From today’s Times Online: “Suicide bomber kills 70 at Pakistan sports event”
A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives on to a field during a volleyball tournament in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least 70 people. Police said that at least 65 people were wounded and some 20 houses destroyed in the attack.
The blast occurred near Pakistan’s tribal belt, and was the latest in a series of attacks in the country since the Army launched a military offensive against Taleban fighters in the South Waziristan tribal region. More than 500 people have died in reprisal attacks. Police said that today’s bombing in Lakki Marwat city, not far from South Waziristan, was possibly in retaliation for local residents’ efforts to keep militants out of the area.
Now how does Adam Gadahn’s video earlier this month in, “The Mujahideen Do Not Target Muslims” at all fit with attacks on people watching volleyball games?
Seems to me that al-Qaida is either suffering from “acute disconnected from reality syndrome” (a la Stalin or Saddam) or has such little regard for the critical thinking capacity of Muslims that it can put out such inane drivel and that it will be blindly accepted.
Whereas al-Zawahiri and Gadahn believe that they can put this kind of unfounded propaganda out without problem, Abu Yahya al-Libi knows better. Expect him to come out with something more candid in the near future to address the unpopularity of these ongoing attacks on Muslims.