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Taliban Attack School in Pakistan: Over 100 Children Killed
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Dec 16 2014, 01:03 PM
Out of curiosity - why was my post deleted?
I didn't see your post, so not sure
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It was basically me telling you guys you shouldn't be questioning NAte - because he was there. And it mysteriously disappeared.
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Dec 16 2014, 01:20 PM
It was basically me telling you guys you shouldn't be questioning NAte - because he was there. And it mysteriously disappeared.
I think its his CIA buddies covering for him.
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Dec 16 2014, 01:20 PM
It was basically me telling you guys you shouldn't be questioning NAte - because he was there. And it mysteriously disappeared.

It was just a matter of time until Nate granted himself mod powers. Add hacktivisim to his list of good deeds.

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Dec 16 2014, 02:02 PM
BDW
Dec 16 2014, 01:20 PM
It was basically me telling you guys you shouldn't be questioning NAte - because he was there. And it mysteriously disappeared.

It was just a matter of time until Nate granted himself mod powers. Add hacktivisim to his list of good deeds.

nah, natie isn't too good with his computer. he doesn't even know how to :leben: UFC events; his own admission. :p
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Dec 16 2014, 04:21 PM
split decision
Dec 16 2014, 02:02 PM
BDW
Dec 16 2014, 01:20 PM
It was basically me telling you guys you shouldn't be questioning NAte - because he was there. And it mysteriously disappeared.

It was just a matter of time until Nate granted himself mod powers. Add hacktivisim to his list of good deeds.

nah, natie isn't too good with his computer. he doesn't even know how to :leben: UFC events; his own admission. :p
Are you kidding? Give him a pack of bubble gum, a CB radio, and a swiss army knife and he'll McGyver up any :leben: you need!
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http://m.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30489799
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- "'God is great,'" the Taliban militants shouted as they roared
through the hallways of a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.


Then, 14-year-old student Ahmed Faraz recalled, one of them took a harsher tone.
" 'A lot of the children are under the benches,' " a Pakistani Taliban said, according to Ahmed. "
'Kill them.' "

By the time the hours-long siege at Army Public School and Degree College ended early
Tuesday evening, at least 145 people -- 132 children, 10 school staff members and three
soldiers -- were dead, military spokesman Gen. Asim Bajwa said. More than 100 were injured,
many with gunshot wounds, according to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Information Minister
Mushtaq Ghani.

The death toll does not include the terrorists who attacked the school, bursting into an auditorium
where a large number of students were taking an exam and gunning down many of them within
minutes, Bajwa said.

"They started shooting indiscriminately," Bajwa said, "and that's where maximum damage was
caused."

Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammed Khurrassani said the militants scaled the school's
walls around 10 a.m. (midnight ET), intent on killing older students there.

The Taliban had "300 to 400 people ... under their custody" at one point, said Khurrassani,
whose group is called Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. But Bajwa said there was no hostage
situation, as the attackers' focus was shooting to kill rather than taking captives.

They were eventually met by Pakistani troops who pushed through the complex building by
building, room by room. By 4 p.m., they'd confined the attackers to four buildings. A few hours
later, all the militants -- seven of them, according to Bajwa -- were dead.

Pakistani authorities spent Tuesday night inside the school in Peshawar, a city about 120
kilometers (75 miles) from the country's capital, Islamabad, looking for survivors, victims and
improvised explosive devices planted to worsen the carnage.

As they searched, they discovered that the school's principal was among the terrorists' victims.
The attack drew sharp condemnation from top Pakistani officials, who vowed that the country
wouldn't stop its war against the Taliban.

"We are undeterred. ... We will not back off," Defense Minister Khawaja Asif told CNN.
But he said the ambush at the school is another example of how great his nation's sacrificeshave been in fighting that's raged for more than a decade.
"Even the children are dying on the frontline in the war against terror," he said. "The smaller the
coffin, the heavier it is to carry. ... It's a very, very tragic day."
What do the Pakistan Taliban want?

Minister: Most of the dead were 12 to 16 years old

On a typical day, the Army Public School and Degree College is home to about 1,100 students
and staff, most of them sons and daughters of army personnel from around Peshawar, though
others attend as well.

Their nightmare began in late morning, when a car exploded behind the school. Pakistani
education minister Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman explained to CNN that the blast was a ruse,
meant to divert the attention of the school's security guards.
It worked.

Gunmen got over the walls and walked through where students in grades 8, 9 and 10 have
classes and fired randomly, said Dr. Aamir Bilal of Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital, citing
students. They came in with enough ammunition and other supplies to last for days and were not
expecting to come out alive, according to a Pakistani military official.

Seventh-grader Mohammad Bilal said he was sitting outside his classroom taking a math test
when the gunfire erupted. He fell into bushes before running to the school's gates to safety.
Ahmed, the 14-year-old student, remembered being in the school's auditorium when four or five
people burst in through a back door "and started rapidly firing." After getting shot in his left
shoulder, the ninth-grader lay under a bench.

"My shoulder was peeking out of the bench, and somebody was following," Ahmed recalled.
"They went into another room, (and when) Iran to the exit, I fell."

Bajwa told reporters that Pakistani security forces reached the school 15 minutes after the attack
began.

They found, he said, "the children ... drenched in blood, with their bodies on top of each other."
Most of those killed were between the ages of 12 and 16, said Pervez Khattak, chief minister of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, of which Peshawar is the capital. But some adults in the school
also were targets, like a 28-year-old office assistant who was shot and then burned alive, police
official Faisal Shehzad said.

By 8:30 p.m., Lady Reading Hospital had already taken in 31 dead boys, plus the body of one of
the attackers, Bilal said. Another 45 came in injured -- some with gunshot wounds all over their
bodies, though 20 were discharged within a few hours.Obama: Pakistan attack shows Taliban 'depravity'
Violent past

Pakistan has seen plenty of violence, much of it involving militants based in provinces such as
South Waziristan, North Waziristan and the Khyber Agency -- all restive regions in northwest
Pakistan near Peshawar along its border with Afghanistan.

It is the home base the TTP, an organization that has sought to force its conservative version of
Islam in Pakistan. The group has battled Pakistani troops and, on a number of occasions,
attacked civilians as well.

Peshawar, an ancient city of more than 3 million people tucked right up against the Khyber Pass,
has often found itself in the center of it all. Militants repeatedly targeted the city in response to
Pakistani military offensives, like a 2009 truck bombing of a popular marketplace frequented by
women and children that killed more than 100 people.

And the Taliban hasn't hesitated to go after schoolchildren. Their most notable target is Malala
Yousafzai, who was singled out and shot on October 9, 2012 as she rode to school in a van with
other girls. The teenage girl survived and, last week, became the youngest recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize for her efforts to promote education and girls' rights in Pakistan and beyond.
Yousafzai was "heartbroken by this (latest) senseless and cold blooded act of terror in
Peshawar," saying Tuesday that "innocent children in their school have no place in horror such
as this."

"I call upon the international community, leaders in Pakistan, all political parties -- everyone -- (to)
stand up together and fight against terrorism," the 16-year-old added in another statement. "And
we should make sure that every child gets a safe and quality education."
Growing up scared in Peshawar

Taliban: Revenge for killing of tribesmen

Still, even by Pakistan and the Taliban's gruesome standards, Tuesday's attack may be the most
abominable yet.

This is the deadliest incident inside Pakistan since October 2007, when about 139 Pakistanis
died and more than 250 others were wounded in an attack near a procession for exiled former
Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, according to the University of Maryland's Global
Terrorism Database.

Even the Taliban in Afghanistan, with which the TTP is closely affiliated, criticized the "deliberate
killing of innocent people, women and children (as being) against Islamic principles" and
expressed condolences to the attack's victims, according to spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid.
It comes after peace talks between the Pakistan Taliban and Pakistan's government as recently
as last spring. The government released 19 Taliban noncombatants in a goodwill gesture, in fact.But talks broke down under a wave of attacks by the Taliban and mounting political pressure to
bring the violence under control.

Inside militants' secret tunnels in Pakistan

In September 2013, choir members and children attending Sunday school were among 81
people killed in a suicide bombing at the Protestant All Saints Church of Pakistan. A splinter
group of the Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility, blaming the U.S. program of drone strikes
in tribal areas of the country.

And for the past few months, the Pakistani military has been conducting a ground offensive to
clear out militants, spurring violence that's displaced tens of thousands of people and sparked
deadly retaliations.

Khurrassani, the Pakistan Taliban spokesman, told CNN that the latest attack was revenge for
the killing of hundreds of innocent tribesmen during repeated army operations in provinces
including South Waziristan, North Waziristan and the Khyber Agency.

The TTP spokesman challenged that ordinary citizens were targeted, saying that five army
vehicles are routinely stationed at the school.

"We are facing such heavy nights in routine," Khurrassani said, rationalizing the siege shortly
before it ended. "Today, you must face the heavy night."

Yet the larger fight is far from over. A U.S. counterterrorism official noted the Pakistani Taliban
have been under intense pressure from Pakistan's military. In fact, Pakistani officials -- led by
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif -- signaled that what happened in Peshawar only
strengthened their resolve.

Their condemnation was echoed by world leaders from British Prime Minister David Cameron to
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani lambasted the attack, with U.S. President Barack
Obama saying "terrorists have once again shown their depravity." They were joined by the head
of Pakistan's longtime rival, India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked his country's
schools to observe two minutes of silence Wednesday "as a mark of solidarity."

"(I) strongly condemn the cowardly terrorist attack ...," Modi said. "It is a senseless act of
unspeakable brutality that has claimed lives of the most innocent of human beings -- young
children in their school."


http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/16/world/asia/pakistan-peshawar-school-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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