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Islamabad hotel targeted twice in as many years

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  • A security guard helps a foreign guest leave after a bomb explosion at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.

    July 14, 2007 Suicide car-bomber kills 24 paramilitary soldiers and wounds 29 in North Waziristan

    July 15 Sixteen people, most of them paramilitary soldiers, killed in an ambush while on patrol in the Swat valley in North West Frontier Province. A suicide bomber targets a police recruiting centre in Dera Ismail Khan in NWFP, killing 29

    July 17 Suicide bomber kills 16 people outside a court in Islamabad, where suspended chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, was due to speak

    July 19 Three suicide attacks in a single day in three towns kill at least 52 people.

    July 27 Suicide bomb attack in a restaurant near Islamabad's Red Mosque kills 13 people, most of them cops

    Sept 4 Two suicide bombers kill 25 in Rawalpindi

    Sept 11 Suicide bomber kills 16 people in northwest Dera Ismail Khan

    Sept 13 At least 15 soldiers killed in suicide bombing in an army canteen near Islamabad

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    Oct 19 At least 139 people killed in suicide bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto's motorcade. The attack is one of the deadliest in Pakistan's history

    Oct 25 Suspected suicide bomber kills 21 people, including 17 soldiers, in an attack on an army convoy in Swat

    Nov 24 Suicide car bomb attacks kill 15 in Rawalpindi, on the eve of the return of Nawaz Sharif from exile

    Dec 17 A suicide bomber kills 10 military recruits in Kohat

    Dec 21 A suicide bomber kills 41 in a mosque in NW Pakistan during Eid prayers.

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