 KARACHI: Investigations into the suicide bombing outside the US Consulate on Thursday have revealed that the car used by the suicide bomber was stolen from Lahore in May 2005, Geo Television reported on Friday.
| Hmmm... That was almost a year ago... |
The owner of the car is an Islamabad-based businessman and unidentified men stole the car from him when he was out to dine with his wife, the channel reported. The owner of the car was also shot.
| ... so likely it was an actual car thievery, rather than a setup... |
The men later changed the carÂ’s registration number to that of the Osta Muhammad nazimÂ’s vehicle, the channel said.
| ... bringing to question what ties the Osta Muhammad nazim might have with the bad guyz, but since a nazim's a big cheese we may never know... |
Four people including US diplomat David Foy died in a car suicide bombing outside the US Consulate on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has joined Pakistani police to hunt the planners of the suicide attack Reuters reported.
| "Agent Starchedshirt, reporting for duty, sir!" |
“It’s a joint investigation ... and I think quite a bit of progress has been made,” Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao told Reuters in Islamabad. Investigators were examining security camera footage that showed the bomber arriving at the scene of the blast, parking and leaving for 20 minutes before coming back and ramming the US mission’s vehicle, he said. A bearded man of medium height in his 20s, wearing a shalwar-kameez tunic, rammed a white Toyota Corolla packed with explosives into the vehicle metres from the consulate’s entrance, setting off a blast that also wounded 52 people.
| A beardo in his 20s, wearing a salwar-kameez only describes about a quarter of the population of Pakland... |
Investigators said the group behind Thursday’s attack had a “global agenda”. “ ... we do know ... that the plan was executed meticulously,” a senior police investigator told AFP. “The way it has been done shows it has a global agenda. The planners knew they are doing it at a time when President Bush is in the region.”
| Of course they did it because Bush was in the region. I'm not sure if the "global agenda" can be drawn from the execution of the boom, though. It's just as likely it was some cheap thug from Lashkar e-Jhangvi, dispatched by the local Qaeda-affiliated holy man. |
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