Pakistan Taliban kill 100 in assault on Peshawar school

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30491435

Pakistan Taliban kill 100 in assault on Peshawar school

At least 100 people, 80 of them children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistani officials say.

Five or six militants wearing security uniforms entered the school, officials said. Gunfire and explosions were heard as security forces surrounded the area.

The army says most of the school's 500 students have been evacuated. It is not clear how many are being held hostage.

A Taliban spokesman says the assault is in response to army operations.

Hundreds of Taliban fighters are thought to have died in a recent military offensive in North Waziristan and the nearby Khyber area.

A school worker and a student interviewed by the local Geo TV station said the attackers had entered the Army Public School's auditorium, where a military team was conducting first-aid training for students.

(continued, religion of peace doing its thing again....)

[pErvinalia]

Kill the kids in response to army operations. Barbaric fucks.

[cronus]

Kill the kids in response to army operations. Barbaric fucks.

Likely the army ops killed a few of theirs first. Don't look for good guys. It's a mess. What happens when the peacekeepers pull out too soon.

[pErvinalia]

I'm with Seth. Turn the whole area into glass and start again

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Muslims kill muslim kids because god. Nothing to see here...


Shit on your fucking god.

[Svartalf]

I'm with Seth. Turn the whole area into glass and start again

mountains and plains of radioactive glass are not suitable for starting again
plus pakistan has nukes and can answer

[piscator]

Any questions why we follow these fuckheads home with drones and blow up their whole families?

[cronus]

Any questions why we follow these fuckheads home with drones and blow up their whole families?

...adds to the mix? good practice for when the drone wars come home?

[piscator]

The drone wars came home for us in 2001, Scump.

So every chance we get, we follow these shitholes home from a night of planting IEDs and serve them up a little hellfire with their breakfast.

[cronus]

The drone wars came home for us in 2001, Scump.

So every chance we get, we follow these shitholes home from a night of planting IEDs and serve them up a little hellfire with their breakfast.

That too...good ol' hill billy vendetta writ larger than life...every innocent bystander(whichever side and whoever) makes the balance sheets of the arms industry glow some more...

[piscator]

If those thoughtless Taliban theocrats would let us know when it was clear to shoot, we wouldn't take out their friends while we were at it.
But no, they seem to make a point of gaggling up in mosques and shooting at us with RPGs, or lighting us up with a .50cal from the roof of their homes. This when they're not attacking our civilian population here, or their own civilian population there...



A bunch of ragheads ambush your patrol and kill a couple of your friends before they all run into a house where they keep shooting at you, only now they have a mortar and a recoiless rifle on the roof. Whadayagonnado?

I'll tell you what you're going to do: You're going to turn that house and everything in it to dust. The women and old men who aren't allowed to leave the house are victims of war, same as your gutshot friends.

Don't start one, won't be one.

[cronus]

If those thoughtless Taliban theocrats would let us know when it was clear to shoot, we wouldn't take out their friends while we were at it.
But no, they seem to make a point of gaggling up in mosques and shooting at us with RPGs, or lighting us up with a .50cal from the roof of their homes.

A bunch of ragheads ambush your patrol and kill a couple of your friends before they all run into a house where they keep shooting at you, only now they have a mortar and a recoiless rifle on the roof. Whadayagonnado?

I'll tell you what you're going to do: You're going to call in an air strike on that house. The women and old men who aren't allowed to leave the house are victims of war, same as your gutshot friends.

Don't start one, won't be one.

I'm not going to moralise or make some narrative out of the random events of meaningless atrocity. Much more interested in dodging bullets than explaining their presence when they turn up. Millions will die, millions have died. Doesn't really make any sense in the end. Staying alive is important...if you value it. That's down to personal choice....in the end also, though. Some like to die unnecessarily following some 'heroic inner narrative' until the credits roll.

[piscator]

Most are caught up in things bigger than themselves, like forming or subverting The Caliphate. Some to the point where their priorities are quite a bit different from yours and mine, Scump.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

What we saw in Peshawar was a toxic mix of religion and tribalism. Either, on its own, can be benign. The two together have an irresistible tendency towards spontaneous combustion.

The difficulty is in figuring out which members of any population are one, or the other, or both. Those complete nutjobs - that are both - hide themselves very well among the rest, waiting...

[laklak]

Just leave them to it, everyone they slaughter is one less we have to deal with. If Pakistan wanted the Taliban gone, the Taliban would be gone. They got into bed with a nest of fucking vipers and land o' Goshen, slap your grandma, they got bit. Imagine that.

Same goes for these ISIS dickwads. ISIS is grabbing your territory and beheading your citizens? Aww diddums. Get off your sniveling, cowardly asses and do something about it. Go out there and fucking kill them. Kill all of them. Kill their wives and children and aunts and uncles and goats, if necessary. But don't come running to Uncle Sam crying for help, we've had our fill of your IEDs and suicide bombers and other assorted bullshit. Sort out your own shit or don't, it's no skin off our ass.