Extremists attack Pakistani city
Lahore reels; suspicion falls on the Taliban
Posted: October 16, 2009 at 4:44 a.m.
A Pakistani policeman helps a man outside a police training center on the outskirts of Lahore, where four militants killed 11 officers Thursday before being killed by police.
Islamist militants launched coordinated assaults on three police compounds in Pakistan’s second-largest city Thursday, the latest in a wave of attacks by insurgents taking the war to the country’s heartland before an expected offensive against their Afghan border sanctuary.
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