Posted by Tina
Islamabad – President Asif Ali Zardari vowed last night not to retreat from fighting terrorism, after at least 60 people were killed and more than 200 wounded when Islamabad’s Marriott hotel was destroyed in a suicide attack described as Pakistan’s 9/11. *** “If the cowards think they can terrorise the Government and the people of Pakistan, I state we shall not retreat from fighting terrorism. We will get rid of this terrorism cancer.”
And the greater war continues! Go ahead…tell me that our president has not inspired leadership around the world!
Dramatic footage from a devasting attack on Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel which killed at least 53 people suggests that the death toll could have been far worse if the bomber had been able to ram his truck through a security barrier. More than 250 people were injured in the blast, which officials and investigators immediately blamed on an al-Qaeda affiliate. *** Four foreigners were killed: the Czech ambassador, his Vietnamese partner and two Americans. The Times (UK)