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Rockets Fired on Pakistan Military Academy Near Bin Laden Hide-Out
Unidentified assailants rained rockets on Pakistan’s elite military academy on Friday morning, in an unusual burst of violence near the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in May.
Nine rockets were fired from a hilltop overlooking Abbottabad, a garrison town 35 miles north of Islamabad, said Khalid Khan Umarzai, the commissioner of Abbottabad division.
Three rockets hit the wall of the Pakistan Military Academy, Pakistan’s equivalent of West Point. “Some exploded, some did not,” Mr. Umarzai said. “There was no loss of life.”
No group claimed responsibility, and the military said it had dispatched investigators.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/world/asia/in-pakistan-rockets-fired-near-osama-bin-laden-house.html
