12-16-2014, 05:04 PM
Well, as an American citizen, I hope that there is no tie-in whatsoever between the massacre today and the U.S.
It looks to me, at this time, that the terrible attack was motivated and made possible by internal Pakistani conflict only. The latest update is worse than earlier reports indicated.
3:32 p.m. ET
The death toll in Tuesday's Taliban attack at a school in Pakistan has climbed to 145, military spokesman Gen. Asim Bajwa said. The toll includes 132 children, 10 members of the school's staff and three soldiers, he told CNN's Hala Gorani.
[Previous story, posted at 2:44 p.m ET]
Taliban slaughter at least 141, mostly children, in Pakistan school
"'God is great,'" the Taliban militants exclaimed, as they roared through the hallways of a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Then, 14-year-old student Ahmed Faraz recalled, one of them changed the narrative.
" 'A lot of the children are under the benches,' " a Pakistani Taliban said, according to Ahmed. " 'Kill them.' "
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/16/world/...?hpt=hp_t1
It looks to me, at this time, that the terrible attack was motivated and made possible by internal Pakistani conflict only. The latest update is worse than earlier reports indicated.
3:32 p.m. ET
The death toll in Tuesday's Taliban attack at a school in Pakistan has climbed to 145, military spokesman Gen. Asim Bajwa said. The toll includes 132 children, 10 members of the school's staff and three soldiers, he told CNN's Hala Gorani.
[Previous story, posted at 2:44 p.m ET]
Taliban slaughter at least 141, mostly children, in Pakistan school
"'God is great,'" the Taliban militants exclaimed, as they roared through the hallways of a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Then, 14-year-old student Ahmed Faraz recalled, one of them changed the narrative.
" 'A lot of the children are under the benches,' " a Pakistani Taliban said, according to Ahmed. " 'Kill them.' "
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/16/world/...?hpt=hp_t1