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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...