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Girls school attacked in troubled NW Pakistan ("Religion of Peace" Alert)
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Posted on 09/22/2009 3:48:51 AM PDT by tobyhill

Suspected Islamist militants blew up a girls school close to the main city in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said. The school was empty at the time of the blast and no one was injured.

A timed explosive device is believed to have caused the explosion that badly damaged the school on the outskirts of Peshawar, police officer Hamdullah Khan said.

Al-Qaida and Taliban militants hold sway across much of northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan and have often targeted girls' schools in both country's because they believe that women should not be educated.

The military has launched large offensives across parts of the region in an attempt to rein the militants in, but they remain strong across much the mountainous, lawless zone.

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said Tuesday that the global fight against terrorism requires not just a military solution but also gaining the trust of civilians in regions where insurgents operate.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: girls; girlsschool; mhmmdnsm09222009; pakistan; peshawar; school; schools

1 posted on 09/22/2009 3:48:51 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

I would love to wake up one day to hear breaking news that Mecca has been nuked.


2 posted on 09/22/2009 4:03:14 AM PDT by ScottinVA (This Revolution will be peaceful if possible; other than peaceful if necessary.)
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To: ScottinVA

And find out later it had been done by an Iranian missile secretly reprogrammed on the ground by Mossad.

We can dream :0)


3 posted on 09/22/2009 4:41:38 AM PDT by agere_contra (The Democrats use Black people as human shields.)
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To: tobyhill

The world should now rise up against Islam and put the Muslims on reservations. There is every security and safety reason to do so. The fact that they belong to a religion is a side-issue.


4 posted on 09/22/2009 4:54:11 AM PDT by RoadTest ( Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols - Psalm 97:12a)
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To: RoadTest

You can get rid of them now or you can get rid of them later but one thing for sure you will have to get rid of them.


5 posted on 09/22/2009 4:57:45 AM PDT by crazyotto
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To: crazyotto

Seems that way.


6 posted on 09/22/2009 5:01:17 AM PDT by RoadTest ( Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols - Psalm 97:12a)
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To: tobyhill; Islaminaction
>>The school was empty at the time of the blast

Moderate Talibs.

7 posted on 09/25/2009 11:32:01 AM PDT by swarthyguy (MEAT, the new tobacco. Your right to eat meat ends where my planetary ecosystem begins.)
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To: swarthyguy

Call Obama, you found them!


8 posted on 09/25/2009 11:42:35 AM PDT by Islaminaction
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