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GUNMEN DRESSED AS police killed nine foreign tourists in an unprecedented attack claimed by the Taliban at a remote camp in the Pakistani Himalayas, embarrassing the new government just weeks after it took office.
The attackers struck at the foot of one of the world’s highest mountains, killing Chinese and Ukrainian climbers in an area of the far-flung north not previously associated with violence or Islamist militancy.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility, saying it had set up a new faction to kill foreigners to avenge US drone strikes after its second in command was killed in the northwestern tribal belt on the Afghan border.
The deaths call into question the future in Pakistan of foreign mountaineering and trekking expeditions, which provide the last vestige of international tourism in a country on the frontline of Al-Qaeda and Taliban violence.
Officials said nine foreigners, including five Ukrainians and a number of Chinese were killed. One Pakistani also died and one Chinese survivor has been recovered.
The climbers were staying at a base camp for Nanga Parbat, which at 8,126 metres is the second highest mountain in Pakistan and the ninth highest in the world.
- AFP, 2013
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The Taliban are a cancer. Backwards, stupid, misogynistic animals with no future. A bunch of beards with idiots hanging out of them.
Kevin – that is comment of the week!
kevin,
just like the british army and yhe us army, apart from the beards?
Pauric your an idiotic dinosaur
This clown is copying me. The fraud can be identified by his poor grammar and his false Twitter page. I do not have a Twitter account. A pathetic creature indeed.
pauric
a likely tale, you are more likely to be a schizo……………………..wha.
Pauric – the activities of these clowns (and their “religious” brainwashing) has no place in a modern society. Murdering cowards.
Enola
My loyalist friend.
you should come join the british army too.
David – the British army are only a step above them. The only difference was that Sky News were not around to chronicle their own cowardly, spineless acts.
sky news were around you clown, but propaganda prevented them from telling the truth
hey buddy,
you need to stop copying me.
hey buddy,
get your own life
Hey Enola, why don’t you set us all straight about the specific acts your referring to
Every week!
You idiot! Sky News were not around (nor TV) when the Brits attempted to ethnically cleanse the Irish population several times over.
Their all fu@+*d in the head. Doing this in the name of religion.
Thats Pakistan off my holiday list for this year. Think ill play safe and go to Limerick.
A sick and cowardly act. Trouble is USA needs them to protect their poppy fields after they leave. At the moment Karsai cannot promise them this. Instated at the outset of the Soviet – Afghan war and protected by the CIA, the drug trade developed over the years into a highly lucrative multibillion undertaking. It was the cornerstone of American’s covert war in the 1980s. Today under USA-NATO military occupation, the drug trade generates cash earnings in western markets in excess of 400 billion Dollars a year. ( See Michel Chossudovsky, Global research, Montreal ) Apart from the Drug trade The USA have signed contracts worth billions of dollars for mining rights for precious metals, gas exploration (findings today estimated at over 3 trillion dollars) plus it is in a major strategic position for oil pipelines in the region. The USA were in talks with the Taliban concerning the pipelines until the talks broke down shortly before the invasion. Now they have understood that they must cooperate with them.
gadfly/pauric
why are you posting under 3 different names in the one article?
Limerick would be a lot safer than where you are now.
I came across a limerick Taliban member when I was in clover hill prison, dangerous bstard he was to.
Me an two of my boys gave him a beating wha. I want to fight for the brits now so i’m joing the brit army tomorrow wha, I woz told dey take boys with crim records.
gadfly,
goodman you are, i’m in the queens own, they don’t mind crims, well no regiment will refuse crims. Join the queens own, we might bump into each other.
pauric
nice one, i’m gonna be in the greyhound in blanch at 6pm, i’ll be sitting at the bar with a black bag and a baseball cap., can’t miss dat wha……….I have a few hundred after getting out of cloverhill, see ya there and we can talk about the brit army.
Actually Limerick was voted one of the safest places to live in Ireland recently.
?
Ah come on Journal, time to let us edit our posts! Or delete them at least
The 2001 bombing and invasion of Afghanistan has been presented to World public opinion as a “Just War”, a war directed against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, a war to eliminate “Islamic terrorism” and instate Western style democracy.
The economic dimensions of the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) are rarely mentioned. The post 9/11 “counter-terrorism campaign” has served to obfuscate the real objectives of the US-NATO war.
The war on Afghanistan is part of a profit driven agenda: a war of economic conquest and plunder, ”a resource war”.
While Afghanistan is acknowledged as a strategic hub in Central Asia, bordering on the former Soviet Union, China and Iran, at the crossroads of pipeline routes and major oil and gas reserves, its huge mineral wealth as well as its untapped natural gas reserves have remained, until June 2010, totally unknown to the American public.
According to a joint report by the Pentagon, the US Geological Survey (USGS) and USAID, Afghanistan is now said to possess “previously unknown” and untapped mineral reserves, estimated authoritatively to be of the order of one trillion dollars (New York Times, U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan – NYTimes.com, June 14, 2010, See also BBC, 14 June 2010).
“The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.
The Golden Crescent trade in opiates constitutes, at present, the centerpiece of Afghanistan’s export economy. The heroin trade, instated at the outset of the Soviet-Afghan war in 1979 and protected by the CIA, generates cash earnings in Western markets in excess of $200 billion dollars a year. Since the 2001 invasion, narcotics production in Afghanistan has increased more than 35 times. In 2009, opium production stood at 6900 tons, compared to less than 200 tons in 2001. In this regard, the multibillion dollar earnings resulting from the Afghan opium production largely occur outside Afghanistan. According to United Nations data, the revenues of the drug trade accruing to the local economy are of the order of 2-3 billion annually. In contrast with the Worldwide sales of heroin resulting from the trade in Afghan opiates, in excess of $200 billion. (See Michel Chossudovsky, America’s War on Terrorism”, Global Research, Montreal, 2005)
What good could possibly come out of this horrible crime?
Bunch of twisted sick idiots, all the signs of a radical group which is desperate to keep the worlds media attention so they resort to targeting innocent individuals who have nothing to do with drone strikes or US and NATO policy. All a telling sign they are finding it difficult to target legitimate targets so instead hit a soft target.
And this is the ‘peace loving’ Taliban that Obama wants talks with … God give me strength he hasn’t a clue …
Scombags of the worst kind. And they want to try appeasement with these murdering filth?
Enola,
sure you have no idea what happened, you just got a bit of news off the journal and you want to kill people, how sad are you?
You don’t know the truth of this story.
Enola,
Do you describe the US and brit soldiers as murdering filth?
if not, why not?
I’m guessing that you are a hypocrite.
No Pauric. A hypocrite would be someone like yourself enjoying western freedoms and protections cheer leading these filth.
Enola,
you are a hypocrite but I do like you.
David – a hypocrite is one who cheerleads these filth.
Pakistani Taliban and Afghanistan Taliban are two separate entities. The office in Qatar is setup to further distinguish them.
I was in the Middle East some years ago, I had a Pakistani driver, we were travelling for a long journey across borders & chatted about our different cultures & we laughed about Ireland beating Pak in the Cricket WC.
A nice guy & very friendly.
The conversation turned quiet when I suggested seeing Pakistan some day.
He simply told me as a westerner & a white man I would not be welcome & likely harmed if not killed in certain parts of the country including the capital.. Lesson learned..
DON’T GO TO PAKISTAN!
you’re a lying bstard,
stick to your Eurovision and your xbox you clown
Xbox and Eurovision. Classic hallmarks of an islamophobe imperialist.
Kill foreigners, not even from America because of U.S. drones??? In what world does that make sense?!
They are not usa drones, they are UN drones.
How do you know that this story is true?
I mean, it’s in the journal, ffs
IRA type murdering thugs who kill for the sake of publicity.
i’m really david Thompson, the Taliban are more like the british army ruc uda than the ira, don’t mind me i’m brainwashed
“It is an organization that unapologetically promotes the public whipping of women for exposed ankles, the stoning of adulterers, the execution of homosexuals, and the murder of apostates. And while Barack Obama values the “protection of women,” the Taliban values acid attacks against schoolgirls and cutting women’s noses from their faces. That is their idea of “hope and change” and “social justice.”
Lovely chaps those Taliban
Well said again Mort.
I think it’s time I give up reading comments on the Journal…
Islam is a religion of peace and love.
Interesting thumbs for Cipi’s comment..
Thumbs down for the statement or just general thumbs down at Islam I wonder?
Islam may be a peaceful, but many its followers certainly atnt. a bit like some Christians (see the Yougoslav,Spanish Civil Wars etc!!)
Sure could have fooled me…
Yes it really loves people to pieces. Their big bang theory is very different to the scientific one.
The Taliban are savages.
Some clown copied my name by opening a Twitter account. This is the sign of a very sad individual. Post under your own name you simpleton.
pauric/gadfly
post under YOUR OWN name you clown.
Same thing happened to me, some saddos about with too much time on their hands.
LOL pathetic.
i’m really david Thompson, the Taliban are more like the british army ruc uda than the ira, don’t mind me i’m brainwashed.
Wouldnt be surprised if the IRA were involved in this
disgraceful what you wrote on the church story
stop copying my id….you fcukin troll
The joys of the internet eh, gives weaklings like you a platform.
SF/IRA types were never very original. They speak, act and look like parrots.
Even he had of put up the same avatar as me it might have been just a little bit convincing.
amazing,
a unionist fcukpig like Patrick lyons using gaelic……..well I never….
Only in this country could a story about the Taliban result in nationalists and unionists fighting with each other lol
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