Breaking on MSNBC.com: Blast heard near U.S. consulate in Karachi, Reuters

www.msnbc.com

Pakistan is going to the dogs!

to see if I can find out anything. I think * is supposed to go to Pakistan, too.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-03-02T042055Z_01_SP196405_RTRUKOC_0_US-PAKISTAN-BLAST.xml

KARACHI (Reuters) - A blast was heard and witnesses saw smoke rising in Karachi on Thursday from an area between the U.S. consulate and the Marriott Hotel, with U.S. President George W. Bush due to visit Pakistan in the next couple of days.

Islamist opposition parties have organized a national day of protest on Friday against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad published in Europe and deemed blasphemous.

Bomb blasts near the U.S. consulate in Pakistan’s largest city Thursday wounded five people, a police official said.

One bomb exploded outside the consulate setting 10 cars on fire, police official Javed Akbar said. He did not know whether the wounded were attached to the consulate, or whether they were injured by the blast or the fire.

Another bomb exploded about the same time in a parking lot of a hotel yards away, Akbar said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11631196/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4765170.stm

Yep the Manila embassy had to close after a bomb went off in one of the buildings about 2 months ago. The story wasn't covered by the news at all.

Now we have a clearly established pattern

and once again America is unprepared

Way to go Bush - All hat and no cows cowboy

showing cars burning ..... fire crews putting out charred cars. Another report says 10 cars burning, 5 people injured so far.....

link here .... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/01/AR2006030102768.html

Way to go Bush!!

:sarcasm:

Bomb blasts in Pakistan - no info. Oh, well.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/pakistan_blast_dc



(Edited to add my favorite photo du jour)

That's the word that comes to mind.

"you are OUR commander-in-chief?

That is their commander in chief. He looks like he's about to dance.

Isn't there a picture of Hitler doing a little "jig" in front of some SS?......Hmmmmmmmmmmm!

Sorry it's so small, the actual picture is larger, wonder why it shrunk. In any case..

If you find it, please post it.

In vaudeville times, this would be the time to get the hook...

N/T

but since he aims for variety in idiocy, you should aim for variety in adjectives. :hi:

He looks like a male stripper getting ready to peel off his fireman costume. Must have strutted out of his cod piece already.

learned to adopt.

During subsequent human evolution the palms rotated 90 degrees.

took nearly an hour to hear anything on cable news!

KARACHI, Pakistan - A suicide attacker rammed a car packed with explosives into a vehicle carrying an American diplomat in Pakistan's largest city, killing four people — including the diplomat — just days before President Bush's visit to Pakistan, officials said.

Bush condemned the attack outside the U.S. Consulate and a luxury hotel in Karachi, and said "terrorists and killers" would not prevent him from going to Pakistan on the final leg of his tour of South Asia.

"We have lost at least one U.S. citizen in the bombing, a foreign service officer, and I send our country's deepest condolences to that person's loved ones and family," Bush said at a news conference in neighboring India, without naming the diplomat.

"Terrorists and killers are not going to prevent me from going to Pakistan."

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_bombing;_

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide attacker rammed a car packed with explosives into a vehicle carrying an American diplomat in Pakistan's largest city, killing four people — including the diplomat — ahead of President Bush's visit to Pakistan.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-03-01-pakistan-blasts_x.htm

I think I'd take a vacation. :scared: (Obviously, the f..ker not only visits my country, he lives there :yoiks:)

to bad they went out a little too early.

death and destruction.

Bush's prosecution of the WOT is creating terrorists and global instability faster than they can be eliminated.

Say it loud, say it proud: Bush is LOSING the War on Terror!

Last night ABC was fussing about some new Al Qaida mastermind. This morning they were pointing to this bombing as proof of the new Al Qaida mastermind.

A strange report - I guess there are no details yet.

that there were more Americans killed. I'm waiting to see what the news is.

I hesitate to even write this - but we might find out by tomorrow.

it says, "4 people are presumed dead, probably more than one American".




http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=148&a=525722&previousRenderType=2

since we send in drones to bomb them.

I would probably think that too -

Good! He really is the most hated man on Earth.

My family is from there (I was born here but visit often).

I can't believe this stuff is happening in Pakistan, but when we are under a Bushite dictator, I suppose it's inevitable.

How long until we get that same kind of freedom and democracy of car bombs and beheadings that Iraq has?

He has his top body-double on the case!

you would think it would start with who was killed, and when it happened. They report deaths but don't say who, they mention no time frame other then two days prior to Bush's visit....and, it isn't attributed to anyone.

Maybe they were in a rush to get it out. You'd think the "who" part would be kinda crucial.

Kind of leaves a "W" out of the 5 "W's" of basic journalism.

Karachi hit by terror attack, four killed: US diplomat among dead, 54 injured



KARACHI, March 2: Four people, including an American diplomat, were killed and 54 others wounded when an explosive-laden car rammed into the diplomat’s vehicle yards away from the US consulate-general here on Thursday.

The blast took place in a narrow lane between the five-star Marriott Hotel and a naval establishment in one of the high security areas in the city.

“It was a suicide attack and we have found important clues to suspects. We have collected evidence and we are working on it. Many things will be clear by Friday evening,” city police chief Niaz Ahmed Siddiki said at a news conference.

SNIP

Mr Siddiki identified three of the dead as US consulate official David Fyfe, his Pakistani chauffeur Iftikhar and Rangers official Lance Naik Zafar. He said the body of the fourth man was mutilated beyond recognition and he might be the suicide bomber.

FULL STORY: http://www.dawn.com/2006/03/03/top1.htm

Thanks for the story and link! :hi:

And not one American report (10:40pm or so, Pacific Time)? I've searched and came up empty but for the link up thread.

Isn't that a little strange?

And he was pretty quick to comment on his death.

He worked for Rice, now is National Security Advisor?

It's part of the symptomology of living under this government that I assume they are lying, twisting or spinning every time their mouths move. :(

Bush's trip to Pakistan has some risks

By Terence Hunt

The Associated Press

NEW DELHI – President Bush's overnight visit to Pakistan "is not a risk-free undertaking" but he will not be deterred by attacks like the suicide bombing that killed an American diplomat in Karachi, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said today.

Bush will fly to Pakistan late Friday for a day of talks Saturday in Islamabad with Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the military leader who took power in a 1999 coup. Bush said his visit was an important gesture of solidarity with Musharraf in the fight against terrorism.

"After all," Bush said, "he has had a direct stake in this fight — four times the terrorists have tried to kill him."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002839434_webbushsafety02.html?syndication=rss

Descibed as an "IEA (Intenational Energy Association) expert"

What a surprise, an oil man in the Pakistani embasssy.

seems to work for the Brits?

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2006_01_11_globaleconomicanalysis_archive.html

/link

It only mentions he was a member of IEA.

But I could be wrong.

in pakistan that could have serious consequences. the Taliban have taken over a provincial town:

Taliban take control of govt buildings in Miramshah
MIRAMSHAH, March 2: Tension gripped the North Waziristan agency on Thursday as Taliban took over government buildings, occupied the area’s telephone exchange and patrolled the streets of the tribal agency’s regional headquarters.

Eyewitnesses and government officials said that after Wednesday’s heavy gunbattle between security forces and Taliban remnants, a large number of families started moving to other places in the troubled agency.

SNIP

Political authorities pulled out paramilitary troops from the main bazaar as the Taliban took positions at key points in the town. Paramilitary forces restricted their movement to bases and government buildings.

Mirali and other parts of the tribal region, were also tense, although calm, the sources said.

Scared shopkeepers in Miramshah pulled shutters as hundreds of militants entered the town on trucks fitted with on machine-guns at noon, shouting “God is Great” and “Death to America and its friends”. Offices remained closed and traffic was very thin in the area.

“There is chaos. The administration has left the area at the mercy of the Taliban,” said a security official.



CONTINUED: http://www.dawn.com/2006/03/03/top6.htm

If not, then I don't see the connection.

i believe waziristan is up north, while Karachi is down south. i did not mean to connect fyfe's death with the trouble up there. i just put it down as a sign of the FUBAR that is heading Pakistan's way. and bush is yet to land. who knows what surprises are in store...

Unrest and confusion are the hallmark of a Bushco operation...