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Pakistan: 6 militants targeting Americans arrested

Sheikh Rashid Ahmed receives medical attention at the Rawalpindi district hospital after the former government minister was injured in an attack by gunmen on his election office in Rawalpindi February 8, 2010. Gunmen opened fired on Monday at the election offices of a former Pakistani government minister, killing two of his guards and wounding two, police and an aide to the politician said. Ahmed was hurt in the attack but not by a bullet, an aide told Reuters. Ahmed had apparently injured a foot when he fell over during the attack, he said. REUTERS/J. Ahmedr (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)

LAHORE, Pakistan – Police say six suspected Taliban militants with a suicide vest and hand grenades have been arrested while heading to a five-star hotel in Pakistan’s cultural capital intending to kill Americans.

Police official Zulfikar Hameed says authorities seized the six, one wearing a vest filled with explosives, on the outskirts of the eastern city of Lahore on Monday.

Hameed says police also seized 26 hand grenades and five detonators. The group included a 14-year-old boy and a prayer leader from a mosque in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal area.

Hameed says the militants planned to attack the Pearl Continental Lahore hotel but did not know for certain if any Americans are staying there. — AP

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