America Strikes Back

[Paule]

It's never going to stop........................



That is until Muslims Christians and Jews all stop killing each other in the name of God.


October 28, 2001 Posted: 5:10 PM EST (2210 GMT)

BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan (CNN) -- A group of bearded men on motorcycles opened fire on a Sunday morning church service, killing at least 16 people, including a police officer, officials said. At least five others were critically injured.

The Rev. Jim Nuttle, a Catholic priest at the church where the shooting happened, said about 50 people were in the church when the attack began at the end of the first service at 9 a.m local time.

The men rode up on motorcycles and shot a police officer who was a church security guard, Nuttle said.

During the church shooting, survivors said worshippers tried to flee or hide under pews to escape an indiscriminate hail of automatic weapons fire that left the gray stone building pocked with bullet holes.

``Some of them lay down. Some begged for mercy. They didn't listen,'' said Ali Shah, a man in his early 20s who was in the front pew when the four masked gunmen burst in. He was one of five people being treated for bullet wounds at the city hospital Sunday afternoon.

The Rev. Rocus Patras, parish priest at St. Dominic's, said that at the time of the shooting, a Protestant congregation that lacks its own building was worshipping at the Catholic church as it has for 30 years.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but intelligence officials said members of a banned Islamic group were under suspicion. U.S. attacks on neighboring Afghanistan have enraged many Pakistani Muslims.

``Whenever something happens with America, they attack Christian churches,'' Patras said.

Authorities in Pakistan's four provinces ordered increased security at Christian churches. In Islamabad, where police commandos with automatic weapons guarded church gates Sunday afternoon, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf condemned the loss of ``16 innocent and precious lives.''

Family members of victims killed in the shooting attack at St. Dominic's Catholic Church wail outside the church Sunday, Oct. 28, 2001 in Behawalpur, in Punjab province, Pakistan. Gunmen stormed into the church in Pakistan during Sunday services and sprayed the congregation with gunfire, killing the minister and 15 others, police and survivors said.(AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)




To all who still think this is NOT a HOLY WAR I have some severe bitchslapping I’d like to administer to you.






Paule "The Walnut" lives!