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Market Bombings Kill at Least 36 in Pakistan

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Posted on Dec 7, 2009
Lahore bombings
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The aftermath of the two bombings at Lahore’s Moon Market is shown in this still from BBC’s video coverage of the attack.

Two bomb blasts ripped through a busy market in Lahore, Pakistan, on Monday evening, killing at least 36 people and injuring about 100. The bombs were reportedly set off via remote control, and the explosions came on the heels of a suicide bombing in Peshawar that killed at least 10 earlier in the day.  —KA

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One official said the blasts happened in quick succession and that dozens were injured when the blast struck the market, crammed with shoppers and traders.

“The fire engulfed a building and shops. There were two blasts with an interval of about 30 seconds,” senior city police official Shafiq Ahmad told French news agency AFP.

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By DieDaily, December 8, 2009 at 8:25 pm Link to this comment

Russian Paul, you bet it is another Blackwater-CIA operation. That is really obvious to an increasing number of people. Moslem fundamentalists are not into targetting women and children so as to lose the support of the public. It is absolutely nuts to entertain the notion that they would. The US media is NOT being chickenshit when it skirts these issues. Rather, it is being bought and paid for. The fact that the US media is chickenshit, though, is working in our favour. As their ratings drop, this whorishness causes them to break ranks with their Johns in industry and finance in favour of tricking for truth. At this point, we will settle for that.

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By Russian Paul, December 8, 2009 at 1:02 pm Link to this comment

Local Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud blamed Blackwater [Xe Services] for the
bomb blast in Peshawar which killed over 117 Pakistani people on October 28. He
claims these attacks are used by Blackwater and Pakistani forces as sort of false
flag attacks to blame militants….is this another example? Maybe not, but I just
think it’s odd that even the notion that US was behind this is not even mentioned
in passing. Especially with all this newly revealed info about Blackwater waging a
secret war in Pakistan. Why is our media so chickenshit?

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