A woman and three children were killed Monday, May 2, the day of death of Osama bin Laden, by exploding a bomb near a mosque in northwestern Pakistan, a country experiencing a deadly wave of bombings Taliban allied with al-Qaida. The attack happened in Charsadda, near the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, which is the stronghold of Pakistani Taliban.
The mosque is adjacent to a police station that seems to have been the target of the attack, said local police chief. Besides the wife and three children killed, five people were injured, including two policemen, the source said. The bomb partially destroyed the mosque and a section of wall at the police station.
The attack has not yet been claimed, but the movement of Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has primary responsibility for a wave of some 460 attacks - suicide attacks for the most part - which killed over 4200 people in throughout Pakistan over the past three years. In the summer of 2007, the TTP, who had sworn allegiance to al-Qaida had declared, in unison with Osama bin Laden, Jihad in Islamabad for supporting the "war against terrorism" by Washington since the end of 2001.
President Barack Obama announced the death of bin Laden, on the night of Sunday to Monday in an air raid U.S. Special Forces in Abbottabad, about fifty miles north of Charsadda. Monday afternoon, the Taliban have vowed to avenge bin Laden. "If he had martyrdom, we will avenge his death and launch attacks against U.S.
and Pakistani governments and their security forces, these people are actually the enemies of Islam," said spokesman TTP, Ehsanullah Ehsan. 
The mosque is adjacent to a police station that seems to have been the target of the attack, said local police chief. Besides the wife and three children killed, five people were injured, including two policemen, the source said. The bomb partially destroyed the mosque and a section of wall at the police station.
The attack has not yet been claimed, but the movement of Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has primary responsibility for a wave of some 460 attacks - suicide attacks for the most part - which killed over 4200 people in throughout Pakistan over the past three years. In the summer of 2007, the TTP, who had sworn allegiance to al-Qaida had declared, in unison with Osama bin Laden, Jihad in Islamabad for supporting the "war against terrorism" by Washington since the end of 2001.
President Barack Obama announced the death of bin Laden, on the night of Sunday to Monday in an air raid U.S. Special Forces in Abbottabad, about fifty miles north of Charsadda. Monday afternoon, the Taliban have vowed to avenge bin Laden. "If he had martyrdom, we will avenge his death and launch attacks against U.S.
and Pakistani governments and their security forces, these people are actually the enemies of Islam," said spokesman TTP, Ehsanullah Ehsan.
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