President Gen. Pervez Musharraf survived an apparent assassination attempt Friday when shots were fired at his aircraft as it took off from a military base, authorities and witnesses said. Musharraf’s aircraft came under fire as it took off from the Chakala air base in Rawalpindi, a garrison city adjoining Islamabad. Police said two antiaircraft guns and a light machine gun were seized from a house that lay directly beneath the flight path of the base and also below the path of planes arriving and departing from the capital’s international airport.
Britain: Terror suspects’ ties to U.S.
The FBI said Friday that two suspects in the failed car bombings in Britain had made inquiries about working in the United States. An FBI spokeswoman said Friday that two of the suspects – Mohammed Asha, 26, and another man whose name she didn’t give – contacted the Philadelphia-based Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. The nonprofit commission verifies the credentials of foreign medical school graduates, evaluates individuals’ medical knowledge and administers exams.
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