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21 Policemen Found Fatally Shot in Pakistan by Suspected Taliban Militants

Dec. 29, 2012 11:00pm
21 Pakistani Policemen Found Shot to Death by Suspected Taliban Militants

In a photo made Aug. 5, 2012, a Pakistani Taliban militant holds a rocket-propelled grenade at the Taliban stronghold of Shawal, in Pakistani tribal region. (AP File Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

(TheBlaze/AP) — Twenty-one tribal policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban were found shot dead in Pakistan’s troubled northwest tribal region early Sunday, government officials said.

Officials found the bodies shortly after midnight in the Jabai area of Frontier Region Peshawar after being notified by one policeman who escaped, said Naveed Akbar Khan, a top political official in the area. Another policeman was found seriously wounded, said Khan.

The 23 policemen went missing before dawn Thursday when militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons attacked two posts in Frontier Region Peshawar. Two policemen were also killed in the attacks.

Militants lined the policemen up on a cricket pitch late Saturday night and gunned them down after tying their hands with rope, said another local official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“We found 21 bullet riddled bodies of security personnel a short while ago in an uninhabited area,” local government official Naveed Akbar Khan added for the Agence France-Presse, Al Jazeera relates.

21 Pakistani Policemen Found Shot to Death by Suspected Taliban Militants

A Pakistani woman grieves after losing her son in a Taliban blast at a local hospital in Karachi, Pakistan on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. (Photo: AP)

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion fell on the Pakistani Taliban, who have been waging a bloody insurgency against the government for the past few years. The tribal region is the main sanctuary for the Taliban in Pakistan.

On Saturday, an explosion ripped through a passenger bus at a terminal in the southern city of Karachi, killing six people and wounding 52 others, some of whom were in critical condition, said Seemi Jamali, a doctor at the hospital where the victims were being treated.

Police were trying to determine whether the blast, which reduced the bus to a charred skeleton, was caused by a bomb or a gas canister that exploded, said police spokesman Imran Shaukat. Many buses in Pakistan run on natural gas.

Karachi has a long history of political, ethnic and sectarian violence. It is also believed to be home to many Taliban militants who have fled U.S. drone attacks and Pakistani army operations in the country’s northwest.

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Associated Press writer Adil Jawad in Karachi, Pakistan, contributed to this report.

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Comments (62)

  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 9:04am

    We give billions to Pakistan and they’re just a breeding ground of Islamists,we need to eliminate all foreign aid immediately. We are funding our enemies,STOP THE INSANITY.

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  • TIMEBOMB
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 8:48am

    Your dear leader’s warriors have killed the enemy in Pockestan and soon they’ll kill you mouth breathing simpletons on American soil! They’re helping me create the caliphate that will enslave the world to my religion,Islam. Praise be to me BHO.

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  • dublinthewagons
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 7:54am

    As the leaders of the civilized world would say. No more gun violence just drag their little heads out of the womb and drive a steel rod through its brain. Aren’t those democrats an asset to mankind? Not

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    • jd9215
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 8:13am

      North of the 49th we call them liberals. Just as thick in the head, and just as cowardly when then crap hits the fan. Only we don’t have as many, and they stay close to the “center of the universe”. Toronto.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 8:30am

      DNA of Sandy Hook Shooter to Be Examined for ‘Evil’ Gene?

      Get a couple of mulims if you can not find it there.
      This is normal fair for them
      The peaceful religion – that causes more death and destruction in the world so they (the people)remain in the dark ages. (kind of like union bosses – what I got I want and you fight for it)

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 9:33am

      YOUGOTTABEKIDDING, Gotta agree with you. Many of us have known about the “evil gene” for quite a while now.

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      RJJinGadsden  
  • jd9215
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 7:53am

    How many of the “shooters” did Obama release from Guantanamo?

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  • jd9215
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 7:51am

    How do you deal with a people that think like the Taliban? They will only accept the death of anyone that doesn’t agree with them? There is no reasoning with savages like this.So put them down like a rabid dog,wherever they are found.

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    • dublinthewagons
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 8:00am

      You tell me how you reason with a democrat. Same skunk just different width stripes

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      dublinthewagons  
    • Cemoto78
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 8:03am

      How many of these guns used in this murder spree were given to the Taliban/ Pakistan by this government? If there is anyone who needs to have gun control mandates on them would be the U.S. government and it’s officials. not the citizens.

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      Cemoto78  
    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 8:26am

      @CEMOTO78

      I would doubt that we provided them the weapons used. Probably Soviet or Chinese made AK-47s. Probably very old and well used ones.

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      1776freedomofspeech  
  • dublinthewagons
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 7:26am

    Just one minute here. America is the only place guns are used to kill each other.
    So the old moron proverb goes.
    Diane Frankinstien they need your gun laws, and smelly rearend.

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    dublinthewagons  
  • Diane TX
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 5:16am

    The French 75% tax rate on the rich has been declared unconstitutional by their higher authority whatever that is. I don’t understand the French political system. All I know is that 75% on the rich has been declared as “unfair”. Success being punished, has been declared as “unfair” in France. If only the USA had a political system where self-made peoples weren’t punished for their success.

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  • barber2
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:18am

    Can you imagine what Harry Truman would do with the Taliban “problem?”. Harry was an old school Democrat. A dead breed of patriotic Democrats.

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  • spikebu
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:14am

    This is just like Mexico. You know. Oh. I get it. Sorta. We pretend we lost some people. They kill a whole bunch of us, and we give them our biggest smiles.

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    spikebu  
  • barber2
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:19am

    The Taliban cannot be changed. It must be destroyed.

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  • marine249
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 2:51am

    we need to pass gun ban laws there also

    :+[

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    marine249  
    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 2:55am

      Sen Finestein is all over it.

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      1776freedomofspeech  
    • asybot12
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:52am

      We should send Feistein there to implement her new laws! BTW Fein stein translates into “fine rock” refers to whats between ears.

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    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:06am

      And Harry Reid too. Diane and Harry take on the middle east. See Comedy in the dictionary.

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      1776freedomofspeech  
    • dublinthewagons
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 7:32am

      1776 the Sen. Is all over this.
      Like stink on crap

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      dublinthewagons  
    • PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 8:02am

      We the People have a legal de Jure Republic set-up with elected constitutional officials that are ready to take over when this de Facto democrat/socialist system fails. There are 2 governments…We the People have taken over the vacated seat of power that was left when the fake corporation took over. THIS GOVERNMENT IS A FAKE AND HAS NO POWER. It is just a corporation. We The People have the POWER> It is the Answer! Much of the work has already been done we just need to join into it.

      JOIN http://www.republicfortheunitedstates.org

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      PIGSWILLNEVERFLY  
  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 2:24am

    And this affects me how?And why are we giving a bunch of savages our hard earned American dollars.I WANT MY MONEY BACK, i could use a vacation after all before all he!! breaks loose.

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    whatthecrazy  
    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 2:32am

      It is called protection money. The US pays Pakistan so Pakistan won’t give their nukes away to other even more unstable countries.

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      1776freedomofspeech  
    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 2:36am

      Kinda like you give your sister’s kid a candy bar so he will quit running around the house with scissors.

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      1776freedomofspeech  
    • spikebu
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:15am

      @1776…No. I don’t give a kid candy and hope it follows. I Lead.

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      spikebu  
    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:27am

      @spikebu

      I agree, I was trying to explain why our tax $$ goes to that God foresaken counrty.

      We need far more leadership and less likership from the USA.

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      1776freedomofspeech  
    • spikebu
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:35am

      @1776…Actually, we need to take our children and dollars away from “them”.

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      spikebu  
    • spikebu
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:50am

      @ 1776…Sorry, Friend. You cannot explain the unexplainable.

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      spikebu  
    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:15am

      @spikebu

      It is a mess with no easy solution except total all out warfare. Resulting in massive collateral damage which the USA is not prepared to acknowledge and stomach. Kill them in the cities, mountains, plains, valleys, poppy fields, anywhere and everywhere. If they carry an AK, they get a dirt nap.
      However as it is, They are not going away. And neither are we.

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      1776freedomofspeech  
  • blaaaaackwoman
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 1:10am

    Have you seen the movie Zeitgeist? Paki-stinks from Pakistan financed 9/11. There are images of bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld saying it wasn’t important where the financing for 9/11 came from. So it doesn’t just start with Obama, it goes much deeper and earlier.

    Pakistan is worse than Iran. It is a toilet of a country.

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    • HOOT_OWL
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 2:01am

      Were you around in 93’ when Clinton was in Office and the towers were attacked THE FIRST TIME….It didn’t start with Bush either.

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      HOOT_OWL  
    • dwilco77
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:21am

      and, Duuhhh,
      the attackers from 9/11 were in flight school during the Clinton Administration preparing for the attack. It was planned, and in progress before Bush was elected.

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      dwilco77  
    • spikebu
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:45am

      Go back 100 years. You might find where it was planned. This has been in the works a long time, folks. Unless you are doing something, you are a pawn.

      Report this comment

      spikebu  
  • RaydocX
    Posted on December 30, 2012 at 12:15am

    Hrmmm… When the peasants don’t have guns, the bad guys seem to be able to kill even the POLICE en mass… Senator Feinstein, VP Biden, mr Moore, bob costas, piers, et al, are you looking at the real world?

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    RaydocX  
    • spikebu
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 3:55am

      Great point, and no, they’re not.

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      spikebu  
    • jd9215
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 8:52am

      The real world doesn’t matter to them at the moment. When it does, all the problems will be someone elses fault. Liberals and Democrats have the backbone of a gummi-bear.

      Report this comment

      jd9215  
  • banjarmon
    Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:53pm

    I learned all I need to know about islam and muslims on 09-11!!!
    Let them kill each other and when they come here to kill us, I will be happy to help them meet their virgins!!!

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    banjarmon  
  • DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
    Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:48pm

    Seriously Pakistan needs to become parking lot #2.
    There is no redeeming life there.
    Why do we continue to give so much money to the corrupt illegitimate people in chage?
    We need to destroy this whole outrun with bombs & then le that area stay barren for a decade.
    Done with spending my tax dollars there!

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    DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT  
  • FANGS
    Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:45pm

    Doesn’t it seem like Right now under the obama administration,. There’s some KAOS every day somewhere in the world, like these mass killings.And all it’s doing is ramping up. The Socialists are running Rampant.No law.

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  • haytanimore
    Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:28pm

    I guess the terrorists are just crossing the border from afghanistan until we pull out in 2014.

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    haytanimore  
  • KangarooJack
    Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:19pm

    21 fathers who thought THEY could make a difference. Well, people, DO THEY?

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    KangarooJack  
    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on December 30, 2012 at 4:33am

      Makes it hard to get a good man to stand up for what is right and become a police officer when he knows that he is out matched by the bad guys and not supported by his government.

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      1776freedomofspeech  
  • KangarooJack
    Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:17pm

    the policeman who took the shoes?

    I’m tired of this. Women crying tears-next frame women doing the tongue trill for their martyed sons/disabled daughters blowing up some checkpoint…Relecting upon 2012-I’ve been listening to Billy Joel’s “We didn’t start the fire”…truth is Is. It was back when bodies choked the rivers in Africa – genocide- based upon the width of a person nose {this by BLACK LEADERS} . THAT that was the momement I began to think for myself.

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  • Mr.Fitnah
    Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:11pm

    You cannot stop Islam by lying about its true nature.

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  • lassiegirldawn
    Posted on December 29, 2012 at 11:04pm

    Not to worry, aren’t the Taliban our friends now?

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