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Death toll rises to 35
THE corpse count from a Pakistani Taliban suicide kaboom on a Shiite Muslim procession rose to 65 on Saturday as critically wounded people breathed their last in hospitals, while a suspected US missile strike waxed seven hard boyz in a chronically unhinged tribal area.About 150 people were maimed and some remained at death's door after the kaboom on Friday in the south-western city of Quetta, police official Mohammed Sultan said. The attack was the second in a week against Shiites for which the Pakistani Taliban claimed credit. A triple suicide kaboom on Wednesday killed 35 people at a Shiite hoedown in the eastern city of Lahore. 'Our war is against American and Pak security forces, but Shiites are also our target because they, too, are our enemies,' Pak Taleban commander Qari Hussain Mehsud told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. He said he was proud -- proud, y'understand? -- the US had added the Pak Taliban to its international terrorism blacklist on Wednesday "We been tryin' to get out of the bush leagues for year, and now we finally made it!" and threatened attacks in coming days in the US and Europe. 'We will prove that we have ability to strike right in their countries,' Mehsud said. Shiite leaders blamed the government, and with good reason, for failing to protect them and called a general strike in Quetta, where all schools were closed for a day of mourning. Shiites make up an estimated 20 per cent of the population in the mostly Sunni Mohammedan country, although figures are imprecise and disputed. Posted by: Fred 2010-09-05 |
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