Taliban fighters carry out attack on Pakistan air base
Friday, August 17, 2012
KAMRA, Pakistan -- Heavily armed Taliban fighters blasted their way into a Pakistani air force base with possible links to the country's nuclear program in an assault that took two hours of fighting to put down, leaving a security officer and nine insurgents dead and underscoring the group's continued threat despite numerous military offensives.
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