Cop school massacre by Taliban; TERRORISM.THE Pakistani Taliban yesterday claimed responsibility for the terror attack terror attack n → atentado (terrorista) terror attack n → attentato terroristico on a Lahore police academy that left at least 18 dead and 100 wounded. Leader Baitullah Mehsud said his gunmen had struck in retaliation for US missile attacks against militants along the Afghan border. Mehsud, who has a $5million bounty on his head, warned that the group was also planning a terrorist assault on the White House that would "amaze the world". He is also the prime suspect in the 2007 assassination Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. of Pakistan's former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto. Six of the gunman who attacked the academy were captured alive and are being interrogated.. |
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