Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The balance of the attack to avenge bin Laden stands

The balance of the double suicide bombing in Pakistan Friday before a training center for police by the Taliban allied with al-Qaeda in retaliation for the death of Osama bin Laden has risen to ninety-eight dead, said Tuesday the police. A Shabqadar, in the Northwest, the first suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew up his bomb among the cadets of the Frontier Constabulary ("border police") who boarded the bus for ten days' leave.

Then, when their colleagues and rescue workers helped the injured, a second suicide bomber detonated his bomb. Eighty-one people were killed instantly, and "the last four days, many wounded died in hospital, bringing the total to ninety-eight dead," said Tuesday Liaquat Ali Khan the police chief of Peshawar, the main city in the Northwest.

The twin bombings killed more than one hundred forty wounded. "To date, forty-three people remain hospitalized," said Khan. The Taliban Movement of Pakistan (TTP), which has pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda, had immediately claimed the attack, "a first action to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden," said their spokesman.

TTP is the main responsible for a wave of nearly four hundred and eighty attacks - suicide bombings mostly - which killed nearly four thousand four hundred people across Pakistan since the summer of 2007 when, at the unison with bin Laden in person, they have declared Jihad in Islamabad for supporting Washington in its "war against terrorism" since late 2001.

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