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| Pakistan Attacks Blamed on Fugitives |
| 2002-05-13 |
| Foreigners in Pakistan are falling victim to bombings and other savage attacks, and the country's Shiite Muslim minority is being terrorized by death squads. Pakistani officials and analysts blame the surge in violence on al-Qaida fugitives from Afghanistan and their radical Pakistani allies. The intention appears to be to sow chaos in hopes of undermining the government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf for supporting the U.S.-led war on terrorists. You A former Pakistani army general calls the al-Qaida and Pakistani militant coalition an "axis of hate." To coin a phrase... "It is their hate for America that bonds them," said retired Maj. Gen. Anwar Sher, who worked with militant Islamic groups that fought Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s. "This hate against America naturally is also directed at Musharraf. He has joined with America, and these religious groups don't like it." That's the Qazi party line, isn't it? Security officials said Friday they believe the perpetrators of Wednesday's bus bombing that killed 11 French engineers and three Pakistanis in Karachi might be linked to other violence, including execution-style killings of Shiites, who make up 15 percent of the population. While most of Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims live in harmony with Shiites, radical Sunnis revile Shiites as heretics. Y'see, they don't wear their turbans right. If the tail of your turban's not long enough, you're on your way to perdition, along with everyone around you, and your cattle and your dog... "They want their revenge. Their way to get the government to stop giving support to the United States is to terrorize from within," said Jamil Yusuf of the independent Citizens/Police Liaison Committee, a quasi-official watchdog group. And Revenge, as we all know, is an Islamic virtue... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |