File photo of security officials and an army helicopter combing a hilly area following rocket attacks in Abbottabad. PHOTO: AFP
ABBOTABAD: Two terrorists who fired nine rockets at the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul on January 25 this year were arrested, Express News reported on Tuesday.
The two terrorists were identified as 'Farooq' and 'Ashraf'. Three suicide jackets, two mortar shells and three Rocket-Propelled Grenades (RPGs) were seized from their possession.
The January 25 attack
The rocket attack had damaged the academy’s outer wall which is just 500 metres from the site of the US Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama bin Laden. DCO Abbottabad Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah had said that attackers fired nine rockets from a hilltop of village Dheri which overlooks Abbottabad. A rooftop room had also been damaged in the attack.
In the major security breach, the academy’s outer wall and a portion of a mosque and a laundromat located nearby were damaged. Over 700 male and female cadets were undergoing training courses with a larger number of training staff when the attack took place but no one was injured.
According to sources, the rockets were Russian-made and security forces had seized nine launch pads and batteries of motorcycles used for propelling the rockets. The attackers had also dropped large quantities of chili powder to cover their tracks and mislead sniffer dogs, the source had said.
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@Truth Detector: So let us get some facts on Seymour HErsh. In 1974, he claimed that the former U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Edward Korry, was involved in a coup d’état the previous year. It wasn’t until 1981 that Hersh wrote a 3,000-word, front-page retraction exonerating Korry that Time referred to as “the longest correction ever published.”
In 1997 he published a 500-page tome on the Kennedys, The Dark Side of Camelot. It later came to light that Hersh fell for a hoax—in this case, a series of forged documents indicating that John F. Kennedy had, among many other indignities, offered hush money to his alleged lover, Marilyn Monroe, and had conspired with mafia bosses to overthrow Fidel Castro
wait till court set them free. Our courts have very special corner for such kind of miscreants in their hearts.
In the month of September 188 Pakistanis lost their lives in 28 terror attacks. This news of terrorists arrest comes as a “breath of fresh air”. We commend the Pakistani security forces on capturing the terrorists and recovering suicide Jackets, arms and ammunition from their possession. These actions are big blows to the terrorist organizations. We hope that in coming days more of these enemies of peace are apprehended so Pakistanis can breathe a sigh of relief from these daily ruthless killings.
Abdul Quddus DET-United States Central Command
to the courts they will go and then back home from there...
The fact that my comments were not posted proves ET is a US establishment mouth piece. I will try again. @Folks, please check out what Seymour Hersh has to say about OBL raid. He is not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch of imagination.
Finally a good news, but they must be hanged till death!!
Russian made? Interesting. Are they really the soviet era weapons or new supplies?
attach both of them with a rocket, and fire it to their hideouts in north waziristan, or give it to americans. they will make a better use out of it. they will putt the rocket inside a bomb and drop it by drone.
Time for some good old, ISI style hospitality.
The attack took place on 25 jan last year n not this year!!
Abbottabad is quickly becoming notorious for terrorist activities. It was once a peaceful and lovely place to live, yes this was in the Twentieth Century when there was no Tableeghi Jamat, No Taliban, No Al Qaida, No RAW, etc.
hope IK will not demand their release now for continuity of 'smooth-going peace talks' with 'friendly taliban'
Dog biting its master...........Terror created for export is returning back in all its splendour...what do you do now?
They should be released immediately otherwise peace talks might fail!
God job,
Now blow them with their own explosive to make them an example.
regards,
This attack took place in January 2012 not this year