Thursday, January 24, 2008

Pakistani Police Find Roadside Bomb On Sharif Convoy Route


This is major and I mean major! Just weeks after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani police today discovered and diffused a roadside bomb along the convoy route of opposition political leader Nawaz Sharif. Get this - the bomb was found just minutes before Sharif's vehicle was due to pass by it.
Now, I was one of those who called Bhutto crazy for standing up in her car, and for literally even making the appearance that she did the day of her murder and now, you have Sharif visiting Peshawar???? I mean, talk about walking into the lion's den!
This also shows that no one is safe from the al Qaeda/Taliban coalition - you may remember that Sharif has had some suspicious links to bin Laden from years ago. Apparently, al Qaeda doesn't much care about the past and favors done - this current operation is all about creating chaos and making vulnerable the nuclear weapons along with interfering with elections.
Look at it this way, in America, once the two political parties have chosen their nominees for the Presidential election in November, can you imagine the chaos of both the Republican and Democrat candidates were taken out and the sitting President was also targeted??? That is what is going on in Pakistan - they have taken out Bhutto, they missed Sharif by 10 minutes and Musharraf has dodged over half a dozen assassination attempts.
If Sharif makes it to see March, I'll be surprised.

Here's the full story.


Pakistan police find bomb on Sharif convoy route

PESHAWAR, Pakistan
(AFP) - Pakistani police defused a roadside timebomb just minutes before
opposition leader Nawaz Sharif was due to pass the spot in the northwestern city
of Peshawar on Thursday, officials said.

Former prime minister Sharif
was travelling in a convoy to address a lawyers' convention and a political
rally in the troubled city near the Afghan border ahead of elections on February
18.
The discovery comes exactly four weeks after fellow opposition leader
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and suicide attack at an election
meeting in the northern city of Rawalpindi.
"We recovered a 400 gram (0.8
pounds) bomb fitted with a timer beneath a main bridge near the high court on
the route that Sharif was to take. We have defused it," bomb disposal squad
official Hukam Khan told AFP.
Ijaz Khan, a senior police officer, said the
bomb was found wrapped in a plastic shopping bag.
"It was planted on the
road that Nawaz Sharif was to pass. When policemen were searching the area they
found it and immediately called in bomb disposal staff who defused it," Khan
said.
A spokesman for Sharif said their convoy had been halted about a
kilometre (half a mile) before it reached the area.
"We are sitting
in the car. Police have stopped our convoy. They have said there is a report of
some explosives in the area where we were supposed to go," the spokesman told
AFP by telephone.

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