Bomb Blast Near Us Consulate In

Juan Cole 03/02/2006

Bomb Blast Near US Consulate in Karachi

Jihadis set off a bomb in Karachi, Pakistan near the US consulate, killing 4 and wounding 49. Two of those killed are Americans, one a foreign service officer according to what I heard on Aljazeerah. The strike was intended to cast a pall over Bush’s visit to Pakistan and India.

Things are not looking so great these days in Afghanistan, either.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page