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Suicide Bombings

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/ 26 June 2009

Pakistani violence spreads to Kashmir

Two soldiers were killed on Friday in the first suicide bombing in Pakistani Kashmir while several were hurt in a blast near the Afghan border.

By Abu Arqam Naqash
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/ 19 June 2009

Pakistani cleric’s murder stokes sectarian tension

The son of one of Pakistan’s most prominent anti-Taliban Muslim clerics fears that his father’s murder could spark more sectarian violence.

By Zeeshan Haider
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/ 18 June 2009

Somali security minister killed in suicide bombing

Somalia’s internal security minister was among 10 people killed on Thursday in a suicide bombing at a hotel in Beledweyne, witnesses said.

By Staff Reporter
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Africa
/ 18 June 2009

Suicide bomber targets Somali security minister

A suicide car bomber targeted Somalia’s security minister in his hotel in the central town of Baladwayne on Thursday, witnesses said.

By Abdi Guled
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/ 12 June 2009

Anti-Taliban cleric killed in Pakistan blast

A prominent anti-Taliban Pakistani Muslim cleric was killed on Friday in a suicide bomb attack in the city of Lahore, police said.

By Mubasher Bukhari
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Article
/ 10 June 2009

Car bomb rips through Iraq market, killing dozens

A car bomb ripped through a crowded market in southern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people, wounding 70, officials said.

By Muhanad Mohammed
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/ 30 April 2009

Death toll from twin Iraq car bombs rises to 51

The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in a crowded Baghdad market rose to 51 on Thursday, police said, and the country’s main Sunni political party

By Staff Reporter
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/ 24 April 2009

Dozens dead in double Baghdad bombings

Back-to-back suicide bombings killed 60 people on Friday outside the most important Shi’ite shrine in Baghdad.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 6 April 2009

Black Monday for Iraq as spate of car bombings kill 34

A spate of car bombings in Baghdad killed at least 34 people and wounded nearly 140 on Monday, security officials said, updating an earlier toll.

By Ammar Karim
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/ 18 March 2009

Suicide bomber targets South Korean convoy in Yemen

A suicide bomber on Wednesday struck a convoy carrying South Korean officials sent to Yemen to probe an earlier bombing that killed four tourists.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 24 February 2009

Heavy Mogadishu fighting kills 14

Fierce clashes killed at least 14 people on Tuesday in Mogadishu, marring the newly elected president’s first days in the Somali capital.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 20 February 2009

Suicide bomber kills 30 at Shi’ite funeral in Pakistan

A suicide bomber ran into a crowd of mourners at the funeral of a slain Shi’ite Muslim leader in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 30 people.

By S H Khan
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/ 13 February 2009

Suicide bomber kills 32 on Iraqi pilgrimage route

A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a crowd of Shi’ite pilgrims on Friday, killing 32 people and wounding 84 others south of Baghdad.

By Wisam Mohammed and Sami Al-Jumaili
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/ 15 November 2008

‘It’s OK to use women’ for suicide bombings

Trend towards increased stability in Iraq is
rocked by women attackers in Diyala province. Martin Chulov in Baghdad reports.

By Martin Chulov
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/ 1 November 2008

Family defiant as Indonesia awaits bombers’ execution

The family of two militants awaiting execution for the Bali bombings that killed 202 people says paradise awaits them after the firing squads.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 10 October 2008

Suicide attack on Pakistani tribal council kills 20

A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people in an attack on a tribal council meeting in Pakistan’s north-west Orakzai region on Friday.

By Alamgir Bitani
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/ 9 October 2008

Suicide attack rips apart Islamabad police building

A suicide car bomber rammed an anti-terrorist squad building at Islamabad’s police headquarters on Thursday.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 23 September 2008

BA cancels flights to Pakistan indefinitely

BA said on Tuesday it had cancelled flights to Pakistan indefinitely after a suicide truck bomb blast at a hotel in Islamabad at the weekend.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 10 September 2008

Portrait of a suicide bomber

Abit (21) is sitting in the Kabul headquarters of the National Security Directorate and talking about how he became a suicide bomber.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 21 August 2008

Suicide blasts kill dozens at Pakistan arms factory

Two suicide bombers killed at least 57 people outside Pakistan’s main military arms factory on Thursday.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 3 August 2008

Warning on al-Qaeda’s new female recruits

European intelligence chiefs have launched a major investigation into the threat posed by female Islamic militants within the European Union.

By Jason Burke
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Article
/ 28 July 2008

Dozens killed in Iraq suicide bombings

Three female suicide bombers killed at least 28 people in Baghdad on Monday while in the city of Kirkuk another bomber killed at least 22 people.

By Mahmud Saleh
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Article
/ 13 July 2008

Suicide attack leaves many dead in Afghanistan

At least 24 people were killed on Sunday in a suicide attack at a crowded bazaar in southern Afghanistan, police said, raising an earlier toll.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 7 July 2008

Bomb at Indian embassy kills 41 in Afghanistan

A suicide car bomber rammed two diplomatic vehicles entering the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people and wounding 141.

By Samar Zwak
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Article
/ 22 June 2008

Female suicide bomber kills at least 15 in Iraq

At least 15 people were killed and 35 wounded when a female suicide bomber blew herself up among police officers north of Baghdad on Sunday.

By Dean Yates
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Article
/ 20 June 2008

Suicide blast kills 10 Afghan civilians

A suicide attack on a Nato convoy in southern Afghanistan on Friday killed 10 civilians and wounded some Nato soldiers.

By Staff Reporter
Al-Qaeda: new fronts feared
Article
/ 18 June 2008

Al-Qaeda: new fronts feared

Egyptian expert on radical Islamists, Dia Rashwan, says recent al-Qaeda propaganda footage from Iraq is old and cannot mask the crisis it is facing.

By Ian Black and Richard Norton-Taylor
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/ 6 June 2008

Pakistani police thwart suicide bomb attacks

Pakistani police foiled planned suicide attacks on the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, arresting six suspects and seizing three vehicles packed with explosives, officials said on Friday.

By Staff Reporter
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