Recent Pakistan Bombings Show Strength Of Insurgents

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Yesterday's attack in Multan may not seem significant to outsiders looking at the steady drumbeat of bombings that have rocked Pakistan. It seems like another insurgent attack on a government installation with a double-digit body count. And there's a numbing familiarity to the attack by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, which used their now familiar methods of a coordinated assault and suicide bomb. (In this case, a truck bomb.) The target was the Inter-Services Intelligence building in Multan, a town of 1.4 million people in central Punjab.

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[JerryLevy]

05:26 AM on 12/11/2009

The author says the recent murderous attacks on civilians by "insurgents" shows their strengths, nothing could be further from the truth. It shows their ruthlessness and it shows their weakness. Without much public support these terrorists are attacking innocent civilians everywhere in Pakistan to spread fear in the people. These so called insurgents also include a sizable minority of non Pakistani terrorists from Chechnya, Palestine, Iran, Sudan, and Somolia. There is very little "strength" here but a lot of destructive hate.

[CoronaDischarge]

10:22 PM on 12/10/2009

Killing women and children in markets and cafeterias doesn't look like strength to me. Sure they attack the exteriors of Government buildings too. But it looks like desperation. As these Government facilities harden themselves, the opportunities will be more and more just any gathering of people to make headlines. It can only serve to polarize the country against them.