Suicide Attack in Pakistan Delivers Message to USA

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[While Bush tries to distract the American media and the public from
his many failures with fanciful tales of Cuba's "potential" for
bioterrorism, real terrorism is hitting closer and closer to home,
and the message is getting louder and louder.  When Bush was chatting
on Monday with the war criminal Ariel Sharon and calling him a "man
of peace," a suicide bomber wiped out more than a dozen Israelis.  On
Wednesday, while Bush's government was engaged in high-level talks in
Washington with its client regime in Pakistan, a suicide bombing hit
a "submarine project" (not further described here) in Karachi.  And
then there's that pesky issue of the powdered mail, hitting the US
where it hurts most, right in the Federal Reserve.  Lucky for Bush he
doesn't know what "incompetent" means. It's such a big word.--NYTransfer]

The Times of India - May 9, 2002
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=9343328

US condemns suicide attack in Pak

WASHINGTON, May 9 (PTI)--The Bush Administraton has condemned the
suicide bombing in Karachi which killed 14 people including 11 French
nationals working on a submarine project.

"The United States deplores and condemns the terrorist murders
carried out by a suicide bomber in Karachi," a statement by President
George W Bush said on Thursday.

The attack, "underscores the dangers all our citizens and societies
continue to face from such attacks, and strengthens our resolve to
continue working together to fight terrorism at home and abroad", the
statement said.

"On behalf of the American people, I extend my condolence to the
families of the victims, and the people of Pakistan and France, whose
citizens were killed in this attack", it added.

Attacks like yesterday's assault, which Pakistani officials said
could be the work of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, cause
enormous harm to Pakistan, State Department spokesperson Richard
Boucher said.

"We have worked very closely with President Musharraf, because he's
as interested as anybody in ending this kind of violence in his
country and putting Pakistan on a moderate course," he added.

The blast coincided with anti-terror talks between senior officials
of the US and Pakistan which opened yesterday in Washington.

Americans have been urged to defer travel to Pakistan, amid fears
they could be seen by terror groups as "soft" targets, as the US
continues its operations to root out al-Qaeda members in Afghanistan
and along the Pakistan border.

 
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