Suicide Blast Kills 15 In Pakistan
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Angry workers of the Pakistan People's party chant anti-government slogans after a suicide attack on July 17, 2007 in Islamabad. A suicide bomber killed 15 people at a rally for Pakistan's suspended chief justice Tuesday, police said, ratcheting up tension in a country already reeling from a burst of violence by Islamic extremists. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
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A person injured in a suicide attack is helped at the site of the explosion in Islamabad, Pakistan, on July 17, 2007. (AP Photo)
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Police cordon off the area of a suicide attack in Islamabad, Pakistan, on July 17, 2007. A suicide bomber killed 15 people at a rally for Pakistan's suspended chief justice Tuesday, police said, ratcheting up tension in a country already reeling from a burst of violence by Islamic extremists. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
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Pakistani security officials tell CBS News that the head of the suspected bomber had been found at the scene. CBS News' Farhan Bokhari reports local television was showing images of body parts strewn about the area where the rally was taking place.
The attack came before a verdict in a legal battle that has pitched judge Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and which could determine the U.S.-backed military ruler's political future.
Musharraf condemned the blast, which followed a string of suicide attacks on security forces and the storming of Islamabad's radical Red Mosque, as a "terrorist act."
However, Chaudhry's supporters accused authorities of being behind the latest mayhem in the capital.
Chaudhry was still in a car heading toward the district court in Islamabad to address lawyers who have led mass protests against his suspension when the attacker struck at about 8:30 p.m.
Kamal Shah, a top Interior Ministry official, said 15 people were killed and 44 others wounded. Opposition party activists, police officers and bystanders were believed to be among the victims.
Three security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record, said it was a suicide attack and that the severed head of the victim had been found.
The attacker blew himself up on a tree-lined street leading to the large tent erected next to the court just as hundreds of people converged on the area, which was also busy with evening shoppers.
Police ran yellow tape around the scene of the blast, where pools of blood, pieces of flesh and scattered shoes lay on the asphalt next to a blood-spattered car.
"I was not far away from the stage set up for the chief justice when I heard a big bang," said Tahir Abbas, a lawyer who had come to attend the rally.
The attacker struck next to stalls set up by Pakistan's two main opposition parties of exiled former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.
Chaudhry was still several kilometers (miles) away at the time and arrived shortly afterward at the scene, where police ushered his vehicle toward another entrance to the tent.
He spoke briefly with lawyers, who said he had offered prayers for the victims, but canceled his speech and left.
"This was an attack on the chief justice," said Munir Malik, one of Chaudhry's lawyers.
Asked who could be behind it, Malik accused Pakistan's intelligence agencies, and said the government wanted "to get rid of the chief justice."
However, Raja Pervez Ashraf, a leader of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, said the attacker had targeted her activists.
"Most among the dead and injured are our supporters," Ashraf said.
Television footage showed supporters of Bhutto wailing with grief and chanting slogans against the government.
Musharraf "condemned in the strongest terms the latest terrorist act which took place in Islamabad," the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
He ordered an immediate inquiry and appealed to the public "to remain calm, vigilant and assist the authorities in unearthing the culprits and bringing them to justice."
Shah said it was too early to "raise a finger at someone" in connection with the attack.
Some analysts and diplomats expect Bhutto to team up with Musharraf in a power-sharing government after elections due later this year. She was the only opposition leader to voice strong support for the crackdown on the Red Mosque.
Bombings and suicide attacks blamed on Islamist extremists had already killed more than 100 people since Musharraf's decision to attack militants holed up in the mosque and deploy troops in militant strongholds near the Afghan border.
Leaders of the Taliban and al Qaeda have called for revenge attacks, and the latest suicide blast killed three soldiers in the volatile North Waziristan region earlier Tuesday.
However, there had been no indication that they would target Chaudhry, whose refusal to resign in the face of charges of misconduct has catalyzed opposition to Musharraf's seven-year rule.
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See all 90 Commentsthe resumption of hostilities was only a matter of time since iraq broke the ceasefire agreement.....
blame saddam for iraq%u2026%u2026. Even clintoon and the dems wanted the resumption of hostilities back in 1998
US Vice-President Al Gore has told Iraqi opposition politicians that the United States remains committed to the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein. BBC 6/2000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854092/posts
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
Moreover, no international law can prevent the United States from taking actions to protect its vital interests, when it is manifestly clear that there is a choice to be made between law and survival. I believe, however, that such a choice is not presented in the case of Iraq. Indeed, should we decide to proceed, that action can be justified within the framework of international law rather than outside it. In fact, though a new UN resolution may be helpful in building international consensus, the existing resolutions from 1991 are sufficient from a legal standpoint. - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/gore/gore092302sp.html
Notice that we have 2 more "al CIA'da" hoax articles on the same day as the big Senate debate on the illegal war of aggression against Iraq.
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Dude,
Not all the Americans have their knowledge limited to BEER, BASE BALL and BOOBS.
Posted by patriotic9 at 05:39 PM : Jul 17, 2007
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And Dhimmitude For All
Another arena requiring testimony is dhimmitude in Western institutions. This is %u201Cepitomized,%u201D writes Mark Durie, %u201Cin the slavish attitude adopted by Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,%u201D in a 2002 statement to the Organization of the Islamic Conference Symposium on Human Rights in Islam in Geneva. Like a dhimmi, she affirmed the greatness and moral superiority of Islam, implying inferiority of non-Muslim infidels, and denied any possible voice of protest against Islamic abuses of human rights.
Not surprisingly, Islamism is growing at the UN, too. On August 5, 1990, explains David Littman, the 19 members of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers adopted the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI). This document very specifically subjugates all human rights to those accorded by Islam. [1] The CDHRI totally contradicts the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Yet the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in December 1997 published it, establishing its authority as a quotable UN source. For example, the 26-member Sub-Commission on Human Rights referred to it in the preamble of a resolution adopted on August 21, 1998. [2] That Islamic human rights is gaining ascendancy and credence at the UN should be of concern to all Human Rights activists and organizations.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17637
Dude,
Not all the Americans have their knowledge limited to BEER, BASE BALL and BOOBS.
Posted by winnerindia at 03:00 PM : Jul 17, 2007
You better CORRECT YOUR FACTS! MUSHARAF THREW NAWAZ SHARIF not NAAZ SHARIF.
Posted by patriotic9 at 03:04 PM : Jul 17, 2007
I intentionally wrote wrong spellings of Nawaz just to see that if you and others take it seriously and check it or not. heee he eheeee lol. Now I am happy.
Re: "Loss in this war is not a loss for Cheney and Bush."
This is an important point to keep in mind. They have largely "accomplished" their "mission".
Posted by lars008 at 04:57 PM : Jul 17, 2007
From your post, it seems like dhimmis in islamic shari'a law are treated the same way like Homosexual Citizens are mistreated and discriminated by the hands of those PSYCHOTIC CHRISTIAN TALIBANS who denounce Homosexuality as a sin and either Sodomize young little boys in the churches or rent prostitutes.
Posted by j-whitman at 03:45 PM : Jul 17, 2007
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Do you think Bush or Cheney really care. They made all the money they wanted to. Halliburton head office and CEO have laready transferred out of USA and Bush can not run for electeion for the third time any way.
Loss in this war is not a loss for Cheney and Bush.
DHIMMI: A BRIEF OVERVIEW
Conditional protection. The protection of the Dhimmi is withdrawn if the Dhimmi rebels against Islamic law, gives allegiance to non-Muslim power (such as Israel), refuses to pay the poll-tax, entices a Muslim from his faith, or harms a Muslim or his property. If the protection is lifted, jihad resumes. For example, Islamists in Egypt who pillage and kill the Copts do so because they no longer pay their poll-tax and therefore are no longer protected.
http://www.dhimmi.com/dhimmi_overview.htm
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http://www.dhimmi.com/victimsgallery.htm
SIGN THE PETITIONS!!!
help end fascist nazi terrorislam apartheid
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DHIMMI: A BRIEF OVERVIEW
DEFINITION: The status of People of the Book (Jews and Christians) under Islamic rule.
7th-21st century. The notion of Dhimmitude, originating in the 7th century, still applies today to non-Muslims under Islamic rule%u2014whether Jews or Christians, whether in Saudi Arabia or in Sudan. Dhimmitude began in 628 CE when Mohammed and his forces conquered the Jewish oasis at Khaybar. They massacred many of the Jews and forced the rest to accept a pact ("Dhimma") which rendered them inferior to their Muslim conquerors. Over the centuries, the ideology of Dhimmitude expanded into a formal system of religious apartheid.
Institutionalized apartheid. In Shari%u2019a law, there are official discriminations against the Dhimmi, such as the poll-tax or jizya.
No legal rights. Jews may not testify in court against a Muslim and have no legal right to dispute or challenge anything done to them by Muslims. There is no such thing as a Muslim raping a Jewish woman; there is no such thing as a Muslim murdering a Jew (at most, it can be manslaughter). In contrast, a Jew who strikes a Muslim is killed.
Humiliation and vulnerability. Jews and Christians had to walk around with badges or veils identifying them as Jews or Christians. The yellow star that Jews had wear in Nazi Germany did not originate in Europe. It was borrowed from the Muslim world where it was part of the apartheid system of Dhimmitude.
These are IRAQI citizens people and whether you want to label them "yankess" or "rebs" neither of them are Americans and it is their destiny to decide the fate of their country!
You read the reports about IRANIANS traing Shia Militia and in IRAN and the other 100 Muslim Nations you read about the US Training Shia Security Forces - PLEASE TELL ME THE DIFFERENCE!!!
This is the type of deceit that Bush has been shielding from America for over four years in order to keep US Support behind Keeping our Soldiers in HARMS WAY - with Cheerleaders like Cheney saying on CNN - that we are making enormous progress in IRAQ - STATE of DENIAL!
How Tragically SAD!
1.. God who isn't in our Constitution at all
2.. Lord --- Who is only mentioned in the date
3.. Impeachment --- Which is mentioned 6 times
What kind of terrorists does the illegitimate Bush regime support?
1) Israeli spies like "Scooter" Libby and Larry Franklin, who compromise U.S. security for the benefit of Israeli extremists and their supporters
2) Plane bombers like Luis Posada Carriles, who facilitate the mass-murder of 73 civilians
3) Brutal military dictators and Taliban supporters with actual nuclear weapons, rather than imaginary ones, such as Pervez Musharraf
4) Imaginary "terrorists", like "al-Qaeda-in-Iraq", that help to provide justification for the illegal, mass-murderous slaughter and destruction of Iraq, where no justification exists
5) The warlords and druglords of Afghanistan who were handed power by the Bush Cabal
These are the kinds of terrorists that the Bush global terrorist network prefers to do business with!
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