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Geneva (AFP) - Many of the young girls Boko Haram sends out as suicide bombers in Nigeria and neighbouring countries are probably unaware that they will be blown up, a UN expert said Tuesday. Boko Haram jihadists have in recent months increasingly used young women and girls as suicide bombers in northeast Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Chad and Niger, leaving death and destruction in their wake. Leila Zerrougui, the UN secretary-general's special representative on children and armed conflict, suggested Tuesday that especially the children used in this way were in many cases not aware of what they were about to do....

British authorities have identified suspects in the July 7 and July 21 subway and bus bombings, but the bombers' instigators and motives remain a mystery. In Egypt, authorities are searching for a group of Pakistani men thought to have been in Sharm el-Sheik before a series of bombs devastated the resort, but that's not much to go on. Perhaps the London bombings and attempted bombings were to protest Britain's alliance with the United States and the presence of British troops in Iraq. But the withdrawal of U.S. and British troops will come fairly quickly if the insurgents and foreign terrorists...

The July 7 London bombings did it for me. Perhaps it was because my parents moved us from Cairo to the British capital when I was 7 years old, and so London was my childhood "home." Or maybe it was because our route to work and school every morning crisscrossed those same Underground stations that were targeted. I'm sure it was also those dog-eared statements that our clerics and religious leaders read out telling us that Islam means peace — it actually means submission — and asking us to please forget everything they had ever said before July 6, because...

You're a Marine at a checkpoint somewhere in Iraq, watching cars and trucks streaming by -- Iraqis on their way to work or shopping or the mosque. How do you figure out which vehicle may be another deadly bomb? And what do you do when you spot a "suspicious" car? These unanswerable questions put the life-threatening challenges facing our troops in Iraq into grim perspective. Since the war in Iraq began we at TCS have discussed the insidious nature of car bombs and their effect on human beings. We have emphasized that car bombings are not random terrorist acts, but...

Infiltrating the San Francisco Intifada Festival By Adam Balling and Lee Kaplan FrontPageMagazine.com | October 11, 2004 While attention is focused on the Fourth Annual Conference of the National Palestine Solidarity Movement at Duke University this weekend, an event that will be a training session for college activists nationwide to work to destroy Israel and oppose US forces in Iraq, a similar smaller event took place last Saturday in San Francisco. That anti-Israel event was organized by allies of the Palestine Solidarity Movement in the San Francisco Bay Area who operate under the umbrella name of International A.N.S.W.E.R., a communist...

Zionist-American campaign closes Hamas website Aug 2, 2004 _____ Gaza - A responsible source in the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, today said that the Movement’s official website on the Internet was down due to a concentrated Zionist-American pressure on the hosting company. The source said that the company bowed to the pressures and closed down the site. He pointed out, in a statement a copy of which was made available to PIC, that the step was legally baseless. The source charged that the act was another example of the ruthless use of power, which Zionist and American parties adopt in...

<p>TASHKENT, Uzbekistan  — Two homicide bombings, attacks on police and an explosion at an alleged terrorist bomb-making factory in Uzbekistan killed 19 people and injured 26, the Central Asian country's prosecutor-general said Monday.</p> <p>Prosecutor-General Rashid Kadyrov said the events began Sunday night with an explosion that killed 10 people at a house being used by an extremist in the central province of Bukhara (search) on Sunday night.</p>

The new Imam of the Grand Mosque of Rome, the largest in Europe, called for the "victory of Islamic fighters in Palestine, Chechnya and other areas of the world" in his sermon last Friday. He called for Allah's help in "the destruction of the homes and destruction of the enemies of Islam", for their "annihilation", and "the victory everywhere of the Nation of Islam." In a report by Magdi Allam, the Italian columnist of Egyptian origin who writes regularly about the Arab and Muslim world for the national daily La Repubblica, 32-year-old Imam Abdel-Samie Mahmoud Ibrahim Moussa is quoted as...

ICEJ NEWS SERVICE FROM JERUSALEM ================================= ICEJ SPECIAL REPORT Please view the poem written by Tina Maia and the photos along with this article on our web site at: http://www.icej.org/news/specials/special24.html. ***** ORANGE FLASH AND THEN CARNAGE, TERROR VICTIM RECALLS by Nicole Schiavi TEL AVIV - Tina Maia was saying good-bye to friends at Mike's Place, a pub opposite the Mediterranean Sea, when a bright, orange flash and a deafening bang altered the seaside scene instantaneously. "When the orange light went away," Tina said, "we were faced with carnage." A suicide bomber, about 1 meter away, detonated his explosives-laden belt, spraying...

Sharif: escaped Hanif: blew himself up Police in Israel say they are hunting a British suicide bomber who fled after an attack on a bar in Tel Aviv. The man - named as Omar Sharif, from Derby - escaped after failing to blow himself up, Israeli officials said. His accomplice, who they said was another Briton, Asif Mohammed Hanif, died after detonating explosives, they added. Three more people were killed and more than 50 injured in the attack at a beachside bar called Mike's Place. The Israeli prime minister's office released a statement saying Mr Hanif had been the suicide...

After two weeks in coma, terror victim takes first steps Alex Haimov, 18, clearly remembers the suicide bomber who boarded Egged bus no. 37 in Haifa on March 5. "When he came to the back of the bus, I saw something strange in his eyes," Alex recalls. The bomber moved to the middle of the bus and Alex kept an eye on him. "I thought of jumping him, but then my cellular phone rang." Moments later, the terrorist detonated his explosives, killing 17 and seriously wounding Alex. "His eyes were darting back and forth," Alex said. ""He was carrying a...

A new al-Qaida unit of female suicide bombers threatens a "strike that will knock the Sept. 11 attacks into oblivion," reports the London-based Arabic newspaper A-Sharq Al-Awsat. The paper's website quotes a woman named Umm Usama, who describes herself as the leader of the terror network's female fighters, according to a translation by The Media Line.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The militant Islamic group Hamas denied on Thursday it had deliberately targeted U.S. citizens in a deadly bomb blast at a cafeteria frequented by foreign students at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Four Americans and a French-American student were among seven killed when a bomb planted by Hamas blew up in the university cafeteria during the lunch hour rush on Wednesday. More than 80 people were wounded in the attack. "The fighter of Hamas did not ask the students about their identity cards and he can't do so. He does not know if they are Arab or Israelis. But...