MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Taliban attack at Lakki Marwat checkpost claims 24 lives
By artappraiser on Sat, 02/02/2013 - 7:11am |Agence France Presse, Feb. 2, 2013
PESHAWAR: Suicide bombers attacked a military checkpost in Pakistan’s troubled northwest on Saturday, killing 13 soldiers and 11 civilians, officials said, in an assault claimed by the Taliban.
“Thirteen security personnel and 11 civilians were killed in the attack,” a security official said of the raid which happened around 240 kilometres south of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
Another official said that the civilians were killed when one of the suicide bombers ran into a house as security forces attempted to repel the attackers from the checkpost. “A suicide bomber entered a nearby house in a residential colony of the irrigation department and blew himself up. Four children, three women and four men were killed there,” said Nisar Ahmed, a senior government official. [....]
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http://dawn.com/2013/02/02/army-camp-at-lakki-marwat-attacked-six-security-personnel-killed/
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