Monday, September 6, 2010

Who is Killing Pakistan's Shi'ites?

It is now so obvious I'm embarrassed I didn't see it sooner.

"To Pakistan's Martyrs

Why has the US-backed Jundullah been attacking Shia mosques in Iran? To start a sectarian war.

The same thing is happening in Pakistan.

The rise in sectarian tensions from Lebanon to Pakistan after the Iraq invasion of 2003 is not all coincidental. It has taken a new more dangerous shape since America's Iraq war. It serves a purpose. It divides potential opponents of the US and provides strategic openings. Iraq has NEVER seen sectarian killings, never in its centuries-old cohabitation between Shias and Sunnis. Tensions didn't even rise after 1979 Shia Islamic revolution in Iran. The sectarian killing fields in Iraq were launched after the Americans landed there in 2003. This is an important fact: Shias and Sunnis never killed one another in Iraq before the US occupation.

At one point, even the puppet Iraqi regime caught British special ops agents dressed as sectarian killers.

All Pakistanis must be told this a hundred times: There is no sectarian clash in Pakistan but there are attempts being made to create one....

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And cui bono?

Also see
: Prop 201 tutorial

CIA Tries to Turn Iran Against Pakistan

Quetta Attack: The Responsibility Of Jundullah, Afghanistan And The Organizers

IS ISRAEL RUNNING THE TALIBAN?

I'm never surprised if they are behind it all anymore.

"US aims legal case at chief of the Pakistani Taliban; Accuses Mehsud of plotting attack on CIA base" by Spencer S. Hsu and William Branigin, Washington Post | September 2, 2010

WASHINGTON — Meanwhile, in Lahore, Pakistan, three bombs ripped through a Shi’ite Muslim religious procession yesterday, killing 25 people and wounding about 150 others, officials said.

The explosions appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks by Sunni extremists against the minority Shi’ites they consider infidels.

If that is true please do not tell us Iran is arming and working with them, 'kay?

Allied with Al Qaeda and the Taliban, the bombers are also seeking to destabilize Pakistan’s US-backed government.

Related: Taliban on a Tear in Pakistan

Or someone is.

The blasts were the first major attacks since Pakistan was hit by devastating floods more than a month ago. Lahore, an eastern city that is the country’s political capital and home to much of its military elite, has been regularly targeted by militants over the past two years.

The bombs exploded at three separate sites last evening as 35,000 Shi’ites marched in a traditional mourning procession for a sect holy man, the caliph Ali.

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Related:

"MOURNING IN PAKISTAN -- Hundreds gather yesterday in Lahore for the funeral of the Shi'ite Muslims killed Wednesday by suicide bombers in an attack that left 31 dead and more than 280 wounded. The explosions set off clashes between the police and protesters angered by the attacks, and mourners chanted antigovernment slogans yesterday (Boston Globe September 3 2010)."

I'm bothered that no article accompanied the grieving women of Pakistan.


"Suicide bomb kills 43 Shi’ites in Pakistan city; Taliban claim responsibility for the attack" by Abdul Sattar and Ishtiaq Mahsud, Associated Press | September 4, 2010

QUETTA, Pakistan — A suicide bombing claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed at least 43 Shi’ite Muslims at a procession in southwest Pakistan yesterday. The assault sharply drove up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country battered by massive flooding.

To the northwest in Pakistan’s restive tribal regions, two suspected US missile strikes killed at least seven people....

But we are there helping with flood relief.

Two other militant bombings left at least two people dead and several wounded on a day convulsed by the violence...

The first attack of the day was a roadside bombing in the northwestern city of Peshawar that killed one police officer and wounded three others, officials said.

Hours later, a suicide attack on a mosque belonging to the minority Ahmadi sect killed at least one person and wounded several others in the town of Mardan.

Soon after, a blast killed at least 43 people in the southwestern city of Quetta at a Shi’ite procession calling for solidarity with Palestinians, said Ghulam Shabir Sheikh, the Quetta police chief. He said 78 people were wounded, several critically.

Gee, WHO WOULD NOT LIKE THAT, huh?

Quetta police Officer Hamid Shakil told local television six or seven of the dead appeared to have fatal bullet wounds, and said they may have been killed by participants in the procession who opened fire wildly after the attack.

The commander of the Pakistani Taliban, Qari Hussain Mehsud, told the Associated Press one of his militants carried out the bombing.

“We proudly take its responsibility,’’ he said. “Our war is against America and Pakistan security forces, but Shi’ites are also our target because they, too, are our enemies.’’

You will have to pardon me if I no longer believe my lying, Muslim-hating, war-promoting, MSM, folks.

He said he was proud the United States added the Pakistani Taliban to its international terrorism blacklist on Wednesday, and he threatened attacks in the United States and Europe in coming days that would resemble a recent attempted car bombing in Times Square....

You GOT THAT, Americans?

FALSE FLAG on the WAY!

The ELITISTS RULING YOUR NATION DESPERATELY NEED ONE!

Maybe something like this to be blamed on them?

That would sure get WWIII going and take your mind of the economy!

Also see: U.S. Turns on Taliban Terrorist Asset

The Taliban-allied Haqqani network controls the northwestern tribal area of North Waziristan along the Afghan border but its fighters are hunted by US drone aircraft that regularly unleash deadly missile attacks....

Oh, the HAQQANI NETWORK, huh?

"Haqqani.... credited with introducing suicide bombing to the region.... cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the CIA and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work.... He may have had a role in expediting the escape of Osama Bin Laden.... In July 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistan officials with evidence of ties between Inter-Services Intelligence and Haqqani. Haqqani has been accused of involvement in the 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul...."

Are ALL the TERRORISTS working for US, America?

The attack in Quetta was the week’s second claimed by the Pakistani Taliban and targeting Shi’ites, who by some estimates make up about 20 percent of the population in the mostly Sunni Muslim country.

A triple suicide attack Wednesday night killed 35 people at a Shi’ite ceremony in the eastern city of Lahore.

Shi’ite leader Allama Abbas Kumaili said the attacks were a result of government failure and appealed to participants to remain peaceful despite anger that led to local unrest after the bombing.

Government officials have said they cannot protect outdoor gatherings from attacks, and Interior Minister Rehman Malik called for Shi’ites to hold religious ceremonies indoors.

Then it is a failed state.

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"Suicide bomber kills 14 in Pakistan" by Associated Press | September 6, 2010

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least 14 police officers and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes, authorities said.

About 40 people were wounded in the attack in Lakki Marwat, which sits on the main road and rail link between Punjab Province, Pakistan’s largest and most prosperous, and the North and South Waziristan tribal regions. A Pakistani Army offensive pushed many militants out of South Waziristan in October.

See: How Pakistan Defeated the Taliban

The militants still control much of North Waziristan, where US drone aircraft have been conducting a campaign of targeted killings.

Is there flood relief inside the missile casings?

Rescue workers and police officials were digging through rubble at the station in the town of Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, said Ghulam Mohammad Khan, a police official. Seven police officers, four children, and three adult civilians were slain, he said....

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