Expect that mosque to issue a statement about how Islam condemns suicide and this bomber was a Misunderstander of Islam.
Actually, of course, just in case you aren’t aware, we should expect no such thing. Such statements are generally issued only in the West, for the bamboozling of unwary and eager-to-be-fooled Infidels.
“Twin bombings devastate Bannu killing 15,” by Zulfiqar Ali in Dawn, February 12:
PESHAWAR: Fifteen people, seven policemen among them, were killed and 25 others wounded in Bannu on Thursday evening when two suspected suicide bombs ripped through Police Lines.
District Police Officer Iqbal Marwat received serious injuries in the second attack and was stated to be in critical condition….
“‘Second Bannu bomber was hiding in mosque,'” by Iqbal Khattak in the Daily Times, February 14 (thanks to Twostellas):
PESHAWAR: While Iqbal Marwat, the Bannu district police officer (DPO), battles for his life at the Combined Military Hospital in Rawalpindi, an eyewitness of Thursday’s twin suicide attacks in Bannu said the second bomber had been hiding in the mosque before blowing himself up.
“Immediately after Marwat arrived at the scene, the second bomber appeared from a nearby mosque and blew himself up about 30 metres away from the police official,” Farman Nawaz, a teacher present at the scene of the blast, told Daily Times on Saturday.
More than a dozen of people, including eight policemen, were killed in the suicide attack. Going by sketches of the bombers released by the Bannu Police, the men looked like Uzbeks.
What? Uzbeks? From secular post-Soviet Uzbekistan, a bastion of Islamic moderation? There must be some mistake!
“I could not see his (second bomber’s) face nor judge his height as there was smoke everywhere after the first explosion, but what I noticed was that he had come out of the mosque,” the eyewitness said….
Thursday’s twin attack left question marks over the success of previous military operations against terrorists in Janikhel and Bakhakhel areas last year.
…although the learned analysts in those days enthusiastically trumpeted these military operations as signs that the Pakistani government was genuinely beginning to move against the jihadists.