Twenty-seven soldiers were killed Thursday by a teenager who detonated his bomb in the middle of a magazine at a military camp in northwest Pakistan. The Taliban allied with al-Qaeda have claimed responsibility for the attack immediately. "The bomber was a teenager, he wore a school uniform," said a police officer in Mardan, a city garrison near the tribal areas of north-west frontier with Afghanistan, a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban, the main Al-Qaeda sanctuary in the world and important rear base for Afghan Taliban.
This small town is located about fifty kilometers from the Mohmand tribal district, where the army has been carrying out late January, an offensive against the Taliban. Their most important group, the Movement of Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has primary responsibility for a wave of nearly 450 attacks - suicide for the most part - who made more than 4,000 deaths nationwide in three years and half.
The attack, committed after a long lull, contradicts the claims of the staff, who claims to have considerably weakened the Islamist guerrillas following a series of offensives in the tribal areas of northwest, adjacent to Afghanistan. On several occasions the TTP claimed responsibility for bombings targeting security forces in retaliation, they say, the army offensives against them and the campaign of almost daily firing of missiles from U.S.
CIA drones in their strongholds areas tribal, targeting senior al-Qaida and Taliban Pakistan and Afghanistan. In the summer of 2007, in unison with Osama bin Laden himself, TTP has decreed jihad, "holy war" in Islamabad's support to Washington since late 2001 in its "war against terrorism." 
This small town is located about fifty kilometers from the Mohmand tribal district, where the army has been carrying out late January, an offensive against the Taliban. Their most important group, the Movement of Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has primary responsibility for a wave of nearly 450 attacks - suicide for the most part - who made more than 4,000 deaths nationwide in three years and half.
The attack, committed after a long lull, contradicts the claims of the staff, who claims to have considerably weakened the Islamist guerrillas following a series of offensives in the tribal areas of northwest, adjacent to Afghanistan. On several occasions the TTP claimed responsibility for bombings targeting security forces in retaliation, they say, the army offensives against them and the campaign of almost daily firing of missiles from U.S.
CIA drones in their strongholds areas tribal, targeting senior al-Qaida and Taliban Pakistan and Afghanistan. In the summer of 2007, in unison with Osama bin Laden himself, TTP has decreed jihad, "holy war" in Islamabad's support to Washington since late 2001 in its "war against terrorism."
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