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Email Print Related News Analysis: Is Pakistan attack a blueprint for nuclear base raid? 9:05am EDT Naval base attack weakens Pakistan's counter-terror surveillance 10:36am EDT Analysis & Opinion Pakistan military: the enemy within ? Taliban talks – a necessary but not sufficient condition for peace Related Topics World » A soldier keeps guard from a watchtower as water buffalos wade through a stream around the compound walls of the Mehran naval aviation base in Karachi May 24, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Athar Hussain By Chris Allbritton ISLAMABAD | Tue May 24, 2011 10:36am EDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's military was ridiculed and accused of complicity in the media on Tuesday after a small group of militants laid siege to a naval air base, holding out for 16 hours against about 100 commandos and rangers. As few as six militants infiltrated the PNS Mehran naval base in Karachi, the headquarters of Pakistan's naval air wing, on Sunday night, killing 10 security forces and wounding 20. "Our mujahideen who conducted this operation were equipped with faith as well as with sophisticated weapons and that's why they fought with hundreds of security forces and inflicted heavy losses on them," Pakistan Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters from an undisclosed location. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Monday three militants were killed in the gun battle while the body of a fourth was believed to be buried under the rubble of a collapsed wall. Two suspects were believed to have fled the scene, he added. Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani travelled to the base on Tuesday to pay tribute to the security forcers who died. Gilani particularly praised Lieutenant Yasir Abbas, the young Navy officer who died leading a counter-attack against the militants and who has been embraced as a national hero. "We are proud of our these brave men," Gilani said. Pakistan's military has been on the back foot since U.S. special forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on May 2, unable to explain either why they had been unable to catch the world's most wanted man themselves or why the Americans could launch a raid deep into their territory undetected. Two P-3C Orion aircraft from the United States -- crucial assets for Pakistan's anti-submarine and maritime surveillance capability -- were destroyed in Monday's raid, and the Pakistan military's reputation as a defender of the country and of Islam was left in tatters. Reaction to the raid from the generally pro-military Pakistani media was harsh. "Political rhetoric and a Cabinet Defense Committee meeting are not going to solve this one," read an editorial in the English-language daily, The News. "This is an epic failure exposing an existential threat that will need epic leadership to countervail." An editorial in the Urdu-language Jang, one of nuclear-armed Pakistan's biggest and most pro-military newspapers, said the attacks illustrated "a weakness of security measures." "In very polite words, it can be called worrisome negligence." Others went beyond incompetence and suggested that the attackers had help from within the military. "Did the Taliban raiders have information inside the naval base?" wrote Dawn, another English-language daily. "Such a possibility cannot be ruled out, because the involvement of serving personnel in several previous attacks has been well-established." In October 2009, a similarly small raiding party attacked the Army's General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, taking 42 people hostage, including several officers. By the end of the day-long ordeal, nine gunmen, 11 soldiers and three hostages were dead. Later investigations found several low-ranking soldiers and officers were involved in helping the attackers. Ehsan declined to confirm whether the militants had help in the military. "Our 'local friends' from Karachi helped us in yesterday's operation but I would not say whether we had friends on the base or not," Ehsan said. Amir Rana, director of the Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies and author of a book on jihadi groups in Pakistan, doubts the Taliban was directly involved, but more likely worked through other, Punjab-based groups affiliated with al Qaeda. "There are militant groups which have training and capabilities for these kind of attacks and they also are in direct contact with al Qaeda," he said. He thought groups attached to Ilyas Kashmiri, who reportedly commands the "313 Brigade," al Qaeda's operational arm, more likely staged the raid, given its sophistication. He identified three groups active in Karachi -- Jundullah, Arshad Wahid group and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen-Al-Alami, which he said could also have been be involved. The military launched operations against the Pakistan Taliban in South Waziristan in 2009, scattering the leadership and racking up some victories. Last year was relatively quiet, but the Pakistan Taliban appears to have built up its connections, giving militants a new strike capacity in Pakistan's economic hub. (Additional reporting by Saud Mehsud, Augustine Anthony, Zeeshain Haider, Mubashir Bukhari and Kamran Haider; Editing by Nick Macfie) World Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (1) tuffsheet wrote: The Pakistani Army act like the keystone cops! As much training as they have received from the US they just don’t have the ability to plan and organize a defense! 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