http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/05/pakistan-300-kg-truck-bomb-crossed-through
-at-least-50-checkpoints-including-red-zone-areas-and-targ.html

 


Pakistan: 300-kg truck bomb "crossed through at least 50 checkpoints
including red zone areas and targeted the high-profile police intelligence
office"


AsiaNews
<http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Peshawar,-suicide-bomb-targets-army-barracks
,-six-dead-and-20-injured-21652.html>  observes that this is the fourth
attack on Pakistani police or military installations since the death of
Osama bin Laden. For the magnitude and frequency of security breaches -- and
the attackers have known in detail where to go and how to bypass security --
we're brought once again to CIA director Leon Panetta's assessment:
Pakistani authorities are either incompetent or complicit
<http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/05/us-suspects-pakistan-leaked-cia-station-c
hiefs-name-in-retaliation-for-bin-laden-raid.html> . 

Most likely a varying mixture of both. "Pakistan: 'Only finger' of bomber
found after suicide blast flattens police station," by Syed Saleem Shahzad
for AdnKronos International
<http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Pakistan-Only-finger-of-b
omber-found-after-suicide-blast-flattens-police-station_312055565122.html> ,
May 25:

Peshawar, 25 May (AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - At least 4 people were
killed and 20 others severely wounded early Wednesday in Peshawar in
northwestern Pakistan when a truck carrying explosives rammed into a police
station destroying the building.

The Pakistani Talibani claimed responsibility of the attack.

Bashir Bilour, the senior member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial
assembly, confirmed that the attack was carried out by a suicide car bomber.

"About 300 kilograms of explosives was used in the attack. The engine of the
bomber's car landed 350 feet away and his body was blown to bits. Only one
finger of the bomber has been found," Bilour told reporters after visiting
the site of the attack.

Only two days after militants brazenly attacked Pakistan's southern port
city of Karachi's naval base, the truck crossed through at least 50
checkpoints including red zone areas and targeted the high profile police
intelligence office known as the CID centre.

The Guardian
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/suicide-bomber-attacks-pakistan
i-police>  reports that this facility was the criminal investigation
department.

"After Karachi's incident we relocated all our strength to airports, key
strategic installations and military offices. Militants took advantage of
the situation and targeted the CID's office," the inspector general of
Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province told the reporters after blast.

 



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