Bombing, US strike kill dozens in Pakistan

[IDemo]

Source: Associated Press

By RIAZ KHAN, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 20 mins ago

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Bombs destroyed an Internet cafe, wrecked a bus carrying handicapped children and spread panic through Pakistan's main northwestern city on Saturday, killing at least 11 people in a day of carnage across the militancy-plagued region.

An apparent U.S. missile strike annihilated a Taliban raiding party mustering to cross into Afghanistan, officials said, while Pakistani troops claimed another 47 kills in their bid to retake the Swat Valley.

Violence is engulfing Pakistani territory along the Afghan border as American and allied forces crank up the pressure on al-Qaida and Taliban militants entrenched in the forbidding and barely governed mountains and valleys.

Washington and other nations are pouring in billions of dollars in aid and military assistance to prop up the pro-Western government in Islamabad, which on Saturday sought to allay concerns that its nuclear weapons could fall into extremist hands.

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[babydollhead]

1. no more war!

[Vattel]

2. It's so for easy to kill other people's children.

Speculative benefits have always been plenty of justification for Americans.

[ixion]

3. I'm so sick of reading about my tax dollars blowing up children

how people that think that's a "good thing" is beyond me.

[aquart]

4. And this was a good thing, why?

[Igel]

6. Blowing up the Internet cafe and the disabled kids?

Because the Internet spreads modernity and corruption, and the kids, well, they'd be a burden, probably--that's if the Taliban thought about the kids in the least, and not just the effect on the government.

Story's poorly written, and the use of the passive in the first paragraph (instead of saying it was likely the Taliban behind those bombings) lets people assume--as did the first few posters here--that the same entity that hit the border-crossing group were responsible for the bombs planted in the Internet cafe and the bus in Peshawar.

That is, the mistakenly assumed that the DOD struck not just those crossing the border but also sent, apparently, Seals across the border to plant bombs in Peshawar. Odd notion, that.

[aquart]

7. Thanks for the clarification.

It's good one of us was paying attention.

[w4rma]

5. Considering the general that Obama brought in to head the Afghan War, I wouldn't be surprised if it

were his boneheaded idea to listen to a Pakistani "informant" and blow up things that the extremists want blown up there.

[Mari333]

8. and releasing the torture photos would be more dangerous

to our troops then this shit???
for gods sake get us the FUCK out of these 2 goddamn occupations

[peace_to_world]

9. You people are destroying my country

All americans sucks!!!!

This is your victory in this war