Posted on 01/28/2008 6:07:11 AM PST by jdm
Over three years ago, radical Islamists seized a school in Beslan in the Russian republic of North Ossetia-Alania and killed 334 people, including 186 children. Last year, jihadists seized the Red Mosque in Pakistan, and more than 170 people died as a result. Now Islamist radicals have seized a school in Bannu, North Waziristan and hold over 250 children as hostages:
Pro-Taleban militants are holding children and teachers hostage in a school near the Pakistani district of North Waziristan.Officials told a BBC reporter at the scene that up to 250 children were inside the school.
The militants took shelter in the school in Bannu town after a confrontation with local police.
The BBC says some chidren may have been released, but that has not been confirmed. This has the earmarks of another disaster on the same scale as Beslan, only this time the Waziris will have to stand around and watch as the jihadis use their children for their political purposes. Once again, the Taliban targets the weakest and innocent for their psychotic purposes.
Keep an eye on this situation. It could have far-reaching implications if the Taliban turns this into a bloodbath. In the meantime, pray as hard as you can that they do not.
Ping
Prayers for these children—but for the Taliban, I doubt killing these children will result in any kind of win on any front for them. But then, perhaps it doesn’t matter. I believe they’re in this because they LIKE the killing part.
What Possibly could Hillary or Oblama say to America in 2009 when one of them is President and the Radical Islamists do something similar here in America... Especially once they have gutted everything that Bush has done to keep us safe... For to take the Democrats at their word everything Bush has done is wrong so they will undo it all.....
ping
Their deity tells them to kill.
Sheesh! Thanks for posting.
1) It's Bush's fault for lying about WMDs
2) It's Bush's fault for tax-cuts-for-the-rich
3) It's conservatives' fault for not making the World like us more
4) Prez Cackle/Ears will insist that talking is the best way to resolve our differences. To secure the release of hostages, Prez Cackle/Ears will politely ask US to simply convert to Islam and give them all our possessions. And they'll be serious...
Thanks for pinging those folks, Ali.
I don’t doubt it for a minute. After all, Pres. Jorge has drummed it into our heads that Islam is The Religion of Peace, that burkha clad Mohammedans are just the same as Western women and howling Mohammedan savages want the same for their children as you and me. In the meantime, he has set the foreign policy stage for American dhimmitude by assuring the Grand Malakas of the Emirate of Dog Vomitstan that the American people really, really respect his moon goddess death cult and just to prove it, he has agreed to be the midwife to the birth of a Mohammedan terror state in the Balkans and given $500,000,000.00 of our money to Fatah terrorists.
Why it would be downright unAmerican for Prez Cackle/Ears not to continue Jorge’s so very successful foreign policy, right?
Not to be confused with West Wazupistan.
They should destroy all Mosques and replace them with graveyards.
Thanks for linking. I just saw that headline on yahoo and was about to post. Good news!
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