Last Updated 11/8 6:45 PM EST
A suicide bomber attacked a livestock marketplace in the Peshawar suburb of Adezai, killing 15 people and wounding 42 others. Most of the casualties appear to have been civilians, shopping for food for the upcoming celebration of Eid al-Adha (Nov 27).
The attack took place in front of the guesthouse of the presumptive target, Abdul Malik, the nazim (mayor) of the nearby Mattani union council. Malik was mortally wounded in the attack, and died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Malik was originally a supporter of the Pakistani Taliban, but later became an outspoken opponent, going so far as to raise a lashkar (tribal militia) to fight against them. He had reportedly survived around 20 assassination attempts over the past several months.
The Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed credit for the attack over the phone, and confirmed that Malik was indeed the target, citing his raising of a lashkar against them. The attack is just the latest in a large number of high profile TTP attacks since the government launched its invasion of South Waziristan last month.
What a sick strategy on both sides! Intruding a marketplace, intruding a region, targeting evil people while messing around with the blood of people accidently in the near of the target. Calling in air support to target some other enemy over there, never thinking a minute of anything creative, anything to establish! What the hell have we to do with Pakis and Afghanis and Kurds and Pashtuns and Houhtis? Are we all on drugs and need the heroin? or the pipelines? or the gas? the crazyness of all this becomes – 8 years after the strange assault on WTC, the White House and the Pentagon – so obvious that nobody sane in his mind can bear it anymore. Should we really leave the world to the majority of sickies til the bitter end?
"8 years after the strange assault on WTC, the White House and the Pentagon -8 years after the strange assault on WTC, the White House and the Pentagon – so obvious that nobody sane in his mind can bear it anymore. Should we really leave the world to the majority of sickies til the bitter end? Should we really leave the world to the majority of sickies til the bitter end?"
What does it mean "- so obvious that nobody sane in his mind can bear it anymore." ??? Does it mean what I think, that —It was so obvious [that it was an inside job] that nobody same in his mind can bear [the suppression of the true nature of the attack] anymore…?????? And hey Manfred, dude, you forgot the anthrax pressure delivered to the chief obstacle to the "Patriot act"…..America's Enabling act… Zig Heil George and hiz NeoCon palls…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!