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Pakistan Hotel Bombing 9-20-08
Why was the Marriott Targeted? The Deadly Blast in Islamabad By Tariq Ali
ICH
By Tariq Ali
09/23/08 “Counterpunch”
The deadly blast in Islamabad was a revenge attack for what has been going on over the past few weeks in the badlands of the North-West Frontier. It highlighted the crisis confronting the new government in the wake of intensified US strikes in the tribal areas on the Afghan border.
Hellfire missiles, drones, special operation raids inside Pakistan and the resulting deaths of innocents have fuelled Pashtun nationalism. It is this spillage from the war in Afghanistan that is now destabilizing Pakistan.
The de facto prime minister of the country, an unelected crony of President Zardari and now his chief adviser, Rehman Malik, said, “our enemies don’t want to see democracy flourishing in the country”. This was rich coming from him, but in reality it has little to do with all that. It is the consequence of a supposedly “good war” in Afghanistan that has now gone badly wrong. The director of US National Intelligence, Michael McConnell, admits as much, saying the Afghan leadership must deal with the “endemic corruption and pervasive poppy cultivation and drug trafficking” that is to blame for the rise of the neo-Taliban.
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Pakistan hit by smaller attacks, killing at last 10
By Saeed Shah and Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers
09/22/2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — More extremist attacks shook Pakistan on Monday on the heels of a devastating bomb attack on the capital’s best-known hotel. Gunmen took the Afghan consul-general hostage after killing his driver, and suicide bombers killed nine policemen at a checkpoint in the valley of Swat, northwest of the capital.
The bombing of the deluxe Marriott hotel, in which at least 53 died and more than 260 were wounded, was still shrouded in mystery. A little known terrorist group called Fadayeen Islam — “Islamic Commandos” — took responsibility in a tape given to a Dubai-based television news channel, and claimed that there’d been 250 U.S. Marines and NATO officials at the hotel. Security experts said it was highly unlikely that American forces would be stationed at so vulnerable a location.
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 09/22/2008 | Pakistan hit by smaller attacks, killing at last 10.
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Sunday, 21 September 2008 12:18
Marriott Hotel has now become a ghost house which was yesterday the most beautiful and prestigious hotels in the Islamabad. While the condemnation of the blasts and the deaths and the loss of property is going on from all the quarters, some intriguing news is also pouring in.
After the blast, mysteriously fire was started at the fourth and fifth floors. It was said that this fire was the result of gas pipeline burst running through the hotel. The million dollar question is that was the gas pipeline not running through the other floors? Why the fire broke out from the fourth and fifth flours? That is the question which perhaps holds the key to the mystery as why the hotel was targeted yesterday, in which more than 60 people died including many foreigners.
What Was Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel Islamabad by United States Marines.
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Video emerges of Marriott bombing + Rescuers search Pakistan blast site
Video of the explosive-laden lorry that was used in the bombing at the Islamabad Marriott hotel has emerged.
The Pakistan government says the blast was caused by a six-wheeler dumper lorry filled with high quality explosives mixed with an accelerant to fan the flames.
The video shows the vehicle arriving at the hotel gates but does not show the final detonation.
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Police say a suicide bomber has driven an explosives-laden vehicle into Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel.
At least 40 people are reported to have been killed and wounding 50 more wounded, as the hotel was packed for breaking fast during Ramadan.
Nadim Baba reports.
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