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# Pakistan Taliban strikes to avenge Osama bin Laden death
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## The Pakistani Taliban struck to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden by
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carrying out a double suicide bombing that killed at least 80 recruits at a
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military training centre in the north-west of the country.
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[![Rob Crilly][1]][2]
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By [Rob Crilly][3], Islamabad and Ashfaq Yusufzai in Shabqadar 6:00PM BST 13
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May 2011
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[Follow Rob Crilly on Twitter][4]
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**[Pakistan][5]** has been braced for deadly reprisals ever since US Navy
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Seals shot dead the **[al-Qaeda][6]** leader on May 2.
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Relations between Islamabad and its western allies have been strained after it
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emerged bin Laden managed to live for five years under the noses of the
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Pakistani military in the garrison town of Abbottabad.
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The suicide bombers struck at the gates killing the mostly young recruits.
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Witnesses said the recruits were waiting to board buses to begin their leave
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after completing their training when two bombers on motorbikes detonated their
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explosives shortly before 6am in Shabqadar.
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"We have carried out the attack to take revenge of Osama's death and will
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continue targeting military personnel as they are defending the US,"
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Ihsanullah Ihsan, a spokesman for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan said.
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## Related Articles
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* [Large pornography stash found in bin Laden compound][7]
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13 May 2011
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* [A timely reminder that Taliban has not gone away][8]
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13 May 2011
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* [Pakistan attacks: US drones kill militants][9]
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13 May 2011
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Another 140 people were wounded, 40 of them seriously, according to police
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officers, in the attack on the Frontier Constabulary base - the bloodiest this
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year.
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William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, condemned the bombing.
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"These attacks were cowardly and indiscriminate, killing many innocent
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bystanders and targeting those who serve to protect Pakistan," he said.
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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." The site of the attack was a scene of devastation. More than a
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dozen buses were destroyed in the blasts.
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Charred remains were left on the ground where the recruits had fallen.
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"It was around 5:55am when we saw two persons riding on motorcycles and then
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massive blasts that shattered the nearby shops," said Haji Ghufran, a tea-
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maker in the bazaar that runs beside the training centre.
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"There was blood and human flesh all around."
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The Frontier Constabulary is a paramilitary police force that polices the
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porous border with Afghanistan.
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Its members are drawn largely from the Pashtun community, the same ethnic
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group who form the bedrock of Taliban support, in the hope that their local
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knowledge can be turned against the fundamentalist militia.
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**[Hours after the bombing, a US drone aircraft fired missiles at a
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vehicle][10]** in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, killing
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five militants, according to Pakistani security officials.
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Yesterday's attack is also a reminder of the high price paid by Pakistan at
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the hands of extremists. Officials estimate that more than 30,000 people have
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been killed by terrorists since September 11.
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However, one of bin Laden's wives has told interrogators that the al-Qaeda
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leader lived in Pakistan for the past seven years, deeply embarrassing the
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Pakistan government.
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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 raid -
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stoking anti-Western sentiment.
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It emerged that a senior military officer cancelled a trip to the US in the
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latest sign of escalating tensions.
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General Khalid Shameem Wynne, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to the
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Americans he would withdraw from next week's visit "in view of the prevailing
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environment", said a senior official.
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## [Pakistan][5]
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* ### [News »][16]
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* ### [World News »][17]
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* ### [Asia »][18]
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* ### [Rob Crilly »][2]
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* ### [Al-Qaeda »][19]
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[![Mullah Omar, head of the Taliban][20] ][21]
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### [Taliban attack Pakistan naval base][23]
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[![Osama bin Laden death: Taliban suicide bombers kill 80 in Pakistan revenge
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### [Pakistan suicide bomb attack][25]
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[![Osama bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in the mountains of
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