And the Taliban have now perfected their terrorist brothers' tactics of suicide bombings of police stations as a Taliban suicide car bomber, in true al Qaeda style, rammed his vehicle into a Pakistani police station in the Pakistani district of Hangu killing five policemen.
From the article at The Long War Journal:
A suicide bomber killed five Pakistani policemen in an attack on a police station in a region beset by Taliban attacks.
A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into a police station in the district of Hangu in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkwha. Five policemen were killed in the attack, and 25 more were wounded, Geo News reported. The death toll may rise, as more policemen are feared to be trapped in the rubble.
The Taliban previously targeted police in Hangu in a suicide attack on March 8, when a bomber detonated his car at a checkpoint, killing four policemen and five civilians. The Taliban also blew up a bus on Jan. 17, killing 17 people. In addition, the Taliban have carried out several other small-scale ambushes and IED attacks against security forces in the district.
The Taliban have stepped up terror attacks against civilian and military targets in the districts and tribal agencies near Peshawar, the provincial capital, since the beginning of January.
Al Qaeda in Iraq used this tactic of bombing police stations extensively in the Iraq War with the intention not to so much to kill policemen but to dissuade any possible new police recruits from joining. Al Qaeda's idea was that they could eventually pick off enough of the area's policemen if they simply cut off the flow of new police recruits. At the same time, they wanted the locals to see that their only safety would come at the hands of the islamic terrorists.
The problem in Pakistan has been a failure on the part of security forces and the military to be able to track down the Taliban plotters of these attacks - we saw in Iraq that often a week or two after a bombing of a police station, the al Qaeda plotters would be discovered and taken out.
(File photo above)
Suicide bomber kills 5 Pakistani policemen
A suicide bomber killed five Pakistani policemen in an attack on a police station in a region beset by Taliban attacks.
A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into a police station in the district of Hangu in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkwha. Five policemen were killed in the attack, and 25 more were wounded, Geo News reported. The death toll may rise, as more policemen are feared to be trapped in the rubble.
The Taliban previously targeted police in Hangu in a suicide attack on March 8, when a bomber detonated his car at a checkpoint, killing four policemen and five civilians. The Taliban also blew up a bus on Jan. 17, killing 17 people. In addition, the Taliban have carried out several other small-scale ambushes and IED attacks against security forces in the district.
The Taliban have stepped up terror attacks against civilian and military targets in the districts and tribal agencies near Peshawar, the provincial capital, since the beginning of January.
Commander Tariq Afridi is the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in Hangu, as well as in regions in Peshawar, Kohat, Arakzai, and Khyber. Afridi was named the terror group's commander of Khyber in November 2009. He is also the leader of the Commander Tariq Afridi Group. This Taliban outfit is considered the most powerful terror group in Arakzai, and is based in Darra Adam Khel. The Tariq Afridi Group conducts attacks on Pakistani security forces in Arakzai, Kohat, and Hangu. His fighters were responsible for closing down the Kohat Tunnel twice in 2008, as well as several attacks against the tunnel earlier this year.
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