Taliban attack army school in Pakistan

[D'wards]

Over 100 dead including 84 kids at the moment - awful awful

http://www.theguardian.com/world/li...e-says-provincial-chief-minister-live-updates

 

[chandlerp]

Fucking animals, this is horrible.

 

[brogdale]

 

[pesh]

 

[chandlerp]

Three explosions heard from the school. There are apparently up to 500 children on the premises each day. fucking hell.

 

[Sprocket.]

Always the innocents.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Deary me.

I've read the school is run by the Pakistan military?

 

[Barking_Mad]

This is an upper middle class area and most of the children belong to army families. One of our policemen, who was there, claimed around 200 children have been killed but it is not yet confirmed.

Here

 

[butchersapron]

From all accounts this is still ongoing i.e it could get much worse yet.

I think a lot of non-ISIS groups now having to step up their spectaculars to keep/gain recruits. What a terrible dynamic.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Unconfirmed that total number of killed may reach 200.

 

[Pickman's model]

there'll be a lot of dead taliban/'taliban' soon, feeding a spiral of violence.

i wonder what this could mean for the isi.

 

[likesfish]

savages

 

[Pickman's model]

savages

yes. it is very easy to dismiss them as savages, but as far as i can see what they're doing is very calculated.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Reports from Pakistan TV interviewing children that the attackers were speaking Arabic.

 

[Barking_Mad]

yes. it is very easy to dismiss them as savages, but as far as i can see what they're doing is very calculated.

Well certainly attacking the school because it was a Pakistani military basis was calculated in itself. Im not sure to what end though?

 

[Pickman's model]

Well certainly attacking the school because it was a Pakistani military basis was calculated in itself. Im not sure to what end though?

an obvious reason would be to draw the army out as the army are likely to be out for blood and not necessarily as careful as they might be, leading to an army atrocity or to an army defeat.

 

[editor]

Even by the fucked up standards of religious fanatics, this is horrendously, awfully grim.

 

[D'wards]

Reports from Pakistan TV interviewing children that the attackers were speaking Arabic.

Apparently they recruit from places like Algeria and Chechnya - my Pakistani colleague views them as mercenaries rather than fundamentalists

 

[chandlerp]

Mercenaries do it for the money though, don't see much point in a suicidal mercenary

 

[mod]

Fuck me this is dark. You evil twisted cunts.

 

[Lemon Eddy]

yes. it is very easy to dismiss them as savages, but as far as i can see what they're doing is very calculated.

Being savage does not preclude you from having a game plan.

 

[chandlerp]

The 72 virgins waiting eagerly for them will just be other terrorists.

 

[likesfish]

yes. it is very easy to dismiss them as savages, but as far as i can see what they're doing is very calculated.

Well when your plan inculdes shoot children in the head you desrve to be condemmed out of hand and gunned down.
Militant islam is the enemy of mankind. Its not as if the pakistan military had a reputation for restraint anyway

 

[rover07]

How many schools have the Pakistan Army/USAF bombed in the last year?

 

[chandlerp]

Why is that relevant? There can be no justification, no matter what your perceived enemies have done.

 

[bendeus]

How many schools have the Pakistan Army/USAF bombed in the last year?

Oh FFS!

 

[butchersapron]

How many schools have the Pakistan Army/USAF bombed in the last year?

Wow.

 

[D'wards]

Mercenaries do it for the money though, don't see much point in a suicidal mercenary

To be fair, I think she always like to distance these atrocities from Islam as much as possible

 

[Louis MacNeice]

How many schools have the Pakistan Army/USAF bombed in the last year?

How long did you think before posting that?

Louis MacNeice

 

[Pickman's model]

Being savage does not preclude you from having a game plan.

tbh calling them savages is lazy and says more about your own attitudes than it does about them. what they did is vile and horrific: and indeed savage - but calling them savages plays on a load of auld imperial themes which places you quite happily further up the ladder of civilization than they. as ought to have become apparent from the events of the middle of the last century, europe cannot claim any superiority on this front than any other part of the world.