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| Pakistan Bus Bomb Kills Two, Injures 18 |
| 2002-12-21 |
| A bomb ripped through a passenger bus in southern Pakistan on Saturday, killing two people and injuring 18 just hours after police announced they had quashed a terror plot by arresting four Islamic militants armed with grenades. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion aboard a local bus in Hyderabad, about 60 miles north of Karachi. It was the second bus bombing in as many months in Hyderabad, where attacks are largely fueled by ethnic and religious conflict. As opposed to Balochistan, where it's all in good fun? In Karachi, the capital of Sindh province and the site of frequent violence against foreigners, police announced earlier Saturday that four suspects arrested late Friday had been planning to carry out suicide attacks. Pakistan has already been hit by at least 12 such attacks or plots this year. The men told police they had been recruited by two members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network. All four suspects belonged to the outlawed Islamic group Jaish-e-Mohammed, and were looking to buy high-powered explosives. We went through a spate of attacks world-wide for awhile, and then things quieted down in the terror machine as the cops chased down the Bad Guys who'd stuck their beturbanned little heads up. But now that the head of Jaish is out of jug, he'll want to get back into the swing of things, so we can expect to see the level of violence in Pakland pick up as they practice their techniques for the next wave of attacks. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |