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Taliban go on killing spree at Pakistan school, 132 students dead


By Jibran Ahmad and Mehreen Zahra-Malik

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 132 students and nine staff members were killed on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen broke into a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire, witnesses said, in the bloodiest massacre the country has seen for years.

More than eight hours after militants slipped into the heavily guarded compound through a back entrance, the army declared the operation to flush them out over, and said that all nine insurgents had been killed.

The attack on a military-run high school attended by more than 1,100 people, many of them children of army personnel, struck at the heart of Pakistan's military establishment, an assault certain to enrage the country's powerful army.

Wounded children taken to nearby hospitals told Reuters most victims died when gunmen, suicide vests strapped to their bodies, entered the compound and opened fire indiscriminately on boys, girls and their teachers.

"One of my teachers was crying, she was shot in the hand and she was crying in pain," said Shahrukh Khan, 15, who was shot in both legs but survived by hiding under a bench.

"One terrorist then walked up to her and started shooting her until she stopped making any sound. All around me my friends were lying injured and dead."

The Taliban, waging war against Pakistan in order to topple the government and set up an Islamic state, immediately claimed responsibility.

"We selected the army's school for the attack because the government is targeting our families and females," said Taliban spokesman Muhammad Umar Khorasani. "We want them to feel the pain."

SUICIDE BOMBERS

As night fell on Peshawar, a teeming, volatile city near the Afghan border, security forces wrapped up an operation that lasted more than eight hours and involved intense gun battles. The military said about 960 pupils and staff were evacuated.

The Taliban said the gunmen had been equipped with suicide vests and at least three explosions were heard inside the high school at the height of the massacre.

Outside, as helicopters rumbled overhead, police struggled to hold back distraught parents who were trying to break past a security cordon and get into the school.

Officials said 121 pupils and three staff members were wounded. A local hospital said the dead and injured were aged from 10 to 20 years old.

A Reuters correspondent visiting the city's major Combined Military Hospital said its corridors were lined with dead students, their green-and-yellow school uniform ties peeping out of the white body bags.

The gunmen, who several students said communicated with each other in a foreign language, possibly Arabic, managed to slip past the school's tight security because at least some of them were wearing Pakistani military uniforms, some witnesses said.

Pakistanis, used to almost daily militant attacks, were shocked by the scale of the massacre and the loss of so many young lives. It recalled the 2004 siege of a school in Russia's Beslan by Chechen militants which ended in the death of more than 330 people, half of them children.

The United States, Pakistan's ally in its fight against Islamist militants operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan, swiftly condemned the attack.

"This act of terror angers and shakes all people of conscience ... the perpetrators must be brought to justice," said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE

The Pakistani Taliban have vowed to step up attacks in response to a major army operation against the insurgents in the tribal areas.

But despite the crackdown this year, the military has long been accused of being too lenient toward Islamist militants who critics say are used to carry out the army's bidding in places like Kashmir and Afghanistan.

The military denies the accusations.

So far the Taliban have targeted mainly security forces, military bases and airports, but attacks on civilian targets with no logistical significance are relatively rare.

In September, 2013, however, dozens of people, including many children, were killed in an attack on a church, also in Peshawar in Pakistan's northwest.

The assault on a school where officers' children studied could push the armed forces into a more drastic response.



( more here -> http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0JU0JO20141216?irpc=932

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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
BTW, even Breitbart (one of your favorite sources) says the report of Muslims protesting and shouting at a press conference in Moore, OK is bullshit.


But I'm sure you're not buying it.

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Corrected.

And while you're happily promoting Breitbart, here's another story you'll enjoy...


Prominent Democrat: The only people who ‘underestimated’ ISIS were in the White House

“I think, our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria.”

That was President Barack Obama’s response to CBS reporter Steve Kroft who asked the president if he was surprised by the rapid rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria – a group which he had previously dismissed as al-Qaeda’s “jayvee” team.

As Ed Morrissey observed, it took only hours for The Daily Beast’s Eli Lake to find well-connected sources willing to denounce the president’s dishonest buck passing. Using some rather coarse language, one frustrated former Pentagon official accused the president of either being mendacious or ignoring his intelligence briefings. Morrissey observed that even New York Times reporters found the president’s testimony in his own defense wanting.

Now, even some Democrats are jumping ship. Former Rear Admiral Joe Sestak, a two-term Democratic member of the House of Representatives, a House Armed Services Committee member, and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010, was asked on Monday how it was possible for the intelligence community so gravely underestimate ISIS. Sestak appeared to surprise his MSNBC interlocutor when he noted that the only people who got ISIS wrong work in the Obama administration.

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/09/29/prominent-democrat-the-only-peop
le-who-underestimated-isis-were-in-the-white-house/

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The idea of our meddling in the affairs of peaceful ISIS terrorists is so confusing. It is a good thing that Little Sambo had already announced that he would not allow ISIS to drag America back into a conflict. Bobo is so prescient.

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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama "strongly" condemned the terror attack in Paris on Tuesday that claimed 12 lives and praised France for standing "shoulder to shoulder" in the fight against terrorism.

Obama said in a statement that the U.S. would provide "any assistance" to "America's oldest ally" in bringing the terrorists to justice. Obama was briefed on the attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Tuesday morning and senior U.S. national security officials have been in touch with their French counterparts. Three gunmen burst into the magazine's headquarters on Tuesday morning and also fired at police officers in the streets outside while shouting "Allahu Akbar" -- God is Great in Arabic.

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Originally posted by canttakesky:
Wow, I see you guys are still at it.

Just popped my head in to say hi and happy new year.

Chrisisall, what's a nice boy like you doing in a place like this?

Hugs everyone,

CTS

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Originally posted by G:
Hoo boy! For a minute there I thought you were trying to connect this to Benghazi...

And I'd say Carney was quite prescient.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
What about some common sense? In a country that is full of muslims why go out of your way to insult and incite them? It's not as if everyone doesn't know by now what thin-skinned, humorless savages they are.

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What about some common sense? In a country that is full of muslims why go out of your way to insult and incite them? It's not as if everyone doesn't know by now what thin-skinned, humorless savages they are.

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It's finally dawned on me why the Left doesn't get all animated about mass murder by Necro-Muslism, and why they love to troll FOX, conservatives, or America in general. It's because they feel that Islmo-terrorism is a sort of a " protest " against the West, against America, against WHITE European imperialism, and in some ways, it's our fault.

And lord , the Left do love a good protest, don't they ?

Truth to power, and all that noise ?

Of course, they IGNORE the fact that Europe is getting besieged by the Nero-Muslim violence, even as it tries to move entirely away from Christianity and anything remotely resembling religious based morality.

The French magazine offices which were hit ? Very Left wing, ANTI religious. But let's not fret over that any. No, let the NYT post an article on the FEAR that Europe may move more towards --- the RIGHT ?

Yeah, cause that would be really really much worse.

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It's finally dawned on me why the Left doesn't get all animated about mass murder by Necro-Muslism, and why they love to troll FOX, conservatives, or America in general. It's because they feel that Islmo-terrorism is a sort of a " protest " against the West, against America, against WHITE European imperialism, and in some ways, it's our fault.

And lord , the Left do love a good protest, don't they ?

Truth to power, and all that noise ?

Of course, they IGNORE the fact that Europe is getting besieged by the Nero-Muslim violence, even as it tries to move entirely away from Christianity and anything remotely resembling religious based morality.

The French magazine offices which were hit ? Very Left wing, ANTI religious. But let's not fret over that any. No, let the NYT post an article on the FEAR that Europe may move more towards --- the RIGHT ?

Yeah, cause that would be really really much worse.

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Has the Left blamed all this on the conservatives yet?

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DHAKA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death an American critic of religious extremism in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.

Avijit Roy, a U.S. citizen of Bangladeshi origin, and his wife and fellow blogger, Rafida Ahmed, were attacked on Thursday while returning from a book fair. Ahmed was seriously injured.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki called it "a shocking act of violence" that was "horrific in its brutality and cowardice."

Psaki told a regular news briefing she had no information as the motive for the attack, but said the United States was ready to assist the investigation.

The attack comes amidst a crackdown on hardline Islamist groups, which have increased activities in recent years in the South Asian nation.

Police retrieved two machetes from the site, but have not yet identified any suspects. They said they were investigating the involvement of Ansarullah Bangla Team, an Islamist extremist group based in Bangladesh that claimed responsibility on Friday for the murder.

Roy's family said Islamist radicals had been threatening him in recent weeks because he maintained a blog, "Mukto-mona," or "Freemind," that highlighted humanist and rationalist ideas and condemned religious extremism.

"Islamist radicals are behind my son's murder," Ajay Roy told reporters on Friday after filing a murder case with police.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/atheist-us-blogger-killed-in-mache
te-attack-in-bangladesh/ar-BBi284v?ocid=ansnewsreu11

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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NYC women wanted to be jihadi fighters, not ISIS wives

NEW YORK — Two women accused in New York City's latest homegrown terrorism case may be part of what investigators and experts say is an evolving threat — a greater willingness by women to shed blood in the name of militant Islamic jihad.

The pair allegedly wanted to "make history" on their own by building a bomb and attacking a domestic target. Just a day after the New York pair was arrested, a Philadelphia woman was accused of expressing her willingness to die as a martyr for the Islamic State group.

While past cases involved women answering the call by the Islamic State group on social media to join the cause as nurses or wives, "the idea that they want to fight is more a noticeable new trend," said Karen Greenberg, director of Fordham Law School's Center on National Security.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2015/0404/NYC-women-wanted-to-be-jihadi-f
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ISIS: Pennsylvania Woman Allegedly Tried to Join Group, Officials Say

http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-pennsylvania-woman-allegedly-
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But wait ! There's more !


ISIS thugs wreck ANOTHER historic site: Extremists use sledgehammers and AK-47s to destroy walls and statues at UNESCO World Heritage site in Iraq

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3025502/ISIS-thugs-wreck-histo
ric-site-Extremists-use-sledgehammers-AK-47s-destroy-walls-statues-UNESCO-World-Heritage-site-Iraq.html#ixzz3WNxolfZA

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A bunch of " folk " got killed over in Africa, as Obama would say.

Only, it wasn't just ' folk ', Barry, it was CHRISTIANS, who were murdered BY Muslims.

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Hey everybody ! Look at what Iran has!!!



Iran has built a 27-meter-long missile, capable of delivering a warhead “far beyond Europe,” and placed it on a launch pad at a site close to Tehran, an Israeli television report said Wednesday, showing what it said were the first satellite images of the missile ever seen in the West.

It stressed that the missile could be used to launch spacecraft or satellites, but also to carry warheads.

The Channel 2 news report showed satellite imagery documenting what it said was Iran’s “very rapid progress” on long-range missile manufacture.

It showed one photograph of a site near Tehran, which it said the West had known about for two years, where Iran was working on engines for its long-range missiles.

It then showed a satellite photograph of a second site, nearby, which featured a launch pad, with the 27-meter missile on it — an Iranian missile “never seen before” by the West.

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If President Reagan was the current officeholder, what would ISIS be called?

WASWAS.

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If President Reagan was the current officeholder, what would ISIS be called?

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I see what you did there.

VERY Reaganesque.

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Originally posted by SNIGGY the COMMUNIST PIGGY:

I read that article and posted it here with a shock of recognition - that it was very much like that Jordanian pilot burned alive- and you think it's just a "stunt"?

It just goes to show that we live in entirely different mental landscapes. What I got out of seeing the article and connecting it to this thread is that beliefs drive a LOT of brutality across the world, and it doesn't really make much difference what the belief is if it ends in the same result. Does it matter if some people believe they are purer than others and starve them, gas them, burn them, or work them to death? Or that their god is better than somebody else's god, so they cut the infidels' throats or hack them to death with machetes? Or spread disease among them? Does it matter WHAT the belief is, if it leads to the same end?

Yes, Islam is a frightening religion. I've read enough of the Q'uran to know that -more than modern Christianity - it advocates violent conversion of the infidel, and even worse treatment of the apostate. (Modern Xtianity at least has the leavening of the New Testament to make it less horrific.) But Islam isn't the ONLY belief structure which leads to horror. Some people point to Hitler, some people point to Mao, and some people point to Stalin as being just as horrible, and there are even more examples today and throughout history. I just don't see Islam as The Only source of extremism. It's on the shelf with a bunch of others.

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