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Sat 07 Jul 2009Pakistan ships attack Taliban
Pakistani helicopter gunships attacked Taliban militants today in a northwestern region where a military helicopter crashed the previous day killing 26 soldiers on board, a government official said.
Fighting has intensified sharply in northwest Pakistan over the past two months since the army went on the offensive to push back an expanding insurgency that raised fears for the stability of the nuclear-armed US ally.
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