Posted by fayeroe on March 5, 2009, at 18:51:44
In reply to Re: Pakistan » fayeroe, posted by Sigismund on March 5, 2009, at 18:39:37
> In Lahore there is a very big roundabout. The team bus was on the roundabout when 4 cars(?) came from each direction and surrounded it. The plan was to fire a rocket launcher at the bus, shoot the tyres out, and board the bus and execute the entire Sri Lankan cricket team. It failed because the bus driver, realising what was happening, drove the bus away. I don't know if the tyres were shot out. The gunmen walked away or escaped on motorbikes. The way one of them walked away made me wonder how the other people in the street felt. The 7 people killed were not on the team, some members of which were wounded.
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> I've started "Descent into Chaos" by Ahmed Rashid, in which I read that Pakistan is the 5th most populous country in the world. Can that be right?China is # 1. Pakistan is # 6.
What do you mean by how the guy walked away? The people who were there may have known about the planned attack?Very smart bus driver..
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