Taliban attack Pakistan army school, massacre 150 kids

[TonyGosling]

Pakistan responds to Peshawar school massacre with strikes on Taliban

At least 141 dead – including 132 children – after attackers storm school, shoot students and fight with commandos
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/16/pakistan-taliban-peshawar -massacre-attack

Jon Boone in Peshawar and Ewen MacAskill
The Guardian, Tuesday 16 December 2014 23.30 GMT
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Relatives mourn Mohammed Ali Khan, 15, who was killed in the school attack on 16 December 2014. Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

The Pakistan military has taken punitive action against Taliban militants by launching massive air strikes against its border region strongholds in retaliation for the Peshawar school massacre that left 132 children and nine staff dead in one of the worst terrorist incidents in the country’s history.

In an attack that provoked horror and fierce international condemnation, seven members of Tehrik-e-Taliban, the Pakistan Taliban, dressed in army uniform and wearing suicide vests, stormed the Army Public School mid-morning on Tuesday and began their shooting spree.

Firefights with Pakistan commandos continued for about eight hours before the school was cleared. Pakistani security forces said some of the attackers had been killed by commandos and others had blown themselves up.

Tehrik-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 the summer and has left an estimated 1,000 militants dead and tens of thousands of people displaced.

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Fear ,fear, fear. Lawlessness shall abound. Love of many will grow cold.
We as a humanity are being drip fed all the worlds atrocities--no longer are we spared the news and details due to the limitations of technology. The response is pushing towards the biblical end games--the entrance onto the stage of a false man of peace --the panacea for global troubles that all will be too willing to vote for. Somewhere Israel will figure in the equation. Winston Churchill said this demonic charismatic figure will arise from within Israel.
One to watch out for.

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AlterNet / By Dr. Nafeez Ahmed comments_image 1 COMMENT
Who Is Responsible For the Pakistan School Massacre?
Extremists are filling a vacuum of despair cultivated by domestic corruption and international geopolitics.
December 20, 2014 |
http://www.alternet.org/world/who-responsible-pakistan-school-massacre

The Pakistan Taliban (TTP), the breakaway group that is spearheading an insurgency against the Pakistani state, has proudly admitted to having executed the horrifying atrocity that took the lives of 148 innocent people, including over 130 children.

US officials have been quick to point the finger at Pakistan, noting the role of the notorious "S Wing" of state military intelligence, the ISI, in covertly sponsoring various Taliban factions inside Afghanistan.

And Prime Minister Nawar Sharif, clearly feeling the pressure, has for the first time ever conceded the ISI’s duplicitous strategy and now vows that he will no longer distinguish between "good" and "bad" Taliban, but will bravely fight them all “until the last terrorist is killed.”

Some in Pakistani diaspora communities in the west have a different view. “Mossad did it,” I’ve heard from a surprising number of people. “To make Muslims look bad.” Others blame the CIA, or MI6, or both—indeed, all three.

This sort of pathetic, ignorant denialism is almost as bad as the pathetic official finger-pointing. The sad truth is that none of these actors are free of responsibility for the murky origins of the TTP.

The Double gGme

It is a matter of record that the Pakistani ISI has secretly supported the Afghan Taliban for more than a decade, a matter I have tracked and documented since even before 9/11. Yet from the very inception of this policy, it has been pursued with tacit and selective US support.

In the run-up to 9/11, the idea was to use the Taliban as a proxy on behalf of two US energy companies, Unocal and Enron, to achieve sufficient stability to permit the construction of the Trans-Afghan pipeline project. The Pakistani ISI was the chief conduit of US logistical, financial and military aid to the Taliban during this period.

Yet even after 9/11, despite US intelligence agencies being intimately familiar with ongoing Pakistani ISI support for the Afghan Taliban fighting NATO troops in the country, Pakistan has continued to receive billions of dollars of military aid in the name of counterterrorism.

Yet throughout all this US counter-terrorism assistance, the ISI’s support of the very factions NATO forces are fighting in Afghanistan has gone on, unimpeded. Two declassified US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reports dated two weeks after 9/11 found that al-Qaeda had been “able to expand under the safe sanctuary extended by Taliban following Pakistan directives” and ISI funding.

In 2006, a leaked US Ministry of Defence report showed that the British government was fully aware of how, “Indirectly Pakistan (through the ISI) has been supporting terrorism and extremism,” including being involved in the 2005 London bombings, and insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Confidential NATO reports and US intelligence assessments circulated to White House officials in 2008 further confirmed ongoing ISI support for Taliban insurgents, tracing the complicity to senior ISI officials including Pakistan’s head of military intelligence, in providing extensive military support to Taliban camps in Balochistan and the "Haqqani" network leading the insurgency around Kabul. Despite these reports being circulated around the highest levels of the White House, senior Obama administration officials went to pains to persuade US Congress to extend military assistance to Pakistan for five years, with no need for assurances that ISI assistance to the Taliban had ended.

So it continued, with US support. In 2010, the massive batch of classified US military cables released via Wikileaks documented how from 2004 to 2010, US military intelligence knew full well that the ISI was supporting a wide range of militant factions in Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan affiliated to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, even while receiving billions of dollars of US counterterrorism assistance. And a NATO intelligence report leaked in 2012 similarly showed that the ISI was directly sponsoring the Taliban, providing them safe havens, and even manipulating fighters and arresting only those believed to be uncooperative with ISI orders.

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As an indication that all these terror events all linked in some way... here is the amazing instance of the BBC including a Sandy Hook victim as a Peshawar massacre victim...

http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2015/01/07/bbc-admits-but-will-not-inv estigate-why-pic-of-sandy-hooks-noah-pozner-is-among-peshawar-massacre -victims/