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Pakistani Taliban Claim Responsibility for Airport Attack
A gunfight at Pakistan's busiest civilian airport raged for six hours, as live TV coverage showed explosions and a blazing fire near aircraft parked on the ground. Twenty-eight people reportedly were killed.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readA gunfight at Pakistan's busiest civilian airport raged for six hours, as live TV coverage showed explosions and a blazing fire near aircraft parked on the ground. Twenty-eight people reportedly were killed. When it was over, the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility and called it vengeance against a CIA drone that killed a Taliban leader last November. Jon Boone, Pakistan correspondent for the Guardian, joins us from Islamabad.
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