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The Latest: Taliban faction claims Pakistan park bombing
Yahoo / Associated Press ^ | March 27, 2016 | AP

Posted on 03/27/2016 12:20:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

A breakaway faction of the militant Taliban group in Pakistan has claimed responsibility for an Easter Sunday bomb attack on a park in the eastern city of Lahore that killed 60 people, and wounded 300.

Ahsanullah Ahsan, spokesman for Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, told the Associated Press Sunday that a suicide bomber with the faction deliberately targeted the Christian community. He warned that more attacks would follow.

Senior police officer Haider Ashraf says the explosion took place close to the children's rides in Gulshan-e-Iqbal park, which was crowded with Christian families celebrating Easter.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deathtoislam; easterbormbing; pakistan; pakistaneasterbomb; religionofpieces; talibanbombing; waronterror

1 posted on 03/27/2016 12:20:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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American Muslims describe fear of Brussels backlash


2 posted on 03/27/2016 12:23:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I DO hope the Main Stream folks will hold this country up, often because it happens in a culture dominated by the Muslim belief system it gets dropped after about 20 minutes. Why did they say Taliban. Why didn’t they say Sunni Muslims... uhmnn.


3 posted on 03/27/2016 12:25:41 PM PDT by rovenstinez (Har)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!


4 posted on 03/27/2016 12:27:27 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama wiped out the Taliban along with Al Qaeda, so this is a non-story. Sure, this may seem confusing... but Obama has fixed everything so America can go back to dealing with the really important stuff... bathrooms for transgenders.


5 posted on 03/27/2016 12:30:01 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If only we would let in more “refugees” ‘they’ would see how much we love them and treat us kindly.


6 posted on 03/27/2016 1:02:50 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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