Friday, July 9, 2010

Paksitani Taliban Retaliate Against Government Military Operations By Suicide Bombing Disabled Civilians In Line For Wheelchairs, 50 Dead




There really isn't a better way of describing what the Taliban do than how one of the surviving victims of the latest Taliban suicide bombings in Mohmand province in Pakistan describes it (here from Breitbart):



"I found myself on a hospital bed after opening my eyes. I think those who planned or carried out this attack are not humans."

The Taliban sent two suicide bombers to a government office area today in Mohmand province and the result was devastating with 50 killed and over 100 injured. Just look at this from the article:



The bombers detonated their explosives near the Yakaghund village office of Rasool Khan, a deputy administrator of the Mohmand tribal region who escaped unharmed. At least one bomber was on a motorcycle.

Nearby, officials were distributing wheelchairs to disabled people and equipment to poor farmers, said Mohmand's chief administrator, Amjad Ali Khan. He said more than 50 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded.

One of the bombs appeared fairly small but the other was huge, and they went off within seconds of each other, Amjad Ali Khan told The Associated Press.
Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? The Taliban, reacting to constant military pressure from the Pakistani army decide that the best way to fight back is to kill off a bunch of disabled people waiting in line for wheelchairs and farmers receiving farm equipment. I mean, it's insanity and it help substantiate my claim that the Taliban simply are killers - they don't care if they kill a Pakistani soldier or a 22 year old woman and her three children. It makes no difference to these minions of Satan. They are following the call to shed blood upon the earth. And this is why, weekly, I call for their total extermination from this planet.




Suicide bombers kill more than 50 in Pakistan


KHAR, Pakistan (AP) - Two suicide bombers struck outside a government office Friday in a tribal region where Pakistan's army has fought the Taliban, killing more than 50 people and wounding more than 100, officials said.
The attack, one of the deadliest in Pakistan this year, indicated that militants remain a potent force in the country's tribal belt bordering Afghanistan despite army offensives.

The U.S. has praised Pakistan for taking on Islamist extremists that use the tribal region to plan attacks on Western troops across the border, but the militants have often retaliated on Pakistani soil.

The bombers detonated their explosives near the Yakaghund village office of Rasool Khan, a deputy administrator of the Mohmand tribal region who escaped unharmed. At least one bomber was on a motorcycle.

Nearby, officials were distributing wheelchairs to disabled people and equipment to poor farmers, said Mohmand's chief administrator, Amjad Ali Khan. He said more than 50 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded.

One of the bombs appeared fairly small but the other was huge, and they went off within seconds of each other, Amjad Ali Khan told The Associated Press.

Some 70 to 80 shops in the area were damaged or destroyed, Rasool Khan said. A prison building also was damaged, and some 28 prisoners—ordinary criminals, not militants—had apparently escaped, he said.

Video footage from the area showed dozens of men searching through piles of yellow brick and mud rubble in search of survivors.

"After the blast, I saw destruction. I saw bodies everywhere. I saw the injured crying for help," security official Esa Khan told The Associated Press in the main northwest city of Peshawar, where he helped escort some of the wounded to a hospital.

Abdul Wadood, 19, was sitting in a vehicle nearby when the attack happened.

"I only heard the deafening blast and lost consciousness," he said while being treated for head and arm wounds in Peshawar. "I found myself on a hospital bed after opening my eyes. I think those who planned or carried out this attack are not humans."

Mohmand is one of several areas in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt where Taliban and al-Qaida members are believed to be hiding. The Pakistani army has carried out operations in Mohmand, but it has been unable to root out the militants.

Information from Mohmand is difficult to verify independently because access to the area is heavily restricted.

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