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School Shootings in Pakistan, blamed on U.S.

Islamic leaders in Pakistan have blamed the United States for 80 deaths on a military attack on a religious school. The leaders have called for nationwide demonstrations.

This sounds bad but actually the building was used for an al Queda training center, it is also said though that the attacks killed innocent students as well as teachers. This attack though came after a warning form the United States to shut down the facility which was ignored. A political leader though for Pakistan said that the fact about it being a military training center was "rubbish" and among the dead were 30 children.

We have completely denied these accuasations blaming the Pakistani military for doing so. These accusations by both sides are just causing more conflict in Pakistan. There were gatherings of al Queda members chanting that they wished death on Bush.

This is not good, Pakistan became a good ally on the war on terror deploying as many as 80,000 troops along their border where Bin Laden is believed to be at large. We are in need of their troops and if this supposed attack doesn't bode well with their political advisors, which it seems like it isn't, we may lose their help which could be a great loss in the war on terror.

I do believe that we attacked that building because it sounds like it was a training center and the political leaders are just trying to put the blame on the United States to rally their citizens against the U.S. I believe what we did was right and we need to continue to destory militants and training centers that promote al Queda, it is the only way we can stop or slow down terrorism.

posted by Anonymous @ 10/30/2006 08:49:00 PM