'Unknown Gunmen' Fire On Pakistani School Bus Wounding Two Children, Kidnapping Six

"Unknown gunmen"....yeah right. THE TALIBAN conducted a cowardly terror attack on a school bus bringing children to school in the NW Pakistani town of Hangu yesterday - the bus driver was killed, two of the children were wounded and apparently six of the children were taken captive. Here's some of the details from Dawn:

The bus was ambushed outside the town of Hangu in the country's troubled North West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan and is plagued by sectarian violence as well as Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants.
'Unknown gunmen fired at the school van carrying Shia students. The driver was killed, two children were injured, while six appear to have been kidnapped by the attackers,' local police station chief Saeed Khan told AFP.
'Police are searching for the attackers in the nearby mountains,' he added, saying he had no further details about the missing students.
Hangu, which has been a flashpoint for sectarian violence in the past, is located about 175 kilometres west of Islamabad.

This police chief is too chicken shit to call a spade a spade but this is typical Taliban - ambush a vehicle and then kidnap the weakest of the group- whether it be women or children. These are the Taliban that have created a manual on using children as human shields in all of their operations. So now, we have the Taliban holding six children hostage - the same Taliban that the government of Pakistan saw fit to sign peace agreements with in another area of NW Pakistan.

Dealing with the Taliban - well, it's like a skin cancer. When you find it, you don't put a bandage on it and hope for the best...no, you need to cut it out and you need to go deep to get every single cell of it. If you miss even one cell, you stand the risk of its return, of its spreading and its killing you.

Hangu school bus ambushed, children kidnapped

PESHAWAR: Gunmen on Friday ambushed a minibus carrying children to school in northwest Pakistan, killing the driver, wounding two children and apparently kidnapping six others, police said.
The bus was ambushed outside the town of Hangu in the country's troubled North West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan and is plagued by sectarian violence as well as Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants.
'Unknown gunmen fired at the school van carrying Shia students. The driver was killed, two children were injured, while six appear to have been kidnapped by the attackers,' local police station chief Saeed Khan told AFP.
'Police are searching for the attackers in the nearby mountains,' he added, saying he had no further details about the missing students.
Hangu, which has been a flashpoint for sectarian violence in the past, is located about 175 kilometres west of Islamabad.
Shia and Sunni Muslim groups signed a peace accord in Hangu last month after days of sectarian clashes in which at least nine people were killed.
Shias account for about 20 per cent of Pakistan's 160-million-strong, Sunni-majority population.
The groups usually coexist peacefully but outbreaks of sectarian violence have claimed more than 4,000 lives across Pakistan since the late 1980s.