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A 12-year old schoolgirl was gang-raped by five gunmen in Sarpul province in Northern Afghanistan. The girl and her family asked Hamid Karzai to prosecute the rapists and take their case seriously. They threatened that if they are not provided justice, the whole family will commit mass suicide to get rid of such life. They say, the local authorities keep silence on such cases and did not act to arrest those responsible. While crying, the rape victim told journalists that she was raped in a village called Baghabi in Sarpul province. She says five gunmen poured into their house in...

If you’re a liberal goob or a PETA-loving tree-hugger, you might want to take a sedative before reading this… however, if you love your freedom to be a moron and want to protect it, you better go ahead and read anyway... If you’re a conservative, a Christian or both and don’t mind giving up your religion and your values, then just walk on and don’t look back… But neither group better say you were not warned. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Mama Jed) has once again predicted the demise of Israel. Monday, June 02, 2008 he promised that Muslims would uproot...

KABUL: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-filled car into the gates of the Indian embassy in Kabul, leaving at least 40 people dead, officials and a witness said. ( Watch video ) "The number of deaths at this time is 28, while 141 people were wounded, half of them hospitalised," health ministry spokesman Abdullah Fahim said, adding that the figure was based on information from several hospitals. The blast destroyed about four cars outside the embassy in the heart of the city, and flesh and broken limbs were scattered at the scene, an Afghan witness said. The bomber hit the...

The insurgent group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia claimed responsibility on Saturday for a suicide bombing in Anbar Province that killed 20 Iraqis and three American marines on Thursday. In a communiqué posted on jihadi Web sites and translated by the SITE Institute monitoring group, the insurgents declared “open war” on members of Sunni Awakening groups in Anbar that have been recruited by the United States to fight Islamic extremists. The statement condemned Awakening members for fighting insurgents and for standing by the “filthy crusaders,” meaning the United States and the Shiite-led Iraqi government. Local police officers and tribal leaders said...

The Hunt for American al Qaeda The United States is turning up the heat in the hunt for the California boy turned al Qaeda operative, Adam Gadahn, who has been charged with treason and is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan. If caught and convicted, Gadahn could face the death penalty. The State Department along with the Department of Diplomatic Security announced the beginning of a publicity campaign in Afghanistan urging locals to provide any information on Gadahn's whereabouts, with a reward if the information leads to his capture. Radio advertisements with information concerning the $1 million reward have...

BEIRUT — Lebanese troops shot and killed a suicide bomber near Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp Saturday, a senior military official said. The official said the Palestinian man wearing an explosive belt approached an army checkpoint just outside the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the southern city of Sidon. Soldiers manning the army checkpoint saw the young man climb out of a car and throw a hand grenade which failed to explode, the official said. The soldiers warned the man not to move, but he ignored the orders and moved quickly toward them with his hands on...

KANDAHAR CITY -- A teenage boy was killed and four Canadian soldiers were wounded in a suicide bomb attack against a military convoy Sunday morning in Kandahar City. The injured soldiers were evacuated by ground transport to nearby Camp Nathan Smith and then flown by helicopter to the multinational medical facility at Kandahar Airfield. Canadian Forces spokesman Lt. Al Blondin said later that all four are reported in good condition. Witnesses to the incident, which occurred at about 11:30 a.m. local time, said an Afghan boy was killed and two other local children injured in the blast, which occurred in...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead an apparent would-be Palestinian suicide bomber at a checkpoint near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Monday, the Israeli army said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said troops ordered a man acting suspiciously at the Hawara checkpoint to stop but shot him when he lowered his hands in an apparent attempt to blow himself up. The spokeswoman said army sappers later detonated five pipe bombs which were placed inside the belt in a controlled explosion at the scene of the shooting. An Israeli soldier involved in the incident told reporters that it...

<p>"What does this prove? Nothing really, but I'm sure partisans in the debate over Guantanamo and the treatment and detention of alleged [sic] enemy combatants will see this as evidence that confirms their respective points of view. On the one hand, Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi may have been a dangerous enemy combatant all along, and should never have been released. On the other hand, he may have been wrongfully detained in the first place, only to become radicalized by his (mis)treatment by the U.S. military. In other words, we either had a terrorist and let him go, or we created one. If Adler is right, though, he has focused on a trivial difference between the two sides of the debate while ignoring both an important point of agreement and the truly crucial area of contention.</p>

U.S. Wary Of Small Boat Terrorism As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist America's 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances that a small boat could deliver a nuclear or radiological bomb somewhere along the 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline and inland waterways. According to an April 23 intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press, "The use of a small boat as a weapon is likely to remain al Qaeda's weapon of choice in the maritime environment, given its ease in arming and deploying, low cost, and record of success." While the United States...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A suicide bomber attacked the opening ceremony of a marathon outside Sri Lanka's capital Sunday, killing a government minister and 11 other people, authorities said. Dozens were wounded. Officials blamed the bombing, the second this year resulting in the death of a senior government official, on Tamil Tiger rebels. Minister of Highways and Road Development Jeyaraj Fernandopulle was opening the race at Weliweriya town, 12 miles outside Colombo. He died in a hospital of injuries sustained in the blast, said government spokesman Lakshman Hulugalla, blaming Tamil rebels. Eleven others were killed—including former Olympic marathoner K.A....

Afghanistan to Ask NATO for Bigger Army Afghan officials will go to the NATO summit in Romania Thursday with a request: pay to increase our national Army by 40 percent. A bigger Army, Afghan officials argue, will allow the US and other coalition members to scale back in the coming years. This appeal comes amid pleas from the US and Canada for other NATO members to commit more to the Afghanistan mission, which many analysts say has floundered over the past year for lack of resources and a coherent strategy. France is expected to contribute another 1,000 forces and...

In this video you will see Mohammed Ramazan, who came within a few moments of blowing himself up during an attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul earlier this year, allegedly gunning down at least two people before he was captured. Ramazan’s views and his lack of remorse for his actions are clearly those of a deeply disturbed young man with only a tenuous grip on reality. But he is also a creation – or a perversion – of Afghanistan’s mullahs and Taliban commanders, who took an uneducated Pakistani with almost no knowledge of the Koran and told him to...

A clerical worker was named yesterday as Germany's first suicide bomber and blamed for the deaths of two American soldiers in Afghanistan. Cueneyt Ciftci, 28, who was born in Bavaria to a family of Turkish immigrants, is believed to have driven a pick-up truck laden with explosives into a US guard post on March 3. An Uzbek terror group, the Islamic Jihadist Union (IJU), claimed responsibility. In the chaotic aftermath of the explosion, insurgents raked the Americans with gunfire and killed 60 men, the group claimed, adding that: “He was a brave Turk who came from Germany and exchanged his...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber killed five U.S. soldiers as they chatted with shop owners while on a foot patrol in central Baghdad on Monday, the deadliest attack on American forces in the heavily fortified capital in more than eight months. The bombing, just four days after nearly simultaneous blasts killed scores of people in a vibrant Shiite commercial district, again showed the insurgents' ability to strike inside a capital secured by hundreds of security checkpoints, U.S.-funded neighborhood watch groups and hundreds of miles of blast walls that surround buildings and cordon off districts. .... At any rate, the...

Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In' U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq. They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007. "Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More Militants Assert...

There's a famously funny scene in the 1976 movie The Pink Panther Strikes Again in which Peter Sellers' bumbling Inspector Clouseau eyes a dog sitting near a hotel clerk. Clouseau: Does your dog bite? Hotel Clerk: No. Clouseau: (bowing to pet the dog) Nice doggie. (Dog barks and bites Clouseau in the hand) Clouseau: I thought you said your dog did not bite! Hotel Clerk: That is not my dog. A RECENT article by Ohio blogger Patrick Poole reminded us of how Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation director Mahdi Bray similarly told a lie while telling the truth. In...

BAGHDAD – The alert action of Iraqi Army Soldiers prevented a suicide bomber from reaching her intended target in the Rusafa District at approximately 10 a.m. Feb. 17. As a result of their quick reaction the only death resulting from the aborted attack was that of the female suicide bomber. Two Iraqi citizens were injured in the blast. The attempted attack took place when a woman, who appeared to be a beggar, was noticed having a bulky protrusion around her mid-section, said Iraqi Col. Fahdel, 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division. Alert Iraqi Army soldiers quickly realized her...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bombing at an outdoor dog fighting competition killed 80 people and wounded scores more Sunday, a governor said, in what appeared to be the deadliest terror attack in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Officials said the attack apparently targeted a prominent militia commander who had stood up against the Taliban. He died in the attack. Several hundred people — including Afghan militia leaders — had gathered to watch the event on the western edge of the southern city of Kandahar. Witnesses reported gunfire from bodyguards after the blast; it was not...

FURY erupted last night after it emerged that a boy of 12 who trained to be a suicide bomber is being allowed to attend school in Britain. Parents of his classmates are unaware of the Afghan child’s terrifying past. MP Philip Davies said the youngster should be removed from school immediately so a proper investigation can take place into any potential danger he poses. The Tory MP for Shipley, West Yorks, said: “This boy has had a tragic upbringing through no fault of his own. But there should be a detailed and thorough look at his past and the threat...

Suicide attack in Pakistan's northwest kills 25 By Bill RoggioFebruary 9, 2008 1:17 PM Red agencies/ districts controlled by the Taliban; purple is defacto control; yellow is under threat A suicide bomber has struck again in the settled district of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. The latest attack occurred in the settled district of Charsadda at an election rally held by the Awami National Party, a Pahstun political party. Twenty-five Pakistani civilians have been reported killed and more than 35 have been wounded in the attack. The suicide attack comes just days after the military halted operations in South Waziristan and...

   Heads In The Sand February 7, 2008 Can you imagine the national media firestorm if a story ever broke about President George W Bush having had a teenage affair with a learning disabled girl from Andover Massachusetts? Let’s see, maybe “the affable Eva Braun of the evening news” would lead with...”Today it was disclosed that a predatory teenage future President was sexually involved with a learning challenged girl while he was a student at the exclusive Phillips Academy in Andover Massachusetts.  Stay tuned for our breaking story on whispers of possible rape charges echoing in the hallways of the Bush...

TWO DEAD IN SUSPECTED SUICIDE BOMBING IN SOUTHERN ISRAELI TOWN OF DIMONA - ZAKA EMERGENCY SERVICE

JENIN — Rafat Moussa Turkouman has a face you don’t want to forget. He looks like your average 20-year-old, but this young Palestinian from Jenin (search) was a member of the Islamic Jihad with dreams of becoming a homicide bomber and plans to blow up a bus in Tel Aviv. Turkouman plotted to disguise himself as an Israeli teenager, slip into a crowd and do what so many Palestinian homicide bombers — more than 129 to date — have done in the past four-and-a-half years. When asked in an exclusive FOX News interview whether the stories about him were true,...

Suicide bomber falls down stairs ... From correspondents in Khost, Afghanistan January 24, 2008 12:39pm Article from: Agence France-Presse A WOULD-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say. It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting it on in the southern town of Lashkar Gah. Yesterday's blast was in a busy market area of the eastern town of Khost, a deputy provincial police chief...

The Pakistani police revealed that the attempt of suicide bombing against former PM Benazir Bhutto was committed by a father who had attached his bomb to his 1 year baby. The father tried several times to approach Miss Bhutto but failed. Miss Bhutto remembered very well the man, and said she wanted to kiss and say "hello" to the baby but her security service refused. The suicide bombing by this 1 year baby killed 170 people and wounded hundreds of others.

via translation - PESHAWAR (Pakistan) - A woman suicide bomber dressed in a burqa, the veil full traditional Afghan women, detonated the bomb she was wearing next to a military checkpoint in Peshawar, in northwestern Pakistan, make killed or wounded, said the police. It is the first suicide bombing ever perpetrated by a woman in Pakistan, assured AFP Mohammad Sharif, the chief of police in the province. A school run by Christian missionaries, as well as sensitive military installations, including offices of the intelligence services, are located near the explosion, said Kadir Khan, a police officer on the spot, to...

This is an amazing video of a LTTE suicide bomber blowing herself up in an attempt to kill a local government employee at the Human Services Ministry in Sri Lanka. LTTE is listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Dept. Amazing thing is that Senator Leakey Leahy has criticized the Sri Lankan government for trying to combat these homicidal terrorists. Video

The homicide terror bomb used in an assassination attempt on former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto last month may have been strapped to a 1-year-old child who was being carried by his jihadist father, The Australian newspaper reported Thursday. The bomb, which killed 170 people and injured hundreds more, detonated during a crowded procession for Bhutto as she returned from exile.

Suicide bomber fails to set off the bombs in his car. (You may not understand the text but the pictures tell it all)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A mother who tried to stop her son from carrying out a suicide bomb attack triggered an explosion in the family's home in southern Afghanistan that killed the would-be bomber, his mother and three siblings, police said Monday. The would-be bomber had been studying at a madrassa, or religious school, in Pakistan, and when he returned to his home in Uruzgan province over the weekend announced that he planned to carry out a suicide attack, Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary said. Surviving family members told police that the suicide vest exploded during a struggle between the...

Police and Shin Bet officers foiled a suicide attack which was meant to take place in Tel Aviv Saturday after discovering an explosive belt hidden in a residential building in the city's southern area.

Mosul, Iraq – An Iraqi Army patrol’s vigilance thwarted a suicide bomber in Mosul Saturday, causing him to prematurely detonate his suicide vest. The Soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 2nd Iraqi Army Division noticed the individual suspiciously approaching their position. They began shouting at the suspect and fired warning shots. The suicide bomber immediately detonated his vest. There were no injuries to civilians or ISF. In a different operation, acting on a tip from a local Iraqi citizen, Iraqi Army Soldiers and Coalition Forces raided the residence of a suspected improvised explosive device facilitator in the northern Iraq city of Aitha,...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Ahmad al Shayea is the rarest of truck bombers -- he survived his suicide mission in Iraq even though the blast from his bomb was strong enough to kill 12 bystanders. Al Shayea, who was disfigured during the attack, claims al Qaeda tricked him into becoming a bomber by asking him to deliver a tanker truck, which they had rigged with a bomb. "They told me to take it to an address in Baghdad. As soon as I got there the truck exploded," said the native of Saudi Arabia. He survived by jumping out of the...

A suicide attacker blew himself up on Friday outside the house of a district governor in southern Afghanistan, killing the official and three of his children, police said. The attacker blew himself up as Zahri district governor Khairuddin left his compound in the southern city of Kandahar to distribute food to the poor, a police officer told AFP. Two of his sons and one of his daughters, all aged under 10, were also killed, said police officer Abdul Ghafar. "All four were martyred immediately," he said, adding another son and daughter were wounded. Khairuddin had a home in Kandhar city...

RABAT (Reuters) - A suspected radical Islamist tried to blow up himself near a bus carrying tourists in the Moroccan city of Meknes on Monday but he detonated the gas cylinder he was carrying before reaching it, police sources said. "The gas cylinder exploded some metres (yards) from the bus and badly injured the attacker," said one police source. Another source said authorities suspected the bomber was a member of the radical Islamist Jihadia group. Police sources said the failed suicide attack came after anti-terrorism police stepped up a crackdown on radical Islamists in the past six months, arresting scores...

"Ambassadors” to England from the “Religion of Peace are spreading goodwill once again. “Disenfranchised” Muslim youth that have enjoyed freedom and prosperity unheard of in their native lands have yet again bitten the hand that has fed them. Picture from www.wnd.com These “British” men were using the internet to incite other adherents to the “Religion of Peace” to attack defenseless targets in the U.K. and the U.S. The weapon of choice: doctors and suicide bombs. With naive western journalists referring to these cowards as “jihadists” they inadvertently encourage more of the same. Some western journalists even laud the courage of...

'I Hoped To Be A Glorious Martyr' A woman who was inside Islamabad's Red Mosque when it was stormed by Pakistani troops on 10 July has given the BBC one of the first accounts of the final hours of the siege. Unwilling to be named, the survivor said she was not held hostage by militants inside. More than 100 people died in the army operation - she was one of only 30 women to walk out alive after soldiers went in. Following are excerpts from the interview with Rafia Riaz of the BBC's Urdu service. ..."They asked me to come...

Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is involved, the attackers are always Muslim. Why? The surprising answer is that Muslim suicide bombing has nothing to do with Islam or the Quran (except for two lines). It has a lot to do with sex, or, in this case, the absence of sex.

Excerpt - TUZ KHURMATU (AFP) - A suicide truck bomber ripped the heart out of a northern Iraqi village on Saturday, killing at least 105 people and demolishing dozens of homes and shops, police and medics said. Ambulances and private cars ferried dozens of bloodied corpses and wounded civilians to clinics in the nearby town of Tuz Khurmatu and the provincial capital Kirkuk, where desperate relatives waited for news of the missing. Officials were stunned by the scale of the blast, which devastated the main market in Emerli, a small rural community of people from Iraq's Shiite Turkmen minority living...

  Juma Gul tucks eats at the US-Afghan military command centre A six-year-old Afghan boy has claimed that Taliban militants tried to trick him into becoming a suicide bomber by dressing him in a vest they said would spray out flowers if he pressed a button.Juma Gul, from the southern province of Ghazni, said Taliban fighters forced him to wear the vest and told him that when he saw American soldiers "throw your body at them"."When they first put the vest on my body I didn't know what to think, but then I felt the bomb," Juma Gul said....

Children as young as six are being used by the Taliban in increasingly desperate suicide missions, coalition forces in Afghanistan claimed yesterday. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), to which Britain contributes 5,000 troops in southern Afghanistan, revealed that soldiers defused an explosive vest which had been placed on a six-year-old who had been told to attack Afghan army forces in the east of the country. The boy was spotted after appearing confused at a checkpoint. The vest was defused and no one was hurt.

Excerpt - KABUL, June 17 (Reuters) - A bomb blew up a police bus in the middle of the Afghan capital on Sunday and a senior police official said more than 35 people were killed. Police described the attack as a suicide strike but an Interior Ministry official said this was still uncertain. The bus wreckage was drenched in blood and several other vehicles were destroyed. The bomb exploded during peak-hour traffic. ~ snip ~

Turkish police in the southern city of Adana have arrested a suspected female suicide bomber who was carrying nearly 12 kilogrammes of explosives, two handgrenades and 12 detonators. The arrest, which followed an anonymous tip, came one day after six people were killed and more than 100 injured in a suicide bomb attack in the capital Ankara. The suicide bomber allegedly had ties with the banned Kurdish separatists movement PKK.

Some US Muslims justify suicide attacks By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer 26 minutes ago WASHINGTON - One in four younger U.S. Muslims say suicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances, though most Muslim Americans overwhelmingly reject the tactic and are critical of Islamic extremism and al-Qaida, a poll says. ADVERTISEMENT The survey by the Pew Research Center, one of the most exhaustive ever of the country's Muslims, revealed a community that in many ways blends comfortably into society. Its largely mainstream members express nearly as much happiness with their lives and communities as...

WASHINGTON: One in four younger U.S. Muslims say suicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances, though most Muslim Americans overwhelmingly reject the tactic and are critical of Islamic extremism and al-Qaida, a poll says. The survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, one of the most exhaustive ever of the country's Muslims, revealed a community that in many ways blends comfortably into society. Its largely mainstream members express nearly as much happiness with their lives and communities as the general public does, show a broad willingness to adopt American...

US court fines brother of Palestinian who wrote vow to be suicide bomber in Israel Published: 05.02.07, 02:05 / Israel News http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3394567,00.html A Palestinian immigrant avoided prison time Tuesday for failing to tell the FBI about his brother's written vow to become a suicide bomber in Israel. Mohammad Subeh, a 43-year-old grocery store owner who pleaded guilty to a felony count of concealing a material fact from the FBI, was placed on probation for a year and fined $250. After being arrested en route to Israel, in Jordan, Subeh's brother never did in fact go through with the attack. (AP)...

<p>NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma has put outside the student union a patio stone engraved with the name of the student suicide bomber.</p> <p>"I was just kind of horrified,” said OU football fan Jenny Clemons, who spotted the stone after OU's Red-White game April 7. "I don't think he has any business being out here.”</p>

Click here to see video clipJerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Hamas television broadcast a video dramatization on Wednesday in which the four-year-old daughter of female suicide bomber vows to do what her mother has done. The child is an actress, but the point was clear. According to Palestinian Media Watch, the child actress, playing the part of a real child named Duha, finds her mother preparing explosives in her bedroom and sings, "Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me?" The mother tries to hide the bomb. Later, Duha sees a television news story about her mother's suicide bomb...

BAGHDAD, March 23 (Reuters) - Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam al-Zobaie survived when a suicide bomber blew himself up at Friday prayers which Zobaie was attending in Baghdad, his spokesman said, adding that around five people were wounded. "Nothing happened to Zobaie, he is alive," the spokesman told Reuters. Zobaie is one of two deputy prime ministers and member of the main Sunni Arab grouping.