Pakistan Forces Retake Karachi Navy Base After Taliban Attack
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The Pakistan Taliban carried out its biggest strike against a government military base since 2009 in a mission to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden that left 10 government troops dead after a 16-hour battle in Karachi.
Four Taliban were killed in the fight at the navy installation, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters in Pakistan’s largest city. The militants "were 20 to 22 years of age and wore Western clothes with suicide jackets beneath them," Malik said. They were armed with rocket launchers and grenades, he said.