Naval Aviation of Pakistan of storm of armed men in base

KARACHI  - a group of militants was concealed within the Pakistan naval aviation base Monday, six hours after they stormed the installation with rifles and grenades, killing at least five people and do blow up a military plane.

Nine explosions were reported of PNS Mehran base in the South of the city of Karachi after late-night assault by armed men up to 15, which targeted three hangars housing aircraft.

"They were carrying guns, hand grenades and rockets (RPG)." "They hit the aircraft with an RPG," said marine spokesman Commander Salman Ali. "They are still inside of the base".

Eleven people were injured in the attack on one of the most heavily guarded military facilities in the country, where the jet fuel tanks seem to have caught fire and exploded.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the raid. But the Taliban militants, who have vowed to avenge the death of bin Laden, by American special forces, have led several attacks since the death of al Qaeda leaders on May 2.

The assault began at about 10: 30 a.m. Sunday, and it took about four hours before most of the fire is extinguished and the filming had decreased. Security forces then swept the basis for the aggressors.

Navy spokesman Mohammad Yasir "terrorists are still there and place the resistance", told Reuters.

The dead included a sailor, three firefighters and a ranger army, said Yasser.

The Karachi attack evokes memories of assault on the staff of the Pakistani army in the city of Rawalpindi in 2009 and brings concerns that even facilities more Park in the country remain vulnerable to the militants.

A spokesman said a P - 3 c Orion maritime patrol aircraft, had been destroyed and that of intermittent gunfire was continuous.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that militants had attacked from the rear of the base. "We have been able to limit them to one building and an operation is underway to kill or capture."

Media reports said the attackers had made their way into a sewer line, but that has not been confirmed. The military objective is to capture as much live attackers as possible, Pakistan television reported.

Military and paramilitary reinforcements Pakistan poured after the attack began, with four vehicles carrying troops about 10 each movement in the base.

Spokesman Ali said that no foreigner is based.

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani condemned the attack.

"Such a cowardly act of terror could not deter the commitment made by the Government and the people of Pakistan to fight terrorism," Gilani said in the statement.

WAVE OF BOMBINGS

Pakistan has faced a wave of bombings and gun fire assaults over the past few years, some of them claimed by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or the Pakistani Taliban.

Others have attributed to militant groups linked to al-Qaida once fed by the Pakistan army who have slipped since out of control.

The discovery that bin Laden was alive in the city of garrison of Abbottabad, not far from the Military Academy of Pakistan, revived the suspicion that militants receive assistance of some people in the security of telecommunications.

Pakistan and the United States say that senior leaders of the country did not know that bin Laden was in Abbottabad.

Washington sees Pakistan nuclear as a key, if troubled, ally in the region critical to its attempts to root out militant forces in the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan.

"We condemn the attack and our sympathy is with the families of those injured or killed," the White House in Washington said in a statement.

On 28 April, suspected militants detonated a bomb in Karachi, killing four members of the Navy, the third attack on the Navy in a week.

The attack came two days after two bombs hit a bus carrying soldiers of the Navy, in killing four people and injuring 56. Taliban insurgents took responsibility for the twin attacks.

Armed men attacked the Governor of Kandahar compound

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - insurgents launched an attack brazen on the Governor of Kandahar House compound on Saturday, with loud explosions heard in the city in Afghan South and at least three civilians injured as security forces battled armed men hidden in a shopping centre.

An explosion was heard near the Governor Tooryalai Wesa heavily guarded compound in the Centre of the city and another explosion was heard minutes later in the West of the city, a witness for Reuters and the official said.

Shooting broke out after the first explosion and Reuters witness said that he could see armed men take shopping centre compound of the Governor, where security forces returned fire as general expenses with helicopters.

"The Taliban attack compound of the Governor and the battles are continuing.". Three civilians in the compound were wounded, but the staff of the Governor is all end, "spokesman of the Wesa, Zalmai Ayoubi, said Reuters to compound."

It was not immediately clear what had caused the explosions. The Reuters witness said that he could see smoke black near compound of Wesa, which also surrounds the House of the Governor. Ayoubi, stated that the Governor was inside and unharmed.

The Taliban last week, announced the start of their "spring offensive", promising to intensify their attacks against foreign troops and the representatives of the Afghan Government. These threats were reissued after the assassination of the Allied al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in neighboring Pakistan.

A Taliban spokesman, said the militant group had carried out the attack but said it was unrelated to the death of Osama bin Laden.

"A number of fighters is in several places around the city." These are not attacks in retaliation for the death of Osama bin Laden but are part of our spring offensive, "Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told Reuters from an undisclosed location."

Kandahar, birthplace of the Taliban, has been the subject of military operations in the past year and military commanders have said they have made some progress in security, but that it was fragile and reversible.

Violence in Afghanistan reached its worst in 2010 levels, given that the Taliban were overthrown in late 2001, with record losses on all parties to the conflict.

Last month, hundreds of prisoners, especially the insurgents, escaped from a prison in Kandahar via a tunnel dug by militants, spokesman Taliban President Afghan Hamid Karzai, described as a "disaster" for the Government.

Days before, a suicide bomber wearing a uniform police killed Khan Mohammed Mujahid, Kandahar police chief GEN.

The Taliban have managed to achieve a number of attacks of prestige within the city of Kandahar and the capital, Kabul, more despite the Afghans and abroad of the past year forces strengthen security around these two cities.

The Taliban have issued a statement later Friday their condolences for the death of Ben Laden, who was killed in a raid of U.S. in Pakistan Monday, but said that his death would only revive their fight in Afghanistan.

U.S. says bin Laden when armed killed (Reuters)

 Osama bin Laden was not armed when he was shot by U.S. special forces, said White, as in fact Pakistan House with additional pressure on Wednesday to explain how most wanted man the world was not safe so long in a town near the capital.

Washington is committed to "go back" helped Pakistan if Ben Laden escape a hunting man 10 years before being killed in a U.S. raid on its walls fortified the city of Abbottabad. Islamabad denied that he gave shelter to the al-Qaeda Chief.

The CIA has said that he did not in Pakistan in advance on the raid because she feared that bin Laden would be tipped off the coast, highlighting the depth of mistrust between the two allies assumed.

US authorities have also been wrestling with whether to release graphic photos of the body of Osama bin Laden - which could provide evidence of his death, but also risks offending Muslims.

"It is fair to say that this is a macabre photography," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.

Pakistan has hailed the death of Osama bin Laden, but his Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed "deep concern" what he calls an "unauthorized unilateral action". U.S. helicopters carrying the commandos used radar "blind spots" in the rugged terrain along the border of Afghanistan into Pakistan air space without being detected.

Carney insisted bin Laden stood during the raid - although it would not say how - when US forces stormed his compound North of Islamabad, and engaged in a shooting there.

"It was feared that bin Laden would oppose the capture operation, and indeed, he resisted," Carney said. "A woman... wife of Osama bin Laden, rushed the U.S. aggressor and was wounded in the leg but not killed." Bin Laden was then shot and killed. He was not armed. ?

While many leaders of the world applauded the U.S. operation that killed the bin Ladens, there are concerns in some parts of Europe in the United States was wrong to act as a police officer, judge and executioner.

Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder defends the action as legitimate Tuesday, but some in Europe, said bin Laden must have been captured and at trial.

"It was very clearly a violation of international law", former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said German TV. "The operation could also have incalculable consequences in the Arab world, in the light of all disorders."

PAKISTAN UNDER REVIEW

Pakistan has been the intense international scrutiny since the death of Osama bin Laden, with questions that its security agencies have been too incompetent to catch or knew all along where he was hiding and even if they were accomplices.

The compound where bin Laden was hiding - perhaps also long that five or six years - has been close to the Military Academy of Pakistan, Abbottabad, approximately 40 miles from Islamabad.

"It would be premature to rule out the possibility that there are some people in Pakistan, including the official establishment of Pakistan, which could have been aware of this," head of White House counter-terrorism John Brennan told National Public Radio.

"We are not accusing anyone at this stage, but we want to make sure that we get to the bottom of this.".

Prime Minister David Cameron UK said on the radio of the BBC that Islamabad must answer questions about what he called "support of Osama bin Laden network" in Pakistan.

In an interview with exceptionally waned with Time, Director of the CIA Leon Panetta magazine, explained why Islamabad was not informed of the raid until all helicopters carrying the US Navy SEALs - and body of Osama bin Laden - were out of Pakistani air space.

"It was decided that all efforts to work with the Pakistani could jeopardise the mission: they can alert targets,"Said Panetta."."

The Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, in the first public comment background by any Pakistani leader, defended his Government, which receives billions of dollars in aid from the United States.

"Some in the U.S. press suggested that Pakistan had no vitality in pursuit of terrorism, or worse still that we were misleading and effectively protected the terrorists that we claimed to be continuing," Zardari wrote in the Washington Post. "Such speculation unfounded... do reflect fact.".

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan later said its spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) had been sharing information on the compound with the CIA and other agencies of intelligence friendly since 2009 and has continued to do so until mid-April.

"It is important to note that taking advantage of much greater and active technology, CIA exploit leading intelligence given by us to identify and reach Osama bin Laden", the Ministry said in a lengthy statement.

RATINGS BOOST

Obama has experienced a resurgence in popularity of the assassination of the architect of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.

About four in ten Americans say that their opinion of Obama improved after he ordered the raid. But the bump in its classification could be short-lived as priority of voters again on crucial national concerns to his 2012 re-election prospects.

Obama may face pressure more to accelerate the planned withdrawal in July of some U.S. forces of the unpopular war in Afghanistan.

The assassination of bin Laden could also assist a political settlement by making it easier for the Afghan Taliban to break their links with al-Qaeda.

"I think that this opens the door to push for a political settlement;" which depends, however, President Obama, choosing to take the opportunity, explains Joshua Foust on American security project in Washington.

The first reaction of the Taliban, however, was to challenge the truth of the death of Osama bin Laden, saying that Washington has not provided "acceptable evidence to back up their claim" that he had been killed.

No photos or video of the funeral of body or swift to Osama bin Laden at sea have been released.

Panetta said there was never any doubt that ultimately a photograph would be made public, but other officials said that no final decision had been made, reflecting an intense internal debate in Washington.

I'll be Candide. "There are sensitivities here in terms of the opportunity to release photographs of Osama bin Laden," said Carney.