Nanga Parbat basecamp slaughter

yes bluering christians do this and they take pictures of it. Then they do even worse things.

Course it depends how you define christian.

I'll bet you would be hard pressed to find a KKK member who didn't consider themselves good Christians.

thats what our special forces and cia assest are in the business of!

dont you know the first thing about counter insurgency actions?

"for every gurilla there are 9 civilians providing him with food clothing and shelter... they are the enemy we engage!"


your heros are simple murders who love to kills civilians in their sleep...

they almost neverhave to fight as is their design via intel and planning


if they do, theyve screwed up

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Some of the least aggressive people I have met were in the military.

Any of these arguments can be moronically reduced to a direct conflict with a direct threat, but what I and others am talking about is not so much immediate self-defense scenarios, but aggression as a stragedy for peace - a far more nuanced subject.

The problem is when aggression remains the go-to stradegy, you feed a closed loop. If you're fine with that, and the fall out, then you're simply one of those who will perpetuate the cycle while telling yourself there is no other way. And verily, so long as you believe tat as gospel, you will be 100% correct. You'll get no argument from me on that count.

JL

[DAWN] The massacre of 10 foreign climbers on Pakistain's "Killer Mountain" a year ago came after a failed attempt
"Curses! Foiled again!"
to capture a Chinese-American to use him as a high-value bargaining chip, officials and bully boy sources have said.

The June 22 attack at the base camp for the 8,126-metre Nanga Parbat, Pakistain's second-highest mountain — nicknamed for its treacherous terrain — was the deadliest assault on foreigners in the country for a decade.

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Through interviews with multiple officials, turbans and negotiators assigned to bring the culprits out of hiding, AFP has been able to piece together a picture of the events surrounding the slaughter and its aftermath.

One year on, with tourism in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region still suffering, most of the 10 suspects implicated in the attack are still on the lam, while sources close to the investigation have cast doubt on the guilt of some of those incarcerated
"Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!"
.

The victims were identified as three Ukrainians, two Chinese — including Chinese-American Chen Honglu — two Slovakians, one Lithuanian and one Nepalese as well as a Pak guide.

But dual national Chen was the prime target, according to bully boy sources.

Mystery commanders
The story begins in early June 2013, when a local jihadist contacted other fighters to tell them two mysterious commanders had arrived from out of town and wanted to meet.

The northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, high in the Himalayas, has been relatively immune to the bully boy insurgency plaguing the country in recent years.

The men met at a house in the town of Chilas, where the two strangers, wearing all-enveloping burqas, were introduced as important Taliban cadres from Afghanistan.

The local fighters were briefed on the planned Nanga Parbat operation.

"They were told that the mission was about kidnapping a foreigner in order to later bargain for the release of an important Taliban capo," an investigator assigned to the case said.

Militant sources told AFP the Chinese-American was the specific target, with the plan being to trade him for Taliban in Afghanistan.

The men then met a local sectarian group in a forest, recruiting two more fighters — against the sectarian group leader's wishes — to bring their number to 10.

They left for the Nanga Parbat base camp in the early evening, wearing the uniforms of the Gilgit Scouts, a paramilitary police unit.

"The two burqa-clad commanders had taken off their burqas and were in military uniforms like the rest of us but their faces were covered with a cloth," a bully boy source told AFP, explaining that they were supposed to grab the target.

But as the attack unfolded in the freezing night, Chen burst out of his tent and tackled one of the turbans using martial arts techniques.

The bully boy, named Mujeeb, panicked and shot him, destroying the main purpose of the mission and infuriating the shadowy masked commanders.

The remaining climbers were then tied up and shot one by one.

"It all happened because of Mujeeb," said a local source who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"The actual plan had been to kidnap a Chinese-American but his reaction led to the killing of himself and 10 others," he said.

This account was corroborated by two officials from the team investigating the attack.

After the slaughter, the attackers walked for five hours to a remote village where they buried their uniforms and had breakfast before walking on to another village and dispersing.

High-value target
Beyond Chen's US nationality it is unclear why he became such a valued target of the group.

The 50-year-old studied electrical engineering at Tsinghua University in China, and worked for some time in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, before returning to Shanghai, according to the Alpinist magazine.

In a video clip recorded by negotiators who met with him, Mujeeb owned up to the killing of Chen but told them he would not surrender because he acted in "self-defence".

"What did you expect me to do, wait for him to kill me? I panicked and opened fire," Mujeeb said on the video.

More than four months went by before authorities made their first arrests in the case.

A total of 18 people were detained, of whom five are still in jug — but several bully boy sources say only one of them was involved in the attack, while the rest were forced to confess.

Mujeeb remains in hiding in the forests of the district, where from time to time he makes audio recordings of jihadist poetry that find their way to the markets of Gilgit town.

Bashir Qureshi, a member of the negotiating team, said there were many grey areas in the case.

"Nothing is clear, they have mixed up four different cases to give an impression that all the perpetrators have been arrested but the real perpetrators are still on the lam," he said.

The 50-year-old studied electrical engineering at Tsinghua University in China, and worked for some time in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party