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And once granted safe passage, they took along five children and ten other residents of the town as human shields.
"Islamic militants take schoolchildren hostage in Pakistan," from Indo-Asian News Service:
Islamabad, Jan 28 : A group of Islamic militants entered a high school in a town in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) Monday and took around 300 children hostage, media reports said.
The insurgents stormed into the school to escape arrest after failing to abduct a government health official and his driver in the Battal Khel area of Bannu district, 200 km south of the NWFP capital Peshawar, the Aaj television channel reported.
From inside the school building the rebels exchanged fire with law enforcers, leaving three security personnel injured. One of the hostage-takers was also killed in the gunfight, but all the children remained safe.
The armed men released most of the students but held 25 of them and six teachers following hours of negotiations with the local religious leaders and administration.
The militants demanded safe passage with five schoolchildren and 10 local residents, assuring authorities that the hostages would be released once they crossed into the lawless tribal areas, the TV report said.
The hostage drama is the first of its nature in the ongoing conflict between Islamic extremists and the government of President Pervez Musharraf.
Pro-Taliban militants from the neighbouring restive tribal region bordering Afghanistan routinely launch raids in the Bannu district on security officials and state installations.
Posted by Marisol at January 29, 2008 12:33 AM
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There it is again: "Islamic Militants", "Insurgents", when they are really the companions - Ṣahābi - of Mohammad, following the footsteps of the Perfect Man, Q 33:21.
Category error.
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at January 29, 2008 1:11 AM
Obviously these guys did a stupid thing, but they were trying to save their lives for heavens's sake.
This is what you call on-the run tactical moves: i am sure they have brought publicity to their cause and do not in any way seek to kill those children.
Reminds me of the Beslan story in which russian forces stormed a school to "free" children and killing 300 of them instead.
they knew the risks but they preferred to slaughter the kids but "not give in to terrorists": talk about ego overcoming rational thought.
Posted by: Goldberg at January 29, 2008 1:13 AM
Glad to see "Goldberg" excusing the hostage-taking of children.
Hope you don't have any kids, G.
Ever.
Posted by: profitsbeard at January 29, 2008 2:16 AM
From the article:
Pro-Taliban militants from the neighbouring restive tribal region bordering Afghanistan routinely launch raids...
There's that quaint term "restive" again. Why "restive"? Why not "violent", "warring", "berserk", "psychotic", "deranged", "overzealous", "obsessed", or "belligerent"? There are so many words that are more accurate than "restive".
A jr. high school class at 3:25pm is restive. Taliban-ruled Waziristan is beserk, not restive.
Posted by: special_guest at January 29, 2008 2:47 AM
You gotta love the media in canada now the the Human Rights Commissions can Charge and financially punish anyone that may have caused a possible offence to a Muslim somewhere on Earth that may live in canada today or in the future.
The report i heard on the radio was that SOME gunmen entered a School and held students but didn't make any demands , and after a short while the students were release as the gunmen surrendered.
WOW , now Canadains in the Media live in fear of reporting News from other Nations because the HRC is in bed with the Pro-Sharia Islamofascists like Dr.Elmasry and his pals at CAIR-Canada .
Posted by: ala-sux at January 29, 2008 2:52 AM
Islam's colour is that same.
Whether it is Pakistan or Beslan.
Whether it is the 7th century or the 21st century.
Posted by: proud-hindu at January 29, 2008 3:30 AM
"
This is what you call on-the run tactical moves: i am sure they have brought publicity to their cause and do not in any way seek to kill those children
Posted by: Goldberg"
Immediately after the Belsan attack , nutcase Al-Zawahiri from the AL-Qaeda issued the following statement:
"The killing of the Russian Crusader Butchers in Ossetia is the start of a street and gang war the heroic mujaheeden will conduct against the European security forces and army,''
"Prior to the raid in Beslan, two passenger planes crashed on Aug. 24 when bombs went off, killing 89 people, and 10 died on Monday from a suicide bomb attack near a Moscow subway station. A group calling itself the Islambouli Brigades, which Putin said is linked to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the plane and subway attacks."
"officials said 10 Arabs were among the 27 hostage-takers "
"At least 250 people - most of them students, teachers and parents - died, according to official reports and witnesses, after two large explosions set off pitched battles between heavily armed captors and Russian forces that continued for hours.
[More than 340 people, including 155 children, were killed in the violence that ended a hostage standoff with militants at a southern Russian school, a prosecutor said Saturday, according to the Associated Press."
....the majority of the deaths in the school were caused by the terrorists who set off preset charges which caved in the roof of the building on top of the hostages...The terrorists began shooting the hostages as the Russians moved in...
...it appears to me the terrorists did plan to kill....they were suicide bombers on a mission...
this incident was not an isolated terrorist attacks in the area:
9/04/2004
Belsan
Death toll up to 300 as Russian counterterrorists go in after the terrorists begin killing.
9/02/2004 Belsan
31 Hostages released in tense standoff, hundreds remain
9/01/2004
Belsan
16 Dead at school where militants, some with bombs strapped on their bodies are also holding some 300 hostages, near the Chechnyan border
8/31/2004
Moscow
A Female suicide bomber kills 10 in Moscow with strapped on bomb in subway station, 50 wounded
8/29/2004
Grozny, Chechnya
One suicide bomber kills self outside polling station during election
8/27/2004 Machachkala, Chechnya Bomb outside police station kills 2
8/24/2004 Moscow Two separate Russian airline flights (a Tu-134 and Tu-154) explode, later it is determined that two Chechnyan women roommates boarded the separate flights and timed the explosions to occur within minutes of each other. 90 people aboard two aircraft were killed. Traces of the explosive Hexogen found in wreckages of both planes.
8/24/2004
Moscow
Bomb at bus stop injuring 4
8/23/2004
Dagestan Three killed 7 wounded by truck bomb
7/26/2004
Grozny, Chechnya
Policeman killed by car bomb under his patrol vehicle outside police station
7/25/2004
Dagestan, Russia
Policeman killed, two wounded by grenade attack on checkpoint
7/18/2004
Chechnya
Female leader of the pro-Putin party in Chechnya killed by home invasion by terrorists
7/14/2004
Grozny, Chechnya
Temporary new President Sergei Abramov of Chechnya escapes roadside bomb attack. One guard killed, two injured.
6/21/2004
Nazran in Ingushetia Rebels kill civilians in a major attack on the city
5/9/2004
Grozny, Chechnya Chechnyan President and 24 others killed in bombing at victory celebration in stadium in the capital city of Chechnya
2/6/2004
Moscow
Subway Bomb kills 4
2/3/2004
Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia Killed 2 and injured 10
1/29/2004
Grozny, Chechnya
Umar Mantsigov kidnapped from his home, not heard from since Zavodskoi district
2003
12/23/2003
Lermontov-Yurt, Chechnya
Pipe bomb discovered near checkpoint
12/9/2003
Moscow
Female suicide bomber kills herself and five bystanders outside Kremlin, next to National Hotel.
12/5/2003
Southern Russia
Suicide bomber on commuter train kills 44 people before elections in Chechnya
10/22/2003
Moscow
Chechnyan militants take over the Nord-Ost theatre, 160 killed when Russian anti-terrorist units flood theater with lethal gas.
9/16/2003
Near Chechnya
Two suicide bombers in truck bomb kill 3, 25 injured
9/3/2003
Pyatigorsk, Chechnya
Six killed on commuter train, police initially deny terrorism
8/22/2003
Grozny, Chechnya
Nine Russian soldiers killed by remote controlled car bomb
8/1/2003
Mozdok, Chechnya
50 people killed by suicide truck bomb next to hospital - dead include Russian soldiers wounded in Ossetia
7/24/2003
Khankala, Chechnya
Two female suicide bombers were raped and killed by those who had trained them proportedly because they refused to carry out their missions.
7/12/2003
Mozdok, North Ossettia
Female suicide bomber killed 17 in bus carrying workers to nearby Prokhladny Air Force base
7/10/2003
Moscow
Security agent killed while defusing bomb carried by suicide bomber
7/5/2003
Moscow
Double suicide bombing kills 15 at rock concert at Tushnio airfield
6/5/2003
Mozdok, Chechnya
Female suicide bomber kills 16 (to18) on bus carrying soldiers and civilians at airfield in North Osseta, wounding 12 others.
5/17/2003
Bachi-Yurt, Chechnya
Four shot in villiage by four terrorists
5/14/2003
Chechnya
Female Suicide bomber kills 18 in crowd of Muslim pilgrims, apparent attempt on Akhmad Kadyrov, region's president
5/13/2003
Northern Chechnya Two (to three) suicide bombers driving truck bomb kill 41 and dozens of others at government building.
5/12/2003 Znamenskoye, No. Chechnya Suicide truck bomber near government compound kills approximately 60 and wounded 190
5/3/2003
Iliskhan-Yurt, Chechnya
Two women killed by a terrorist attack in apartment where they were staying
4/3/2003 Grozny, Chechnya Passenger destroyed by mine in Grozny, killing 8
2002
12/27/2002
Grozny, Chechnya 72 people killed by truck bomb outside Government building
12/29/2002
Grozny, Chechnya
Three in suicide trucks bomb kill 57, driving into canteen during lunch hour
12/9/2002
Alkhan-Yurt Car bomb outside mosque kills 16 civilans
10/22/2002
SW Moscow
7 injured by blast outside MacDonalds restaurant
9/10/2002
Beno-Yurt, Chechnya
Akmed Zavgayev, the chief administrator of the Nadterechnyi district was killed by gunmen on the road after a meeting with pro-Moscow republican governor
2001
9/20/2001
Kurchaloi, Chechnya
Police Chief Salman Abuyev and 6 policeman killed in roadside attack
6/19/2001 Gudermes, Chechnya 12 killed by two car bombs
4/14/2001 Avtury, Chechnya Chechyan Vice President Adam Deniyev killed by roadside bomb
2000
10/12/2000
Grozny, Chechnya
15 killed, dozens wounded by car bomb
8/2000
Moscow, Russia
13 killed, 90 injured in Pushkin Square, conflicting reports as to whether bombers were criminal gangs or terrorists
7/3/2000
Grozny, Chechnya
25 killed by truck bomb
6/12/2000
Grozny, Chechnya
Bomb planted on army truck killed one soldier
6/11/2000
Khankala, Chechnya
Truck bomb killed two Russian sergeants
6/7/2000
Alkhan-Yurt, Chechnya Two policeman killed, five others wounded by truck bomb, truck driven by a man and a woman at a checkpoint at the Omsk OMON (Russian Special Forces) base.
6/1/2000
Volgograd, Russia
Explosion outside army base
1999
9/1999
SE Moscow, Russia
Two residential block explosions blasted down buildings in SE Moscow and southern Russia killing between 200 and 300.
1998
10/25/1998
Grozny, Chechnya
Anti-kidnapping force chief Shaid Bargishev killed by bomb, 2 guards seriously injured
The common denominator of the attacks...Islam...
Goldberg sez:
"Reminds me of the Beslan story in which russian forces stormed a school to "free" children and killing 300 of them instead.
....the fact is.....the Russians did not kill the captives...the Muslim terrorists did and they planned to do it....this is established by the fact that they wired the building with explosives and set them off when the Russians moved in to arrest them....it was premeditated murder....
"you must expect death when Muslims show up"
"and you cannot negotiate with them"
"
at January 29, 2008 6:14 AM
Once again, how many of the same people who are protesting the kidnapping of THEIR children applauded when it was done to non-Muslims? And how many of them would join in the violence in the event of the Wilders film's release?
Pro-Taliban militants from the neighbouring restive tribal region bordering Afghanistan routinely launch raids in the Bannu district on security officials and state installations.
And nothing has been done before now? How many pro-Talibans are in Bannu? Looks like they're reaping what they have sown. How do they like it?
Posted by: PMK at January 29, 2008 8:03 AM
exsgtbrown - great post!
goldberg - the rules of Western warfare deliberately forbid the targeting of civilians, in particular, children. Yes, armies in the West have accidently killed civilians - but in no case does the Western military plan to kill them.
This is a tactic of Al-Qaeda and it's fellow jihadists.
Posted by: tanstaafl at January 29, 2008 8:46 AM
Goldberg sez: "Reminds me of the Beslan story in which russian forces stormed a school to "free" children and killing 300 of them instead.
A stupid assessment gets ...
....the fact is.....the Russians did not kill the captives...the Muslim terrorists did and they planned to do it....this is established by the fact that they wired the building with explosives and set them off when the Russians moved in to arrest them....it was premeditated murder....
... an intelligent and factual response.
The Russians did not after all, take over the school in Beslan and shoot the children in the back when they tried to escape -- it was the muslim murderers who did that in the name of the mohammad because that is what islam teaches in the quaran.
Posted by: witness at January 29, 2008 5:22 PM
Reminds me of the Beslan story in which russian forces stormed a school to "free" children and killing 300 of them instead.
they knew the risks but they preferred to slaughter the kids but "not give in to terrorists": talk about ego overcoming rational thought.
Posted by: Goldberg
So let me understand.. removing children from hostage takers is not *Freeing* them? Do u meant to imply they were with these moslem swine who invaded their school on their own free will?!
Yes u are a moslem so of course u expect us to give in to terrorists.
It never occurs to u and ur ilk that WE love our freedom more than u love ur Satan allashat.
And thus we are willing to sacrifice our selves and sometimes even our defenseless own in the pursuit of their liberation.
To give in is worse than death.
Posted by: Allah Schmallah at January 29, 2008 6:43 PM
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