Thursday, October 15, 2009 LAHORE: Exchange of gunfire between terrorists and security forces continues at Eliot Police Training Centre situated in Bedian area of Lahore. According to Geo News, eyewitnesses revealed 9-10 terrorists including three women were involved in the attack. Security forces helicopters continue aerial surveillance in the area trying to pinpoint the location of terrorists. Meanwhile, 11 persons have been taken out from the building in injured condition.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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