Friday, May 07, 2004
Karachi Blast. posted by Richard Seymour
Al Qaeda again:Fourteen people were killed and more than 125 were wounded today in an apparent suicide bombing at a Shia Muslim mosque packed with worshippers in Pakistan, officials said.
The mosque, at the Sindh Madrassah tul Islam, a government-run religious school in the southern port city of Karachi, was packed for Friday afternoon prayers when it was shattered by the fourth, and worst, bomb attack in five days in Pakistan.
The school, which houses students aged between four to 18, has separate mosques for Sunni and Shia Muslim worshippers.
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Congruent with their extreme sectarian brand of Islam, it looks as if al Qaeda are once more attacking Shi'ite Muslims whom one of their ilk, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has allegedly described as "the insurmountable obstacle, the lurking snake, the crafty and malicious scorpion, the spying enemy, and the penetrating venom". Yes, Abu, but do you like them?
This is the same aspect of the Al Qaeda outlook which is causing al-Zarqawi's confederates to attack Shi'ite targets in Iraq in an attempt to cause civil war within Iraq. Of course, they are the worst enemies of the Resistance since the latter both requires and desires Iraqi unity as its first basis for successful action. A resistance movement targets the occupiers, not the occupied.