Deadly blast targets Marriott Hotel in Islamabad

This week in the news, a deadly car bomb explosion was set off at the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan. Police and witnesses said that at least 200 people were injured in the attack in Pakistan's capital. 34 have already been confirmed dead. Witnesses at the seen claim to have seen the gates of the hotel rammed open by a small car, followed by an explosive-filled truck that exploded not long after. A Pakistani news reporter named Hamid Mir, who was at the explosion site, said he saw at least 52 bodies. Most of the dead, according to Mr. Mir, appeared to be drivers who were waiting with their cars outside the hotel, and hotel staff. According to investigators at the scene, The blast caused a leak in the gas system at the hotel, which set the top floor of the five-story hotel on fire. The fire from the explosion quickly filled the entire building. Witnesses said that the explosion was so loud, that it could be heard two miles down the road at the CNN building.

This is another sad event in the world's ongoing battle against terrorism. I think that something drastic needs to be done very quickly, otherwise situations such as this will continue to go on, and more innocent civilians will die. Ironically, this car-bombing took place hours before the newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan was scheduled to sit down with parliament and discuss rooting out the terrorism in Pakistan. More of these meetings need to take place in order for our world to be restored to the kind of place we all want it to be.