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Pakistan identifies cricketer attackers
Pakistani authorities have identified the people responsible for this week's attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team, a senior government official said on Thursday as the country came under new criticism about its security forces due to the emergance of dramatic footage showing the attackers making a leisurely getaway.

The ambush on the team and its police escorts as they drove to the main stadium in Lahore shocked cricket-mad Pakistan and raised new fears about the nuclear-armed U.S. ally's ability to overcome the threat of rising Islamist militancy.

Seven Pakistanis -- six policemen and the driver of a bus carrying match officials -- were killed in Tuesday's attack.

" We have identified the people who did the operation. We have made arrests, we are chasing them, we have rounded up people "
Provincial governor Salman Taseer
Police issued sketches early on Thursday of four of the gunmen who attacked the team and their escorts with AK-47 rifles, hand grenades and rocket-propelled grenades, as they drove to Lahore's main stadium.

Later, provincial governor Salman Taseer, said authorities knew the identity of those responsible.

"We have identified the people who did the operation. We have made arrests, we are chasing them, we have rounded up people," Taseer told a news conference.
Posted by: Fred 2009-03-06
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