About those latest Pakistani bombings
Was the attack aimed at preventing interrogation of terrorists? And was Bhutto's widow the target of the second bombing? It sure sounds like it.
The Tuesday’s suicide attack on the Federal Investigation Agency’s regional headquarters in Lahore appears to have been aimed at preventing the interrogation of some people involved in the recent terrorist activities. The interrogation by the agency was to take place at the time the terrorists struck.Sources said the government had intelligence reports that FIA buildings could be targeted but security at the buildings had not been beefed up.
I know it's kind of easy for your eyes to start glaze over when you hear there's been another bombing in this part of the world. There were two yesterday, killing 24 - 30 depending on the news account. So many ISLAMIC terror bombings they all morph together in the Moslem miasma.
It sounds like the ones yesterday were different.
Blasts push Pakistan toward new policy The article is from AP to so take that headline with a grain of salt but it still sounds like their new policy is one of how to"Dialogue" with their dear terrorist brothers.
The spread of terrorism across Pakistan Tuesday from its unruly tribal regions to the cultural capital of Lahore has added to pressure to rethink its U.S.-allied president's approach to countering al-Qaida and the Taliban as a new government prepares to take office.
After two deadly suicide bombings in this normally peaceful eastern city, pressure grew for more dialogue with militants and less punitive military action, which President Pervez Musharraf's opponents say has only fueled the violence.
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The second blast all but flattened the office of an advertising agency in the affluent Model Town neighborhood about 15 miles away. Police said two children and the wife of the house's gardener were killed.
Officials declined to speculate about whether the Lahore residence of Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, located less than 50 yard away, was the intended target. Zardari, who succeeded Bhutto at the helm of her party, was in the capital, Islamabad, at the time.
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