Suicide Bomb Attacks Kill 59 At Pakistani Arms Factory

Holy Shit! Who in the sam hell is guarding Pakistan's nukes???!!!!! I mean for crying out loud...this is insane! Two suicide bombers attacked a heavily guarded arms factory in Pakistan killed 59 people but the question has to be ...how the hell did these jokers get this close?!!!

Here's some of the details of the article at Breitbart:

The twin bombings, which also wounded 70 people, hit one of Pakistan's most sensitive and heavily guarded military installations, underlining the threat posed by Islamic militants to the Muslim world's only nuclear-armed nation as well as its war-ravaged neighbor, Afghanistan.
Just hours before the blasts, which were claimed by the Pakistani Taliban as a response to army attacks on militants, a key party in the government coalition threatened to quit in a power struggle that has dismayed many Pakistanis and the country's Western backers.
Workers were streaming through two gates of the sprawling factory complex in Wah, 20 miles west of Islamabad, during a shift change about 2 p.m. when the bombers attacked outside the walls. The force of the explosions knocked many people to the ground and sprayed others with shrapnel.

I mean, this is just insane. The world is all concerned about when and if Iran is going to get nuclear weapons and here we have Pakistan who ALREADY HAS THEM and not one of us can feel a bit comfy that they are safe. Pakistani nukes in the hands of the Taliban or al Qaeda?!! G_d Save Us All.

The other part of this story that I think is a little suspect is the Taliban claim of responsibility. Now, that could be entirely true but this attack reeks of al Qaeda. It's no secret that the Taliban and al Qaeda are intermingling in NW Pakistan and it sure appears to me that at the very least, al Qaeda jihadists orchestrated this attack.

Pakistan shows the world each and every day what kind of a bloody mess it is - their political parties are warring in the new government, the most stable figure of leadership, Musharraf, just quit and the Taliban to the north are already controlling a good portion of that area. And the world is expected to sit back and not fear the Pakistani nukes falling into the wrong hands? I don't see any options to this than for the Western countries to get to the leadership of Pakistan and at least offer to protect those nukes. This is absolutely the scariest story to come out of the War on Terror in years.

Suicide bombers kill 59 at Pakistani arms factory

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Suicide bombers killed 59 people at a huge arms factory Thursday in one of Pakistan's deadliest terror attacks, adding to turmoil from political squabbling that is threatening to tear apart the ruling coalition now that Pervez Musharraf has quit as president.
The twin bombings, which also wounded 70 people, hit one of Pakistan's most sensitive and heavily guarded military installations, underlining the threat posed by Islamic militants to the Muslim world's only nuclear-armed nation as well as its war-ravaged neighbor, Afghanistan.
Just hours before the blasts, which were claimed by the Pakistani Taliban as a response to army attacks on militants, a key party in the government coalition threatened to quit in a power struggle that has dismayed many Pakistanis and the country's Western backers.
Workers were streaming through two gates of the sprawling factory complex in Wah, 20 miles west of Islamabad, during a shift change about 2 p.m. when the bombers attacked outside the walls. The force of the explosions knocked many people to the ground and sprayed others with shrapnel.
"I looked back and saw the limbs of my colleagues flying through the air," said Shahid Bhatti, 29, his clothes soaked in blood.
"It was like a doomsday," said Ghaffar Hussain, whose nephew was killed. "We are finished, we are ruined," he said, tears rolling down his face.
Emergency workers with plastic bags on their hands lifted mangled and blackened corpses onto stretchers, while forensic teams picked through scraps of flesh and scattered shoes outside the complex, which employs some 25,000 people making rifles, machine guns, ammunition, grenades and tank and artillery shells.
Tanvir Lodhi of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories said 59 people died. Seventy others were wounded, said Mohammed Azhar, a hospital official.
Nine days earlier, the Taliban declared "open war" on the military over an offensive against militants in the Bajur region. The declaration was issued after a bomb killed 14 people in an air force truck in Peshawar, the main city of the restive frontier along the Afghan border.
Maulvi Umar, a spokesman for Pakistani Taliban groups, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the arms factory attack was to avenge airstrikes on militants in Bajur tribal area, an extremist stronghold in the mountainous frontier region.
More bombings will be carried out in major cities, including the capital and the southern metropolis of Karachi, unless the offensives are halted, he said.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani appealed to lawmakers to urgently draw up a national strategy against terrorism "even if you have to sit together for a week."
"The threat that we are facing today has no precedent," he said before the bombings, addressing a ceremony for police officials who received counterterrorism training through the U.S. State Department. "Our enemy lurks silently within our society. This is our war."
President Bush called Gilani to express sympathy for those killed in recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan.
The two men "reaffirmed their mutual support for going after these extremists that are a threat to both Pakistan, the United States and the entire world," said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the White House's National Security Council.
Musharraf, who also received a call Thursday from Bush, resigned Monday to avoid the humiliation of impeachment after nearly nine years in power that began with a boodless coup.
While the former military commander was considered a vital member of Washington's war-on-terrorism coalition, the new civilian government drew U.S. criticism for giving priority to striking peace deals with militants when it came to power five months ago.
The peace effort was popular with many Pakistanis who are angry over the conflict's toll on civilians. But it has met only limited success, and the government is again pursuing military operations against militants in the rugged region along the Afghan border.
The attack in Wat was the country's deadliest since former prime minister Benazir Bhutto narrowly escaped a double suicide bombing in Karachi that killed about 150 people at a parade welcoming her back from exile in October. A gun and suicide-bomb attack killed her Dec. 27.