This is pretty fresh stuff here from DAWN as four heavily armed terrorists tried to storm the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan this morning - all four of the attackers are dead along with a Peshawar policeman and one other. Pakistani security forces were able to hold off the attack.
From the article:
What's not clear here is whether these were two suicide bomb vehicles or if the terrorists came in two vehicles and then got out to storm the consulate with small weapons or suicide vests. The "mushroom cloud" mentioned above could mean a VBIED that didn't make it to its mark or it could simply be a vehicle that exploded when shot to hell.
I'm sure we will find out more later but the difference would be that if these were both vehicle born bombs then I would say we have an al Qaeda attack whereas if these attackers left the vehicles to storm the consulate, we're either looking at Taliban or Lashkar-e-Taiba.
From the article:
Six people, including four attackers, were killed when heavily armed militants in two vehicles tried to storm the US consulate in Peshawar on Monday, a Pakistani minister said.
“They came in two vehicles. The militants were well-equipped. It was a well-organised attack,” Bashir Ahmed Bilour, senior minister in the North West Frontier Province government headquartered in the city, told reporters.
Television footage showed a heavy mushroom cloud and smoke rising into the air over the garrison part of the city, close to the US consulate and the Peshawar headquarters of Pakistan's top spy agency in the Saddar area, bombed last November.
What's not clear here is whether these were two suicide bomb vehicles or if the terrorists came in two vehicles and then got out to storm the consulate with small weapons or suicide vests. The "mushroom cloud" mentioned above could mean a VBIED that didn't make it to its mark or it could simply be a vehicle that exploded when shot to hell.
I'm sure we will find out more later but the difference would be that if these were both vehicle born bombs then I would say we have an al Qaeda attack whereas if these attackers left the vehicles to storm the consulate, we're either looking at Taliban or Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Multiple blasts take place outside US Consulate
PESHAWAR: Six people, including four attackers, were killed when heavily armed militants in two vehicles tried to storm the US consulate in Peshawar on Monday, a Pakistani minister said.
“They came in two vehicles. The militants were well-equipped. It was a well-organised attack,” Bashir Ahmed Bilour, senior minister in the North West Frontier Province government headquartered in the city, told reporters.
“The situation is now under control,” he said, adding that six people were killed in the attempted attack and subsequent gun battle with Pakistani security services, including four militants and a policeman.
“They (security forces) have killed four militants. Four dead bodies are lying on the spot. The whole area is encircled by the army. The militants were trying to enter the American consulate, but they did not succeed,” he said.
Television footage showed a heavy mushroom cloud and smoke rising into the air over the garrison part of the city, close to the US consulate and the Peshawar headquarters of Pakistan's top spy agency in the Saddar area, bombed last November.
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