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Pakistani paramilitary soldiers salute before caskets of their comrades killed in Friday’s suicide car bombing during a funeral prayer at their base camp in Bannu, Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. The suicide car bombing that killed scores of people on a volleyball field sent a bloody New Year’s warning to residents trying to curb spreading Taliban militancy in Pakistan’s northwestern region near the Afghan border. (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad) |