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# Osama bin Laden dead: Taliban suicide bombers kill 80 in Pakistan revenge
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## Two suicide bombers have killed at least 80 people at a paramilitary
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training centre in northwestern Pakistan in apparent revenge for the killing
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of Osama bin Laden.
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TelegraphPlayer-8511427
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[![Rob Crilly][2]][3]
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By [Rob Crilly][4], in Islamabad and Laura Roberts 6:37AM BST 13 May 2011
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[Follow Rob Crilly on Twitter][5]
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The [Pakistan][6] Taliban immediately claimed responsibility and said bigger
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attacks were to follow.
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The attack on Friday morning in Charsadda district is the bloodiest since US
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forces killed [bin Laden ][7]in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2.
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William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, this morning condemned the attacks as
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"cowardly and indiscriminate".
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A suicide bomber on a motorbike struck at the gates just as young recruits
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boarded buses to go on leave after their course.
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Police in Shabqadar, close to the border with Afghanistan, said a second
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explosion came seconds later.
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## Related Articles
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* [Pakistan drops intelligence sharing with West][8]
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14 May 2011
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* [Pakistan attacks: US drones kill militants][9]
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13 May 2011
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* [The Taliban joins Twitter][10]
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13 May 2011
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* [Pakistan: timeline of suicide bomb attacks 2007-2011][11]
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13 May 2011
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* [Bin Laden was plotting attacks on UK][12]
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12 May 2011
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* [Aftermath of Taliban retaliation attack][13]
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13 May 2011
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At least 65 of the dead were recruits at the Frontier Constabulary training
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site while the rest were civilians. More than 100 people were also injured.
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"This was the first revenge for Osama's martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in
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Pakistan and Afghanistan," Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said afterwards.
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"Two of our fedayeen (suicide bombers) carried out these attacks."
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Last week the group threatened to attack security forces to avenge bin Laden's
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killing in a US helicopter raid.
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Senior police official Nisar Khan said nearly all of the dead were recruits at
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the Frontier Constabulary training site.
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He said: "The suicide bomber came on a motorcycle and blew himself up among
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Frontier Constabulary personnel.
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"When other FC people came to the rescue to help their colleagues, the second
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bomber came on another motorcycle and blew himself up."
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The bombs detonated beside a group of Pakistani paramilitary police as they
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were about to travel home on leave from a training centre.
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The explosions detonated as newly trained cadets were getting into buses and
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coaches. They were wearing civilian clothes, police said. Twelve vehicles were
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destroyed in the blasts along with 20 shops.
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Ahmad Ali, a wounded paramilitary policeman, said: "I was sitting in a van
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waiting for my colleagues. We were in plain clothes and we were happy we were
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going to see our families.
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"I heard someone shouting 'Allah Akbar' and then I heard a huge blast. I was
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hit by something in my back shoulder. In the meantime I heard another blast
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and I jumped out of the van. I felt that I was injured and bleeding."
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A vegetable vendor near the Frontier Constabulary training centre said some
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recruits were seated in white minivans and others were loading luggage atop
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the vehicles.
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"There was a big blast," he said. "I saw smoke, blood and body pieces all
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around."
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Speaking hours after the attack, Mr Hague said: "These attacks were cowardly
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and indiscriminate, killing many innocent bystanders and targeting those who
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serve to protect Pakistan.
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"They prove once again that such extremist groups have no regard for the value
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of human life.
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"I offer my sincere condolences, in particular to the families of those whose
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lives were lost and to those who were injured.
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"The UK is committed to standing with Pakistan in the fight against violent
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extremism and we will continue to work with Pakistan to tackle this shared
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threat."
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Pakistan's civilian government said on Thursday it would review counter-
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terrorism co-operation with the United States as it comes under growing
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domestic pressure to punish Washington for the apparently unauthorised bin
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Laden raid.
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It has been accused of sheltering the world's man but officials point out that
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no country has paid a higher price for tackling the Islamist threat, with more
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than 30,000 people killed since Sept 11 2001.
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The attacks took place in the Shabqadar area, about 30 kilometres (19 miles)
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north of Peshawar, the main city in the northwest region where militants
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linked to the Taliban and [al-Qaeda ][7]have repeatedly attacked government
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forces.
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They were the deadliest attacks in Pakistan since November 5 when a suicide
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bomber killed 68 people at a mosque in the northwest area of Darra Adam Khel.
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More than 4,300 people have been killed in suicide and bomb attacks across
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Pakistan in the past four years since government forces raided an extremist
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mosque in Islamabad in 2007.
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Pakistan's senior military officer, General Khalid Shameem Wynne, chairman of
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the joint chiefs of staff, has cancelled a scheduled visit to the United
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States, a military official said.
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## [Al-Qaeda][7]
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* ### [News »][19]
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* ### [Pakistan »][6]
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* ### [UK News »][20]
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* ### [Rob Crilly »][3]
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### [Taliban leader reported killed][22]
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