 Tribesmen in Pakistan have rallied against Islamabad's alliance with the US after an air strike on an alleged militant camp at an Islamic school. At least 10,000 people protested in the north-western town of Khar near the site of Mon missile attack. President Musharraf said the 80 people killed were militants, not students as protesters say. But a raid survivor told the A P that children had died and the school had not been used by militants. In his first comments since the raid, Gen Musharraf said those killed were "militants doing military training". "We were watching them for the last six or seven days - we knew exactly who they are, what they are doing," he told a conference in Islamabad. "Anyone who says that these people were innocent [religious students] is telling lies," he said. But Abu Bakar, one of three survivors from the raid, disputed the president's version. "There was not militant training in the madrassa," he told the (AP) news agency from his hospital bed...
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