of the United States. [snip] Even if one counts our dead in Iraq and Afghanistan as casualties of the war against terrorism, which brings us to about 6,500, we should remember that roughly the same number of Americans die every two months in automobile accidents. [snip] So why has there been such an overreaction? (Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ....