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Taliban suicide bombers strike in Pakistan, Afghanistan
By Bill Roggio, the Long War Journal
December 28, 2008 3:17 PM
Taliban suicide bombers struck on both sides of the Durand Line, killing 51 and wounding score more in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The suicide attack in Pakistan took place in the settled district of Buner in the insurgency-infested Northwest Frontier Province. A suicide bomber detonated his bomb in a polling station in a school in Shalbandai. More than 35 Pakistanis, including children and policemen, were killed in the strike.
Elections were being held to fill a vacant seat in Pakistan's national assembly. Pakistan's election commission closed down polling stations in Buner and suspended the by-election.
The local tribes in the Shalbandai region of Buner killed six Taliban fighters on Aug. 12.
The last suicide attack in Buner took place on Dec. 9, when a terrorist was stopped before he could strike at a government installation. One child was killed and another was seriously wounded in the bombing.
The Taliban have attempted to extend its power in Buner, but local tribes have formed militias to oppose the Taliban expansion. The Taliban still maintain a strong presence in the district despite the tribal militias.
Across the border in Afghanistan, a suicide bomber struck outside of a government center located next to a school in the Haqqani Network stronghold of Khost province. Fourteen children and two soldiers were killed in the attack. Thirteen children and 12 soldiers were among the more than 50 Afghans wounded in the attack.
Khost province in the home of the Haqqani Network, which is run by former mujahideen leader Jalaluddin Haqqani and his son Siraj. Both Jalaluddin and Siraj have close ties with al Qaeda its leader, Osama bin Laden.
The US military has conducted multiple cross-border airstrikes agianst the Haqqani Network infrastructure in North Waziristan.
These murderer terrorists should be tortured and killed along with their entire families. Taliban is not a religious group but it is a cult bent on destruction of Pakistan. Even the muslims must realize that they want to destroy Islam itself.
America clearly wants them to bomb us and kill our people and therefore is trying to divert their anger to us. They cant bear one soldier of their to die but they are happy with over 4200 Pakistani civilians being killed. Best thing would be if they get those Americans the hell out of Afghanistan and the taliban can stop justifying what they are doing in the name of Islam to those illiterate jahils in the Triba areas. Then we can have a genocide of taliban in which I would gladly take part in. Not one taliban should be left alive. Their children must be taken and given an education rather than be brainwahsed and taught murder by money from a foreign hostile nation on our east.
Death to Taliban.
These murderer terrorists should be tortured and killed along with their entire families. Taliban is not a religious group but it is a cult bent on destruction of Pakistan. Even the muslims must realize that they want to destroy Islam itself.
America clearly wants them to bomb us and kill our people and therefore is trying to divert their anger to us. They cant bear one soldier of their to die but they are happy with over 4200 Pakistani civilians being killed. Best thing would be if they get those Americans the hell out of Afghanistan and the taliban can stop justifying what they are doing in the name of Islam to those illiterate jahils in the Triba areas. Then we can have a genocide of taliban in which I would gladly take part in. Not one taliban should be left alive. Their children must be taken and given an education rather than be brainwahsed and taught murder by money from a foreign hostile nation on our east.
Death to Taliban.
Yes, you can keep saying it. You can't show the evidence to Pakistan, only SAY it. You can try to unite the world against Pakistan with your propoganda, only to look like fools afterwards. Get off your high horses, Indians. The mumbai terrorists may have been Pakistani, but that does not mean they had the support of Pakistan.
this is sick