ars longa, vita brevis...
the APP news agency said three persons, including a woman, were killed and three others injured in three kabooms in
Kurram Agency...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
on Tuesday. In a separate incident, a roadside kaboom destroyed two military vehicles and maimed at least 24 Pak soldiers in the North Wazoo tribal district bordering Afghanistan, officials said. The bomb went
kaboom!when the convoy was passing through Gosh village, 20 kilometres west of the town of Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
. "At least 24 soldiers were maimed in an IED (improvised bomb) attack on a military convoy," a security official told AFP. Local intelligence officials confirmed the attack and casualties. Nobody immediately grabbed credit.