Taliban's revenge!... huh?

[millerx]

 

Twin explosions struck a paramilitary training center in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 80 people, in what the Pakistani Taliban described as its “first revenge” for the death of Usama bin Laden.

 

The group threatened bigger attacks to come, in a statement shortly after the explosions. The blasts targeted newly trained recruits about to be bussed home on leave in Pakistan's Charsadda district, near the Afghan border.

 

A suicide bomber detonated at least one of the blasts at the main gate of the facility for the Frontier Constabulary, a poorly equipped but front-line force in Pakistan's battle against Al Qaeda and allied Islamist groups close to the Afghan border. Like other branches of Pakistan security forces, it has received U.S. funding.

 

More than 100 people were wounded, and 66 of the dead were recruits.

 

"This was the first revenge for Usama's martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.

 

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/05/13/po.../#ixzz1MEeq3lks

My first thought is "this is not very smart by them.... attacking those that shelter you?!?!" That's a good way to leave yourself with no options.

 

My second thought was "if they can jump on the opportunity to shine the light on a country that can't protect its citizens because a zionist country like the US can come in anytime they ant and kill people, they may be making a push to overthrow their government". That's doubtful IMO, but again, it was the only reasoning I could think of off the top of my head. Otherwise, this is just stupid.

 

Then again, maybe this should just be chalked to ..."These guys are freakin' loons".