It was the most direct attack on an American facility in Pakistan in years, carried out by at least five suicide bombers using a truck bomb, machine guns and rocket launchers.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — In the most direct attack on an American facility in Pakistan in years, militants mounted a multipronged assault against the United States Consulate in this northern city on Monday, using a truck bomb, machine guns and rocket launchers, Pakistani and American officials said.
Thanks to the call by the citizen, police were able to seize a 100 conventional bombs, a cyanide gas bomb, machine guns, an assault rifle, 500,000 rounds of ammunition and an unregistered silencer.
The militants planned to use suicide bombers, car bombs, machine guns and other heavy weapons.
"They said they would cooperate with us, free our prisoners and would give us military equipment, bombs, machine guns, and they would give us a base," he added.
He said the group had been staking out targets for months and planned to use car bombs, machine guns, mortars and other heavy weapons in an attack that could have killed hundreds.
It is a cast bronze cabinet in the same shape as Boulle's, with fighter jets, missiles, bombs, machine guns and other modern symbols of power carved on the doors, rather than scenes from antiquity.
Samih Maayta, the Jordanian minister for media and communication, said in an interview that the group had been staking out locations for months and planning to use car bombs, machine guns and other heavy weapons in an attack that could have killed hundreds of citizens and foreigners.
I guess it's not called an act of terrorism to blow up a house full of civilians in Karachi with a remote control bombing machine, and all in the name of fighting a war on terror.
Meanwhile, Nos. 111 and 145 Squadrons, which were equipped with S.E.5.a aircraft, were to constantly patrol over Jenin aerodrome throughout the day to bomb and machine gun all targets in the area, and prevent any aircraft from taking off.
Admittedly, it's tempting to fall into the trap of assuming Rodriguez's works are anti-war or pro-environment statements (understandable, given the colorations for one, but also the iconographic motifs flowers growing out of a bomb, or machine versus nature), but surface-level visuals aside, this is not the case.
