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BREAKING: Massive bomb explosion completely destroys 5-star hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan
06/09/2009

Posted on 06/09/2009 10:03:43 AM PDT by mfnorman

Breaking news across BNO News. Local media reports complete destruction of 5-star hotel, surrounding buildings damaged, many cars on fire. No availible link to story at this time


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbomb; globaljihad; islam; jihad; mcveigh; okc; pakistan; tm; wot
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1 posted on 06/09/2009 10:03:43 AM PDT by mfnorman
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To: mfnorman

Let me guess- Icelandic Bombers??


2 posted on 06/09/2009 10:04:33 AM PDT by Knute
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To: mfnorman

Hmmmm ~ AlQaida headquarters perhaps?


3 posted on 06/09/2009 10:04:36 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: mfnorman

Jooz? Hindus? Amish?


4 posted on 06/09/2009 10:04:55 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: mfnorman
Chasidic Jews!

ML/NJ

5 posted on 06/09/2009 10:05:09 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: mfnorman

Another beautiful day in Islamostan.


6 posted on 06/09/2009 10:05:13 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: mfnorman

Like I have been saying, this is forever. We should end all aid to this Islamic “ally”.


7 posted on 06/09/2009 10:05:31 AM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: mfnorman

I bet it’s those darn Amish again...


8 posted on 06/09/2009 10:05:44 AM PDT by Mr. K (physically unabel to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: mfnorman

Indian payback?


9 posted on 06/09/2009 10:05:45 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: mfnorman

Obama drafting a strongly worded letter as we speak.


10 posted on 06/09/2009 10:05:49 AM PDT by rintense (Senior Marketing / IT / UX architect unemployed and looking for work. Freepmail me if you have leads)
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To: mfnorman

Must have been those damn Quakers, again. After all, the President just told us how peaceful Islam is and how much it has contributed to society. Muslims would never do something like this.

Maybe he should give another speech and we can go for 2 hotels blown up.


11 posted on 06/09/2009 10:05:50 AM PDT by jeltz25
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To: mfnorman

If this keeps up, Obama will once again prohibit anyone from using his middle name.


12 posted on 06/09/2009 10:06:05 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Knute

Icelandic? Nooo; Pygmy tribe.


13 posted on 06/09/2009 10:06:27 AM PDT by wastedyears (Rock and roll ain't worth the name if it don't make ya strut)
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Pakistan, next state-collapse.


14 posted on 06/09/2009 10:06:39 AM PDT by ConfusedSwede
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To: Knute

Radical Presbyterians?


15 posted on 06/09/2009 10:06:45 AM PDT by slumber1
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To: mfnorman

There are a number of Pak-based terrorist organization that could have pulled this off. However, what were the terrorists after? To blow up a hotel is one thing, to blow up a hotel in Peshawar another, and blowing up a hotel with a major target inside (Western?) still another.


16 posted on 06/09/2009 10:06:49 AM PDT by Melchior
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To: mfnorman

Darn amish. Prayers for those in the building.


17 posted on 06/09/2009 10:06:56 AM PDT by NinoFan
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To: Mr. K

I bet it’s those darn Amish again...


that was my first thought too ;-)


18 posted on 06/09/2009 10:07:25 AM PDT by Jonny foreigner
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To: mfnorman

It’s those bloody Basque separatists again!


19 posted on 06/09/2009 10:07:29 AM PDT by Sloth (The Second Amendment is the ultimate "term limit.")
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To: wastedyears

Icelandic / Islamic... I’m so confused!
Seriously, praying the human toll is minimal.


20 posted on 06/09/2009 10:07:38 AM PDT by Knute
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To: Knute

Yes, definitely. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed.


21 posted on 06/09/2009 10:07:43 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: Mr. K

Nope, It was the Pentecostals.....I vaguely remember them speaking in tongues when I was a wee lad. Musta been them.


22 posted on 06/09/2009 10:07:47 AM PDT by halfright (My presidents picture is in the dictionary, next to the word, "rectum".)
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To: mfnorman

live televison coverage here:

http://www.rizwanashraf.com/2008/04/10/watch-express-news-tv-live-online-for-free/


23 posted on 06/09/2009 10:07:47 AM PDT by mfnorman (Jack Murtha: a Lee Harvey Oswald type of marine)
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To: mfnorman

Cancel Pakistan trip, change to Branson,


24 posted on 06/09/2009 10:08:30 AM PDT by gussiefinknottle (woof!woof!woof!)
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To: Sloth

... or maybe the freaking Lutherans.


25 posted on 06/09/2009 10:08:36 AM PDT by Sloth (The Second Amendment is the ultimate "term limit.")
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To: mfnorman

That ol’ European colonialism strikes again!


26 posted on 06/09/2009 10:09:13 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: mfnorman
But the anointed one (pbuh) has told us Islam is a peaceful religion.....
27 posted on 06/09/2009 10:09:36 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.)
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To: mfnorman

BBC: A powerful explosion and a number of casualties have been reported at a luxury hotel in the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar.

Police named the hotel as the five-star Pearl Continental, and an unconfirmed report suggests that foreign guests are among those hurt.

Peshawar is capital of Pakistan’s troubled North West Frontier Province.

A series of bombs have hit cities including Peshawar since a government crackdown on Taliban militants.


28 posted on 06/09/2009 10:09:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: mfnorman
Sky News has a link to the story up now, no more info yet, though....

Massive Explosion Hits Luxury Pakistani Hotel

29 posted on 06/09/2009 10:09:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mfnorman
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The Nasty bomber strikes again. Those blonde, blue eyed Lutherans are a menace to civilization.

30 posted on 06/09/2009 10:10:23 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: mfnorman
Wait, there was a 5 star hotel in Pakistan?
31 posted on 06/09/2009 10:10:25 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: mfnorman

Isn’t this where Charlie Wilson use to shack up with belly dancers???


32 posted on 06/09/2009 10:10:46 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: mfnorman

Another gift from the religion of pieces.


33 posted on 06/09/2009 10:11:15 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: Mr. K

Absolutely up to no good.


34 posted on 06/09/2009 10:12:11 AM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: Just another Joe

Five moon hotel..................


35 posted on 06/09/2009 10:12:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Inquiring minds want to know, but American Idol minds could care less...)
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To: Vaquero
But did they blow it up for a 2 Star price?

L

36 posted on 06/09/2009 10:12:37 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: mfnorman

How can this be? Ostammer had spoken and all terrorists heard his message and decided to be peaceful...?


37 posted on 06/09/2009 10:12:44 AM PDT by theDentist (qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: mfnorman

Pockeestahn?


38 posted on 06/09/2009 10:13:11 AM PDT by chpmass
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To: Vaquero

“Police named the hotel as the five-star Pearl Continental, and an unconfirmed report suggests that foreign guests are among those hurt.”

Who in the world would be in Peshawar as a guest? (Maybe they’d like to camp out along the Korean DMZ next?)

Maybe Chinese workers?

If Western intelligence people were there, why were they staying in such an obvious high-profile hotel, and not
“under cover” in some small dive somewhere?


39 posted on 06/09/2009 10:13:14 AM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Just another Joe

“was” is right.


40 posted on 06/09/2009 10:13:28 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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To: mfnorman
Peshawar had a 5-star hotel?
41 posted on 06/09/2009 10:13:41 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: mfnorman

My guess is that when we see the perpetrators, we will see white suburban males. no?


42 posted on 06/09/2009 10:13:53 AM PDT by envisio (Sexual Beer & BBQ Ribs)
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To: mfnorman

Same?

Source: Reuters
ISLAMABAD, June 9 (Reuters) - A bomb exploded outside the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, causing several casualties, police said.

Pakistan has been struck by a wave of bomb attacks since security forces launched an offensive to expel Taliban militants from the northwestern Swat valley and nearby districts. (Reporting by Kamran Haider, writing by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Andrew Dobbie)


43 posted on 06/09/2009 10:13:59 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Knute

Nah I heard they were from the Tahiti.


44 posted on 06/09/2009 10:14:26 AM PDT by brooklyn dave (First Atlas Shrugged, now he's screaming his a$$ off.)
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To: mfnorman

I wonder if we have any FReepers in Pakistan who can let us know anything from local feeds...?


45 posted on 06/09/2009 10:14:43 AM PDT by Allegra ( Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.)
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To: mfnorman

Methodists again!


46 posted on 06/09/2009 10:14:47 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: mfnorman
Pearl Continental, in Peshawar.

http://www.pchotels.com/

The Flash-heavy website is loading very slowly.

47 posted on 06/09/2009 10:15:19 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
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To: mfnorman; Cindy
Local update:

Updated at: 2305 PST, Tuesday, June 09, 2009

PESHAWAR: At least five people were killed and 35 others injured in a powerful blast at a five-star hotel in Peshawar area of Saddar at Khyber Road, Geo News reported Tuesday.

The injured include mainly the servants of the hotel.

According to Geo News correspondent, the blast was so powerful that windowpanes of the nearby buildings broke. Soon after the blast, the power supply to the area has been suspended. The whole area is plunged into darkness.

The sounds of gunshots are still being heard in the area.

At least 34 injured are being rushed to Lady Reading Hospital.

A large number of security personnel arrived on the spot and cordoned off the area. Khyber Road has been blocked for traffic.

DCO Peshawar said the blast occurred at PC Hotel.

According to Geo News correspondent, miscreants drove two vehicles towards the hotel; however, they found barricades there, they turned to firing and moved to the mosque where the blast occurred.

According to sources, the extremists attacked the check post of the security guards.

48 posted on 06/09/2009 10:15:39 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: Islaminaction
Other way around. If this is the hotel we think it is the folks staying there represent all sorts of negative interests from throughout the Islamofascist hinterland.

I'd guess a Pakistani or Indian military group took them out.

49 posted on 06/09/2009 10:15:45 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Snickering Hound

Fair warning? It might be prudent to take her word for it.


50 posted on 06/09/2009 10:16:19 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Socialism - facism is inconsistent with the Constitution and is one of the "domestic enemies".)
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