Bomb blast rocks Pakistani police van, killing 7

[IndianaGreen]

Bomb blast rocks Pakistani police van, killing 7

Four others wounded; official blames Islamic militants for attack

Updated: 4:16 p.m. ET March 19, 2006

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Suspected Islamic militants set off three bombs Sunday, one of which exploded near a police van and killed seven people in northwestern Pakistan, officials said.

The two other bombs damaged walls of a police station and a government building.

A powerful roadside bomb blew up the police vehicle while it was on patrol in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in northwestern Pakistan about 180 miles southwest of the capital, Islamabad, local police official Dar Ali Khattak said.

Three policemen, three paramilitary police and a passer-by were killed in the explosion on a road in the city’s Kotli Imam neighborhood, Khattak said. Four other bystanders — two women and two men — were injured, he said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11905258/

BBC: Seven killed in Pakistani blast

At least seven people have been killed in a roadside bombing near the town of Dera Ismail Khan in north-west Pakistan, police have said.

The blast hit a police van on a routine patrol, killing three policemen, three paramilitary soldiers and a passer-by.

"It was a remote-controlled bomb," district police officer Daar Ali Khattak said.

At least four other by-standers are also reported to have been injured in the explosion.

The police van was badly damaged in the blast, about 290km (180 miles) south-west of the capital, Islamabad.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4821864.stm

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1. Iraq, the gift that keeps on giving. nt

[IndianaGreen]

2. The bombing was in Pakistan where our friend Musharraf is President

General Musharraf - came to power
as head of the army

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1742997.stm

It should be noted that in Pakistan there are still riots as the result of the anti-Islamic cartoons that were published in the West.

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3. Ah yes, the one with the reliable atom bombs. n/t

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4. I am well aware of where it happened.

But it is Iraq that has let the entire world know how effective the roadside bomb can be.

[IndianaGreen]

5. Yes, you are right, Iraq is now the training ground

for insurgents and a test ground for low cost military technology that can be used to defeat the more advanced US technology. In a way, Iraq is playing the same role Spain played when the Nazis used it to test their tactics during the Spanish Civil War.

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6. Yes, that is not a comparison I would normally make, but it works.

It is a unique opportunity for those that want to develop tactics and doctrine to resist US military interventions, nothing like it since VietNam.