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Taliban attack Pak air base

10 security men killed

AFP, Kamra, Pakistan
Heavily armed militants stormed a Pakistani air force base yesterday, sparking clashes that left 10 people dead and raised concerns about the safety of the country's nuclear arsenal.
One security official was killed and a plane damaged in the pre-dawn assault at PAF Base Minhas claimed by the Taliban as militants again proved able to penetrate a sensitive military site five years into an insurgency.
The first strike on a base in more than a year came amid speculation that Pakistan could bow to US demands for an operation against militants in their main fortress of North Waziristan, in the tribal belt on the Afghan border.
An official denied there were nuclear weapons on the heavily guarded base, but the audacious assault raised further questions in the West about the dangers of Pakistan's atomic weapons falling into extremists' hands.
The Pakistan Air Force said nine attackers dressed in military uniforms and armed with rocket pro-pelled-grenades and suicide vests targeted the base and adjacent Pakistan Aeronautical Complex at 2:00am.
PAF Minhas, in the town of Kamra in Punjab province 60 kilometres northwest of Islamabad, has been attacked twice before.
The adjacent complex assembles Mirage and, with Chinese help, JF-17 fighter jets.
"Eight miscreants were killed inside the Minhas base boundary wall and one miscreant exploded himself outside the perimeters where he was hiding," the air force announced.
It said there had been a shootout "for more than two hours" and 10 hours after the assault began, spokesman Tariq Mahmood confirmed the base was "totally safe".
The Pakistani Taliban said planes at the base were being used to kill its fighters.
Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan dedicated the attack to late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and claimed four Taliban fighters were killed after destroying three aircraft and killed a dozen soldiers.
Witnesses said the attackers came round the back, scaling the wall and exploiting the holiest night of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan to remain undetected as long as possible.
Air force spokesman Mahmood said one security official had been killed, and the base commander wounded in the shoulder. Previous Taliban assaults on Pakistani military bases have exacted far higher casualty lolls.
In May 2011, it took 17 hours to quell an attack on an air base in Karachi claimed by the Taliban, piling embarrassment on the armed forces just three weeks after US troops killed bin Laden in Pakistan.