FrontPageMagazine.com Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Pakistan this weekend faced its toughest challenge since the election of president Asif Ali Zardari earlier this month. A suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with more than 1,000 pounds of explosives blew himself up early Saturday evening outside Islamabad’s luxury Marriott Hotel, killing 53 people and wounding several hundred. Most of the dead were Muslim guests who were breaking their day-long, Ramadan fast in the hotel restaurant when the bombing occurred.
Called the most devastating suicide attack ever to hit Pakistan’s capital city, it also claimed the lives of the Czech ambassador and at least two Americans. And while no one has claimed responsibility for the atrocity that has earned worldwide condemnation, the Pakistani Taliban, called the Tehrek-e-Taliban-Pakistan, and al Qaeda are strongly suspected. more..http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=5D681223-F102-4072-8D6D-AA7857A29BA3
Pakistan this weekend faced its toughest challenge since the election of president Asif Ali Zardari earlier this month. A suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with more than 1,000 pounds of explosives blew himself up early Saturday evening outside Islamabad’s luxury Marriott Hotel, killing 53 people and wounding several hundred. Most of the dead were Muslim guests who were breaking their day-long, Ramadan fast in the hotel restaurant when the bombing occurred.
Called the most devastating suicide attack ever to hit Pakistan’s capital city, it also claimed the lives of the Czech ambassador and at least two Americans. And while no one has claimed responsibility for the atrocity that has earned worldwide condemnation, the Pakistani Taliban, called the Tehrek-e-Taliban-Pakistan, and al Qaeda are strongly suspected. more..http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=5D681223-F102-4072-8D6D-AA7857A29BA3
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