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Details Emerge of Deadly Raid on Pakistani Base
The military policeman tightly clasps his weapon. His eyes, though wearied by an obvious lack of sleep, still dart around intently. Standing guard on the edge of Karachi's Mehran naval base, he and others have been positioned to maintain a firm security cordon. With a mere tilt of his gun, he quickly dissuades anyone tempted to draw nearer to the base. But as even the policeman concedes, this new vigilance has come too late.For the previous 17 hours, the base had been besieged by a group of extremist fighters that now turns out to have numbered as few as six initial reports had put the number of attackers at 15. They had slipped into the base undetected, opened fire inside a hangar damaging two expensive and recently modified aircraft, killed ten members of the security forces and wounded 15. Those carrying out the brazen and carefully organized attack had seemed prepared to lose their lives. Three of the attackers were killed by the security forces; one blew himself up; and the other two escaped. Posted by: tipper 2011-05-24 |
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