Suicide Bombing

Suicide Bombings Claim At Least 15 Lives In Afghanistan

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and PATRICK QUINN | Posted 04.11.2012

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By RAHIM FAIEZ and PATRICK QUINN, Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 16 people on Tuesday as they step...

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Suicide Car Bomber Kills 33 In Baghdad

AP | By BARBARA SURK | Posted 03.28.2012

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BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber struck a Shiite funeral procession Friday, killing 33 people as suspected al-Qaida militants stepped up apparent effor...

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Suicide Bomber Kills 7 At Baghdad Checkpoint

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 02.24.2012

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BAGHDAD — The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and new elec...

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Afghanistan Suicide Blast Splinters Relations With Pakistan

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 02.08.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber struck a Sunni mosque Friday in northeastern Afghanistan, killing four people, just days after a deadly at...

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Response to Adam Lankford

Robert A. Pape | Posted 11.23.2011

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The overwhelming picture that emerges is that foreign occupation is the main cause of suicide terrorism, accounting for over 95 percent of the thousands of attacks since 1980.

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Woman Arrested Over Suicide Bombing

PA | Posted 11.14.2011

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The wife of a man who carried out a suicide bombing in Sweden last year has been arrested by police. It is understood Mona Thwany, t...

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Suicide Bombers Attack House Of A Top Military Officer In Pakistan

AP | ABDUL SATTAR | Posted 11.06.2011

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By ABDUL SATTAR, Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan — A pair of suicide bombers killed 22 people while targeting a top army officer in southwest P...

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At Least 18 Killed In Algeria Bomb Explosion, Suicide Attack

AP | AOMAR OUALI | Posted 10.26.2011

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ALGIERS, Algeria — A bomb explosion followed by a suicide attack outside a military academy in Algeria killed at least 18 officers in training F...

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Mayor Of Kandahar Assassinated By Suicide Bomber, Say Afghan Officials

AP | Associated Press | Posted 09.25.2011

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — An assassin struck at the heart of President Hamid Karzai's political machine in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing...

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Is The Taliban Using Girls In Suicide Bombings?

Christian Science Monitor | Ben Arnoldy | Posted 08.28.2011

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A 9-year-old girl who was drugged, abducted, and strapped into a suicide vest by militants last week in Pakistan returned home safely to her family la...

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Suicide Bombers Kill 30 At Pakistani Shrine

AP | By KHALID TANVEER | Posted 06.03.2011

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MULTAN, Pakistan -- A pair of suicide bombers struck a shrine in Pakistan Sunday, killing 30 people gathered there and pressing a campaign of attacks ...

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Benazir Bhutto Assassination Third Anniversary: Pakistan's Former Prime Minister's Life In Photos

Posted 05.25.2011

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Monday marked the third anniversary of the slaying of Benazir Bhutto, and judging by the thousands of Pakistanis who gathered to mourn their nation's ...

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Suicide Bombers Kill At Least 39 In Iran

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 05.25.2011

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TEHRAN, Iran — Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a mosque in southeastern Iran on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people, including a n...

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Suicide Attacks Linked To Military Occupation: Report

Laura Rozen | Laura Rozen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political science professor and former Air Force lecturer, will present findings on Capitol Hill Tuesday that arg...

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Pakistani Taliban Threaten Attacks In U.S. And Europe

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pakistan's Taliban threatened on Friday to launch attacks in the United States and Europe "very soon."...

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Ground Zero Mosque Leader's Speech Evades Main Cause of Suicide Bombing

Heather Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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A 2005 lecture delivered in Australia by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leader of the effort to build a mosque near Ground Zero, explains suicide bombing...

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Somalia Bombing: Suicide Attack Near African Union Base Wounds 4

AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least 14 civilians were killed Tuesday during a prolonged battle between government soldiers and Islamic insurgents that...

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UK Yemen Ambassador, Timothy Torlot, Escapes Suicide Attack

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN'A, Yemen — The British ambassador in Yemen narrowly escaped a suicide attack Monday, when a young man in a school uniform detonated his expl...

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Obama's Theological Mission

Carlo Strenger | Posted 05.25.2011

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To change Israelis pessimism about the possibility of peace, Obama will have to bring central figures of the Arab League to Jerusalem to address the Knesset, thus showing that they truly accept Israel's existence. A tall order, but nothing less will do.

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Journalists in Afghanistan: Another Order to Stop Reporting

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Afghan intelligence has ordered foreign and national media to immediately cease and desist from reporting live from terrorist attack scenes across Afghanistan.

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Suicide Bombers Strike In Heart Of Kabul

AP | AMIR SHAH and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011

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KABUL — Insurgents struck Friday at hotels in the heart of Kabul with suicide attackers and a car bomb, killing at least 16 people – half ...

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The F Word: Looking Closer at Joseph Stack

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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By all means hold those who praise Stack to account, and call out media hypocrisy and double standards. But before you dismiss him as simply a crazy, read his manifesto.

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Suicide Bomber Attacks US Base In Afghanistan, 5 American Wounded

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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KABUL — A suicide bomber wearing an Afghan border policeman's uniform blew himself up Thursday at a U.S. base near the Pakistani frontier, wound...

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Abdurrahman Wahid: The Blind Man With 20/20 Vision

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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A devout and scholarly Muslim, President Wahid showed the courage to lift restrictions on Chinese culture, promote Christian-Muslim dialogue, and even advocate normalizing relations with Israel.

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Pakistan Suicide Bomb Kills 12: Mayor Targeted In Attack On Peshwar Suburb

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a market in northwest Pakistan crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, ...

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