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...wearing a thick jacket vaulted the wall of the police compound in Islamabad and entered the courtyard. According to eyewitnesses at the scene, the police shouted at the man and then opened fire as he ran toward them. Wounded by the bullets, the bomber detonated his device, instantly killing one constable and fatally wounding another who would die moments later. "He was trying to target the main building but our men foiled his attempt and one of our men laid down his life," senior police officer Bin Yameen told reporters at the scene. (See TIME's photos of Pakistan...
...military convoy carrying two prominent cohorts of Sufi Mohammed, the hardline pro-Taliban cleric the government once negotiated with, came under attack and the pair was killed. As the vehicle made its way past the notorious gun-running town of Sakhakot, a roadside bomb exploded and militants opened fire. One of the men inside was Ameer Izzat Khan, Sufi Mohammed's fast-talking spokesman, who is considered one of the most senior militants killed so far. There is confusion over whether the attacking militants were trying to rescue the pair, or kill them before the military interrogated them...
...User Innovation The rapid-fire innovation we're seeing around Twitter is not new, of course. Facebook, whose audience is still several times as large as Twitter's, went from being a way to scope out the most attractive college freshmen to the Social Operating System of the Internet, supporting a vast ecosystem of new applications created by major media companies, individual hackers, game creators, political groups and charities. The Apple iPhone's long-term competitive advantage may well prove to be the more than 15,000 new applications that have been developed for the device, expanding its functionality...
...During the last weeks of the war, the government consistently charged that the three doctors were providing inflated numbers and wrong information about civilian casualties by government fire within a narrow no-fire zone. On May 12, Varatharajah told the Associated Press that 49 patients were killed and 50 others were injured when shells hit the only functioning medical facility within the zone...
...government, however, has maintained that the information relayed by the doctors was inherently unreliable. After the May 12 incident, the health ministry said Varatharajah had not communicated with the ministry since late last 2008. "We have always maintained that any voice from the [former] no-fire zone cannot be an independent voice. When somebody was talking from the small area under the Tigers, it was not an independent voice. There was a pistol pointed at the head when they are talking to BCC, CNN or al-Jazeera," Samarasinghe said, with his index finger firmly pointed at his temple...