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Perle thread, Pakastani snipers mentioned Exerpt;
For a time in the early 1990s, violence in Karachi was so endemic that the army took over for the cops. When the troops pulled out, killings started averaging eight per day—and those were merely the ones involving political and criminal gangs. No one bothered to count the shootings, bombings, garrotings, and throat slittings between ethnic and religious groups, much less the toll racked up in quotidian armed robberies, home invasions, and just-for-the-hell-of-it sniper slayings.

Americans were special targets. In March 1995 two U.S. consular personnel on their way to work were mowed down by automatic weapons in an ambush at a busy intersection. Two years later, in November 1997, four employees of an American oil company were shot dead in a carbon-copy replay a few blocks from the Sheraton.

Gads, I knew it was bad, but when the stories are all strung together like that, it's like a nightmare.

Thanks for keeping track of that. It certainly shows what we're up against. People who really, really hate us and will stop at nothing. And are extremely ingenious.

Thank you for posting this list. Easy to see how "under attack" we've been in the time since Sept. 11th, not to mention before. I think I'll go for a nap now. :)

Thanks for the ping; good idea to link them on this thread, too.