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A series of coordinated bombings in the northern Nigerian city of Kano have left scores dead. News reports say at least 120 people were killed Friday in attacks that targeted police stations and government buildings. The radical Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attacks. A 24-hour curfew is in force in the predominately Muslim city, Nigeria's second largest. Salusi Radiu, a reporter for VOA's Hausa Service, says that over a period of 90 minutes, he counted more than 24 blasts in Kano. Abubakar Jibril, the city's emergency coordinator, described conditions as chaotic following the attacks. A...

In a report that, according to Fox News’ Leland Vittert, “shatters the illusion that those who are driven by hate can have their minds changed,” one would-be suicide bomber who failed in her past attempt to kill Israelis proudly declares that she would do it all over again (next time she hopes successfully) just to “taste and smell paradise.” The interview offers viewers a look into the hate-filled mind of a woman who was incarcerated after attempting to detonate a bomb that had been strapped to her body in order to kill as many innocent Israelis as she possibly could....

The Bambino stands in the center of the stage, untouchable, uncatchable, unbeatable. He is Newt Gingrich, and he has become the Sultan of Swat. It is Saturday night at yet another Republican debate and — wham! wham! wham! — Gingrich keeps blasting them out of the park. Mitt Romney claims he should be president, because, unlike Newt, Romney is not a “career politician.” “Let’s be candid,” Newt replies. “The only reason you didn’t become a career politician is that you lost to Ted Kennedy in 1994.” Wham! Newt, like the real Bambino, Babe Ruth, is a man of appetites. For...

A suicide bomber attack at the NATO coalition base in Afghan Logar province has injured up to 70 people. The attacker used an explosive-laden truck to set off a powerful explosion just outside the entrance to the base on Friday morning, local authorities reported. The majority of those wounded are civilians, Logar’s health director, Mohammad Zarif Nayebkhail told AFP. Seven of the wounded are Afghan security guards from the base. “The suicide attacker wanted to ram his explosive-laden vehicle into the coalition forces base, but he was stopped at the gate and detonated the truck outside the base,” said local...

A series of explosions in and around the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday has killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 20, officials say. Three bombs exploded in the commercial Bab al-Sharqi district of central Baghdad, killing eight people. Another two explosions hit a truck carrying construction workers on the road between Baghdad and Falluja. Violence in Iraq has fallen in recent years, but militants still carry out regular attacks. "I saw a woman, who was serving tea to customers, lose a leg in one of the explosions," a market vendor near the site of the Bab al-Sharqi...

A Moroccan court found on Friday the chief suspect guilty in the April 28 bombing of a Marrakesh café and sentenced him to death, The Associated Press reported. 17 people were killed in that terror attack, including Israeli citizen Michal Weitzmann Zikri and her husband Masoud Zikri, a native of Morocco. The two were in the country to celebrate Passover with Masoud’s family. They were survived by their two-year-old son, who was with his grandparents at the time of the attack. Michal was six months pregnant when she was killed. Prosecutors had accused Adel al-Othmani of dressing like a tourist...

Baghdad - At least 21 people were killed Wednesday in a wave of car bombings in the Iraqi capital, according to security and medical sources. Over 60 people were injured in the bombings, two of which involved suicide attacks, in central, north and south Baghdad, the sources said. Four of the bombs exploded outside police stations and at the entrance to the Interior Ministry building in Baghdad, said a spokesman for the ministry, Adel Daham, said. A fifth car bomb exploded near a police convoy in the mainly Shiite northern district of Al Horiya, according to security sources. Daham said...

Libyan rebels reveal that Brotherly Leader not only  faked the death, but hid her from the West for 25 years purely for propaganda value (!) When President Ronald Reagan bombed Tripoli over Libyan involvement (via the DDR) in the April 5th 1986 terrorist attack on West Berlin's LaBelle discotheque (one frequented by US soldiers), Col. Gaddafi claimed to have lost an infant daughter -Hana Gaddafi- as even his own personal Bedouin tent at the Bab al-Azizia compound was lit-up in the swift retribution. Taking into account the man's Machiavellian tendencies, cynics noted at the time the Libyan dictator was not above adopting such a girl posthumously- primarily...

Where's the so-called "angry Arab street?"When will the hypocritic Arab-Muslim world start giving a 'dime' about its own people. Arab-Muslim on Arab-Muslim crimes against humanity - routine. The "moderate" voice of Islamic-Arabs: "We can kill each other by the thousands!"(Syria, Hamah massacre - 1982, Daraa, Jisr al-Shughour and Hama massacres, mass torture of kids - 2011), Black September [Jordanians vs "Palestinians"] 1970 , Iraqis vs Iraqis since 2003, "Palestinians" VS each other (Hamas/Fatah 2007), "Palestinians" & Hezbollah using civilians (routine), Libyans (2011 massacres), Bahrainians [Shiite Apartheid VS Sunni], Algerians (100,000 dead in the 1970s') Yemen (2011), Tunisia (2011), Egypt (2011),...

An alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings was extradited from Pakistan to Indonesia on Thursday, after his arrest in the town where Osama bin Laden was killed, a security official said. Indonesia’s counter-terrorism agency chief Ansyaad Mbai confirmed that Umar Patek had arrived under tight security after an overnight flight from Pakistan, and ahead of an expected trial on terrorism-related charges. “He’s been detained at a detention facility… He’s a very important suspect. It’s hard to rank him but you can say he’s a big fish,” Mbai said. Patek is expected to face trial over attacks including the Bali...

Although security forces found and disabled two cars packed with explosives in northern Iraq Tuesday, a third exploded outside a Christian church, wounding 23 people.

NATO strikes Libyan state TV facility The North Atlantic Treaty Organization says its forces conducted air-strikes on Libya's state TV satellite facility in the capital Tripoli. NATO said in a statement on Saturday that its fighter aircraft used precision guided munitions to destroy 3 ground-based satellite transmission dishes. The organization explained that the intervention was necessary as TV was being used as an integral component of the regime designed to systematically oppress and threaten civilians, and incite attacks against them. But reports from Tripoli say that the facility is still broadcasting after the bombing. Pro-government supporters continue to clash with...

Attacks in China's Xinjiang, 13 dead In China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Saturday night, two men brandishing knives attacked passers-by, killing 6 people. At least 6 others were killed in explosions that occurred near the area just before the incident. China's state-run Xinhua news agency says the 2 men jumped into a truck in Kashgar city. Then they drove into a crowd of people. The pair stabbed 6 people to death. One of the attackers died while being captured. Xinhua says that about an hour before the attack, 2 explosions occurred near the scene, one from a minivan, which...

“Stop bombing Libya! U.S. out of Africa!” echoed throughout San Francisco’s major intersection at Powell and Market as more than 125 activists and supporters gathered to demand an end to the U.S./NATO bombing of Libya and call for the money spent on war to instead provide for people’s needs. The demonstration was sponsored by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). While participants picketed, a number of people spoke. A common thread throughout the speeches was that the U.S. government claim of “humanitarian intervention” is a lie. Antoinette Marquez, an elementary school teacher and member of...

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi officials say the death toll from a string of blasts in a Shiite neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad has jumped to 34. Two police officials said the bombs targeted a Shiite mosque as well as a market Thursday evening. The officials said that 82 people were also injured in the explosions. Officials from the hospitals where the dead and injured were taken confirmed the casualty figures.

Somali officials confirmed today that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, al Qaeda's leader in East Africa and a senior Shabaab commander, was killed at a Somali military checkpoint in Mogadishu earlier this week. Fazul is one of the most wanted terrorists in East Africa for his role in attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania as well as his role within Shabaab. Somalia's minister of information confirmed Fazul's death, according to The Associated Press. "We've compared the pictures of the body to his old pictures," he said. "They are the same. It is confirmed. He is the man and he is...

A BOMB targeting two US consulate cars exploded in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar today killing one person and wounding 11 others, police and the US embassy said. The Pakistani Taliban has since claimed responsibility for the attack. "Two vehicles of the US consulate were on their way to the consulate when they were attacked," US embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said. "One vehicle was damaged. There is no death among our personnel and there are no serious injuries," he added. "Only one car was hit. In that car there were US citizen diplomats and a Pakistani driver," Rodriguez said. Pakistan...

A bomb attack has struck a US military convoy in south eastern Afghanistan as Taliban militants intensify attacks against foreign forces in the volatile country. According to an Afghan security official, a huge explosion was heard after an explosives-laden vehicle hit the convoy in a district in Khost Province, a Press TV correspondent reported on Saturday. There has been no official report on possible fatalities or injuries. However, the Taliban say at least 10 American soldiers have been killed in the incident. More than 170 US-led foreign troops, most of them Americans, have been killed in Afghanistan so far this...

A twin bomb attack on a paramilitary force academy in north-western Pakistan has killed at least 69 people, police say. A number of people were hurt in the blast at the training centre in Shabqadar, Charsadda district. There are reports that two suicide bombers carried out the attack. It is the bloodiest attack since US forces killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in the town of Abbottabad, northern Pakistan, on 2 May. Militant groups have pledged to avenge Bin Laden's death. However, no group has so far claimed responsibility for Friday's attack. 'Deadliest attack' "There were two bomb blasts," Jahanzeb...

Most of besieged city's fuel supply lost in a raid  that flattened four tanks and set the rest on fire Initially reported as being a rocket attack (what else could it be?), we now hear the hugely successful attack on Misurata's only real fuel supplies was actually conducted by pesticide-spraying farm planes late last night: they achieved all apparent objectives, bombing the tanks with jerry-rigged, flying clunkers. Shocked? The rebels aren't- they claim Gaddafi had no problem running recon for the mission in helicopters flown right under NATO's noses at low altitude last month, either. And at that time -as is again...

WASHINGTON, April 20, 2011 – The chief prosecutor of the Defense Department’s Office of Military Commissions has recommended that capital charges be brought against the alleged mastermind behind the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, a Pentagon spokesman said today. The charges assert that Abd al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al Nashiri was responsible for planning and preparing terrorists to attack the U.S. Navy warship in the Yemini port of Aden, Navy Capt. Darryn James said. The Cole was in the harbor for a routine fuel stop when a small watercraft approached the ship’s port side and exploded. The bombing...

Authorities arrested a man in Ohio who was wanted in connection with an explosion outside a Jewish Community Center in Santa Monica. According to the FBI, 60-year old Ron Hirsch left Los Angeles Thursday on a Greyhound bus bound for New York where he has family. On Monday, investigators released surveillance video of Hirsch outside a bus station in Denver. Then, late Monday night, the Jewish news organization VIN said Hirsch was apprehended in Ohio after a member of the public recognized him and called police. Hirsch is a transient and has been known to use the aliases J. Fisher...

Democrat: Government Shutdown Like 'Bombing Innocent Civilians'April 07, 2011 Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D -DC) was on fire when she spoke to FOX 5 Morning News Thursday about how Washington, D.C. residents are being treated as work to avoid a government shutdown continues. "We are absolutely outraged. This is the functional equivalent of bombing innocent civilians," she said. "It's time that the District of Columbia told the Congress to go straight to hell," Norton continued after explaining how an attached rider to the latest bill prevented D.C. from spending its own money on abortions for low income women. Read the...

A 25-year-old police officer has been killed after a bomb exploded under his car in Omagh, County Tyrone.The device exploded under the vehicle outside his home in Highfield Close, off the Gortin Road, just before 1600 BST on Saturday. He is the second policeman to be killed since PSNI was formed out of the RUC. Since 2007, dissident republicans have planted dozens of booby-trap bombs under the private cars of police officers. The bombs have failed to detonate, but two policemen lost their legs in attacks in May 2008 and January 2010.

Congress needs to seriously consider impeaching the power-mad President Barack Obama. He has unilaterally decided to commit the U.S. to a conflict in Libya that might last a decade or more. Overthrowing the Libyan government will likely require an invasion because bombing the enemy into submission didn't work in Vietnam or Iraq. If Obama succeeds in destroying the Libyan army, someone will be stuck with trying to set up a new government or risk having the country become a lawless region like Somalia. President Lyndon Johnson may have misled Congress (as some Senators subsequently claimed) to gain approval of the...

They will stop at nothing… The International Association of Firefighters is using tasteless images from the Oklahoma City Bombing to fight a state bill which changes how public safety labor unions and cities handle contract disputes. Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, March 24, 2011, 12:02 PM They will stop at nothing… The International Association of Firefighters is using tasteless images from the Oklahoma City Bombing to fight a state bill which changes how public safety labor unions and cities handle contract disputes. NewsOK reported: A state senator today blasted a firefighter union television advertisement as “horrific and tasteless” for...

Islamic Jihad, Hizbullah Praise Attack in Jerusalem by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu The Hizbullah and Islamic Jihad terrorist groups praised Wednesday’s deadly terror bomb attack in Jerusalem, while Palestinian Authority leaders condemned it and Hamas said it was a "natural response to Israeli crimes."

The daily diet of hateful Islamist propaganda has had its intended effect. A terrorist attack has struck the Jerusalem bus station: At least 25 people were hurt and one woman was killed after an explosive device was detonated in a phone booth near the Convention Center. (Snip) The Israelis are the only Western population forced to live with their eyes turned to heaven, sending their children to school by different buses. (Snip) A new Facebook page calling for a “third intifada” was just created — on Sunday afternoon, the page had nearly 140,000 “Likes.”

The African Union's panel on Libya Sunday called for an "immediate stop" to all attacks after the United States, France and Britain launched military action against Moamer Kadhafi's forces. After a more than four-hour meeting in the Mauritanian capital, the body also asked Libyan authorities to ensure "humanitarian aid to those in need," as well as the "protection of foreigners, including African expatriates living in Libya." It underscored the need for "necessary political reforms to eliminate the causes of the present crisis" but at the same time called for "restraint" from the international community to avoid "serious humanitarian consequences." The...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- As American missiles struck Libya, President Barack Obama doggedly promoted his Latin American agenda Saturday, praising Brazil as a soaring economic force and brimming market for trade. Back home, his message was all but lost in the roar over the Libyan conflict. "The United States doesn't simply recognize Brazil's rise; we support it enthusiastically," Obama said from this capital city as he launched a five-day outreach mission that will also take him to Chile and El Salvador. He began in Brazil as a sign of solidarity between the two largest democracies and economies in the Americas,...

His air force is already bombing the outskirts of the city, but not for much longer. The Security Council’s expected to vote at 6 p.m. ET and the French are telling people that airstrikes against Libyan air defenses — and maybe more — could begin immediately thereafter. At the same time, Qaddafi just delivered another insane stemwinder against the rebels on Libyan radio warning people in Benghazi that the army will be rolling into town tonight and that, if they don’t surrender, they’ll receive “no mercy.� Which means, unless someone blinks in the next few hours, that city will be...

TUNIS, Tunisia – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that a U.N. no-fly zone over Libya would require bombing targets inside the country to reduce the threat posed by Moammar Gadhafi's forces. Her assessment made clear the risk of possible military intervention as world powers consider broader steps to protect civilians and pressure the Libyan leader. "A no-fly zone requires certain actions taken to protect the planes and the pilots, including bombing targets like the Libyan defense systems," Clinton said as she neared the end of a Middle East trip dominated by worries about Libya, where a...

This is weird.

The federal government attempted in 2005 to reach a deal with bomber Terry Nichols to take the death penalty off the table in his Oklahoma murder trial if he admitted to making a warning phone call to the FBI the day before the 1995 bombing, according to new documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents were released to Jesse Trentadue, the Salt Lake City attorney who's been in a 15-year fight with the federal government to prove his brother, Kenneth Trentadue, was mistakenly beaten to death during an FBI interrogation because he closely resembled a man who...

At least 31 people have been killed and 130 wounded by a bomb blast at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. Domodedovo is the city's largest and busiest air facility. Unnamed sources say that a Chechen Islamic terrorist group, the Caucasus Emirate, is believed to be behind the attack. The same group employed women as female suicide bombers in the bombing of the Moscow Metro subway last March. 40 people were killed in that attack...

Two packages have exploded in Maryland state government buildings. A government official tells WTOP one package was at the Jeffrey Building in Annapolis and another was at the Maryland Department of Transportation building in Hanover. The official says no one was hurt in either incident, but the packages both gave off a small explosion or flare-up when they were opened. State agencies have ceased all mail operations until hazardous materials crews can investigate....

"...for us to ignore -by inaction- the slaughter of American citizens and American soldiers ... is simply  not in the American tradition. When our citizens are abused or attacked -anywhere in the world- on the direct orders of a hostile regime, we will respond so long as I am in this Oval Office. Self-defense is not just our right... it's our duty." [YouTube] Video/more at Reaganite Republican More Gipper's Greatest Hits -here-

The jury in the New York City trial of accused Tanzanian terrorist Ahmed Ghailani found him NOT GUILTY on 200+ accounts of murder, terrorism, etc...and only guilty on ONE (1) count of conspiracy!

A radical US-born Yemeni Islamist cleric has called for the killing of Americans in a new video message posted on radical web sites. Anwar al-Awlaki said no permission was needed to kill Americans as they are from the "party of devils". It comes shortly after authorities intercepted air cargo bombs sent from Yemen to the US in a plot linked to Mr Awlaki. Investigators have linked Mr Awlaki to the US army base killings in Fort Hood, Texas, last year's Christmas airline bomb attempt, and the failed Times Square bombing in New York.

DAKAR, Senegal – Bombs claimed by a Nigerian militant group linked to discontent over poverty in the oil-producing region killed at least eight people Friday at an independence day ceremony in the capital, Abuja. (snip) The militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, has been waging a low-level insurgency for much of the last five years against the oil industry that produces most of the country’s wealth. But Friday marked the first time it struck the heart of Nigerian power, aiming a clear blow at Mr. Jonathan, who is running for re-election next year, and signaling...

A new book uncovers shocking secret attacks launched on ships bearing Holocaust survivors en route to Israel. Andrew Roberts on the violent lengths to which post-war Britain went to appease oil-rich Arab states. As Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, the pitiful remnants of History’s greatest crime, tried to make their way across an often hostile Europe at the end of the Second World War, toward at least a semblance of safety in the Holy Land, they had no shortage of problems with which to contend, including disease and malnutrition, Polish anti-Semitism, Soviet indifference, Allied bureaucracy, and Arab nationalism. Now we...

The long road to Syria Ynetnews special: New book reveals full story behind bombing of Syrian reactor by Israel Yedioth Ahronoth Published: 08.26.10, 14:58 / Israel News London, end of July 2007. A guest at a large Lexington hotel left his room in the evening, took the elevator down to the lobby, and stepped into a vehicle waiting for him outside. He was a senior Syrian official who arrived from Damascus a short while earlier and rushed to a meeting downtown. The moment he left the hotel, two men rose from their seats at the corner of the lobby. They...

OTTAWA—Canadian authorities said they found and foiled a terrorist bomb-making plot by three men here—one allegedly with links to the conflict in Afghanistan and another, a pathologist who auditioned for the TV show "Canadian Idol.'' The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested the trio of Canadian citizens after raids on their houses turned up schematics, videos, drawings, books and manuals for making explosives, said Serge Therriault, Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer in charge of criminal investigations. The suspects—identified as Hiva Alizadeh, 30 years old; X-ray technician Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, both of Ottawa; and hospital worker Khurram Syed Sher, 28, of London,...

Slain Patrolmen 'Checked' Uyghurs 2010-08-19 Local resentment may have provoked a targeted attack in Xinjiang. AFP Members of a police auxiliary unit killed in a bomb attack Thursday in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region had harassed ethnic Uyghurs, singling out men with beards and women wearing traditional head coverings, according to police sources. The attack in Aksu city, in which a man riding a three-wheeled vehicle threw explosives at a group of uniformed patrolmen, killed seven people and wounded 14, according to wire service reports. The man was taken into custody, while a woman who accompanied him in the attack was...

Note: Photo included, Wanted poster included, audio file and transcript include, and a link to America's Most Wanted included. (See below.) # Note: The following text (minus the photos) is a quote: Headline Archives The aftermath of the attack on Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin 40 years ago this week. TERROR AT STERLING HALL 40 Years Later, Fugitive Search Continues 08/23/10 Where is Leo Burt? You can earn up to $150,000 by helping us find him. Forty years ago—on August 24, 1970—Burt and three other young men protesting the Vietnam War carried out a pre-dawn bomb attack at...

They will of course not tell themselves this re-assessment is related to politics; they will persuade themselves they are doing what's right for the security of our country. Watch.

A proposal to build a Ku Klux Klan monument steps from the 16th Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama received the support of a downtown committee despite some loved ones of 1963 bombing victims finding it offensive. The 13-story White People’s Cultural Center was unanimously endorsed by the 12-member Community Board financial district committee. The $100 million project, called Fiery Cross, is proposed for the old laundromat building at 606 16th Street N, just one block from the site of the September 15, 1963 bombing by members of the Ku Klux Klan that took the lives of four children. “I...

Two police agencies said Wednesday that racing down Timberline Road on small bikes, known as "Hoodbombing" will no longer be tolerated. Larson watched online videos of prior Hoodbombing events and said he saw the following offenses - improper use of lanes, careless and reckless driving, speed racing, and organizing a speed racing event.

The Islamic terror bombings that took so many lives in Uganda over the weekend has generated some surprise.Sheik Yusuf Isse of the Islamist al-Shababb group provides one possible answer, "Uganda is a major infidel country supporting the so-called government of Somalia...we know Uganda is against Islam and so we are very happy at what happened in Kampala. That is the best news we have ever heard."A knowledgeable friend also tells me that Ugandan troops provide the bulk of the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia. They are fighting al-Shababb. Islamists who would like to take control in Somalia -...

An American who recently lived in Raleigh for a year was the lone American killed when explosions tore through crowds watching the World Cup final Sunday at a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant in Kampala, Uganda, killing at least 64 people. Nathan Henn, 25, who worked with Invisible Children, a San Diego-based aid group that helps child soldiers in Africa, was killed on the rugby field. Henn was a native of Wilmington, Del., but his family moved to Raleigh in 2007, and he lived here for about a year, his sister, Brynne Henn, said this morning in a telephone...