The brave jihadists , er, "gunmen" as the Times calls them, find another soft target.
The Guardian called them "militants".
The BBC dared called them "armed men".
Islamic militants armed with rocket launchers and grenades stormed a school in northwestern Pakistan yesterday and held about 250 pupils hostage before giving themselves up to a tribal council.
The pro-Taleban gunmen seized the school on the outskirts of the town of Karak, near the restive region of Waziristan, after a shoot-out with the police. They threatened to kill the children, teachers and themselves if anyone attacked them and demanded a safe passage to the tribal area controlled by Islamist insurgents.
Before storming the school they had abducted a local health officer and drove off when they were challenged by police. One insurgent was killed in the ensuing shoot-out. The official was freed unharmed. Read it all.
Chechen AQ pulled the same stunt in 2004.
