Pakistan looks for clues to ID bomber

[Gunny]

By RIAZ KHAN, Associated Press Writer

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Police examined clothing, shoes and the severed legs of a man Saturday to try to identify a suicide bomber who killed at least 50 people during a holiday prayer service at a crowded mosque in northwestern Pakistan.

Security officers arrested seven students from an Islamic school hours after the blast Friday, which apparently targeted former Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao, who had been deeply involved in Pakistan's fight against militants linked to the Taliban and al-Qaida.

The bomber struck a mosque inside the politician's residential compound in the village of Sherpao during prayers for the Islamic holy day of Eid al-Adha, leaving a scene of splattered blood, body parts, prayer caps and shoes.

Sherpao escaped harm, but one of his sons was wounded and at least 50 people were killed. The former minister survived an earlier suicide attack at a rally in the nearby town of Charsadda eight months ago that killed 28 people. Officials blamed al-Qaida for that attack.

Suspicion for the blast was expected to focus on the pro-Taliban or al-Qaida militants active in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghan border. The attack also deepened the sense of uncertainty in Pakistan ahead of Jan. 8 parliamentary elections. Sherpao, head of the Pakistan Peoples Party-Sherpao, is a candidate.

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Looks like the loser terrorists aren't planning on taking a Christmas break. I don't give a rat's rear-end what they choose to call it ... it's cold-blooded murder, period.

 

[MasterChief]

Hopefully, the ISI will begin to admit they created a monster and must hunt down the Taliban and it supporters and kill'em like the vermin they are. Tribal areas or no tribal areas.