US carried out madrasah bombing

[cal04]

THE bombing of a Pakistani madrasah last month, in which 82 students were killed, was carried out by the United States, a Pakistani official has admitted, writes Christina Lamb.

The madrasah in the tribal agency of Bajaur was bombed during a visit to Pakistan by the Prince of Wales amid allegations that it was being used to train suicide bombers.

“We thought it would be less damaging if we said we did it rather than the US,” said a key aide to President Pervez Musharraf. “But there was a lot of collateral damage and we’ve requested the Americans not to do it again.”

The Americans are believed to have attacked after a tip-off that Ayman al-Zawahiri, the deputy leader of Al-Qaeda, was present. Local people claimed the victims included boys as young as 12 and that the tribal area had been negotiating with the Pakistan government for a peace deal.

Pakistani officials insist they were shown satellite images of people training and have checked the identity cards of all those killed, and that all were adults.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2471863,00.html

[stillcool]

1. "we've requested they not to do it again"...

wow...

[xchrom]

2. i know huh? that is one cool cucumber.

[scarletwoman]

3. Really? I'm shocked, shocked I say!

NOT. This had American prints all over it from the get-go. Musharraf was an idiot -- or someone with his balls being firmly held in a vise -- to have allowed the U.S. to go ahead with it.

sw

[saigon68]

8. Its just a War Crime

[originalpckelly]

4. I should point out that a madrasah doesn't have to be a uber-religious school...

it's just the word school in Arabic:
"The word madrassa in the Arabic language (and other languages of the Islamic nations such as Persian, Turkish, Indonesian etc.) means "school." The word can also appear transliterated as madrasa, as madrash, or as madressa. The word is used in Arabic (مدرسه) in all the contexts that the word school is in English: for private, public and parochial schools, and for any elementary or secondary schools, whether Muslim, of other religions, or secular. ..."

So they may be talking about a regular school, or they could be talking about a radical school.

Of course one way or the other it is wrong. There are ways to shut down radical schools, and none of them should include bombing them.

[spillthebeans]

5. tztz Al-ciada again eom

[Straight Shooter]

6. It *had* to have been the U.S. The Pakistanis wouldn't have screwed up so badly.

Sorry to say that, but it's true. :(

[mom cat]

7. Those 12 year old "adults" are just as dead as they would have

been if they had been called "children"!
WAKE UP AMERICA
This not about semantics it is about murder!

[acmavm]

9. Sheesh, 82 more families that will hate us until hell freezes over.

Some might even decide to do something about it.

Our military is being run by a bunch of crazies. But then I reflect back to View Nam, and see that this is nothing new. The US military bombs whoever it feels needs bombing I guess.

[OregonBlue]

10. This is very bad for Musharraf. The tribal areas are already ready

to rise up and many in the military are sympathetic. Pakistan may well be pulled into this war.

[stepnw1f]

11. Yay... America Creating More Terrorism

This right wing administration wants this shit... I have no doubt anymore. They don't solve problems, they create more for us all..

[LynnTheDem]

12. There's a word for what America did.

TERRORISM.

[rman]

14. State Terrorism

But capitalizing "terrorism" and formatting it in 48pt bold is close enough for me.

[rman]

13. Officials admit to false flag op

Glitch in the matrix.

But hey, it can happen over there, not over here.
Isn't that a relief.

[Joanne98]

15. Don't the Pakistanis know they can't believe US satellite images?

They should send up their own satellite...