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Bomb kills two soldiers in Mohmand Agency
[Dawn] A roadside bomb killed two Pakistani soldiers on Sunday and wounded two others in a northwest tribal region hit by a fresh wave of unrest, a paramilitary spokesman said.
No doubt Brigadier Whatsisname (ret'd), who trained so many Pakistani Talibs when he was in the ISI, can explain how the roadside bombs are really a benign expression of... something mostly harmless. Equally no doubt this knowledge will bring great comfort to the bereaved.
The device exploded in Safi town in Mohmand Agency, which borders Bajaur Agency, where a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military checkpoint on Saturday, killing 16 people, including two soldiers.

"The remote-controlled bomb was buried in Safi town - two security men were martyred and two injured in this incident," Major Fazal-ur-Rehman, spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps, said of Sunday's bombing.

Residents in the area told AFP the soldiers were in a water tanker, which was also badly damaged when it struck the improvised explosive device.

Bajaur and Mohmand sit at the northern tip of Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt running along the Afghan border, and have seen increasing unrest in recent weeks as security forces try to dismantle Taliban sanctuaries.
Posted by: Fred 2010-02-01
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