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prediction : WILL THE RELIGIOUS WAR IN IRAQ SPREAD?

[+] serious ballot by ClosetIguana
created Sat Jan 27, 07

PESHAWAR, Pakistan Jan 27, 2007
A suspected suicide attacker exploded a bomb near a Shiite Muslim mosque in this northwestern Pakistani city late Saturday, killing at least 11 people, including the city police chief, and wounding 35, police said.

Most of the victims were police and municipal officials who were clearing the route for a procession of Shiites in a crowded old quarter of Peshawar, said police officer Aziz Khan. The procession had yet to begin.

This weekend marks the start of the festival of Ashoura, when Shiites mourn the 7th century death of the prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussein. In the past the festival has been a target for sectarian attacks.

The blast went off in a bazaar area about 200 yards from the mosque that was the starting point for the Shiite procession. It caused a power outage that left the city center in darkness, complicating rescue efforts.

At the bomb site, investigators found what appeared to be two legs from a suicide attacker, police officer Raza Khan said.

Eleven bodies and 35 wounded people were brought to Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital, Aziz Khan said. The city's police chief, Malik Saab, was among the dead, said provincial police chief Sharif Virk.

Hundreds of people crowded around the hospital seeking news on loved ones. By loudspeaker, hospital officials appealed for calm and blood donations.

Aziz Khan had been on duty near the mosque when the bomb went off.

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COMMENTS:
It seems that you are linking a political bombing in Pakistan {the target was an American hotel where foriegners stay} with the religious violence in Iraq.

where is the nexis?

by Noblese_Oblige on Sat Jan 27, 07 5:21pm [+]

^The police were clearing the way for a Shiite festival. The festival had been targets from prious attacks. If the hotel was the target it would have happened inside of the hotel (where it would cause maximum damage/deaths.

by ClosetIguana on Sat Jan 27, 07 9:40pm [+]

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by ClosetIguana on Sat Jan 27, 07 9:41pm [+]

It seems more of the same as opposed to religious civil war to me. Civil wars don't really expand over that type of distance.

by Noblese_Oblige on Sun Jan 28, 07 5:22pm [+]

Religion holds no borders.

by ClosetIguana on Sun Jan 28, 07 8:07pm [+]

Voted : yes
It will most certainly expand.

Noblesse is semi-correct -- this is not only a religious conflict. It is a rich mexture of theological and geopolitical. However, I believe he is mistaken in sayiong it won't spread because it is a civil war. Remember that the borders of Iraq are an arbitrary imposition made by Britain, after WW2 -- one that cut across various loose and largely unformalized tribal/ religious 'boundaries.'

by Guest User from [135.92.84.150] on Mon Jan 29, 07 10:27am [+]

You didn't ask about religious war but civil war.

by Noblese_Oblige on Mon Jan 29, 07 8:35pm [+]

^Please ignore that. I meant that since Iraq is in civil war that the likelihood of it spreading was nil.

However, yes. Religious war could erupt in Pakistan. I don't think it would "spread" from Iraq though.

by Noblese_Oblige on Mon Jan 29, 07 8:38pm [+]

A couple things.
Civals wars have spread across borders in the past (Sudan's 1970s cival war, Columbia's cival war - numerous examples).
Today distance is irrelevant. News on the other side of the world takes mere seconds to get. Mix that with some extremists wanting to "defending" their religion and it could easily spread to other countries.

by ClosetIguana on Tue Jan 30, 07 1:21am [+]

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