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Posted on 06/23/2013 10:37:53 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
Gunmen stormed a camp on Pakistan’s second-largest mountain Sunday, killing nine foreign climbers, including a U.S. citizen, in a brazen assault that could deal a blow to the country’s efforts to jumpstart its tourism industry.
Pakistan’s Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it retribution for a suspected U.S. drone strike last month that killed Wali ur-Rehman, the second-highest-ranking leader of the terrorist group.
“Through this killing we gave a message to international community to ask U.S. to stop drone strikes,” said Ehsanullah Ehsan, a Taliban spokesman.
The attack in northern Pakistan at Nanga Parbat, the world’s ninth-tallest mountain, occurred around 1 a.m. as the climbers and their guides were at a camp at about 4,000 feet above sea level. According to local and regional officials, about a dozen gunmen tied up the climbers’ Pakistani guides before shooting the climbers as they slept in tents.
The attackers reportedly wore police uniforms, an increasingly common tactic Taliban militants have used to evade scrutiny.
In all, 10 people were killed, including five from Ukraine, three from China and one from Russia, according to preliminary information from Pakistani authorities. At least one Pakistani guide also was killed in the attack. At least one Chinese tourist survived and was later rescued from the area, known as Fairy Meadows, officials said.
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But...But....We want peace!!
This is big news in Russia right now.
Must have imported rapists from India.
Typical Muslim terrorist thinking. Angry at Obama for playing games with drones? Just kill ten people at random.
Tourists? We don’t need no stinking tourists. It’s much more fun killing them than just taking their money.
Not for nothing but any person (moron) who chooses to “visit” these Taliban occupied countries ought to have their heads examined. Play with fire you’re gonna get burned!
Agreed. What kind of idiot do you have to be to go there on vacation? Nuts.
Agreed. What kind of idiot do you have to be to go there on vacation? Nuts.
And Putin will retaliate. Brutally.
I’m OK with that.
Who even wants to travel and spend precious vacation time in that Sandrat hades hole called ‘Pukestan’.
I’ll CHEER Putin if he does.
Every day the muslims prove they are the enemy of civilization,yet millions are still in denial.
“The Taliban per se is not our enemy.”
- Joe Biden
I’ll agree with Joe. The Taliban is the enemy of all civilized people, not just of America. Only a moron or a traitor would negotiate with them, but unfortunately America has Biden and Obama in position to fill those roles.
“This is big news in Russia right now.”
Good. I hope russia answers them with a drone of its own.
Tourism,,,, pawkeestawn,,,,
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I know right? What a joke.
The same kind of thrill-seekers who have sex in public places. It's just no fun for liberals unless it's transgressive.
Who would ever go to a Muslim country for a vacation?
Maybe 12 or so years ago there was a group of climbers in one of the “stan” countries that were captured by the Taliban and managed to escape after throwing a guard off a cliff.
There’s a good story about it online somewhere, don’t recall where.
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