On Ground Updates: Afghanistan/Pakistan - October 15, 2009

On Ground Updates:
Afghanistan/Pakistan
Pakistan Interior Minister says ‘The enemy has started a guerrilla war’
Post Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009
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* Guarden.co.uk brings us the following report, with News Video, late this Thursday afternoon and it starts off like this... Pakistan was reeling tonight from a spree of militant violence that plunged its cultural capital into chaos and demonstrated the bloody resolve of Taliban extremists vowing to overthrow the state... Teams of gunmen, several disguised as police officers and wearing suicide vests, attacked three police facilities across Lahore, leaving 28 people dead, 19 of them police... Two of the targets, a police headquarters and a police training centre, had already been attacked in the past 18 months... Violence also rocked North-West Frontier Province, where a suicide bomber in Kohat destroyed a police station, killing 11 people, and a smaller bomb in Peshawar wounded five...

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Gun and bomb attacks kill 39 people in Pakistan

.* WashingtonPost.com reports today’s news out of Pakistan this way... Pakistan came under a deadly, staccato series of attacks Thursday that left at least 38 people dead and raised questions about the ability of the nation's security and intelligence agencies to thwart a rising Islamist insurgency...

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Gunmen, Bombers Hit 5 Sites in Pakistan; 38 Die

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Pakistan Forces Under Attack

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About this News Video: The Pakistani Taliban has claimed a series of attacks targeting police officers from Kohat in the northwest to Lahore in the east... They are the latest in a surge of attacks in the country as the government prepares for a ground offensive into South Waziristan, a key Taliban stronghold... The Taliban have said they will fight to the death and bring the battle to Pakistan's major urban centres... Al Jazeera's Imran Khan reports from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad...
This video/info posted on YouTube by AlJazeeraEnglish
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Gunmen Attack 3 Lahore Security Sites

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About this News Video: Gunmen laid siege to three security sites in Lahore Thursday. The attacks paralyzed Pakistan's cultural capital, while further bombings shook the northwest. At least 38 people were killed, authorities said.
This video/info posted on YouTube by AssociatedPress
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