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India-Pakistan
Pakland - 11 Police officers dead
2003-06-08
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Quetta - two gunmen on motorcycles attack a vehicle carrying police trainees, killing 11.

Here's the story from Arab Times (Kuwait) ...
QUETTA: Eleven police trainees from Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslim community were Sunday shot dead and another nine were injured in a sectarian attack in the southwest city of Quetta, police said.
Wearing the wrong design turban. That's grounds for death in Quetta...
"Two men came riding on a motorbike and opened fire with a Kalashnikov at the vehicle carrying the police recruits to their school at 4.00 pm," Raja Ishtiaq, the officer in charge of a local police station, told AFP. "Ten others were injured in the shoot-out while five remained unhurt," Ishtiaq said. One of the injured later died at hospital, he said. "It is a sectarian attack because all the police cadets were from the Shiite sect," the Deputy Inspector General of Balochistan police, Humayun Jogezai, told AFP.
Tell me again how Islam is so much more tolerant of other religions than we are. I keep forgetting...
"We were returning to Police Training School from our homes after spending the weekend and suddenly two men came on a motorbike and open fire on our vehicle," M. Ali, one of the survivors told AFP from hospital. "Yes it is a sectarian attack because we all are Shiite and ethnic Hazaras," Ali said. Jogezai said police had launched a search for the killers and had sent teams to different areas. "Police have erected barricades at various points in the city and are checking motorcyclists and other vehicles," Jogezai said. The shooting is the second sectarian attack in the region this week. On Friday two armed men riding on a motorbike sprayed bullets at Shiite activist Syed Niaz Hussain Shah, 50, when he was returning home from his office in the city.
Posted by:Frank G

#3  haha Mark, I love it.

In the tradition of Swift, I say we should introduce A Modest Proposal for the Implementation of Sharia Law in Western Countries for the Betterment of the Poor and the Imposition of Order.
Posted by: Anon1   2003-06-09 01:32:06  

#2  "Small groups of extremist Shiites and Sunnis frequently attack each other"

We have simply GOT to get this system going over here. I can't believe we are clinging to the outmoded rule of law, when there is clearly a Better Way.

Please keep killing for Allah, the Almighty, who can't seem to kill enough on His own.
Posted by: Mark IV   2003-06-08 15:01:06  

#1  here it is on AP:
Gunmen Kill at Least 11 Pakistani Cops
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Two gunmen on motorcycles sprayed a group of policemen with machine-gun fire in this Pakistani town near the Afghan border on Sunday, killing at least 11 officers and wounding 9, police said.
The shooting occurred on Saryab road, Quetta's main thoroughfare, said Rehmatullah Khan Niazi, police senior superintendent in the town in Pakistan's southwest.
The policemen were riding in a pickup truck on their way to a training school when the gunmen opened fire.
Police would not speculate on the motives for the attack. However, many of the victims were members of the Hazara ethnic group, who are mainly Shiite Muslims.
Pakistan's population is 80 percent Sunni Muslim, the majority sect in Islam. Small groups of extremist Shiites and Sunnis frequently attack each other.
Posted by: Frank G   2003-06-08 10:50:56  

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