Pakistan paramilitary base bombings 'kill 73'

[gilliam]

Twin bomb attacks on a paramilitary force academy in north-west Pakistan has killed 73 people, police say.

A number of people were hurt in the blasts at the training centre for the Frontier Constabulary in Shabqadar, Charsadda district.

After early suspicions that one of the bombs was planted, police now say both blasts were caused suicide attacks.

The Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack to avenge the death of Osama Bin Laden earlier this month.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13385597

 

[iamrefreshed]

We really need to be careful here. I certainly hope the US has a plan in place to seize Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal at a moments notice. We think Iran is dangerous? It is estimated that Pakistan has around 100 nuclear weapons. Seized by the Taliban they would be used in about 10 minutes.

CHARSADDA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Suicide bombers attacked a Pakistani paramilitary academy on Friday, killing 80 people in revenge for the death of Osama bin Laden as Pakistani anger over the U.S. raid to get the al Qaeda leader showed no sign of cooling.
U.S. special forces flew in from Afghanistan to find and kill bin Laden at his hideout in a northern Pakistani town on May 2.

Pakistan welcomed the killing of bin Laden as a major step against militancy but was outraged by the secret U.S. raid that got him, saying it was a violation of its sovereignty.
On the other hand, the discovery of bin Laden living in the town of Abbottabad, near the country’s top military academy, has deepened suspicion in the United States that Pakistani security forces knew where he was hiding.

news.yahoo.com/s/nm/wl_nm/us_pakistan_bombing