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Iran's Revolutionary Guards today vowed to take revenge after blaming Britain and the US for a suicide bombing that killed six of its commanders and 37 others in one of the country's most unstable provinces. The attack, which killed the deputy commander of the guard's ground forces, General Noor Ali Shooshtari, and Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh, the provincial commander for Sistan-Baluchistan, inflicted Iran's worst military casualties in years and raised questions of intelligence and security failures in a region long blighted by a violent Sunni insurgency.

Iran has warned it will take revenge against the US and Britain, accusing them of being involved in a suicide bombing that killed several Revolutionary Guard commanders. Six senior commanders and dozens of civilians died in the attack. The headquarters of the armed forces blamed the bombing on "terrorists" backed by "the Great Satan America and its ally Britain", the semi-official Fars News Agency reported. "Not in the distant future we (Iran) will take revenge." Earlier, Iranian state television said Sunni rebels carried out the bombing. It said the militant group Jundallah (Soldiers of God) had claimed responsibility for the...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's official news agency is reporting that at least five senior commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guard have been killed in a homicide bombing in southeastern Iran

Mohammed Dahlan, the former Fatah leader in Gaza and a senior PA legislator, told Israeli Radio listeners Sunday that a Jewish presence in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria is equivalent to Arab terrorist suicide bombings. "What is the difference between blowing up a bus in Tel Aviv and taking over Palestinian land?" he asked rhetorically. Dahlan also warned Israel that violent riots in the capital will continue as long as Jews visit the Temple Mount, which was re-opened to Jews on Sunday.

Jakarta bombers may have been guests at Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, police say Michel Maas in Jakarta and Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor Suicide bombers posing as hotel guests are believed to have been responsible for the explosions in two hotels that killed at least eight people in Jakarta yesterday and wounded more than 50, in the first such attack in Indonesia for almost four years. Bleeding victims, some of them foreign businessmen who, moments earlier, had been engaged in breakfast meetings, limped or crawled out of the JW Marriott hotel and the neighbouring Ritz-Carlton in Jakarta’s Mega Kuningan business...

U.S. intelligence officials were caught "off-guard" by the Friday terror attacks against two U.S.-based hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia. A senior U.S. official told ABC News the attacks came as a "surprise." A second U.S. counter-terrorism official said the CIA and other intelligence agencies had given no indication to the White House of "any threat reporting in the last 18 months" involving the Indonesian al Qaeda affiliate, Jemaah Islamiyah. "Any suggestion that the CIA has not taken the JI threat seriously in recent years is wrong," said a CIA spokesman. "No one from the CIA has ever said that this terrorist...

UPDATE 1 10:52 pm cst: CNN now reporting at least two Americans being treated at hospitals; may be more American casualties. Here is video from the scene of two hotel bombings in Jakarta, Indonesia, where bombs have gone off at the Ritz-Carlton and the Marriott Hotels in Indonesia's Capital City. As of 10:44 PM CST, reports say 9 people are dead, and 50 wounded. Those totals are expected to rise. . . . . . (Watch Video)Indonesia is the largest Muslim nation in the world, with the population being more than 90% Islamic. Jemaah Islamiyah is a radical Islamic group...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Bombs have exploded at the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels in the Indonesian capital on Friday, ripping the facade off the Ritz. Police say at least four people are injured. Debris and shattered glass littered the street outside the neighboring hotels in an upscale Jakarta neighborhood. Ambulances were being shuttled into the area. A man jogging by the hotels said he first heard a loud explosion at the Marriott. Five minutes later, a bomb followed at the Ritz. Alex Asmasubrata said he saw four bodies inside the Marriott. One had its stomach blown out. An Associated Press reporter...

BAGHDAD – Back-to-back suicide bombings killed 60 people Friday outside the most important Shiite shrine in Baghdad, a day after the country was rocked by its most deadly violence in more than a year.

Where a person stands makes a differenceMELBOURNE, FLA. —Florida Institute of Technology researchers have determined that where a person is standing in a room or other location during a suicide terrorist attack can have a great bearing on survival and injuries. Florida Tech Fulbright Scholar Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani and Daniel Kirk, assistant professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will present "Virtual Iraq-Simulation of Insurgent Attacks" at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposium on Computational Intelligence. The conference is in Nashville, Tenn., from March 30 to April 2. Usmani will present the paper on April 2 at...

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/196481.php "Al Qaeda's China Affiliate Releases First Magazine" (Bonus: e-mail an al Qaeda terrorist) (Added February 21, 2009) SNIPPET: "The Islamic Party of Turkistan has released its first internet publication through al Qaeda's al Fajr media center. The group is al Qaeda's affiliate which is active in western China, especially Xinxiang, but is also known to hit targets in the Han populated East. The group was active in Afghanistan prior to the US invasion. 12 of the group's members were held in Guantanamo at one time or another."

Israel's preemptive defensive action eliminates 18 'genocide bombers' candidates   Jan 1, 2009   ...Hamas Commander Nizar Nizar Rayyan. Killed: Hamas' Nizar Rayan. The attack killed him, his .... suicide bombers. in 2001 he sent two of his sons to Isreal on a suicide mission. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Gaza-Israeli-Bombing-Continues-After-Hamas-Commander-Nizar-Rayan-Dies-In-Blast/Article/200901115196480?lpos=World_News_Top_Stories_Header_3&lid=ARTICLE_15196480_Gaza%3A_Israeli_Bombing_Continues_After_Hamas_Commander_Nizar_Rayan_Dies_In_Blast This Rayan guy, a typical Islamic Palestinian "loving father" that has sent his son in 2001 to carry out a massacre mission on innocent Israeli civilians, was just eliminated by the IAF on Thursday 1 Jan. 2009.   (Tell me again how "desperate" Arab Muslim kids go on their own voluntarily mission?).   If...

(CNN) -- A suicide bomb attack Wednesday outside the gates of the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa killed 10 security staff and civilians and six attackers, an embassy spokesman told CNN. Mohammed al-Basha said the blast, described by witnesses as a "fireball," was caused by a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest. A Yemeni security official said there was a gun battle between attackers in police uniform and security staff. The second car exploded after it passed an outermost gate to the Embassy but before it reached a second protective barrier, the official said. Another U.S. Embassy spokesman,...

I've never been a fan of The Beatles or of Paul McCartney, who did a lot of drugs and then got caught up in the pet left-wing causes of both his past wives (the PETA veganism of the late Linda Epstein/"Eastman" McCartney and the anti-land mines and anti-everything else of ex-Heather Mills). But now I'll have to re-adjust my view, as McCartney's shown he really is a man of uncommon courage and principle amidst a gaggle of celebrity cowards and left-wing Israel-haters (like George Clooney and Alan Rickman). An Islamic militant leader warned that former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney could...

Drugged girl, 15, a reluctant bomb martyr Published Date: 30 August 2008 By Tim Cocks in Baghdad RANIA is only 15, but in the past week the softly-spoken Iraqi girl has been drugged and strapped with explosives, before being arrested and thrown into a detention centre. Now she finds herself at the heart of a propaganda war waged by the Iraqi security forces against the al-Qaeda militants who tried to use her as a suicide bomber. Police arrested the teenager on Sunday in Iraq's violent Diyala province, where tADVERTISEMENThe Sunni militants are waging a bitter campaign against US and Iraqi...

Tears streaming down her face, she is confronted by police - a teenage girl apparently planning to blow herself up in front of an Iraqi school. The officers handcuffed her to a metal balustrade before moving in with extreme caution to uncover a vest full of explosives hidden under her colourful robe. The dramatic scenes were captured on a video shot by the police.

August 21, 2008 Suicide bombers kill 70 outside main Pakistan military complex Two suicide bombers struck outside Pakistan’s main defence complex today, killing more than 70 people in the latest surge of militant violence facing the country's post-Musharraf ruling coalition. The bombers struck simultaneously at two gates when hundreds of workers were leaving the facility in Wah garrison town, about 20 miles from capital Islamabad. It was one of the biggest terrorist attacks targeting military installations as Pakistan forces stepped up their campaign against Islamic militants in northern border areas. Tehrek-e-Taleban Pakistan, an outlawed militant group claimed responsibility for the...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a U.S. military base near Afghanistan-Pakistan border in a daring attack on a major American installation, officials said Tuesday. Six insurgents detonated their vests after being surrounded. The attack came a day after a suicide bomb outside the same base killed 10 civilians and wounded 13 others. The fighting was still going on early Tuesday, said U.S. coalition spokesman 1st Lt. Nathan Perry. There have been no American deaths, he said. The militants failed to gain entry to Camp Salerno in Khost city after launching waves of attacks just before midnight...

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber killed six people and wounded 10 on Saturday in an attack near a bus pickup point for Shiite pilgrims heading to Karbala, Iraqi security officials said. The bombing near the Shaab neighborhood in northeast Baghdad was the third attack in three days aimed at Shiite worshipers heading to the holy city of Karbala to celebrate the birthday of Muhammad al-Mahdi, a ninth-century imam revered by Iraq’s majority Shiites. American forces put the toll at three dead and eight wounded, and talked of minor damage to nearby buildings. Three hours after the early-morning blast, shopkeepers, residents...

Afghan official suggests Pakistan linked to bomb By AMIR SHAH The Associated Press Tuesday, July 8, 2008; 7:23 AM KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials have evidence that foreigners were behind a massive suicide bombing against India's embassy in Kabul, President Hamid Karzai's spokesman said Tuesday, implying that Pakistan orchestrated the attack. The spokesman, Humayun Hamidzada, did not name Pakistan's intelligence agency but told reporters it was "pretty obvious" who was behind Monday's bombing, which killed 41 people and wounded 150. An Afghan security report released earlier Tuesday found that the bombing could not have succeeded without the support of foreign...

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...

KABUL: A suicide car bomb exploded near the Indian embassy in central Kabul on Monday morning, killing seven people, officials said. Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, the spokesman for the defence ministry, said five people were killed at the site of the suicide car bombing. Sayed Qabir, the chief of a Kabul hospital, said his staff had treated eight people wounded in the blast, but that two had died. The bomb went off near the Indian embassy, which sits across the street from Afghanistan's interior ministry on a tree-lined street in central Kabul. While Afghanistan has seen increasing violence in recent...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An explosion rocked a municipal building Tuesday in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, killing six Iraqis, two U.S. soldiers and two civilian U.S. Embassy employees, officials said. An Iraqi soldier removes razor wire to allow a vehicle to pass in Baghdad's Sadr City earlier this month.

WASHINGTON, March 18, 2008 – The U.S Embassy in Baghdad and Multinational Force Iraq today condemned the attack in Karbala that targeted civilians on their way to worship yesterday. “We join the Iraqi people in expressing our condolences to the families of the victims in this barbaric attack, which bears all the markings of having been carried out by al Qaeda in Iraq,” a joint statement from the U.S. embassy and Multinational Force Iraq said. Coalition forces and Iraqi security forces are working closely to ensure medical and humanitarian aid for the victims and to apprehend those responsible for the...

BAGHDAD - Two bombs went off within minutes of each other in a packed Baghdad shopping district Thursday evening, killing at least 53 people and wounding 130, Interior Ministry and hospital officials said.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide bombing at a funeral for a police officer killed at least 30 people and wounded 62 others Friday in northwestern Pakistan, a police official said. The attack occurred in a government high school in Mingora town while funeral prayers were being held for a police officer killed in a roadside bombing earlier in the day, said Deputy Inspector General of Police Syed Akhtar Ali Shah. Mingora, in Swat Valley, is 105 miles from Peshawar, a town at the border with Afghanistan. Pakistan's army was deployed in Swat earlier this year to quell an uprising led...

80 killed in Afghan attack By ALLAUDDIN KHAN, Associated Press Writer 30 minutes ago 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....

Pakistan Election Office Blast Kills 37 By MUNIR AHMAD – 54 minutes ago ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into an independent parliament candidate's election office in northwest Pakistan Saturday, killing 37 people and wounding more than 90 days before a crucial vote, government officials said. Bodies were seen lying in pools of blood following the blast in Parachinar, a volatile tribal area bordering Afghanistan, one witness said. The candidate targeted, Syed Riaz Hussain, was unharmed. Hussain is backed by the opposition Pakistan People's Party formerly led by the slain Benazir Bhutto. The...

MOSUL, Iraq – Two terrorists detonated suicide vests, killing three Iraqis and one Iraqi Policeman outside a mosque in Tal Afar Feb.15. Sixteen Iraqis were injured during the prayer time explosion. “Our condolences go out to the families of those who lost loved ones in this senseless act,” said Maj. Gary Dangerfield, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment spokesman. Information from the city’s mayor indicates the damage and loss of life would have been much greater if the terrorists were able to enter the mosque and detonate their vests. After being identified as terrorists with suicide vests, the IP engaged them with...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops raided a psychiatric hospital in Baghdad on Sunday and arrested a man suspected of involvement in two recent bombings blamed on mentally impaired women, the U.S. military said. Ten days ago, explosives carried by two women, said by Iraqi and U.S. officials to be mentally handicapped teenagers and unwitting suicide bombers, blew up in two popular pet markets in central Baghdad, killing 99 people and wounding more than 150. The attacks, which the U.S. military blamed on al Qaeda, were the deadliest bombings in the city since last April. "We did conduct an operation at...

January 10, 2008 2:59 AM EST Threat Assessment Regarding US Ships in the Persian Gulf Last weekend’s incident involving Iranian fast boats and US naval ships underscores the volatile nature of the Persian Gulf. During the incident, a US naval convoy was approached by five fast boats operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRG). The Iranian boats came within 200 meters of convoy and issued threats indicating that they were conducting a suicide attack of some sort. The Iranian boats then turned around and fled the area. The incident occurred in the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, through which 20%...

1221dvs-pakistan-attack A suicide attacker detonated a bomb packed with ball bearings and nails amid hundreds of worshippers Friday at the residential compound of a former top security official for President Pervez Musharraf, killing at least 50 people, authorities said. It was the second suicide attack in eight months apparently targeting former Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao, who escaped injury. One of his sons was wounded. Suspicion will likely focus on the pro-Taliban or al-Qaida militants active in the northwestern region of the country where the attack occurred. The attack also deepened the sense of uncertainty in Pakistan as it heads...

Andy Thomson held a lecture on subject of the psychology of suicide bombing in AAI 2007. I Personally found it quite interesting, examining the phenomena of suicide terrorism from analytical and secular point of view. The Lecture is available on three parts from youtube. Part 1Part 2Part 3 Quite long, but IMHO well worth watching.

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. Investigators from Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party said the homicide bomber tried repeatedly to carry the baby to Bhutto's vehicle as it proceeded through the streets of Karachi. "At the point where the bombs exploded, Benazir Bhutto herself saw the...

THE BUTCHER YASSER ARAFAT'S LEGACY Yasser Arafat! The one who continued the tradition of hatred of his uncle the infamous Mufti. The Champion of 'Arab racism & Islamic Jihad' the two real motives behind anti Israel bigotry. The 'founder' of the 'human bombs factories'. The forth-runner in 'Palestinian' self made misery, self destruction [because 'anti Israelism is more important than self advancement'?]. The arch butcher of Jews & Lebanese Christians masquerading as a "freedom fighter". The "father" of most evil "parenthood" in indoctrinating Arab children into the death cult of "palestine". The champion in 'how to make sure Arab...

KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan's education ministry said Friday that a suicide attack this week had killed 59 children and five teachers, taking the death toll to 75 in the deadliest such bombing in the insurgency-hit country. Six lawmakers and five bodyguards were also killed in the blast on Tuesday in the northern province of Baghlan, which has been free of the regular attacks by Taliban and other extremist militants that plague the south and east. "We have got 59 school children, aged from eight to 18, and five teachers killed in that blast," education ministry spokesman Zuhor Afghan told AFP....

The deadliest suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan’s history killed over 30 people and wounded well over 100 in the peaceful northern province of Baghlan. VIP’s, including a Parliamentary Financial Committee, were visiting a sugar factory in New Baghlan, close to the larger Pul-i-Kumri city, when the blast occurred. At this hour, the city is still in the throws of carnage and chaos. The body count has fluctuated widely since the attack occurred early this morning and local officials say it may take days to pick through the burnt bodies and rubble before an accurate number is acquired. Sayed Mustafa...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police seized an explosive belt that was intended to be used in a Tel Aviv suicide bomb attack on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, a police spokesman said on Saturday. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police raided an apartment in Israel's commercial capital early on Saturday and arrested four people, including a suspected would-be suicide bomber and an explosive belt he was planning to use. An army spokeswoman said Palestinian militants arrested during a raid in West Bank city of Nablus earlier this week had been planning the attack. Two militants and an Israeli soldier...

(IsraelNN.com) A teenage Arab was intercepted at a checkpoint Sunday afternoon outside Shechem transporting bombs to be used in a suicide attack in Tel Aviv in the next 24 hours. Border Police manning the Beit Ibba checkpoint west of Shechem (Nablus) Sunday apprehended a PA Arab youth carrying three bombs. The bombs were supposed to be transferred to a terrorist on the other side for use in an attack on the Tel Aviv area. The explosives were detonated by IDF sappers and the terrorist was handed over for interrogation. The IDF is on its highest alert, reporting that Fatah, Hamas,...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2007 – Coalition forces will track down those responsible for the coordinated attacks in northwestern Iraq this week against members of the Yazidis, a small Kurdish-speaking sect, a senior military spokesman in Iraq said today. “Iraqi security and coalition forces will not rest until those who perpetrated this reprehensible act are brought to justice,” Navy Rear Admiral Mark I. Fox, deputy spokesman for Multinational Force Iraq, said in a news conference. On Aug. 14, four suicide truck bombers struck nearly simultaneously in two villages near the Syrian border. More than 200 people were killed, according to reports....

More than 200 people were slaughtered when four suicide truck bombs targeted the ancient Yazidi religious sect in northern Iraq amid growing fears Wednesday that more dead were trapped under the rubble. In one of the bloodiest single incidents of the four-year war in Iraq, bombers detonated four explosive-laden trucks in two villages in the province of Nineveh inhabited by members of Iraq's Yazidi minority late Tuesday. The attacks in the villages of Al-Khataniyah and Al-Adnaniyah killed more than 200 people and wounded another 200, said Dakhil Qassim Hassun, mayor of the Sinjar municipality. Victims were ferried to hospitals across...

10 Chinese survive in suicide bomb blast A Pakistani security official examines wreckage of a vehicle after a bomb explosion in Hub near Karachi yesterday killed at least 29 people and injured 30 others. SUICIDE bombers hit a convoy of Chinese workers in southern Pakistan and a police academy in the north yesterday, killing 36 people and wounding 54. The convoy was passing through the main bazaar in Hub, a town in Baluchistan Province near the port city of Karachi, when a moving car blew up next to a police vehicle, officials said. Hub police chief Ghulam Mohammed Thaib said...

Teach Kids PeaceArab Antisemitism Documentation Project _________ Because they hate Eulogy to Hitler? Documenting "Palestinian" and other Arab Muslim hate preaching AT OFFICIAL MEDIA & EDUCATION Two libels and escalation "O God, destroy the usurper Jews" Jordanian Sermon 20 September 2002 "O God, destroy the tyrant Jews. O God, oppress the Jews" Saudi Sermon 20 September 2002 Death cult & hatred for non Muslims, Usama bin Laden declared: "Death is better than living on this Earth with the unbelievers among us." The Arab legacy of hate... The Arabs who fled "Palestine" during the war were ... In 1973, Egypt...

Homeland Security: We can all breathe easier now. The first major poll of the U.S. Muslim community finds that "only" one in four young Muslim Americans would be suicide bombers. The liberal Pew Research Center, which surveyed 1,050 Muslims earlier this year, did its best to put a PC spin on the results. It says its "overall" findings confirm that Muslims in America are "mostly mainstream" compared with their more radical co-religionists in Europe. But as is usually the case with such polls, the devil is in the details. Data buried deep inside Pew's 100-page report put the lie to...

Young U.S. Muslims Back Suicide Attacks By Jennifer Harper The Washington Times | May 23, 2007 The first nationwide survey of Muslim Americans revealed that more than a quarter of those younger than 30 say suicide bombings to defend Islam are justified, a fact that drowned out the poll's kinder, gentler findings suggesting that the community is mainstream and middle class. "There are trouble spots," noted Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center, which conducted the survey of 1,050 adult Muslim Americans -- two-thirds of whom were foreign-born -- January to April. The results were released yesterday. "We should...

I was not surprised when some security bureaus announced that one of those who executed the recent Sinai Peninsula bombings was an Al-Azhar University student from the Faculty of The Fundamentals of Religion. I am well aware that this university is one of Egypt's important producers of terrorism through its academic curricula, with which it strongly fills students' minds, and so turns them into human monsters that do not hesitate to harm whoever announces his disagreement with them. This is because their curricula have taught them – in all simplicity – that those who differ from them do not have...

Via email: Hello, I saw your post on the documentary Suicide Killers back in December. A new trailer for the film has been posted on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMY58O6nG7Y  Trailer (NEW)   The DVD of the film comes out on 5/1 and I’m helping spread the word about the film. I thought you might be interested in posting these trailers for the film...   Thanks! D.Movie Poster, stills etc -  http://www.specialopsmedia.com/assets/SKassets.zip   Website: www.suicidekillers.com   Out on DVD 5/1/07   Synopsis Directed by Pierre Rehov With 9/11 marking the destruction of the World Trade Center, a new form of warfare was launched:...

Excerpt - Three people were killed when an explosion rocked a bakery in the southern resort city of Eilat early on Monday. A fourth person was injured, but not seriously, authorities said. ~ snip ~

'Palestinian' Sick Death Cult (& the crocodile tears when an Arab child dies...) Hamas admits: VIOLENCE = PALESTINIAN DISEASE Is violence Palestinian "disease"?-Hamas official ... Hamad's article follows a period of intense in-fighting, with some of the worst Palestinian-on-Palestinian violence since the formation of the Palestinian ... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17447366.htm Death-worship of the Palestinian suicide bomber "We are saluting to the spirit of our hero Shahid ... Killing Jews is one "value." Death for deity is itself a value http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/3254.htm On the Muslim Culture of Death, Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated, "We tell them, in as much as...

LONDON - A 22-year-old man suffered internal injuries after lighting a small firecracker he had inserted into his buttocks, paramedics said Thursday. The incident took place Sunday, when Britain celebrated Bonfire Night, traditionally marked with fireworks to celebrate the Guy Fawkes? gunpowder plot to blow up Parliament in the 17th century. The man suffered burns and other unspecified internal injuries in the incident in Sunderland, 275 miles north of London.