Female suicide bomber planning to target Pakistan Air Force installations in Peshawar
Security agencies warned on February 23 that a female suicide bomber in fashionable clothes and sunglasses might target Pakistan Air Force (PAF) installations in Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier Province, to avenge an air strike on a Madrassa (seminary) in Bajaur on October 31, 2006. "This suicide bomber will be different from others. This one will not have a beard... it will be a good-looking girl with the aim to avenge the air strike," official sources told Daily Times. Sources said that the would-be suicide bomber would target PAF-run schools and colleges to kill as many male and female students as possible. However, PAF spokesperson Air Commodore Sarfraz Ahmed Khan said "We got no special threat."
The PAF might have been selected as a potential target after suspected militants warned earlier that they would attack its facilities in the same manner that "jets took off from Peshawar base to bomb the Madrassa in Bajaur." 82 people, including 12 teenagers, were killed during an air strike that targeted a seminary at Damadola in the Bajaur tribal region.
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