In what is touted to avenge the death of Osama Bin Laden a double suicide attack by militants killed at least 80 at a parmilitary police training center in Shabqadar, northwest Pakistan.
A Taliban spokesman said that this was the "first revenge" for the death of Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by Navy Seal Team 6 on May 2nd. This has been the deadliest attack since the death of the Al Quaeda leader.
A suicide bomber, on a motorcycle, set of the explosion at the gate of the training centre, just as recruits boarded buses to leave the centre after their course. The second explosion came just seconds later, according to police in Shabqudar. Shabqudar is close to Pakistan's border to Afghanistan.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for the Pakistan Taliban said that this was a revenge attack for the killing of Osama Bin Laden and to wait for bigger attacks in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The Pakistan government has been accused of sheltering Osama Bin Laden and said that it would review counter-insurgency co-operation with the United States.
Yesterday the Obama Administration released the pictures of Bin Laden's dead body to selected lawmakers in Washington. Some counter-insurgency experts, including Ollie North have said that the Obama Administration has already released too much information on black operations, endangering the lives of special ops troops.
While many in the United States considered the death of Bin Laden as a game changer in the war against terror, it now appears that the game changer has come in the form of revenge
One "death" that is causing many "deaths"...
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