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Pakistan IDs cricket attackers, security concerns mount
AFP - 1 hour 8 minutes ago
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) - - Authorities in Pakistan said they had identified the gunmen who attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team, as international concern mounted Friday over how the security plans failed.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia, home to two officials caught up in Tuesday's deadly attack in the city of Lahore, demanded to know how up to 12 men were able to stage the assault, killing eight and wounding seven players.
Footage of the gunmen's getaway has raised questions about Pakistan's ability to combat Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants, who have carried out scores of attacks here over the last two years and are the main suspects.
"We have identified the people who did the operation," provincial governor Salman Taseer told reporters in Lahore late Thursday.
Police released sketches of four suspects and have brought in around two dozen people for questioning but no leads have been announced.
Taseer said he would comment further after reviewing an interim investigation report due Friday.
The gunmen fired on the Sri Lankan team convoy with automatic weapons, grenades and a rocket launcher as the vehicles travelled to Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium but all the attackers fled without a trace.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, which left a total of 19 people injured.
In Australia, Rudd said he was unhappy about the security concerns expressed by Australian cricket officials travelling with the team.
"I am sufficiently concerned about what has been said by the Australians that we need an explanation, and we intend to get one," he told a radio interviewer on Friday.
Simon Taufel, one of the umpires travelling in the convoy with the Sri Lankan team , said his bus had been left unprotected once the assault began.
"You tell me why supposedly 20 armed commandos were in our convoy and when the team bus got going again, we were left on our own? I don't have any answers to these questions," he said.
Pakistan lawmakers have accused the government of a "serious security lapse", highlighting reports that authorities were warned of a possible attack.
The top government official for Lahore conceded Thursday there were gaps in the security provisions made for the Sri Lankan team.
"A terrorist has to succeed only once, whereas security has to be successful all the time. After every incident one gets wiser. You get to know all the gaps and how you should not repeat those gaps," Khusro Pervaiz told AFP.
More than 1,600 people have been killed in attacks over the past 22 months in Pakistan, where Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants have forged a base in the rugged, lawless northwest along the border with Afghanistan.
For decades, Pakistan's ISI military intelligence agency has fostered Islamist militant groups in Kashmir and Afghanistan, and there are suspicions that some ISI elements have links to militants inside the country.
The South Asian country's long history of unsolved political attacks includes the assassination in December 2007 of former premier Benazir Bhutto.
Tuesday's attack was also a serious blow for cricket in Pakistan, as the International Cricket Council raised doubts about whether it could still co-host the sport's 2011 World Cup .
New Zealand has indicated a tour of Pakistan set for November will likely be called off.
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