from what they were saying on TV it could be a retaliation against the arrest of that al Qaeda leader last week...he was arrested on saturday last, tho the news was released to the public later
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Before 9/11 and Al Qaida's campiagn, suicide bombing was unheard of in Pakistan. Now it is almost monthly. Geo even showed the video at the moment of the explosion. Clearly this is just another result of the army's failed Afghan experiment.
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Which failed Afghan experiment by Army?
Yes these suicide bombings were unheard of before the US war on in Afghanistan and Pak's support for this war and operations against these terrorist. Pak so far has handed over close to 500 of these guys areas inside Pak to US. Obviously, these guys are not happy with the status quo and their losing battle. Its a known fact that most of the Al Qaida's top-ranked morons are hiding inside Pak.
Do you really have to ask? Obviously, I am referring to the Taliban and the Pakistan Army’s support of it.
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My theory: The attack could be because some people believe that he is murzaye/qadiaani, and they don't want such a person becoming Pakistan's PM, so they want to kill him. Also, they consider him as a US puppet who is not ready to accept his identity as murzaye. So people who really believe in this can be expolited and motivate others to attempt a suicide attack.
Group Takes Credit for Pakistan Attack
Saturday July 31, 2004 7:01 PM
By MUNIR AHMAD
Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A militant group claimed responsibility in
the name of al-Qaida on Saturday for a failed assassination attempt
against Pakistan’s prime minister-designate, threatening more attacks
unless Pakistan stops handing captured militants to the United States.
The suicide bombing targeting Shaukat Aziz after a campaign rally
killed at least nine people and wounded three dozen others. It came
hours after Pakistan announced the capture of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani,
an al-Qaida suspect on the F.B.I.'s list of top wanted terrorists.
Pakistani officials said the attack had al-Qaida’s fingerprints -
which would make it the latest attempt blamed on Osama bin Laden’s
terror network to take out Pakistan’s leadership. President Gen.
Pervez Musharraf survived two attempts to kill him in December, one of
which killed 17 people.
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My theory: The attack could be because some people believe that he is murzaye/qadiaani, and they don't want such a person becoming Pakistan's PM, so they want to kill him. Also, they consider him as a US puppet who is not ready to accept his identity as murzaye. So people who really believe in this can be expolited and motivate others to attempt a suicide attack.
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this could be the reason
motivating some one on the basis of religion is quite easy
Group Takes Credit for Pakistan Attack
Sat Jul 31, 1:47 PM ET
By MUNIR AHMAD, Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A militant group claimed responsibility in the name of al-Qaida on Saturday for a failed assassination attempt against Pakistan’s prime minister-designate, threatening more attacks unless Pakistan stops handing captured militants to the United States.
The suicide bombing targeting Shaukat Aziz after a campaign rally killed at least nine people and wounded three dozen others. It came hours after Pakistan announced the capture of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, an al-Qaida suspect on the F.B.I.'s list of top wanted terrorists.
Pakistani officials said the attack had al-Qaida’s fingerprints — which would make it the latest attempt blamed on Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s terror network to take out Pakistan’s leadership. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf survived two attempts to kill him in December, one of which killed 17 people.
Musharraf has been a top U.S. ally in the war on terror, infuriating Muslim radicals in Pakistan and elsewhere, and his security services have arrested a number of top al-Qaida-linked figures, most recently Ghailani.
In a statement on an Islamic Web site, a group calling itself the “Islambouli Brigades of al-Qaida” said it was behind Friday’s blast.
“One of our blessed battalions tried to hunt a head of one of America’s infidels in Pakistan while he was returning from Fateh Jang, but God wanted him to survive,” said the Arabic-language statement by the group.
The statement said the attack was a response to Musharraf’s handing of captured militants to the Americans. “This operation yesterday will be followed by a series of painful strikes if you don’t stop what you are doing by complying to the wicked (President) Bush’s orders,” the group said, addressing Musharraf.
The group said it would give Pakistan time to stop the handovers. It did not say how long, but said the message was “the last warning” and that “within the coming few days, our brigades will speak with the language of blood which is the only language you understand.”
It was impossible to verify the authenticity of the Internet claim. Lt. Khaled Islambouli was the leader of the group of soldiers who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat during a military parade in Cairo in 1981.
The government said the arrest of Ghailani on Sunday after a heavy gunbattle in the town of Gujrat was “a major blow” to al-Qaida and vowed to keep hunting terrorists.
Ghailani, who had a $25 million bounty on his head, is wanted in the United States for his alleged role in the 1998 East African embassy attacks, and Pakistan has already said it would consider extraditing Ghailani to the United States, where he could face the death penalty.
Police have made no arrests in connection with Friday’s attack, but even before the Internet statement, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed pointed the finger at bin Laden’s group. “Al-Qaida may be behind it,” he told The Associated Press.
Ahmed said police and other officials are trying to identify the attacker, whose head was found not far from the blast site. He appeared to be a Pakistani man in his early 20s, said Capt. Zubair Ahmad, a local police official.
Aziz, the country’s respected finance minister, was tapped by Musharraf to take over as prime minister, but he must first win a seat in parliament before he can take the position. He was in the town of Fateh Jang, 35 miles southwest of Islamabad, campaigning in a by-election when the attack occurred.
Pakistani television showed gruesome footage of Friday’s bombing, with the camera capturing the suicide attacker approaching the driver’s door of Aziz’s armored Mercedes, raising his hand and then blowing up. Aziz was already in the car, but the driver had not closed his own door yet and was among those killed.
An AP photographer who arrived at the scene shortly after the attack said body parts, blood and glass were strewn over a wide area.
Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri called for Musharraf’s assassination in a tape released earlier this year, and several homegrown militant groups also have been implicated in plots to kill him.
Also Saturday, Maj. Jon Siepmann, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan (news - web sites), praised the capture of Ghailani and said it showed Pakistan’s resolve in combating terrorism. It was unclear how valuable he would be in helping track down bin Laden and al-Zawahri.
The rugged Afghan-Pakistani border region is considered a possible hiding place for the pair.
“We have certainly an expectation or hope that information gained from this individual will help lead us to additional terrorists,” Siepmann said.