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    84 children reported dead in Taliban attack on Pakistan school

    Over eighty students and at least one soldier have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials have said.
    Hundreds of students were in the school at time of attack and it is believed hostages have been taken.
    News agencies reported a Pakistani minister as saying that at least 84 children were killed in the attack.

    Three suspects have been killed and as many as five remain inside the building after they gained access by dressing up as paramilitary soldiers, Pervez Khattak, chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told reporters.
    “In CMH (Combined Military Hospital) there are around 60 and there are 24 dead in Lady Reading (hospital),” Mr Khattak said.
    Jamil Shah, a spokesman for Lady Reading Hospital, said the dead soldier was a member of the Pakistani paramilitary forces.
    The attack started with the gunmen entering the school in the early hours and started shooting at random, said police officer Javed Khan. Army commandos quickly arrived at the scene and exchanged fire with the gunmen, he added.
    Between 500 and 1,500 students and teachers were believed to be in the school at the time of the attack. Hundreds are thought to have been taken hostage.
    Outside the school, shooting was initially heard, and one loud bang of unknown origin. Details were sketchy in the unfolding situation and it was unclear what was going on inside the school and if any of the students were taken hostage.
    Pakistani television showed soldiers surrounding the area and pushing people back.
    Later, one of the wounded students, Abdullah Jamal, said he was with a group of 8th, 9th and 10th graders who were getting first-aid instructions and training with a team of Pakistani army medics when the attack began.
    When the shooting started, Mr Jamal, who was shot in the leg, said nobody knew what was going on in the first few seconds.
    “Then I saw children falling down who were crying and screaming. I also fell down. I learned later that I have got a bullet,” he said, speaking from his hospital bed.
    “All the children had bullet wounds. All the children were bleeding,” he added.
    The army said in a statement that many hostages had been evacuated but did not say how many. “Rescue operation by troops underway. Exchange of fire continues. Bulk of student(s) and staff evacuated.
    Reports of some children and teachers killed by terrorist,” the army said in a brief English-language statement.


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/worl...hool-1.2039438

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    R I P . The scum that ordered this attack need to suffer badly, just watching on BBC news and the death toll is now being put at 126 mostly children, The Taliban have claimed responsibility as punishment for attacks by the army on their positions, it was an army run school.

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    So who's killing who's kids?

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    Don't give a fuck...
    you hide OBL...
    you let these talifags run around your country...
    don't expect me to act surprised when shit backfires on your ass!!!

    I do feel bad for the kids.... don't get me wrong.... its not their fault....

    politically these people want it both ways! they want the billions from the west in aid and they want to support the Taliban....


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    Quote Originally Posted by Pound Hound View Post
    you let these talifags run around your country...


    politically these people want it both ways! they want the billions from the west in aid and they want to support the Taliban....
    You have the afghan taliban and the pakistani taliban.

    Not the same

    The afghan one loves the pakistani army and intel institutions.

    The pakistani one doesnt (to put it mildly)

    Glad to help

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozcol View Post
    R I P . The scum that ordered this attack need to suffer badly, just watching on BBC news and the death toll is now being put at 126 mostly children, The Taliban have claimed responsibility as punishment for attacks by the army on their positions, it was an army run school.
    Awful

    Positions ? Hmm

    From what I understand wrt this campaign by the pakistani army going forward in Waziristan, we are talking door to door search and elimination of people thought to be islamists.

    Apparently there are collateral damage ( not my words), therefore the "Feel our Pain" message

    Awful day in history of civilization


    Just wondering

    Are soldiers at war, killing other folks' babies, prepared for the same happening to theirs ?

    Golden rule, Eye for an eye ?

    Must be mind blowing for the parents right now
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    what's the difference? One likes the paki army when they get something and one hates it when they can not run the country...

    I don't see a big difference between the two.... they got the same beards and hats!

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge
    thought to be islamists
    in that part of the world aren't they all technically "islamists"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pound Hound View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by helge
    thought to be islamists
    in that part of the world aren't they all technically "islamists"?
    Same beards and hats ?

    Guess so

    I think North WaZiristan has been "autonomous" for a long time, and suspect that the divided pakistani army has been bought to campaign there

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    Taliban assault on Pakistan school leaves 141 dead

    Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least 141 people, mostly children, before Pakistani officials declared a military operation to clear the school over.The overwhelming majority of the victims were students at the school, which instructs grades 1-10.

    Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the assault and rushed to Peshawar to show his support for the victims.As darkness fell on the area, officials said they had cleared the school of militants.A Pakistani military spokesman, Asim Bajwa, said 141 people died in the attack — 132 children and nine staff members. He declared the operation over and said the area had been cleared.

    An additional 121 students and three staff members were wounded.He said seven attackers, all wearing explosives vests, all died in the assault. It was not immediately clear if the militants were all killed by the soldiers or whether they blew themselves up, he said.

    Bajwa described an assault that seemed designed purely to terrorize the children rather than take anyone hostage to further the militant group's aims."Their sole purpose, it seems, was to kill those innocent kids.

    That's what they did," he said.The horrific attack, claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban, a Pakistani militant group trying to overthrow the government, sent dozens of wounded flooding into local hospitals as terrified parents searched for their children."My son was in uniform in the morning. He is in a casket now," wailed one parent, Tahir Ali, as he came to the hospital to collect the body of his 14-year-old son Abdullah. "My son was my dream.

    My dream has been killed."The attack began in the morning when the gunmen entered the school and started shooting at random. Army commandos quickly arrived at the scene and started exchanging fire with the gunmen. Students wearing green school uniforms could be seen fleeing the area on Pakistani television.

    Outside the school, two loud booms of unknown origin were heard coming from the scene in the early afternoon, as Pakistani troops battled with the attackers. Armored personnel carriers were deployed around the school grounds, and a Pakistani military helicopter circled overhead.Pakistani television showed soldiers surrounding the area and pushing people back.

    Ambulances streamed from the area to local hospitals.The prime minister vowed that the country would not be cowed by the violence and that the military would continue with an aggressive operation launched in June to rout militants from the North Waziristan tribal area."The fight will continue. No one should have any doubt about it," Sharif said.Bajwa said that 1,099 students and staff were registered at the school.It is part of a network of schools run by the Pakistani military around the country. The student body is made up of both children of military personnel as well as civilians.

    A government official, Javed Khan, said most of the students appeared to be civilians rather than children of army staff. But analysts said the militants likely targeted the school because of its military connections."It's a kind of a message that we can also kill your children," said Pakistani analyst Zahid Hussain.

    One of the wounded students, Abdullah Jamal, said that he was with a group of 8th, 9th and 10th graders who were getting first-aid instructions and training with a team of Pakistani army medics when the violence began for real.

    When the shooting started, Jamal, who was shot in the leg, said nobody knew what was going on in the first few seconds."Then I saw children falling down who were crying and screaming. I also fell down. I learned later that I have got a bullet," he said, speaking from his hospital bed.

    Another student, Amir Mateen, said they locked the door from the inside when they heard the shooting but gunmen blasted through the door anyway and opened fire.In a phone call to reporters, Taliban spokesman Mohammed Khurasani claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the suicide bombers carried it out to avenge the killings of Taliban members at the hands of Pakistani authorities.Peshawar has been the target of frequent militant attacks in the past but has seen a relative lull recently.

    The Pakistani military launched the military operation in the nearby North Waziristan tribal area in June, vowing that it would go after all militant groups that had been operating in the region. With the launch of the operation, security officials and civilians feared retribution by militants but until Tuesday, a widespread backlash had failed to materialize.Tuesday's attack calls into question whether the militants have been crippled by the military or will be able to regroup.

    This appeared to be the worst attack in Pakistan since a 2007 suicide bombing in the port city of Karachi killed 150 people.The violence also underscored the vulnerability of Pakistani schools, which was dramatically exposed in the attack two years ago on Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl shot in the head by a Taliban gunman outside her school in the Swat Valley for daring to speak up about girls' rights. She survived, becoming a Nobel Prize laureate and global advocate for girls' education but out of security concerns has never returned to Pakistan.Militants have also blown up schools in the northwest."I am heartbroken by this senseless and cold blooded act of terror in Peshawar that is unfolding before us," said Malala in a statement. (*****)


    http://m.thejakartapost.com/news/201...-141-dead.html
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    141 reported dead now.

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    All in the name of Allah the most merciful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pound Hound View Post
    Don't give a fuck...
    you hide OBL...
    you let these talifags run around your country...
    don't expect me to act surprised when shit backfires on your ass!!!

    I do feel bad for the kids.... don't get me wrong.... its not their fault....
    You sound like an unmitigated cretin.

    Which is it? You don't give a fuck or you feel bad for the murdered children?

    The two POVs are opposite. And don't try to indulge some contorted logic to suggest they aren't.

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    The Taliban spokesman in his press briefings emphasized that they spared all those who had not gone through puberty. He stated that this was an example of the Taliban's mercy.

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    .... spared those young enough for them to fuck more likely

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    Quote Originally Posted by zygote1 View Post
    The Taliban spokesman in his press briefings emphasized that they spared all those who had not gone through puberty. He stated that this was an example of the Taliban's mercy.
    *golf clap*

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    Quote Originally Posted by zygote1 View Post
    The Taliban spokesman in his press briefings emphasized that they spared all those who had not gone through puberty. He stated that this was an example of the Taliban's mercy.

    I bet the scum bags enjoyed checking which had reached puberty.

    Fukked if they had and fukked if they hadn't.

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    Absolutely painful no matter what religion, politic or non-believer you happen to be. Wholesale slaughter of children is pretty sad on any level. Feel the pain as a parent.

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    RIP, little ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neverna View Post
    RIP, little ones.
    Seconded.

    .....and over religious dogma/doctrine.
    Even their God is watching them.


    RIP, for the innocents.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pound Hound View Post
    what's the difference? One likes the paki army when they get something and one hates it when they can not run the country...

    I don't see a big difference between the two.... they got the same beards and hats!
    I see that the afghan taliban has condemned- distanced themselves from the murders.

    Sincere or not

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Ghost Of The Moog
    Which is it? You don't give a fuck or you feel bad for the murdered children?
    believe it or not I can do both!

    I don't give a fuck about these people's political and tribal aspirations of turning the clock back to 9th century.... Paki's try to play both sides of the fence and it bit them in the ass!

    I do feel sorry for the kids and their families nobody deserves that shit...

    but if you lie down with turds don't be surprised if you smell like shit when you stand up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge
    Sincere or not
    follow the logic...
    Paki army gives weapons to Talifags in Afghanistan. Talifags give it to their Paki brethren who fight with Paki Army and storm an army school and kill kids.

    I would say not...

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    The most hated man in Pakistan is a 36-year-old father of three and volleyball enthusiast nicknamed "Slim".

    His real name is Umar Mansoor and the Pakistani Taliban say he masterminded this week's massacre of 132 children and nine staff at a school in Peshawar - the deadliest militant attack in Pakistan's history.

    A video posted on Thursday on a website used by the Taliban shows a man with a luxuriant chest-length beard, holding an admonishing finger aloft as he seeks to justify the Dec. 16 attack. The caption identified him as Umar Mansoor.

    "If our women and children die as martyrs, your children will not escape," he said. "We will fight against you in such a style that you attack us and we will take revenge on innocents."

    The Taliban say the attack, in which gunmen wearing suicide-bomb vests executed children, was retaliation for a military offensive carried out by the Pakistani army. They accuse the military of carrying out extrajudicial killings.

    The accusation is not new. Many courts have heard cases where men disappeared from the custody of security services. Some bodies have been found later, hands bound behind the back and shot in the head, or dismembered and stuffed into sacks.

    Some security officials say privately the courts are so corrupt and afraid, it is almost impossible to convict militants.

    "You risk your life to catch terrorists and the courts always release them," said one official. "If you kill them then they don't come back."

    The country is so inured to violence that the discovery of such bodies barely rates a paragraph in a local newspaper.
    Despite this, the school attack shocked a nation where traditionally, women and children are protected, even in war.

    Six Pakistani Taliban interviewed by Reuters confirmed the mastermind was Mansoor. Four of them said he is close to Mullah Fazlullah, the embattled leader of the fractious group who ordered assassins to kill schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai.

    "He strictly follows the principles of jihad," one said. "He is strict in principles, but very kind to his juniors. He is popular among the juniors because of his bravery and boldness."

    Mansoor got a high school education in the capital, Islamabad, two Taliban members said, and later studied in a madrassa, a religious school.

    "Umar Mansoor had a tough mind from a very young age, he was always in fights with other boys," said one Taliban member.

    Mansoor has two brothers and spent some time working in the city of Karachi as a labourer before joining the Taliban soon after it was formed, in late 2007, said one commander.

    His nickname is "nary," a word in the Pashto language meaning "slim", and he is the father of two daughters and a son, said another commanders.

    "(Mansoor) likes to play volleyball," said one of the Taliban members. "He is a good volleyball player. Wherever he shifts his office, he puts a volleyball net up."
    http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/asia

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    Some security officials say privately the courts are so corrupt and afraid, it is almost impossible to convict militants.

    "You risk your life to catch terrorists and the courts always release them," said one official. "If you kill them then they don't come back."
    No comment needed.

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