Pakistan: 30 Days Until Elections - Let The Killings Begin
QUETTA, Pakistan- Gunmen attacked a party office of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing three of her supporters ahead of parliamentary elections, police said.
The attack occurred in Naseerabad, about 150 miles east of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, said Wajid Akbar, the district police chief. Police had no immediate information about the motive for the attack or who was behind it, he said.
Killings and other violence have been common in past elections in Pakistan, where Bhutto and others are now campaigning for parliamentary elections scheduled for Jan. 8.
Musharraf has slated December 15th as the date that Emergency Rule will be lifted.
There will be 65,000 targets…woops, I mean, Votinhg stations set up all over Pakistan.
(AP)
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Hmmm..I wonder if OBL will be on the ballot. Oh wait…he’s a dead pig. It would have to be Zawhari.
December 8th, 2007 at 5:24 amShades of the Wiemar republic?
Anyone?
December 8th, 2007 at 10:13 am“the police have no information…” which illustrates a bit of why policing doesn’t work or apply when dealing with terror. Police normally require an offense to have occurred before they investigate, arrest, lay charges, etc. When the offense in question is the carrying out of explicit or implicit death and mayhem threats, that might or might not protect future victims, but it’s singularly useless for the the current ones. Applies to the Basra threats to Xian female students, too; the police chief “comments” and “observes”, but does squat.
In Basra and Pakistan, and many other places, when the terror boys come to town the Thin Blue Line is too thin, and often tinged with yellow.
December 9th, 2007 at 2:56 am