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Quetta attack
At least 61 people, mostly fresh police recruits, were killed and 117
injured on Monday night in a terror attack on a Police Training
cottage in Quetta, the capital of the province of Balochistan in
Pakistan. The attack began with gunfire at 11 pm and continued for
several hours, but most of the deaths were caused when one of the
terrorists exploded his suicide vest. The attackers are thought to be
Afghan Uzbeks. One of them was a 12-year-old boy.
The attack is being blamed on the Al Alami offshoot of
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), a terror group that has vowed to exterminate
all Shias in Pakistan, and has carried out numerous terrorist actions
targeting Shias. However, no Pakistan terror group has claimed
credit. However, LeJ is also thought to have links to the so-called
Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh), and so ISIS has been
putting out press releases claiming credit for the attack. ISIS seems
anxious to take credit for every terror attack, whether they have
anything to do with it or not.
Another possibility, though less likely, is that the terror attack is
related to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, which
over ten years will build a network of roads, railways and energy
pipelines aiming to connect western Chinese cities to the sea port in
Gwadar on the Indian Ocean. On Saturday, two Pakistan Coast Guard
officers were gunned down in a region close to the Gwadar sea port,
and there's a possibility, considered less likely, that Monday's
terror attack was connected to the CPEC project.
Whoever the perpetrator, and whatever the motives, the attack is
sending shock waves among the people of Pakistan, who are blaming the
police and the government for the continuing stream of terror attacks.
In past decades, Pakistan's government has supported Taliban terror
groups who were attacking targets in India and Afghanistan, and now
those terror groups are attacking targets in Pakistan itself. This
new terror attack is certain to renew the "good terrorists versus bad terrorists"
debate
in Pakistan. Reuters and
AFP and Reuters and Dunya News (Pakistan)
Related Articles
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**** Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) may be getting revenge for police attack on leader
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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) is thought to be the perpetrator of Monday's
attack on the police academy. Although the ethnicity of the victims
has not been reported, the fact that it took place in Balochistan
suggests that most of the cadets were Shias.
Lashkar-e-Janghvi has repeatedly stated that its goal is the
extermination of all Shia Muslims in Pakistan, and has been
methodically setting off bombs in order to achieve that goal. An LeJ
statement issued in 2011 says:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"Our mission [in Pakistan] is the abolition of this
> impure sect and people, the Shias and the Shia Hazaras, from every
> city, every village, every nook and corner of Pakistan. Like in
> the past, [our] successful Jihad against the Hazaras in Pakistan
> and, in particular, in Quetta is ongoing and will continue. We
> will make Pakistan their graveyard-- their houses will be
> destroyed by bombs and suicide bombers. ... Jihad against the Shia
> Hazaras has now become our duty. ... We will rest only after
> hoisting the flag of true Islam on the land of the pure --
> Pakistan."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
However, there's an additional possible motivation for LeJ. LeJ's leader Malik Ishaq was killed while in a police convoy
in July of last year. The police said that the
convoy was attacked by 12-15 gunmen, and that Ishaq and his two sons
were killed in the subsequent shootout, but LeJ has claimed that the
gunfight was staged.
So it's possible that LeJ attacked the policy academy to get revenge
for the killing of its Malik Ishaq. Dawn (Pakistan) and Al Jazeera
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Pakistan, Quetta, Balochistan,
Al Alami, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, LeJ, Malik Ishaq,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC, Gwadar sea port
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Pakistan reels after 60 young police cadets killed in terror attack in Balochistan
- Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) may be getting revenge for police attack on leader
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**** Pakistan reels after 60 young police cadets killed in terror attack in Balochistan
****
Quetta attack
At least 61 people, mostly fresh police recruits, were killed and 117
injured on Monday night in a terror attack on a Police Training
cottage in Quetta, the capital of the province of Balochistan in
Pakistan. The attack began with gunfire at 11 pm and continued for
several hours, but most of the deaths were caused when one of the
terrorists exploded his suicide vest. The attackers are thought to be
Afghan Uzbeks. One of them was a 12-year-old boy.
The attack is being blamed on the Al Alami offshoot of
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), a terror group that has vowed to exterminate
all Shias in Pakistan, and has carried out numerous terrorist actions
targeting Shias. However, no Pakistan terror group has claimed
credit. However, LeJ is also thought to have links to the so-called
Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh), and so ISIS has been
putting out press releases claiming credit for the attack. ISIS seems
anxious to take credit for every terror attack, whether they have
anything to do with it or not.
Another possibility, though less likely, is that the terror attack is
related to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, which
over ten years will build a network of roads, railways and energy
pipelines aiming to connect western Chinese cities to the sea port in
Gwadar on the Indian Ocean. On Saturday, two Pakistan Coast Guard
officers were gunned down in a region close to the Gwadar sea port,
and there's a possibility, considered less likely, that Monday's
terror attack was connected to the CPEC project.
Whoever the perpetrator, and whatever the motives, the attack is
sending shock waves among the people of Pakistan, who are blaming the
police and the government for the continuing stream of terror attacks.
In past decades, Pakistan's government has supported Taliban terror
groups who were attacking targets in India and Afghanistan, and now
those terror groups are attacking targets in Pakistan itself. This
new terror attack is certain to renew the "good terrorists versus bad terrorists"
debate
in Pakistan. Reuters and
AFP and Reuters and Dunya News (Pakistan)
Related Articles
- Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) continues plan to exterminate Shias (03-Nov-2015)
- Quetta Pakistan terror attack kills 75, while unrest grows in Kashmir (09-Aug-2016)
- Suicide attack in Pakistan means no politician is safe (17-Aug-2015)
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**** Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) may be getting revenge for police attack on leader
****
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) is thought to be the perpetrator of Monday's
attack on the police academy. Although the ethnicity of the victims
has not been reported, the fact that it took place in Balochistan
suggests that most of the cadets were Shias.
Lashkar-e-Janghvi has repeatedly stated that its goal is the
extermination of all Shia Muslims in Pakistan, and has been
methodically setting off bombs in order to achieve that goal. An LeJ
statement issued in 2011 says:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"Our mission [in Pakistan] is the abolition of this
> impure sect and people, the Shias and the Shia Hazaras, from every
> city, every village, every nook and corner of Pakistan. Like in
> the past, [our] successful Jihad against the Hazaras in Pakistan
> and, in particular, in Quetta is ongoing and will continue. We
> will make Pakistan their graveyard-- their houses will be
> destroyed by bombs and suicide bombers. ... Jihad against the Shia
> Hazaras has now become our duty. ... We will rest only after
> hoisting the flag of true Islam on the land of the pure --
> Pakistan."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
However, there's an additional possible motivation for LeJ. LeJ's leader Malik Ishaq was killed while in a police convoy
in July of last year. The police said that the
convoy was attacked by 12-15 gunmen, and that Ishaq and his two sons
were killed in the subsequent shootout, but LeJ has claimed that the
gunfight was staged.
So it's possible that LeJ attacked the policy academy to get revenge
for the killing of its Malik Ishaq. Dawn (Pakistan) and Al Jazeera
Related Articles
- Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader Malik Ishaq killed in gunfight in Pakistan (30-Jul-2015)
- India and Pakistan in vitriolic accusations at the UN over Kashmir and Balochistan (18-Sep-2016)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Pakistan, Quetta, Balochistan,
Al Alami, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, LeJ, Malik Ishaq,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC, Gwadar sea port
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John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
Subscribe to World View: http://generationaldynamics.com/subscribe
