Friday, August 09, 2002

Religion of Peace Alert
AFP is reporting: Four dead after grenade attack on Pakistan Christian hospital
A grenade attack on a hospital chapel near the Pakistani capital left at least four dead and 26 wounded, the second time within days a Christian target has been hit.

Two Pakistani nurses and a paramedic were among the dead, while one of the attackers was found dead at the scene, hospital workers and witnesses said on Friday.

The assailants hurled grenades as staff were emerging from a church service around 7:45 am (0145 GMT) at the Christian Hospital in Taxila, an ancient Buddhist town 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of Islamabad.

"They were coming out of a church service when they were attacked," Marwad Shah, police chief in the nearby city of Rawalpindi, told AFP.
It takes a really cowardly thug to throw grenades at people coming out of a worship service. It takes a really stupid one to get blown up doing it.