Taliban Send Message To Pakistanis...Don't Sell or Buy CD's...5 Killed In Motorcycle Borne Bombing

A policeman stands beside the wrekage of a bomb blast site in Peshawar. -AFP Photo

I guess all of you Pakistanis that were waiting for the newest Beyonce or JayZ cd are going to have to settle for an MP3 download as the marketplace for cd's took a real hit today in Peshawar as the Taliban planted a bomb on a motorcycle that went off outside of a market selling cd's - the explosion killed 5 people and wounded 28.

I guess this means that islamic jihad now in Pakistan isn't necessarily regimented to trying to rid the countryside of Crusaders or infidels, but rather is intended to control behavior - kind of like Sharia with gunpowder, huh?

Perhaps all of the jihadis in Great Britain or the streets of New York City would care to explain how this attack is linked to American "occupation" of islamic lands.

The story comes from DAWN.

Bomb kills five, wounds 28 in Peshawar


PESHAWAR: A bomb killed at least five people and wounded 28 others at a market selling CDs in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar on Monday, officials said.

“We have received five bodies and 28 wounded people from the blast site,” Doctor Rahim Jan, who works at Peshawar’s main government hospital, told AFP, adding that there was one woman among the dead.

Provincial government minister Bashir Bilour confirmed the death toll and told AFP at the hospital that police had informed him that the bomb was probably planted in a motorcycle.

Peshawar police chief Imtiaz Altaf told reporters at the scene of the blast that “the target was the CD market.”

Jalalud Din, a 35-year-old lawyer, who received head injuries from the blast, said he was buying sweets for his children.

“There was a huge blast as I was buying candies for my kids. I lost consciousness after my head struck a wall,” Din said.

Earlier Monday, a Taliban suicide car bomber flattened the house of a senior counter-terrorism police officer in Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi, killing eight people including six policemen.

Nearly 4,700 people have been killed across Pakistan in attacks blamed on Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked networks based in the country’s northwestern tribal belt since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007.