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Suicide bomber kills 75 at village volleyball match in Pakistan's northwest
The Washington Post ^ | January 2, 2010 | Pamela Constable and Haq Nawaz Khan

Posted on 01/01/2010 10:35:28 PM PST by myknowledge

KARACHI, PAKISTAN -- A suicide bomber blew up his sport-utility vehicle in the middle of a village volleyball game in northwestern Pakistan on Friday afternoon, killing 75 people and injuring more than 100 in a community that has repeatedly defied Taliban extremists.

Police speculated that the horrific bombing in the village of Shah Hassan Khel, in the Lakki Marwat district, was an act of reprisal against area leaders who last year formed private militias to oppose the Taliban and recently turned in a group of extremist fighters to the authorities.

The attack was the latest in a string of bombings across Pakistan that have increasingly targeted civilians and killed more than 500 people since September. The Taliban has asserted responsibility for many of them but denied carrying out others.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: pakistan; religionofpeace; suicidebomber; volleyballgamematch

The Religion of Peace sheds more blood of their own...again.

1 posted on 01/01/2010 10:35:29 PM PST by myknowledge
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To: myknowledge

How much more would they like to kill us?


2 posted on 01/01/2010 10:37:49 PM PST by rbosque (11 year Freeper! The real reason the left wants to disarm us is becoming clearer.)
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To: myknowledge

Must have been something the Jews did.


3 posted on 01/01/2010 10:38:36 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: myknowledge

Pakistani Methodists!


4 posted on 01/01/2010 10:39:27 PM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: myknowledge
2010 religion death total

Islam: 75

Christianity:0

Judaism:0

5 posted on 01/01/2010 10:53:56 PM PST by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: LukeL

“Isolated extremist’; nothing to see here, move along.


6 posted on 01/01/2010 11:18:51 PM PST by ccruse456
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To: LukeL

bump!


7 posted on 01/01/2010 11:22:54 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: myknowledge

Updated death toll now at 93
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iyrPquwH4dss0Fqpx2UUdyUjLXNw


8 posted on 01/01/2010 11:54:11 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: myknowledge
As long as they are boxed into their corner of the world, they would end up killing fellow Muslims. This would only hurt their survival.

We should keep them boxed in. However, I am not sure Obama is up to the job.

9 posted on 01/02/2010 12:06:21 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: myknowledge

Wow. You can only hope that typical, cowardly, Islamic terrorist attacks like this one harden the normal people to the point where they want to eradicate Taliban and al-Queda terrorists.


10 posted on 01/02/2010 12:12:57 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: myknowledge
SATAN

His spirit.

There can be no other explanation for it.

We must know it for what it is.

11 posted on 01/02/2010 2:28:17 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (2010 Is Here. The Year We Kick the Stuffing Out of Obama (Politically) Thru TOTAL Senate/House ROUT!)
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To: myknowledge

Maybe he was pissed because the beer ran out? Or am I projecting my own cultural milieu here?


12 posted on 01/02/2010 3:57:42 AM PST by B.Lyle
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To: myknowledge

The Left like to assert that terrorists are merely “insurgents” who offer “social services” to “the poor.”

This act is exactly the kind of “social services” that terrorists specialize in.


13 posted on 01/02/2010 5:35:44 AM PST by denydenydeny (The Left sees taxpayers the way Dr Frankenstein saw the local cemetery; raw material for experiments)
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To: beaversmom

Must have been a volleyball in that Art Therapy Kit, Rehabilitation, 1 EA that we sent over there to help out the militant Muslims with their violent tendencies, that triggered a latent response. /s


14 posted on 01/02/2010 5:41:25 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: myknowledge
A suicide bomber blew up his sport-utility vehicle. . . .

It's those lousy SUVs again!

15 posted on 01/02/2010 6:20:34 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (SUVicide bomber.)
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To: denydenydeny

“The Left like to assert that terrorists are merely “insurgents” who offer “social services” to “the poor.”
This act is exactly the kind of “social services” that terrorists specialize in.”

So then they say “lone extremists, most of them aren’t like this etc. they give the rest a bad name”

It’s not about facts to the left any more. It’s just about winning the argument.


16 posted on 01/02/2010 8:28:20 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

I would boil it down even further: it’s less about winning the argument and more about winning, period.

For the most part, the Left doesn’t debate as such any more. All of their positions have become undebatable either through pseudo-”science” (”Global warming is settled science. There can be no more debate”) or pseudo-”morality” (”Health care / entitlements / undocumented worker rights is a moral issue and is above politics.”). If forced to argue issues, they have nothing but ad-hominems (Bush is stupid” or “Rush is a racist”) or tautologies (Ann Coulter is bad because she’s evil). Total intellectual bankruptcy.


17 posted on 01/02/2010 9:54:55 AM PST by denydenydeny (The Left sees taxpayers the way Dr Frankenstein saw the local cemetery; raw material for experiments)
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