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AP Photo/B.K.BangashRockets were aimed at U.S. interestsPolice officers hide rocket launchers from photographers Monday after a bomb squad defused four rockets rigged with a homemade timer on Monday — explosives aimed at airport facilities in Karachi used by the U.S.-led coalition to support operations in Afghanistan.Officials said they believed Islamic radicals were responsible. They said it appeared both the rockets and the Jan. 23 kidnapping in Karachi of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl were part of an extremist campaign against President Pervez Musharraf because of his support for the U.S.-led war against terrorism. Two of the rockets were aimed at a terminal at Karachi's international airport used by the coalition for supplying troops in Afghanistan. The other two were aimed at an airport hotel used as a barracks for troops assigned to the airport. |
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