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Al-Qaida branch claims Mauritania suicide bombing

Al-Qaida's North African branch claimed responsibility Tuesday for a suicide bombing outside the French Embassy in Mauritania's capital.

Suicide attack kills at least 6 police in Pakistan

A suicide car bombing at a police station in northwestern Pakistan killed at least six officers on Saturday — the latest in a string of such attacks claimed by Taliban militants, security officials said.

Turkey confirms suicide bombing wounds 13

Turkey's interior minister on Wednesday confirmed that 13 policemen were wounded in a suicide bombing this week.

Algerian radio reports 8 killed in suicide bombing

Explosives packed into a vehicle detonated outside a police station in northern Algeria, killing eight civilians and wounding eight others, the national radio said Sunday.

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Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Editor: Why Does the Arab World Keep Silent as Muslim Suicide Bombers Target Innocent Muslim Civilians?
Source: memri.org

In a January 3, 2010 article titled "Truly Saddening," Al-Sharq Al-Awsat chief editor Tariq Al-Homayed complained that the Arab media and public make a fuss over such issues as the minaret ban in Switzerland or the Niqab debate in France, but remain silent in the face of the larg …

BBC News - Profile: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Source: BBC News

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was formed in January 2009 by a merger between two regional offshoots of the international Islamist militant network in neighbouring Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

BBC News - Pakistan suicide bomb kills scores at volleyball match
Source: BBC News

At least 88 people have been killed by a suicide bomb attack at a volleyball court in the troubled north-west of Pakistan, local police say.

BBC News - Taliban claim bombing in Karachi
Source: BBC News

Pakistan's Taliban have said they carried out the suicide bombing which killed 43 people in the commercial capital, Karachi, on Monday. A spokesman threatened to carry out more such attacks in the coming days.

BBC News - Funerals for Pakistan suicide bomb victims
Source: BBC News

Thousands of people in Pakistan have attended funerals in the city of Karachi, a day after a suicide bomb that claimed the lives of 43 people. Firefighters are still extinguishing flames following rioting after the attack on a Shia Muslim march.

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Millions of Pakistanis observe Ashura
Source: dawn.com

ISLAMABAD: Millions of Pakistani Shias commemorated Ashura on Monday, with security forces braced for possible sectarian clashes and militant bombings after a suicide attack killed seven people at a mosque.

DAWN.COM | Metropolitan | Horror in Karachi
Source: dawn.com

A deadly blast in the middle of the Muharram procession on M.A. Jinnah road has caused chaos and mayhem. Unbearable scenes of death and blood are everywhere. Dawn.com attempts to describe what people present at the scene tried to reconstruct.

BBC News - Iraq's changing insurgent threat
Source: BBC News

By Rob Walker BBC News, Iraq Mullah Nazim al-Juburi knows a lot about the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq. He says the group has attempted to kill three of his brothers. Suicide bombers have also made three attempts on his own life.

Ulema pass resolution against suicide attacks
Source: Silobreaker

LAHORE: Ulema approved a unanimous resolution, proscribing (Haraam) suicide bombing and terming it un-Islamic.

Clerics declare terrorism crime against Islam, humanity
Source: The News

A conference of clerics belonging to various schools of thought held at the Sindh Chief Minister's House expressed concern over the prevailing situation across the country and declared terrorism in all its forms the greatest crime against Islam, humanity and Pakistan.

Pakistan Police Prevent Islamabad Attack; 12 Killed in Peshawar
Source: Bloomberg.com

Pakistan police killed a suspected terrorist planning an attack in the capital, Islamabad, as at least 12 people died in a suicide bombing in the northeastern city of Peshawar.

The curse of suicide bombing takes firm root within intra-Muslim rivalries

Suicide bombing has replaced the art of mediation and nonviolent dissent; it has taken firm root within intra-Muslim rivalries where suicide bombing has now graduated to a level where brother eliminates another brother in the name of Islam.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Deadly blast hits Pakistan city
Source: BBC News

Video and pictures included of the Aftermath... At least 49 people have been killed in a bombing in a crowded area of the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say.

Suicide Bombing as Worship
Source: meforum

Many motives are cited for suicide bombings, from religious sanctification to revenge for Western foreign policy to hatred of Israel, but one thing ties them together: the boast that Muslims love death, whereas their enemies love life.

Bombing of UN building in Islamabad
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Terrorist suicide bombing of UN in Islamabad, Pakistan. Videos.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Blasts rock north-west Pakistan
Source: BBC News

The Taliban have taken responsibility of the blast in Peshawar. 16 people killed. An earlier blast in Bannu killed 6 people.

5 killed in Suicide Bombing
Source: The New York Times

A suicide bomber killed 5 people and wounded 16 others in the southern city of Kandahar on Saturday evening, as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan drew to a close. Some Afghan Army soldiers were among the casualties, officials at the city hospital said.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Carnage in Pakistan market attack
Source: BBC News

It was the last Friday of Ramadhan. These Cretins just couldn't let peace be and continued with their sectarian onslaught. I hope the majority of Pakistanis finally realize Wahabi/Salafi/Deobandi or any other Sunni extremists are an internal threat.

Pakistan army kills 45 Taliban; border reopens
Source: Google

Pakistani soldiers killed at least 45 Taliban militants in scattered gunbattles across the northwestern Swat Valley after a suicide bombing on a police station killed 17 cadets, the army said Monday.

Australia arrests 'terror' suspects
Source: AL JAZEERA

....police have arrested four men in Melbourne suspected of planning a "suicide terrorist attack", in one of the biggest counter-terrorism operations in the country

Watch: Suicide Bombing Caught on Video
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Video of suicide bombing...raw video

What will happen when U.S. combat troops withdraw from Iraq?
Source: Slate

So, is all hell about to break loose in Iraq? By June 30, all U.S. combat troops are scheduled—in fact, they're required—to be withdrawn from all of Iraq's cities, towns, and villages.

Bomb Kills at Least 76 in Baghdad Market
Source: The New York Times

A bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, killing at least 76 people and injuring 156 in a market as it was filled with shoppers, hospital officials said Thursday.

Leading Muslim cleric killed in suicide bomb attack in Lahore
Source: The Times

When a diminutive 60-year-old Muslim cleric defiantly formed a religious alliance against the Taleban last month, he became a figurehead for tens of millions of moderate Pakistanis despairing at the state of their country.

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