Mosque bombed in Pakistan; 60 dead

From here:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vest inside a mosque in northwestern Pakistan during midday prayers on Friday, according to government officials, a strike apparently aimed at worshipers who had denied support to the Taliban.

State television reported that at least 60 people were killed. “At least 70 people are injured,” said Shahid Ullah, a district official in the district, near Peshawar. “Many are in a critical condition.”

Later in the day, another explosion ripped through a mosque in the same area during evening prayers, a local television news network reported. At least three people were killed and at least 14 wounded. The nature of the second blast was not clear.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the earlier bombing, Pakistani news media reported.

The attack seemed intended to punish elders of the village of Darra Adam Khel in North-West Frontier Province, who have resisted the influence of militants in the area and raised a private militia to oppose them.

Muslims who routinely riot, prance around in the street and trample each other to death to protest cartoons of Mohammed and obscure igniters of the Koran, largely ignored the bombing in order to concentrate their outrage on these more important matters. Including this troubling development:

Muslims in Mumbai are up in arms against a United States military sniffer dog allegedly with name tag of ‘Khan’ that has landed in the city as part of President Barack Obama security arrangements.

On Tuesday, the German Shepherd arrived in the Mumbai airport from a Hercules C130 transport plane. The German Shepherd allegedly had a tag around its neck which read ‘MWD Khan.’ MWD stands for Military Working Dog. Khan is alleged to be the name of the dog.

Angry Muslims in the city and the state are threatening to protest this ‘insult’ to the community.

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