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               Taliban Says It Attacked Pakistani Air Force Base

   by VOA News

   Militants armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades
   have attacked a large air force base in northern Pakistan, setting off
   a fierce battle that ended with one soldier and nine militants dead.
   Pakistani officials say the base in Kamra is back under control after
   several hours of fighting Thursday that also wounded the base's
   commander.  Earlier reports said two Pakistani security officials had
   been killed.
   The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.  The
   militant group has targeted a string of military bases in the past
   several years.
   Pakistani military officials said the base, located about 60 kilometers
   northwest of Islamabad, has no links to the country's nuclear arsenal.
   The facility is home to the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, which builds
   fighter jets.
   Also Thursday, authorities say suspected Sunni militants pulled at
   least 22 Shi'ites off buses in Pakistan's northwestern Chitral region
   and shot and killed them.  The buses were traveling from the the city
   of Rawalpindi to the northern city of Gilgit.
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