This is terrible:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — More than 80 paramilitary soldiers were killed when at least one suicide bomber blew himself up Friday morning at a military training center in northwest Pakistan, a commander of the Frontier Constabulary said.
The bombing was the first major terrorist attack since the American raid in Abbottabad on May 2 that killed Osama bin Laden.
The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility in a statement shortly after the bombing, saying that the attack was in retaliation for the May 2 American raid that killed Osama bin Laden. But senior police officials said that they doubted the attack was actually carried out by the Pakistani Taliban, or that it was in revenge for the Americans' action.
Americans are understandably suspicious about how exactly, Osama bin Laden managed to hide in Pakistan for years, a short distance away from the Pakistan Military Academy, without someone in the Pakistani government knowing. But it's important to keep in mind that the ordinary Pakistanis have borne the brunt of what Mosharraf Zaidi describes as the government's failure to "fulfill its duties to its people and to the rest of the world," particularly when it comes to curbing extremism and violence. The real victims of Pakistan's "double game" are Pakistanis.
