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Bomb Kills 12 in Pakistan Market

By the Associated Press

Posted Nov 8, 2009 5:33 AM CST

(AP) – A suicide bomber apparently targeting an anti-Taliban mayor struck a crowded market near Peshawar today, killing the mayor and 11 other people and wounding dozens, police said. The market was crowded with shoppers and goats being sold to celebrate the upcoming Muslim festival of Eid. The mayor, Abdul Malik, who was initially reported to have survived, died in the attack, said a top official.

Malik, who had once been a Taliban supporter, later switched sides and formed a local militia to help fight the militants. A young girl was among the 12 killed, officials said. Twenty-five wounded people—several in critical condition—were rushed to a hospital, police said. "That place turned into hell where the dead and injured were lying everywhere and blood and flesh were spread around," said one man, who was buying goats when the explosion tore through the street. "Now we have our blood in this war."

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Hospital staff and relatives transport an injured victim of a suicide bombing, after initial treatment at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. (Mohammad Sajjad)

Pakistani security officials and media gather at the site of a suicide bombing in Adazai town near Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. (Mohammad Sajjad)

A Pakistani doctor treats an injured victim of a suicide bombing, at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. (Mohammad Sajjad)

Injured victims of a suicide bombing are treated at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. (Mohammad Sajjad)

A Pakistani holds his baby girl, who was killed in a suicide bombing, as her grandmother mourns inside a van at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. (Mohammad Iqbal)

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Malik had survived several attacks on his life in the recent past, since he turned against the militants. But today the militants have finally killed him. - Sahibzada Anis,
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cochiserocks

Nov 8, 2009 12:02 PM CST

After all the extreme views put forward suggesting that Islam is a faith of anti-American, anti-Christian violence - I wonder where Jamerican et all are?! They should be crowing and happy at this shouldn't they? - Maybe for once they'll see these lunatics are killing more innocent Muslims right now than they are Westerners - and the victims are women and children - 'innocents' - There's nothing in the Koran justifies this, same way the Koran does not justify Fort Hood, or any of this senseless violence. The civilians of Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan are dealing with this extremism on a daily basis- and I wonder how the ones who just lost loved ones would feel to read some of the crap I've seen posted here - basically accusing them or being responsible for the bombs which kill their own families because they are Muslims. This is about power, this is about politics, this is about fanatical beliefs which will twist and distort anything which serves their purpose - and this is about really normal, poor, innocent people, dying horribly and living in fear. My thoughts go out to the families left behind and I hope this awful incident might at least moderate some of the hateful things being said by people as wilfully ignorant as the Taliban themselves.

jfcd

Nov 8, 2009 9:40 AM CST

hey, you are a sniffer so why don't you go and sniff all your crap and hate and keep it to yourself?

Assassin

Nov 8, 2009 9:24 AM CST

Oh Crapistan, Oh Crapistan, How smelly is your Toilet. Crapistan should be declared as on of several Toilet Nations here on Earth. Sorry to say - but the Pakistani Military funded & trained the Taliban, hide Al-Queda within their borders, Spread Nuke technology to Terrorists & Terrorist Nations, treat their women as less than animals & we should give a Rats Ass with what happens to these Cavemen? This is not a Country it's A TOILET - Crap on them & FLUSH.

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