Posted on 09/20/2008 8:04:13 AM PDT by Red Boots
There are now reports that US CIA officials were the target of the bomb, that someone had tipped off the bombers that there would be US officials at the hotel. My question is, if Obama is getting security briefing, is someone monitoring what he tells other people?
What is your source???
Post 18.
Everybody should read that!
Thanks for the Real Player link.
The barbarians known as Al Qaeda need to be totally eradicated from the face of the Earth.
Either they go, or we go. It’s as simple as that. But how to get rid of them all, that’s a difficult undertaking.
Keep praying.
“Keep praying.”
Don’t worry. I pray for our troops and the good guys/gals every single night and many times during the day!
MAJOR UPDATE!!
Fox news reporting that the president and prime minister of Pakistan were scheduled to have a dinner at the hotel at the same time....BUT THE PLANS WERE ALTERED AT THE 11th HOUR!!
How Convenient!!
Sounds like someone had some inside information and doesn’t like the current administration in Pakistan.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
ISLAMABAD: An apparent suicide attack at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad killed more than 50 people Saturday in the latest carnage in Pakistan.
More than 1,200 people have been killed in attacks, most of them suicide bombings blasts, in the past year. Here is a list of major attacks since the start of 2008:
January 10: Sixteen police and four civilians killed in a suicide bomb attack on police outside the high court in the city of Lahore.
January 14: Bomb kills 10 people at a crowded street market in Karachi.
February 9: Suicide bomber kills 25 people at opposition election rally in the northwestern town of Charsadda.
February 16: Suicide car bomber strikes a rally by party of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto in the northwestern tribal town of Parachinar, killing 37.
February 22: Roadside bomb hits wedding party in northern Swat, killing at least 14 people.
February 25: Suicide bomber kills army surgeon general Lieutenant General Mushtaq Baig and seven other people in Rawalpindi.
February 29: A suicide bomber kills 44 people in Mingora, the main town in the troubled Swat valley, during the funeral of three policemen killed by a roadside bomb earlier in the day.
March 2: Suicide bomber kills 43 at a meeting of anti-militant tribal elders in the northwestern district of Darra Adam Khel.
March 4: Two suicide bombers attack Pakistan Naval War College in Lahore, killing five people and wounding 19.
March 10: Suicide attackers detonate two huge truck bombs in Lahore, killing 26 people and partly demolishing the Federal Investigation Agency building in the city.
March 15: Bomb blast at Italian restaurant in Islamabad kills a Turkish woman and wounds 10 others, including four agents from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
May 19: Suicide bomber kills 13 at an army bakery in the northwestern town of Mardan.
July 2: Suicide car bomb outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad kills eight people.
July 6: Suicide bomber kills 15 people in an attack on police in Islamabad during a rally to mark the anniversary of an army raid on the radical Red Mosque.
August 12: Roadside bomb rips through Pakistan air force bus in Peshawar, killing 13.
August 19: Suicide bomber kills 23 people at a hospital in northwestern town of Dera Ismail Khan.
August 21: Twin suicide attacks kill at least 57 people outside Pakistan’s main arms factory in Wah, near Islamabad.
Aug 28: A bomb attack targeting policemen kill 10 people in the northwest garrison town of Bannu near the Afghan border.
Sept 3: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani escapes an apparent assassination attempt when two shots hit his motorcade, just three days before the country’s presidential election.
September 6: Suicide bomber kills 33 people at a security checkpoint near Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province.
September 11: Suspected militants hurl grenades and fire into a mosque in Peshawar killing at least 20 worshippers.
September 20: A suspected suicide attack outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad killing at least 50 people, with more feared trapped inside the building.
So as the old saying goes: you get what you pay for....
Reminds me of the Aesop fable about the turtle and the scorpion crossing the river.
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How is that coddling of the tribal areas working for you, Pakistan?
You lay with dogs your bound to get fleas.
Watching video now. It must have happened late at night. Everyone is still wearing their pajamas.
Yes. Sounds like someone had other inside info and warned them not to have the ‘dinner’ there as well.
Very Strange. Any word on whether or not Americans were killed?
Pssst...don’t tell the MSM..they don’t want any mention of the Islamists right now. Obama Inc. might not be able to grab power. (eye roll)
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