A suicide squad using guns, grenades and a van packed with explosives targeted police and Pakistan's intelligence agency Wednesday, killing 30 and wounding 250 in an assault seen as revenge for the month-old army campaign against the Taliban in the Swat Valley.
The midmorning blast on a crowded street damaged an area nearly as big as a city block, mangling cars, spraying bricks in all directions and leaving behind a swimming pool-size crater. Most of the dead and injured were civilians.
Revenge? The reasoning that this must be "revenge" only follows from the fact that this time the terror attack follows Pakistani military action. The jihadis have never actually required any reason to kill innocent civilians other than their hate for non-jihadis.
Our common enemy committed their usual terror attack against innocents. Why dignify it as a response to legitimate Pakistani action to regain control of their territory?
