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Bombing kills nine lashkar men in Khyber Agency
* Six more anti-Taliban militia members injured

* Taliban open fire on Islamic fascisti retrieving bodies from debris

* Two gun-hung tough guys killed in retaliatory fire

LANDIKOTAL: At least nine members of a local militia were killed and four others injured when a bomb planted by gun-hung tough guys went kaboom! in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency on Sunday.

According to local political administration, the bomb was planted by the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) gun-hung tough guys at Stana checkpoint at Nari Baba, which was recaptured by the Zakakhel lashkar, Tawheedul Islam (TI), following an encounter. The nine volunteers of the peace force, who were killed, included its commander, Naek Afzal Afridi. The TI volunteers had repelled an attack from the banned LI, but the gun-hung tough guys had reportedly planted explosives in the checkpoint before leaving it. The bomb exploded when the TI volunteers recaptured the post. As a result, nine TI men were killed and four injured. The gun-hung tough guys also opened fire on Islamic fascisti retrieving bodies from the debris. Two of the bad boyz were potted in retaliatory fire.

Pakistain has outlawed the Lashkar-e-Islam, which is not formally linked to the Pak Taliban. But it shares similar ideology with the Taliban and other terrorist groups in the tribal regions along Afghan border. The group sometimes shares manpower and resources with other terrorists.

The militia fighting the Lashkar-e-Islam is composed of local rustics frustrated with the growth of Taliban-style groups in their territory. Such militias were started by the government in its campaign against the Pak Taliban in the Tribal Areas.

The blast in the border region with Afghanistan shows the challenges that these militias and their government supporters face as they try to purge the volatile border region of groups such as the Taliban and al Qaeda who have grown in strength over the last decade. Separately, at Sheen Drand Akakhel in Bara, a mortar shell fired from an unidentified location landed in the house of one Abdalkhel, killing two children and injuring five others.
Posted by: trailing wife 2012-02-20
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