GUNMEN KILL 3 AMERICANS IN PAKISTAN.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Three U.S. citizens and two Pakistanis were killed when gunmen opened fire on their vehicle early today in Karachi, police said. Details of the shooting were sketchy but it is believed that the Americans were auditors who worked for an international oil company. Authorities in the violence-racked southern port said a red car came up behind the vehicle in which the Americans were riding. The gunmen fired from behind and later forced the car carrying the five off the road. They then sprayed the vehicle with bullets, police said. No one has claimed responsibility for the killings but it comes a day after a Pakistani, Mir Aimal Kasi, was convicted in a U.S. court of fatally shooting two CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). agents in Washington. On Tuesday, the U.S. State A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States, although four states use the official title "commonwealth". The separate state governments and the federal government share sovereignty, in that an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and Department issued a warning to Americans in the region to watch out for possible retaliation as a result of the conviction. Prosecutors claim Kasi, who also wounded three others in the 1993 shooting, was out to avenge the bombing of Iraq There have been several bombings of Iraq:
intr.v. med·dled, med·dling, med·dles 1. To intrude into other people's affairs or business; interfere. See Synonyms at interfere. 2. To handle something idly or ignorantly; tamper. in Muslim countries. Frank Darling, 28, and Lansing Bennett, a 66-year-old physician employed by the CIA, were in their cars waiting in morning traffic outside the agency when Kasi walked between cars, firing an AK-47 assault rifle assault rifle Military firearm that is chambered for ammunition of reduced size or propellant charge and has the capacity to switch between semiautomatic and fully automatic fire. . The identity of the Americans in today's shooting had not been released but it appeared the van carrying the victims was near the Arabian Sea harbor when the gunmen opened fire. Sources said the American workers were apparently en route to their office in the Beharia complex about a half-mile from a downtown hotel where they were staying when the gunmen fired on them. |
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