Terror still stalks Pakistan Karachi Police chief

Bradford DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Fri Dec 6 09:13:26 PST 2002



>HindustanTimes.com
>
>Thursday, December 5, 2002
>
>Terror still stalks Pakistan: Karachi Police chief
>
>Agence France-Presse
>Karachi, December 5
>
>The overnight bombing and slaying of three Pakistanis at a European
>consulate here show that terrorists can still strike foreign targets with
>ease in this violence-wracked port city, police warned on Thursday.
>"One thing is clear: this message clearly indicates that terrorists can walk
>into any consulate to achieve their targets," Karachi police chief Kamal
>Shah said as he surveyed the shattered Macedonian consulate in Karachi's
>plush defence district.
>
>The two-storey bungalow used by Macedonia's honorary consul general,
>Pakistani national Bilal Qureshi, was blown up at 1:00 am. The ceiling of
>the main office caved in from the force of the blast, and the bungalow's
>windows were blown out.
>
>The office had been closed since 4:00 pm (local time) on Wednesday. But
>lying inside the shattered main chamber were three corpses -- their throats
>slit and their hands and legs tied. One man was the Pakistani security
>guard, a Christian. The other two, a Pakistani man and woman, were
>unidentified.
>
>Written on the wall was a grim poem, under the heading "Message for Infidels
>(non-Muslims)":
>
>"Force will be met with force and compassion with compassion. We are people
>like you and will do what you do," it said

Macedonia? A Macedonian honorary consul is a target?

Truly not only malignant fucks, but geographically clueless fucks as well...

Brad DeLong



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