Scores killed in Pakistan attack

[Lars77]

Source: Al Jazeera

A suicide car bomber has attacked a site where a volleyball game was being played in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 88 people and wounding scores more, sources say.

The incident took place in Lakki Marwat in the North West Frontier Province, which lies close to North and South Waziristan, two tribal regions where Pakistani Taliban fighters are active.

The bomber apparently drove his vehicle onto a field where a volleyball tournament was under way.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/01/20101112507938245.html

[pettypace]

1. I'm astonished at the apathy towards this event

88 people lost their lives in a suicide bombing, and nary a trickle of attention given to it on any tv news or internet site. Look at the front pages of CNN and NYtimes...its quite shameful.

Amazing how little value is given to these people.


Happy fucking 2010. Harbinger of things to come.

[Pavulon]

2. There is a black people, brown people, white people sliding scale

used in reporting news events. I forget the numbers, but you get the point.

[OhioChick]

3. I feel the same. Rather disgusting, isn't it? n/t

[YouTakeTheSkyway]

9. Agreed.

[slackmaster]

12. Fanatical adherents of the "Religion Of Peace" kill a bunch of innocent people again

How's that?

[CaliCompadre]

4. Pakistan: Suicide bomb kills 25 at volleyball site

Source: Associated Press

By RIAZ KHAN and RASOOL DAWAR
The Associated Press
Friday, January 1, 2010; 9:11 AM

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber set off an explosives-laden vehicle on a field during a volleyball tournament Friday in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 25 people, police said.

The blast occurred near Pakistan's tribal belt, and was the latest bloodshed to rattle the country since the army launched a military offensive against Taliban fighters in the South Waziristan tribal region. The operation has scattered insurgents but provoked apparent reprisal attacks that have killed more than 500 people since October.

Police said Friday's bombing in Lakki Marwat city, not far from South Waziristan, was possible retaliation for local residents' efforts to keep militants out of the area.

"The locality has been a hub of militants. Locals set up a militia and expelled the militants from this area. This attack seems to be reaction to their expulsion," local police chief Ayub Khan told reporters.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010100199.html?hpid=topnews

[YouTakeTheSkyway]

5. Death toll is up to sixty now...

[OhioChick]

6. Up to 75 now...

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/01/pakistan.drone/

[LouKneeLib]

7. WTF?

Volleyball? Is there anything those people don't hate?

[pettypace]

8. The Pak military needs to take the lead

If there's any country in the world that isn't ready for democracy, it's Pakistan.

The military needs to take over the government today.

No time for civil rights and constitutional protocol when you have 75 civilians, many children, being blow up to hell in cities, one of dozens of suicide bombings.

[YouTakeTheSkyway]

10. I disagree

I don't think tossing democracy out in favor of a military ruler is much of a solution. After all, they had one until very recently and very little was ever done about the Taliban during that time.

[cosmicone]

11. Pakistan's military IS the problem

It is the military and ISI which fund, train, arm and support terrorism as Pakistan's official policy.