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# Osama bin Laden dead: Saudi Arabian diplomat shot dead in revenge attack
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## A Saudi Arabian diplomat was shot dead in Karachi on Monday, in the second
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attack on the country's interests in Pakistan since the death of Osama bin
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Laden.
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![Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani: Osama bin Laden dead: Saudi
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Arabian diplomat shot dead in revenge attack ][1]
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani condemned the attack and expressed
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his condolences
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![Osama bin Laden dead: Saudi Arabian diplomat shot dead in revenge attack][2]
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Al-Qaeda is violently opposed to the Saudi government and has vowed revenge
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for the killing of its leader, Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, by US special
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forces in Pakistan Photo: AP
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[![Rob Crilly][3]][4]
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By [Rob Crilly][5], Islamabad 3:24PM BST 16 May 2011
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[Follow Rob Crilly on Twitter][6]
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The [**Pakistan**][7] Taliban, which is linked to al-Qaeda, immediately
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claimed responsibility in telephone calls to media organisations.
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"Until America stops chasing al-Qaeda and stops drone strikes we will keep
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carrying out such attacks," said a spokesman, referring to attacks on
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militants in the north-west of Pakistan.
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Police in Karachi said the man - named by the [**Saudi**][8] embassy as Hasan
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Khatani - worked in the consulate's security department and was driving a
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vehicle with diplomatic plates when two motorcycle riders unleashed a hail of
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gunfire at a crossroads in the city's upmarket Defence neighbourhood.
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Iqbal Mahmood, Chief of Police in the city, said gunmen fired four bullets and
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fled on their motorcycle, killing him on the spot.
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"They came on a motorbike, they fired four shots. One bullet hit his head and
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he died on the spot," he told reporters.
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## Related Articles
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* [Taliban visited bin Laden hideout][9]
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14 May 2011
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* [Britain 'a target for bin Laden terror attacks'][10]
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14 May 2011
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* [Osama bin Laden dead: Arab world's future is democracy, says his widow's
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brother][11]
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15 May 2011
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* [Pakistan drops intelligence sharing with West][12]
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14 May 2011
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Yusuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan's prime minister, condemned the attack and
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expressed his condolences.
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He met John Kerry, the chairman of the US Senate's Foreign Relations
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Committee, yesterday. Mr Kerry was in Pakistan to try to patch up relations
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between the two countries which have nosedived since Navy Seals shot dead bin
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Laden.
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Mr Kerry, the first US politician to visit since bin Laden was killed, said
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Pakistan would return the tail of the helicopter which crashed during the raid
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and announced that Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, would visit
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Pakistan in the near future after a long day of difficult talks. He also
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warned Pakistan there was growing pressure to end a $1.5bn (£920 million)
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annual aid package.
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"I expressed as clearly as possible the grave concerns in the United States
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over Osama Bin Laden's presence in Pakistan and the existence here of
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sanctuaries for our adversaries in Afghanistan," he said.
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The Pakistani Taliban, blamed for some of the worst acts of violence in the
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country, last Friday took responsibility for a double suicide bombing that
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killed 89 people outside a police training centre as their first revenge for
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bin Laden.
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However, no one has yet claimed an attack on the Saudi consulate in Karachi
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last Wednesday, when two men threw grenades at the building. No one was hurt.
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Al-Qaeda is violently opposed to the Saudi government and has vowed revenge
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for the killing of its leader, Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, by US special
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forces in Pakistan.
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With so many questions still unanswered about the global terror mastermind's
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death, Pakistan is awash with conspiracy theories.
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Some people believe Saudi Arabia, jittery with the fall of governments across
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the Middle East, may have given up the world's most wanted man to ensure
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militants could not capitalise on the Arab Spring.
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