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Afghan Suicide Bomber Kills Civilian Family Of At Least 6 Near Bagram

Quqnoos | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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At least six civilians were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a civilian vehicle in Bagram on Tuesday, officials said. The civilians, including t...

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Israel War Preparation Drill Biggest Ever

Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lebanon, Suicide Bombers, Foreign Affairs, Suicide Bomber, Suicide, Iran Missle Tests, Hezbollah, Iran, Hamas, Turning Point 3, Iran Missiles, Iran Missile Site, Israel, Iran Israel, Syria, Advocacy, World News

In what is being touted as Israel's most mass-scale war preparation drill ever, 'Turning Point 3' will over the course of five days involve both milit...

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Battleground Lahore: Taliban in the City

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

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Shirin Sadeghi

The insurgents that the Pakistani and U.S. forces are battling are various fronts of poor, largely uneducated men doing what their ancestors have done for centuries: defending the Pashtun way.

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Afghani Officials: Suicide Bomb Kills 7, Wounds 21 At US Base

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

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KABUL — A suicide car bomber killed seven people and wounded 21 others Wednesday outside a U.S. military base in the same part of eastern Afghan...

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My Own Green Zone

Huffington Post Citizen Journalist | Peter Holley | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

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By Peter Holley, Huffington Post Contributor The two men on the television screen trotted across a grassy roundabout as they unleashed staccato bur...

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HRC-- Hillary Rodham Cheney -- in Iraq?

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.26.2009 | World

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Jacob Heilbrunn

No matter what gloss the Obama administration puts on it, it's between Iraq and a hard place. And emulating Cheney isn't going to help matters.

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Iraqi Child Suicide Bombers In Training Arrested: Iraqi Forces

UPI | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

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Iraqi forces arrested four children, all under 14, who are allegedly linked to al-Qaida and training to become suicide bombers, an Iraqi general said....

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Afghan Minister Escapes Twin Suicide Bomber Attacks

A Pakistan News | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

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A suicide bomber was killed Friday by police before he could reach an Afghan minister's home in western Afghanistan, but a second bomber detonated his...

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As U.S. Prepares To Exit Iraq, Insurgents Prepare More Attacks

Nytimes.com | By ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD -- As the American military prepares to withdraw from Iraqi cities, Iraqi and American security officials say that jihadi and Baath militants ...

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Terrorists Use The Internet To Actively Recruit Women

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

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Elisabeth Braw

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Afghan Suicide Bomber Kills 21 Police Officers

Quqnoos | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

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A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a police training compound in southern Uruzgan province killing 21 police officers and wounding eight others, ...

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Obama's Inauguration and the Israel-American Paradox

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

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Ilana Teitelbaum

It doesn't make a difference if the U.S. president is "good for Israel". What would be "good for Israel," would be an entirely new government in Israel.

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Israel's Suicide Mission?

Melissa Rossi | Posted 02.11.2009 | World

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Melissa Rossi

As Israel's punishing bombardment of the prison that is Gaza - the Palestinian territory of 1.4 million which it has had walled off and strangled fo...

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Iranian Suicide Bombers Seek To Attack Israel

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 01.31.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Hard-line Iranian student groups have asked the government to authorize volunteers to go carry out suicide bombings in Israel in ...

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Hamas Calls For Martyrdom After 280 Palestinians Die (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 01.28.2009 | World

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Israel has continued airstrikes on Gaza for the second day. The death toll has risen to 280, reports Al Jazeera. It also reports that Hamas has made a...

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Life in a War Zone: Text Messages, Shopping, and Bad TV

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.11.2009 | World

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Virginia M. Moncrieff

Long ago, I learned that you are still the same person when you enter a war zone. You need to do your washing, satisfy your urge to shop for luxuries, meet friends and watch bad TV.

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An Interrogator Speaks: I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw In Iraq

Washingtonpost.com | Matthew Alexander | Posted 12.31.2008 | World

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I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfull...

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Afghan Police: Blast Near US Embassy Kills 4

AP | AMIR SHAH and JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 12.28.2008 | World

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide car bomber targeting a convoy of foreign troops exploded about 200 yards (meters) outside the U.S. Embassy in Kab...

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18 Potential Female Suicide Bombers Surrender In Iraq

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 12.27.2008 | World

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BAGHDAD — Eighteen young women purportedly belonging to a suicide bombing network in northern Iraq surrendered to U.S. forces on Wednesday, a to...

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British Soldier Rugby-Tackles Afghan Suicide Bomber, Saves Comrades

Daily Telegraph | Ben Farmer in Kabul | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

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The 40-year-old from Devon, who asked not to be named, wrestled the bomber to the ground after spotting him reach for a detonator switch on the motorc...

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UN: Afghan Children Being Recruited As Suicide Bombers

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 12.25.2008 | Home

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UNITED NATIONS — Afghanistan's security forces and insurgent groups are both recruiting children to serve as fighters and the Taliban also is us...

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Bombs kill at least 20 in Iraq ahead of pact vote

AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — A woman hiding a bomb under her long robe blew herself up Monday among Iraqis waiting to enter the U.S.-protected Green Zone, where la...

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Bombers Without Borders

John Feffer | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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John Feffer

Reposted from Foreign Policy In Focus The United States, so obsessed with policing its own borders, shows precious little concern for those of other ...

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Suicide attackers strike Shiite mosques, kill 24

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — Suicide bombers struck two Shiite mosques in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens during celebrations m...

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Suicide Bomber Kills 28 Police Recruits In Iraq

Reuters | Sherko Raouf | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home

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QARAH TAPPAH, Iraq - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police recruits in northern Iraq on Tuesday killing 28 people, in an attack that s...

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