Gunmen kill Saudi diplomat in Pakistan

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

KARACHI (AP) — Gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed a Saudi diplomat as he was driving in Pakistan's largest city on Monday, just days after two hand grenades were tossed at the Arab state's consulate building, police in Karachi said.

The motive for the attack was not clear, but it comes against a backdrop of tensions between Islam's Sunni and Shiite branches, both in the Middle East and in Pakistan.

Saudi Arabia has funded hardline Sunni groups in Pakistan for years, angering its minority Shiites. Meanwhile, Iran has channeled money to Shiite groups, and in the 1980 and 1990s the country was the scene of an effective proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, with Karachi an especially bloody battleground.

Monday's attack took place not far from the consulate building. The diplomat — who was driving a silver Toyota Corona and was alone — appeared to be on his way to work, said police officer Zameer Husain Abbasi. He said a 9 mm pistol was used in the assault.



Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-05-16-saudi-diplomat-pakistan_n.htm

[RandomThoughts]

1. I wonder if the private sector Corporate army

Is blackmailing Saudi to hire them as body guards by such actions.



You want to know how you control a world, get your troops as all the bodyguards of all the leaders around the world.

Pretty simple isn't it.


You really think he just wants a security company.



I would guess You might want to know who is really in charge of security, by protection not war.

Archangel Michael.


Sara Bareilles, Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkOKCWDJ4iA

[Kolesar]

2. Would Osama Bin Laden object to *private* American soldiers in the holy Arabian land?

We will never know.

[cosmicone]

3. In Pakistan, everything is par for the course n/t