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Most serious attack against Western targets in Pakistan Web posted at: 1/27/2007 8:29:9 Source ::: AFP ISLAMABAD • A suspected Islamist suicide bombing outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad yesterday was the most serious attack on a Western target in Pakistan in almost 10 months. Here is a chronology of attacks on Christians and Westerners since September 11, 2001, after which President Pervez Musharraf backed the United States-led “war on terror”. 2001 October 28: Gunmen kill 16 worshippers and Muslim policeman at Catholic church in Bahawalpur. 2002 January 23: Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl abducted and murdered by Islamic militants in Karachi. March 17: Attacker hurls grenades at the Protestant Church in Islamabad’s diplomatic enclave, killing five including a US diplomat’s wife and stepdaughter. May 8: Suicide car-bomb attack on a bus outside the Karachi Sheraton kills 11 French naval engineers and three Pakistanis. June 14: Suicide car-bomb outside US consulate in Karachi kills 12 Pakistanis. July 13: Grenades thrown at European tourists in northern town of Mansehra wound 12 including seven Germans. August 5: Gunmen kill six Pakistani guards at Murree Christian School northeast of Islamabad. August 9: Attackers hurl grenades at Christian Hospital chapel in Taxila, near Islamabad. Four Pakistani nurses and an attacker are killed. September 25: Gunmen kill seven workers at Karachi office of a Christian charity. December 5: Three Pakistanis killed at honorary Macedonian consulate in Karachi. December 25: Two men throw grenade into a church during Christmas service in Chuyyanwali village in central Pakistan, killing three girls. 2003 Feb 28: Gunman kills three guards at police post next to US consulate in Karachi. 2004 Jan 15: Grenades are hurled at Bible Society library in Karachi and car bomb explodes 20 minutes later injuring 13 people, mainly police. May 26: Two bomb blasts outside US consul-general’s home and the Pakistan American Cultural Center kill police guard and injure 32 police and local journalists. Oct 28: Seven people wounded including a US diplomat in a blast at the Islamabad Marriott. 2005 Sept 9: Eight people wounded in twin bomb blasts at KFC and McDonald’s restaurants in Karachi. Nov 15: Car bomb outside KFC in Karachi kills three people. 2006 Feb: Protesters angry over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) attack McDonald’s and Pizza Hut restaurants and the Holiday Inn hotel in Lahore and the KFC in Peshawar. March 2: Suspected Al-Qaeda-linked suicide car bomber kills US diplomat and four others outside US Consulate in Karachi on the eve of President George W. Bush’s visit to Islamabad. 2007 Jan 26: A suicide bomber blows himself up outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing a guard. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
