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Taleban use husband, wife as suicide bomber By SAUD MEHSUD | REUTERS Published: Jun 26, 2011 21:13 Updated: Jun 26, 2011 21:13 DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan: A Taleban militant and his wife carried out a suicide bombing on a police station in Pakistan on Saturday that killed 12 policemen, a Taleban spokesman said on Sunday. The pair, armed with assault rifles and hand grenades, raided the compound and took a dozen policemen hostage for several hours in a town near the region of South Waziristan, a major Al-Qaeda and Taleban sanctuary on the Afghan border. The operation further tarnished Pakistan's security establishment, which has suffered one setback after another since the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US special forces on Pakistani soil on May 2. The Taleban rarely use women suicide bombers. The attack on the police station suggests they are adopting new tactics in a campaign to topple the US-backed government. The Taleban husband and wife team shot dead five policemen and later blew themselves up after being attacked by commandos, killing seven more policemen who died of their wounds overnight, police said. Ehsanullah Ehsan, a Pakistani Taleban spokesman, said the assault was carried out in retaliation for Bin Laden's killing and government attacks against militants. "The attackers were a husband and wife. We will keep carrying out attacks with different strategies," he told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location. On Sunday, a bomb planted on a stationary motorcycle just outside a police station in the eastern city of Multan wounded four policemen, police said. The Pakistani Taleban movement, which is close to Al-Qaeda, has stepped up violence in Pakistan since the death of Bin Laden, in operations that have embarrassed the military. The group said it was behind an assault on a major navy base in the city of Karachi last month. The Taleban killed nearly 100 people in a suicide bombing at a paramilitary compound. Large groups of Pakistani Taleban fighters have also staged large-scale shooting attacks on security forces in other parts of the northwest. The United States has been piling pressure on Pakistan to crack down harder on militancy since it was discovered that Bin Laden may have been living in Pakistan for years. More Pakistani cooperation is needed as Washington seeks to wind down the US-led war in neighboring Afghanistan and defeat Al-Qaeda and its allies. But Pakistan's generals are furious because the United States kept them in the dark over the Bin Laden raid. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
