*** HOW is it possible that this understanding of Islam is that of the Prophet of Allah, Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)? HOW many children and women will you kill in the name of Allah? In the time of Jaahiliya (days of pre-Islamic ignorance) female infants were buried alive - Allah asks us in the Quran, 'for what what sin were you killed'? HOW do you justify taking the lives of Muslims - even the scholars - so easily, I cannot for the life of me, understand. This is has gone way out of the bounds of Shariah, way out of bounds. MS ***
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100520/world/international_us_pakistan_violence
Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen killed on Thursday a leading Islamic cleric who helped broker peace deals between the government and Taliban militants in Pakistan's northwestern South Waziristan region, an aide and officials said.
The cleric, Malik Mirajuddin, was gunned down in a pre-dawn attack in Tank, a volatile town bordering South Waziristan.
"Two men driving on a motorbike sprayed bullets on Maulana Mirajuddin as he was walking to his home after offering prayers in a nearby mosque," Niaz Mohammad Qureshi, an aide to Mirajuddin told Reuters.
A police official in Tank said Mirajuddin sustained serious wounds and died on his way to hospital.
Neither Qureshi nor police official commented on who could be behind Mirajuddin's murder. No one claimed responsibility for the killing.
Militants have killed hundreds of tribal elders and government officials in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt along the Afghan border over recent years. Many were killed on suspicion of spying.
Pakistan's army launched a major offensive in the militant stronghold of South Waziristan last October, killing hundreds of insurgents and destroying their major bases.
Mirajuddin was a former member of parliament and a senior member of a pro-Taliban Islamic group, Jamiat-e-ulema-e-Islam.
He was instrumental in a peace deal between the government and Taliban in 2005. He was also a senior member of a committee of tribal elders that brokered a ceasefire between the government and Baitullah Mehsud, then Pakistani Taliban chief, in 2007. Mehsud was killed in a missile strike by U.S. drone aircraft in South Waziristan last year.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
ALMOST 100 KILLED & OVER 140 INJURED IN IRAQ FROM BOMBINGS
*** Just wonderful. The magical Islam-land that is built on the bloodied bodies of fellow Muslims. And this is the Jihad according to you? WHAT could you possibly say to Allah on the Day of Judgment? MS ***
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/100510/world/world_iraq_attack_suicide_bombings
Iraq experienced its worst day of violence this year on Monday as 99 people died in a series of bombings and attacks across the country.
A pair of bombings in the southern city of Basra killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more, said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The worst attack of the day took play in the Shia city of Hillah, where at least 45 people died in a triple bombing outside a textile factory.
The day's violence began earlier in the day in the capital city of Baghdad, where at least 10 people died in a series of attacks on police and army checkpoints.
In that attack, assailants wearing the uniforms of city-employed cleaners drove by the checkpoints and sprayed them with gunfire from weapons with silencers.
In Hillah, which is about 95 kilometres south of Baghdad, a suicide bomber ignited his explosives in a crowd of people helping victims of two earlier car bombings, said Babil provincial police spokesman Maj. Muthana Khalid.
About 140 people were wounded in the triple bombings.
"Terrified people were running in different directions," said Jassim Znad Abid, a taxi driver.
"I saw dead people, some burned and crying, wounded people on the ground that was covered with pools of blood. Dozens of wounded people asking for help were lying on the ground."
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/100510/world/world_iraq_attack_suicide_bombings
Iraq experienced its worst day of violence this year on Monday as 99 people died in a series of bombings and attacks across the country.
A pair of bombings in the southern city of Basra killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more, said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The worst attack of the day took play in the Shia city of Hillah, where at least 45 people died in a triple bombing outside a textile factory.
The day's violence began earlier in the day in the capital city of Baghdad, where at least 10 people died in a series of attacks on police and army checkpoints.
In that attack, assailants wearing the uniforms of city-employed cleaners drove by the checkpoints and sprayed them with gunfire from weapons with silencers.
In Hillah, which is about 95 kilometres south of Baghdad, a suicide bomber ignited his explosives in a crowd of people helping victims of two earlier car bombings, said Babil provincial police spokesman Maj. Muthana Khalid.
About 140 people were wounded in the triple bombings.
"Terrified people were running in different directions," said Jassim Znad Abid, a taxi driver.
"I saw dead people, some burned and crying, wounded people on the ground that was covered with pools of blood. Dozens of wounded people asking for help were lying on the ground."
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
3 DEAD KIDS + 70(+) WOUNDED = 3 TROOPS KILLED ?!
*** You kill CHILDREN and you call yourselves Muslims? 3 soldiers are worth hurting over SEVENTY innocent people? This is the Devil's Logic O Taliban, and the devil himself takes credit for this heinous act. MS ***
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100203/world/as_pakistan
SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan - A roadside bomb killed 3 U.S. soldiers and flattened a girls' school in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday in an attack that drew attention to a little-publicized American military training mission in the al-Qaida and Taliban heartland.
They were the first known U.S. military fatalities in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions near the Afghan border, and a major victory for militants who have been hit hard by a surge of U.S. missile strikes and a major Pakistani army offensive.
The blast also killed three schoolgirls and a Pakistani soldier who was travelling with the Americans. Two more U.S. soldiers were wounded, along with more than 70 other people, mostly students, officials said.
The attack took place in Lower Dir, which like much of the northwest is home to pockets of militants. The Pakistani army launched a major operation in Lower Dir and the nearby Swat Valley last year that succeeded in pushing the insurgents out, but isolated attacks have continued.
The Americans were travelling with Pakistani security officers in a five-car convoy that was hit by a roadside bomb close to the Koto Girls High School. The blast flattened much of the school, leaving books, bags and pens strewn in the rubble.
"What was the fault of these innocent students?" said Mohammed Dawood, a resident who helped police dig the injured from the debris.
The soldiers were in the region as part of a U.S. mission to train members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, Pakistan's army and the U.S. Embassy said.
They were driving Wednesday to attend the inauguration of a girl's school which had been renovated with U.S. humanitarian assistance, the embassy said in a statement. The school that was badly damaged in the blast was not the one where the convoy was heading, security officials said.
The blast was detonated by remote control, police said. It was not clear whether the attackers knew the convoy was carrying soldiers.
The attack highlights the presence of U.S. troops on Pakistani soil at a time when anti-American sentiment is running high. U.S. and Pakistani authorities rarely talk about the American training program in the northwest out of fear it could generate a backlash.
In a statement, the U.S. Embassy said three American military personnel were killed and two were wounded in the attack.
Two Pakistani reporters travelling in same convoy as the Americans said Pakistani military guides referred to the foreigners travelling with them as journalists. Initial reports of the attack, which proved incorrect, said four foreign journalists had been killed.
Mohammad Israr Khan, who works for Khyber TV, said two of the foreigners were wearing civilian clothes, not uniforms or traditional Pakistani dress.
"When our convoy reached near a school in Shahi Koto, I heard a blast," Express TV reporter Amjad Ali Shah said. "Our driver lost control and something hit me and I fell unconscious."
A small contingent of U.S. troops have been training Pakistan's Frontier Corps since at least 2008, officials from both countries have said. The corps is a major force in the northwest, but they have long been under-equipped and under-trained, making them a feeble front line against militants.
The training program was never officially announced, a sign of the sensitivity for the Pakistani government of allowing U.S. troops on its territory. Frontier Corps officials have said the course includes classroom and field sessions. U.S. officials have said the program is a "train-the-trainer" program, and that the Americans are not carrying out operations.
Despite the presence of tens of thousands of U.S. forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, Pakistan does not permit American troops to conduct military operations on its soil.
After the bombing, the bodies of three foreigners and two injured were flown by helicopter to Islamabad and then taken to the city's Al-Shifa hospital, said a doctor there who asked his name not be used citing the sensitivity of the case. One of the injured had minor head wounds and the other had multiple fractures.
Pakistani army and intelligence officers were present and did not allow visitors into the building.
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100203/world/as_pakistan
SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan - A roadside bomb killed 3 U.S. soldiers and flattened a girls' school in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday in an attack that drew attention to a little-publicized American military training mission in the al-Qaida and Taliban heartland.
They were the first known U.S. military fatalities in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions near the Afghan border, and a major victory for militants who have been hit hard by a surge of U.S. missile strikes and a major Pakistani army offensive.
The blast also killed three schoolgirls and a Pakistani soldier who was travelling with the Americans. Two more U.S. soldiers were wounded, along with more than 70 other people, mostly students, officials said.
The attack took place in Lower Dir, which like much of the northwest is home to pockets of militants. The Pakistani army launched a major operation in Lower Dir and the nearby Swat Valley last year that succeeded in pushing the insurgents out, but isolated attacks have continued.
The Americans were travelling with Pakistani security officers in a five-car convoy that was hit by a roadside bomb close to the Koto Girls High School. The blast flattened much of the school, leaving books, bags and pens strewn in the rubble.
"What was the fault of these innocent students?" said Mohammed Dawood, a resident who helped police dig the injured from the debris.
The soldiers were in the region as part of a U.S. mission to train members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, Pakistan's army and the U.S. Embassy said.
They were driving Wednesday to attend the inauguration of a girl's school which had been renovated with U.S. humanitarian assistance, the embassy said in a statement. The school that was badly damaged in the blast was not the one where the convoy was heading, security officials said.
The blast was detonated by remote control, police said. It was not clear whether the attackers knew the convoy was carrying soldiers.
The attack highlights the presence of U.S. troops on Pakistani soil at a time when anti-American sentiment is running high. U.S. and Pakistani authorities rarely talk about the American training program in the northwest out of fear it could generate a backlash.
In a statement, the U.S. Embassy said three American military personnel were killed and two were wounded in the attack.
Two Pakistani reporters travelling in same convoy as the Americans said Pakistani military guides referred to the foreigners travelling with them as journalists. Initial reports of the attack, which proved incorrect, said four foreign journalists had been killed.
Mohammad Israr Khan, who works for Khyber TV, said two of the foreigners were wearing civilian clothes, not uniforms or traditional Pakistani dress.
"When our convoy reached near a school in Shahi Koto, I heard a blast," Express TV reporter Amjad Ali Shah said. "Our driver lost control and something hit me and I fell unconscious."
A small contingent of U.S. troops have been training Pakistan's Frontier Corps since at least 2008, officials from both countries have said. The corps is a major force in the northwest, but they have long been under-equipped and under-trained, making them a feeble front line against militants.
The training program was never officially announced, a sign of the sensitivity for the Pakistani government of allowing U.S. troops on its territory. Frontier Corps officials have said the course includes classroom and field sessions. U.S. officials have said the program is a "train-the-trainer" program, and that the Americans are not carrying out operations.
Despite the presence of tens of thousands of U.S. forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, Pakistan does not permit American troops to conduct military operations on its soil.
After the bombing, the bodies of three foreigners and two injured were flown by helicopter to Islamabad and then taken to the city's Al-Shifa hospital, said a doctor there who asked his name not be used citing the sensitivity of the case. One of the injured had minor head wounds and the other had multiple fractures.
Pakistani army and intelligence officers were present and did not allow visitors into the building.
Friday, January 1, 2010
MORE MUSLIMS KILLED BY PAKISTANI TALIBAN
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100101/n_top_news/cnews_us_pakistan
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in an SUV at a volleyball game in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 75 people in a village that opposes al Qaeda-linked Taliban insurgents, police said.
The bomber struck as young men played volleyball in front of a crowd of spectators, including elderly residents and children, near the town of Lakki Marwat, officials said.
The bloodshed will put President Asif Ali Zardari's efforts to fight the Taliban under greater scrutiny, pressure he does not need at a time when corruption cases against his allies could be revived.
"It's just a disaster. I can see flesh, bodies and wounded all around," Fazl-e-Akbar, a witness, told Reuters by telephone. "It's dark. Vehicles' headlights are being used to search for victims."
Local police chief Ayub Khan said the bomber blew himself up in his sport utility vehicle in the middle of the field. A second vehicle was believed to have fled the scene.
"We have removed all bodies and wounded from the rubble and now the total death toll is 75, while 42 wounded were wounded," he told Reuters by telephone.
It was one of the bloodiest bombings in U.S. ally Pakistan since the October 2007 attack that killed at least 139 people when former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, Zardari's wife, returned home from self-imposed exile.
An attack on a sporting event is highly unusual, but could be part of the militants' strategy of bombing crowded areas such as markets to inflict mass casualties and spread fear and chaos.
VILLAGE MILITIA
Police said the village had formed an armed anti-Taliban militia, a phenomenon that started in Pakistan last year.
Despite major military offensives against their strongholds, the Taliban have killed hundreds of people in bombings.
Britain's Foreign Office described the attack as horrific and said it underlined the urgent need to fight extremism.
"It is a threat that the international community must help Pakistan to tackle, in the interests both of Pakistan's people and of wider stability," it said in a statement.
In a sign of growing security fears, the United Nations will withdraw some of its staff from Pakistan because of safety concerns, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Thursday.
"We have got to be on the offensive and launch precise strikes on (militant) training centres and hideouts. They're losing the battle. Nobody in our society supports them," North West Frontier Province's information minister, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, told Reuters.
Violence has intensified since July 2007 when the army cleared militants from a radical mosque in Islamabad.
MILITARY CALLS SHOTS
Zardari's options are limited. Security policies are set by Pakistan's all-powerful military, which nurtured militants in the 1980s to fight Soviet occupation troops in Afghanistan.
Washington wants Pakistan to root out militants who cross into Afghanistan to attack U.S.- and NATO-led troops. But doing so would require strategic sacrifices. Pakistan sees them as leverage against arch-enemy India in Afghanistan.
Washington, frustrated by what it says are inadequate efforts to wipe out the militants, has stepped up pilotless U.S. drone aircraft attacks on Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan.
While the strikes killed high-profile figures, they have also generated anti-American anger, making it difficult for Zardari to accommodate his U.S. supporters. (MS: But no anti-Taliban sentiment when Muslims are killed by them?)
The latest attack came on a day of strikes in the southern city of Karachi, the country's biggest and its commercial capital, to denounce violence gripping the nuclear-armed nation.
The strikes were called by religious and political leaders after a suicide bomber killed 43 people at a religious procession on Monday. The Taliban claimed responsibility and threatened more violence.
"They are hired assassins. They are enemies of Pakistan. They are enemies of Islam," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters on a trip to Karachi to show support for residents.
Security forces carried out patrols. But residents were taking no chances.
"We are already losing business and can't take the risk of going out today and opening our shops," said Saleem Ahmed, who sells electronics at one of the city's markets.
(Additional reporting by Faisal Aziz in Karachi and Alamgir Bitani in Peshawar; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
*** Tell me about the Khilafa now, of Shariah O Noble Muslim warriors - how it was accomplished over piles of dead Muslims. MS ***
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in an SUV at a volleyball game in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 75 people in a village that opposes al Qaeda-linked Taliban insurgents, police said.
The bomber struck as young men played volleyball in front of a crowd of spectators, including elderly residents and children, near the town of Lakki Marwat, officials said.
The bloodshed will put President Asif Ali Zardari's efforts to fight the Taliban under greater scrutiny, pressure he does not need at a time when corruption cases against his allies could be revived.
"It's just a disaster. I can see flesh, bodies and wounded all around," Fazl-e-Akbar, a witness, told Reuters by telephone. "It's dark. Vehicles' headlights are being used to search for victims."
Local police chief Ayub Khan said the bomber blew himself up in his sport utility vehicle in the middle of the field. A second vehicle was believed to have fled the scene.
"We have removed all bodies and wounded from the rubble and now the total death toll is 75, while 42 wounded were wounded," he told Reuters by telephone.
It was one of the bloodiest bombings in U.S. ally Pakistan since the October 2007 attack that killed at least 139 people when former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, Zardari's wife, returned home from self-imposed exile.
An attack on a sporting event is highly unusual, but could be part of the militants' strategy of bombing crowded areas such as markets to inflict mass casualties and spread fear and chaos.
VILLAGE MILITIA
Police said the village had formed an armed anti-Taliban militia, a phenomenon that started in Pakistan last year.
Despite major military offensives against their strongholds, the Taliban have killed hundreds of people in bombings.
Britain's Foreign Office described the attack as horrific and said it underlined the urgent need to fight extremism.
"It is a threat that the international community must help Pakistan to tackle, in the interests both of Pakistan's people and of wider stability," it said in a statement.
In a sign of growing security fears, the United Nations will withdraw some of its staff from Pakistan because of safety concerns, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Thursday.
"We have got to be on the offensive and launch precise strikes on (militant) training centres and hideouts. They're losing the battle. Nobody in our society supports them," North West Frontier Province's information minister, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, told Reuters.
Violence has intensified since July 2007 when the army cleared militants from a radical mosque in Islamabad.
MILITARY CALLS SHOTS
Zardari's options are limited. Security policies are set by Pakistan's all-powerful military, which nurtured militants in the 1980s to fight Soviet occupation troops in Afghanistan.
Washington wants Pakistan to root out militants who cross into Afghanistan to attack U.S.- and NATO-led troops. But doing so would require strategic sacrifices. Pakistan sees them as leverage against arch-enemy India in Afghanistan.
Washington, frustrated by what it says are inadequate efforts to wipe out the militants, has stepped up pilotless U.S. drone aircraft attacks on Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan.
While the strikes killed high-profile figures, they have also generated anti-American anger, making it difficult for Zardari to accommodate his U.S. supporters. (MS: But no anti-Taliban sentiment when Muslims are killed by them?)
The latest attack came on a day of strikes in the southern city of Karachi, the country's biggest and its commercial capital, to denounce violence gripping the nuclear-armed nation.
The strikes were called by religious and political leaders after a suicide bomber killed 43 people at a religious procession on Monday. The Taliban claimed responsibility and threatened more violence.
"They are hired assassins. They are enemies of Pakistan. They are enemies of Islam," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters on a trip to Karachi to show support for residents.
Security forces carried out patrols. But residents were taking no chances.
"We are already losing business and can't take the risk of going out today and opening our shops," said Saleem Ahmed, who sells electronics at one of the city's markets.
(Additional reporting by Faisal Aziz in Karachi and Alamgir Bitani in Peshawar; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
*** Tell me about the Khilafa now, of Shariah O Noble Muslim warriors - how it was accomplished over piles of dead Muslims. MS ***
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