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Bomber kills 43 at Algerian police academy

A suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into a line of applicants at an Algerian police academy Tuesday, killing at least 43 people in the deadliest terror attack to jolt this energy-rich U.S. ally since the 1990s.

Pakistan Suicide Attack Kills 5

A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed at least two soldiers and three civilians Saturday at a checkpoint near the gate of an army school in northwest Pakistan, the army spokesman said.

U.S. Says Kids Used in Suicide Bombing

Iraqi insurgents appear to have adopted a new tactic since the start of a security crackdown in Baghdad, using children in a suicide attack on Sunday, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday.

Suicide Car Bombing Kills 4 in Kabul

A suicide car bomb exploded Sunday into the convoy of an Afghan politician leading reconciliation efforts with the Taliban militia, injuring him and killing four other people.

Bomber Hits Canadian Convoy in Afghanistan

An Afghan suicide bomber drove a car laden with explosives into a Canadian military convoy in southern Afghanistan on Friday, touching off a blast that wounded five soldiers, officials said.

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Bombings in Iraq, Deadliest Since 2007, Raise Security Issue
Source: The New York Times

BAGHDAD — Two synchronized suicide car bombings struck at the heart of the Iraqi government here on Sunday, severely damaging the Justice Ministry and provincial council complexes, leaving a scene of carnage that raised new questions about the government's ability to secure i …

AF-PAK-IND: US and Them

Fatima Rizvi : Taliban show signs of frustration while failing to stop Pakistan Army from advancing further into the strongholds of South Waziristan.

Political leadership decides Waizirstan operation launch
Source: The News International

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said political leadership has decided launch of Waziristan operation but the timings will be decided by army chief.

Al Qaeda leader's sons sent to S. Arabia
Source: The Dawn

By Mateen Haider Tuesday, 29 Sep, 2009 | 05:00 AM PST | ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has handed over to Saudi Arabia two sons of top Yemeni Al Qaeda leader Alawi who masterminded the suicide attack on Saudi Deputy Interior Minister Prince Mohammad bin Nayef in Jeddah last month.

Tide turns against the Taliban
Source: BBC News

In Pakistan there has been a real change in the past few months - the public has had enough of the Taliban and the army has gone to war. As a result well over one million people have been forced to flee their homes...

Kill my family — please
Source: Scholars and Rogues

Second, knowing that Israelis have new precision weapons that may allow them to attack nonetheless, Hamas hopes that inevitable collateral damage — or, if it is really fortunate, an errant Israeli bomb — will kill large numbers of its own people for which, of course, the  …

Suicide bomber penetrates Afghanistan government ministry, killing 3 - Los Angeles Times
Source: The L.A. Times

A suicide bomber managed to penetrate a heavily guarded Afghanistan government ministry in the heart of the capital today and blow himself up, killing at least three other people and wounding more than a dozen others. The Taliban claimed responsibility.

Suicide bomber kills at least 20 in Pakistan - Los Angeles Times
Source: The L.A. Times

More than 60 others are injured during a holiday celebration. Police said the attack was aimed at lawmaker Rashid Akbar Khan Nawani, who was injured but survived.

Suicide blast at Pakistan MP's house kills seven: police
Source: Agence-France Presse

MULTAN, Pakistan (AFP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a a legislator's house in central Pakistan on Monday, killing seven people and wounding more than 50, while the MP himself survived, police said.

Pakistan: Suicide bomber attacks Pashtun leader's home
Source: Telegraph

The bomber detonated the explosives at the house of Asfandyar Wali Khan, the head of the Awami National Party (ANP), which controls Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province. Four people are said to be killed in the incident.

Suicide attacks kill 1,188 in Pakistan since '07
Source: Associated Press - Google

Suicide attacks have killed nearly 1,200 people in Pakistan since July 2007, most of them civilians, according to military statistics that underscored the ferocity of the threat facing the U.S. ally in the war on extremist groups.

CCTV images of Islamabad Marriott's suicide truck bomber
Source: Dailymotion - videos

what appeared from the CCTV images is that devastation would not have been as large-scale as it turned out had the gas pipeline not caught fire. Salute to the bravery of guards who are trying to extinguish fire.

Suicide Attack at Pakistan Arms Plant Kills 60 People
Source: The New York Times

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — More than 60 people were killed Thursday when two suicide bombers attacked Pakistan's largest weapons manufacturing complex, just north of the capital, the deadliest attack by the Taliban in their escalating campaign against the government.

Danish Embassy Blast Was Suicide Attack
Source: The New York Times

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The car-bomb attack on the Danish Embassy that killed eight people appears to have been carried out by a suicide bomber, Pakistani investigators and diplomats at Western embassies in Islamabad said Tuesday.

Suicide attack kills 5 in NW Pakistan

By Shaheen Buneri PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber riding an auto rickshaw blew himself up at a check post in Bannu Town of North Western Pakistan on Tuesday morning, killing 5 and injuring 7 in one of the biggest terrorist attack after Taliban suspended talks with the government.

Report: Egypt foiled attack on Israel
Source: United Press International

Egypt foiled a suicide attack on Israel by arresting five Palestinians laden with rifles and explosives, Egypt's al-Ahram newspaper reported Wednesday.

Roadside Bomb Kills 5 U.S. Soldiers in Mosul -
Source: FOXNews.com

Five American soldiers were killed Monday by a roadside bomb in the northern city of Mosul, described as one of Al Qaeda in Iraq's last strongholds, just days after a house explosion and suicide attack killed as many as 60 people there.

Six dead in Swat suicide attack
Source: BBC News

Six people including a policeman and two children have died in a suicide attack on a checkpoint in north-west Pakistan, security officials say.

Bus bombed in Iran, 18 dead
Source: politicalyard.com

Eighteen people were killed on Wednesday when a bomb exploded next to a bus in the southeastern city of Zahedan, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Grandmother in first Hamas suicide attack in two years
Source: Breitbart

Another terror attack by the most unlikely of individuals (at least according to Western standards) now gives Israel every reason it needs to launch a comprehensive operation to eliminate Hamas at every level - assuming Olmert actually has the will.

Two Canadian soldiers killed, eight wounded in Afghanistan
Source: CBC

Two Canadian soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded Saturday in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan near the coalition base in Kandahar ...

Suicide attack at Chinese wedding
Source: BBC News

-- A man strapped with explosives has blown himself up at his ex-wife's wedding in China, killing himself and eight other people, reports say.

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