Pakistan Suicide Bomb Kills 80 As Taliban Seeks Revenge For Bin Laden -- The Guardian
• Trainee Pakistan soldiers killed after graduation party
• Two suicide bombers launch separate attacks within minutes
When Osama bin Laden's Pakistani supporters strike back, this is what it looks like: twisted metal, scattered suitcases and body parts; blood and savagery.
The Taliban said the vicious double suicide bombing in Shabqadar, a trading town on the edge of the tribal belt in Charsadda district in north-western Pakistan, claimed the first part of the blood price they had promised to extract for the American killing of Bin Laden on 2 May. It was conducted with ruthless efficiency.
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