Word: quetta
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Pakistan is all too familiar with sectarian violence, but the massacre in Quetta's Ishnam Asheri mosque, the worst act of its kind since the mid-'90s, was horrifying even by South Asia's gruesome standards. Thousands of worshipers were performing their Friday prayers when two gunmen burst in and fired into the crowd for 10 minutes, pausing only to reload. Outside the mosque, a third man, wired with explosives, walked into a cluster of worshipers and blew himself up. By the time police dispatched the gunmen, 47 people were dead and 65 wounded. Police defused two more bombs that...
...Pakistan: Quetta Massacre...
...media blackout, ordered foreign journalists to leave the country. Freed are Abassi Madani, leader of the now banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), and his second-in-command, Ali Belhadj, who were given 12-year sentences in 1992. Mosque Murders PAKISTAN The army took control of the southwestern city of Quetta after hundreds of Shia Muslims went on the rampage following an attack on a Shia mosque during Friday prayers that killed at least 47 people and wounded 65. No one immediately took responsibility for the attack but police suspected a banned Sunni Muslim group. Beached Blob CHILE Scientists were baffled...
Still, the reports from the region were too intriguing to be left unexplored. My 400-mile journey from the southwestern Pakistani town of Quetta to Ribat Qila took 13 hours by pickup truck, the last part of it on a dirt track, slaloming between huge boulders. Off in the distance was an ancient Mogul army outpost, half-submerged by drifts of sand...
...messages by couriers, never talking on a satellite or cell phone. Mohammed, up to the day he was caught, was an operational leader of al-Qaeda, using his many international contacts and four languages to keep the terror network alive. He had moved to Rawalpindi from a base in Quetta that was raided by local police and FBI agents on Feb. 13. Mohammed and another man escaped by leaping from roof to roof. A third man was detained; he turned out to be Mohammed Abdel Rahman, the son of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric currently...