The spate of attacks came a week after Baitullah Mehsud orchestrated a suicidal commando attack on a police training school in Lahore, in which eight police were killed and over 90 wounded.In this section Out of the Tigers' cage The slide downhill Self-defence Where will all the students go?
Turkey, once Israel's closest Muslim ally, withdrew its ambassador and has cooled its relations with Israel after Israel's war in Gaza two years ago and then an Israeli commando attack on a aid flotilla seeking to break Israel's embargo of Gaza, an operation that killed nine Turks, including one with American citizenship.
In 1973 the Palestinian movement suffered a severe blow from an Israeli commando attack in Beirut in April that killed three of its leaders.
In the years he was consolidating his power base, Kim Jong-il was credited with masterminding a 1968 commando attack on the South Korean presidential palace in Seoul and the 1976 ax killings of two American military officers at the border, said Baek Seung-joo, a North Korea specialist at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses.
See articleA fragile ceasefire more or less held in Lebanon, despite various infractions, including an Israeli commando attack to stymie what Israel said was a Hizbullah operation to restock its arsenal.
Given the dearth of intelligence information and the risk of ground operations, there has been only one commando attack, an Oct. 19 assault whose targets were a compound of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban's leader, and an airport southwest of Kandahar.
Mr. Shahzad, who wrote articles over the last several years that illuminated the relationship between the militants and the military, was abducted from the capital three days after publication of his article that said Al Qaeda was responsible for an audacious 16-hour commando attack on Pakistan's main naval base in Karachi on May 22.
This time, however, commentators in the Israeli media, on the left and the right, were immediately slamming the commando attack as a failure.
Broadcast in the 8pm Top Gear slot, Greatest Raid of All Time, about the second world war commando attack on St Nazaire, attracted 3.7 million viewers and a 14% share.
