Scores of children trained to become suicide bombers at a camp run by Qair Hussain Mehsud in Spinkai, South Waziristan, prior to its destruction in January 2008. Image courtesy of AfPax Insider. The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan today claimed it carried out the recent suicide attack on a police station in Lakki Marwat […]
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A suicide bomber killed nine policemen and 10 civilians in an attack on a police station in Lakki Marwat. US Predators killed five “rebels” in an airstrike in Datta Khel in North Waziristan.
The strike is the fourth in four days. Three of those strikes have taken place in the al Qaeda hub of Datta Khel.
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The attack took place in the northwestern district of Lakki Marwat. The suicide attack is the fourth in Pakistan since Sept. 1.
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The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan-linked commander was killed during a raid that resulted in the capture of a senior military commissioner and newly minted deputy shadow governor.
Five suicide bombers, four Iraqi soldiers, and three civilians were reported killed in the daylight assault on a military headquarters in Rusafa.
US Predators killed eight Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. The military killed 14 Taliban fighters in Kurram. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Kalam, destroyed three NATO fuel tankers in Kalat, and are imposing shariah in a suburb of Peshawar.
The strike took place in Data Khel, a region under the control of Hafiz Gul Bahadar.
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The attacks took place near Miramshah and in Data Khel. A Taliban commander known as Inayatullah is reported to have been killed.
The Taliban killed 55 people in suicide attacks on a Shia procession in Quetta and an Ahmadi mosque in Mardan. A policeman was killed in an IED attack in Peshawar. US Predators killed 15 Taliban fighters in a pair of attacks in North Waziristan.
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In today’s attacks, 54 Shia were killed during a protest in Quetta and one Ahmadi was killed at a mosque in Mardan.
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The Taliban killed a female teacher in an ambush in Bajaur and said they kidnapped six migrant workers in Chitral. Lashkar-e-Islam chief Mangal Bagh escaped Pakistani Air Force strikes in the Tirah Valley in Khyber.
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Punjabi Taliban suicide bombers killed 29 worshipers during a procession in Lahore. The Pakistani military killed more than 60 terrorists and civilians in airstrikes in Khyber, and 15 Taliban fighters in Kurram and Arakzai. The Taliban torched two NATO fuel tankers in Mastung and Khuzdar.
The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi, another name for the Punjabi Taliban, claimed it carried out the attack.