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Bomber kills 15 in Pakistan
By WASHINGTON POST
Published July 18, 2007
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - At least 15 people died and more than 40 were wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a group of demonstrators gathered in the heart of the Pakistani capital Tuesday night to demand an end to President Pervez Musharraf's eight-year rule. The attack threw Pakistan into even greater disarray after a week in which a deadly raid by army commandos at a radical Islamabad mosque provoked revenge attacks across the country's volatile northwest. Intense turmoil in Pakistan has claimed more than 200 lives this month. Islamic fighters have declared war on the government, aiming to overthrow it with violence. The moderate Musharraf opponents who gathered Tuesday night say they also want to oust the general, but through upcoming elections. They were rallying in support of Pakistan's former chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, who was removed from his post by Musharraf. It was not immediately clear who was behind Tuesday's attack. Some of the protesters who witnessed the bombing blamed Islamic extremists, but others pointed the finger at Musharraf.
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