JANDOOL, PAKISTAN – John Lennon famously sang ‘Give peace a chance‘ in Montreal in 1969: too bad terrorists weren’t listening.
For the record, I am a product of the ‘peace generation’, that group in the 1960s and early 1970s that arose in part as a response to the US involvement in Vietnam. The images associated with that era were the long-haired ‘hippies’ (or as the Canadian group Five Man Electrical Band sang ‘long-haired freaky people’ in their 1971 hit song ‘Signs‘), peace signs and sit-ins. It was a movement to change the world.
Sigh…it did not, but we still see those who push for peace as great humans trying to make a positive difference in the lives of others. Too bad terrorists aren’t part of that.
On this day in 2011
At least seven people were killed in a suicide-bomb attack at a bus station in the north-west Pakistani town of Jandool: another 22 were injured. No group took credit for the bombing, the sixth in Pakistan in as many days.
It was a suicide attack. The bomber was on foot. We’re investigating what the target was.
Regional deputy inspector Qazi Jamil ur-Rehman
While the target was not immediately obvious, one of the dead was a member of a government-backed peace committee. Terrorists don’t like ‘peace‘: it’s bad for business after all.
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