Blast in Karachi; Pakistani police checking cause

[MaineDem]

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani police said they were checking the cause of an explosion in a residential district of Karachi on Friday and had no details of casualties.

The explosion took place near the house of a leading Shi'ite cleric in Abbas Town, police said.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-07-14T121632Z_01_SP243686_RTRUKOC_0_US-PAKISTAN-EXPLOSION.xml

[adriennui]

1. what goes around, comes around

[Eugene]

2. AP: Prominent Pakistani Cleric Dies in Bombing

Prominent Pakistani Cleric Dies in Bombing

By ZARAR KHAN
The Associated Press
Friday, July 14, 2006; 10:50 AM

KARACHI, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber killed a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric and
two other people Friday in an attack that was likely to heighten sectarian tensions
in this volatile city in southern Pakistan.

Allama Hassan Turabi was getting into his car at the gate of his home when the
lone attacker detonated the explosives strapped to his body, said Manzoor Mughal,
a senior police investigator. Police earlier said the bomber was in a car but later
said he was on foot.

Turabi, who narrowly escaped an attempt on his life in April by a roadside bomb,
was the leader of a Shiite party, Islamic Tehreek Pakistan, and a provincial chief
for Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal or United Action Forum, a hard-line opposition religious
coalition.

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About 300 youths gathered near Turabi's house after the blast, weeping and chanting
slogans against the United States and Israel _ frequent targets of anger in the wake
of acts of violence in this Islamic nation.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071400437.html

[Terran1212]

3. Is our media sensationalist or what?

"
KARACHI, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber killed a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric and
two other people Friday in an attack that was likely to heighten sectarian tensions
in this VOLATILE city in southern Pakistan."

Volatile city? I've been to Karachi four times. It's safer to walk alone there at night than it is in Atlanta here at home. Is Atlanta also a super-volatile city then?