Will Dems retreat from Pakistan next?

AP/NY Times:

A suicide bomber killed 15 people -- including a judge -- after blowing himself up inside a courtroom in a southwestern Pakistani province that has seen intense civil conflict for years, police said.

Elsewhere, authorities announced the arrests of three people who they accused of planning similar attacks.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack at the District Courts complex in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. At least 24 people were wounded in the suicide attack, said Jam Mohammed Yousaf, the top elected official the province.

He said a civil judge, five lawyers and some of the relatives of prisoners on trial were among those killed.

Information was not immediately available about who was on trial. The blast shattered windows and destroyed furniture inside the courtroom. Shoes, strips of clothing and body parts littered the scene.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz -- who was visiting the northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday to meet with families of some police officials who died in a separate suicide attack -- condemned the bombing.

''It is an attack on humanity,'' he said.

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It's a quagmire. Islamist are conducting a civil war. But isn't this where Osama, Zawahiri, and Mullah Omar are hiding? Do we want to be involved in a sectarian civil war just to get the people responsible for mass murder on 9-11? Do Democrats have a clue how ignorant they are of the war against al Qaeda and warfare in general? The answer to the last question is clearly no. Otherwise they would not have voted to give Osama et.al. hope by voting against Gen. Pratraeus's troop surge which is working in Baghdad as they voted. Their desperation for defeat knows no bounds.

Gateway Pundit has more on the Pakistan sectarian civil war/quagmire. Bill Roggio has much more on the sectarian violence in Pakistan inspired by al Qaeda.