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The suicide bomber, who struck Rawalpindi less than a kilometre away from President Pervez Musharraf’s camp office and in front of CJCSC General Tariq Majeed, killed three policemen belonging to a picket of security staff of the general. A senior police officer on the spot triumphantly declared to a TV channel that his department had three-layered security for the president and the suicide bomber had been intercepted at the first picket. At the time of the explosion, the president was in his camp office meeting his top security officers. <b>This was surely an attempt to get at him or at General Majeed, whose troops stormed the Lal Masjid earlier this year</b>.

The Interior Ministry says the suicide bombing had nothing to do with the Lal Masjid affair and the ongoing Fazlullah affair in Swat. We have no way of knowing how the ministry has come to this conclusion, especially <b>as we know that one earlier attempt on the life of the president through the targeting of his plane from a house in Rawalpindi with an anti-aircraft gun was linked to Lal Masjid, and Lal Masjid was clearly linked to Fazlullah in Swat</b>.
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