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09-22-08, 07:50 AM
Two US marines, Danish intelligence officer killed
ISLAMABAD, Sep 22: The Czech Ambassador to Pakistan Ivo Zdarek and two U.S marines were among the 53 people killed in the suicide bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel on Saturday night in Islamabad while a Danish diplomat is still missing after the incident.
“We are concentrating right now on finding the Dane who has been missing since yesterday,” Klavs Holm, ambassador for public diplomacy at the Danish foreign ministry, told AFP.
The Danish intelligence agency, PET, said in a separate statement that one of its agents, a security adviser, had been posted missing, presumed dead. A second PET official was unhurt, it said.
“The embassy (in Islamabad) is organising some teams who are investigating around the city, in hospitals and other places, trying to find out what has happened to him.” The missing diplomat's identity was not disclosed.
Holm said there were other Danish nationals in the Mariott at the time of the attack, but that they sustained “only minor injuries”. In an impassioned interview with TV2, Denmark’s foreign minister also called on Arab nations to cooperate better with Western countries in combating the terror threat.
“We have to explain to the Muslim world (that they need to be) more alert and cooperate better with us (the West) to bring about an end to terrorism,” said Moeller.
Saturday’s suicide blast was “an attack on cooperation between Pakistan and the international community, because these Islamists, these fanatics, want to break relations between the West and the democratically-elected Pakistani government,” he added.
“The terrorists are so strong in Pakistan because they have given up on taking control of Iraq,” he added. “They are looking for places to destroy so as to influence other countries afterwards,” hence the need for closer cooperation.
According to APP, the pentagon has confirmed that two U.S marines had been killed in the blast. According to APP, the two men were security personnel deployed at the American embassy. He said the body of the Czech envoy would be handed over to the Czech authorities on Monday.
The body of one US national has been handed over to the US authorities while the second body would be handed over on Monday.
Ellie
ISLAMABAD, Sep 22: The Czech Ambassador to Pakistan Ivo Zdarek and two U.S marines were among the 53 people killed in the suicide bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel on Saturday night in Islamabad while a Danish diplomat is still missing after the incident.
“We are concentrating right now on finding the Dane who has been missing since yesterday,” Klavs Holm, ambassador for public diplomacy at the Danish foreign ministry, told AFP.
The Danish intelligence agency, PET, said in a separate statement that one of its agents, a security adviser, had been posted missing, presumed dead. A second PET official was unhurt, it said.
“The embassy (in Islamabad) is organising some teams who are investigating around the city, in hospitals and other places, trying to find out what has happened to him.” The missing diplomat's identity was not disclosed.
Holm said there were other Danish nationals in the Mariott at the time of the attack, but that they sustained “only minor injuries”. In an impassioned interview with TV2, Denmark’s foreign minister also called on Arab nations to cooperate better with Western countries in combating the terror threat.
“We have to explain to the Muslim world (that they need to be) more alert and cooperate better with us (the West) to bring about an end to terrorism,” said Moeller.
Saturday’s suicide blast was “an attack on cooperation between Pakistan and the international community, because these Islamists, these fanatics, want to break relations between the West and the democratically-elected Pakistani government,” he added.
“The terrorists are so strong in Pakistan because they have given up on taking control of Iraq,” he added. “They are looking for places to destroy so as to influence other countries afterwards,” hence the need for closer cooperation.
According to APP, the pentagon has confirmed that two U.S marines had been killed in the blast. According to APP, the two men were security personnel deployed at the American embassy. He said the body of the Czech envoy would be handed over to the Czech authorities on Monday.
The body of one US national has been handed over to the US authorities while the second body would be handed over on Monday.
Ellie