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Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Pakistan United Nations Building Attacked

Terroists are pushing to deteriorate stability in Pakistan. The Pakistani military have launched a brutal counter insurgency operation against the Taliban. Terrorist retaliation attacks have gotten more fierce. suicide bomber struck the United Nations food agency.


The United Nations announced it was temporarily closing all its offices in Pakistan after the noontime bombing, which blew out windows and left victims lying in pools of blood in the lobby of the three-story World Food Program compound.

"This is a heinous crime committed against those who have been working tirelessly to assist the poor and vulnerable on the front lines of hunger and other human suffering in Pakistan," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Geneva.


Since the counter-insurgency, the New York Times report scivilian casualities have decreased in Pakistan. The Taliban was killing civilians at will in the Swat Valley. Pressure needs to be kept on the Taliban and al-Qaeda elements in Pakistan. al-Qaeda operations chief Ilyas Kashmiri and hundreds of fighters have been killed by drone attacks. The decision on the Afghanistan policy will greatly decide the ability , of the United States, to strike terrorists in Pakistan.

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