The bomber driving his explosive-laden truck struck last evening outside the Marriot. Many of those perished were either drivers waiting outside with their cars or security personnel. It seems some of the westeners probably Americans (associated with CIA or FBI) inside the hotel were the real targets. If that is true then these poor people died in vain. The building was also destroyed beyond repair.
My heart bleeds. Probably more so than an ordinary Pakistani because I'm also an Islamabadi. I have been to that place before. I have seen the bustling activity there. This is so unfortunate. That our country is passing through a part in history which is at best forgettable. Such attacks are now occurring with regular intervals in the motherland. A few days without a suicide attack seems rather strange. Was our nation destined to live like that in constant fear? Is this our fate to have this notion in our hearts that the car or a truck next to ours might blow up?
And it seems that it was meticulously planned and executed with precision. Quite unlike the people whom we are associating these terror-related activities with. They seem to have advanced information about these targets (especially westeners) and the attack last evening was awesome. Because they chose a time when security was most likely to be lax i.e., Iftar time. Then two vehicles were involved; the first smaller one probably as a decoy or to clear the way for the other bigger vehicle. Seems some organization or spy agency was behind these attacks. Whoever was responsible certainly hit the nail on the head. There is fear. And we might be forced to cooperate more with USA in eliminating Al-Qaeda and Taliban from tribal area which means to abandon any plans to stop incursions of US troops into our soil or rather letting them in formally to help us. Just like the way they entered Iraq and Afghanistan. President Zardari who flew to USA today will be presented with some tough choices there. Something's telling me that worse is yet to come!
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It was indeed the biggest tragedy of my beloved Islamabad. We cannot really feel the pain of the mothers and wives of the guards, the sons and daughters of the security personnals because,God forbid, it didnt happen to any of our loved ones.Hats off to these poor ppl who are the true martyrs.if you look at the closed circuit video that was relesed yesterday, it was so sad to see how these security personnals were trying to extinguish the fire. Alas they had no idea what was yet to come!
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