The single deadliest attack in Afghanistan so far in 2012 happened today, when a suicide bomber with a ball-bearing-packed explosive vest detonated outside a crowded mosque in the Faryab Province capital of Maymaneh as worshippers were finishing up prayers for the Eid al-Adha holiday.
Death tolls are still not finalized, but provincial officials currently put the toll at 42 dead and 51 wounded, with 15 of the wounded in critical condition. More than 20 of the slain were reportedly members of the Afghan police.
The mosque was being visited by several high profile provincial officials, who are believed to be the intended targets. Indications are that none of them were harmed, however, as they were still inside the mosque when the blast happened.
A survivor says that the attacker was wearing a uniform of the Afghan national police force, and because of that he was not searched when he approached the mosque. It is the deadliest attack since December, when attackers from the Pakistani Lashkar-e Jhangvi (LeJ) attacked Shi’ite worshippers on Ashura.
Are Muslims madmen, such that they would blow themselves to bits in order to kill some of their enemies?
But we from the West, we blow people to bits with our drones, missiles, etc, millions of them. We also starve kids to death, radiate them with depleted uranium, burn them with phosphorous munitions, etc.
While we are doing this, we claim we are bringing freedom and human rights and democracy to lesser races. We are the killers, the destroyers. We even make money from war!
Who is the real enemy?