lego 44,165 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 The Pakistan military has launched massive air strikes in its remote border region against the Taliban in retaliation for the massacre in a Peshawar school on Tuesday morning that left at least 141 dead, 132 of them children. The attack in Peshawar was one of the most horrific incidents in the country’s troubled history of the last decade, prompting an outcry at home and abroad – mainly because so many children were killed. The assault began on Tuesday morning when seven attackers dressed in army uniform and wearing suicide vests stormed the school, which is attended almost exclusively by the children of army personnel. Witnesses described the attackers shooting students at random and taking others hostage. Firefights with Pakistan commandos continued for four to five hours before the school was cleared and the last of the attackers killed. Pakistan’s major general, Asim Salim, said 960 students and staff were rescued. The Pakistan Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in revenge for a ferocious army offensive – named Zarb-e-Azb - that has been underway in tribal areas since June. “We selected the army’s school for the attack because the government is targeting our families and females,†said Taliban spokesman Muhammad Umar Khorasani. “We want them to feel the pain.†Pakistan’s army chief of staff, General Raheel Shariff, said in a tweet that “massive air strikes†had been carried out in the Khyber region as the school was being cleared of attackers. Before leaving the capital of Islamabad for Peshawar, which is close to the Afghanistan border and has long had a reputation for lawlessness and terrorist incidents, Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, described the massacre as “a national tragedyâ€. He added: “The government together with the army has started Zarb-e-Azb and it will continue until the terrorism is rooted out from our land.†Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas have seen many terrorist incidents, often occurring out of sight of the media. But the Peshawar massacre has seen regional rivals join to express sympathy and support for the victims. The president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, who is engaged in a struggle with the Afghanistan Taliban, also condemned the massacre, saying “the killing of innocent children is contrary to Islamâ€. The Nobel Peace prize-winner, Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban two years ago for speaking out in favour of education for girls, said the Peshawar attack had left her heartbroken. “Innocent children in their school have no place in horror such as this.†Even the Afghan Taliban condemned the attack as “against Islamâ€. Hundreds of students were in the school when the attack began mid-morning, between 10 and 11am local time. Ali Khan, a police official who works in the district where the school is located, said the attackers jumped into the compound from the roof of a tall van that they had parked near the school. “One of them blew himself up as soon as the guards came to capture them. The others started moving towards classes and the principal’s room. “This is an upper middle-class area and most of the children belong to army families.†A student who was in the school at the time of the attack told local media: “The gunmen entered class by class and shot some kids one by one.†Commandos arrived at the scene soon after the shooting began. Military helicopter gunships hovered above but were unable to open fire for fear of hitting the hostages. .... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/16/pakistan-taliban-peshawar-massacre-attack FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,655 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Kill them all tbh. They need to be eradicated from this Earth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynamite 66,606 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Kill them all tbh. They need to be eradicated from this Earth. THIS! Like a poem said by a neydy in red Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoFameMonster 1,592 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 this is extremely sad but people should not have waited for something so horrible to happen in order for them to punish the Taliban. If they knew the Taliban was so predominate in that area they could have arrested them a while ago and save all those poor kids and their families. It really takes a sick person to slaughter children. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzy 2,217 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 this is extremely sad but people should not have waited for something so horrible to happen in order for them to punish the Taliban. If they knew the Taliban was so predominate in that area they could have arrested them a while ago and save all those poor kids and their families. It really takes a sick person to slaughter children. Actually they have been trying since months now. Its because of the punishments to the Taliban this sick incident was conducted by those assholes. and they have done operations before as well. “The scars on my mind are on Replay” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted December 16, 2014 Author Share Posted December 16, 2014 this is extremely sad but people should not have waited for something so horrible to happen in order for them to punish the Taliban. If they knew the Taliban was so predominate in that area they could have arrested them a while ago and save all those poor kids and their families. It really takes a sick person to slaughter children. They are fighting against them for ages, it's not so easy. If you read the article the government targeted taliban families in June, so this was revenge - military run school -"we want them to feel same pain". Still there is no justification, even Afghani Taliban condemned it. FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Die 1,864 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I want their ****ing heads on spikes. Grrr Nod if you wanna make love with the enemy. ❤ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByeBye49 161 Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Kill them all tbh. They need to be eradicated from this Earth. I want their ****ing heads on spikes. Grrr This, how could you go and do that to a SCHOOL. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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