Pak Cauldron: Pakistan Taliban claims cross-border raid, adopts new strategy!

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By Sahibzada Bahauddin / KHAR, Pakistan | Fri Jun 3, 2011 8:23am EDT.

(Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Friday for a cross-border attack on a security checkpost that appeared to signal that the group was adopting a new strategy of carrying out large-scale attacks on government and army targets.

In the pre-dawn raid on Wednesday in Dir region, up to 400 militants crossed over from Afghanistan in the raid which triggered more than 24 hours of clashes, the government said.

Twenty-seven Pakistani forces were killed and 45 militants died in the clashes in the northwest, security officials said. There were contradictory accounts of casualties and how many militants took part.

"Up to 40 to 50 of our fighters took part in the operation," Ehsanullah Ashen, spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Taliban Movement of Pakistan), told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location. "None of our fighters were killed."

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/03/us-pakistan-afghanistan-militants-idUSTRE75232Y20110603