In its first efforts to avenge the death of their top terrorist Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda took responsibility for a pair of suicide bombings on a paramilitary training ground today in Pakistan which has resulted in the death of at least 80 people and wounding over 100 more.
Al-Qaeda is harboring resentment against the Pakistan government because they failed to stop the United States from killing bin Laden.
With the recent development of suicide bombers attacking Pakistan paramilitary trainees, it is pretty obvious that al-Qaeda’s current targets are not just Americans.
But al-Qaeda has issued a clear warning to the United States that additional violence will ensue and will aim to target Americans living within Pakistan.
Since the killing of bin Laden, Pakistan and the United States have had tense relations as to how the operation was carried out and also if Pakistan had been providing safe haven for bin Laden throughout all of these years, not to mention the billions of dollars Pakistan has been receiving from the Untied States government.
Perhaps this is a good opportunity to maybe mend those ‘fighting words’ and come up with some kind of compromise to battle terrorism.
Most significant of all is the fact that Pakistan has nuclear weapons. One possible concern is the idea of al-Qaeda somehow intervening through Pakistani intelligence and getting its hands on one of those weapons or even blowing it up through another suicide bombing.
A catastrophe would be on our hands.
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