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| Islamic heroes shoot up Christian school near Islamabad... |
| 2002-08-05 |
| Five unidentified gunmen stormed the gates of a Christian school in a popular mountain resort Monday, killing at least six people and wounding two others before escaping. The attack occurred at the Murree Christian School in Murree Hills, about 35 miles north of Islamabad in the Himalayan foothills. The school was founded in 1956 to train the children of missionaries here and in neighboring countries. A statement by the school said there had been "several deaths and injuries" but all students and expatriate staff were safe. One female missionary suffered an injury to her hand, the school said. Sounds like the security guards/coppers are the ones who took it tough. Attacks on Christians — and anyone else who's not a Wahhabi or a Deobandi are getting pretty common in Pakland. That's a combination of xenophobia, political and religious fanaticism, and planning on the part of... who? My guess would be Qazi and/or Fazl, working hand in glove with the (more) extreme regligious lunatic parties. Police official Mohammed Maqbool said officers exchanged fire with the attackers for about 20 minutes before the gunmen fled. Witnesses said they later saw bodies being taken from the scene. Federal officials in Islamabad said they did not know the identities or the motive of the attackers. The dead were identified as two security guards, two school employees, one unknown person and a retired teacher who was at the school to collect his pension. The attack kinda screams either Sipah-i-Sahaba or Lashkar-i-Jhangvi — not that there's a difference... It was the third fatal attack against Christian institutions in this predominantly Muslim country since President Pervez Musharraf joined the U.S.-led war against terrorism last year. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |