(3) Pakistani security offices attacked

[Turborama]

Source: Al Jazeera English & BBC

Two (AJ English are now saying 3) attacks have taken place on Pakistani police and intelligence buildings on Thursday, killing at least eight people.

A suicide bomber in a vehicle struck outside a police station in northwest Pakistan, killing at least six people.

Civilians are believed to to have been killed in the blast on Thursday morning in Kohat near Peshawar, Habib Khan, a police official, said.

"It was a suicide attack," Dilawar Bangash, a district police chief, said.

"The bomber ploughed his car into the outer wall of the police station" he said, adding that the building was badly damaged.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/10/200910153226626990.html

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Pakistan police offices attacked

BBC

Gunmen have attacked police offices in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore with reports of a number of hostages being taken.

Shots were heard inside one Federal Investigation Agency building with reports a second was also under attack.

Meanwhile, in the north-eastern town of Kohat, a suicide bomber rammed his car into a police station, killing eight.

North-western Pakistan has been hit by a string of deadly attacks over the past few weeks.

Local television showed armed police sealing off one of the police buildings in Lahore.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8308166.stm

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[Arctic Dave]

2. Pissed off about the drone attacks I guess.

[Hissyspit]

3. Coordinated Attacks Target Multiple Sites in Pakistan

Source: New York Times

Coordinated Attacks Target Multiple Sites in Pakistan


By JANE PERLEZ and SALMAN MASOOD
Published: October 15, 2009
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Approximately 25 militants dressed in police uniforms simultaneously attacked three law enforcement agency buildings in Lahore on Thursday morning, the fifth major attack by militants in Pakistan in the last 10 days.

The regional center of the Federal Investigation Agency and two police training centers were the targets of the assaults that occurred just before 9:30 a.m. in Lahore, the capital of the province of Punjab and Pakistan’s second most populous city.

At least 10 militants attacked an elite police training center, and about 10 more stormed a second training center, Rana Sanaullah, Punjab’s law minister, said. The Federal Investigation Agency building was attacked by three to five militants, he said.

Police officials said at least 14 deaths had been confirmed so far, six at the elite training center, five at the Federal Investigation Agency and three at the second training center. The coordinated attacks threw parts of Lahore into chaos, and in the capital, Islamabad, officials expressed dismay and surprise that another assault was under way, targeted specifically at the nation’s struggling law enforcement apparatus.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/world/asia/16pstan.html?hp

[truedelphi]

4. remember how the attacks by the "Commies" in Italy eventually were outed as CIA attacks?

And several years back in Iraq, how the two Brits dressed up in mujadeen robes and attacked places in Iraq? And then they were captured by the Iraqis, so the British troops stormed the jail - obliterating the entire building in the process to get their two men back?

I can't help but think about those past events when I realize how nicely the timing of these attacks occurs, to bolster our Leader's resolve to start having more of our military operations in Pakistan.

[bemildred]

10. Yeah, this stinks a bit. nt

[Turborama]

5. Update: Four attacks have taken place on Pakistani police and intelligence facilities

Four attacks have taken place on Pakistani police and intelligence facilities, killing at least 32 people.

In the eastern city of Lahore, four gunmen broke into a Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building and opened fire, with at least two assailants, four state employees and one bystander being killed on Thursday morning. "Reportedly, four men attacked the FIA building and initial reports are that two of them have been killed," Nadeem Hassan Asif Punjab, the province interior secretary, said.

An attack by 10 to 15 gunmen also took place on a police academy on the outskirts of Lahore, killing six police officers and four opposition fighters. Three of the attackers blew themselves up, police said. The same academy, the Manawan Police Academy, was attacked by a group of gunmen earlier this year, with 12 people dying in an eight-hour standoff. Unconfirmed local television reports said that two people had been taken hostage.

Another attack also took place on the Pakistani Elite Force Headquarters in Bedian, near Lahore, which assailants attempted to take over. More than 20 gunmen stormed the building, with at least two policemen and five opposition fighters killed in the crossfire.

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Rehman Malik, Pakistan's interior minister, vowed not to let the attacks deter the government in its pursuit of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters. "The enemy has started a guerrilla war," Malik told a local television station.



Kohat suicide attack

Earlier in the day, a suicide bomber in a vehicle struck outside a police station in northwest Pakistan, killing at least eight people.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/10/200910153226626990.html

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6. Pakistan shaken by fresh attacks

Source: bbc

A series of attacks by gunmen on security forces in Pakistan have killed at least 37 people, officials say.

In Lahore, militants attacked offices of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), as well as two police training centres. At least 26 people died.

In the north-western town of Kohat, a suicide bomber rammed his car into a police station, killing 11 people.

More than 100 people have been killed in an upsurge of violence across Pakistan in the past two weeks.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8308166.stm

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al jazeera on this:

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/10/200910153226626990.html

"The enemy has started a guerrilla war"

Rehman Malik,
Pakistan's interior minister (same source)

[Flaneur]

7. Taliban signals feelings about proposed S. Waziristan army offensive.

[Turborama]

8. They ignored warnings specifying the GHQ attack on October 12 were about to happen!

Audacious militant tactics stun Pakistan

By Syed Shoaib Hasan
BBC News, Islamabad
Thursday, 15 October

It is perhaps the sheer audacity of the attacks on security installations in Lahore - and in Rawalpindi just days earlier - that has taken the authorities by surprise.

That may be the only excuse the security apparatus has for its handling of the assaults.

In particular, the failure to stop the attack on the army's headquarters in Rawalpindi on 12 October defies the imagination - especially as details about a forthcoming attack had been published on the front page of a national daily several days before it happened.

The News International, a local English-language newspaper, had published the details of a report by the interior ministry that an attack on the General Headquarters (GHQ) was imminent. The 5 October report said that fighters from militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi - with the support of the Taliban in South Waziristan - were planning such an attack.

It said attackers meant to penetrate security by using army uniforms to get into the compound and wreak havoc at the heart of the military's command.

More details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8305778.stm

[cosmicone]

9. Pakistan's carefully cultivated crop of terrorists is ready for a harvest. n/t