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“Suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan claims 22 dead”
By BILL ROGGIOJanuary 10, 2008 3:50 AM

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Pakistan has suffered yet another suicide bombing in one of its major cities. A suicide bomber targeted police stationed outside of the Lahore High Court in the provincial capital of Punjab. At least 22 police and civilians were killed and 70 wounded in the attack.

The blast was described as “powerful.” Geo News reported the attack was conducted by a suicide bomber wearing a vest.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The bombing comes just days after Pakistani security services arrested the leader and five members of a Lahore-based suicide cell. Ahsan al Haq and five cell members were arrested for complicity in the November Sargodha Air Force Base suicide bombing which claimed the lives of eight Pakistanis. Al Haq, the cell leader, was a former Pakistani Army major who operated a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan prior to the ouster of the Taliban in late 2001.

The arrest of al Haq and his cell may have activated other related cells. The Lahore suicide bombing may also be a retaliatory strike for the detention of the cell.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,321569,00.html
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“Massive Homicide Bomb Rocks Pakistani High Court, Killing At Least 20”
Thursday, January 10, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “LAHORE, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up among police guards deployed in front of a court in eastern Pakistan ahead of a planned protest by lawyers Thursday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said.

An Associated Press photographer at the scene of the attack outside Lahore High Court saw more than 25 dead and wounded people, including police and civilians. Wounded people lying in pools of blood were crying for help.

He also saw the severed head of a man with long hair and beard, possibly that of the suicide bomber.

“It was a suicide attack,” Lahore police chief Malik Iqbal told Dawn News TV. He said police were “definitely” targeted.

Lahore chief of police operations in Aftab Cheema said the bomber arrived on a motorbike, parked it near the police guards before running up to the barrier they were manning and blew himself up. He said 19 policemen and one civilian was killed.

Another police official Mohammed Masood said more than 50 others were wounded, including civilian passersby.”