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Top Afghan diplomat abducted in Pakistan Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:27pm EDT By Kamran Haider ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped Afghanistan's top diplomat to Pakistan on Monday after killing his driver, underscoring worsening security in the nuclear-armed country two days after a suicide bomber killed 53 people. British Airways said it had suspended flights to Pakistan because of security fears after the Saturday evening truck-bomb attack on Islamabad's Marriott Hotel. Arabiya television reported that the little-known group Fedayeen Islam (Partisans of Islam) claimed responsibility for the Marriott bombing, Islamabad's worst attack, in a tape played over the telephone to its correspondent in the Pakistan capital. Arabiya said the group made several demands, including that Pakistan stop cooperating with the United States. It said the authenticity of the tape could not be verified and the group is not known to have claimed other attacks. Before the group claimed responsibility, Pakistan's government had said it expected investigations into the bombing would lead to al Qaeda and Taliban militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas on the Afghan border. A U.S. counterterrorism official, contacted by email at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. base, said al Qaeda or an affiliated group remained prime suspects in the bombing. Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said President Asif Ali Zardari, as well as the prime minister and army commander, had been due to attend a dinner at the hotel on the night of the attack but the venue was changed on the prime minister's advice. The Czech ambassador and at least three other foreigners were among those killed in the blast, which wounded 266 people and which security officials said bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda. ..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:270464 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
