41 people were killed and 45 people were wounded by a Taliban suicide bomber in a Pakistan market. The attack was targeting Pakistani troops. The Taliban also took responsibility for the 22 hour assault on a Pakistani military outpost. The Taliban announced that this is only the begining of a long series of attacks avenging the death of the taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in a CIA missile strike in August. The raid on the Pakistani Army base was intended to capture officers in an attempt to bargain for captured Taliban insurgents. The Pakistani Army beleives they have pushed the Taliban insurgents into rural areas however these attacks show the Taliban's presence is still intact.
By, Jesse Kugler
AP News http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PAKISTAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-10-12-17-10-13
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