Posted on 09/19/2011 4:16:00 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
KARACHI, Pakistan -A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives Monday outside the home of a senior police officer tasked with cracking down on militants in Pakistan's largest city. The blast killed at least eight people and left a crater 10 feet (3 meters) deep, police said.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the early morning attack in the southern port city of Karachi. The target of the bombing, Chaudhry Aslam, escaped unscathed and said he would not be cowed by the attack.
"This is a cowardly act," Aslam told local television. "I'm not scared. I will not spare them."
The eight people killed included six policemen guarding Aslam's house and a mother and daughter, said Aslam. He estimated that at least 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of explosives were used in the attack.
The death toll could have been even worse if it had happened a few minutes later when many children would have been headed to schools located near Aslam's house in the Defense neighborhood of Karachi, an upscale residential area that rarely experiences militant attacks or other forms of violence that plague the city.
"Thank God it was half an hour before school time," said former Pakistani cricket team captain Moin Khan, who passed by the site of the attack shortly after the blast.
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Yet more peace BO has brought to the world
It’s change you can believe in.
What kind of monster creates a bomb so a fellow human being can kill himself andd other people in a suicide bombing.
That person is the worst kind of filth and a sorry coward.
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