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Karachi consulate attack kills three
Three people have been killed in an attack at the Macedonian consulate in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi, police said. The dead - all Pakistani - had been tied up, gagged and killed before an explosion at the office, and doctors said the throats of two of the victims had been slit. One of the men killed was a security guard, but there were no indications as to the identities of the other man and woman. Sounds pretty Islamic, doesn't it? Guess they've run out of Merkins, Brits and Frenchies to attack, so now they're down to attacking Macedonian interests because they're mean to, ummm... Albanians, I guess. It is not clear who is behind the incident, but a local police chief told the French news agency AFP it "appeared to be an act of terrorism". Hmmm... Bomb, check... Throats slit, check... Definitely not philanthropy, so I guess it's terrorism. The blast occurred at about 0100 on Thursday morning in the office of the honorary consul general of Macedonia in an upmarket residential area in Karachi. The consulate building was severely damaged in the explosion. The honorary consul for Macedonia, primarily a commercial post, is the brother of Pakistan's former caretaker prime minister, Moeen Qureshi. The consul, Bilal Qureshi, is quoted by AFP as saying: "I have no enmity with anybody. I don't think that it has anything to do with me personally." A Pak who has no enmity with anybody. I sure believe that one. I wonder what the Birthday Boarhog is gonna bring me this year? Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-12-05 |
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