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Monday, May 23, 2011
Eleven killed in Pakistan navy base attack
At least eleven people were killed when about 20 Taliban militants stormed one of Pakistan’s most heavily guarded naval bases in Karachi late on Sunday night with fiery explosions in a revenge attack for the killing of Osama bin Laden.
The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, that also wounded at least eleven people and destroyed several warplanes, on Monday saying it was to avenge the killing of al Qaeda chief bin Laden by U.S. commandos in Pakistan’s Abbottabad on May 2.
As a gunfight between the militants and soldiers raged on, hostages, including Chinese military personnel, were possibly taken in, BBC reported, quoting officials who said that eleven soldiers had died in the attack and two US made P-3C Orion fighter aircraft were destroyed with rocket-propelled grenades.
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Couldn’t happen without the aid of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate. These people are traitors to their own country, playing both sides.
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