Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3547-1004299914-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:13:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 24252 invoked by uid 510); 28 Oct 2001 20:11:14 -0000 Received: from n31.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.81) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 28 Oct 2001 20:11:14 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3547-1004299914-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.222] by n31.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Oct 2001 20:11:54 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 28 Oct 2001 20:11:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 4931 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2001 20:11:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.1.222 with QMQP; 28 Oct 2001 20:11:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 28 Oct 2001 20:11:54 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f9SKCCF02607 for iwar@onelist.com; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:12:12 -0800 Message-Id: <200110282012.f9SKCCF02607@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:12:12 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Pakistan.gunmen.kill.15.Christians] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit CNN.com - Pakistan gunmen kill 15 Christians - October 28, 2001 Pakistan gunmen kill 15 Christians ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Masked gunmen on motorcycles shot dead as many as 15 Christians and a policeman at Sunday prayers in a central Pakistani town, witnesses say. Reuters news agency reported that six men on three motorcycles rode up to Saint Dominic's Church and pulled out AK47 assault rifles from bags, one witness said. They shot two police guards, killing one, before entering the packed church firing indiscriminately. Dozens were wounded. COUNTRY PROFILE At a glance: Pakistan Provided by CountryWatch.com CNN.com Asia More news from our Asia edition "It is a security failure," Pakistan's minister for minorities affairs S.K. Tressler told Reuters. The town of Bahawalpur is 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Multan near the Indian border,and the church was located in a residential area called Gulzar-e-Sadiq. Christians have expressed fears they could become targets if unrest broke out in Muslim Pakistan over opposition to the U.S. attacks on neighboring Afghanistan's ruling Muslim Taliban militia. Police have been posted at Christian churches since the September 11 attacks on the United States that have been blamed on Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, sheltering in Afghanistan under the protection of the ruling hardline Taliban. Christians account for about one percent of Pakistan's 120 million population. "Women were among the dead," a police spokesman said. "Around nine this morning, six people on two motorcycles stormed into the church and they sprayed bullets indiscriminately on people inside the church," one news agency was told. "We received eight dead bodies, and we have been told that eight more bodies are lying outside the church," said Dr. Altaf Malik, medical superintendent of the Civil Hospital of Behawalpur, according to The Associated Press news agency. He said "at least five" more people were being treated for bullet wounds. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Pakistan is an overwhelmingly Muslim country but around two percent of its 140 million population belong to various Christian churches. Saint Dominic's is a Catholic church but a Protestant service was being held. This was the first such attack on Christians in the region, the police spokesman said. In 1997, Muslim rioters in southern Punjab sacked 13 churches and a school and burned and looted hundreds of houses, saying some Christians had committed blasphemy by throwing torn pages of the Koran into a mosque. A 1986 law that makes blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammad punishable by death has been used to intimidate religious minorities, including Christians, rights groups say. About 2,500 peope are said to be in jail or to face charges for blasphemy. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web Back to the topŠ 2001 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. An AOL Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you. Read our privacy guidelines. 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