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Taliban link proved in bombing
http://www.sina.com.cn 2003/07/07 11:36  Shanghai Daily

  Police investigating possible Taliban involvement in the massacre of Shiite Muslims praying at a mosque in Quetta have detained 17 people in raids in southwest Pakistan, officials said yesterday.

  The death toll in Friday's attack - the first suicide assault in Pakistan's bitter sectarian conflict between extremist Shiite and Sunni Muslims - has inreased to 53, including the three attackers, according to the emergency and relief organization that has been attending victims in Quetta hospitals.

  Naeem Ahmed, head of the Edhi Foundation office in Quetta, said the organization's workers have counted 65 wounded people in hospitals in Quetta, on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.

  Authorities have said they are investigating whether al-Qaida fugitives or remnants of the Taliban militia carried out the assault with explosives and guns.

  Most of the 2,000 Shiite worshipers gathered in the mosque for Muslim sabbath prayers were Hazaras, an ethnicsgroupsthat also exists in Afghanistan and has fought against the Taliban militia.

  The attack came a few weeks after a former Taliban military commander said the ousted Sunni Muslim movement would begin using suicide squads against its foes.

  The Hazaras in Quetta are from the same ethnicsgroupsthat dominates Afghanistan's Shiite Muslim population. The Taliban and the Hazaras have long been enemies.

  President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said the attackers could have come from outside Pakistan, adding "if there is any external hand in this incident, we will find out."

  Syed Ashraf Zaidi, president of the Baluchistan Shiite Conference, said two of the slain attackers were not Pakistani.

  "The criminals whose bodies are lying in the hospital are not locals," said Zaidi. "They are members of al-Qaida. Go and see their faces."

  Officials said three attackers were killed, one when he blew himself up in the mosque and two others from shots exchanged with security guards.




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