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| 'Pakistan's 9/11': media says it's the nation's own war |
| 2008-09-23 |
| (PTI) Labelling the suicide attack on the Marriott hotel as "Pakistan's 9/11," leading newspapers here said the nation must take up the fight against terror on its own, no mater the reservation about American actions in Afghanistan or elsewhere. The papers also said that the new civilian government must immediately craft a new policy to fight the growing threat from terrorists. "Pakistan is fighting its own war against terrorism and not America's," the country's leading newspaper Dawn said in an editorial today. Pakistan's oldest English daily pointed out that the target may have been "western" in Islamabad's carnage but the timing shortly after iftar ensured that that the majority of victims were Pakistanis. "In the days ahead, the bombing will take to a fever pitch the debate about whether Pakistan is fighting its own war against terrorism or America's. The debate will miss the point: it is an internal war, and it goes to the heart of what we want Pakistan to be," the paper said in the lead editorial Dawn titled "Defeating Terrorism". "... Yet virtually no one in the country is aware of who we are fighting and why. Worse yet, it's not clear who is responsible for the operation: the political government, the military or both?" it added. Another leading daily, the News said that the attack has created horror even in a nation that has become "resilient to shock" and "accustomed to terrorist violence". "It is being described as the worst suicide bombing yet to take place in the country - Pakistan's very own 9/11... The act has proven too that terrorism is an evil that Pakistan must fight. It is not a war that involves the US, or other powers." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 See WAFF.com > PAKISTAN BLAMES THE US FOR HOTEL BOMBING; + US FUNDING GOES FROM IRAQ TO AL QAEDA? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-09-23 21:29 |
| #8 Oh good, Mercutio. Traikling daughter #2 is only in her second year of Latin, and she translated it as girls having sex with babies. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-09-23 18:33 |
| #7 TW__ ancient latin IV schoolboy bi-lingual pun if you mispronounce latin in the way it usually is. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2008-09-23 18:10 |
| #6 What the hell makes this different from every other terror-bombing in Pakistan in the last six years or so? Or the Red Mosque, for that matter. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-09-23 16:36 |
| #5 That's an interesting nym, Nautae cum puella in concubitu sunt. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-09-23 15:53 |
| #4 interesting difference from our own media. Ours would be interviewing the bombers and pointing out how it was all our fault. Never thought I'd say this about Pakistan, but maybe we can swap? |
| Posted by: Nautae cum puella in concubitu sunt 2008-09-23 13:59 |
| #3 What they really mean is confine yer fightin to the mountains ya crazy hillbillies. |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-09-23 11:03 |
| #2 I'd also like to add if Pakistan had taken up this fight a decade ago the US wouldn't be involved at all you nitwits. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-09-23 10:18 |
| #1 Was the target western? I mean the only thing that saved a bunch of Pakistani politicians was a last minute change in schedule if I read the news reports right. That would seem to indicate to met that they might have been the targets and they got lucky. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-09-23 10:16 |