18 Troops Die in Pakistan Suicide Attack

[Snazzy]

Source: AP

18 Troops Die in Pakistan Suicide Attack

Jul 14, 8:47 AM (ET)

By DENIS D. GRAY

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Islamic militants launched a deadly suicide attack, detonated a roadside bomb and fired rockets in Saturday as thousands of Pakistani troops deployed to the northwestern frontier to thwart the launch of a holy war, officials said.

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As the troop movement proceeded in at least five areas of the North West Frontier Province, a suicide bomber struck elsewhere in the border region, his explosives-laden vehicle killing at least 18 soldiers and wounding 28 others in a military convoy, said army spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad.

The attack in Waziristan, a Taliban stronghold where Washington says al-Qaida is regrouping, was one of the most lethal suicide attacks in recent months.

Elsewhere in the northwest, suspected militants detonated a bomb that struck a vehicle carrying soldiers in the town of Bannu, wounding two, said area police official Mohammed Khan.

Two rockets were also fired at a military checkpoint. No casualties were reported.

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Read more: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070714/D8QCCCHO0.html

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No iPod for you:

A Pakistani masked tribal militant with assault rifle smashes an audio player seized in a raid at a music market in Khar, the main town of Pakistani tribal region Bajur along Afghan border, Friday, July 13, 2007. A group of 50 masked tribal Islamic militants, who call themselves "Mujahedin" or Islamic warriors smashed video cassettes confiscated from local music shops and demanded an end to vice and adherence to strict Islamic law. Militants in a show off force paraded men they accused of selling illegal drugs through a bazaar in Pakistan's lawless border area with Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Haji Habibullah Khan)

Check out weird McD's billboard. Hamburgler apparently not yet on watch list.

Pakistanis hold anti-government demonstrations after prayers on Friday, July 13, 2007 in the Islamabad suburb of Rawalpindi to protest the military storming of the city's Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, this week. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

[pretzel4gore]

1. the problem is, the newsmedia is pushing bad dope

there's plenty of good dope around (libby's pardon, for example) which mr pig don't wanna people looky at too closely- mr pig invested ALOT in 'al quedesamoseabpadapada' or whatever the frigging name is (ferchrissake, even 2 hundred years ago, it was well known that backwater pakistan/india/africa etc had people who believed stuff that seemed kinda crazy- remember 'mondo cane'?) and every day tries to firm up the millions invested by claiming every single lunatic religious action on earth are 'al cia does' or jokers linked to 'al cia does'...every single act of protest caused by 'al cia does' etc... nmeanwhile, who benefits from terror?
blairbush are known terrorists, and now blair has gone underground!
now that's really scary!

[Igel]

2. Here's part of the problem.

'From time immemorial man has been made in such a way that his vision of the world, so long as it has not been instilled under hypnosis, his motivations and scale of values, his actions and intentions are determined by his personal and group experience of life. As the Russian saying goes, "Do not believe your brother, believe your own crooked eye." And that is the most sound basis for an understanding of the world around us and of human conduct in it. And during the long epochs when our world lay spread out in mystery and wilderness, before it became encroached by common lines of communication, before it was transformed into a single, convulsively pulsating lump - men, relying on experience, ruled without mishap within their limited areas, within their communities, within their societies, and finally on their national territories. At that time it was possible for individual human beings to perceive and accept a general scale of values, to distinguish between what is considered normal, what incredible; what is cruel and what lies beyond the boundaries of wickedness; what is honesty, what deceit. And although the scattered peoples led extremely different lives and their social values were often strikingly at odds, just as their systems of weights and measures did not agree, still these discrepancies surprised only occasional travellers, were reported in journals under the name of wonders, and bore no danger to mankind which was not yet one.

'But now during the past few decades, imperceptibly, suddenly, mankind has become one - hopefully one and dangerously one - so that the concussions and inflammations of one of its parts are almost instantaneously passed on to others, sometimes lacking in any kind of necessary immunity. Mankind has become one, but not steadfastly one as communities or even nations used to be; not united through years of mutual experience, neither through possession of a single eye, affectionately called crooked, nor yet through a common native language, but, surpassing all barriers, through international broadcasting and print. An avalanche of events descends upon us - in one minute half the world hears of their splash. But the yardstick by which to measure those events and to evaluate them in accordance with the laws of unfamiliar parts of the world - this is not and cannot be conveyed via soundwaves and in newspaper columns. For these yardsticks were matured and assimilated over too many years of too specific conditions in individual countries and societies; they cannot be exchanged in mid-air. In the various parts of the world men apply their own hard-earned values to events, and they judge stubbornly, confidently, only according to their own scales of values and never according to any others.'

One doesn't have to agree with the entire thing to see that a fair piece of it is no less relevant today than when it was written: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-lecture.html

[Eugene]

3. Suicide blast kills 24 Pakistani soldiers

Source: Reuters

Suicide blast kills 24 Pakistani soldiers
14 Jul 2007 15:00:36 GMT
Source: Reuters

(updates toll)

By Kamran Haider

ISLAMABAD, July 14 (Reuters) - A suicide car-bomber killed
24 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers and wounded 29 on Saturday
in an attack that may be linked to an army assault on a radical
mosque in the capital, a military spokesman said.

The attacker rammed his car into a paramilitary convoy in the
North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, 20 km (12 miles)
southeast of its main town of Miranshah.

It was the second attack on security forces in northwestern
Pakistan on Saturday. Two security officials were wounded in
an earlier blast near the town of Bannu in North West Frontier
Province.

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Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL293123.htm

[Turbineguy]

4. The picture.

Pakistani "tribal militant"? Look at his hands. The nails are well kept. The skin is light and he's wearing a gold watch. No wonder he wears a mask.

[ohio2007]

5. They destroy western technology but will drink 7-up

pathetic

[muryan]

6. good catch

they also dont seem to mind the western technology they strap to their chests, or the ak-47s they are toting around. If they are so intent on sharia law why dont they stick to swords and other circa 800 AD technology