Suicide Attack at PAC Kamra

[Adios Amigo]

6 killed in Kamra suicide blast
Updated at: 0859 PST, Friday, October 23, 2009
ATTOCK: Six persons have been killed in a suicide bombing at a security forces check post near Kamra Aeronautical Complex has reached. Eight persons wounded in the blast.

According to DPO Attock Fakhar Sultan, a suicide bomber blew himself near Kamra Aeronautical Complex at G T Road in district Attock. Six persons including two security men and four civilians have been killed and eight injured in the explosion. The injured have been rushed to Attock

hospital.http://www.geo.tv/10-23-2009/51499.htm

 

[third eye]

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan suicide bomber kills six

Pakistan suicide bomber kills six

A suspected suicide bomber has killed six people outside Pakistan's main air force maintenance facility.

Police said the attack took place near the Kamra aeronautical complex, 60km (35 miles) from the capital, Islamabad.

The bomber blew himself up when he was stopped at a checkpoint outside the complex. Among the dead were two security officials.

The attack comes as the Pakistani army continues its drive against Taliban bases in South Waziristan.

A wave of attacks on Pakistani cities has killed nearly 180 people during the month of October alone.

"It was a suicide attack, which killed six people, including four civilians and two Pakistan air force personnel," news agency AFP quoted district police chief Fakhar Sultan as saying.

"We have found a mutilated face, as well as other body parts, including legs and arms of the bomber," he said.

Nine people have also been wounded in the attack.

The attacks come as Pakistan is on high alert, following weeks of suicide attacks by militants.

Friday's attack is the third violent incident in and around Islamabad since Tuesday.

On Thursday, a Pakistani army brigadier and his driver were killed in a shooting incident in Islamabad.

On Tuesday, at least nine people died, two of them suicide bombers, and at least 18 were wounded in twin blasts at the International Islamic University.

 

[black tiger]

May the victims rest in peace and the attackers burn in hell.
Amen.

 

[R.A.W.]

ISLAMABAD: A suicide bomber struck a checkpoint near a military complex reportedly linked to Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme on Friday,
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Security forces survey the site of a suicide bomb attack at the entrance of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra. (Reuters)
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killing seven people as the army pressed ahead with a major anti-Taliban offensive in the northwest. ( Watch Video )

The attack took place near the sprawling aeronautical complex in Kamra, around 30 miles (50 km) from the capital, Islamabad, and is sure to raise renewed concerns about the safety of Pakistan's nuclear programme.

The Kamra site is often mentioned by foreign military experts and researchers as a likely place to keep planes that can carry nuclear warheads. The army, which does not reveal where its nuclear weapons are stored, has denied that the facility is tied to the programme.

The attacker was apparently riding a bicycle and detonated his explosives at a checkpoint on a road leading to the complex, police officer Akbar Abbas said, blaming the Taliban. The seven dead included two security troops, while 13 people were wounded.

"The attacker wanted to go inside. He exploded himself when officials wanted to search his body," Attock police chief Fakhar Sultan Raja said.

The attack is the latest in a wave of violence sweeping Pakistan as its army pushes forth with its offensive against Islamist militants in the northwestern tribal region of South Waziristan. More than 170 people have died in bombings and raids on Western and security-related targets in the past three weeks.

One of the attacks included a 22-hour standoff at the army's headquarters, an embarrassing breach of security that also raised worries about its ability to protect the country's nuclear weapons.

The complex at Kamra or its workers have been targeted at least once before. In December 2007, a suicide car bomber struck near a bus carrying children of Pakistan Air Force employees, wounding five of them.

Pakistan has long insisted its nuclear program is safe and secure, and has sought to protect it from from attack by militants by storing the warheads, detonators and missiles separately in facilities patrolled by elite troops.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently expressed confidence in Pakistan's nuclear safeguards, but analysts are divided on how secure the weapons are. Some say the weapons are less secure than they were five years ago.

Security plans aside, much could depend on the Pakistani army and how vulnerable it is to infiltration by extremists, according to some observers. One possible scenario that could endanger the program would involve militant sympathizers getting work as scientists at the facilities and passing information to extremists.

Pakistan is estimated to have between 70 and 90 warheads, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project of the Federation of American Scientists.

Shaun Gregory, an expert on Pakistani security at the University of Bradford in Britain, said in a recent interview that militants have struck near an air base in Sargodha, where nuclear missiles are believed to be stored, and the Wah cantonment, where missiles that could carry nuclear weapons are believed to be assembled.

He added that the attacks did not appear to have targeted nuclear weapons, but said there is evidence of threats to the program.

Pakistan hopes that its week-old army offensive in South Waziristan will go a long way toward eliminating the militant menace on its soil, but residents fleeing the region reported this week that the insurgents are digging in for a fight.

Tired and dusty refugees arriving Thursday in the northwestern town of Dera Ismail Khan from different parts of South Waziristan reported intense army bombing by jets and helicopters but said they had seen no ground troops.

The militants were believed to control roughly 1,275 square miles (3,300 square kilometers) of territory before the offensive began. That portion covers about half of South Waziristan. The military says its troops are progressing steadily and retaking land on three fronts. But officers have made it clear that the campaign will be long and bloody.

The United Nations says 110,000 people have fled South Waziristan in recent months as speculation rose of an army offensive, about 30,000 of them in the last few days. Most are staying with relatives or in rented homes in Dera Ismail Khan and nearby districts.

New arrivals said the Taliban were preparing for a fight. "We saw no ground forces on the way, nothing except helicopters and airplanes. But we saw a lot of Taliban movement," said Awal Jan, a refugee from the town of Sarwakai. "They were roaming around in their vehicles and digging trenches in the mountains."

The army has previously moved into South Waziristan three times since 2004. Each time it has suffered high casualties and signed peace deals that left insurgents with effective control of the region. Western officials say al-Qaida now uses it and neighboring North Waziristan as an operations and training base.

 

[s90]

Nuke-linked complex?man its just a rebuild and manufacturing complex , ToI *sigh*

 

[Enigma SIG]

What word of "Aeronautical Complex" did the editor not understand???

Andhe; goonge aur behre

 

[R.A.W.]

The Kamra site is often mentioned by foreign military experts and researchers as a likely place to keep planes that can carry nuclear warheads.

 

[pakdefender]

LOL @ the title 'nuke linked complex'

There should be no doubt left after this attack that india is behind the terrorists. This facility has nothing to do with nukes

Kamra is where the Mirage Rebuild Factory is , its where we are setting up the JF-17 assembly lines , these are targets india would want to hit

There is this 'enemy of my enemy' is my friend going on , the terrorists are getting suport from india!

Attacking Kamra can only mean that LCA is even a bigger pice of crap that we all know it to be.

 

[pakdefender]

Whats the source of the article , Times of India ? whay hasnt the source been posted ?

 

[R.A.W.]

LOL @ the title 'nuke linked complex'

There should be no doubt left after this attack that india is behind the terrorists. This facility has nothing to do with nukes

Kamra is where the Mirage Rebuild Factory is , its where we are setting up the JF-17 assembly lines , these are targets india would want to hit

There is this 'enemy of my enemy' is my friend going on , the terrorists are getting suport from india!

Attacking Kamra can only mean that LCA is even a bigger pice of crap that we all know it to be.

I am surprised that people are more concerned with prooving that this time it was not the nuclear facility rather than looking into the intelligence failure.... The way things are moving if it is not today tommorrow it will be. As well as are least concerned with the deaths of the people involved.

 

[pakdefender]

I am surprised that people are more concerned with prooving that this time it was not the nuclear facility rather than looking into the intelligence failure.... The way things are moving if it is not today tommorrow it will be. As well as are least concerned with the deaths of the people involved.

you are the one who started the thread with 'nuke linked' written in it so it seems indians are the ones obsessed with our nukes getting hit.

The loss of life is sad , its very sad and we will AVENGE it!

 

[pakdefender]

Mods kindly take a note of R.A.W signature:

Kaafir hain jo bande nahi Islam k
laam k maanind hain gesu mere ghanshyam k
Kaafir hain woh jo bande nahi Is laam k.

 

[nightrider_saulat]

what a show of stupidity by the thread starter

 

[Comet]

Bad..... But its not the Nukes place where the attack took place.

 

[R.A.W.]

you are the one who started the thread with 'nuke linked' written in it so it seems indians are the ones obsessed with our nukes getting hit.

The loss of life is sad , its very sad and we will AVENGE it!

It also says "7 killed"

Who stopped you to avenge. Kill all Taliban. Who stopped you