Why World Food Was Targeted
Terrorist target?
The World Food Program was hit in Pakistan by a suicide bomber earlier this week. As usual, Stratfor.com has churned out a long-winded analysis to explain why the NGO was targeted: it’s a “softer target,” small-scale attacks are “easy to conduct and require very few resources,” and NGO’s like the WFP are perceived to be allied with the US. All true, but the obvious reason is that NGO’s are favored by Western media organizations who play up the attacks. Thus, bombing a UN office (example) or a similar NGO facility (example)–or just killing their people (example)–will be taken as proof that the government has lost support because it cannot protect the capital, cannot protect a major city, cannot protect foreigners, and so on.