[Dawn] Security forces claimed to have bumped off an al Qaeda-linked foreign bad boy among six others during a bad boy attack on Thall Checkpost on Saturday.Intelligence officials, not wanting to be named, told Dawn.com said that a bad boy attack was launched on the Thall Frontier Constabulary (FC) checkpost at midnight during which two FC soldiers were killed and 20 others were maimed.
He added that those maimed in the attack had sustained only minor injuries.
The sources said that security forces resorted to retaliatory gunfire killing six to eight bad boys, one whom was stated to be an al-Qaeda linked Arab national.
"Documents in Arabic and Maps also marked in Arabic have been recovered from the spot which shows the attackers also have some foreigners of Arab origin in the squad," the sources remarked.
In another incident four security personnel were killed and 12 others maimed, when the vehicle they were travelling in overturned in Baka Khel area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
's Bannu district.
Security officials, wanting not to be named, told Dawn.com that the security personnel were travelling from North
Wazoo region's Miranshah... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
area to Bannu, on routine patrol, when the vehicle they were travelling in met with an accident on the Bannu-Miranshah road in Baka Khel area.
The injured personnel were shifted to Combined Military Hospital Bannu for treatment.