[swarthyguy]

Body count rising....

AP[ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2002 12:41:55 AM ]

LAHORE: A grenade tossed into a church in Daska, about 70 km from Lahore, on Christmas Day, killed three people and injured at least seven others, police said.

The attack against the Protestant church was under investigation, according to a written statement from the Punjab provincial police in Lahore.

No one has so far taken responsibility, but security in Pakistan had been stepped up ahead of Christmas celebrations.

The attack came the same day that police announced they had found explosives and ammunition near a heavily guarded church in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad. Church officials feared they had been the intended target of an attack, but went ahead with yuletide services.

Since Pakistan lent its support to the US-led military campaign to overthrow Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban, attacks on Christians by suspected Islamic militants have killed about 30 people and injured at least 100.

"So who bears the brunt of Muslim anger and retaliation? We Christians do," said Shabaz Bhatti, a leader in Pakistan's Christian community. "We're the ones who paid the price of America's attacks on Afghanistan."

[livius]

Sorry, but Muslims hated Christians in Pakistan (and were attacking them) long before the US started striking the al Qaeda strongholds in Afghanistan. We need to do some serious informational work there. Either that, or the reporter is biased. Do you think????