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| Most Of Victims Shot In The Head | |
| 2014-12-17 | |
| [Dawn] PESHAWAR: Most of the victim students of the Army Public School received bullets in the head and they were targeted from a point blank range by the attackers, according to the students and a minister. The students said that the attackers scaled the boundary wall from the adjacent graveyard and started firing while moving towards the classrooms and auditorium. They said that a large number of students had gathered in the auditorium to get first aid training. ?Most of the students have received bullets in the head,? said provincial information minister Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani while talking to mediapersons at the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH). He said that most of the bodies were received in the Combined Military Hospital and around 30 at the Lady Reading Hospital. Of the injured students, 25 were at death's door, the minister said. The parents, who usually wait outside the school to pick their children at the closing time, were seen crying . They were frantically searching for their children in the LRH and CMH as they wanted to know about safety or condition of their kids after the attack. Besides the parents and relatives, the people visiting both the hospitals were also seen mourning on seeing the bodies and injured students in their blood-stained school uniform. ?I saw 17 bodies at the CMH and all of them had received bullets in the head,? said a journalist who was covering the event. He said that some of the bodies were mutilated. Mohammad Zeeshan, a student of grade-7, told Dawn that he and many other students were getting first aid training in the school hall when they heard the gunfire. ?Our trainer told us to lie down on the floor,? he said, adding that in the meantime the gunnies entered the hall. Mr Zeeshan said that the gunnies started shooting the students in their heads at a close range. ?They killed our class-fellows and then left us in the main hall. I received a bullet in my foot,? he said. Another injured student said that gunnies were firing on the students in classrooms. ?They also killed one of our teachers,? he said. Chief Minister Pervez Khattak told mediapersons at the LRH that the ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... . The chief minister announced Rs500,000 for the killed students and Rs200, 000 for the injured. Jamaat-e-Islami ... The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... chief Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... said on the occasion that it was the responsibility of the federal and provincial governments to provide security to the people. A government, which can?t provide security to its children has no right to rule, he said.
founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... ?s provincial president Ameer Haider Hoti said that children of the nation were killed brutally. He called for united stand by the political parties against militancy. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #13 Founded by a psychopath, this is NOT a religion. It is a nasty political movement. All 3 billion of thee are Godless blasphemers. |
| Posted by: newc 2014-12-17 13:22 |
| #12 Bismarck, I think. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2014-12-17 11:59 |
| #11 @Raj: Cold, cold. Try a few decades earlier. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-12-17 11:21 |
| #10 ...a German politician (guess which one) told: "Right is what benefits the German nation, wrong is what harms it". Helmut Kohl? |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-12-17 10:43 |
| #9 If only the Israelis would stop oppressing paleos, this would stop happening yesterday. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-12-17 09:57 |
| #8 Remember: Hillary says we should empathize with the Taliban (as one of our enemies) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-12-17 08:54 |
| #7 Mystic. There are some haddiths (sayings attributed to Muhammad) telling children must not be killed but Coran itself is silent about that subject. Muhammmad's biography shows him sparing children but taking them as slaves and the scene where Muslims disrobe male children in order to check if they have grown pubic hair (those that have are killed) points to some unpleasant things happening after. Anyway basic precept in Muslim sacred texts is that everything banned can be declmared lawful if it benefits Islam or Muhammad. There are dozens of examples of something desired by Muhammad or futhering the cause of Islam (violating truces, marrying six year old girls, murdering a pregnant woman or a brother) that were supposed to be forbidden and suddenly Allah sends dream (no witnesses) to Muhammad allowing it. More than a thousand years later a German politician (guess which one) told: "Right is what benefits the German nation, wrong is what harms it". About the same general idea. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-12-17 08:25 |
| #6 Those taliban village wells make a mighty easy target for the "total war" escalation the taliban just requested. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-12-17 07:51 |
| #5 The army attacked the hard boys so the hard boys attacked the "logistics" train for the army, kill the "recruits" early. Easier to drown the kittens than hunt down the cats. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-12-17 07:37 |
| #4 Mystic -- the unholy Koran defines "innocent" as "anyone 100% in agreement with all the bloodthirsty Muslims". Any deviation -- having the wrong parents, in this case -- is grounds for slaughter. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2014-12-17 06:51 |
| #3 What |
| Posted by: badanov 2014-12-17 06:49 |
| #2 Remember Marlon Brando's story to Martin Sheen about inoculating Vietnamese children? Same base premise but in the real world. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-12-17 04:20 |
| #1 Even considering how senseless most of the fanatical Islamic violence is, this is the most puzzling. Why on earth attack a school and kill all of the kids, in direct conflict with the Quran (the document the Taliban are so proud to be so pious in observing) regarding the killing of innocents. Any pronouncements from the psychopaths as to the breathtakingly irrational motive for this? |
| Posted by: Mystic 2014-12-17 00:28 |