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Bin Laden Blowback?: More Than 80 Killed in Pakistan Blasts

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Posted on May 13, 2011
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Wrecked vans give a glimpse of the destruction after suicide bombings Friday in Pakistan. 

On Friday, a pair of suicide bombings killed more than 80 Frontier Corps trainees who were celebrating at a graduation party in Shabqadar in northwestern Pakistan. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks as a form of retaliation for the death of Osama bin Laden, but that link was questioned by Pakistani police officials later in the day.  —KA

The Guardian:

The Taliban said the vicious double suicide bombing in Shabqadar, a trading town on the edge of the tribal belt in Charsadda district in north-western Pakistan, claimed the first part of the blood price they had promised to extract for the American killing of Bin Laden on 2 May. It was conducted with ruthless efficiency.

Abid Khan, 24, cowered in his sweetshop when he heard the first blast and then, eight minutes later, a second. Rushing to the scene, he found some 200 trainee soldiers strewn on the road among mangled vans and a pile of bags.

“It was very bad,” he said in slow, precise English. “Some people had no hand. Some people had no foot. Some heads were far away [from] the people.” He repeated himself. “It was very bad.”

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By blogdog, May 15, 2011 at 1:07 pm Link to this comment

wrong, Spooky - most rich Arabs are Anglo-American puppets - two of the few
remaining indies are now in their cross hairs: Gadafi & Assad

others are trying to flee the empire (e.g. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia) - look for
more hegemonic destabilization

endless terror - endless war: only remaining US export besides crappy pop culture

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By Marshall, May 15, 2011 at 1:05 pm Link to this comment

By Robespierre115, May 14 at 3:00 am Link to this comment

“That’s only the truth in a dream world. In the real world, drone attacks haven’t
done a thing to weaken militant movements in Pakistan”

And your proof of that is…

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By kiwi123, May 15, 2011 at 11:07 am Link to this comment
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Dude what i don’t understand is, why don’t the
pakistani people speak up. this is not their war, so
why do so many paki people have to suffer. The U.S dragged pak into this and the puppet leaders of pak
will lead pak in ruins.

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By redipen, May 15, 2011 at 12:46 am Link to this comment
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm7QQ8-A9-k

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By THX 1133 is not in the movie..., May 14, 2011 at 7:37 pm Link to this comment

By Spooky-43, May 13 at 11:32 pm
The Bin Laden assasination was a false flag operation,
much like all the others.
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This is by far the scariest thing happening to
Americans; believing the consummate fecal matter
expressed here.

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By Lorne Marr, May 14, 2011 at 2:26 pm Link to this comment
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The central problem with Pakistan is that the US turned its back on the Pakistani people after the wars in the 1980s during which the two countries were strategic partners. Now even though a lot of money is provided by the US the greatest amount is spent on arms and military equipment instead of solving economic and social problems of the poor.

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By PatrickHenry, May 14, 2011 at 9:12 am Link to this comment

As the collateral death and damage of the border violating drone attacks continues to grow, the extrajudicial assassination in lieu of capture of OBL serves an example to the world of the growing lawlessness of U.S. foreign policy by this and every other administration since Carter.

In performing these actions, our government has provided justification to every non-US element {terrorists in our media) to make U.S. citizens, religious leaders and elected representatives (terrorists in their lives) targets for bombing and assassination, rendition and torture, here in the U.S. and abroad.

Gee thanks.

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By Robespierre115, May 14, 2011 at 3:00 am Link to this comment

@Marshall, “why would we want to stop using one of our most formidable, feared, safe and
effective anti-AQ/Taliban weapons?” That’s only the truth in a dream world. In the real world, drone attacks haven’t done a thing to weaken militant movements in Pakistan, in fact, such displays of imperial violence have only helped further radicalize the population.

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By A Khokar, May 14, 2011 at 1:11 am Link to this comment

The Revenge: While US celebrates Osama death as Victory at home; back in the battle fields,US Front State ally Pakistan gets 80 deaths of its soldiers in revenge of Osama killing by US

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By Spooky-43, May 13, 2011 at 11:32 pm Link to this comment

The Bin Laden assasination was a false flag operation, much like all the others. 

The Taliban pretended to assasinate Bin Laden, leaving an old destroyed US helicopter tail in the compound to blame it on the US.  This was done to stir up anti-US sentiment, assuring a continous flow of recruits into the terrorist/jihadist ranks (which is all just a front designed by rich Arabs to keep the common middle-eastern people’s minds off of the fact that billions of dollars of oil money is changing hands just under their nose, and they get zero percent of it) 

Of course, Obama, needing a victory, any victory, quickly accepted responsibility, knowing it would raise his approval polls for a run at 2012 by making him look decisive and strong.

It was a win/win/win situation, the terrorist/jihadist goons of big oil gaining some fired-up recruits, Obama gaining a swelling of support at home and OBL gaining a new compound in Beverly Hills, including a new collection of porn movies. 

The 80 killed in this article constitute minor collateral damage, a few out of millions, not worth consideration by the big, dominant players. 

I don’t doubt that virtually all similar major world events are inside jobs and the results of high level conspiracies carried out under deceptive false flag circumstances.  Nothing is left to chance, and whatever you believe to be true is never true.  I think it has always been like that, with evidence including the Garden of Eden story, which is a false flag operation in its own right, if you are wise enough to perceive it. 

Lies, deception and murder are fundamental to the eternal essence of mankind.  I am amazed that so many whine about it, as though it is supposed to be otherwise.  Do they falsely believe that nature has reserved a place of honor for man, to be claimed at some point in the distant future, when he will supposedly lift himself up and transform himself into something other than the natural, amoral animal that he is?

6000 or more years of whining and objecting have contributed nothing.  Get over the whining and accept “survival of the fittest” as more than a theory of evolution, but as a natural, healthy way of life, where the process rewards any advantage which may be gained without resorting to artificial moral judgements, survival being the end that justifies any means.

Who can deny that the world today is and always was a type of lawless, wild, wild west, where the fastest gun rules, and only the slow guns and the otherwise weak or ideologically challenged attempt to consistently deny it, with little, if any lasting effect?

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By Marshall, May 13, 2011 at 9:33 pm Link to this comment

By Robespierre115, May 13 at 3:38 pm Link to this comment

Taliban violence existed before the drones did.  Quite the opposite of “useless”,
why would we want to stop using one of our most formidable, feared, safe and
effective anti-AQ/Taliban weapons?  That makes no sense to me.  The question is
whether it will remain politically viable given Pakistan’s increasing unease with it.

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By TDoff, May 13, 2011 at 3:38 pm Link to this comment

Well, the Taliban or whoever was behind this ‘retaliation’ attack sure learned a lot from our last appointed president, didn’t they? They attacked Pakistan. which sheltered bin Laden, because the US CIA sneaked in without Pakistan’s knowledge and assassinated him.
Kinda like The Dummy and his NeoCon Cabal attacking Iraq because Al Qaeda trained in Afghanistan for 9/11.
Probably ‘W’ didn’t want to chance of harming a member of the bin Laden family, his family’s Saudi buds.

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By Robespierre115, May 13, 2011 at 3:38 pm Link to this comment

The insurgents might want to wave that Bin Laden flag for propaganda purposes, but this was bound to happen whether Bin Laden was alive or not. This sort of violence will continue as long as Obama continues his useless, savage drone war in the tribal areas of Pakistan. He’s just working hard to earn his Nobel Peace Prize.

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