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Tourists complain about the garbage in Kuta A Pakistani resident walks past the wreckage of vehicles and buildings which were destroyed in a car bomb blast in Faisalabad on March 9, 2011.
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Suicide bomber kills 37 at Pakistan funeral Reuters
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A Taliban suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 37 people in the latest in a string of Islamist militant attacks aimed at undermining Pakistan’s U.S.-backed government. The funeral was for the relative of a progovernment, ethnic Pashtun tribal elder near the northwestern city of Peshawar, top district administrator, Siraj Ahmed, told Reuters.
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The attacker struck as mourners were about to hold funeral prayers, officials and survivors said. “As we are readying for prayers, a boy wrapped in a shawl headed toward us. People shouted
to the imam (prayer leader) to wait for him to join us but as he came close he blew himself up,” said witness Mehmood Shah said. A top provincial health official said 37 people had been killed and
52 wounded. The Pashtun elder whose relative was being buried, Hakeem Khan, was instrumental in raising a militia force, known as a lashkar, with the support of the government to fight militants.
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility. “These lashkars are raised to create chaos instead of maintaining peace,” militant spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location. “The lashkars and the army are fighting us at the behest of the Americans. We will continue attacks on them,” he said. It was not immediately clear if the Pashtun elder, Khan, had been killed or wounded in the explosion. Continued on page 6
21 Pa. priests suspended before penance period Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA – More than eight years after U.S. Roman Catholic bishops vowed swift action to keep potential abusers from young people, the Philadelphia archdiocese has suspended 21 priests named as child molestation suspects in a scathing grand jury report. The suspensions came on Tuesday, the eve of Lent, the Christian period for penance leading up to Easter. The priests, whose names haven’t been released, have been removed from ministry while their cases are
reviewed, Cardinal Justin Rigali said. “These have been difficult weeks since the release of the grand jury report,” Rigali said in a statement. “Difficult most of all for victims of sexual abuse but also for all Catholics and for everyone in our community.” The two-year grand jury investigation into priest abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia resulted in charges against two priests, a former priest and a Catholic school teacher who are accused of raping boys. And in an unprecedented move in the United States, a former high-ranking church offi-
cial was accused of transferring problem priests to new parishes without warning anyone of prior sex abuse complaints. Since 2002, when the national abuse crisis erupted in the Archdiocese of Boston, American dioceses have barred hundreds of accused clergy members from public church work or removed them permanently from the priesthood. The allegations against the Pennsylvania priests stand out because they come years after the U.S. bishops reformed their national child protection policies. Continued on page 6
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Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia