Perv, I keep telling you, you gotta thin the damned crop!
Would-be assassins launched a two-pronged suicide attack against a convoy carrying Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Thursday, the second attempt to kill him in the last 12 days. Musharraf escaped unharmed, the Pakistani Information Ministry said. The president was traveling from Islamabad, to his home in Rawalpindi, just outside the capital, when two vans tried to enter the convoy -- one at the front of the convoy, one at the rear. Both vans exploded, police said. At least seven people died in the attack and at least 17 were wounded. Musharraf’s car was damaged when the windshield was shattered, Pakistani officials said. In addition, two vehicles at the end of the president’s motorcade were badly damaged. Police said Musharraf safely escaped the attack and fled to his home.
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Followup, from al-Jizz...
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has narrowly survived a second assassination bid this month. Suicide car bombers attacked his motorcade on Thursday, killing at least 12 besides themselves. Officials said the two cars used in the attack were driven out of two petrol stations just 200 metres from a bridge on a main road in the city of Rawalpindi where Musharraf escaped a bombing on 14 December. The powerful blasts scattered debris and body parts over a wide area and damaged the windscreen of the president's armoured Mercedes, but he was unhurt, they said.
"Chaudry! Get those body parts off the windscreen, wouldja?"
"I think they're embedded, Mr. President Sahib!" |
"The President and all his companions are safe and sound," said Major-General Shaukat Sultan. An aide said Musharraf, who had been heading home, was "in good spirits".
| "Heh heh! The bitches missed me again! I'm alive and they ain't!" |
However, Musharraf who came on television immediately after the 14 December attempt had not yet appeared in public more than six hours after the second attempt.
| "Chaudry, hurry up, scrubbing that organic matter off me! I gotta go on the teevee and reassure the populace!" |
"It was an assassination attempt," said Information Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed.
| Oooh. Thanks for that information, Mr. Minister. We'd never have figured it... |
"Two suicide attackers in two cars tried to hit the president's vehicle. God has saved him. Three cars of the cavalcade, including the president's car, were damaged." Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Rauf Chaudary said at least 14 people had been killed, including at least two bombers, and 18 people were wounded. A soldier and three policeman were among the dead. Some police officers in the motorcade were hurt and a diversionary open-topped Mercedes at the tail end of the motorcade was blown across the road by the blasts.
| The Bad Guys only have to succeed once, though... |
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