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US Marines could have been the Marriott target
Malaysia Sun
Sunday 21st September, 2008
US Marines staying at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad may have been the target of Saturday's suicide attack.
Police have reported about 30 Marines were staying at the hotel and were scheduled to leave for Afghanistan early Sunday morning.
One official said that the American security personnel were in Pakistan for the just-concluded visit by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen.
But another source said that they were in Islamabad only for two days and were scheduled to leave for Afghanistan on Sunday morning.
A senior security official has said: “We believe that they were the target of the suicide attack, otherwise, we can't find any other reason for such an attack.”
The official said that soon after the blast, US embassy officials reached the spot and were seen looking for the Marines who, according to the sources, were staying on the fourth floor of the hotel.
The fourth floor was among the worst affected as the entire hotel turned into a blazing inferno.
Besides the Marines, the staff of Saudi Airlines and a number of foreigners were staying at the Marriot.
Police sources said that the dead include three Koreans, two Saudis and one American.
Among the injured are some foreigners, including some Americans who were shifted to the hospital inside the US Embassy.
Unconfirmed reports also said that a senior US security official was among the injured.
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| By Anonymous, 09-21-08, 02:24 AM |
US Marines could have been the Marriott targetCan not find any reason for the attack? could it be that these people have their minds posioned by people that think they know better than God. The wish to be Gods and have right to determine who lives and who dies.. Well, we all die eventually! This is a test for those that trust in Gods will or Tabilibans will? |
| By [Dan], 09-21-08, 07:39 AM |
RE: By Anonymous, 09-20-08, 10:24 PMWhy must people always have to rant on about God? They are following the will of their own God, and now you’re blabbering on about your God. They don’t know better than God because THERE IS NO God. Your mind is equally poisoned when you tell us to “trust in God’s will”. Why do people so mindlessly believe some dusty old book that tells them there is this almighty God in the sky? All this will do is cause conflict and segregate the world’s population. I would’ve expected people to come to their senses in the 21st century. |
| By Raeurit, 09-21-08, 08:57 AM |
Plot of US to justify the Violation of Pakistan SovenierityThis is just a another staged Bomb blast by the US to divert the people’s attention from the US’s attack on Pakistan Soil. To justify their invasion (virtual) of pakistan they stages this and tell we are hunting terrorists, while actually they are the real terrorists.
Pakistan’s puppet govt does not understand this culprit’s motive and goes behind them in the name of “war on terror”. |
| By trrtt, 09-21-08, 06:36 PM |
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PLZ READ BOTH N THEN THINK |
| By HAC, 09-21-08, 07:51 PM |
US Marines might having explosives in hotelI strongly condemn this brutal act in Marriot Hotel Islamabad. Its really disturbing for the foreigners and local citizens who use to frequently visit this hotel for the business or pleasure trips.It will take long time to scratch this incidence from their minds which always give some sort of fear to them. No doubt it is a security lapse and conserned official of Islamabad Administration are accountable. I disagree with Rehman Malik that the security was very good and it was just a surprise .... he should be ashamed of him self and review his responsibilities and authority.
It is disturbing news not the local news papers but from foreign news sources that more or less thirty marines were in the hotel and they were having un-screened steel boxes with them on 4th floor, so it is a possibility of having explosives in their rooms which multiply the density of the terrorist attack. No tv report have confirmed till now, that a group of mirines were in the hotel and after passing almost 24 hours no report appears on media how many were dead or injured.This incidence is against the teaching of Islam, terrorist does not belongs to any religion... they live and die with this dirty game. We all are sad with those families who lost their love ones or severely wounded in this recent terrorist attack. |
| By HAC, 09-21-08, 08:01 PM |
US Marines might having explosives in hotelI strongly condemn this brutal act in Marriot Hotel Islamabad. Its really disturbing for the foreigners and local citizens who use to frequently visit this hotel for the business or pleasure trips.It will take long time to scratch this incidence from their minds which always give some sort of fear to them. No doubt it is a security lapse and conserned official of Islamabad Administration are accountable. I disagree with Rehman Malik that the security was very good and it was just a surprise .... he should be ashamed of him self and review his responsibilities and authority.
It is disturbing news not the local news papers but from foreign news sources that more or less thirty marines were in the hotel and they were having un-screened steel boxes with them on 4th floor, so it is a possibility of having explosives in their rooms which multiply the density of the terrorist attack. No tv report have confirmed till now, that a group of mirines were in the hotel and after passing almost 24 hours no report appears on media how many were dead or injured.This incidence is against the teaching of Islam, terrorist does not belongs to any religion... they live and die with this dirty game. We all are sad with those families who lost their love ones or severely wounded in this recent terrorist attack. |
| By Beleve Not What You See or Hear , 09-21-08, 10:22 PM |
Re: Freakin Islamic TerroristsI am glad to learn that you are willing to level off this argument on statistical basis. however, if it is the corporate media or ROTHSCHILD-owned “Reuters” or “AP” that you derive your statistics from.......... you r living in a fool’s paradise my dear.
No race on this earth is a pandemic for others. it is the war-profiteering capitalists who instill hatred, fear and violence to stage wars and thus profit from the debt generated byy the war.
grow up kid
open your eyes and look around .
SWITCH OFF THE MAIN-STREAM MEDIA and think ........ just for a little while |
| By Paranoid? Conspiracy?, 09-21-08, 11:24 PM |
| Do us all a favor and take your medication, will ya? |
| By Another Anonymous Responder, 09-21-08, 08:26 AM |
Freakin Islamic TerroristsLook, save your breath if you want to remind me about non-Muslim terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh. Bottom line is statistically, that was an abberation. These freakin suicidal Islamists who hate everyone not like them, constitute an international pandemic. If they can’t police and prevent each other from killing innocent people such as those in this attack, it is time to give consideration to declaring all out war on this scourge. |
| By Anonymous, 09-22-08, 01:13 AM |
RUSSIANS NOT PRESENTIf Russians were at the Hotel, there would
have been no Attack !! |
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