Taliban take hundreds hostage at Pakistani military school

[KevinNYC]

18 dead. (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/16/us-pakistan-school-idUSKBN0JU0JO20141216)

Holy shit.


Taliban gunmen took hundreds of students hostage at a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, and at least 18 people were killed, including 16 pupils, officials said.

A Reuters journalist at the scene heard heavy gunfire from inside the school as soldiers surrounded it. Helicopters hovered overhead and ambulances ferried wounded children to hospital.

The Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, a sprawling and volatile city not far from the Afghan border, said the hospital had received the bodies of at least 12 people and was treating 40 wounded students and two male teachers.

"Many are in the operation theater now in critical condition, undergoing treatment," said hospital official Ejaz Khan.

Provincial health minister Shahram Khan later told television that 18 people had died, including 16 students, a female teacher and a soldier.

[KevinNYC]

This is some Homeland shit right here.

[KevinNYC]

BBC says 24 Dead.


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.

[bdreason]

A country notorious for harboring terrorists has a terrorist problem. Who would've thunk it?

[KevinNYC]

Taliban still around?

Yup. Americans still dying in Afghanistan too. Two the other day, one was from NYC. (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/soldier-new-york-city-dies-afghanistan-bombing-article-1.2045501)

Troops still deploying there too. The "nation-building mission" is over, but the US is going to keep have 15,000 US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq next year.

I think maybe two, three years ago, you and I were talking about this and I said the Afghan war would continue even as we left.

[KevinNYC]

Ahmed Rashid who literally wrote the book on Pakistan

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FULCTjCaL.jpg

had this article from last week.
A reinvigorated anti-Taliban alliance? (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30383761)


After years of false starts, are we on the brink of a breakthrough in improving relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan, with the Taliban and al-Qaeda on both sides of the border suffering an array of defeats and deaths?

For years the Pakistani military has been accused by the Afghans, the Americans and Nato of playing a double game - helping the Nato-US coalition in Afghanistan on the one hand, but at the same time allowing al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban to seek refuge and garner logistical support in Pakistan.....

But now those assumptions may be changing and the complex three-way relationship between the US, Afghanistan and Pakistan could be on the cusp of undergoing a dramatic improvement

For the first time in nearly 10 years the Pakistan army has killed a high-level leader of al-Qaeda. Adnan el Shukrijumah, a naturalised American citizen, was killed during a raid by Pakistani forces at a compound in the South Waziristan tribal agency close to the Afghan border on 6 December. He was accused of involvement in planning several failed attacks in the US and Britain nearly a decade ago and had been hiding in the tribal belt along the border ever since.

The following day, reports said a US drone had killed Umer Farooq, another top al-Qaeda leader in the North Waziristan tribal agency. A Pakistani national, he was allegedly al-Qaeda's operational commander in charge of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

So it seems that with the US leaving (for the most part) Pakistan didn't want these guys around and finally got serious about going after the Taliban and its allies and this attack is a response to that.

My guess would be Pakistan is about to start a much larger crackdown.

[KevinNYC]

At Least 104 Dead In Peshawar School Attack, Including 84 Children.

OMG.

Numbers keep climbing.

[fiddy]

At least 84 dead :wtf: rip

[KyleKong]

At least 84 dead :wtf: rip

84? What the ****.

Senseless.

[KyleKong]

Still over 400 hundred hostages with at least four more suicide bombers.

Holy ****

[KevinNYC]

126 people have been killed and a further 122 injured.

Horrible.

Going back to bed.

[Eric Cartman]

Say what you want, the taliban is efficient.

[Dresta]

This sucks. Hopefully it results in a real brutal crackdown by the Pakistani military now.

I have to say as well, Twitter is getting really ****ing annoying. Go on BBC news and all it is is people on twitter 'condemning' the attack (well, duh). The thing has just become another PR tool to show how much you 'care' and stuff - every time there is an attack assistants to world political leaders must get on twitter asap to show how concerned they are - so pointless, and they all say pretty much the exact same thing as well.

[KingBeasley08]

holy shit.

[Im Still Ballin]

It's time to whoop these ****ers

Drop the nukes

Real talk

[fiddy]

It's time to whoop these ****ers

Drop the nukes

Real talk
:facepalm

[Im Still Ballin]

What's the problem fiddy?

These ****ers just killed some of my boys

True blue aussies mates

Make them pay

[brantonli]

Jesus this is absolutely brutal. How long has it been going on for now?

[KevinNYC]

Jesus this is absolutely brutal. How long has it been going on for now?
I woke up in the middle of the night probably like 3:30am and the initial reports were coming out.

132 dead. All Six attackers dead.

[QUOTE]Richard Engel @RichardEngel

[dunksby]

132 dead and with these savages booby trapping everything the number will just be going up :facepalm

[Patrick Chewing]

More victims of the Death Cult.

[Dresta]

So, how long before some lunatics start doing this in the US? Seriously hope they're keeping a good eye on whoever they let back in from around Syria.

[nightprowler10]

Holy shit this is beyond terrible.

"We're getting our asses handed to us by the Pakistani military, so let's go kill a bunch of children as payback".

[nightprowler10]

A country notorious for harboring terrorists has a terrorist problem. Who would've thunk it?
Pakistan has had a terrorist problem since 1995. There have been 400+ suicide attacks in the country since 9/11.

Hell of a reason to just gloss over 100+ children's murder in one day.

[nightprowler10]

My guess would be Pakistan is about to start a much larger crackdown.
Yeah the operation going on right now (Hasb-e-Azab, I think) has been pretty successful by all accounts and the Pakistani military has been efficiently taking out targets in the NW. I hope the operation gets much more traction now.

I wonder how the Taliban apologists in Pakistan feel right about now. I wonder what reason they'll come up with now to blame all of this on the West.

[ItsMillerTime]

Adult lives are just as valuable as kids

More valuable to be honest

What's the point of this post? Classless.

[nightprowler10]

Adult lives are just as valuable as kids

More valuable to be honest
Children are more valuable because I can condition them to like the things I like.

[rezznor]

'Children are under benches. Kill them'

[nightprowler10]

A teacher was burned alive as punishment for trying to protect the children.

[imdaman99]

Sigh. This is inhumane. Fckin taliban are the biggest coward btches in the world. All they do is kill innocents. What's worse than that?

[nightprowler10]

Cause its annoying when people act like kids lives are more important
Seriously though, who the **** is saying that? People keep mentioning children because they're much less likely to be able to defend themselves and hence make easy targets.

[brownmamba00]

that says to me that the taliban is getting desperate...hope the pakistani army keeps on pushing and exterminates every last one of them.

[ihoopallday]

No need for profanity

Classless fvk

Nah you're the classless one in here man. The majority of your posts come off so rude. Really hope that's not your real life persona. But hey, guess that's the freedom of speech I sworn in to protect. Have a good day sir. :cheers:

[BurningHammer]

Why Afghan people let these pieces of shit governing them and their lands for years?

[senelcoolidge]

Oh Boy, Obama is bringing thousands of Muslims to America..

http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/u-n-sending-thousands-of-muslims-to-america/

WTF. Why not bring the non-muslims that are being slaughtered..at least they won't be jihadist.

[bladefd]

Wow. I wonder why these idiots are attacking students? I mean what are they getting from that? Not money or resources or anything.. except putting fear into every school and student in that region.

Normally, I do not believe at all in revenge but scumbags like the Taliban needs to be put down to death. Fu<k them.

[9erempiree]

Oh Boy, Obama is bringing thousands of Muslims to America..

http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/u-n-sending-thousands-of-muslims-to-america/

WTF. Why not bring the non-muslims that are being slaughtered..at least they won't be jihadist.

Obama is a piece of crap. Worst President of all time.

Dumbest thing ever and I am totally against this.

[longhornfan1234]

I give zero fvcks about Pakistan. They harbor and work with terrorists. You don't keep snakes in your backyard and only expect them to bite your neighbors.

[Rodmantheman]

Oh Boy, Obama is bringing thousands of Muslims to America..

http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/u-n-sending-thousands-of-muslims-to-america/

WTF. Why not bring the non-muslims that are being slaughtered..at least they won't be jihadist.

What can possibly go wrong :facepalm

[Dresta]

Why Afghan people let these pieces of shit governing them and their lands for years?
Nah, even the Afghan Taliban condemned this attack.

[9erempiree]

It pisses me off seeing all those innocent people having to mourn the deaths of 132 children. :facepalm

These are just kids.

[gigantes]

despicable.

i get that you have issues with whatever, i get that you're angry and suffering, i get that somehow this makes sense to you, but...... you still cross the last line of human decency when you murder a bunch of kids.

f-ck the taliban.

[Im Still Ballin]

I'd whoop these communists

Freedom!

[Patrick Chewing]

despicable.

i get that you have issues with whatever, i get that you're angry and suffering, i get that somehow this makes sense to you, but...... you still cross the last line of human decency when you murder a bunch of kids.

f-ck the taliban.


It's the Taliban, they should be suffering. Nothing to understand about their non-existent plight. They are animals. They deserve everything that comes to them.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

...that was the final straw.

[9erempiree]

Last thing we need is for these groups to play, keeping up with the Joneses.

They are trying to outdo one another.

:facepalm

[brandonislegend]

Adult lives are just as valuable as kids

More valuable to be honest

You are the biggest idiot on these forums.

[Nowitness]

Isn't the ultimate insult that Pakistanis are praying for the dead?

Especially when considered the Taliban were simply doing God's work.

[aj1987]

These ****ers killed 130+ kids....