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Blast Kills More Than 90 in NW Pakistan Shortly After Clinton Arrival
« on: October 28, 2009, 09:50:10 AM »
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Blast Kills More Than 90 in NW Pakistan Shortly After Clinton Arrival 
By Sean Maroney
Islamabad
28 October 2009

A car bomb has killed more than 90 people and wounded more than 200 others in a shopping area of the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar.  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan just hours earlier for a three-day visit.

The blast in Peshawar was the deadliest single attack this year in Pakistan.

Witnesses say the explosion hit a crowded market late in the day, Wednesday, killing mostly women and children.  A large fire then broke out, engulfing several shops and spewing a cloud of gray smoke over the area.

Several buildings collapsed.  Rescue workers frantically searched for survivors in the debris.

The attack occurred as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with top Pakistani leaders in the capital, Islamabad.

She strongly condemned the attack.

"These attacks on innocent people are cowardly," said Clinton.  "They are not courageous.  If the people behind these attacks were so sure of their beliefs, let them join the political process."

Speaking alongside the Secretary, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had a defiant message for the militants.

"We defeated you in Swat and Malakand," he said.  "And the brave soldiers and officers of the Pakistani army will defeat you in Waziristan."

Nearly two weeks ago, Pakistan's military launched an offensive in the South Waziristan tribal region against Pakistani Taliban militants based there.  Since then, a number of high-profile militant attacks have shocked the nation, including an attack with two suicide bombers on an Islamic university in the capital.

Army officials say the offensive against the militants in Waziristan has been successful with troops gaining control of key areas and killing more than 200 militants.  About two-dozen soldiers have been reported to have died.

There is no independent confirmation of the tolls, and the region has been closed to outsiders.

Secretary Clinton is expected to spend the next several days in Pakistan, meeting with senior officials and community leaders in Islamabad and the country's cultural center, Lahore.

She has pledged U.S. support in a number of areas, including helping Pakistan repair and upgrade key electricity generating stations as the country faces severe power shortages. 


http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-10-28-voa8.cfm
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Re: Blast Kills More Than 90 in NW Pakistan Shortly After Clinton Arrival
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2009, 10:16:44 AM »
It's the traditional Muslim way of greeting foreign dignitaries.
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Re: Blast Kills More Than 90 in NW Pakistan Shortly After Clinton Arrival
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2009, 10:25:52 AM »
They have been saying on FNC that most of the victims were women and children.
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Re: Blast Kills More Than 90 in NW Pakistan Shortly After Clinton Arrival
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2009, 10:50:24 AM »
How very sad to think of the innocent lives being taken in such a manner
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Re: Blast Kills More Than 90 in NW Pakistan Shortly After Clinton Arrival
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2009, 03:19:45 PM »
We're on notice, the islamofascists have lost all fear of the USA, thank you SO MUCH Mr. Obama!
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Re: Blast Kills More Than 90 in NW Pakistan Shortly After Clinton Arrival
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2009, 03:40:45 PM »
Quote from: Peter3_1 on October 28, 2009, 03:19:45 PM
We're on notice, the islamofascists have lost all fear of the USA, thank you SO MUCH Mr. Obama!
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He followed an unpopular president. He received a strong election mandate. He changed the tone in Washington.
He said that Human Rights mattered. That America's image in the world had to be remade.
He would receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
As the end of his presidency's first year drew near, the future looked bright. He had brought change -- change that mattered.
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Scary reading.
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Re: Blast Kills More Than 90 in NW Pakistan Shortly After Clinton Arrival
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2009, 09:17:15 PM »
And today an "Imam" chose to shoot it out with the FBI rather than get arrested for terrorism. He was killed, after killing a FBI K-9 dog.


An act of terrorism on our soil, not much, but so it beginds.
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Re: Blast Kills More Than 90 in NW Pakistan Shortly After Clinton Arrival
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2009, 09:24:16 PM »
Quote from: Peter3_1 on October 28, 2009, 09:17:15 PM
And today an "Imam" chose to shoot it out with the FBI rather than get arrested for terrorism. He was killed, after killing a FBI K-9 dog.


An act of terrorism on our soil, not much, but so it beginds.

It began long before today.
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Re: Blast Kills More Than 90 in NW Pakistan Shortly After Clinton Arrival
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2009, 09:28:53 PM »
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He changed the tone in Washington.

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Re: Blast Kills More Than 90 in NW Pakistan Shortly After Clinton Arrival
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2009, 12:28:09 PM »
Overt islamofascist actions in  the streets of the usa in reaction to a CinC SEEN AS A PANTYWAIST by them. Followed up with an attack on a Jewish Temple today. OVERT ACTS IN OUR STREETS  that are unprescented since Bush reacted to Sept 11 2001 terrorism,


THIS is what I intended to impart, with the full knowledge that we have been in conflict with islamofascism since the Babary Pirate Wars.
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