The blast took place at the hotel "where the Indian High Commission was to host a reception to mark the Republic Day," according to the Times of India (thanks to Jeffrey Imm).
"Suicide blast at Marriott hotel in Pakistani capital," by Rana Jawad for AFP (thanks again to Jeffrey Imm):
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - A suicide bomber killed a security guard and himself when he set off explosives strapped to his body outside the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital, the interior minister has said.The powerful blast, which could be heard across the city, occurred when the guard prevented the attacker from entering the heavily-protected five-star hotel, Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao told AFP.
"It was a suicide attack. The suicide attacker and a guard were killed," Sherpao said. "The attacker tried to enter the hotel and was stopped by the security guard and there was a scuffle and the blast occurred."
Ho hum-just another day in Islamic paradise.
Whats new?. Just another case of "instant explosive disorder".
Muslims exploding? How odd.
What for?
Why would anyone do that?
Are we seriously going to believe that this is a plan to take over the world?????????
He couldn't take over a hotel lobby!
Tactically it's the weakest plan ever.
Their 'side' has just lost a supposedly loyal supporter and a lot of explosive and achieved what? A loud bang, one single non-combattant dead, and the media revels in the senselessness and unpopularity of the act.
Winner: the media; a victory over minds and hearts.
So who profited? because the one that profits is most likely to be the one that did it.
Too bad the muslims don't go after those who put them up to it... the muslim clerics and others.
Posted by: s_sgt7 at January 26, 2007 09:08 AM
Exactly! The problem is Islam is for idiots-only a mindless idiot would do the things the "holies" expect of them. And the best part is that all those mule-ahs live to a ripe old age. The West should make being a Muslim "holy" one of the world's most dangerous professions-zap these hate spewing monsters since they are nothing but officers in Illah's army of killers. If enough of them get the "martyrdom" they expect of others maybe some of them will think twice before becoming a "holy" man.
Tend to agree with Maryam.
Taking a historical perspective I think some people these days get a little too shrill about the muslim problem.
Granted - the jihad is extant.
Granted - there are far too many muslims causing mayhem around the globe.
Granted there is a strong desire to convert the entire world to Dar al Islam.
But at the same time - muslim societies are fundamentally backward, and intellectually and economically incompetent. Without the natural resources gifted to them by God (not Allah) and the Western technology required to exploit them, these people would still be stick in the middle ages.
No-one likes the idea of being blown up by some muppet who wants his 72 raisins in heaven, of course, but let's keep things in perspective - Zawahiri lives in a cave in Warziristan, Bin Laden and pals are dead, and Muslims kill more fellow Muslims every day than infidels by a factor of 50.
They lack credibility as a strategic threat.
I'm with Islamsforlosers. It's never the Imams strapping on a vest, or thier children.
Since 1979 when whatshisfaceini declared war on the US by taking over our embassy, we've seen countless Imams and mullahs threatening us. why don't we just kill these guys? It wouldn't take very many of them getting killed before they started running low on recruiters. Same with Ahmadinnerjacket.
We are not fighting a "Gentlmans" war where both sides adhere to a set of rules. Fight to win GW.
The life of a security guard in Islamic societies. I only hope they are paid well and his widow/family are taken care of - but I rather doubt it.
Kudos to the guard (who may have been a Muslim ).May he find peace.. Yet another Muslim upon Muslim killing...
Muslims do not care who they kill, just as long as they kill somebody...
Islam is mental disease.....
Just another manifestation of western imperialism, cultural arrogance and decadent lifestyles.
Oh yeah--and the JOOOOS, too.
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Why would anyone do that?
Are we seriously going to believe that this is a plan to take over the world?????????
.... A loud bang, one single non-combattant dead, and the media revels in the senselessness and unpopularity of the act.
Winner: the media; a victory over minds and hearts.
So who profited? because the one that profits is most likely to be the one that did it.
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Ah, dark musings from Maryam. So, despite Imams and Ayatollahs and the president of Iran calling for suicide bombings, this is actually a conspiracy by--who?--Ted Turner and Bill O'Reilly, would be my guess.
How exactly would "the Media" convince someone to strap on a bomb? My guess is that Wolf Blitzer and Geraldo Rivera might somewhat lack in the credibility department in urging "suicide actions", no matter what sort of great ratings they might result in.
I suppose they are also responsible for extreme weather, Congressional scandals, and police chases on the I-5 in LA, which also seem to be perennial ratings boosters.
Of course, it might always be the Jews. They tend to be well-educated and hard-working, so they (as a group) do fairly well even when suffering through rocket attacks on a regular basis. So my bet would be on the Zionist Entity and the Jooooz as the "actual perpetrators".
Alex said
True, they will never be able to raise an army and invade and conquer us. But they are a tactical threat, and as we saw on 9/11, even tactical threats can hurt. They cannot build up their own society, but they can take a good shot at knocking ours down to their level.
Can anyone doubt that dar al-Islam is in a state of civil war with itself, between the forces who want global domination through the sword (or suicide belt), and those who want global domination through slower means? Until Islam's civil war is resolved (translation: never), we should not allow the combatants into our nations.
"They [Muslims] lack credibility as a strategic threat."
-- from a posting above
Really? What happens to the armories of the NATO countries when Muslims are not 5% or 10% of the population, but 20% or 30%, and after deliberate campaigns to persuade Muslims to join the army and police? Anything? Nothing? What is happening today in Europe, not only in cities such as Malmo and Rotterdam and Bradford and Leeds, but in the capitals of Europe, and even in the midst of the most Tuscan of sites, Colle Val d'Elsa, where a huge mosque has been proposed (the one that Oriana Fallaci, that permanent anti-fascist and freedom-lover, said she would take pleasure in burning down herself, were it ever to be built). What effect has the large-scale presence of Muslims already had on the physical security of many Infidels, beginning but not ending with the remaining European Jews who may wear or wish to wear identifying garb and have been urged not to? What happens to the police when, as in France, there are whole swaths of territory regarded as no-go places, nogolandia, where ever Muslims live in large numbers? What happens to any sense of national unity or identity when large numbers of people openly, or secretly, harbor only hostliity toward Infidels among whom they live, and toward the man-made, and still worse Infidel-man-made, legal and political institutions of the Infidel nation-state, that has no right to permanent existence, that must in the view inculcated by Islam, must eventually yield, cease to be part of Dar al-Harb, and become part of Dar al-Islam - that is, a place where Islam dominates ("Islam is to dominate and is not to be dominated") and Muslims rule.
This is hardly the time to minimize the threat. If you wish to make the point that the threat is not, at this point, mainly a military one, that makes sense. But to deny that another ten or twenty trillion dollars, which will be received in the next decade by the Muslim oil states, will not be put to use funding more mosques and madrasas and propaganda, funding more arms-buying of every kind and arms projects of every menacing kind, and to buy up still more Western hirelings who may, in fact, rationalize their greed and treachery by telling themselves that "really, there is no strategic [whatever that adjecitve means -- I presume it means here something like "major" or "big" or "life-threatening"] threat from Islam."
But there is. And to deny it, when already most of the world is busily denying any kind of threat at all, or insisting that it is just, in the tortured formulation of London Police Chief Ian Blair, merely "the extreme view of one austere strand" of Islam, is both misleading and dangerous.
Yes, the menace, as a military matter, is manageable, as you note. But at the same time, the menace is real and great. Those two sentences do not contradict each other.
Assalamaua Liakum Maryam and all,
Indeed these peoples bring a dark shadow across Islam by doing these dasdardly things.
It is a pity that one could not ask why the explosion. Is it that India still exists, or tht Pak was created or whether Hari Singh left (half of) Kashmir to India.
Perhaps he wanted to meet Allah SWT. What is not right is for the peoples here to say that musdlims can turn anytime on a sixpence and so must be removed form teh West....the West belongs to Allah and muslims too. How can you remove something that is part of you?
If he wanted to protest...get some lessons in Dua and hold a loudspeaker infront of the hotel and speak.
India is preparing to attack Pakistan.....
"What is not right is for the peoples here to say that musdlims can turn anytime on a sixpence and so must be removed form teh West....the West belongs to Allah and muslims too. How can you remove something that is part of you"?
It's called life saving surgery.
This is a stupid story blown out in all proportions but suicide bombings comes with a political or religious agenda as well, which only magnifies it compared to a normal homicide.
What is worse is that this is getting international attention more than the killing of in Turkey that had a more international impact but especially the UK did not cover enough the implications as they usually do not like the recent Mosque preachers of hate never got an eye in the news either. Not sure about the rest of the world but from the UK that seems the perspective of the trend people and I have picked up on. This story is dumb and even Jihadwatch should have dismissed it his bomb was a little on the small scale too, please add this to an end of month review of minor incidences.
Minor incidences tend to be advance warning of major incidences....
This is a stupid story blown out in all proportions but suicide bombings comes with a political or religious agenda as well, which only magnifies it compared to a normal homicide.
What is worse is that this is getting international attention more than the killing of in Turkey that had a more international impact but especially the UK did not cover enough the implications as they usually do not like the recent Mosque preachers of hate never got an eye in the news either. Not sure about the rest of the world but from the UK that seems the perspective of the trend people and I have picked up on. This story is dumb and even Jihadwatch should have dismissed it his bomb was a little on the small scale too, please add this to an end of month review of minor incidences.
To, llorT yzarC diputS pU tuhS
"What is not right is for the peoples here to say that musdlims can turn anytime on a sixpence and so must be removed form teh West....the West belongs to Allah and muslims too. How can you remove something that is part of you"?
It's called life saving surgery.
I am not sure this is sarcasm but a lot of I will take this as a joke.
I think Christians are doing the same thing its called evangelising spreading the word of the Bible. The world does not belong to a particular group but the people belong to God. The only place on earth that belongs to a particular group that was stated before Islam came about and applies today and prophecy is Israel the promised land for the Jews and the story of the Bible has concluded that as Muslims claim their book is the last seal. In Christianity it's not about taking to conquer land for Christ it’s about turning people to him it's a matter of not earthly things like land. It’s to decide something that is not part of the West Allah as that is not our or the Christian Jews or other religions aim in life.
Then comes the notion Jesus from the Bible is the same as the one Mohammad claims which is not that is why he rewrote all of Biblical history as a Mormon has found it easy to do also and claim they are right also. The only way is faith and at the moment atheism is on the rise and the 5 children to a family of Muslims are growing in Europe whist most non Muslim families have 1 child now in Europe per family due to bringing quality for that child rather than facing hardships on a 5 children family who end up with lack of attention or prosperity for a stable future. Ok in Europe they divorce but usually without having 5 or 6 children to look after if they did as suicide bomber would for example leave that behind or the wife stays feared and oppressed.
This is where Muslim arrogance comes in the world is theirs even if they never worked building the cities or the past of the country as the Palestinians do asking for Israel back. Since it prospered from nothing turning marsh lands that the Palestinians had decades to do up or never were interested in making anything from their lives until someone showed up and made a new country, now all of a sudden they want it back. They don't even try and establish today new building work to live a better life but rather die whist the West pays sympathy that they are too arrogant to bow down to democracy whist the rest of the world has to surrender to Islam. Nations are made through war and then peace if someone wants to establish their version of peace then it takes war, like Iraq or like Somalia same difference but different systems. If Allah and the Muslims want Europe then they are asking for War as they did before the crusades and this is called History repeating it self.
maryam --
You are the stereotypical dismissive, HEARTLESS Muslim that I've come to enjoy writing back to. I may not belong to the military, but JW allows me the opportunity to confront the enemy anyway; and you -- believe it or not -- ARE the enemy, because you talk/walk/smell like it.
Your heartless attitude and comment regarding the security guard who died protecting this hotel doesn't surprise me AT ALL. You said, "one-single non combatant dead"; as if to say, "What's the big deal?" Are you serious???!!! Would you be saying something so callous if the "one-single" person who died had been your husband, your son, your brother, etc?
I do not feel the least bit sorry for the bomber who died OR his family, because he CHOSE to kill himself, and his hopeless family probably supported him.
But I do grieve for the security guard and his family as they were the victims of this insane act of terroism; and maryam, it WAS an act of terrorism, and it could have resulted in the loss of many more lives.
The guard was a hero, and he saved many lives, and he should be recognized by his community as a hero. May God bless the security guards soul, and may God bless his family.
One last thing, maryam, you are a psychopath -- because you make light of the death of innocent victims. You also made a similar comment on another thread concerning 9/11 when all you commented on were the, "two buildings falling down", and not on the loss of precious lives that were lost.
Oh really, is the building ALL that was lost on 9/11? Our entire country grieved over the loss of their lives, as did most of the world, and all you can say is that we lost a building? Are you even human?
Dictionary time Maryam!
Look up:
1) psychopath 2) pathological liar 3) heartless
Please use an English dictionary, not the one that you grew up with.
Re: "It was a suicide attack. The suicide attacker and a guard were killed," Sherpao said. "The attacker tried to enter the hotel and was stopped by the security guard and there was a scuffle and the blast occurred."
But he probably had great "family values".
I hope people stop posting to this story it's just one of many to come up if the number reaches 50 people outside of Iraq you know it's worth reporting or commenting on or if it was a organised plot on a grand scale.
In name of decency doesn't anyone have a kind word for the guard who was determined to do his duty and paid for it with his life?
RAM
Islamic terror is a plot on a grand scale..one dead innocent man trying to earn an honest living is just as important as 50 dead men trying to earn an honest living....especially if the killer is the same entity.....The problem is that entity is killing at will and it matters not if one is killed or if 50 are killed... although the killers do prefer higher body counts for the fear factor.....
Good points raised by s_sgt and Hugh and others. Thanks for the link to Obsession but it doesn't seem to work.
Hugh said: Really? What happens to the armories of the NATO countries when Muslims are not 5% or 10% of the population, but 20% or 30%, and after deliberate campaigns to persuade Muslims to join the army and police? Anything? Nothing?
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I am making the point that the threat is not mainly a military one but I am also being a little more optimistic than some. Some might call this naieve, no doubt.
Who knows what happens? One suspects whatever does transpire won't be all good but it is good that you point up demographics, as Mark Steyn never fails to do.
Quite simply if the indiginous populations of western democracies do not up their birth-rate then and we stick with our current model of democracy, muslims will be in a position to start calling the shots. Personally I suspect that the entire Ummah of say, France, won't go all-in for the death cultism and regress to the 7th century. Look at Iraq - there are a lot of people there who would like to live in a functioning democracy. It will be interesting to see if they can pull it off. Of course I'm no better at predicting the future than anyone else. Things may get very bad indeed in the future before they get better, or rather if they get better.
Highlighting the threat that a resurgent Islam represents to western democracy is a worthy task. Given that Muslims are already in our midst though, it seems that to maintain western democracy and values the only viable solution is to up the birth rate and awareness of Islam and the jihad.
R.Kyle --
Please read my above post, as I named this guard a 'hero' for what he did.
It's sad to see people labeled as trolls - ad hominem arguments are typically the preserve of people who lack the will or ability to marshal their arguments.
Naseem:"Indeed these peoples bring a dark shadow across Islam by doing these dasdardly things."
Agreed.
Naseem:"What is not right is for the peoples here to say that musdlims can turn anytime on a sixpence and so must be removed form teh West."
And you back up that declaration with.......?
Naseem:"If he wanted to protest...get some lessons in Dua and hold a loudspeaker infront of the hotel and speak."
Agreed. But in reality Naseem, isn't this the sort of thing YOU should be preaching to other MUSLIMS? For in telling us here on the boards, you are just stating the obvious.
I am actually a little surprised about the need for a high-class hotel such as a Marriott in a miserable cesspool like Pakistan. Marriott's are for decent, respectable people and you find almost none of those in miserable muslim lands. I can't imagine what kind of tourist industry they would have. What would one do there? Take a tour of the world famous Burka District?
"They lack credibility as a strategic threat."
-Alex
Right on there,but what is your opinion on the demographic situation, or is the in house civil war going to cancel out those numbers?
I'm interested in hearing your take on that angle if you please.
Alex said
"They lack credibility as a strategic threat."
Nonsense.
Look at a map of the world and look at the area covered by dar al-Islam.
Perhaps you meant they lack credibility as a short term tactical threat. You'd be right.
They lack every ability on every level except the love of death, dirt and ignorance.
The entire intellectual achievements of Islam could be written on an eggshell.
And now they are in our own lands, placed here by either traitorous or duped enablers.
Look at how the Mohammedans operate, the healthiest human breeders on the planet, immense patience, a Qu'ran that teaches Islam must dominate and not be dominated, guile, cruelty, delight in pure unadulterated evil.
If left to demographics Islam poses a huge strategic threat.
They will conquer us using our own institutions, our sentimentality and our hard won freedoms if we underestimate the threat.
Apparently the Indians had their celebration after all!
Indian function despite attack
ISLAMABAD: India celebrated its 58th Republic Day at a local hotel under strict security measures after a suicide attack there earlier in the day. Daily Times Monitor adds: Addressing a reception on the eve of the Indian Republic Day, Indian High Commissioner Satya Brata Pal said that India and Pakistan would fight terrorism together and such attacks won’t derail the peace process, Aaj television reported. Pal said that the perpetrators of the suicide attack had failed to achieve their motive because the Republic Day ceremony had been held at the same venue even after the incident. staff report
However some journos trying to report on this blast were beaten up by the cops!
Police beat journalists
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad police swung batons at journalists covering the scene of a suicide attack outside a local five-star hotel here on Friday, injuring more than 25 journalists. Cameramen and photographers from various television channels and newspapers were busy covering the incident when Additional SP Dr Moeen Masood stopped them. Dr Moeen ordered his force to baton charge the journalists when they told him that they were only doing their professional duty. Interior Secretary Kamal Shah told journalists that a judicial inquiry into the incident had been ordered and a report would be submitted to the interior minister within 24 hours. staff report
"They lack credibility as a strategic threat.
Posted by: Alex"
Yes, that is what an Arora would have said in 700 A.D.
Suicide bombers represent to me the fatal flaw of Islam. If religion is to nourish the spirit in order to properly express the fruit of our human existance, then the Islamic clerics who are the instruments of this spiritual manifestation of Mohammed has fed this guy some poisoned food and many like him are eating out of the same feedbag.
A Christian martyr is admired because he stands for his faith under the threat of death by tyrants but these clowns administer death at the urging of their spiritual vanguards for the purpose of implimenting tyranny.
To quote former coach Moura from the New Orleans Saints: "sick, sick, sick, sick people."
"the only viable solution is to up the birth rate "
Alternative....Increase the death rate of the enemy......
Alex, you're in denial.
R. Kyle wrote:
In name of decency doesn't anyone have a kind word for the guard who was determined to do his duty and paid for it with his life?
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Yes--this man is a hero, as several other posters have noted. I'm sure the carnage would have been much greater had the suicide bomber been allowed to enter a crowded hotel, as surely he intended to do.