Revenge for arrests that may have helped U.S. forces track down Mullah Dadullah. "Bombing in Pakistan border area kills 25," by Riaz Khan for the Associated Press:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide bomber with a warning to spies for America taped to his leg attacked a crowded restaurant Tuesday near the Afghan border, killing at least 25 people days after a relative of the Taliban's slain commander was arrested there, officials said.
The explosion deepened instability in a country still reeling from deadly political riots over the weekend in its commercial capital, Karachi. The attack appeared unrelated to that unrest, but rather the work of an Islamic militant.
Provincial police chief Sharif Virk said the message taped to the severed leg of the bomber said spies for America would meet the same fate as those killed and included the Persian word "Khurasan" — often used in militant videos to describe Afghanistan.
The owner of the hotel restaurant, who was killed in the bombing, was an Afghan with ties to an anti-Taliban warlord, and the restaurant itself was popular with many Afghans.
Two security officials told The Associated Press that a close relative of the Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah was arrested in the restaurant a few days before Tuesday's attack. The officials, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, refused to be identified.
They declined to say whether the arrest had helped the U.S. military track down Dadullah over the weekend and kill him in southern Afghanistan — one of the most senior militant leaders to die since the ouster of the Taliban regime in late 2001 for hosting al-Qaida.
Earlier, Javed Iqbal Cheema, a top Pakistani counterterrorism official, told a news conference he did not think the bombing was linked to Dadullah and denied that Pakistan had provided any intelligence that led to his killing.
"I would only say that Dadullah was killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan did not provide any intelligence on Dadullah," he said in Islamabad.
However, a senior investigator said police were examining whether Tuesday's attack could be linked to events in Pakistan's volatile tribal regions or Afghanistan.
Hassan Khan, a waiter in the ground-floor restaurant, said he survived only because he was delivering food to guests in their rooms when the blast occurred.
"I lost my senses, and when I came round and ran to see, there were dead bodies and body parts everywhere, even out in the street," said Khan, whose clothes were stained with blood and soot.
He said the bomb went off soon after the Afghan owner of the restaurant, Saddar Uddin, had returned from a trip outside with some relatives. Uddin, his two sons and two other relatives as well as seven employees were among the dead, he said.
An intelligence official said Uddin, an ethnic Uzbek, had links to the party of the anti-Taliban warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, part of the Northern Alliance that toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan with U.S. support in 2001.
Like the investigator, the intelligence official requested anonymity because he was not authorized to comment to journalists.
Cheema said 25 people were killed and 30 wounded in the bombing.
Windows of the hotel front were shattered and fans hanging from the roof were twisted. Windows were also shattered in nearby buildings. Television footage showed the bloodied bodies of victims on stretchers being bundled into waiting ambulances and then carried chaotically through the crowded corridors of nearby hospitals.
we should drop Mullah Dadullahs head in the main plaza with a note: "THis is what happens to Islamic terrorists."
I thought about his leg, but it was already gone.
DADULLAH?
i.e.
DAD (OF) ALLAH
i.e.
GODFATHER?
Just doing some thinking.
OT
Fox news reports bus hijacked in Northern Italy and set on fire. 2 of 3 hijackers are Albanian.
Must be them damn Albanian Amish again.
Leave Iraq Now, it was 3 "yutes".
Ynkedoodl2, I'm thinking the name Mullah Dadullah has more in common with Magilla Gorilla than The Godfather.
But that’s simply based on outward appearances and phonetics =)
why is the movie "my cousin vinny" leaping into my memory bank all of a sudden?
can't quite place why. huh.
"can't quite place why. huh.
Posted by: kafir_kelbeh "
...marissa tormey?....
Posted by: Leave Iraq Now
Must be them damn Albanian Amish again.
In 1997 they where pouring into Italy at the rate of 10,000 a week
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/05/another-small-incident.html
From May 5 to May 11, there were at least 66 jihad attacks leaving 511 dead bodies and 489 critically injured in at least 11 nations:
Thailand
India
Egypt
Somalia
Phillipines
Algeria
Afghanistan
Chechnya
Pakistan
Iraq
Pal.Auth.
see www.thereligionofpeace.com
What a way to deliver a message . .
Khurasan is different from Afghanistan. It geographically covers the North East area of Iran, as well as Western and Northern Afghanistan. Major cities here would be Nishabor, Mashed, Herat, Ghowr, Mazar e Sharif, Balkh and Badakhshan. Places like Kabul, Kandahar, Ghazni, Jalalalalabad, Kunduz aren't usually covered by this description.
At any rate, good news. The Karachi riots seem more related to their chief justice and his problems with Musharraf, than with a larger Jihad. But regardless, internecine fighting within Pakistan is good for everyone - including these shahids who'll soon be united with their houris.
Oh this is classic..."spies for America"?
Their paranoia is getting the better of them...
I love it when a plan comes together.
lol
Spawn of the Killer Koran.
Devoid of all normal human feelings.
Thirsting for chaos and carnage and death.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near everyone.
Ummm, 'beard, didn't they already make movies about that?
I think it was the "Terminator" series.
lol
(j/k)
there were dead bodies and body parts everywhere, even out in the street
ISLAM WAS HERE
when will it be punished ?
OT:
Over at Umar Lee's pro-Islamic blog, his response to death theats and jihadists in general, with a conspiratorial reference to Robert more than once. An interesting read, and one that further validates JW's and DW's existence, IMO.
http://umarlee.com/2007/05/14/questions-from-a-shahid-wanna-be-and-my-response-to-tariq-nelson-death-threats/#comments
It seems there is trouble in the land of the "72 virgins" of Islamic paradise.
The paranoia is growing. Keep up the good work Robert and Company. It appears that spreading the truth about Islam has a pronounced adverse affect in the Islamic community.
jcom972-
Or was it: "Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies".
THEY'LL CHOP OFF YOUR HEAD FOR THEIR "GOD"!
THEY'RE AFRAID OF PIGS AND DOGS AND WOMEN!
CARTOONS CAN DRIVE THEM INTO A FRENZIED RAGE!
THEY WILL SET FIRE TO EFFIGIES OF RONALD McDONALD!
What mere book could drive men to do all this?
Ummm...the author of "heather has two mommies"? lol
The warning to spies from this suicide bomber shouldn't be given any serious creedence. He simply did not have a leg to stand on.
...well, not anymore, at least...lol
I hate to be funny on the subject of islamic jihadism but I can't help but notice..
They are sure getting us Germans off the hook as being the worst and most dastardly human beings ever to roam the Earth..
/sarc off