Suicide Bombers

Iraqi Teenagers Forced Into Suicide Bombing Training By Saudi Militant: Report

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — The Iraqi military on Monday displayed a group of weeping teenagers who said they had been forced into training for suicide bombings b...

Former Guantanamo Detainee Takes Part In Iraq Suicide Bombing

Washington Post | Josh White | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics


A Kuwaiti man who complained about maltreatment during a three-year stay in the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was involved in a dea...

Suicide bombings, attacks in Afghanistan kill 13, wound 24

AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics


KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A spate of suicide bombings and other attacks on security forces in southern Afghanistan Wednesday left 13 people dead a...

Newsweek: The Martyr Factory: Libyan Town Became Pipeline For Suicide Bombers In Iraq

Newsweek | Kevin Peraino | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics


Even before he vanished, Abd Al-Salam Bin-Ali was an easy young man to miss. Pale, lanky and blind in one eye, the unobtrusive 20-year-old didn't leav...

Suicide Bomber Kills 7 in Iraq

AP | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — The Iraqi military says a suicide bomber has attacked a checkpoint near Mosul, killing seven people and wounding 12. The U.S. militar...

Over 40 Killed in Attacks in Iraq

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five...

Bush "Envious" Of Soldiers Serving "Romantic" Mission In Afghanistan

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


President Bush let his inner adventurer out while discussing the state of the war in Afghanistan with military and civilian personnel. While those in...

Iraq Violence Claims Over 40 Lives

Reuters | Paul Tait | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


At least 42 people were killed in violence across Iraq on Tuesday, including 14 mourners from one family when a roadside bomb hit a bus in a southern ...

Blasts Push Pakistan Toward New Policy

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan's crisis deepened after two suicide bombings killed 24 people and wounded more than 200 in this normally peaceful ci...

Iraq Orders Police to Round Up Beggars

AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Interior Ministry has ordered police to round up beggars, vagabonds and mentally disabled people from the streets of Baghdad...

Female Suicide Bomber Kills 3 in Baghdad

AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a predominantly Shiite area in central Baghdad on Sunday morning, killing at least three pe...

Mental Hospital Administrator Arrested For Supplying Mentally-Retarded Patients To Insurgents For Suicide Attacks

McClatchy | Steve Lannen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A Baghdad mental hospital administrator has been arrested on suspicion of supplying mental patients to insurgents for use in suicide bombings, a U.S. ...

US Agencies: Terrorists' Use Of Female Suicide Bombers Increasing

CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Terrorists increasingly favor using women as suicide bombers to thwart security and draw attention to their causes, a new FBI-Department of Homeland S...

Suicide Bomber Kills Afghan Official

AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing a deputy provincial governor and ...

Suicide Bomber Kills One, Wounds Four In Kabul

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A suicide bomber targeted an Afghan army bus in the centre of Kabul on Thursday, causing numerous casualties, officials said. One civilian was killed...

Motorbike Bomb Kills 9 In Pakistan, Wounds Dozens

AP | ASHRAF KHAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A bomb planted on a motorbike killed at least nine people and wounded 52 others Monday evening in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, officials said. ...

Pakistan: US Forces Cannot Hunt Al Qaida, Taliban Militants On Our Soil

AP | SADAQAT JAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Pakistan reiterated Sunday that it will not let American forces hunt al-Qaida and Taliban militants on its soil, after a news report said Washington w...

NYT Op-Ed: Bhutto Allowed Extremists Who Killed Her To Flourish

New York Times | WILLIAM DALRYMPLE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


WHEN, in May 1991, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India was killed by a suicide bomber, there was an international outpouring of grief. Recent ...

Inappropriate Hottie Rundown: Political Heir Apparents

23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The new leader of Benazir Bhutto's political party (PPP) is none other than her 19-year-old son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. The teen, whose grandfather a...

Musharraf Suggest Bhutto Partly Responsible For Her Own Death

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Musharraf said he also reached out to British investigators for assistance to dispel accusations that Pakistan's military or intelligence services wer...

Bilawal Bhutto: The Bogus Facebook Profile

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Update: A Facebook profile claiming to be one of Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zadari has been labeled a fake. ...

Pakistan Publishes Photo Of Severed Head Of Bhutto's 'Assassin'

London Times | David Byers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The Pakistani Government today published a picture of what it said was the severed head of the suicide bomber who killed Benazir Bhutto and offered a ...

Benazir Bhutto Assassinated: Scotland Yard To Help Investigation

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday that he had requested a team of investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard to assist in the invest...

Violence Delays Pakistan Elections Until February

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Pakistani elections will be delayed until Feb. 18 because of violence following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, authorities said Wednesday, ignor...

US Not Ready To Accept Pakistan's Findings On Bhutto's Death

New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


United States intelligence analysts are not convinced by the evidence offered so far by Pakistani authorities that a militant linked to Al Qaeda was r...