Posted on 03/03/2009 9:23:51 PM PST by JBGUSA
By Simon Cameron-Moore
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police hunted on Wednesday for gunmen who mounted the bold attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Lahore and officials scrambled to figure out who was behind it.
The attack that killed eight people, six of them Pakistani police, plunged Pakistan into a "state of war," Rehman Malik, the prime minister's interior adviser, said.
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Six members of the Sri Lankan team and a British coach were wounded in the daylight attack as their bus approached the cricket stadium. None was so seriously hurt they had to be left behind when the squad departed for Colombo on Tuesday night.
The Sri Lanka cricketers were reunited with their families early on Wednesday. "It's great to be back in Sri Lanka with our families and loved ones," Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene told Reuters after the team's arrival home.
Five players and assistant coach Paul Farbrace were sent to Nawaloka hospital in central Colombo for checks on their injuries.
In New Zealand, cricket officials said they expect to cancel this year's scheduled tour of Pakistan and play the series in a neutral venue in the wake of the attack.
"We are not going. I think that's pretty clear. I don't see any international team will be going to Pakistan in the foreseeable future," New Zealand Cricket chief executive Justin Vaughan told local radio on Wednesday.
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Aside from militancy radiating across the northwest from the borders with Afghanistan, Pakistan desperately needs billions of dollars of aid to supplement a bail out by the International Monetary Fund last November.
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Why should there even be a U.N. or IMF bailout if these countries' governments and/or people do nothing to stem madness. Their poverty and ignorance is self-generated.
Like AIG. ...but with maniacs with nukes.
Or General Motors.
Instead of 'give me money or else jobs may go,' it would be 'give me money or lack of sufficient security could lead to missing nuclear weapons.'
I am glad that Obama’s disgraceful whoring to the muslims has brought peace at last.
Here, they were trying to allege a “foreign” (READ: Indian) hand.
The pathetic fools who run Pakistan are already onto stitching up a false case. For instance, if you look at the video of the incident’s aftermath, you will see the police and others handling vital evidence, like shells, guns, tools etc., that the terrorists left, with bare hands, smudging any and all fingerprints that were on them.
“Like AIG. ...but with maniacs with nukes. “
So true.
á “YOU MAY BE A TALIBAN IF...”
á 1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.
á 2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can’t afford shoes.
á 3. You have more wives than teeth.
á 4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon “unclean.”
á 5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.
á 6. You can’t think of anyone you haven’t declared Jihad against.
á 7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing.
á 8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.
á 9. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least one.
á 10. You’ve always had a crush on your neighbor’s goat.
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