Sunni Bombs Shrine, People chant "Down with America"?

Six KFC workers burned to death in Karachi violence By Faisal Aziz
1 hour, 31 minutes ago



KARACHI (Reuters) - Six employees of American fast-food franchise KFC were burned to death in Karachi during a riot that followed a suicide attack on a mosque in the southern Pakistani city, rescue workers said on Tuesday.

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Angry Shi'ites set fire to the restaurant after the mosque attack in which five people died on Monday night, but the bodies of those burned were only found on Tuesday morning, said Rizwan Edhi of the Edhi Foundation, a private emergency service.

"We recovered the bodies of the six people from the debris of the KFC early this morning.All the dead were employees of KFC," he said.

On Monday, at least five people, including two assailants, were killed in the suicide bomb attack on the Shi'ite mosque in the same Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi.

At least 18 people were wounded, four seriously, in the attack at the Mandinatul Ilm mosque, the latest incident of religious violence to hit one of Washington's main allies in its war on terrorism.

The mosque attack came just three days after a suicide bombing at a Muslim festival in Islamabad on Friday that killed at least 19 people, most of them Shi'ite Muslims, in the worst such attack ever in the capital city.

More than 100 people have been killed in tit-for-tat attacks by majority Sunni and Shi'ite militants in the past year.

Most of the attacks have been blamed on Sunni militant groups with links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network which have been angered by Pakistan's support for the war on terrorism.

Analysts say the Sunni militants have revived long standing sectarian rivalry as a means to destabilize President Pervez Musharraf's government.

Perhaps they have not attended a cultural sensitivity class like those offered in many of our liberal colleges here in the states?

Wisam Younis' sole ambition in life, he said Friday, is to kill Americans. So he claimed surprise when he discovered his car bomb had killed eight Iraqis and wounded more than 80 outside a Baghdad restaurant. Younis and brothers Badr and Yassin Shakir are charged with murder and face the death penalty in the May 23 attack.

``We did not know that the attack would target innocent people and we were deceived. We were eluded by enthusiastic ideas and money,'' said Younis, barefooted and with bruised and swollen hands. An insurgent leader promised him $1,500 for the bombing, he said.

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Suddenly it's not so funny anymore. They are still showing the telltale signs of a primitive society - irrational retaliations, etc - but now it's becoming violent. Still what else can be expected from these people, I guess.