Pakistanis Defuse Bomb at U.S. Consulate; Huge Device Is Disarmed Minutes Before It Is Set to Go Off

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › March 16, 2004

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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani police defused a large bomb less than five minutes before it was timed to detonate outside the U.S. Consulate on Monday, averting a devastating terrorist attack two days before Secretary of State Colin Powell visits this country.

The close call came as President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, a top Washington ally, said a Libyan member of al-Qaida was behind two bombings he narrowly escaped in December. Musharraf vowed to purge Pakistan of hundreds of foreign terrorists.

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Pakistanis Defuse Bomb at U.S. Consulate; Huge Device Is Disarmed Minutes Before It Is Set to Go Off

It was not clear who was behind the thwarted attack on the consulate in Karachi - Pakistan's largest city of 14 million people and scene of a wave of anti-Western bombings since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks - but suspicions immed...

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