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Dawn News February 3, 2010 Bomb kills three US marines, TTP claim attack TIMERGARA: Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan have claimed responsibility for the bomb attack on Wednesday that killed three American soldiers, a spokesman for the network claimed in a telephone call to AFP. “We claim responsibility for the blast,” Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq said, calling from an undisclosed location. A bomb planted outside a girls' school killed three US soldiers in the Lower Dir district. .... Three children and a Pakistani paramilitary soldier were also killed and 45 people were wounded in the blast near Swat Valley, where the government mounted a crackdown nearly a year ago it said had cleared out al Qaeda-linked Taliban. Wednesday’s blast occurred in Koto village in Lower Dir’s Hajiabad area. It was triggered by a remote-controlled device. The three US soldiers were part of a small unit that trains Pakistani Frontier Corps.... The Taliban spokesman alleged the dead Americans belonged to security company Blackwater Worldwide, which has earned global notoriety over its activities in Iraq. However the US embassy said three US military personnel who were due to attend the opening of a girls' school were killed and two others wounded. “The Americans killed were members of the Blackwater group. We know they are responsible for bomb blasts in Peshawar and other Pakistani cities,” said the Taliban spokesman. “We have warned we will take revenge and today we have avenged the deaths of innocent people,” Tariq said in reference to an October 28, 2009 attack that killed 125 people in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar. Blackwater Worldwide changed its name to Xe in February 2009, following what the company said was a switch of business focus. .... =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: rwroz...@yahoo.com or stopnato-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Daily digest option available. ==============================
