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Pakistanis Approach Air Base Used By U.S.
Monday, October 15, 2001
The Associated Press

A man holds a sign at a rally in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday to protest the U.S.-led strikes against targets in Afghanistan. The sign reads: "Map of Afghanistan. The Graveyards of America, Soviet Union and Great Britain in Afghanistan."
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- AP
Thousands of Islamic militants converged on a southern Pakistani town Sunday, fighting pitched battles with police and paramilitary troops as they surged toward an air base that U.S. personnel are reportedly using.

One person was killed and 24 were injured in daylong battles around Jacobabad, police said. The desert city is the home to one of two Pakistani air bases made available to U.S. forces to support the air campaign against Osama bin Laden and his Afghanistan-based terror network.

As anger grew over U.S. air strikes on Afghanistan, one militant leader exhorted followers to set Shabaz Air Base in Jacobabad on fire ''at any cost,'' and another called on Pakistan's generals to overthrow the country's president, military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
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