Peace Like A River


It was a wide river, mistakable for a lake or even an ocean unless you'd been wading and knew its current. Somehow I'd crossed it... Now I saw the stream regrouped below, flowing on through what might've been vineyards, pastures, orhards... It flowed between and alongside the rivers of people; from here it was no more than a silver wire winding toward the city. - Leif Enger, Peace Like A River

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

A Baloch attach on a Pakistani nuclear facility?

I can't verify this, but IntelliBriefs has this report:

According to reports from reliable sources in Dera Ghazi Khan and Quetta, the Baloch freedom-fighters successfully launched a mortar attack on a Pakistani nuclear establishment controlled by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) on May 15,2006. The establishment is located in the vicinity of the Dera Ghazi Khan-Quetta highway. Earlier too, it was once the target of an unsuccessful attack by the Baloch freedom-fighters.

2. The mortar attack caused the outbreak of a large fire in the woods surrounding the establishment. Twenty fire engines took nearly 10 hours to bring the fire under control. It has been reported that the fire could be extinguished before it could spread to the establishment itself. Apart from destroying a large number of trees planted around the establishment, a cafeteria and other service buidings, the fire does not appear to have caused any other damage. The sensitive parts of the establishment were reportedly not affected.

3. The PAEC has not issued any official statement on the fire. In talks with the local media, unnamed PAEC officials have projected the fire as due to a short circuit. They have not admitted that it was caused by a mortar fire.

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