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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I would love to wake up one day to hear breaking news that Mecca has been nuked.
And find out later it had been done by an Iranian missile secretly reprogrammed on the ground by Mossad.
We can dream :0)
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.
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.
Seems that way.
Moderate Talibs.
Call Obama, you found them!
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