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Sep 24 2009, Mubassir

Militants ambushed a convoy of prominent anti-Taliban tribal elders in volatile northwest Pakistan on Thursday, spraying their cars with gunfire, killing nine people and wounding six others.

The members of the anti-Taliban citizen’s group were...

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