3 November 2008
Dawn
Suicide bomber kills eight soldiers in S. Waziristan
WANA, Nov 2: Eight soldiers were killed in a suicide attack at a checkpoint in Azam Warsak area of South Waziristan on Sunday, military officials said. Two soldiers were injured. The officials said the suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden van into the checkpoint in front of the paramilitary fort in Zalai, some 15 kilometres west of Wana. The army's three vehicles were destroyed in the attack (Source: http://www.dawn.com/2008/11/03/top3.htm)

30 October 2008
New York Times
Suicide Blast Rocks Ministry in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan - A suspected Taliban suicide bomber shot his way into the Ministry of Information and Culture in central Kabul on Thursday, then blew himself up, leaving at least two others dead and severely damaging a kindergarten in the building, officials and witnesses said. The blast, which also wounded at least 21 people, set off a panicky scramble by parents working at the ministry to find their kindergartners, but only two appeared to be among the wounded, said Kabul's police chief, Gen. Muhammad Ayub Salangi, after he toured the scene (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/world/asia/31afghan.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin)

11 October 2008
Dawn
Bomber mows down 50 in attack on jirga
KOHAT, Oct 10: At least 50 Alizai tribesmen of the Orakzai Agency were killed and 100 others injured on Friday when a suicide attacker blew up his explosive-laden vehicle at a jirga being held at a ground at Khadezai area in the upper Kurram Agency. The injured were being brought to the Kohat Divisional Headquarters Hospital from the site of the blast till late night. Officials said that the Taliban of Darra Adam Khel, who had been warning the elders of the tribe not to raise lashkar against them, were behind the suicide attack Source: http://www.dawn.com/2008/10/11/top1.htm

10 October 2008
Dawn
Suicide attacker destroys police HQ in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into headquarters of the Anti-Terrorist Squad of police on Thursday, injuring eight policemen. The explosion partly destroyed a three-storey block of the Anti-Terrorist Squad building and left a four-foot deep crater. The bomber struck a target in a high security zone, though the city has been on high alert in the wake of a suicide truck bomb that killed 55 people and destroyed the Marriott hotel on Sept 20. Very few policemen were in the building at the time because they were on duty guarding the parliament. Source: http://www.dawn.com/2008/10/10/top2.htm

7 October 2008
Dawn
Suicide bomber sows terror in Bhakkar, attacks MNA: At least 22 killed, 62 injured
BHAKKAR, Oct 6: At least 22 people were killed and 62 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the outhouse of PML-N leader Rashid Akbar Niwani here on Monday. The blast took place at 4.45pm when Mr Niwani was meeting people of his constituency, listening to their problems. Body parts, shoes and shredded clothes were scattered all over the courtyard. Some of the bodies were beyond recognition. The seriously wounded were taken to the Nishtar Hospital in Multan Source: http://www.dawn.com/2008/10/07/top1.htm

7 October 2008
Hindu
Ex-General killed in Anuradhapura blast
COLOMBO: A retired Major General and United National Party (UNP) leader of the North Central Province Janaka Perera was among the 28 killed in a suspected LTTE suicide blast at the newly opened party office in Anuradhapura on Monday. The blast left 90 people injured. There was no word from the Tigers on the carnage. Evidence suggests that only the LTTE could deploy such suicide cadre (Black Tigers). The Tigers have the tradition of annually honouring suicide cadres. The toll in the powerful blast is expected to climb as at least 15 of the injured are in critical condition. Among others who died were the General's wife and several prominent members of the party Source: http://www.hindu.com/2008/10/07/stories/2008100755961300.htm

7 October 2008
Tamilnet
Janaka Perera assassinated, blast kills 28 in Anuradhapura
Opposition Leader of the United National Party in North Central Province, Maj. Gen (retd.) Janaka Perera and his wife, a former Sri Lanka Army officer, were killed in a bomb blast in Anuradhapura Monday morning around 8:45. Around 28 persons were killed and 80 wounded in the blast, Police said. An attacker, strapped with hidden explosives, embraced the former commander killing himself and several others, initial reports said. Janaka Perera was the UNP candidate for the Chief Minister post in 2008 Provincial Elections in North Central Province, which was marred by violence. Maj. Gen. (retd.) Janaka PereraAnuradhapura district organiser Dr. Rajah Johnpulle, a Tamil UNP activist whose home and dispensary were set on fire by UPFA supporters in August, his wife, and several UNP activists were also killed in the blast. 15 of the 80 wounded were in critical condition, according to medical sources. 300 participants were at the site of the blast Source: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=27115

4 October 2008
News
Asfandyar survives suicide attack
PESHAWAR/CHARSADDA: Three inquiry committees have been constituted to probe into a suicide blast at Wali Bagh on Thursday, second day of Eidul Fitr, in which four persons were killed and 18 others injured. The additional inspector general (AdIG) investigation, NWFP, is heading the high-level inquiry committee, while one is being headed by the SP investigation, Charsadda, and another by a senior officer of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). The experts of the FIA and police examined the site of the blast and sent the specimen of the body of the suicide bomber for a DNA test. At least four persons were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Hujra of Asfandyar Wali Khan, President of the ANP, who was the target of the attacker at Wali Bagh, Charsadda

25 September 2008
Dawn
Schoolgirl dies in Quetta suicide attack
QUETTA, Sept 24: A schoolgirl was killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a security vehicle not far from a military police checkpost. Twenty-three people were injured, six of them schoolchildren and 15 security personnel. However, unconfirmed reports said that three security personnel had been killed. Officials said that three injured soldiers of the Frontier Corps soldiers were in a critical condition. 'Quetta Cantonment was the suicide attacker's target of the suicide bomber,' Capital City Police Officer Mohammad Akbar told Dawn, adding that the bomber had walked up to the vehicle. 'The bomber's severed head is intact and is in police custody. It will help establish his identity. Other parts of his body have also been collected,' he said, adding that the man was 18 to 22 years old. He said that two deaths had been reported Source: http://www.dawn.com/2008/09/25/top3.htm

21 September 2008
Daily Times
'Pakistan's 9/11' kills 60, injures 200; Nation mourns; Terrorists hit back hours after Zardari's warning
ISLAMABAD: A suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives at the Marriott Hotel in a brazen attack in the heart of Islamabad on Saturday, killing at least 60 people. At least 200 people, including a PPP legislator, were injured in the massive explosion, which ruptured a gas pipeline and triggered a huge blaze. A US national was killed and several foreigners were injured, hospital officials told AFP. Many victims leapt to their deaths from the upper floors of the hotel to escape the fire, a senior security official said. Officials were worried that the hotel, a key meeting place for foreigners, would collapse. Nearby buildings: The explosion was heard throughout Islamabad and left a 25-foot crater. Some of the victims were in the adjacent Frontier House, Chief Justice's House, IT Towers and the PTV building, which were severely damaged. Sixteen US nationals were inside the hotel at the time of the attack, an official said, adding they included diplomats. The PIMS spokesman said four Germans, two Saudis and two British nationals were injured. Hotel owner Sadruddin Hashwani told Geo News most of the foreigners were rescued through the rear exit. Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008921story_21-9-2008_pg1_1

17 September 2008
Daily Times
Swat suicide hit, rocket attack kills 3 troops
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber and Taliban attacked a security checkpost in Kabal tehsil on Tuesday killing three soldiers, a senior official said. The attack occurred at a school building where around 350 personnel of the Frontier Corps and Frontier Constabulary were present, APP reported. The bomber blew himself up as paramilitary soldiers approached his vehicle, before the Taliban attacked the checkpost, army spokesman Murad Khan said Source:http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008917story_17-9-2008_pg1_7

13 September 2008
News
Suicide bomber kills 33 in attack on Iraq police station
SAMARRA: A suicide bomber slammed his explosives-filled truck into the police station of the central Iraqi town of Dujail on Friday, killing at least 33 people, officials said. The attack occurred at around 6:00 pm (1500 GMT) in the Shiite town in the Sunni province of Salaheddin, north of Baghdad, just minutes before people were getting ready to break their daily fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. An interior ministry official in Baghdad and a police officer from Tikrit, the capital of Salaheddin, said around 45 people were also wounded. A defence ministry official in Baghdad also confirmed the attack. The police officer said the station was surrounded by tall concrete walls and that the bomber had been unable to break through into the interior (Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=55076

12 September 2008
AFP
Suicide bomber kills 31 in attack on Iraq police station
SAMARRA, Iraq (AFP) - A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-filled truck near the police station of the central Iraqi Shiite town of Dujail on Friday, killing at least 31 people, officials said. It was the second attack on Friday targeting the country's majority Shiite community after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in the northern town of Sinjar earlier in the day killing two worshippers. The bomber struck in Dujail, in the Sunni province of Salaheddin north of Baghdad, at around 6:00 pm (1500 GMT) just minutes before people were getting ready to break their daily fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Haider al-Dujaili, the head of the Dujail town council, told AFP that 31 people were slain in the bombing and another 30 wounded and were being treated in the Dujail hospital and in the nearby town of Balad Source: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iixfgA8hK-lCBwRQPd94uE0QBRxA

7 September 2008
News
30 killed, 91 injured in suicide attack at Peshawar-Kohat Road
PESHAWAR: Number of persons killed in suicide car bomb explosion near Zangli check post at Peshawar-Kohat Road has reached 30 including five police officials while the namaz-e-janaza of the police men has been offered here at Police Line on Saturday. Peshawar police chief Dr Suleman Shah told Geo News that the number of persons killed in the blast has reached 30 including five police officials while 91 people including two police officials have been injured. He said that strict security arrangements were made in and around Peshawar on receiving an advance information of extremists action on the occasion of the presidential election

6 September 2008
Associated Press
Suicide bomber kills 6 at outdoor market in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) - A suicide car bomber blasted an outdoor market Saturday in a northern Iraqi city, killing six people and wounding 54, police and hospital authorities said. The attack in the mainly Turkomen city of Tal Afar took place one day after a suicide car bomber struck a convoy carrying ex-Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi in Baghdad. The former Pentagon favorite escaped injury but six people, including five of his bodyguards, were killed. Saturday's attack occurred in the same Tal Afar market where a suicide truck bomber killed 28 people and injured 72 last month. That raises questions about whether Iraqi police are capable of maintaining security in the strategic north - where al-Qaida in Iraq remains active - as the Americans hand over more responsibility for security to Iraqi soldiers and police Source: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYeFwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD931BPU80

26 August 2008
International Herald Tribune
Suicide bomber kills 28 police recruits in Iraq
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 showed that parts of Iraq have yet to see the security gains felt elsewhere. The bombing took place in the town of Jalawla in the north of volatile Diyala province, just a day after Kurdish Peshmerga security forces withdrew from the town at the request of the central government in Baghdad. The attack, which also wounded 45 people, was the biggest for weeks in Iraq, where overall levels of violence have dropped sharply in the last year. It came amid Iraqi efforts to conclude a security deal with the United States that would require U.S. forces to leave Iraq by the end of 2011. "The suicide bombing of Jalawla is striking evidence that Iraqi security forces are unable to impose security on the area from which Peshmerga have just withdrawn," said their commander, Brigadier-General Nadhim Najim Ahmed Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/08/26/africa/OUKWD-UK-IRAQ.php

24 August 2008
Dawn
Suicide attack, operation in Swat claim 67 lives
MINGORA, Aug 23: Ten army soldiers, seven policemen, 50 militants and a number of civilians were killed in a suicide attack on a police station and the subsequent military operation in Swat on Saturday. A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden jeep into the Charbagh police station at 7.45am, killing four policemen and three civilians. Twenty others were wounded. About 100kg of explosives were used in the attack. Ali Rahmat Khan and Yousaf Ali Khan, senior police officials, told reporters that body parts of the suicide bomber had been found at the scene Source: http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/24/top1.htm

21 August 2008
New York Times
64 in Pakistan Die in Bombing at Arms Plant
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Two suicide bombers killed at least 64 people outside Pakistan's biggest weapons factory complex on Thursday, in the deadliest attack by the Taliban since they began hitting Pakistani government sites with suicide bombers more than 18 months ago. The Taliban said the bombings were in response to a fierce Pakistani military campaign, including fighter jets and helicopter gunships, that has unfolded over the past two weeks in the tribal region of Bajaur. The insurgents warned of more attacks if the government continued its campaign, which the military says has led 200,000 people to flee their homes Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/world/asia/22pstan.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=suicide%20attack&st=cse&oref=slogin

20 August 2008
Dawn
Suicide bomber hits D.I. Khan hospital: 32 killed, 55 injured; Tehrik-i-Taliban claims responsibility for the carnage
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Aug 19: Thirty-two people, seven policemen and two health officials among them, were killed and 55 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the emergency ward of the District Headquarters Hospital here on Tuesday. The attack was carried out when a large number of people had gathered there to protest against the murder of local Shia leader Basit Ali earlier in the day. Attacked by a gunman near the Faqirni Gate, he was brought to the hospital where he died. Police said the suicide bomber, who appeared to be about 20 years old, had blown himself up in the presence of police personnel who were trying to control the crowd. 'The bomber's head and legs have been found,' police sources said. The emergency ward was completely destroyed by the explosion http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/20/top2.htm

14 August 2008
News
Eight killed as suicide bomber hits police in Lahore
LAHORE: A suicide bomber struck a checkpoint in front of Allama Iqbal Police Station, killing eight people, including four policemen and a woman, and wounding 20 policemen among 27 others. The attack could have been more devastating, had the attacker not blown himself up prematurely, officials said. The bomber aged between 25 and 30 years appeared on a motorbike and blew himself up near policemen. An officer said the bomb blast occurred at around 11:20 pm in front of Allama Iqbal Police Station. According to police emergency centre officials, nine persons sustained serious wounds while others suffered minor ones. Most of the policemen were standing at a checkpoint at the time of the explosion. Police set roadblocks at the crime scene and searched for more explosive devices or potential bombers

28 July 2008
Daily Times
Fazlullah threatens to unleash suicide bombers if attacked
MINGORA: Swat-based militant chief Mullah Fazlullah on Sunday warned of a string of suicide bombings if the government re-launched military operations against his forces. Addressing a news conference in the Kabal tehsil of Swat, the Taliban leader claimed that he had prepared a brigade of suicide bombers who would be unleashed in case of a military operation. He said the attacks on official installations were in reaction to the government's action against the Taliban and denied reports that the Swat Taliban were using child bombers Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008728story_28-7-2008_pg1_11

14 July 2008
News
Four hurt in DI Khan suicide attack
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Four people were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up soon after the concluding session of the Shuhada-e-Islam Conference here on Sunday. Eyewitnesses and the police said the participants of the Shuhada-e-Islam Conference, held in Kotly Imam Hussain near the Madina Filling Station, were returning to their homes when a suicide bomber, aged about 16, blew himself up Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=15978

6 July 2008
News
Eighteen killed in Islamabad suicide bombing
ISLAMABAD: A suicide bomber ripped through a police contingent on Sunday at Melody Chowk, some 30 yards away from the Aabpara police station, killing at least 18 people, including 14 cops, and injuring more than 53, most of them police personnel. The blast occurred at 7:45 in the evening after Dua-e-Khair at the conclusion of the Shuhada Conference observed on the first anniversary of the Lal Masjid operation. The blast was so severe that the echo was heard several kilometres away from the scene while windowpanes of dozens of adjacent buildings were broken and tens of cars were damaged Source: http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=15813

3 June 2008
Daily Times
Suicide blast at Danish embassy kills eight
ISLAMABAD: A suspected suicide bomber blew up his car outside the Danish embassy on Monday, killing at least eight people and injuring nearly 30 others, officials said. The Danish Foreign minister said a Pakistani cleaner employed at the embassy and a Danish citizen of Pakistani origin had died and three other local employees were hurt, but the embassyâ??s four Danish staffers were unharmed

3 June 2008
Daily Times
Suicide blast at Danish embassy kills eight
ISLAMABAD: A suspected suicide bomber blew up his car outside the Danish embassy on Monday, killing at least eight people and injuring nearly 30 others, officials said. The Danish Foreign minister said a Pakistani cleaner employed at the embassy and a Danish citizen of Pakistani origin had died and three other local employees were hurt, but the embassy's four Danish staffers were unharmed Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=200863story_3-6-2008_pg1_1

31 May 2008
Guardian (UK)
Suicide bomber killed in Lebanon
By HUSSEIN DAKROUB Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanese troops shot and killed a suicide bomber near Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp Saturday, a senior military official said. The official said the Palestinian man wearing an explosive belt approached an army checkpoint just outside the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the southern city of Sidon http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7553126

31 May 2008
Reuters
One soldier dead and 6 wounded in Afghan suicide blast
One soldier dead and 6 wounded in Afghan suicide blast Sat May 31, 2008 11:09am EDT JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed one foreign soldier and wounded six other people, including three civilians, in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Saturday, the provincial governor said. The Taliban have vowed to step up their campaign of suicide bombings this year, after carrying out 140 such attacks in 2007 which killed 200 civilians. The suicide car bomber rammed his car into a moving military convoy in the city of Jalalabad before detonating explosives, Gol Agha Shirzai, governor of Nangarhar province, said

26 May 2008
International Herald Tribune
Iraqi military says 6 teenagers trained as suicide bombers detained in Mosul
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi military on Monday detained six teenagers it says were trained as suicide bombers by a Saudi militant in the northern city of Mosul, where security forces are cracking down on al-Qaida in Iraq and other Sunni insurgents. The arrests come amid fears that the terror network is increasingly trying to use women and youths in attacks to avoid the stepped-up security measures that have dislodged the group from former safe havens in Baghdad and surrounding areas

23 May 2008
Reuters
Suicide bomb kills five in eastern Afghanistan
Suicide bomb kills five in eastern Afghanistan Fri May 23, 2008 3:12am EDT KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suspected Taliban suicide bomber killed one child and four Afghan soldiers in an attack targeting an army convoy on Friday, a provincial governor's spokesman said. Taliban insurgents carried out more than 140 suicide bombings in 2007 and have vowed to step up such attacks this year. Some 95 percent of those killed by the Taliban are civilians, a United Nations special rapporteur said last week

4 April 2008
New York Times
Suicide Attack Kills 4 in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A roadside bomb killed a Canadian soldier in southern Afghanistan Friday, while a suicide attack in the same region left three policemen and a civilian dead, officials said. Canadian Pvt. Terry John Street, 24, of Hull, Quebec, died as the explosive detonated near his vehicle, said Brig.-Gen. Guy Laroche, the commander of Canadian forces in Afghanistan. The blast the killed Street -- the 82nd Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan -- took place in the volatile Panjwaii district west of Kandahar city, long a hotbed of Taliban activity

21 March 2008
Dawn
Suicide attack near brigade headquarters; 5 soldiers die
WANA, March 20: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a military vehicle in front of the brigade headquarters at Zari Noor in South Waziristan on Thursday, killing five soldiers and wounding 11 others, officials said. A man claiming to be a spokesman for the pro-government militant Commander Maulvi Nazir claimed responsibility for the attack. "We have declared that "Mujahideen"will soon avenge the death of their colleagues in the missile strike (on Sunday"Commander Malang told Dawn by telephone from an undisclosed location. It is for the first time that Maulvi Nazir's group has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack

17 March 2008
News
Suicide bomber kills two cops in Swat
MINGORA/PESHAWAR: A teenaged suicide bomber blew himself up inside the Mingora Police Lines, killing two policemen and injuring seven others, here on Monday. The suicide bombing carried out at 7pm resulted in on-the-spot fatalities of Lines Officer Toor Gul and Head Constable Inayat Khan. The injured included Liaqat Ali, Sardar Bahadar, Ali Murad, Janat Gul, Syed Nasir Ahmad, Shamsul Qamar and Aziz http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=13636

17 March 2008
VOA News
6 Civilians Killed in Suicide Attack on Coalition Vehicles in Afghanistan
Afghan and coalition officials say a suicide car bomber has attacked a convoy of U.S. troops in Kabul, killing six civilians and wounding at least 35 people. Officials say four U.S. soldiers traveling in the convoy escaped Thursday's attack with minor injuries http://voanews.com/english/2008-03-13-voa4.cfm

17 March 2008
Reuters
Suicide bomber kills 2 Danish soldiers in Afghanistan
Suicide bomber kills 2 Danish soldiers in Afghanistan COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed two Danish soldiers in Afghanistan and wounded another on Monday, the Danish Army Central Command said. The army said the soldiers were working on a reconstruction project in the town of Gereshk, west of Kandahar, when they were attacked http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1769478720080317

17 March 2008
Reuters
Suicide car bomb kills 8 Afghans near Kabul airport
KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed eight Afghan civilians in an attack on U.S. troops near the airport in Afghanistan's capital on Thursday, a NATO spokesman said. Taliban Islamist militants have threatened to step up suicide attacks on the capital Kabul this year in a campaign to wear down the will of NATO countries to carry on the fight in Afghanistan and force a withdrawal of foreign troops http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL11909320080313

15 March 2008
Reuters
Two Afghans killed in suicide attack on NATO convoy
Two Afghans killed in suicide attack on NATO convoy KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb attack on a convoy of NATO-led forces in southeastern Afghanistan on Saturday killed two Afghan civilians, an official said. One NATO soldier was wounded in the attack which happened on a road outside the town of Khost, close to the border with Pakistan. U.S. troops form the bulk of foreign forces in eastern Afghanistan http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSISL9013920080315

13 March 2008
Reuters
Two policemen killed in suicide attack in Pakistan
Two policemen killed in suicide attack in Pakistan MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two police officers were killed and three wounded in a suicide bombing in a police training centre in Pakistan's northwest on Monday, the latest in a spate of violence blamed on Islamist militants. The attack in the district of Swat came a day after at least nine militants were killed by missiles fired by a U.S. aircraft in the South Waziristan tribal region, a haven for al Qaeda and Taliban fighters on the Afghan border http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL16190220080317

11 March 2008
The News
30 die as twin suicide blasts rock Lahore
LAHORE: Two massive suicide car bombs on Tuesday ripped through the regional headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency and an office of an advertising agency in Lahore, killing at least 30 people, including 16 FIA officials, and injuring over 200. The two blasts happened about seven minutes apart in different parts of the city. The first explosion completely tore the facade of the FIA building besides damaging scores of homes and dozens of cars and motorcycles in the neighbourhood http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=13516

5 March 2008
Dawn
First suicide attack on naval institution: Two bombers strike war college in Lahore
LAHORE, March 4: Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the prestigious Navy War College on the Mall Road on Tuesday, killing four Navy employees and injuring 21 others, witnesses said. A war-related course was in progress in a lecture room adjacent to the parking lot when the bombers blew themselves up, a witness who was inside the college at the time of the blast told Dawn

2 March 2008
The News
Two killed in Bajaur suicide blast
PESHAWAR/KHAR: Two people including a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the paramilitary Bajaur Levies and a passer-by were killed and 20 others sustained injuries in a suicide attack on security forces in the restive Bajaur tribal agency on Saturday. Assistant Political Agent Khar subdivision, Iqbal Khattak, told reporters in Khar that it was a suicide attack in which two people including a JCO of the Bajaur Levies, Mohammad Ismail and a passer-by Shah Wali Khan were killed

1 March 2008
The News
40 die as bomber hits DSP's funeral
MINGORA/PESHAWAR: Forty people were killed and more than 75 others critically injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the funeral prayers of the slain Deputy Superintendent of Police, Lakki Marwat, Javed Iqbal Khan, in Mingora city on Friday evening. The dead included SHO Mingora police station Habib Jamal, Naib Nazim Malookabad union council Habibullah Khan and a son of the deceased police officer Javed Iqbal

1 March 2008
Daily News
Seven injured in suicide blast
MODERA: Three policemen and four civilians were injured yesterday as a Police attempt to arrest a suspected LTTE cadre in Modera ended with the LTTE suicide cadre blowing himself inside his room, Police and Military told the Daily News. The LTTE cadre who blew himself up has been identified as Nadarajah Sherma Vijayatharan alias Vijayan, 28, from Punkuduthivu, Jaffna

26 February 2008
Daily Times
Army's surgeon general, 7 others die in Pindi blast
RAWALPINDI: A suicide bomber killed eight people, including the Pakistan Army's surgeon general, on Monday - the highest-ranking military official killed since the country joined the US-led war on terror. Lieutenant General Mushtaq Baig, the head of the army medical corps, died after a teenage attacker blew himself up next to a military convoy on a busy road in Rawalpindi, the army said

24 February 2008
Reuters
Iraq suicide bomb death toll rises to 40 -police
BAGHDAD, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber targeting a group of pilgrims heading to one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest festivals killed 40 people south of Baghdad, including women and children, up from an earlier toll of 25, police said. Thousands of pilgrims have been walking to the festival of Arbain in the holy southern Shi'ite city of Kerbala

23 February 2008
Reuters
Four killed in suicide bombing at Iraqi mosque
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and 13 wounded in northern Iraq when two suicide bombers with explosive vests blew themselves up at the entrance to a Shi'ite mosque during Friday prayers, police said. The bombers struck in the afternoon in Tal Afar, 420 km (360 miles) northwest of Baghdad.

22 February 2008
Reuters
Suicide bomber kills 6 policemen in Iraq
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed six policemen and wounded nine on Friday when he detonated a vest packed with explosives outside a mosque in Falluja, a mainly Sunni Arab city west of Baghdad, police said. The man approached a police checkpoint near the mosque on the outskirts of the city, 50 km (30 miles) west of the capital, and blew up, police said

20 February 2008
AFP
Suicide bomber kills 10 in Iraq market attack
BAQUBA, Iraq, Feb 20, 2008 (AFP) Ten people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a market near the restive city of Baquba north of Baghdad on Wednesday, an Iraqi army officer said. "A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up in the market of Muqdadiyah, killing at least 10 people and wounding 15 others," General Ragheb al-Omayri told AFP

19 February 2008
The Washington Post
Suicide Attack at Afghan Market Raises Two-Day Toll to About 140
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 18 -- A suicide car bomber killed 38 Afghans at a crowded market Monday, pushing the death toll from two days of bombings to about 140. The marketplace blast, which targeted a Canadian army convoy, came a day after the deadliest insurgent attack in Afghanistan since a U.S.-led invasion defeated the Taliban rulers in late 2001. The toll from Sunday's bombing, in a crowd watching dogfights, rose to more than 100

19 February 2008
The Washington Post
3rd Bombing Hits Southern Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A car bomb exploded near a police compound Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, killing at least one civilian and wounding four, a police official said. It was the third attack in Kandahar province in as many days. The car bomb was apparently triggered remotely, said police officer Jan Mohammad, who was at the bombing scene in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan's largest city and the Taliban's former stronghold

19 February 2008
The New York Times
Suicide Attack Kills 36 in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: In the second serious attack in southern Afghanistan in two days, a suicide bomber set off an explosion on Monday as he drove his car near a convoy of Canadian troops on a crowded border town street, killing 36 civilians and wounding 38

18 February 2008
The New York Times
At Least 80 Are Killed in Afghan Suicide Bombing
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: A suicide bomber blew himself up in a large crowd gathered at a dogfighting event just outside this city in southern Afghanistan, killing about 80 people and wounding more than 90 others in the country's worst single bombing since 2001. According to witnesses and officials, the bomber killed a local police chief, Abdul Hakim Jan, a number of his guards and scores of villagers attending the event in the Argandab district, just north of the city of Kandahar

17 February 2008
Dawn
Suicide attack on army media centre kills two
MINGORA, Feb 16: Two civilians were killed and 14 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed a car into an army media centre and base near Gul Kadda here on Saturday. An army officer told Dawn that the army base was the main target where a unit of the army was stationed. It was adjacent to the building of the media centre

17 February 2008
Dawn
Boy confesses to suicide attack training
RAWALPINDI, Feb 16: A teenager arrested for his role in the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto admitted in his statement before a special judicial magistrate here on Saturday that he had got training for carrying out suicide bombing and was ready to blow himself up. Aitzaz Shah said in his statement before Magistrate Chaudhry Toufiq Ahmed that he was a Hafiz-i-Quran and studied at a madressah in his native Mansehra city. According to sources, the boy said he had developed fascination with Jihad in Karachi and gone to Waziristan to get training as a suicide bomber

17 February 2008
Reuters
Woman suicide bomber kills three in Baghdad: police
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber killed at least three people and wounded four others in central Baghdad, police said on Sunday, the latest such attack to be carried out by a woman. The woman wearing a suicide vest detonated explosives in a shop after fleeing from guards at a checkpoint, near electrical stores in the Karrada district of the capital, police said

16 February 2008
The News
40 die as suicide bomber hits Parachinar poll office
PARACHINAR/PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber rammed a car loaded with explosives into the election office of the Pakistan People's Party-backed independent candidate in Parachinar on Saturday, leaving 40 people dead and a hundred injured private TV channels reported. However, officials sources put the death toll at 37

11 February 2008
Dawn
Gates greeted in Baghdad by suicide bombing
A suicide car-bomb killed 33 people in Iraq on Sunday, a security official said, hours before US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Baghdad to assess recent security gains and discuss troop levels. The bomber struck a checkpoint outside a crowded market near the town of Balad in the country's north, said Colonel Hamadi Atshan, a spokesman for Iraqi security forces in the area.

10 February 2008
The Nation
ANP election rally bombed
At least 30 persons were killed and around 50 others injured seriously as a result of a suicide bomb explosion in a public meeting of Awami National Party at village Nahqi in Batagram area of Charsadda district Saturday afternoon. The suicide bomber targeted the public meeting arranged by ANP leadership in connection with the election campaign.

8 February 2008
The Indian Express
Suicide Bomb Kills Afghan Soldier, Child
A suicide car bomber blew himself up near a convoy of Afghan troops on Friday, killing one soldier and a child who was nearby. A suicide car bomb targeting a NATO convoy left three soldiers lightly wounded in eastern Khost province Thursday, and a bungled suicide attack hurt two civilians in southwestern Nimroz province.

5 February 2008
The Indian Express
Suicide attack leaves 10 dead
Pakistan's military was again targeted by militants when a suicide bomber on Monday rammed his motorcycle into a minibus carrying medical corps staff, killing at least 10 people and injuring 30 others, near the army headquarters in Rawalpindi. The explosion occurred at 7.15 am outside the gate of the army's National Logistics Cell on a road connecting the Royal Artillery Bazar to the General Headquarters in the nearby garrison city.

5 February 2008
The Indian Express
First Suicide Attack in a Year in Israel
A Palestinian bomber blew himself up Monday in this desert town near Israel's nuclear reactor, killing an Israeli woman and wounding 11 people in the first suicide attack inside Israel in a year. Police killed a second attacker after a doctor found a suicide vest while treating him for wounds suffered in the blast.

4 February 2008
The Indian Express
600 bombers lying in wait: Report
As many as 600 suicide bombers are present in the Pakistani port city of Karachi where they are planning to carry out a major attack, arrested militants of an al-Qaeda linked banned outfit have told the police. "Around 600 Jundullah militants are present in Karachi. They are mentally prepared and trained to commit suicide attacks," Qasim Toori and Danish alias Talha, arrested on Jan 29, were quoted as saying by a source privy to the interrogation.

2 February 2008
Dawn
Five security personnel killed in suicide attack
At least five security personnel were killed and 13 others injured when a suicide car bomber blew himself up at the Kajhori checkpoint, some 3km north of Mirali town in North Waziristan on Friday. Local people and military officers said the suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into the military checkpoint at about 4:30pm, breaking the ceasefire declared by the local Taliban a couple of months back.

2 February 2008
Dawn
Women suicide bombers kill 72
Powerful blasts triggered by female suicide attackers ripped through two Baghdad pet markets on Friday, killing at least 72 people in the most lethal bombings in the Iraqi capital in six months. The apparently coordinated attacks 20 minutes apart were orchestrated by Al Qaeda, the US military said. Interior and defence officials put the toll at 64 killed and 107 wounded, while President Jalal Talabani said as many as 70 had died in "brutal attacks carried out by terrorists".

28 January 2008
The News
'Qaeda using children as suicide bombers'
Al-Qaeda is using children as suicide bombers in Iraq, with at least two attacks in the past week committed by 15-year-olds, a US military commander claimed on Sunday. "We are not sure whether one of these children even knew he was being used to deliver a bomb," Rear Admiral Gregory Smith told a news conference in Baghdad. One attack was carried out at a funeral ceremony near Tikrit, executed dictator Saddam Hussein's home town 180-km north of Baghdad and the other was at a school in the northern city of Mosul, Smith said.

25 January 2008
Dawn
Bomber kills north Iraq police chief
A suicide bomber in police uniform killed a top police official in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday as he toured the site of a blast a day earlier that killed 36 people and wounded scores, police said. Rescuers were still digging through the rubble of Wednesday's explosion in search of survivors when the attacker blew up next to Nineveh province police director Brigadier-General Salih Mohammed Hasan Atiya al-Jubouri, the US military and Iraqi officials said.

24 January 2008
The Nation
Two killed in Jamrood suicide blast
At least two persons, including a suicide bomber, were killed and one injured Wednesday evening in a suicide attack in Wazir Dand area near Jamrood. A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a truck, killing a passerby and injuring the truck driver, an official of Khyber Agency Political Administration said. he suicide bomber's target was the nearby check-post of Khasadar Force but he failed to hit the target due to unknown reasons, officials further said.

22 January 2008
The Indian Express
Suicide Bomber Kills 18 North of Baghdad
A suicide bomber apparently targeting a senior security official blew himself up inside a funeral tent Monday, killing 18 people in the latest of a series of deadly attacks chipping away at the notion of a calmer Iraq. There was no claim of responsibility for Monday's bombing in Hajaj, a village about midway along the nearly 20 miles between Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit and the oil hub of Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad. But police said it bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida.

20 January 2008
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills 6 in Iraq's Anbar province
A suicide bomber killed six people in Iraq's western Anbar province on Sunday, including a member of a Sunni Arab tribe involved in fighting al Qaeda, officials said. The attack was the second deadly bombing in as many days in Anbar, where violence has plunged in recent months after local tribes joined forces with the U.S. military to push Sunni Islamist al Qaeda out of the vast region.

19 January 2008
Reuters AlertNet
FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 19
RAMADI - Six policemen were killed and 13 wounded when two suicide bombers attacked policemen assembled for evening roll-call at a police station in the town of Albu Ubaid west of Ramadi, police said.

18 January 2008
Dawn
Teenage bomber wreaks havoc in Peshawar: 12 worshippers dead, 25 injured
At least 12 people were killed and 25 others injured, three of them critically, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in an imambargah here on Thursday. Police said that the teenage bomber carried out the carnage at the crowded Mirza Qasim Baig Imambargah in Mohalla Janghi, Kohati. "A young man barged in, fired three shots and blew himself up when some people tried to overpower him," said a witness.

18 January 2008
The Baltimore Sun
Suicide bomber attacks mosque
A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in violent Diyala province northeast of Baghdad yesterday, killing 11 people and wounding 15 as worshipers were beating their chests in observance of Shiite Islam's holiest holiday. The blast on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, was the second deadly suicide attack in two days against Ashoura worshipers in Diyala.

16 January 2008
News Day
Female suicide attack kills 9 Shiites
A female suicide bomber struck black-clad worshippers preparing for Shiite Islam's holiest day, killing at least nine Wednesday in an attack that highlighted insurgents' widening array of tactics against a U.S.-led offensive in key areas on Baghdad's doorstep. The blast in Khan Bani Saad, a Shiite village 15 miles northeast of Baghdad, was the fourth suicide attack by a woman in Iraq in three months. All have taken place in Diyala.

16 January 2008
News Day
Female suicide attack kills 9 Shiites
A female suicide bomber struck black-clad worshippers preparing for Shiite Islam's holiest day, killing at least nine Wednesday in an attack that highlighted insurgents' widening array of tactics against a U.S.-led offensive in key areas on Baghdad's doorstep. The blast in Khan Bani Saad, a Shiite village 15 miles northeast of Baghdad, was the fourth suicide attack by a woman in Iraq in three months. All have taken place in Diyala.

14 January 2008
The Canadian Press
Afghanistan: suicide bomber kills 1
aliban militants killed eight police officers Sunday in an attack on a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, while a suicide bomber killed another policeman in a separate attack, officials said. The militants stormed the police checkpoint in Maywand district of Kandahar province, said Sadullah Khan, a police officer in neighbouring Neven district. After the attack, the militants took two police vehicles and the officers' weapons, Khan said.

11 January 2008
News Day
Pakistan suicide attack kills 23
Pakistan - In the first major suicide attack since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto two weeks ago, a bomber blew himself up yesterday in front of a provincial high court building, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 60 others. The attack in the eastern city of Lahore was viewed as a possible harbinger of a new outbreak of violence in the weeks remaining before crucial parliamentary elections on Feb. 18. Police were placed on high alert across the country. Nearly all of those killed in the explosion were police officers, but dozens of passersby were injured. No one immediately claimed responsibility.

8 January 2008
Dawn
Eight soldiers wounded Army base attacked during curfew
A suicide bomber blew himself up in an explosive-laden vehicle near a military base camp in Kabal on Monday, injuring 10 people, including eight soldiers. The attack took place during curfew hours. According to official sources, the suicide bomber was driving a single-cabin pick-up, which exploded at 11.15am in front of the gate of the Frontier Golf Club, a military base camp.

8 January 2008
The Indian Express
Baghdad Bombings Kill al-Qaida Opponent
The head of a key U.S.-backed Sunni group was killed Monday in a double suicide bombing that claimed at least 11 other lives and highlighted the deadly precision of attacks on Sunni leaders choosing to oppose al-Qaida in Iraq. At least 28 people were injured in the twin blasts - the latest in a spate of attacks against Sunnis who have joined a U.S.-supported movement against extremists and credited with helping sharply reduce violence around Iraq.

8 January 2008
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber wounds 5 Afghan police
A suicide bomber severely wounded five Afghan policemen in an attack in the southern province of Kandahar on Monday, a provincial official said. Border police official Razaq Khan said the bomber had approached the vehicle on foot in the Spin Boldak area bordering Pakistan, a hotbed of Taliban activity.

7 January 2008
The News
14 killed in massive Baghdad bombings
A spate of bombings, including a suicide attack on Iraqi soldiers attending an Army Day ceremony, rocked Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 32, Iraqi officials said. The suicide attack on the soldiers took place in Karrada neighbourhood as gifts were being handed out to troops by a civilian organisation on Army Day, an official holiday marking the 87th anniversary of the founding of the army. Interior and defence ministry officials said at least nine people were killed in the attack, and at least 17 more were wounded.

4 January 2008
The Indian Express
7 Killed in Afghanistan Suicide Attack
A suicide bomber attacked Indian road construction workers and their Afghan police escorts Thursday in southwestern Afghanistan, killing seven and wounding 12. The convoy had been traveling on a main road toward the city of Khash Rod in Nimroz province when it was hit by a remote-controlled bomb that was planted on a motorcycle, wounding one policeman, said Nimroz Gov. Ghulam Dastagir Azad.

4 January 2008
The News
UN urged to treat suicide bombs as crimes against humanity
The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Thursday said that in the wake of last week's murder of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto it was calling on the United Nations to designate suicide bombings as a crime against humanity. In a phone call from his headquarters in Los Angeles, Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean and founder of the Jewish organization, said while talking to an international news agency here that the Center planned to run full-page advertisements in a USA-based newspaper and in another daily Friday urging broad support for the appeal.

3 January 2008
Dawn
Suicide bomber kills four in Algeria
A suicide car bomber rammed on Wednesday his explosives-laden vehicle into a police station in Naciria, east of the Algerian capital, killing at least four people and wounding 12 others, radio said. "A suicide bomber drove fast into the police station at the wheel of a booby-trapped car, causing major damage to the building," one witness said. The wounded included nine police officers, the state radio said.

3 January 2008
Dawn
Suicide attack claims 10 lives in Iraq
A suicide bomber killed 10 people in Iraq on Wednesday, Iraqi authorities said, the latest in a wave of suicide attacks that has seen a major strike nearly every day of the past week. Iraqi Army Major-General Abdul-Karim al-Rubaie, chief of security operations for the volatile Diyala province, said the bomber blew themselves up with an explosive vest at a checkpoint in the provincial capital Baquba north of Baghdad.

3 January 2008
The News
Five Taliban killed in Afghanistan
Five suspected Taliban militants were killed when a suicide car bomb they were building went off prematurely in the southern province of Kandahar, police said on Wednesday. "These men were killed while trying to build a suicide car bomb to target and kill innocent people but it killed themselves," provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqeb said after the blast on Tuesday.

2 January 2008
Dawn
32 die in Baghdad suicide blast
A suicide bomber detonated a vest loaded with explosives at a Shia funeral in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 32 people and wounding 34 others, police and ambulance officials said. The explosion took place in Baghdad's eastern Zayouna neighborhood, a mixed Shia and Sunni district, the officials said on customary condition of anonymity.

1 January 2008
People's Daily
Suicide truck bomb kills 12 north of Baghdad
A suicide truck bombing killed 12 people Monday when it struck a checkpoint manned by anti-al-Qaida fighters in a town north of Baghdad, local media said. The attack took place in the morning when a suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden truck into a checkpoint in the town of Tarmiyah, some 30 km north of Baghdad. The powerful blast killed 12 people including three children and nine members of the Awakening Councils backed by the U.S. and Iraqi governments.

31 December 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomb at Iraq neighbourhood patrol kills 4
A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest killed four Iraqi neighbourhood patrol volunteers at a checkpoint on Baghdad's northern outskirts on Monday, police said. Two volunteers were also wounded in the attack, they said.

31 December 2007
Reuters AlertNet
FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 31
ISKANDARIYA - A suicide car bomber killed one member of a neighbourhood patrol and wounded three others when he rammed their checkpoint in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

31 December 2007
Reuters AlertNet
FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 31
BAQUBA - A woman wearing a suicide bomb vest wounded two policemen and five civilians including a child when she attacked a police station in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

26 December 2007
Dawn
Suicide attacks claim 29 lives in Iraq
Two suicide bombs killed 29 people in Iraq on Tuesday, including 25 who died when a bomber slammed his vehicle into a truck carrying gas cylinders at a checkpoint in the northern oil town of Baiji. The two attacks appeared to be directed against groups fighting Al Qaeda militants in Iraq. The truck bombing occurred on the outskirts of the oil refinery town of Baiji, 200km north of Baghdad, Iraqi and US military officials said. About 85 people were also wounded.

24 December 2007
Dawn
Four soldiers among 10 killed in suicide attack
A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into an army convoy, killing four soldiers and six other people on the Shahdara Road on Sunday evening. According to official sources, 29 people were injured. The convoy was returning after carrying out anti-militant operations in various areas of Khwazakhela and Charbagh when it was attacked. The ISPR put the death toll at seven, four soldiers and three civilians.

24 December 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Afghans detain woman with suicide bomb under burqa
A woman carrying a waistcoat filled with explosives under her all-enveloping burqa was arrested on Monday in eastern Afghanistan, provincial officials said, in the first possible reported case of a female suicide bomber in the country. She was arrested on a tip-off in Jalalabad after being followed by intelligence department officials near the border with Pakistan.

22 December 2007
Asian Age
Suicide bomber kills 50
A suicide bomber killed at least 50 and injured over 200 people on Friday in Pakistan's Charsadda district when he blew himself up in a mosque as the faithful assembled there for Id prayers. The attacker apparently targeted former federal interior minister and chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (Sherpao), Mr Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who survived a second attempt on his life this year. "The suicide bomber blew himself up in Markazi Jamia Masjid, Sherpao, in Charsadda district, killing 50 people and injuring over 200," a police official said.

22 December 2007
Xinhua News
Suicide car bomb kills Iraqi in Baghdad
A suicide car bomb struck a security checkpoint in western Baghdad on Saturday afternoon, killing a soldier and wounding six people, an Interior Ministry source said. "A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a checkpoint manned by Iraqi army and police forces in the Ghazaliyah neighborhood," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The attack resulted in the killing of a soldier, wounding two others, two policemen and two civilians, the source added.

18 December 2007
Dawn
12 army recruits killed in Kohat suicide blast
At least 12 army recruits were killed in a suicide attack in the heart of the Kohat cantonment area near the Army Public College on Monday morning. According to hospital sources, two soldiers were injured. Military authorities sealed the area after the blast, leaving parents of students of the college in panic and distress. The parents were allowed to pick their children two hours later. The recruits were returning to their barracks after the morning exercise when a boy aged 15 to 17 years made a dash towards them and blew himself up.

18 December 2007
BBC News
Suicide bomber hits Iraq village
A suicide bomber has killed 16 people and injured many others in a village in Iraq's Diyala province on a day which saw at least six other violent deaths. The bomber set off a vest packed with explosives inside a popular coffee shop in the village of al-Abbara, north of the city of Baquba, police said. In a separate attack in Baquba, a suicide car bomber struck a checkpoint, killing a policeman and a civilian.

16 December 2007
Dawn
Five killed in suicide attack
Five people were killed and 20 others injured on Saturday when a man riding a bicycle blew himself up at the main gate of a military facility - the Army Services Centre colony - in the Nowshera Cantonment. The man set off explosives when a guard on duty stopped him at the gate for body search at about 9.25am, killing the guard and four civilians and injuring 20 others, among them eight troops. Many soldiers were busy in routine exercises at a nearby parade ground when the blast took place...

15 December 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber blows up car in Kabul, several killed
A suicide bomber set off explosives inside a car near an Afghan government security office in Kabul on Saturday, a military spokesman said, and eyewitnesses said a number of people were killed. General Zahir Azimi, a Defence Ministry spokesman, said the suicide bomber had detonated two rockets. Another defence ministry official said he had heard two blasts. "The first one was small, but the second one really shook the city," the official said. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the bombing, but the Taliban rely heavily on suicide raids and roadside bomb attacks as part of their insurgency against the Afghan government and foreign troops...

14 December 2007
Dawn
Suicide blasts rock Quetta; seven killed
Two young suicide bombers blew themselves up close to a military checkpoint in Quetta's Cantonment area on Thursday, killing five soldiers and wounding 22 people, officials said. "Two personnel of the military police were killed on the spot in the first attack," the officials said, adding that the second bomber blew himself up 20 minutes after the first attack. The chief of ISPR, Maj-Gen Waheed Arshad, confirmed seven deaths in the two attacks. "No civilian was killed in either attack," he said, adding that nine civilians and 13 military personnel were injured in the bombing. He said seven people, including the two suicide bombers, had been killed in the attack...

13 December 2007
The Nation
45 killed in spate of Iraq bombings
Triple car bombs killed at least 40 people in the southern city of Amara on Wednesday, as Iraq announced it would retake control of the key province of Basra from the British army on December 16...Hours after the Amara bombings, a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-rigged car on a bridge connecting villages with the town of Hit in the western province of Anbar, said police Major Majid Omar from Hit. Omar said five people were killed...

11 December 2007
Dawn
Suicide bombing hits children's bus: 7 injured
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-laden car near a military vehicle carrying children of Pakistan Air Force employees to school on Monday, injuring four children and three other people. The attack took place near the Fauji gate outside the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra on the Attock-Kamra road. Attock District Police Officer Tariq Hanif Joyia told Dawn that the vehicle, a truck converted into a bus, was carrying 19 boys and girls, all aged under 12, to their school when a white car appeared at the Fauji gate at about 7.26am and its driver tried to ram it into the bus. The car exploded a few metres away from the bus.

11 December 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Car bomb near homes of Iraqi politicians kills 2
A suicide car bomb exploded near the homes of senior Iraqi politicians in a heavily guarded neighbourhood of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding 12, police said. They said the blast damaged the homes of former interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a secular Shi'ite politician, as well as Saleh al-Mutlaq, leader of the National Dialogue Front, a small Sunni Arab party. Most of the victims from the blast in western Baghdad near the fortified "Green Zone" diplomatic and government compound were police and guards at a checkpoint...

10 December 2007
Dawn
Suicide bombing in Swat; 2 children among 10 killed
A suicide bomber exploded a vehicle near a highly-guarded checkpoint, killing 10 people, two of them children and three policemen, in Ningwalai on Sunday. Witnesses said the bomber blew up the explosive-laden double-cabin pick-up after he was stopped for check at the barricade of a checkpoint on the Matta road in Ningwalai, which was a stronghold of the militants. The head of the bomber and parts of bodies of the people killed in the blast were scattered all around. Major Amjad Iqbal, a spokesman for the government media centre in Mingora, described the suicide bombing as an act of desperation by the defeated militants...

8 December 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Woman suicide attacker and car bomb kill 26
A woman wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 16 people and a suicide car bomb killed 10 in Iraq on Friday, in attacks aimed at units helping U.S. forces fight al Qaeda. Police said 27 people were wounded in the first attack, when the female suicide bomber struck at former Sunni Arab insurgents who have switched sides to join U.S.-backed security forces battling al Qaeda. A security source said the female bomber had three adult children who had been killed in operations by Iraqi forces. The car bomb killed seven Iraqi troops and three members of a local neighbourhood patrol. Eight people were hurt...

8 December 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Seven killed in suicide bomb in northern Iraq
A suicide car bomber struck at the house of a counter-terrorism official in northern Iraq on Saturday, a Reuters witness said. Hospital sources said at least seven people were killed and 35 wounded. A Reuters television cameraman said at least 11 cars were destroyed and 15 houses damaged by the blast, which targeted the home of colonel Ali Shaker in a residential area of Baiji, a northern Iraqi town with a large oil refinery...

5 December 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Car bomb kills five in Iraq's Baquba
A parked car bomb killed five people and wounded 13 on a main road near government offices in the volatile city of Baquba in one of Iraq's most restive regions north of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. The town, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad is the capital of the ethnically- and religiously-mixed Diyala Province, which has become one of the most violent areas of Iraq after Sunni Islamist al-Qaeda militants moved there from other areas...

5 December 2007
The Nation
Female suicide bomber blows herself up
A veiled woman blew herself up in a suicide attack in a high-security zone here on Tuesday, the city police said. None else was the victim other than the suicide bomber herself. The woman, who according to police, detonated the explosive, she was warping around her body, when the Military Police personnel stopped her identification at a checkpost on Babar Road near a Christian school. However, the security personnel, guarding the military checkpost, remained unhurt. It is worth mentioning here that the suicide attack was first of its kind to have been carried out by a woman in Pakistan...

5 December 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills 13 in Kabul - defence ministry
A Taliban suicide bomber slammed his car into a bus filled with Afghan soldiers in Kabul on Wednesday, killing 13 people, the second such attack in as many days around a visit by the U.S. Defense Secretary. Six soldiers and seven civilians were killed during the morning rush hour attack in Kabul's southern outskirts. Seventeen people, including seven army officers, were wounded, the defense ministry said in a statement. It was not immediately clear if the civilians were travelling in the bus or caught on the road by the blast, which also caused gas containers in a nearby shop to explode, witnesses said. A Taliban spokesman said a member of the resurgent Islamic group carried out the attack...

4 December 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills 4, wounds 6 in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed four Afghans including two policemen and wounded six others in Afghanistan's western province of Nimroz on Monday, a provincial police official said. "The suicide bomber blew himself up near an Indian road construction company compound, killing two Afghan workers and two policemen in the Khash Rod district this afternoon," said provincial police chief Mohammad Dawood Askaryar. "No Indians were killed or wounded in the attack," he said, adding that six Afghan workers had been wounded. An official from the Indian company could not immediately be reached for comment. The hardline Islamist Taliban have killed at least 200 people in more than 140 suicide attacks this year in a campaign to defeat the government of President Hamid Karzai and eject some 50,000 foreign troops from Afghanistan...

4 December 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Blast hits NATO convoy close to Kabul airport
A suicide bomber rammed a car into a convoy of NATO forces close to the airport in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, wounding several Afghan civilians. There was no immediate word on whether NATO troops suffered casualties in the attack which happened during the morning rush hour on a road just outside Kabul's international airport, a senior city police official said. A spokesman for NATO, which runs a force separate to the U.S. military in Afghanistan, confirmed that the target was an alliance convoy, but gave no more details. A spokesman for the Taliban said the militant Islamic group carried out the attack to "welcome" U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates who arrived in Kabul on Monday evening...

28 November 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide attack kills Sri Lanka minister's aide
A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew herself up near the office of a minority Tamil minister in the Sri Lankan capital on Wednesday, killing his personal secretary, officials said. Two other people were wounded in the blast, one seriously, but no senior officials were hurt, a hospital official said. It was the latest in a series of rebel attacks. The blast occurred near the office of Douglas Devananda, minister for social welfare and a former militant. He once fought alongside the Tigers before turning to politics in the 1980s and has escaped several assassination bids by the rebels. "It was a suicide mission by the LTTE," an officer of the elite police Special Task Force said, asking not to be named in line with policy...

27 November 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide car bomb in Afghan capital kills 2 civilians
A suicide car bomb targeting a U.S. military convoy in the Afghan capital Kabul killed two civilians on Tuesday, the latest attack to shake confidence in government efforts to uphold security. While Afghan and foreign troops score tactical battlefield successes against the Taliban, strategic victory is still far from sight as insurgents launch more attacks over a wider area and Afghans grow ever more frustrated with a government seen as weak, corrupt and unable to keep the country safe. The target of Tuesday's attack was a two-car convoy of U.S. troops outside a Defence Ministry building in the centre of Kabul close to embassies, and offices of the United Nations and World Bank. The blackened body of an Afghan civilian lay in the street covered with a prayer rug. Another Afghan, a security guard, was also killed by the explosion, a senior police official said. There was no one injured from our convoy," said Lieutenant Colonel David Johnson of the Combined Security Transition Command, which trains the Afghan army. "Our convoy was on a routine mission."...

27 November 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Six killed in attack on Iraq police HQ - police
Six people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked provincial police headquarters in Baquba north of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. The bomber detonated a suicide vest packed with explosives at the back gate of the Diyala provincial police headquarters in ethnically and religiously mixed Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad.Three policemen were killed in the explosion and eight others, including another four police, were wounded. Gunfire which erupted after the blast killed another three people, including two women, police said...

26 November 2007
The New York Times
Car Bomb Kills 9 in Baghdad
A car bomb killed nine people near Baghdad's medical district on Sunday. It was the second major bomb in the Iraqi capital in three days, after a recent lull in violence. The police said that the dead were all civilians, with two Iraqi soldiers among 31 people wounded by the blast during the morning rush hour in Bab al Muadham, close to the Health Ministry and the central morgue. Another person was killed by a roadside bomb elsewhere in the city. The explosions came two days after a bomb packed with ball bearings exploded at the Ghazil pet market in central Baghdad, killing at least 13 people, according to the police. The American military said that the pet market bombing was carried out by an Iranian-backed Shiite militia cell and that it had obtained forensic evidence and confessions from four cell members who were detained afterward.

25 November 2007
Dawn
18 die in Rawalpindi suicide attacks
Two suicide bombers struck in the city during the morning rush, targeting military personnel and installations, killing at least 18 people and injuring 40 others. Almost all of the victims were either military personnel or civilians working for an intelligence agency. The condition of some of the injured was critical and the toll might rise. Most of the casualties occurred when a suspected bomber rammed his explosive-laden van into a bus packed with security personnel at the gate of an intelligence establishmentâ??s compound, known as Hamza Camp (old Ojhri Camp), near Faizabad. The other bomber blew himself up when security guards stopped him at a checkpoint on the outer ring of the General Headquarters (GHQ). Inter-Services Public Relations Director-General Maj-Gen Waheed Arshad told reporters that the attacks were suicide bombings. Both the blasts occurred before 8am, when there is brisk movement near the military institutions...

24 November 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills 9 Afghans and Italian soldier
A suicide bomber killed nine civilians, six of them children, and an Italian soldier on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, NATO said. The hardline Islamist Taliban have killed at least 200 civilians in more than 140 suicide attacks this year in a campaign to oust the pro-Western Afghan government and eject more than 50,000 foreign troops from the country. Troops from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were opening a newly built bridge over a river to the west of Kabul and many people had gathered to watch. The ISAF said in a statement that the attacker, wearing civilian clothing, was spotted at the scene, adding: "Once spotted, ISAF personnel moved in to question the individual when the insurgent detonated himself." Four Italian soldiers were wounded in the attack and one of them died on his way to hospital, the Italian army said. Nine civilians were also wounded...

24 November 2007
The Washington Post
15 Killed in Baghdad, Shattering Growing Calm; Blast Is Deadliest In City in Months; Nine Die in Mosul
The man walked into the crowded al-Ghazl animal market Friday, past police checkpoints and barricades, Humvees and Iraqi soldiers. An hour or so earlier, a U.S. patrol had passed through the market. He carried a bomb, hidden in a box containing birds for sale, witnesses said. Shortly after 9 a.m., the bomb detonated, killing 15 people and injuring 55, according to Iraqi police, although the U.S. military said the death toll was eight. Those at the market were Iraqi civilians of different sects reviving a tradition that stretched back more than 100 years, when their fathers and grandfathers might have visited al-Ghazl every Friday, often bringing their children. The attack was the deadliest in the capital in more than 2 1/2 months, delivering a blow to a rising sense of confidence among Iraqis that their nation is becoming more secure...

15 November 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
KIRKUK -- Six people, including two policemen, were killed and 17 wounded, including four policemen, when a car bomb targeted the head of the police emergency unit, Khatab Omar, in the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (150 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Omar was among the wounded.

14 November 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
ISKANDARIYA -- At least two people were killed and six wounded when a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives infiltrated a meeting of Sunni Arab tribal sheikhs in Iskandariya, a town 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police sources said. One source said a car bomb also exploded outside the meeting but no other details were available.

11 November 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber wounds 5 in Afghanistan-ministry
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Nov 11 -- A suicide bomber wounded five civilians in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the Afghan Defence Ministry said.... "A suicide bomber wounded five civilians in the Girishk district of Helmand province," a Defence Ministry statement said. The ministry had earlier said in a statement that five people were killed in the attack, but blamed that on a typing error.... A patrol from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was the target of the attack, but no foreign forces were hurt and the patrol did not stop, a British military spokesman in Helmand said.

10 November 2007
New York Times
Afghan Bombing Tally Rises to 72
KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 9 -- New reports pushed the death toll in Tuesday's suicide attack on a parliamentary delegation in northern Afghanistan to at least 72 on Friday, according to the Education Ministry, driven by an agonizing increase in the number of schoolchildren killed to 59. But the provincial governor, Mohammad Alam Rasikh, said the toll was 54 dead and 106 wounded.... Zohor Afghan, a spokesman for the Education Ministry, said the new tally was a result of reports by the school and families of the victims. He said that the schoolchildren killed were ages 9 to 19, and that 93 others were wounded.

9 November 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
KHALIS -- A suicide bomber killed five Sunni Arab tribal leaders in the village of Dojemah, near the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

7 November 2007
Guardian
Five MPs among up to 50 killed as insurgents switch focus from military to civilian targets
A suicide bomber killed up to 50 Afghans yesterday, including five MPs and several children, in one of the bloodiest incidents since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Reports of the total killed varied widely in the aftermath of the attack in Baghlan, 90 miles north of Kabul, when a bomber wearing explosives set them set off in the middle of a crowd gathered to welcome a parliamentary delegation to a sugar factory. An interior ministry spokesman said that 28 people had died and 59 were injured. But the provincial security chief said a total of 50 bodies had been listed, and warned the figure could rise further.... The attack may mark an ominous shift in insurgent tactics. More than 200 people have died in suicide attacks this year. But until yesterday insurgents mostly targeted security forces, although many civilians have been killed in blasts. Attackers have never before targeted such a large number of civilians or MPs from the fledgling parliament.... A Taliban spokesman denied responsibility.... The Taliban-affiliated militant group Hizb-i-Islami has strong ties in the area where the blast occurred. Its fugitive leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has previously pledged allegiance to al-Qaida.

7 November 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
KIRKUK -- At least 12 people were wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on the Kurdistan Democratic Party headquarters in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

6 November 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills 50 in northern Afghanistan
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Nov 6 -- A suicide attack on a parliamentary delegation killed at least 50 people in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a provincial official said, in the worst such blast in the country's history. Five members of the Afghan parliament were among the dead and the toll was expected to rise. Schoolchildren were also among the victims in the town of Baghlan in the north of the country which had so far escaped the worst of Afghanistan's worsening violence. "We have recorded 50 people dead so far, but there are still bodies on the streets we have not counted and some of the dead have already been taken away by their relatives," Baghlan provincial security chief Abdurrahman Sayedkhail told Reuters....There was no immediate claim of responsibility. A spokesman for the Islamist Taliban said the group was not behind the attack.... The bomber was on foot and blew himself up as schoolchildren lined up to welcome the parliamentary delegation on a visit to a sugar factory in Baghlan.... Opposition spokesman and former Commerce Minister Mostafa Kazemi and four other parliamentary deputies were killed.

2 November 2007
Daily Times
Eight killed in PAF bus attack
SARGODHA: A suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) bus, killing at least eight people on Thursday. The assailant struck around 7am near an air base in Sargodha, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Islamabad, air force spokesman Sarfraz Ahmed said.... 'Eight people have been killed including four officers,' military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said, adding civilians were among those killed. An air force statement said 27 people were wounded.

1 November 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
SAADIYA -- A suicide truck bomber targeting an Iraqi army base killed five people, including three soldiers, and wounded 18 civilians and soldiers in the town of Saadiya, about 150 km (90 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. There were two more explosions in the town but no further casualties.

31 October 2007
Daily Times
Suicide blast kills 8 in Pindi Cantt
RAWALPINDI: A suicide bomber killed eight people and injured at least 18 others when he blew himself up at a police picket near district courts in the cantonment area here on Tuesday morning. The injured, including 14 policemen, were shifted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) and District Headquarters Hospital where five of them are in critical condition. Several civilians were wounded when the blast hit a minibus they were traveling in, causing it to crash, AFP reported.

29 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Bomber kills policeman, 2 civilians in Afghanistan
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Oct 29 -- A suicide bomber killed one policeman and two civilians in an attack on an Afghan convoy in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Monday, a Reuters witness said. "The bomber detonated explosive attached to his body in the Lashkar Gah bazaar this morning and killed two civilians, including one child and one Afghan police," said Reuters reporter Abdul Qudoos who witnessed the attack. Afghan police cordoned off roads in the area, but there was no sign of foreign troops at the scene.... There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

29 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills 28 at Iraqi police base
BAGHDAD, Oct 29 -- A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed 28 policemen at their base in the volatile Iraqi province of Diyala on Monday, police said, in one of the deadliest strikes on Iraq's security forces in months. The bomber entered the base and attacked a group of policemen -- members of a rapid reaction force -- doing their morning exercises, said Major-General Ghanim al-Quraishi, police chief of Diyala province. He said details of the bombing were confused because everyone at the scene had been killed or badly wounded. The base is in the city of Baquba, capital of Diyala province, where al Qaeda and other Sunni Arab insurgent groups as well as Shi'ite Muslim militias operate. At least 20 people were wounded in the attack, including a woman and a child, police said.... No group claimed immediate responsibility for the Baquba bombing, but it bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda, which has often used suicide bombers in attacks on Iraqi security forces to devastasting effect.

28 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide car bomber kills 7 in Iraq's Kirkuk
KIRKUK, Iraq, Oct 28 -- A suicide car bomber killed at least seven people on Sunday in a huge explosion that ripped through shops and set cars ablaze in the northern Iraqi oil centre of Kirkuk, police said. Some 25 people were also wounded in the blast, said Major- General Torhan Abdul-Rahman, deputy police chief of Kirkuk, a volatile city claimed by both Kurds and Arabs that has witnessed regular bomb attacks and shootings. Another police official put the death toll at eight.

27 October 2007
Daily Times
Indian police warn suicide bombers planning attacks in Mumbai
MUMBAI: Three suicide bombers are roaming Mumbai looking for new targets just over a year after a series of explosions tore through the city's commuter rail network killing 188 people, police warned on Friday. Police released sketches of the suspects but offered few other clues about the men or their possible whereabouts. The warning of potential bombers on the loose in India's financial and entertainment centre came weeks after the country's two key stock exchanges, both in Mumbai, received e-mailed bomb threats. The sender of the e-mails has not been identified.... Police did not say if the suspects whose sketches were released on Friday belonged to any known militant group, Muslim or otherwise.

26 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
MUQDADIYA -- A suicide bomber killed one civilian and wounded four others including three women outside a the office building of an anti-al Qaeda group in Muqdadiya, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

25 October 2007
New York Times
10 Suspected Taliban Killed in Clash
...Earlier Wednesday, a car bomb exploded near a convoy carrying a provincial governor in eastern Afghanistan, leaving nine people wounded. Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said that Arsallah Jamal, the governor of Khost province, was unhurt in the blast in Khost city, but five of his bodyguards and four civilians were wounded.

23 October 2007
Reuters Alertnet
Suicide raid on British convoy wounds three Afghans
KABUL, Oct 22 -- A suicide car bomber targeted a British convoy in southern Afghanistan on Monday, wounding three Afghan civilians, a provincial official and the British military said. There were no casualties among the troops, the official and military said. The raid on the convoy, which is part of the large NATO-led force in Afghanistan, occurred in Girishk district, Helmand province, a long-time bastion for Taliban guerrillas and the main drugs producing region of Afghanistan.

22 October 2007
Reuters Alertnet
Afghan Taliban deny link to Bhutto attack
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan, Oct 22 -- Afghanistan's Taliban do not attack outside Afghanistan and were not involved in an attack on former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi last week, an insurgent commander said on Monday.... But a commander of Afghanistan's Taliban, Mullah Hayatullah Khan, denied involvement. "The Afghan Taliban are not involved in any attacks in foreign countries," Khan said by telephone from an undisclosed location. "I want to tell you, we are not involved in the attack on Benazir Bhutto's convoy," he said.

21 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
FALLUJA -- A suicide car bomb targeting an Iraqi police checkpoint killed two policemen and wounded four others in northern Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

19 October 2007
Daily Times
132 killed in suicide attacks
KARACHI: At least 132 people were killed and hundreds injured late on Thursday night as suspected suicide bombers targeted former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on her return from eight years in self-imposed exile. Two explosions went off a minute apart shortly after midnight near Karsaz close to the vehicle Ms Bhutto was travelling in, at the head of a procession of hundreds of thousands of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) supporters who had flooded the streets of Karachi to welcome the return of their leader.... 'The blasts hit two police vehicles which were escorting the truck carrying Ms Bhutto. The target was the truck,' senior Karachi police official Azhar Farooqui told Reuters.... Faisal Edhi of the Edhi Foundation said at least 90 people had been killed and over 300 injured. Among the dead were said to be 20 policemen and several journalists.

17 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
JALAWLA -- A suicide truck bomber hit a Peshmerga checkpoint in Jalawla, 120 km (75 miles) northeast of Baghdad, killing one member of the Kurdish forces and wounding 10, police said.

16 October 2007
Reuters Alertnet
Security developments in Iraq
MOSUL -- A suicide truck bomb targeting a police station killed four policemen, a woman and wounded 80 people in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

15 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Afghan suicide bomber kills 3 family members
KABUL, Oct 15 -- A suicide bomber killed his mother, sister and 11-year-old brother when his explosives vest blew up prematurely in southern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. The blast occurred in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan on Sunday where mainly Dutch and Australian troops have suffered a number of casualties fighting Taliban insurgents.

15 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomb killed four people and wounded 25 others, most of them women and children, outside a park in al-Harthiya district in western Baghdad, police said. NEAR BALAD -- A suicide car bomb killed six members of a tribal police unit aligned to the U.S. military in an attack on a checkpoint near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

14 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
NEAR RAMADI -- Police major Waheed Dulaimi and four members of his family were killed in a suicide car bomb attack on his house in the town of Baghdadi northwest of Ramadi in western Anbar province, police said. Eight other people were wounded.

14 October 2007
Houston Chronicle
Suicide bomber kills 9 in crowded Afghan market
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber on a motorbike detonated his explosives in a crowded marketplace near Afghan police Saturday, killing nine people and injuring at least 29, officials said. The blast killed two police officers and seven civilians in the city of Spin Boldak in the southern province of Kandahar near the border with Pakistan, NATO's International Security Assistance force said in a statement.

13 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Taliban suicide bomber kills 7 in Afghanistan
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan, Oct 13 -- A suicide bomber killed one policeman and six civilians in southeastern Afghanistan close to the border with Pakistan on Saturday, a police commander said. Border police commander General Abdul Razak said the bomber rammed a motorcycle into a police vehicle near the bazaar in the centre of the town of Spin Boldak. Thirty more people were wounded in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

11 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Taliban suicide bombs not strategic threat - NATO
KABUL, Oct 11 -- The NATO-led force in Afghanistan on Thursday rejected Taliban rebel claims that suicide bombs were an effective weapon to drive out foreign troops, saying the effects on the military were strategically insignificant. The number of Taliban suicide attacks in Afghanistan - more than 100 so far this year - is set to top last year's record of 123, the United Nations says, and most victims are civilians.... "The number of ISAF and coalition soldiers who have been killed by suicide bombers this year is a total of nine. I am not implying that these losses are trivial ... but from a strategic standpoint it is not militarily significant," he said. The United Nations said last month that 183 Afghans were killed by suicide bombers during the first half of 2007 and 121 of them were civilians. Afghan forces, particularly the police, have borne the brunt of the other casualties. But more people have been killed since those figures were released. Three suicide bombs hit the capital, Kabul, in less than eight days, killing 28 Afghan soldiers, five Afghan police, one U.S. soldier and 14 Afghan civilians.

11 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded 25 in an attack on an Internet cafe near the district of New Baghdad in the east of the capital, police said. MOSUL -- A suicide truck bomber attacked a Kurdish army checkpoint in northeastern Mosul, wounding four Kurdish soldiers and four civilians, police said.

10 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
ZAAB -- A suicide truck bomber killed one Iraqi soldier and wounded five others, including two civilians, in an attack on an Iraqi army base in the town of Zaab, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, a police official said. Another police official reported seven casualties but no fatalities.

9 October 2007
New York Times
Car Bombs Kill 22 in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Two suicide car bombs killed at least 22 people in northern Iraq on Tuesday in attacks targeting a police chief and a Sunni Arab tribal leader working with U.S. forces to fight al Qaeda.... The police chief was wounded and the condition of the tribal leader was unclear, officials said.... The two suicide car bombs hit Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of the capital in Salahuddin province. Baiji is a major oil refining centre fed with crude oil and gas from the vast fields under the nearby city of Kirkuk.... Police said the other bomb was in a pick-up truck aimed at Baiji's police chief, Colonel Saad Nifous, who was wounded in the blast.... Police did not immediately have a breakdown of the 22 dead from the two separate attacks.

8 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Afghan suicide bomb misses foreign convoy, wounds kids
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Oct 8 -- A suicide bomber missed his target in southern Afghanistan on Monday, wounding three children instead of hitting a convoy of foreign troops, witnesses said. The blast happened close to a government building in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, a long-time bastion for Taliban insurgents and the main drug-producing region of the world's largest source of heroin. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

8 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
NEAR SAMARRA -- A suicide car bomber killed 10 civilians and wounded eight people, including three policemen, in an attack on a police station near the city of Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. NEAR TIKRIT -- A suicide truck bomber killed three people and wounded 13 at a police checkpoint near the city of Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

6 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide attack targets foreign troops in Kabul
KABUL, Oct 6 -- A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Saturday, killing two Afghan civilians, an Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman said, but there was no word of any foreign casualties. It was the third suicide bombing attack in Kabul in the past eight days and comes amid a Taliban offensive coinciding with the holy month of Ramadan.... Witnesses said they saw two bodies on the ground and said they appeared to be U.S. civilian or diplomatic staff.

4 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
TAL AFAR -- A suicide car bomber killed three people and wounded 57 in a market in Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said. Thirteen of the wounded were in a severe condition, they said.

3 October 2007
New York Times
Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 12 in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 2 -- A suicide bomber approached a bus carrying police officers and civilian employees of the Interior Ministry early Tuesday and attacked, killing at least 12 people, including at least one child, officials and witnesses said.... The Taliban, through a spokesman, claimed responsibility for the attack.... The victims included six police officers, five ministry employees and a child, Mr. Yaftoli said. Ten people were wounded, including four police officers who were in critical condition, he added.

3 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Taliban leader exhorts suicide bombers in video
KABUL, Oct 3 -- A Taliban leader in southern Afghanistan exhorted a group of about 200 followers to carry out suicide bomb attacks to drive foreign forces from the country in a video made available to Reuters on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear when the video was made, but it appeared a day after at least 11 people, including women and children, were killed in a suicide attack on a police bus in Kabul and four days after a similar attack on an army bus in the capital killed 30. "Suicide raids are very useful against the enemy," Mullah Mansour Dadullah told the masked followers, said to be suicide bombers, sitting in a flat desert area. "It is a success against the enemy military capabilities, or logistical capabilities. This can destroy them. I assure all of you that your raids affect the enemy very badly."

3 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomb wounds foreign soldier in Afghanistan
KABUL, Oct 3 -- A suicide bomber targeted a foreign military convoy in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, slightly wounding one soldier, said a spokesman for NATO-led forces. The attack came a day after a suicide bomb killed at least 11 people on a police bus in the capital Kabul, part of a Taliban offensive coinciding with the holy month of Ramadan.... Wednesday's attack came in the province of Uruzgan where Dutch troops are in command of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

2 October 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
KHALIS -- Suicide bomber killed a woman, a child, two other civilians and two policemen when he detonated his explosives outside a police station in the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad. Police said 10 people were wounded.

2 October 2007
Daily Times
Burqa bomber kills 16
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber disguised in a woman's burqa blew himself up at a busy police checkpost in Bannu, NWFP on Monday, killing at least 16 people including four policemen, officials said.... Examination of the remains 'confirmed that it was a male suicide bomber' wearing women's clothing, while initial reports of a possible female attacker had been discounted, Bannu police chief Ameer Hamza Mahsud said. 29 people injured: Interior Ministry spokesman Brig Javed Cheema said 16 people were killed and 29 were wounded and that authorities were investigating the blast. Officials said four women were among those killed.

29 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Bomb on Afghan army bus kills at least 27
KABUL, Sept 29 -- A Taliban suicide bomber killed 27 Afghan troops and an unknown number of civilians on Saturday in an attack on an army bus in the capital, Kabul, officials said. "So far the information that we have is that 27 Afghan National Army personnel were killed and 21 soldiers also on the bus were wounded," said army spokesman Zaher Murat. "There are also civilian casualties but we don't know the exact number." The Defence Ministry said the blast was caused by a suicide bomb. The Taliban claimed responsibility.

26 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide car bomber kills five Afghan border police
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan, Sept 25 -- A suicide car bomber rammed an Afghan border police convoy on Tuesday, killing five guards and wounding three others, a police official in the southern province of Kandahar said. The convoy was travelling through Spin Boldak, a town about 4 km (2 miles) from the border with Pakistan, when the bomber struck outside the district police headquarters.

26 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
MOSUL -- A suicide truck bomber targeting a court under construction killed three workers and wounded 47 others in Mosul, 390 kilometres (240 miles) north of Baghdad, Nineveh police chief Major-General Wathiq al-Hamadani said. SINJAR -- A suicide car bomber killed 10 people and wounded nine in an attack targeting a tribal leader near the town of Sinjar in northwest Iraq, local officials said.

25 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Car bomb kills 3, wounds 20 in Iraq's Basra
BASRA, Iraq, Sept 25 -- A suicide car bomb killed three people in an attack targeting a police station in the southern Shi'ite city of Basra on Tuesday, Iraqi police and a health official said. Basra police chief Major-General Abdul Jalil Khalaf blamed Sunni Islamist al Qaeda for an attack that he said also wounded five people. The health official said 20 people had been hurt. Car bombings are rare in Basra, the hub for Iraq's oil industry.

25 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
MOSUL -- A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up near a police colonel, wounding the officer and nine others in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

24 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
BAQUBA -- A suicide bomber killed 26 people including the police chief of the city of Baquba in a mosque compound where local Shi'ite and Sunni Arab leaders were holding reconciliation talks, police said. They said 50 people were wounded in the attack in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad. MOSUL -- A suicide truck bomb killed at least six people, including two policemen and a soldier, and wounded 17 in an attack on a checkpoint near a village between Tal Afar and Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

21 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
French soldier dies in attack in Kabul - police
KABUL, Sept 21 -- A suicide car bomber targetted a convoy carrying NATO troops on Friday in the Afghan capital, killing one French soldier of the alliance and wounding several Afghan civilians, police said.... A Taliban spokesman said the attack was carried out by a member of the group which is fighting to oust the Afghan government and drive out foreign troops from Afghanistan.

19 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber wounds eight Afghan police
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Sept 19 -- A suicide bomber wounded eight Afghan policemen on Wednesday in an attack in the restive southern province of Helmand, the provincial police chief said. Helmand is Afghanistan's most violent region with daily clashes between Taliban insurgents, who control large parts of the province, and Afghan, British and U.S. forces. Helmand is also Afghanistan's biggest opium-producing province. The bomber attacked a police vehicle near the town of Garmser, Helmand police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal told Reuters. Three of the officers were in a serious condition.

19 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
MOSUL -- A suicide car bomber targeting a U.S. military patrol wounded two civilians in Mosul, police said.

18 September 2007
Daily Times
3 killed in Baghdad suicide blast
BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car on Monday near a busy Baghdad market, killing three people and wounding 10, a police officer said. The 1:30pm blast apparently targeted a police patrol on the main street of the capitalâ??s Shiite district of Jamila, next to a bustling marketplace. Two policemen were wounded in the explosion, according to the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

18 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
JALAWLA -- A suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt in a mobile phone shop killing four people and wounding 14 others in the town of Jalawla, near the Iraq-Iran border, police said. MOSUL -- A suicide car bomber targeting an Iraqi military convoy wounded two soldiers in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, the army said. Soldiers managed to kill the bomber before he could reach the convoy.

17 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills 8 in southern Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept 17 -- A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a local government compound in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing four policemen and four civilians and wounding seven, the district chief said. He said the attack took place in the Naadali district of Helmand province, which has seen some of the worst violence between the resurgent Taliban on one side and Afghan and foreign troops on the other. The compound houses both the local government and police headquarters. "The suicide bomber entered the compound dressed in civilian clothes and blew himself up when he got close to the police," Naadali district chief Mahboob Khan told Reuters. The suicide attack came after Taliban insurgents vowed to launch massive operations across the country during the holy month of Ramadan. A Taliban spokesman said 15 to 20 policemen had been killed in the attack.

16 September 2007
Reuters Alertnet
Suicide bomber kills six in northern Iraq
BAGHDAD, Sept 16 -- A suicide bomber killed six people and wounded 18 at an outdoor cafe in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmato on Sunday, police said. The cafe was one of the few in the religiously and ethnically mixed town, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, which was serving food during daylight hours in the holy month of Ramadan, when observant Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. The bomber was wearing a belt filled with explosives and blew himself up at the cafe, police said. The bombing came a day after an al Qaeda-led group, the Islamic State in Iraq, announced a new phase of attacks to mark Ramadan, which started late last week. On Saturday evening a suicide car bomber killed 10 people and wounded 15 others in southwest Baghdad. Many were queuing outside a bakery to buy bread for the evening Ramadan meal.

15 September 2007
Reuters Alertnet
Baghdad bomb kills eight near police checkpoint
BAGHDAD, Sept 15 -- A suicide car bomber killed eight people and wounded 15 near a police checkpoint in southwest Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi police said. The explosion took place near a market in the predominantly Shi'ite district of Amil in the capital, and all the dead were believed to be civilians, police said.

14 September 2007
Daily Times
15 killed in blast at SSG mess
ISLAMABAD: At least 15 soldiers were killed and 11 injured in an apparent suicide blast at an army officers' mess in Tarbela Ghazi near Tarbela Dam on Thursday. Military spokesman Major-General Waheed Arshad said that 15 soldiers had been killed in the explosion and 11 wounded. He said the cause of the blast was being investigated, and it could have been a gas cylinder explosion rather than a suicide bombing. Another government official said the toll could rise as six soldiers were critically wounded. However, two intelligence officials told AP that it was a suicide attack, and that the bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the canteen where dozens of commandos of the Karar company of the Special Services Group (SSG) were eating. The Tarbela facility, about 100km south of Islamabad, is the headquarters of a counter-terrorism quick reaction force. Geo TV said the death toll was 20 killed and 25 injured in the blast.

14 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
BAIJI -- A suicide bomber rammed a truck laden with explosives into two police cars near Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, killing 10 people, a police source said.

12 September 2007
Daily Times
17 die in DI Khan blast
PESHAWAR: At least 17 people, including three security personnel and a woman, were killed and 16 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a passenger van at Bannu Adda in Dera Ismail Khan district on Tuesday, police officials said. Dera Ismail Khan District Police Officer (DPO) Mohammad Khaliq linked the suicide blast with deteriorating law and order in South and North Waziristan agencies. 'The police started chasing the suspect 15-year-old boy. The bomber jumped into the commuter van that was about to ply on Chashma Road and blew himself up when the police approached him for his body search,' Khaliq said, adding that two policemen and one Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldier were also killed.... Salahuddin, a Saddar Police Station official, told Daily Times via phone that a police mobile van was also parked near the passenger van at the time of the blast. 'The van was not the bomber's target, but he exploded the device when police approached him for a body search.'

11 September 2007
Daily Times
28 killed in Afghan attack
KANDAHAR: A suicide bomber on a motorbike set off his explosives in a crowded area in southern Afghanistan on Monday, and preliminary reports said up to 28 people were killed and about 60 wounded, officials said. The explosion went off in the town of Gereshk in Helmand province. Gereshk district chief Abdul Manaf Khan said about 28 people were killed, including 13 police and 15 civilians. Dr Tahir Khan said 23 people were killed and 59 wounded. The blast came at around 6:30pm in Gereshk's crowded main square, just before evening prayers. Khan said the explosion went off near a taxi stand.

10 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
NEAR MOSUL -- A suicide truck bomb killed 10 people and wounded 78 near the northern city of Mosul, police said. Police said the attack took place in the village of Tal Marag. SAQLAWIYA -- A suicide car bomb targeting a police checkpoint killed four people, including two policemen, and wounded two policemen on Sunday night in the town of Saqlawiya, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

9 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
MAHMUDIYA -- Two people were killed and six wounded when a suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle near an Iraqi army checkpoint in the town of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

9 September 2007
New York Times
Afghan Suicide Attacks Rising, Report Shows
KHOST, Afghanistan, Sept. 8 -- Taliban insurgents carried out 103 suicide bombings in Afghanistan in the first eight months of 2007, a 69 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a United Nations report that is expected to be issued publicly on Monday. The record number of attacks killed more than 200 people, 80 percent of them civilians. The report also found no evidence that suicide bombing techniques were migrating from Iraq to Afghanistan, a major fear of Afghan and American officials. Still, the statistics showed that Afghanistan endured the world's second-highest number of suicide attacks both in 2006 and so far in 2007, according to Mohammed M. Hafez, a visiting political science professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, who tracks suicide bombings.

9 September 2007
New York Times
Bomb Leaves 28 Dead in Algeria
ALGIERS, Sept. 8 -- A booby-trapped car exploded at a barracks housing coast guard officials on Saturday, killing at least 28 people, hospital officials said. It was Algeria's second terror attack this week. The explosion was in the northern coastal town of Dellys, about 30 miles from the capital, Algiers, as the local coast guard was taking part in the morning flag-raising ceremony. All the victims were coast guard officials, who are part of Algeria's armed forces, hospital officials said. Dozens more were wounded.... The attack occurred two days after a bombing killed at least 22 people in a crowd in eastern Algeria.

9 September 2007
International Herald Tribune
Qaeda unit takes responsibility for Algeria blasts
ALGIERS: The North African affiliate of Al Qaeda took responsibility Sunday for a car bombing that killed 30 coast guard officers and another recent blast that ripped through a crowd waiting for the president.... Al Qaeda in Islamic North Africa took responsibility in a statement posted on the group's Web site, and said it also was behind a blast Thursday that killed at least 22 in eastern Algeria.

8 September 2007
Daily Times
Suicide bombers may hit Islamabad markets
ISLAMABAD: Intelligence agencies have warned the Interior Ministry that three suicide bombers have entered Islamabad to target the capital's two busiest commercial centres, Jinnah Super and Super Market, in the next few days, sources told Daily Times on Friday. The sources said that the suicide bombers were linked to tribal militant Baitullah Mehsud, who is in the headlines these days for holding 240 troops including seven officers hostage in South Waziristan. They added that the Islamabad police had deployed special squads in and around Jinnah Super and Super Market following the warning.... Acting Inspector General of Islamabad Police Shahid Nadeem Baloch confirmed to Daily Times that the police had received a warning about the suicide bombers from the Interior Ministry. However, he did not disclose the number of suicide bombers. Meanwhile, the National Crisis Management Cell of the Interior Ministry has also directed the law enforcement agencies in Islamabad, and the provincial police and crime investigation departments to be vigilant about suicide bombers.

7 September 2007
New York Times
Algeria suicide attack kills 15
ALGIERS, Sept. 6 -- A suicide bomber detonated an explosive in the middle of a crowd awaiting a visit by Algeria's president on Thursday, killing 14 people and wounding at least 60, said Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni. The blast occurred in front of a mosque about 45 minutes before the scheduled arrival of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the town of Batna, about 280 miles southeast of the capital, Algiers. The police said a man 30 to 35 years old had carried the bomb in a bag and walked into the crowd at Al Atik mosque. He was behaving strangely, and onlookers alerted the police, the officials said. As officers responded, the man threw down the bag and tried to flee, but the bomb exploded, the police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

7 September 2007
BBC News Website
Suicide bomb kills 20 in Algeria
At least 20 people are now known to have been killed and 107 injured in a suicide bombing in Algeria. The attack happened on Thursday in the town of Batna, about 450km (279 miles) east of the capital, Algiers.

5 September 2007
Daily Times
Bomb blasts kill 25 in Rawalpindi cantonment
RAWALPINDI: At least 25 people were killed and 66 injured on Tuesday in two suicide bomb blasts in Rawalpindi cantonment's high security areas during morning rush hour, officials said. 'The initial investigation suggests that these were suicide attacks,' military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told Daily Times. The first blast took place at 7:15am near Qasim Market where a Defence Ministry bus carrying around 38 civilians and uniformed officials was hit, killing 18 people. Five minutes later, a second blast took place near RA Bazaar, behind General Headquarters. The police said the blast was caused by explosives fixed to a motorcycle, which blew up killing seven people on the spot. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig (r) Javed Iqbal Cheema said the blasts were suicide attacks probably carried out by the same terrorist network responsible for two attacks in Islamabad in July. He also suggested the blasts were an extension of events in the tribal areas.

4 September 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Three Afghan police killed in two suicide blasts
KABUL, Sept 4 -- Suicide attackers detonated two bombs in Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing three policemen, officials said, the latest in a rash of attacks amid a raging insurgency by Taliban guerrillas. The target of one bomber was a provincial official travelling in a vehicle in the southeastern province of Paktika, a Taliban bastion near the border with neighbouring Pakistan. The official survived, but one of his police bodyguards was killed and two were wounded, a provincial official said. In the second attack in the relatively secure northern province of Kunduz, the bomber detonated an explosives-packed car as police pursued him, the province's governor said. "Police were chasing the bomber when he blew the explosives. Two policemen were martyred and three wounded," Kunduz governor Mohammad Omar said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but inspired by insurgents in Iraq, the Taliban largely resort to suicide raids and roadside bomb attacks in their campaign against the government and Western troops stationed in Afghanistan.

31 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber strikes near Kabul airport, 1 dead
KABUL, Aug 31 -- A suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives near an entrance to the Afghan capital's airport early on Friday, killing at least one Afghan and wounding several other people, police and witnesses said. The blast occurred at the NATO controlled side of the combined civil and military airport, they said. An Afghan airport official said civilian flights to and from the airport continued as normal. "The bomber was in a car and tried to get into the airport through an entrance under the control of ISAF," said police official Ali Shah Paktiawal, referring to NATO's International Security Assistance Force.... It was not immediately clear who was behind the blast.

31 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
SAMARRA -- A suicide car bomb killed four police commandos and wounded seven others when it targeted their patrol in al-Jallam village near Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

30 August 2007
Daily Times
6 killed in blast near Pakistan border
KHOST: A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded bazaar in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing four civilians and two Afghan soldiers, a provincial governor told AFP. About a dozen other people, most of them civilians, were wounded in the attack near the Pakistani border, Paktika Governor Mohammad Akram Khepelwak told AFP. The blast was the second in as many days in the region. Three international soldiers were killed in a similar bombing at a bridge construction site on Tuesday in neighbouring Paktia province. The target of the attack in the district of Barmal appeared to be Afghan soldiers who were in the bazaar shopping, reports said.

28 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide blast kills 3 NATO soldiers in Afghan east
KABUL, Aug 28 -- Three NATO soldiers were killed and six wounded in a suicide raid on Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance said, in the latest spate of rising attacks on Western troops in recent days. The soldiers were working on a project at a bridge construction site when the bomber detonated explosives attached to his body, NATO said in a statement.

27 August 2007
Daily Times
4 cops killed, 2 injured in Swat suicide attack
MINGORA: Four policemen were killed and two others wounded in a suicide attack in the Machaar area of Shangla district on Sunday. One of the injured, who was stated to be in critical condition, was admitted to the Saidu Teaching Hospital in Swat. The suicide attacker riding an explosive-laden jeep rammed his vehicle into a police van, killing SHO Sher Ali Khan and three constables - Bakht Afsar, Hayat Khan and Nisar Alam. Bakht Alam and Khanda Bashar were injured and admitted to the Alpuri District Headquarters Hospital. Bashar was later shifted to the Saidu Teaching Hospital.

26 August 2007
Times of India
12 Taliban fighters killed at Pakistan-Afghanistan border
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN:...On Saturday, a suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a convoy of two four-wheel drive Land Cruisers on a main road leading out of the capital, said Ali Shah Paktiawal, chief of criminal investigations in the city. Interior Ministry spokesman Zemerai Bashary said two foreigners and four Afghans were injured. He said he did not know the nationalities of the foreigners or the extent of their wounds.

25 August 2007
Daily Times
Six soldiers killed in Waziristan
MIRANSHAH: Gunship helicopters pounded two different positions of suspected militants as six soldiers were killed in two suicide attacks on as many military convoys in North Waziristan, a military spokesman said on Friday. A convoy coming from Bannu was attacked by a suicide car-bomber near Kamar post, 18 kilometres east of Miranshah, killing five soldiers. Another convoy faced a suicide attack when it reached Dosali, 35 kilometres south of Miranshah, spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said, adding that a soldier was killed in the attack. He said the suicide attacks also injured 30 soldiers. The injured were rushed to a Bannu hospital.

22 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Afghan provincial governor survives suicide blast
KHOST, Afghanistan, Aug 22 -- The governor of Afghanistan's southeastern province of Khost survived an assassination attempt on Wednesday when a suicide car bomber struck his convoy, witnesses and officials said. At least three of governor Arsala Jamal's bodyguards were killed in the attack, which occurred close to a base for Western troops just outside Khost town, they said.

22 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
MUQDADIYA -- Six Iraqis were killed and 35 were wounded when a suicide bomber driving a motorbike hit a police patrol in a market in the town of Muqdadiya 90 km (56 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. BAIJI -- At least 20 people were killed and 50 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed a fuel tanker into Baiji police station, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said. Police and civilians were among the dead.

21 August 2007
Daily Times
6 soldiers killed in Hangu attack
HANGU: Six security personnel were killed and 18 others, including a civilian, were wounded on Monday when a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a checkpoint on Kurram Road in Tal tehsil of Hangu district, officials said.

20 August 2007
Daily Times
24 dead in fighting in Afghanistan
KABUL: ...Four security guards from a private firm were killed when a suicide bomber blew his car up on a highway between the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand - both badly hit by the Taliban insurgency, a police commander said. 'There was a suicide car-bomb against some private guards. Four guards were killed and three others were injured,' Helmand police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal told AFP. The guards were providing security for a road construction company in the volatile region, he said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. 'We did it,' said Yousuf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the group, in a telephone call to AFP from an undisclosed location.

20 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills three Pakistani soldiers
ISLAMABAD, Aug 20 -- A suicide bomber killed three Pakistani paramilitary soldiers and wounded eight on Monday in the latest incident in a wave of violence in the northwest of the country, police said. "A bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into a Frontier Corps checkpost and killed three soldiers," said Mahmood Alam, a police officer in Thal town, referring to a paramilitary force.

18 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide raid on US security firm kills 15 Afghans
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug 18 -- A suicide car bomb attack outside a base of a U.S. security firm on Saturday killed 15 people in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, witnesses and police said.... The blast happened close to a highway on the western outskirts of Kandahar city, they said. Police said it was a suicide car bomber. Witnesses said it was aimed at a U.S. security firm called USPI. A police vehicle and a passenger car were also hit by the explosion, witnesses said, adding three police were amongst the victims.... Kandahar's police chief, Sayed Agha Saqib, said 15 people had been killed in the attack. A Reuters reporter saw 15 bodies in the morgue of a hospital in Kandahar city. They included five police, three women and a child, he said, adding 18 more people were wounded in the blast. The attack came a day after a suicide bomber inside the city killed a district chief and three of his children at the gate of their home. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday's attack.

17 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills four members of Afghan family
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug 17 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed an Afghan district chief and three of his family members on Friday in their home in the southern city of Kandahar, witnesses and a police said. Khairuddin Kaka, the district chief for Zerai, one of his teenage daughters and two of his sons were killed when the bomber blew explosives attached to his body, they said. "The bomber knocked at the door of Kaka's house and blew himself up after the door was opened," said a policeman who witnessed the attack.

17 August 2007
BBC News Website
Iraq bomb death toll reaches 344
The governor of the Sinjar region of north-western Iraq has said 344 people died in Tuesday's multiple bomb attacks against the minority Yazidi community. He said another 400 people had been injured by the blasts and that he believed 70 others were still buried in the rubble of destroyed buildings.... US commanders have blamed al-Qaeda in Iraq for the attacks on the Yazidi villages, saying they fitted the profile of "spectacular" strikes expected by the group during the ongoing US "surge" operation.

16 August 2007
New York Times
Iraq toll at 250 in the Deadliest Attack of the War
BAGHDAD, Aug. 15 -- The toll in a horrific quadruple bombing in an area of mud and stone houses in the remote northern desert on Tuesday evening reached at least 250 dead and 350 wounded, several local officials said Wednesday, making it the deadliest coordinated attack since the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.... Security officials said that the devastation came when two pairs of truck bombs exploded about five miles apart in an area close to the Syrian border in what is known as the Shaam Desert. An official at the Interior Ministry in Baghdad said that precise information on the bombings was particularly difficult to obtain because the road between Sinjar and Tal Afar was partly controlled by extremist Sunni insurgents, who are suspected in the attack.

16 August 2007
Daily Times
Suicide squad planning attacks on I-Day busted
ISLAMABAD: Intelligence and law enforcement agencies have busted a gang of suicide bombers who had planned to carry out attacks on Independence Day, Interior Ministry spokesman Brig (r) Javed Iqbal Cheema said on Wednesday.

15 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
HILLA -- At least five people were killed and 12 wounded when a suicide car bomber attacked a judge's house in Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. MOSUL -- A suicide car bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol killed one policeman and wounded four others in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles ) north of Baghdad, police said.

14 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
TAJI -- Ten people were killed and six wounded when a suicide bomber blew up a fuel tanker on a bridge near the town of Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The bridge collapsed.

10 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills 4 in market in Iraq's Kirkuk
KIRKUK, Iraq, Aug 10 -- A suicide bomber struck a food and vegetable market in a Kurdish district of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday, killing at least four people and wounding 28, police said. A senior police officer in Kirkuk, Brigadier-General Sarhat Qadir, said it was an initial death toll. A policeman at Kirkuk Hospital said there were tens of casualties, but it was not immediately clear how many of those were wounded or killed. Sarhat said the bomber had been driving a vehicle packed with explosives but there were conflicting reports as to whether it had been a car or a truck.

10 August 2007
Daily Times
Security beefed up amid fears of suicide attacks
ISLAMABAD: Unprecedented security measures have been implemented in places vulnerable to suicide attacks and terrorist activities in the federal capital. Security has been tightened around the Parliament House, Aiwan-e-Saddar, Supreme Court, Prime Minister Secretariat and Pakistan Secretariat. Bunkers have been set up at all important routes and rooftops of police stations around the city. Security has also been intensified in hospitals. The Police has constructed a wall around the parking area of the Aabpara Police Station. Responsibilities have been assigned to Punjab Constabulary and Elite Force personnel to help the federal police. Commuters entering the city are being checked to prevent acts of terrorism. According to government sources, the security measures are being implemented as preparations for the approaching Independence Day are being carried out and police patrolling has also been enhanced. According to officials, the government has taken these security measures only to ensure the safety of citizens.

9 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
NEAR TAJI -- A suicide car bomb killed seven people and wounded eight near a market in Salih al-Khalaf village, north of Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military said. Another military statement said eight people were killed and 16 wounded.

8 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
BAQUBA -- A suicide bomber blew himself up in a barber shop, killing five people and wounding eight others in the Gatoon neighbourhood in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

6 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Truck bomb in northern Iraq kills 25 - police
BAGHDAD, Aug 6 -- A truck bomb in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar killed 25 people and destroyed about 10 homes on Monday, police said. Police said the bomb struck the town's mainly Shi'ite Saadeh district. About 30 people were believed to be wounded.

5 August 2007
Daily Times
23 die in suicide attacks, fighting
PARACHINAR: Nine people were killed and 43 injured when a suicide car bomber triggered an explosion at a busy bus station in Kurram Agency here on Saturday as security forces killed 10 militants when they attacked a checkpost in North Waziristan, officials said.... Dr Muhammad Hanif Jan of the Parachinar hospital told Daily Times that four people died instantly in the suicide car bombing while five others succumbed to their wounds in the hospital. He added that 43 injured people were being treated and the condition of some of them was critical.

5 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
MAHMUDIYA -- A suicide car bomb targeting a vehicle workshop killed two people and wounded five others at the entrance to the town of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. Four cars and three shops were destroyed.

3 August 2007
Daily Times
Policeman, militant die in failed suicide attack in Sargodha
LAHORE: A militant and a policeman were killed on Thursday when security forces foiled a suicide bombing at a police school in Sargodha. The militant tried to enter the police training facility with seven kilogrammes of explosives strapped to his body as dozens of recruits ended their morning parade, Sargodha police chief Sheikh Omar told AFP.... He said security officials at the gate of the school stopped the suspect, in his early 20s, who pulled out a pistol and opened fire, killing one police officer and wounding another. A hand grenade was also found on his corpse.... Police said the attack appeared to be a 'continuation' of attacks on police and the army in apparent revenge for the siege and storming of the pro-Taliban Lal Masjid in Islamabad, in which more than 100 people died.

2 August 2007
Daily Times
Mystery caller tells CPLC there are 8 suicide bombers in city
KARACHI: The Karachi police have panicked after receiving unconfirmed information that over eight suicide bombers, who could attack the police headquarters and other places, are in the city. An unidentified person telephoned the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) Tuesday night and informed spokesman Riaz that he (the caller) had heard this information while sitting at Madni hotel, located near Daakhana, Liaquatabad. The person told Riaz that over four persons were sitting behind him and were talking about the plans for a 'suicide bombing on the police headquarters when the applicants will be sitting their test'. The caller told Riaz that he also heard them say that their mission was in the final stage for which over eight would be suicide bombers had arrived in the city.

2 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide car bomb kills 13 at Iraq police station
BAGHDAD, Aug 2 -- A suicide bomber drove a car bomb into an Iraqi police station on Thursday, killing 13 people, while politicians prepared for a summit to restore a coalition government after the main Sunni group quit.... A police source said the bomber struck recruits lined up to join the police force in the town of Hibhib, north of Baghdad. The dead included six policemen and seven civilians. Fifteen people were wounded.

1 August 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber killed 50 people and wounded 60 after luring motorists to a fuel truck near a petrol station in Baghdad's western Mansour district, police said. BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomb killed 20 people and wounded 40 near al-Hurriya Square in the Karrada district of central Baghdad, police said.

31 July 2007
BBC News Website
Suicide attack on troops in Kabul
A suicide car bomber has blown himself up near a convoy of US-led coalition troops in Afghanistan, wounding at least six people, officials said. The bomber attacked the convoy outside Camp Phoenix, a US base near the capital, Kabul, they said. The US-led coalition confirmed the attack and said three of the wounded were soldiers.... A statement from the US-led coalition said three Afghan civilians and three coalition service members were wounded.... Taleban rebels said they had carried out the attack.

31 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide car bomb hits U.S. convoy in Afghan capital
.... On Monday, a Taliban bomber on foot blew himself up among a group of Afghan soldiers in the northern town of Kunduz, officials said. Thirteen people, including seven soldiers, were wounded in that attack.

30 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
NEAR BALAD -- A suicide fuel truck bomb targeting an Iraqi army and police checkpoint killed four people and wounded six near the town of Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said.

28 July 2007
New York Times
Attack and Protests Over Red Mosque Reopening
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 27 -- A suicide bomber killed at least 13 people here in the capital on Friday as hundreds of angry protesters clashed with the police when the government tried to reopen for prayers a militant mosque that was the scene of a violent siege this month.... Javed Iqbal Cheema, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said the suicide bomber on Friday had apparently sought to kill the security forces. Seven police officers were killed and 14 wounded, he said, according to the state-run news agency. Six civilians were killed and 47 wounded, he said.

27 July 2007
New York Times
Bomb Kills 25 in Baghdad After U.S. Cites Security Success
BAGHDAD, July 26 -- ...A suicide bomber also killed seven people, most of them policemen, at the gate of a police station west of Mosul, said Brig. Gen. Muhammad al-Waqaa, of the police.

26 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Bombs mar Baghdad soccer celebrations, kill 50
BAGHDAD, July 25 -- Gunfire erupted across Baghdad and Iraqis danced in the streets on Wednesday after their soccer team's historic Asian Cup win, but two suicide car bombs marred the war-ravaged nation's rare moment of unity. Police said a suicide car bomb exploded near a crowd of jubilant Iraqis, killing 30 and wounding 75 in Baghdad's Mansour area. Soon after, another suicide attack at an army checkpoint in east Baghdad killed another 20 people and wounded 60, many of them soccer fans celebrating nearby, police said.

25 July 2007
Daily Times
Iraq-style attacks likely here: FIA
ISLAMABAD: Militants in the tribal areas are planning Iraq-style suicide car bombings in Pakistan capable of destroying everything within 500 metres, FIA sources told Daily Times on Tuesday. The car bomb attacks were most likely to target military convoys, government installations and public places, particularly in tribal areas, they said, adding that Islamabad was also a target. They said that the DI Khan police had seized such a car on July 13, two days after the Lal Masjid operation. The car had carried 109 mortar bombs, two anti-tank mines, seven suicide jackets and other explosive devices, they said. They said special experts were needed to make and plant these explosives in a car.

24 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Car bomb in Iraq's Hilla kills 22 - police
BAGHDAD, July 24 -- A suicide car bomb killed 22 people and wounded 66 in a crowded market in the Iraqi town of Hilla on Tuesday, police said.

22 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills five near Baghdad - police
BAGHDAD, July 22 -- Five people were killed when a suicide bomber drove a minivan packed with up to half a tonne of explosives into a house where Sunni tribal leaders opposed to al Qaeda were meeting north of Baghdad on Sunday, police said. Police sources in Taji, about 20 km (12 miles) north of the Iraqi capital, said the five killed were all local Sunni tribal chiefs. Twelve others were wounded. A U.S. military unit at the scene later said tribal leaders were not among those killed and that the attack was carried out by two suicide bombers, who were among the five dead.

20 July 2007
Daily Times
Bombers target Chinese, police, military, 51 killed
QUETTA/PESHAWAR: Suicide bombers struck in the industrial town of Hub in Balochistan, and at a police training centre in Hangu and at a mosque in Kohat in NWFP, on Thursday, killing a total of 51 people and injuring several dozen others. At least 29 people, including seven police officers, were killed and around 50 injured in a suicide attack at the Gadani Bus Stop in Hub at around 8:40am, police said. "It was a suicide attack that was targeted at Chinese engineers working in Balochistan," Tariq Masood Khosa, Balochistan's Inspector General of Police, told Daily Times.... Local police said that a 50-kilogram bomb had been fixed inside the car.... Police targeted in Hangu: At least seven people were killed and 35 injured when a suicide bomber set off his explosives-packed car at the Hangu Police Training College (PTC), police said. Police official Rehman Gul Khan said...the explosion killed a police constable, along with five civilians, and injured around 35 people including seven policemen.... Army mosque attacked in Kohat: At least 15 people, including a prayer leader and two children, were killed and many wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in the Pathan Lines Centre, Kohat Cantt, during Isha prayers, police said. Most of the victims were army officials.

19 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide blast kills 1 outside Afghan police station
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, July 19 -- A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a police station in northeastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing one civilian and wounding 11, police said. The bombing, in the town of Faizabad, was the first suicide attack in the far northeast of Afghanistan, regarded as one of the safer regions of the country and a long way from the Taliban heartlands in the south.

19 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Bombs in north and south Pakistan kill at least 26
ISLAMABAD, July 19 -- .... In the far northwest, a car bomber blew himself up at a police training centre in the city of Hangu early on Thursday, killing at least seven people.... The bomber in Hangu tried to enter the police training centre just as young recruits were going in for training. "The attacker tried to crash through the gate. He blew himself up as security guards at the gate tried to stop him," said Fakhr-e-Alam, top administration official of the city. "Six policemen and a passerby were killed." A police official said 13 people had been wounded.

18 July 2007
Daily Times
Suicide attack kills 16 at CJP rally
ISLAMABAD: A suicide bomber struck outside the venue of a lawyers rally here on Tuesday, killing 16 people and injuring at least 63, including 10 police officials, according to hospital sources.... There was no immediate indication of who carried out the attack or whether it was linked to a spate of bombings and suicide attacks in the NWFP and tribal areas in recent days that have been blamed on religious extremists.

18 July 2007
Daily Times
4 die in Waziristan suicide attack
MIRANSHAH: A suicide attack killed four people including three soldiers at a security check-post in North Waziristan on Tuesday, the second in the region since the LaL Masjid operation and the first since local Taliban militants pulled out of a peace agreement with the government. Eyewitnesses said the suicide bomber, who appeared to be in his 40s, walked towards the checkpoint in Kajhri, 35 kilometres east of Miranshah, and blew himself up as he mingled with soldiers manning the post. Three soldiers, a civilian and the bomber died in the attack, and two people were injured, military spokesman Maj-Gen Waheed Arshad told Daily Times by phone from Rawalpindi. "Security forces ordered a truck to stop. A man got down from the vehicle then walked up to the post and blew himself up," Gen Arshad told AFP.

18 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide blast hits diplomatic convoy in Kabul
KABUL, July 18 -- A suicide bomber hit a Turkish diplomatic convoy on the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Wednesday, wounding one Afghan civilian, police said, and shots were fired at one of the vehicles, wounding a Turkish guard. Hours after the attack, two suicide bombers dressed as Afghan army soldiers attacked the main police station in the southeastern town of Khost and killed three policemen.... The Taliban claimed responsibility for all the attacks.

17 July 2007
New York Times
Attacks in Kirkuk and Diyala Kill More Than 100 Iraqis
BAGHDAD, July 16 -- A suicide bomber in the volatile northern city of Kirkuk on Monday crashed his truck into a compound that includes offices of a major Kurdish political party, killing 85 people. Many victims were women and children, shopping in the busy market next to the political offices, who were engulfed by a large fireball.... The explosion flung bodies throughout the outdoor market and left some of the 185 people who were wounded shouting wildly for help as they ran through the streets with their clothes and hair on fire, witnesses said.... Another suicide bomber driving a Volkswagen attacked a police patrol in southern Kirkuk, killing one policeman and seriously wounding 10 others, the police said.

16 July 2007
Daily Times
45 dead and 108 injured in suicide bombings in Swat and DI Khan: Religious extremists carry out revenge attacks
PESHAWAR: Up to 45 people were killed and over a hundred injured in suicide bombings targeting security forces in NWFP on Sunday in apparent revenge attacks by extremists for the Lal Masjid operation. Eleven security personnel and six civilians were killed and 47 others injured in Matta, Swat, when suicide bombers smashed two cars packed with explosives into an army convoy, officials said. And 25 people were killed and 61 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Dera Ismail Khan Police Lines on Sunday, police said.... Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao said the two attacks could be a militant response to the Lal Masjid assault. Sunday's first attack occurred between 7:00am and 7:40am, when two cars packed with explosives rammed into a convoy of several vehicles passing through Matta bazaar in Mingora, Swat.... At about 4:15pm, a suicide bomber blew himself up at DI Khan Police Lines as candidates took police entrance exams. Police official Safiullah told Daily Times that a total of 26 people were killed, including 12 policemen and the suicide bomber, and 61 others were wounded.

16 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Four policemen and a civilian killed and 20 other people wounded by a suicide car bomb near a police checkpoint in al-Harthiya in western Baghdad, police said.

15 July 2007
Daily Times
Suicide bomber kills 23 FC troops
MIRANSHAH/PESHAWAR: At least 23 paramilitary troops died and 27 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into their convoy on Saturday in one of the deadliest attacks on the security forces in North Waziristan this year.... A senior administration official said the attack took place 20 kilometres southeast of Miranshah when a FC convoy was heading towards Miranshah from the Razmak area.

14 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Eight Pakistani soldiers killed in suicide blast
ISLAMABAD, July 14 -- A suicide car-bomber killed eight Pakistani paramilitary soldiers and wounded 20 on Saturday in an attack that might have been linked to an army assault on a radical mosque in the capital, a military spokesman said. The attacker rammed his car into a paramilitary convoy in the North Waziristan attack on the Afghan border, 20 km (12 miles) southeast of the region's main town of Miranshah. It was the second attack on security forces in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday.

13 July 2007
Daily Times
7 including 3 cops killed in NWFP attacks, blasts
PESHAWAR: Seven people including three policemen were killed and several others injured in two suicide attacks, two blasts and a rocket attack in three tribal regions and Swat district in the NWFP on Thursday.... Tribal areas security chief Arbab Arif said that North Waziristan political agent Pirzada Khan escaped unhurt in a suicide attack at his office in Miranshah. However, two government employees were killed and another three including pro-Taliban cleric Maulvi Gul Rehman were injured in the attack.... The Taliban have, however, denied involvement in the suicide attack on the North Waziristan political agent.... In Swat, a suicide bomber killed three policemen - Sub-Inspector Taj Maluk and constables Riaz and Islam Gul - by detonating the explosives wrapped around his waist. The suicide attack came moments after a military convoy passed through the area, police officer Abdur Rashid Khan told Daily Times. "It was a very powerful explosion which destroyed the bridge. The bomber(s) must have aimed for the army convoy," he said, adding that it was not clear how many bombers were riding in the Suzuki car used in the attack.

12 July 2007
New York Times
Suicide Bombing Outside Algiers Kills 10 Soldiers at Military Post
ALGIERS, July 11 -- A suicide bomber blew up a refrigerator truck loaded with explosives at a military encampment outside this capital on Wednesday, killing 10 soldiers and wounding 35, a security official said. Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, the region's most active terrorist group, claimed responsibility for the attack, the TV network Al Jazeera reported. The bombing came on opening day of the Africa Games, one of the continent's biggest sporting events, with competitions staged here in Algiers and the towns of Blida, south of the capital, and Boumerdes, to the east.

12 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Seven killed by suicide bomber at Iraqi wedding
BAGHDAD, July 12 -- Seven guests celebrating the wedding of an Iraqi policeman were killed on Thursday by a suicide bomber in the northern town of Tal Afar, police said. The bomber tried to force his way into the party and detonated a suicide vest when some of the guests blocked his path, police said. Four people were wounded in the attack, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad. It was not clear how many casualties, if any, were police, or if the bride or groom were among those hurt.

11 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
FALLUJA -- A suicide motorcycle bomber attacked a police patrol on Tuesday, wounding two policemen in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD -- Police found 200 suicide belts and packs of explosives on a truck that had entered Iraq from neighbouring Syria, the Interior Ministry said. The truck had been stopped along the Syrian-Iraqi border.

10 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Taliban suicide bomber kills 17 Afghan civilians
KABUL, July 10 -- A suicide bomber killed 17 Afghan civilians, including 12 school children, on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said, in an attack aimed at Dutch NATO troops patrolling a crowded bazaar in the south of the country. Some 30 people, including seven Dutch soldiers, were wounded in the attack in the small town of Deh Rawud in Uruzgan province, officials said.... Taliban guerrillas, fighting foreign troops and the Afghan government, claimed responsibility for the bombing...A Taliban spokesman said another suicide bomber attacked a convoy of NATO troops near the southern city of Kandahar late on Tuesday, destroying two vehicles. A NATO spokeswoman confirmed there was an attack, but said it resulted in only minor injuries.

10 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Three Iraqi soldiers and four policemen were killed on Monday when a suicide car bomber rammed their checkpoint in south Baghdad, U.S. military said on Tuesday.

9 July 2007
New York Times
Around 150, Death Toll in Iraq Attack Among War's Worst
BAGHDAD, July 8 -- The death toll from a suicide truck bombing in a remote village in northern Iraq rose to around 150 on Sunday, making it one of the deadliest single bombings, if not the deadliest, since the 2003 invasion.... The police in Amerli said that the truck used in Saturday's attack concealed 4.5 tons of explosives beneath watermelons.... Casualty counts conflicted. Some officials put the toll between 130 and 150, but Col. Abbas Mohammed Ameen, the police commander of Tuz Khurmato, a town about 15 miles away, said the toll was 155 dead and 265 wounded.

8 July 2007
New York Times
Truck Bomb Levels Section of Iraqi Village, Killing 105
BAGHDAD, July 7 -- A suicide truck bomber killed at least 105 people in a single blast north of Baghdad on Saturday, police officials said, leading to further fears that insurgents who fled intense military operations in Baghdad and Diyala are turning to targets away from the American troop buildup. The explosives-laden truck demolished dozens of fragile clay-built houses and shops in Amerli, a village of poor Shiite Turkmen about 70 miles north of Baquba, the largest city in Diyala. The Iraqi police said that in addition to the dead, at least 240 people were wounded.... The attack in Amerli, and a similar blast hours earlier in a village not far away that killed 17 people and wounded six, showed the insurgents' ability to single out defenseless civilians well outside Baghdad and the surrounding region, where five new American combat brigades arrived this year.... The attack in Amerli came 12 hours after a suicide car bomber sped into a bustling market on Friday night in Zarkush, a Shiite-dominated farming district 40 miles northeast of Baquba, according to the local police. No groups claimed immediate responsibility for the two blasts, but both were suicide attacks against scores of Shiite civilians, a hallmark of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and other extremist Sunni groups.... A suicide car bomber killed four Iraqi Army soldiers and wounded another at a checkpoint in the eastern part of the capital, an Interior Ministry official said.

8 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Bomber kills 23 army recruits, weekend toll at 250
BAGHDAD, July 8 -- A suicide bomber killed 23 Iraqi recruits hours after they joined the army when he rammed a truck into their vehicle near Baghdad on Sunday, in one of wave of attacks that killed 250 people over the weekend.... Police and army officials said the bomber who targeted the recruits drove into a truck carrying the young Sunni Arab men to Baghdad just after they had joined the army in western Anbar province. They said 27 recruits were wounded in the attack near the town of Haswa.

8 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- One U.S. soldier was killed and three wounded on Sunday by a suicide car bomb near their patrol west of the Iraqi capital, the military said. HILLA -- A suicide car bomber and three accomplices were killed when their bomb detonated prematurely in this southern Shi'ite city, police said. The car's driver was believed to be foreign.

7 July 2007
Daily Times
Dir suicide attack kills four troops
CHAKDARA: Four Pakistan Army troops, including a major and a lieutenant, were killed on Friday in an improvised explosive device attack on a military convoy in Dir - a stronghold of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the banned Tehrik Nifaz-e-Shariah Muhammadi.... The attack is the second such in as many days and comes after cleric Fazlullah in Swat gave a call to his supporters for "jihad" on his illegal FM radio channel following the action against two Lal Masjid mullahs and their supporters.... Agencies add: Police said the suicide bomber, who was riding a bicycle, killed four security officials. They are Major Afaq, Lieutenant Zia, Tanvir and Barkat. The driver of the convoy sustained injuries and was admitted to Bat Khela Hospital in critical condition.

6 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide car bomb wounds two UK troops in Afghanistan
KABUL, July 6 -- A suicide car bomber attacked NATO-led forces near the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, wounding two British soldiers, Afghan police chief General Ali Shah Paktiwal told Reuters.... Two soldiers from the International Security Assistance Force suffered minor wounds in the attack, said an ISAF spokeswoman, but she declined to give their nationalities. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had killed several foreign troops.

6 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
RAMADI - A Saudi man was detained while trying to carry out a suicide bomb attack in a truck carrying canisters of chloride in the western Sunni city of Ramadi on Friday, police said.

5 July 2007
Daily Times
6 soldiers killed in North Waziristan suicide attack
MIRANSHAH: A suicide car bomber attacked a military convoy near North Waziristan on Wednesday, killing eight people, including six soldiers, and injuring 12 others, a military spokesman and witnesses said. ISPR Director General Maj Gen Waheed Arshad told Daily Times on the phone from Islamabad that the convoy was heading towards Bannu from Miranshah when a suicide bomber attacked it in front of a madrassa in the Gurbaz area. "Six jawans were martyred in what appears to be a suicide attack," Arshad said, adding that linking the attack to the events in Islamabad could only be "speculation". "One can speculate but there is no evidence... the army has been attacked in this area before," he said.

5 July 2007
New York Times
Bombs, Gunmen and a U.S. Copter Crash Claim Lives in Iraq
BAGHDAD, July 4 -- As the American Embassy held a subdued Independence Day celebration under heavy security in the Green Zone, assassinations, roadside bombs and a suicide car bomb took the lives of at least 46 Iraqis.... On Wednesday evening a car bomber struck a police checkpoint on the heavily traveled highway that runs between Baghdad and the Syrian and Jordanian border. Fifteen people were killed, including seven policemen at the checkpoint, just east of Ramadi. Eight civilians, who were in cars waiting to get through the checkpoint, also died, said Hamid Awda, a doctor at Raed Hospital in Ramadi.

5 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills five Afghan police
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan, July 5 -- A suicide bomber dressed as a policeman killed five Afghan police and wounded 11 more as he sat with them on Thursday at a checkpoint in the southeastern town of Spin Boldak, a border police chief said. "One man dressed in a police uniform sat with police as they waited for their lunch and blew himself up, killing five policemen and wounding 11," Border Police General Abdul Raziq Khan told Reuters. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack.

4 July 2007
Daily Times
Suicide bomber hits US-led convoy in Afghanistan
KABUL: A Taliban suicide bomber targeted a US-led coalition convoy on Tuesday in Afghanistan, but there was no immediate report of any casualties, as Afghan police reported they had arrested an Arab suicide bomber who had been preparing to attack high-profile officials. The Taliban suicide bombing, part of rising violence in recent months by insurgents, happened in Logar province which lies to the south of Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. A spokesman for the coalition confirmed the raid, but had no further information. Meanwhile, Afghan police presented a "self-confessed" member of Al Qaeda to the media in Kabul. Speaking in Arabic, the man identified himself as a 35-year-old Saudi national named Yousuf Ibrahimi, adding that he had been organising a suicide attack targeted at "high-ranking Afghan officials and especially foreigners". "He was taking coordinates and preparing for a suicide attack," said Kabul criminal investigation police chief, General Alishah Paktiawal.

4 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
BAIJI - A suicide car bomber killed three policemen and four civilians outside a restaurant in Baiji, 180 km (120 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Eighteen people were wounded.... BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber killed two policemen and wounded seven officers in an attack on a police checkpoint in western Baghdad, police said.

3 July 2007
New York Times
Suicide Bomber Attacks Tourists at Yemen Temple, Killing 9
SANA, Yemen, July 2 -- A suicide bomber drove into a convoy of Spanish tourists visiting an ancient Yemeni temple, officials said, killing seven Spaniards and two Yemenis less than two weeks after the United States issued a terrorism warning about the area. No one claimed responsibility for the attack in central Marib Province, about 85 miles east of the capital, Sana, but the police said they received information last month about a possible attack by Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda has an active presence in Yemen, the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden, despite government efforts to fight the terrorist network.... Spain's foreign minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, said seven of the dead and five of the wounded were Spaniards.

3 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
NEAR FALLUJA -- A suicide car bomb targeting a prominent tribal leader in Falluja, Sheik Kamel Mohammed al-Essawi, killed four civilians and wounded 10 others, police said. Al-Essawi opposes al-Qaeda in Iraq.

2 July 2007
Daily Times
Airstrikes kill 107 including 45 Afghan civilians
GIRISHK: Elders in an area of southern Afghanistan pounded by foreign forces' air strikes against the Taliban said they had recovered the bodies of 45 civilians with 62 rebels also dead, while a suicide bomber blew himself up near a NATO convoy, a mayor said on Sunday.... Meanwhile, a suicide bomber blew himself up on Sunday near a NATO convoy in Grishk, officials and a witness said. Two Afghan passers-by were also wounded in the bombing, local police commander Amanullah told AFP. Another official said a vehicle of NATO's ISAF was on fire but he had no information about military casualties. "It was a suicide bombing on a NATO convoy. One NATO military vehicle is in flames right now," Alisha told AFP. The ISAF media office in Kabul could not immediately confirm the attack.

1 July 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Car bomb kills 5 policemen in Ramadi
BAGHDAD, July 1 -- A suicide car bomber killed five policemen in Ramadi on Sunday in the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar, Iraqi police said. Police Captain Abbas al-Dulaimi said the attack was aimed at a police station in the eastern side of Ramadi, a restive city 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad. Dulaimi said 14 people had been wounded in the blast, including three policemen, and he warned that the casualty count might rise.

30 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
At least six Iraqis killed by suicide bomber
BAGHDAD, June 30 -- A suicide bomber dressed as a policeman killed at least six people on Saturday when he blew himself up outside a police recruitment centre north east of Baghdad, an Iraqi army source said. The source said 30 people were wounded when the bomber detonated his explosives beside a queue of people waiting to enter the recruitment office. A separate witness said the death toll was much higher from the attack in al-Muqdadiya, 90 km (50 miles) north east of Baghdad.

29 June 2007
Daily Times
2 Americans among 4 killed in Kabul suicide attacks
KABUL: Two suicide car bombs ripped into security vehicles in Kabul on Thursday, killing two foreigners and two Afghans, officials said, also reporting that the Taliban had beheaded three policemen. The bomber exploded his car near the vehicle of a private security company involved in mentoring the Afghan police, Afghan security officials said. "Two Americans are dead and five Afghan civilians are wounded," city's criminal investigation chief Alishah Paktiawal said.... The Taliban claimed responsibility.... The second suicide bomb on Thursday struck a vehicle of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in a remote area of the eastern province of Paktika, ISAF and an eyewitness said. "It was a car bomb," ISAF spokesman Major John Thomas said. "We have got ISAF casualties and local casualties ... from what we know now they are all injuries," he said. A witness, Mohammad Shah, said the attacker had driven an explosive-filled car into an ISAF vehicle near a hospital being built with help from the foreign forces.

29 June 2007
BBC News Website
Thirteen die in Kashmir clashes
...The police claimed to have foiled a suicide attack in the border district of Kupwara by intercepting a vehicle carrying the militants on Thursday. Three militants were killed in the ensuing fighting, the police said. A civilian woman was also killed.

27 June 2007
Daily Times
'Suicide bombers are in Islamabad'
LAHORE: Suicide bombers are presently in Islamabad and could target important personalities, Geo television quoted Interior Ministry Spokesman Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema as saying during a news briefing in Islamabad on Tuesday. According to the channel, Cheema said intelligence agencies had reported that suicide bombers had entered the federal capital to target some important people, but didn't include the names of any of the bombers' potential targets. He said President Musharraf had approved a four-point strategy to stop Talibanisation and extremism in tribal areas and other parts of NWFP. Staff Report adds: Cheema said the government would not allow anyone to use Pakistani soil to carry out terrorist activities.

27 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomb targeting a police commando checkpoint killed one policeman and wounded three other officers in the al-Jaderiyia district of southern Baghdad, police said.

25 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Car bombing in Iraq's Hilla kills 8, wounds 25
BAGHDAD, June 25 -- A suicide car bomb attack killed eight people and wounded 25 in the Iraqi city of Hilla on Monday, police said. They said the attack took place outside the governor's office in the centre of the largely Shi'ite city, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad. One witness said the car blew up at the fence of the governor's compound. Another said the bomber blew up his vehicle at a checkpoint outside. Officials blame most car bomb attacks in Iraq on Sunni Islamist al Qaeda.

25 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bombers kill 18 people in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 25 -- A suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 18 when he rammed a fuel tanker into protective walls outside a police headquarters in Iraq's northern oil city of Baiji on Monday, police said.... In Baiji, police captain Ghazwan al-Janabi told Reuters the bomber rammed the fuel tanker into protective blast walls outside the police headquarters in the city, 180 km (110 miles) north of the capital. Janabi said police and prisoners kept in the facility were among the dead and wounded and that up to 80 percent of the building had been destroyed.

25 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Ten killed in Baghdad hotel suicide attack-police
BAGHDAD, June 25 -- Ten people were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber wearing an explosives-packed vest blew himself up inside a central Baghdad hotel used by foreigners and Iraqi officials, police said. Police said the bomber had walked into the busy lobby of the Mansour Hotel, where Sunni Arab tribal leaders from western Anbar province had gathered for a meeting.... Police said at least 15 people were wounded.

25 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Death toll in N.Iraq bomb attack rises to 27-police
BAGHDAD, June 25 -- The death toll from a suicide truck bomb attack on a police building in the northern Iraqi oil city of Baiji on Monday rose to 27, with 13 police among the dead, police said. They said 62 people had also been wounded when the suicide bomber rammed his fuel tanker into protective walls outside the building.

24 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Car bomb kills 6 U.N. soldiers in south Lebanon
KHIYAM, Lebanon, June 24 -- A car bomb, "most likely" driven by a suicide bomber, killed six U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon on Sunday, a police source said. It was the first deadly attack on the 13,000-strong United Nations force since last year's Israel-Hezbollah war and drew swift condemnation from the United States, France and others. The police source said a mangled car was found at the scene with human remains inside. Security sources had said earlier the blast was caused by a roadside bomb detonated by remote control. A United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) statement said six soldiers had been killed and two wounded in the attack. Earlier, Spanish Defence Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said two Spanish and three Colombian peacekeepers, all serving in the Spanish army, had been killed in the blast. The ministry later confirmed one of three wounded Spanish soldiers had subsequently died.

22 June 2007
Daily Times
Taliban hunt NATO spies, focus on Kabul bombings
LONDON: A Taliban spokesman in Afghanistan told BBC on Thursday that they were hunting for NATO spies who had "infiltrated" the movement and that they were aiming to mount more Iraq-style suicide bombings on Kabul. Taliban spokesman Zabiyullah Mujahed, believed to be hiding somewhere in southern Afghanistan, admitted that NATO forces had penetrated the Taliban movement but said the damage was limited.... The spokesman also admitted that the Sunday suicide bombing in Kabul killing 35 people demonstrated a new approach in using suicide bombers. "It is true we are increasing our pressure on Kabul, because Kabul is the capital and the foreign troops are concentrated there," he said. "Our goal is ... the independence and freedom of our country." The spokesman said a lot of people were volunteering at suicide bombing centre. "A lot of people are volunteering at our suicide bombing centre. We need time to train them to attack the right targets - avoiding killing civilians," he said.

21 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide truck bomber kills 13 in N.Iraq attack
BAGHDAD, June 21 -- A suicide truck bomber killed at least 13 people when he rammed his vehicle into the municipal headquarters of a northern Iraqi town on Thursday, collapsing part of the building and demolishing nearby houses, police said. Police said the blast took place in Sulaiman Bek, a town 90 km (55 miles) south of Kirkuk. They said the dead included women and children and that at least 35 people had been wounded. Many houses had been caught in the blast. Captain Farhad Shwani, a policeman based in Kirkuk, said police were pulling bodies from the rubble and that dozens had been killed or wounded in the blast.

20 June 2007
Reuters Alert Net
Death toll in Iraq mosque bombing climbs to 87
BAGHDAD, June 20 -- The death toll from a suicide truck bombing that partly demolished a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday has risen to 87 overnight, police said on Wednesday. Doctors had warned that the toll, which police initially put at 78, could rise because many of the wounded were badly hurt.

19 June 2007
Reuters
Bomb kills 78 in Baghdad, U.S. in big offensive
BAGHDAD -- A suspected al Qaeda bomber killed 78 people when he rammed a truck into a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, just hours after 10,000 U.S. troops began an offensive against the Sunni Islamist group north of the capital. The offensive around the city of Baquba in Diyala province is partly aimed at al Qaeda car bomb networks that cause carnage in Baghdad.... Police said 78 people had been killed, including at least nine women, and 224 others were wounded.... It was the second worst bombing in Baghdad since U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a crackdown in February in the capital aimed at halting Iraq's spiral into all-out sectarian civil war. A car bomb on April 18 killed 140 near a Baghdad market.... Iraqi military spokesman Brigadier-General Qassim Moussawi said the truck had been loaded with gas canisters and half a metric ton of explosives.

18 June 2007
Daily Times
Attack on police bus in Kabul kills 35
KABUL: A Taliban suicide bomber blew up a police transport bus here on Sunday, killing around 35 people, police said, in apparently the single deadliest bombing to hit Afghanistan since the Taliban were removed from power in 2001. "More than 35 are killed," said Kabul police (Criminal branch) chief Ali Shah Paktiawal. "Police officers are among the dead." The Interior Ministry said five of the wounded were foreigners, but none died. A police eyewitness said he had seen the bomber leap on to the bus as it was moving away. "It was a very, very successful suicide attack," a Taliban commander, Mullah Hayatullah Khan, told Reuters. The bomb exploded when the targeted bus was taking officers, several of them instructors, to a police-training academy. The attack was the fourth of its kind to hit the country in the last two days. Separately, late on Saturday a suicide bomber killed two civilians while attacking a NATO convoy, a command statement said.

17 June 2007
BBC News Website
Kabul police bus bomb 'kills 35'
...a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a military convoy in the north Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif. One Afghan civilian was killed and several injured but no soldiers were hurt.

16 June 2007
New York Times
Afghan Bomber Kills 10, Including 5 Children
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 15 -- A suicide car bomber who apparently intended to strike a NATO convoy on Friday in southern Afghanistan killed 10 people, including five children and a Dutch soldier, during a fresh wave of violence that also left more than 24 militants dead, officials said.... The car bombing was in Tirin Kot in Uruzgan Province, said the Dutch defense minister, Eimert van Middelkoop. Four Afghan men were also killed, said Gen. Abdul Qasem Khan, the provincial police chief. Three Dutch soldiers and seven Afghan civilians, including two women, were wounded when the bomber detonated the bomb near a Dutch armored car in Tirin Kot, officials said.

16 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills four in Afghan capital
KABUL, June 16 -- A suicide car-bomber attacked a convoy of foreign troops on Saturday in the Afghan capital, killing four civilians, police and government officials said, in the third such attack on international forces in two days. A suicide attacker drove a car packed with explosives at troops from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in western Kabul, but none of the soldiers were killed or wounded, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said. He said the four killed had been all men and that five civilians were also wounded in the blast, which followed suicide attacks in the south and centre of the country on Friday.... On Friday, a suicide car-bomber attacked foreign troops in central Afghanistan, killing five children and a Dutch soldier. Later in the day, a second suicide bomber on foot attacked a foreign troop convoy in the southern Kandahar city, wounding at least five civilians, a police official said.

15 June 2007
Daily Times
Tigers planned to attack Colombo port
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police have uncovered a plan by Tamil Tiger rebels to launch a suicide attack against the country's main seaport in the capital, a report said Thursday quoting police investigators. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were ready to launch sea-borne attacks against Colombo harbour, which they had failed to attack on at least two previous occasions, the privately-run Sirasa channel said. "The LTTE has planned to carry out the attack around mid this year," the television channel, said quoting the police Criminal Investigations Department. The defence ministry's spokesman, Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe, said he was unaware of the plan. There was also no immediate comment from the guerrillas. The television report said the Tiger planned to use suicide bombers to storm the port and later destroy containers while carrying out a simultaneous air strike against an oil depot and an electricity generating complex in Colombo.

14 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
RIYADH -- A suicide bomber wounded three policemen and three soldiers in the town of Riyadh, 60 km southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

13 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
RAMADI -- Four Iraqi policemen were killed and 11 officers wounded by a suicide car bomber targeting their checkpoint outside Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad.

12 June 2007
New York Times
Afghan Forces Found Bomb Like Type Used in Iraq
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 11 -- .... Elsewhere on Monday, a suicide bomber's car struck a police checkpoint outside the provincial town of Khost in eastern Afghanistan, wounding three policemen, one critically, and eight civilians. The car bomb exploded almost two miles outside Khost as the police were checking cars entering the town. It set off a huge fire, and most of the victims were injured from the spreading flames, the provincial governor, Arsallah Jamal, said after visiting the town hospital.

10 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Iraq bombs kill 14 policemen, hit bridge
BAGHDAD, June 10 -- A suicide truck bomb killed 14 policemen and wounded 42 at a police station north of Baghdad on Sunday and U.S. forces were hit by another suicide bomber at a checkpoint south of the capital, officials said. U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Garver said some U.S. forces had to be evacuated after the attack on the checkpoint near a major bridge but no other details about the number or nature of casualties were known.... To Baghdad's north, police said a police station in the village of Albu-Ajeel in Salahaddin province was largely destroyed. Among the dead were five officers, including two colonels, police in the nearby provincial capital Tikrit said. More than 30 police were among some 50 people wounded.

9 June 2007
New York Times
Wife and Son of Police Chief Are Among 50 Killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 8 -- More than 50 people were killed in attacks across Iraq on Friday...At least 34 others were killed in two bombing attacks, one in the northern city of Daquq, about 30 miles south of Kirkuk, and the other in the southern city of Qurna, 60 miles north of Basra. In a familiar pattern, both bombings involved successive explosions set at close quarters in crowded areas, a technique often used to maximize casualties. The Daquq bombings struck a Shiite mosque and a nearby police station. The attack began when two suicide bombers detonated explosive vests in the forecourt of a mosque frequented by supporters of the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, followed by a car bomb close by, according to the local police. They said at least 19 people died, and more than 20 were wounded.

9 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Suicide bomber kills 12 south of Baghdad - police
BAGHDAD, June 9 -- A suicide truck bomber killed 12 Iraqi soldiers and wounded 30 others in an attack on an army checkpoint south of Baghdad on Saturday, police said. There was some confusion over whether the huge explosion happened in Jurf al-Sakhar near the predominantly Shi'ite city of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of the capital, or in nearby al-Iskandiriya.

8 June 2007
New York Times
Bombs and Gunmen in Iraq Kill at Least 22 and Wound 55
BAGHDAD, June 7 -- A suicide bomber detonated his explosives and a bus bomb exploded minutes apart near a police station in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least nine people and wounding 22, the authorities said.... The double bombing on Thursday occurred in Rabia, a town about 75 miles northwest of Mosul, near the Syrian border. The blasts destroyed at least one building and damaged many more. Blood and concrete were scattered across the streets.

6 June 2007
New York Times
Suicide Attack Near Falluja Kills 18 in Commercial Area
BAGHDAD, June 5 -- Eighteen people were killed south of Falluja on Tuesday when a suicide bomber driving a truck packed with explosives plowed into a busy commercial district, the local Iraqi police said. Fifteen others were wounded.

5 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Three police commandos were wounded when they shot dead a female suicide bomber who was trying to detonate herself near a recruitment centre in eastern Baghdad, police said. The policemen were wounded when the bomber's vest exploded.

5 June 2007
Daily Times
3 killed in suicide attack in Turkey
TUNCELI: Three soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a police station in the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli on Monday, security sources said. It was not clear who was behind the attack, which occurred in a region where Kurdish separatist guerrillas are active. Ten people were injured in the attack. The bombing comes amid growing speculation that Ankara will launch a cross-border operation into northern Iraq against Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) militants who use Iraq as a base.

5 June 2007
Daily Times
NWFP courts under bombing threat
PESHAWAR: Threats to blow up courts of law in the NWFP continue to pour in as the registrar of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) and a senior civil judge received anonymous letters on Saturday that suicide bombers would target the Peshawar Judicial Complex on Monday. On Monday, the civil judges avoided courtrooms but some judges later attended their courts after a meeting with Senior Civil Judge Kalsoom Azam and PHC Registrar Syed Musaddiq Hussain Gillani. Gillani told Daily Times that the letters received by him and the senior civil judge said: "We carried out a blast in front of the PHC building. Our next target is the courtrooms."... However, no special security measures were taken at the entrances to the judicial complex despite the threats. Only two policemen were deployed at the main gate without metal detectors and they carried out body searches of only those people who were wearing chaddars. "Security measures were not enough and I myself asked a security official at the main gate to search me," a litigant, Muhammad Dastageer, told Daily Times.

4 June 2007
Gulfnews.com
Seven American soldiers killed in Iraq attacks
Baghdad : The US military reported yesterday the deaths of seven more of its soldiers, days after it recorded its deadliest monthly toll in more than two years. [The] seventh soldier was killed by a suicide bomber when a US patrol attempted to question two men near a mosque southwest of Baghdad on Friday. The military had earlier said the incident happened on Saturday.

4 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Islamist militants claim suicide attack on Somali PM
MOGADISHU, June 4 -- A militant Islamist group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb that killed seven people at the home of Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, vowing to continue attacks until "occupiers" left Somalia. Gedi - who has now survived four attempts on his life in the last two years - blamed al Qaeda for the Sunday night blast at his compound in north Mogadishu. Five soldiers and two civilians died when the bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives at the gates of his large compound in a heavily guarded northern neighbourhood. African Union peacekeepers raced in to whisk him to safety. A group calling itself the Mujahideen Youth Movement said in a statement on the Internet that "a lion...our brave brother Abdul-Aziz Mohammad Semter...carried out a heroic martyrdom operation at the residence of the apostate prime minister."

4 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Ethiopian troops kill would-be Somali suicide bomber
MOGADISHU, June 4 -- Ethiopian soldiers shot dead a would-be suicide bomber on Monday, blowing up his vehicle as it raced toward their command headquarters in the Somali capital, a security official said. "An Ethiopian sharpshooter on a rooftop fired a machinegun at the car, instantly killing the suicide bomber and blowing up the car, which was filled with explosives," the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. An 18-year-old man walking nearby was injured, the official said. The would-be attacker had already raced his car through two checkpoints, where Ethiopian and Somali government troops had opened fire on the vehicle, the official said. A Reuters reporter heard the explosion, which occurred in a western area of the city on a major route in and out of the seaside capital. The incident came one day after a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives at the compound of Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, killing seven people.

3 June 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Car bomb kills 10 in Iraq's Diyala - police
BAGHDAD, June 3 -- A suicide car bomber killed 10 people and wounded 30 in a busy market in a volatile region northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, police said. The bomber targeted a convoy of police vehicles as it drove through a market area in the town of Balad Ruz, about 50 km (30 miles) southeast of Diyala province's capital Baquba, said Balud Ruz police chief Colonel Faris Hussein. Two police officers were among the dead, he said. At least 10 cars, six of them police vehicles, were destroyed by fire, Hussein said.

2 June 2007
Daily Excelsior
Militants intensify offensive with blasts, fidayeen in Valley
Facing reverses at the receiving end for over a year now, militants today launched a major offensive against Police and security forces with a major suicide strike in Baramulla district and a powerful explosion in the Capital city of Srinagar in which two personnel and two militants got killed and 38 personnel sustained injuries. Two soldiers got killed and six injured when another blast occurred at a CRPF company headquarters in the south Kashmir district of Kulgam.

31 May 2007
Daily Times
Lal Masjid cleric warns of suicide attacks
ISLAMABAD: Lal Masjid mullah Maulana Abdul Aziz on Wednesday warned the government of suicide attacks if it launched an operation against the mosque. Addressing reporters during a consultative meeting at Lal Masjid, Aziz said thousands of students were ready to carry out suicide attacks, adding that the mosque administration was preventing them from doing so.

31 May 2007
Associated Press
Sunnis revolt against al-Qaida in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- .... In western Iraq on Thursday, a suicide bomber hit a police recruiting center in Fallujah, and there were conflicting reports about the death toll. Police said as many as 25 people were killed, but the U.S. military said just one policeman died. Elsewhere, three policemen and three civilians were killed and 15 civilians were wounded when a suicide truck bomber struck a communications center on the western outskirts of Ramadi, according to Anbar provincial security adviser Col. Tariq Youssef Mohammed.

30 May 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Afghans say they averted deadly Kabul suicide raid
KABUL, May 30 -- Afghan police prevented a deadly suicide attack on Wednesday in the capital's main currency market which is usually packed with hundreds of people, a police officer said. The would-be bomber, identified as Ali Reza, confessed to planning to blow himself up at the market, which is located in the heart of the city, officer Ali Shah Paktiawal said. Paktiawal said the bomber, an ethnic Hazara, had a link with the largely ethnic Pashtun Taliban who have claimed responsibility for many of the daily suicide attacks and other raids against government and Western troops in Afghanistan.

29 May 2007
New York Times
Rise in Violence in North Shows Afghanistan's Fragility
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 28 -- ...in the north, a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign security contractors, killing himself and two Afghan civilians. It was the fourth such attack in the north in the past two weeks.... The suicide attack on Monday, in Kunduz, was aimed at private security contractors who slowed for a speed bump, Agence France-Presse reported, quoting local police officials. It said the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

27 May 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq, May 27
RAMADI -- A car bomb in a busy market killed seven people and wounded 12 on Sunday in the western outskirts of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, a hospital source said. Police said a suicide car bomber rammed his car into their checkpoint, wounding three policemen and a child.

25 May 2007
New York Times
Iraqi Tribal Leader Is Killed, and Mourners Are Attacked
BAGHDAD, May 24 -- The growing confrontation between tribal leaders in Anbar Province and Al Qaeda took a violent turn on Thursday when a suicide bomber drove into a crowd gathering for a funeral procession in the volatile city of Falluja, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens of others. The attack followed a pattern of two-stage assaults that has been replicated often in the four-year war. At breakfast time, masked gunmen assassinated a prominent Sunni tribal leader, Allawi al-Issawi, who had joined others across Anbar in opposing terrorist groups linked to Al Qaeda. Less than three hours later, as mourners gathered for a funeral procession outside his home, the suicide bomber struck.

23 May 2007
BBC News Website
Suicide bomber kills two in Kabul
A suicide bomber has killed two people and injured at least four others in the Afghan capital, Kabul, police say. The bomber, who was riding a motorbike, blew himself up next to highway police guarding a road construction project.... The motorbike-borne bomber struck on the Jalalabad Road in Kabul - an area used by the military and security companies and which has seen the largest number of attacks in Kabul. A policeman believed to have been guarding a road building project was killed along with a civilian passer-by, police say.... A Taleban spokesman has claimed responsibility for the attack.

23 May 2007
Guardian
Suicide Bomb Suspected in Turkey Attack
ANKARA, Turkey -- Investigators have concluded that a suicide bomber carried out an attack that killed six people and injured dozens in Turkey's capital, using methods similar to those of a Kurdish rebel group, a top official said Wednesday. Ankara Gov. Kemal Onal identified Tuesday's suicide attacker as Guven Akkus, a 28-year-old man who had spent two years in prison for hanging illegal posters and resisting police. Onal did not say what kind of posters they were or if Akkus was affiliated with the separatist Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. The government-run Anatolia news agency reported that, at the time of his arrest for resisting police in May 1996, Akkus was affiliated with a little-known militant leftist group called the Turkish Union of Revolutionary Communists.... Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not directly accuse the PKK of involvement, but he suggested that the rebel group was a key suspect.... President Ahmet Necdet Sezer implicated Kurdish rebels, saying, ``This is the action of separatist terrorists''.... The attack came at the start of the tourist season, and the injured included eight Pakistanis in Ankara for a weeklong international defense industry fair about 12 miles from the shopping mall. Authorities earlier said 102 people were hurt, but the governor put the final injury toll at 91.

21 May 2007
New York Times
Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 10 at Market in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 20 -- At least 10 people were killed and 32 were wounded Sunday when a suicide bomber struck at a crowded market in the southeastern province of Paktia, the provincial police chief said. News agencies said the death toll later rose to 14, quoting doctors at the local hospital. The attack happened in the town of Gardez, on the main road through the province. It came a day after another suicide bombing killed nine people, among them three German soldiers, in the northern province of Kunduz...the suicide bombing on Sunday might have been a revenge attack after coalition and Afghan forces killed 67 Taliban insurgents in fighting the day before in the Patan district of Paktia Province.

21 May 2007
New York Times
7 U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq, 6 in Sweep of Baghdad
BAGHDAD, May 20 -- .... Two Iraqi Army soldiers died in western Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry official said, one when a suicide bomber in a vehicle rammed an Iraqi Army convoy and the other when a car bomb detonated at a checkpoint.... In Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a truck bomb laden with chlorine exploded near a police checkpoint, killing 11 people, including 6 policemen, and wounding 22 others, said Maj. Ahmed Ali al-Alaiawi, a police official. Dr. Ammar Hammad, the director of al-Raed Hospital, confirmed the report and said 30 additional people were treated for respiratory problems caused by the chlorine used in the bomb, a tactic insurgents have begun using in recent months, apparently to increase casualties.

20 May 2007
New York Times
Suicide Bomber Kills 3 Soldiers in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 19 -- A suicide attacker on foot blew himself up near German soldiers in a busy street market in the northern province of Kunduz, killing three of the soldiers and at least six civilians, Afghan officials said. It was the worst attack against German soldiers in four years. The attack occurred when the soldiers, who were in Kunduz as part of an international reconstruction team, got out of their vehicle near the market, said the governor of Kunduz, Said Muhammad Omar. Three German soldiers were killed and two other German soldiers with their Afghan interpreter were injured, and six civilians including a woman and a child were killed,? he said, adding that 14 civilians had been wounded, including two children. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the bombing.

17 May 2007
BBC News Website
Afghan minister hurt in bombing
Three people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar which left the culture minister slightly hurt, officials say. The bomber rammed his car into a convoy of government vehicles carrying the minister, Abdul Kareem Khuram, said provincial governor Assadullah Khalid.... The suicide bombing in Kandahar came in the early evening. The three people killed were reported to be civilians.... No group has so far said it carried out the bombing. Governor Khalid blamed the Taleban, saying Afghanistan's hardline former rulers wanted to avenge the killing of Mullah Dadullah in neighbouring Helmand province just days earlier.

16 May 2007
Daily Times
25 die in suicide blast at Peshawar hotel
PESHAWAR -- Twenty five people were killed and up to 35 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up on the ground floor of the Marhaba Hotel owned by an Afghan national here on Tuesday. Most of those killed were Afghans, including the restaurant's owner Sadruddin and his two sons, two women and a five year-old child. The attack came at around 12:50 pm as the hotel restaurant was crowded with customers for lunch. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig (r) Javed Iqbal Cheema told reporters in Islamabad that 25 people were killed and 35 injured in the blast. NWFP Law Minister Malik Zafar Azam told reporters that it was a suicide attack.... Azam said it would be premature to say who was behind the suicide attack, but it may be a reaction to Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah's killing two days ago in Afghanistan. He added that the owner of the hotel, which is located near the historic Masjid Mahabat Khan, was from Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan and most of the customers at the hotel were Afghans. The bomber's remains show similarity to the recent blasts in Islamabad, Peshawar, DI Khan and Charsadda, he said. He denied reports that the police had been warned beforehand about the attack.

15 May 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security Developments in Iraq
MOSUL -- Four Iraqi soldiers were wounded in an attack by a suicide car bomber on their checkpoint near Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, an Iraqi army spokesman said.

14 May 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security Developments in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded four others at a major intersection in western Baghdad, police said.

13 May 2007
Reuters ALertNet
Security Devlopments in Iraq
MAKHMOUR -- Fifty people were killed and 70 wounded when a suicide truck bomb exploded near the local office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Makhmour, near Arbil, 350 km (220 miles) north of Baghdad, Governor Duraid Kashmula of Nineveh province said.

11 May 2007
Reuters AlertNet
Security Developments in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Suicide truck bombers struck Iraqi police checkpoints on two bridges in a Shi'ite area south of Baghdad, killing 22 people and badly damaging one of the bridges. Police said 60 people were wounded.

8 May 2007
The Guardian
Suicide blast kills 16 in southern Iraqi city
KUFA -- A suicide car bomber struck a market in the southern Iraqi city of Kufa today, killing at least 16 people and wounding 70, according to police and hospital officials. One witness who said he saw the explosion said the bomber drove a minibus into the open market packed with morning shoppers. After the explosion, angry protesters gathered at the site and chanted slogans against US forces and government officials. The blast was the latest in a spate of car bomb attacks in the Shia south apparently aimed at stoking sectarian strife. Kufa, 100 miles south of Baghdad, is near Najaf, one of the holiest cities in Shia Islam.

8 May 2007
Daily Times
Tiger suicide bomber killed
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan troops shot dead a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber in the north of the island on Tuesday as ground battles raged elsewhere in the region, a military official said. Security forces killed the man who was riding a motorcycle in Vavuniya district. An official, speaking from the area by telephone, said troops found a pack of explosives, a pistol and a grenade on the victim. The shooting came as ground troops engaged in long-range attacks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

7 May 2007
BBC News Website
Ramadi hit by twin bomb attacks
RAMADI -- Two suicide car bombers have killed at least 24 people near the Iraqi city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, police say. The first exploded in a busy market in Albu Thiyab, to the east of Ramadi, killing at least 15 and injuring 30. The other targeted a police checkpoint some 15 minutes later in the town of al Jazeera. Five police officers and five bystanders died. Ten people were hurt.

6 May 2007
New York Times
Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 35 Iraqi's at Vegetable Market
BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber blew up his truck at a sprawling fruit and vegetable market in southwest Baghdad in the Baya neighborhood during the height of the morning rush, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 80, according to the Interior Ministry. Precise fatality numbers were unclear since officials at Yarmouk Hospital said they counted 52 dead from the bomb, and the United States military put the number at 30. The bomb detonated at the junction of two major streets in Baya, a middle-class neighborhood. One of the streets had bus stops on either side of the road where minibuses drop off and collect people who work and shop in the market. Muhammad, a vegetable seller in the market who would give only his first name, was walking to get some tea when he noticed that a vehicle had stopped in the middle of the street and was blocking traffic. A friend of his went to ask the driver to move and got into an altercation, he said, and as people gathered to see what was going on, the vehicle blew up. Another resident, Said Malik al-Magosi, said he lived around the corner from where the bomber detonated the explosives and rushed to help, but was forced back by the police and the army, who feared a second bomb. As he tried to get home, a sniper began shooting, Mr. Magosi said. After the suicide bombing, there were reports from residents that non-Iraqi Arabs were threatening Shiite families in the area and that some residents had fled.

6 May 2007
New York Times
Suicide Bomber Kills Police Recruits in Samarra
SAMARRA -- In other news in the volatile city of Samarra, a suicide car bomber attacked a police battalion headquarters, killing the police chief and 11 others, the military said in a statement. The attack appeared to have been carefully coordinated; about the same time as the bomb went off, residents reported seeing about 20 cars filled with armed masked men drive into Samarra, where they appeared to be patrolling the streets in a show of force. Residents said they believed that the masked gunmen were from Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, which is active in the area and includes some non-Iraqi insurgents.

5 May 2007
BBC News Website
Iraq bomber kills army recruits
BAGHDAD -- At least 10 people have died and 13 have been wounded in a suicide bombing at an Iraqi army recruiting centre west of Baghdad, officials say. The bomber detonated a vest of explosives as potential recruits were gathering at the centre in Abu Ghraib, a town on the outskirts of the capital. The BBC has reported that all the men killed in the suicide bombing are believed to be Sunni Arabs from the surrounding area. They are also thought to be members of a tribe which has joined with others against al-Qaeda because of opposition to some of its extremist policies. As part of efforts to combat the group, tribal leaders have been urging people to join police and army units in the area. In other violence, a police officer died in a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad's Yarmuk neighbourhood.

4 May 2007
Daily Times
Suicide bombers may target CJP's rally to Lahore
LAHORE: The Interior Ministry has requested the Supreme Court (SC) to stop Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry from going to Lahore by road because of possible suicide attacks on his rally, Geo television reported late on Thursday night. In a letter to the SC registrar, the ministry said that according to intelligence reports several suicide bombers and vehicles packed with explosives had been sent to various areas in the Punjab to target VIPs and it feared that terrorists may target the CJP?s rally on the GT Road, the channel reported. Later speaking in Geo programme Aaj Kamran Khan Key Saath, Interior Ministry spokesman Brig Javed Cheema said the government had received reports of possible terrorism and the CJP should travel to Lahore by plane to avoid an attack. He confirmed that the Interior Ministry had written to the SC registrar about its apprehensions and had requested him to bring the matter in the acting CJ's notice.

1 May 2007
Daily Times
Charsadda attack: Focus on younger bombing suspect
PESHAWAR: Investigators on Monday shifted focus from an older to younger suspect as the bomber who blew himself up at a public rally in Charsadda on Saturday in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Federal Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao Khan, senior police officials said.... Investigators found two severed heads at the scene of the crime. The older man who was said to be aged 30 with a brown beard is no more a prime suspect. We are focussing on a young man now who appears to have carried out the attack, NWFP Additional Inspector General (Investigation) Fayaz Khan Toru told Daily Times. The young man was said to be aged 18-20.

29 April 2007
New York Times
Dozens Killed in Bomb Attack on Shiite Shrine
AGHDAD, April 28 -- A car bomber struck Saturday in Karbala, killing at least 58 people and wounding 169 in the second attack in two weeks against the city's holy sites, Iraqi police officials said.... The Karbala attack took place about a third of a mile from the Imam Abbas shrine, the second-holiest site in Shiite Islam, on a busy commercial street packed with shoppers...the explosion on Saturday occurred only two weeks after another attack near the Imam Hussein shrine that killed 36 people and wounded 168. Taken together, the two attacks suggested that Sunni extremists, who set off a wave of intense sectarian violence by destroying a Shiite mosque in Samarra last year, are determined to elicit a violent response from militias like Mr. Sadr's Mahdi Army.

28 April 2007
International Herald Tribune
Pakistan probes suicide attack as death toll rises to 28
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Investigators tried Sunday to identify a suicide bomber who attacked a political rally, as the toll from the blast rose to 28 dead and 52 injured, including Pakistan's top security official. Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao was left spattered in blood but only slightly injured in the attack Saturday in Charsadda, a town near his home village in North West Frontier Province. There has been no claim of responsibility for the bombing, which took place just after Sherpao completed a speech to a rally of his political supporters.... A senior police investigator in Peshawar, the provincial capital, said that the bomber's severed head and legs indicated he was in his 30s. His fair complexion suggested he was from Pakistan's border areas or Afghanistan, the investigator said.... While officials initially said that 22 people were killed, by Sunday the toll had risen to 28 dead and 52 injured...Police said most of victims were local people, but also included several of Sherpao's police bodyguards. They said they were struggling to identify several of the badly mutilated bodies.

25 April 2007
Al Jazeera
Taliban leader says Bin Laden alive
[A] district governor...survived a suicide attack close to his vehicle. A man detonated his explosives close to the vehicle of the official from Paktika, which is on the border with Pakistan. The bomber was the only individual to die in the attack. Elsewhere, police foiled a suicide attack on Wednesday when they seized a man in the province of Kabul with explosives strapped to his body, Zalmay Khan, deputy police chief, said.

24 April 2007
New York Times
9 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq as Suicide Bomber Hits Base
BAGHDAD, Tuesday, April 24 -- A devastating suicide car bombing on Monday killed nine American soldiers near a patrol base in Diyala Province, the military announced early Tuesday morning.... Twenty soldiers and one Iraqi civilian were also wounded in the blast on Monday, the military said.... Across Iraq, five car bombs exploded Monday, killing a total of 22 people, and a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest walked into a popular restaurant near Baghdad's fortified International Zone, formerly known as the Green Zone, and detonated his explosives, killing six people. Ten people were killed in northern Iraq when a suicide car bomber struck a Kurdish Democratic Party outpost on Monday. In Baquba, in Diyala Province, a suicide car bomber attacked a group of police cars parked at an intersection, killing six policemen and a seventh, who was injured, later died, according to a government official in Baquba. In Hilla, a suicide car bomber attacked a restaurant, killing two people. In Falluja, two suicide truck bombs exploded near the Huriyah neighborhood, killing three people, according to a statement from the United States military.

23 April 2007
New York Times
Afghan Bombings Kill 9 and Wound More Than 40
KABUL, Afghanistan, April 22 -- Two bombings, one of them a suicide attack, rocked the eastern town of Khost on Sunday, killing nine people and wounding more than 40, officials said. The suicide bomber was on foot and blew himself up in a busy market square as the police were pursuing him.... Six people were in critical condition, he said. The three officers who were chasing the bomber were among the wounded, and the senior officer was in critical condition, said the provincial police chief, Col. Muhammad Ayub.

22 April 2007
Al Jazeera
Baghdad police station attacked
Two suicide car bombers have rammed their vehicles into an Iraqi police station in southwest Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and wounding 95, police said. Sunday's attack in the al-Bayaa district, a mostly Shia neighbourhood, was one of the deadliest against Iraqi forces in the capital since a US-backed security crackdown was launched. Police said five of those killed in the co-ordinated attack were policemen, and more than 40 other officers were among the wounded.

19 April 2007
New York Times
Bombs Rip Through Baghdad, Killing 171
BAGHDAD, April 18 -- Bombs ravaged Baghdad in five horrific explosions aimed mainly at Shiite crowds on Wednesday, killing at least 171 people in the deadliest day in the capital since the American-led security plan for the city took effect two months ago. The wave of attacks, four of them involving car bombs, took place as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki declared that the Iraqi government planned to take full control of security from the American-led forces before the end of the year. In the worst of the bombings, a car packed with explosives exploded at an intersection in the Sadriya neighborhood that serves as a hub for buses traveling to the Shiite district of Sadr City. The blast killed at least 140 people and wounded 150...Earlier in the afternoon, a suicide car bomber detonated himself near an Iraqi police checkpoint at an entrance to Sadr City, home to more than 1.5 million people, mostly Shiites. The explosion ripped through a bottleneck of vehicles and pedestrians waiting to pass through the checkpoint, killing at least 17 people and wounding at least 45, an Interior Ministry official said.... In Saidiya, a mixed neighborhood in western Baghdad, a car bomb killed two people and wounded eight, including three police officers, the official said.... In the district of Uaireej, south of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber detonated himself near a police patrol, killing two police officers and wounding four people, including two police officers and two civilians, the Interior Ministry official said.

17 April 2007
New York Times
Bombing Kills 9 Police Officers in Northern Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan, April 16 -- A suicide bomber struck a group of police officers in the normally peaceful north of Afghanistan on Monday, killing nine policemen and wounding 25, officials said.... No civilians were harmed...The attack happened just before 9 a.m. outside a district police station in the city of Kunduz.... Hayatullah Khan, who is believed to be a Taliban commander, claimed responsibility for the Taliban for the bombing on Monday, Reuters reported.... The attack was the third suicide bombing in Afghanistan in three days. All were aimed at police officers and security guards and seem to be part of a trend in recent weeks toward more suicide attacks and roadside bombs, kidnappings and even drive-by shootings of people working with foreign troops.

17 April 2007
Daily Times
Suicide squad on way to Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Intelligence agencies have warned that three would-be suicide bombers have set out for Islamabad to target government functionaries if law-enforcement agencies crack down on Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Fareedia. Daily Times has learnt that intelligence agencies submitted reports to the Interior Ministry a few days ago warning that the three men, including two Uzbeks, had left Darra Adam Khel for Islamabad to undertake suicide attacks. Ikramullah, 20, a resident of Gedaro Killi, Zarghun Khel and member of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba, reportedly heads the group. The group, trained at a camp located in Shawal, Waziristan, was reportedly sent by Tariq Mazid Khel, who runs a training camp at Zarghun Khel and claims to have contacts with intelligence agencies. The Interior Ministry has directed the district administration and police to apprehend the gang.

16 April 2007
New York Times
34 People Are Killed in Six Bombings in Baghdad; 2 Britons Die in Helicopter Crash
BAGHDAD, April 15 -- At least 34 people were killed in Baghdad on Sunday in another day punctuated by car bombings and suicide vest attacks on civilian targets of the kind that the two-month-old American security crackdown has so far been unable to restrain. All six bombs that caused fatalities were detonated in predominantly Shiite areas, which have been the persistent target of Sunni militant bombing attacks. The worst of Sunday's bombings in Baghdad occurred in the predominantly Shiite district of Shurta in southwest Baghdad, where two car bombs that exploded minutes apart killed at least 17 people and wounded 50, according to an Iraqi police official at Yarmouk hospital, where many of the casualties were taken...according to the police, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a minibus on a busy street that heads into the Kadhimiya district of north-central Baghdad, a mainly Shiite district, killing at least three people and wounding 11.... In the northern city of Mosul, the police said two oil trucks driven by suicide bombers had exploded outside an Iraqi military base in the Yarmouk neighborhood, killing at least four people, including two soldiers, and wounding more than 20 others.

15 April 2007
New York Times
Bomber Kills 9 in East Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan, April 14 -- A suicide bomber walked to the gate of a border police unit in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday and detonated his explosives, killing at least nine people - eight policemen and one civilian, local officials said. Five other policemen were wounded. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place at midmorning outside Khost, a town in eastern Afghanistan, news agencies reported.... A suicide bombing in Kabul killed six people last Friday.

15 April 2007
New York Times
Suicide Bomber Brothers Attack in Casablanca
RABAT, Morocco, April 14 -- Two brothers strapped with explosives blew themselves up near an American cultural center in Casablanca on Saturday, and the police arrested another three people -- including one wearing an explosives belt -- hours later, an official said. The attacks came just days after three people suspected of being militants blew themselves up as they were cornered by the police in Casablanca, and Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for suicide car bombings in neighboring Algeria that killed 33 people. Morocco and Algeria have not addressed a Qaeda link in the bombings earlier this week. Both countries have allied themselves with the United States in its fight against terrorism. Saturday?s two bombers detonated their explosives in the middle of a boulevard that runs behind the American cultural center, killing themselves and wounding a woman, the official said, adding that the three suspects were arrested in the neighborhood, which is also home to the United States Consulate.... The ministry official identified one of the bombers who killed himself on Saturday as Mohamed Maha, born in Casablanca in 1975. The second man was later identified as his brother, Omar Maha, born in 1984 in Casablanca and wanted in the earlier explosions, MAP reported.

14 April 2007
New York Times
Car Bomb in Karbala Kills Dozens of Iraqis
BAGHDAD -- A car bomb blasted through a busy bus station near one of Iraq's holiest shrines Saturday and killed at least 56 people, police and hospital officials said. The bus station bombing occurred about 200 yards from the Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala, where the grandson of Islam's Prophet Muhammad is buried -- one of the most important sites for Shiites.... At least six children were among the dead, according to an official at Al-Hussein Hospital.... More than 70 people were also wounded in the attack, said another official at Al-Hussein Hospital on the same condition of anonymity.... In Baghdad, a suicide car bomb killed 10 people on a major bridge in downtown Baghdad - the second attack on a span over the Tigris river this week, police said. The Jadriyah bridge suffered little damage. At least 15 people were wounded.

14 April 2007
New York Times
Qaeda Group in Iraq Says It Led Attack on Parliament
BAGHDAD, April 13 -- An umbrella insurgent group that includes Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia claimed responsibility on Friday for a brazen suicide bombing the previous day inside the Parliament building. The attack killed one legislator and wounded at least 22 other people. The group, the Islamic State of Iraq, has a longstanding goal of toppling the government and driving the Americans from the country.... The American military said Friday that despite its earlier reports, only one person had been killed and 22 wounded in the explosion, which took place in the heart of the protected International Zone. On Thursday, the military said eight people had been killed and 23 wounded; it revised the numbers after further research and talking to Iraqi officials.

13 April 2007
New York Times
8 Iraqis Killed in Bomb Attack at Legislature
BAGHDAD, April 12 -- A suicide bomber struck deep inside the heavily fortified International Zone on Thursday, killing eight people when he detonated his explosives inside the Parliament building, just a few feet from the main chamber.... Of the 23 people wounded, 11 were members of Parliament, the United States military reported.... Sunnis, Shia, Kurds have been injured and maimed and killed in this attack.

12 April 2007
New York Times
Algerian Blasts by Qaeda Unit Kill at Least 23
PARIS, April 11 -- Two bombings in Algeria, one aimed at the main government building in the country's capital, killed at least 23 people on Wednesday in a sharp escalation of the violence linked to Al Qaeda that has spread across North Africa. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, North Africa's most active terrorist group, claimed responsibility for the attacks.... The bombing of the government building killed at least 12 people and wounded 118, according to APS, the country's official new agency. The agency reported that 11 others were killed and 44 wounded in a second attack, at a police station on the road to the country's international airport, east of the capital, Algiers.... The attacks began at around 10:45 a.m., when a suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed vehicle through the gate at the building housing the prime minister's office.... A second blast destroyed a police station in Bab Ezzouar, an eastern suburb.

12 April 2007
AlJazeera
Deadly blast damages Baghdad bridge
A suicide bomber driving a truck has blown himself up on a bridge in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and injuring 26 others according to hospital officials.... The attack happened during the morning rush hour on al-Sarafiya Bridge which connects the al-Atafiyah neighbourhood, on the western bank of the Tigris, to the neighbourhood of Waziriya on the eastern bank.

9 April 2007
New Zealand Herald
Bomb kills 17 in Iraq town, wounds two dozen
MAHMUDIYA, Iraq -- A car bomb killed 17 people and wounded two dozen in a town south of Baghdad today, the latest in a spate of attacks outside the Iraqi capital since a new security plan took effect there. The bombing came as thousands of Iraqis streamed to the holy southern city of Najaf to heed a call by fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr for a big anti-American protest on Monday.

8 April 2007
New York Times
Radical Pakistani Cleric Threatens Suicide Attacks in Capital
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 6 -- A hard-line cleric said Friday that he was setting up a religious court here in the country's capital, and threatened suicide attacks if the government did not enact Islamic law and close down brothels and video stores within a month. The announcement was made during Friday Prayer by Maulana Mohammad Abdul Aziz, the head cleric of the Lal Mosque who is known for his extremist and anti-American views. Mr. Aziz and his allies have stirred a national debate with their drive to impose Taliban-style rule in the capital, prompting protests by human rights advocates and political parties.

7 April 2007
New York Times
Chlorine Gas Attack by Truck Bomber Kills Up to 30 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, April 6 -- A suicide truck bomb loaded with chlorine gas exploded in Ramadi on Friday, killing as many as 30 people, many of them children, a security official said. The explosion burned victims' lungs, eyes and skin. Dr. Ali Abdullah Saleh, of the main Ramadi hospital, said 30 people had been admitted with shrapnel wounds and 15 had been sent to a second hospital in the city. He said 50 people had been admitted for breathing problems. It was at least the sixth chlorine bomb detonated in Anbar Province since late January and the most lethal, though it appears that most victims were killed by the explosion rather than the chlorine. Insurgents have also used chlorine bombs in the northern part of Baghdad, the capital, and near Taji, a town about 20 miles to the north.

3 April 2007
Guardian
Iraqi Bomb Kills 15, Wounds Nearly 200
BAGHDAD -- A suicide truck bomber, his deadly payload hidden under bags of flour, crashed into a police station in a Kurdish neighborhood in the disputed city of Kirkuk on Monday. At least 15 people were killed, including a newborn girl and a U.S. soldier, and nearly 200 were wounded. Several girls walking home from school were among those wounded in the bombing, a possible prelude to far greater violence to this oil-rich city 180 miles north of the capital. The attack came just days after the government adopted a plan to relocate thousands of Arabs who were moved to Kirkuk decades ago in Saddam Hussein's campaign to displace the Kurds.

1 April 2007
NewYork Times
Iraq Says Truck Bomb in North Killed 152
BAGHDAD, March 31 -- The Iraqi government on Saturday gave its first official reckoning of the truck bombing Tuesday in the northern city of Tal Afar, putting the death toll at 152 people, a number about double that in early reports. The bombing, which left 347 other people in a poor Shiite neighborhood wounded, set off a wave of reprisals by Shiite policemen and others that left another 47 people dead and shattered the image of Tal Afar held up by American politicians last year as a model of a turbulent city turned peaceful....If the death toll of 152 in the Tal Afar attack is correct, it was the highest total from a single bomb in the four-year-old war. A number of causes may have contributed to the large increase in the reported deaths: some of the wounded later died; some victims were taken to hospitals outside Tal Afar and were not immediately counted; and some bodies were retrieved at the scene by family members, preventing the deaths from being recorded.

30 March 2007
New York Times
Bomber Kills Pakistani Soldier in Training Area
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 29 -- A suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in a military training area in Punjab Province, killing a soldier and wounding seven others, military officials said. The attack took place in the garrison town of Kharian, but was not inside the garrison. There were no immediate claims of responsibility. A military spokesman, speaking on the customary condition of anonymity, said the attack took place about noon and described the attacker as a bearded man who appeared to be in his 50s....He said the bomber, who was on foot, blew himself up near a military truck.

29 March 2007
New York Times
70 Killed in Wave of Revenge in Northern Iraq
BAGHDAD, March 28 -- One of the bloodiest chapters in Iraq's sectarian strife unfolded over the past two days in the northern city of Tal Afar where gunmen, some of them apparently police officers, participated in the revenge killings of scores of Sunnis in the aftermath of a huge double suicide bombing in a Shiite area. Two hours after the explosion of truck bombs, which killed 83 people and wounded more than 185, the gunmen - some of whom witnesses recognized as police officers - went house to house in a Sunni neighborhood, dragged people into the street and shot them in the head, witnesses and local leaders said. The killing went on for several hours before the Iraqi Army intervened. The police are mostly Shiites, although the city is mixed.

29 March 2007
Gulf News
Taliban suicide bomber kills four civilians
Kabul -- A Taliban suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated a bomb yesterday near the car of a senior Afghan intelligence official in a central Kabul business district, killing four civilians. The target of the attack, Kamaluddin, who heads an intelligence department, was among 12 wounded in the attack...Mullah Dadullah, the main Taliban military commander, claimed responsibility. The attack was targeted at "US spies", he said, speaking by satellite phone from an undisclosed location.

28 March 2007
New York Times
Afghanistan: 4 Policemen Killed in Southern Suicide Attack
A suicide bomber dressed as an Afghan soldier detonated the explosives strapped to his body at the entrance of the police headquarters in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, and killed four policemen.

28 March 2007
Daily News
Troops foil suicide attack on Chenkaladi camp
BATTICALOA -- Security Forces fired at an explosives-laden tractor driven by an LTTE suicide cadre when it was about to storm the Chenkaladi Army camp yesterday. Three soldiers and five civilians were killed and 18 others including a soldier were injured when the tractor exploded after being fired at by a group of soldiers, thus preventing the vehicle from reaching the camp. "A tractor and trailer fixed with high explosives attempting to break through barriers of the Chenkaladi army main base in Batticaloa was brought to a halt by the Security Forces firing small arms at the tractor. The LTTE suicide cadre blew himself along with the explosive laden tractor when the troops opened fire," Brigadier Samarasinghe told the Daily News....The incident took place near the Chenkaladi army base barrier yesterday at around 7.15 a.m. Children of a nearby orphanage were among the injured.

28 March 2007
Times of India
LTTE hand? 1,950 detonators found in TN
CHENNAI -- With air strikes and a suicide attack, LTTE is clearly shaping up for a big offensive. While that's known, what's emerging also is that India's southernmost coastline could be part of the supply chain for the Tigers. On Wednesday morning, a special anti-terror squad scouring the coastline stumbled upon two sacks containing 1,950 electrical detonators that authorities say were headed for the Tamil Tigers' arsenal. The cache was unearthed from Ramanathapuram, part of the southeastern coast that is suspected to be a supply base for the banned organisation. The Tamil Nadu police team found the detonators buried in a coconut grove in Irumeni under Uchipuli police limit, 40 km west of Pamban Bridge that links Rameswaram Island to Mandapam, near the final land frontier on the Palk Strait that divide India and Sri Lanka.

27 March 2007
Guardian
Truck Bombs Kill Dozens at Iraqi Markets
BAGHDAD -- Two truck bombs shattered markets in Tal Afar on Tuesday, killing at least 63 people and wounding dozens in the second assault in four days on a predominantly Shiite Muslim city hit by a resurgence in violence a year after it was held up as a symbol of U.S. success....Brig. Abdul Karim al-Jubouri, a spokesman for the provincial police, said the first blast killed at least 62 people and wounded 150. The other bomb killed one person and wounded four, he said....Car bombs killed at least 349 people in Baghdad in the six weeks since the crackdown began, down from 525 such deaths in the preceding six weeks. But the numbers killed by car bombs outside the capital jumped from at least 100 in the earlier period to at least 233 in the latest six weeks....U.S. soldiers, meanwhile, foiled two suicide truck bombings aimed at their base in a small town 50 miles west of Baghdad and killed as many as 15 attackers, the military reported. It said eight soldiers suffered wounds, all but one of them slight, during the firefight in Karmah.

25 March 2007
New York Times
47 Are Killed in Iraq Bombings, 20 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, March 24 -- A suicide bomber driving a truck carrying explosives hidden under construction materials on Saturday was waved through a checkpoint at a heavily fortified police compound in southern Baghdad, where he detonated his payload, killing at least 20 people, an Interior Ministry official said. The attack was the deadliest of a wave of suicide bombings around Iraq on Saturday that killed at least 47 people, many of them policemen, the authorities said....Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the top spokesman for the United States military here, said last week that the number of car bombs in Baghdad reached a record high of 44 in February, of 77 nationwide....In Suhada, a village in western Anbar near the Syrian border, three suicide car bombers attacked police posts in a seemingly coordinated triple attack. One detonated himself outside a police station, and the other two struck police checkpoints, according to Col. Ahmad Jeedan, an Iraqi Army commander in Qaim. At least eight people were killed and 20 wounded, he said. Another suicide bomber driving a truck with boxes of new shoes destroyed a Shiite mosque in Haswa, about 40 miles south of Baghdad, killing 11 people and wounding 45, according to an Iraqi Army officer and a police official in Haswa. At least eight people were killed and another eight wounded in the northwestern town of Tal Afar when a suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up inside a food store, the chief of the city's main hospital said.

20 March 2007
New York Times
Bombing of U.S. Embassy Convoy Kills Afghan
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 19 -- A convoy from the United States Embassy was hit by a suicide car bomb on a busy road here on Monday, killing a 14-year-old Afghan bystander and seriously wounding an American security guard in the convoy, officials said. Others in the convoy had minor wounds and were treated at the scene, said Joe Mellott, a spokesman for the American Embassy. News agencies said the total number of embassy employees wounded was five. A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said in a telephone call that a Taliban militant from Khost Province had carried out the attack, The Associated Press reported. The attack on the convoy, two miles from the American Embassy, was the first suicide attack in Kabul this year. There were several such attacks in Kabul last year, and the number of suicide attacks in the country as a whole in 2006 was close to 140, five times the number in 2005.

19 March 2007
Daily News
Taming the Sea Tigers
NEW DELHI -- The Black Tigers, as the LTTE's suicide cadres are known, are prowling the Indian Ocean and a strike against India's soft targets cannot be ruled out. The perception that Sri Lankan assets are the primary target of the terror outfit is somewhat flawed, said a senior official of the Indian Government. The seizure of four boats off the Tamil Nadu coast during February 10-14, allegedly belonging to LTTE and carrying deadly cargo, is a sure sign that India cannot brush aside the threat from the Sea Tigers, the maritime arm of the LTTE, he explained....It's no secret that the LTTE is developing its maritime capability at a fast pace. But what is of greater concern to the Government is the outfit's focus on raising a fleet to carry out kamikaze missions....Measuring about 22 metres, the LTTE's suicide boats are said to be operated by four Sea Tigers at a time. The feared Black Tigers usually make the final assault from the craft. The Coast Guard has stepped up aerial surveillance on the Indian side of the maritime boundary to stave off the LTTE threat.

18 March 2007
New York Times
Suicide Bombers Using Chlorine Gas Kill 2 and Sicken Hundreds in Western Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Three suicide bombers driving trucks loaded with explosives and tanks of chlorine gas detonated their payloads in Anbar Province on Friday, killing at least two Iraqi police officers and wounding or sickening more than 350 people, the American military command said Saturday.

17 March 2007
Associated Press
Suicide Bomber Kills 6 in Fallujah
BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber driving a tanker truck detonated his explosives in a line of cars waiting to enter Fallujah, killing at least six people and wounding dozens, police said Saturday. The blast occurred Friday evening on the edge of the village of Amiriyat, just outside Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad. Police said they didn't know what the tanker truck was carrying but some of the wounded apparently had inhaled noxious fumes. Police said the six people killed included two policemen and that 75 people were wounded, including women and children.

17 March 2007
Associated Press
Canadian convoy targeted in Afghan blast
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed a child and wounded a NATO soldier and three other people Saturday in southern Afghanistan, officials said. The bomber rammed his explosives-packed vehicle into a passing military convoy on the main highway linking the southern city of Kandahar with Herat in the west, said Ghulam Azrat, a regional police officer.

17 March 2007
Associated Press
Car bomb rekindles Baghdad violence
BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber killed 20 people Saturday in Baghdad's notorious Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City, showering shrapnel over a joint U.S.-Iraqi military outpost in an ominous sign of violence returning to Iraq's capital after a brief lull. The blast ripped through an Iraqi army checkpoint at a southern entrance to the district, and six of the dead were soldiers, the U.S. military said in a statement....U.S. military officials at the station said 20 people were killed, and Iraqi police said nearly 50 were hurt.

16 March 2007
Associated Press
4 soldiers killed in Baghdad; car bombs kills 14
BAGHDAD -- Car bombings - the hallmarks of Sunni insurgents - struck the Baghdad area Thursday, killing at least 14 people. More than half of them died when a suicide driver detonated his explosives as a convoy carrying the head of the Baghdad City Council was passing an Iraqi military checkpoint in the central Karradah neighborhood.

15 March 2007
New York Times
An Explosion and a Bomb Kill at Least 11 in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 14 -- A huge explosion on Wednesday in a hunting supplies store here killed at least six people and wounded nine, and a few hours later a suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his chest in a bazaar in the eastern province of Khost, killing five people and wounding 38, officials said....Four civilians and a police officer were killed, and the wounded included nine police officers and two children.

15 March 2007
Reuters
U.S. says car bombs a concern despite Baghdad plan
BAGHDAD -- Car bombs in Baghdad, at a record high in February, remain a serious concern despite a month-old U.S.-backed crackdown, a U.S. general said in a more sober assessment than one given by Iraqi officials on Wednesday. Major General William Caldwell said murders and executions in the capital since the Baghdad security plan began on Feb. 14 had been halved but that "sensational" car bombs blamed on al Qaeda and other Sunni Arab militants had spiked in February....Earlier, Iraqi military officials offered a less cautious report than Caldwell's, saying civilian deaths and car bombs had fallen sharply in the first 30 days of the plan. Iraqi military spokesman Brigadier Qassim Moussawi said the number of Iraqis killed by violence in Baghdad between Feb. 14 and March 14 had fallen to 265 from 1,440 and that the number of car bombs was down to 36 from 56.... It was unclear whether the numbers given by Moussawi and Caldwell were contradictory but the U.S. comments were more cautious. While Caldwell urged patience and said military progress should be met with political reconciliation, the commander of the Baghdad plan, Lieutenant General Abboud Qanbar, said militants would be "crushed and thrown into the garbage of history". U.S. commanders had predicted the plan would bring a temporary dip in violence in Baghdad as militants change tactics. They had also anticipated that insurgents would regroup and launch attacks outside the capital. On Wednesday, a suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 15 in a market south of the northern city of Kirkuk, police said.

14 March 2007
Associated Press
8 killed in suicide bombing in Iraq
BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber struck a market in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and wounding 25, police said. The explosion occurred just before noon as the market was crowded with shoppers in Tuz Khormato, 130 miles north of Baghdad.

13 March 2007
New York Times
3 Bombings Raise Fears of New Effort by Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 13 -- Three bombs, two of them carried by suicide bombers, exploded in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding at least 10, and raising fears that the Taliban was starting a new wave of violence, officials said....The two suicide bombers struck in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand, the main poppy-growing province, where the Taliban has its strongest presence and has forged an alliance with drug traffickers, a police official there said....A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for all three attacks, according to Reuters. In Helmand Province, the first bomber targeted a British convoy passing by, but succeeded only in killing himself, and killing one Afghan and wounding another who were working nearby, said a police officer who identified himself by only one name, Almaz. Fifteen minutes later, the second bomber approached an Afghan National Army base on foot and blew himself up, wounding the battalion commander, the police officer said.

13 March 2007
Khaleej Times
Seven arrested for suicide bomb attacks on Shia pilgrims
BAGHDAD -- Seven people have been arrested in an ice cream factory over suicide bomb attacks on Shiite pilgrims in the central city of Hilla that left around 120 dead, the US military said on Tuesday. Iraqi and US soldiers swooped on the factory in Hilla, 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Baghdad, during a raid and captured the seven, a military statement said, without specifying the date of the capture.

12 March 2007
The Washington Times
Suicide bomber kills 32 Shi'ite pilgrims
BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber barreled into a flatbed truck packed with Shi'ite pilgrims yesterday, touching off a giant fireball that left charred bodies strewn through a street in the heart of Baghdad. At least 32 persons were killed. The ambush-style attack showed suspected Sunni insurgents again taking aim at the millions of worshippers who traveled to the city of Karbala and are now heading home.

12 March 2007
Associated Press
Man Blows Himself Up in Internet Cafe
CASABLANCA, Morocco -- A man with explosives hidden on his body blew himself up in an Internet cafe after the owners prevented him from looking at terror Web sites, the Interior Ministry said Monday. The man was killed and four people were injured in the Sunday night blast in a Casablanca slum, said ministry spokesman Abderrahman Achour. One of the wounded was the dead man's companion, who was hospitalized with burns and a throat injury. Both men were carrying explosives. But officials believe the cybercafe may not have been their target and that the explosion was an accident, Mokhtar Bekkali Kacemi, the general affairs director for Casablanca province, was quoted by the MAP state news agency as saying....Moroccan police have been cracking down on suspected Islamist extremists since suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003 killed 45 people and woke the North African kingdom to the threat of Islamic terrorism.

8 March 2007
New York Times
Bomber Kills 30; 3 Soldiers Die in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suicide attacker blew himself up in a cafe northeast of the capital Wednesday, killing 30 people as a wave of violence left 90 Iraqis dead throughout the country. The bloodshed persisted as Iraqi security forces struggled to protect more than 1 million Shiite pilgrims streaming toward the holy city of Karbala for annual religious rituals that begin Friday. The pilgrims are facing a string of attacks along the way that have claimed at least 174 lives in two days -- among 284 killed across Iraq since Tuesday. They included 22 people -- 12 police commandos and 10 civilians -- who died Wednesday in a car bombing at a checkpoint in southern Baghdad set up to protect pilgrims, the U.S. military said. An Iraqi TV cameraman working for a Shiite-owned station was among the civilian dead, his station said.

7 March 2007
New York Times
Attacks Across Iraq Kill at Least 109 Shiite Pilgrims
BAGHDAD, Wednesday, March 7 ? Suicide bombers who lured unsuspecting pilgrims with cakes, and gunmen firing out of passing cars, turned preparations for a Shiite Muslim religious celebration into a day of carnage on Tuesday. At least 109 Shiite pilgrims were killed and more than 200 wounded with the death toll continuing to rise....The back-to-back [suicide] attacks killed at least 77 people and wounded 127 more, the Iraqi authorities said. State-run television reported a death toll closer to 100, with twice as many wounded.

6 March 2007
New York Times
Baghdad Car Bomb Kills 20 on Booksellers' Row
BAGHDAD, March 5 -- The book market along Mutanabi Street was a throwback to the Baghdad of old, the days of students browsing for texts, turbaned clerics hunting down religious tomes and cafe intellectuals debating politics over backgammon. Somehow it survived the war, until Monday, when a powerful suicide car bomb hit the market, slicing through the heart of the capital's intellectual scene. It killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 65.

4 March 2007
Guardian
Bomber Hits U.S. Convoy; 8 Afghans Dead
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide car bomber attacked an American convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, and up to eight Afghans were killed and 22 injured in the blast or by subsequent gunfire from U.S. soldiers, officials said. The suicide bomber hit the American convoy with an explosives-packed minivan, said Noor Agha Zawok, the spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province. American soldiers opened fire after the attack, Zawok said, killing or wounding some Afghans and sparking angry demonstrations in the region - just 30 miles west of the Pakistan border.

2 March 2007
New York Times
7 at a Baghdad Wedding Are Killed by a Car Bomb
BAGHDAD, March 1 -- A car bomb that was apparently aimed at a policeman's wedding party in Falluja, west of Baghdad, killed seven guests on Thursday and wounded six, the local police said.

1 March 2007
New York times
Car Bombing Kills 10, Hurts 20 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A car bomb ripped through a bustling shopping district in a religiously mixed neighborhood of western Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding about 20 as the U.S.-Iraqi security operation entered its third week. The midmorning blast in Baiyaa, a Sunni-Shiite neighborhood, sent flames and debris shooting two stories high, witnesses said. The force of the explosion peeled back corrugated tin roofs. Hours later, charred clothing still clung to the remnants of vendors' stalls. Hours after the Baiyaa attack, police said guards outside the Bab al-Sheik police station in central Baghdad fired on a suicide truck bomber as he approached them. The bomber changed course and crashed into a cement barrier, detonating his explosives. Two civilians were killed and two policemen and another civilian were wounded in the blast and exchange of gunfire, police said.

1 March 2007
New Zealand Herald
Taleban has sent 1,000 suicide bombers to northern Afghanistan
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan - Steeling for a spring offensive, the Taleban said today they had sent 1,000 suicide bombers to relatively quiet northern Afghanistan, a day after a suicide blast targeted Vice President Dick Cheney...."We reacted in a very short span of time to attack the base," Taleban commander Mullah Hayatullah Khan said....Khan repeated earlier Taleban warnings the insurgents had 2,000 suicide bombers ready -- plus more than that in training -- but this time said 1,000 had been sent to northern Afghanistan, which has seen relatively little violence....Almost unheard of in Afghanistan until 2005 when there were 21 suicide bombings, the number jumped to 139 last year as Afghan rebels copied tactics from Iraq.

27 February 2007
Gulf Daily News
College bomber kills 40 in Iraq
BAGHDAD: Radical Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr withdrew his support for a security crackdown in Baghdad yesterday, hours after a female suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 40 and injured 55 in a college. Police earlier said the bomber at the Baghdad Economy and Administration College was a man. But they later said it was a women, who blew herself up in the lobby of the college after she was stopped by guards....A string of car bombings and rocket salvos also hit Baghdad as US and Iraqi security forces stepped up efforts to drive Sunni insurgents out of the capital and stamp out Sunni-Shi'ite sectarian violence. Among the attacks, a car bomb killed one person and wounded four near the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, police said.

27 February 2007
New York Times
Bomber Kills 19 Outside U.S. Base in Afghanistan
BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber killed 19 people and wounded 11 outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility and said Cheney was the target. The blast happened near the first security gate outside the base at Bagram, killing 19 people, said Khoja Mohammad Qasim Sayedi, chief of the province's public health department. Gov. Abdul Jabar Taqwa said ''18 to 20 dead bodies'' lay on the ground after the blast.

24 February 2007
AlJazeera
Bomb attacks kill dozens in Iraq
A fuel tanker rigged with explosives has killed at least 35 people and wounded 64 more after it blew up near a Sunni mosque in western Iraq. The truck bomb exploded on Saturday in a market in Habaniya, a town where US forces are battling Sunni Arab armed groups, including al-Qaeda in Iraq....Local police, who believe the mosque was the target, said the market was destroyed and 64 people were wounded. Women and children were among the dead, they said. An Iraqi defence official later confirmed the figures.

24 February 2007
Hindustan Times
SL happy as India blows up LTTE boat
In contrast to trenchant criticism in a section of the press in Colombo, the Sri Lankan government is happy that India blew up an explosive-laden LTTE suicide boat. "They had no option but to blow it up," said Foreign Secretary Dr Palitha Kohona reacting to a report in The Island daily on Saturday, that the blowing up was a "mysterious" affair, that Colombo had rejected the Indian claims about the boat's mission and had called for joint naval patrolling....The boat, with some LTTE suicide cadres and two Indian nationals on board, and heavily lined with a mixture of TNT and RDX, was caught by the Indian Coast Guard off Point Calimere in south Tamil Nadu on February 13. On February 20, after investigations and due legal process, it was blown up 20 nautical miles off Chennai , as it was a grave security risk. The Indian authorities and the Tamil Nadu police said that the boat was on a mission to strike a Sri Lankan harbour, probably Kankesanthurai in Jaffna in the north.

23 February 2007
Associated Press
Insurgent bomb factory found in Baghdad
BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military warned Thursday that insurgents are adopting new tactics in a campaign to spread panic after troops uncovered a car bomb factory with propane tanks and chlorine cylinders, possible ingredients for more chemical attacks following three explosions involving chlorine. Those blasts and a recent spate of attacks against helicopters have raised fears that insurgents are trying to develop new ways to confront U.S. and Iraqi forces. Any increase in chemical bombings could complicate the Baghdad security crackdown, now in its second week....The raid on the car bomb factory occurred late Tuesday in the volatile western province of Anbar, U.S. authorities said. U.S. troops discovered a pickup and three other vehicles that were being prepared as car bombs, as well as detonation material in five buildings....Insurgents have detonated three trucks carrying chlorine canisters since late January. The most recent attack occurred Wednesday in Baghdad, killing five people and sending more than 55 to hospitals.

22 February 2007
New York Times
THE REACH OF WAR; IRAQ INSURGENTS EMPLOY CHLORINE IN BOMB ATTACKS
A truck bomb that combined explosives with chlorine gas blew up in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, and officials said it might represent a new and deadly tactic by insurgents against Iraqi civilians. It was at least the third truck bomb in a month to employ chlorine, a greenish gas also used in World War I, which burns the skin and can be fatal after only a few concentrated breaths. The bomb killed at least two people and wounded 32 others, many of them sent to hospitals coughing and wheezing, police and medical officials said. Iraqi and American officials said the use of chlorine seemed aimed at bringing a new level of fear and havoc to Iraq as a new security plan for Baghdad takes shape.... The bombing involving chlorine gas on Wednesday followed an explosion on Tuesday north of Baghdad of a tanker filled with chlorine that had been rigged to explode, killing nine people and wounding 148, including 42 women and 52 children. At least one other attack with chlorine took place on Jan. 28, according to the American military's statements. Sixteen people were killed in that attack, in the Sunni-dominated Anbar Province, when a dump truck with explosives and a chlorine tank blew up in Ramadi.

20 February 2007
Associated Press
Suicide bomber strikes funeral on bloody day in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide bomber struck a funeral in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least seven people as militants show increasing defiance to a major security operation in the capital. The attacker, wearing a belt packed with explosives, followed a funeral procession into a tent before detonating the blast in a mostly Shi'ite district of eastern Baghdad, police said. At least 15 people were injured. In other bloodshed across Baghdad, a car bomb and a suicide attacker killed at least 11 people. About 12 miles outside the capital, a truck carrying chlorine gas ran over a roadside bomb. Two people died in the explosion and nearly 150 exposed to the fumes were treated for injuries, said Brig. Gen. Qassim Moussawi, a military spokesman. A car rigged with explosives tore through a line of cars at a gas station in the Sadiyah district in southwestern Baghdad. Police said at least six people were killed and 14 injured in the neighborhood, which is mixed between the majority Shi'ites and Sunnis. a suicide attacker drove a bomb-laden car into a vegetable market near a Shi'ite enclave in southern Baghdad. At least five people were killed and seven injured, police said. The same market in the mostly Sunni Dora district was targeted last month by three car bombs that killed 10 people.

19 February 2007
The Hindu
25 held for suicide bomb blast in Quetta
Islamabad, Feb. 19: Twenty-five people have been detained in connection with a suicide bombing inside a Quetta court that killed 16 people, even as the Balochistan province witnessed one more bomb blast damaging a gas pipeline. "Twenty-five people have been taken into custody and the mutiliated body parts of the suicide bomber has been sent for DNA tests," Tariq Masood Khosa, a senior police official, said Sunday. In the Saturday night raids in Pashtunabad and other localities of Quetta, police detained over 25 people for having suspected links with the suicide attack, Khosa said. Police have constituted two teams for further investigations into the attack.

19 February 2007
New York Times
2 Car Bombs Explode in Busy Baghdad Market, Killing at Least 60 People
BAGHDAD, Monday, Feb. 19: Two days after Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki called the opening steps of a security crackdown here a dazzling success, two car bombs tore through a crowded market and killed at least 60 people on Sunday. The blasts occurred in the mostly Shiite neighborhood of New Baghdad, devastating an open-air market, setting dozens of cars ablaze and causing the partial collapse of a two-story building that housed several electronics stores. Survivors tried to rush the more than 131 people wounded in the attack to the hospital.

19 February 2007
Guardian
String of Bombings Kill 15 in Baghdad
A string of bombings killed at least 15 people Monday in the Baghdad area...five people were killed when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb-rigged belt on a public bus headed for the mostly Shiite area of Karradah in central Baghdad, police reported.

17 February 2007
Daily Times
3 suspected suicide bombers held
Karachi: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) Police raided a house in Gulistan-e-Jauhar on Friday and arrested three suspected suicide bombers identified as Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Farhan and Ghani Subhan. The police also seized three hand grenades, two pistols, one AK-47 assault rifle and a suicide jacket from the suspects' possession. Police said that the three suspects belonged to a group headed by Al Qaeda leader Qari Zafar and they had been especially sent to Karachi from Wana to carry out terrorist activities and suicide attacks.

17 February 2007
Dawn
Judge, 14 others killed in Quetta suicide attack
QUETTA, Feb 17: Sixteen people, including a judge and six lawyers, were killed and 35 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the court of a senior civil judge here on Saturday. Three police constables and several lawyers were among the injured. The attack was made while senior civil judge Abdul Wahid Durrani was hearing a case, witnesses said.

14 February 2007
Daily Times
Suicide truck bomber kills 18 in Baghdad
Baghdad: A suicide bomber driving a small truck rigged with explosives blew up near a Baghdad college on Tuesday, killing 18 people in an attack that came just a day after bomb blasts destroyed two crowded city markets. Police said the bomber detonated in a parking lot between the College of Economic Sciences, a private university in western Baghdad's residential Iskan district, and a large foodstuff warehouse belonging to the Trade Ministry. The blast, which police said destroyed one house and severely damaged others, followed bombings at two markets on Monday that killed at least 77 people and maimed scores.

12 February 2007
Daily Times
Suicide car bomber kills 15 near Baghdad
Baghdad: A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with explosives killed at least 15 people on Sunday when he attacked a police station north of Baghdad, police said. Police said they were caught off-guard by the bomber, who ignored the main gate to the station and instead rammed the poorly guarded entrance to an adjoining municipal building. He then drove across open ground and smashed his vehicle into the police station, which is in the town of Dour near Tikrit, 175 km north of Baghdad.

10 February 2007
Daily Times
Suicide attacks, bomb explosions since Sept, 2006: Peshawaris ?shell shocked?, feel insecure, unprotected
PESHAWAR: Uncertainty, insecurity and, above all, fear persist among the people of the city in the aftermath of suicide attacks and bomb explosions that have been intermittently rattling NWFP?s capital since September, 2006 when the first explosion occurred outside a police station. Most people avoid going to mosques, imambargahs, parks and other public places, which usually remain crowded on weekends as rumours abound of more such attacks in Peshawar and other parts of the province. Parents are worried about the safety of their school-going children, while government employees, particularly bureaucrats, feel insecure, as government installations are at increased risk of terrorist attacks. The main gates of most police stations also remain closed.

9 February 2007
Daily Times
Suicide bombs show Pakistan confronting Taliban
ISLAMABAD: For all the doubts about Pakistan?s commitment to fighting the Taliban, a recent wave of suicide attacks on its soldiers and cities belies suspicions that they might be in cahoots, analysts and diplomats say. Hardly a week passes without President Pervez Musharraf having to fend off accusations, mostly from Kabul, that the Pakistani Army tolerates Taliban sanctuaries and its spies support the insurgents in Afghanistan.

7 February 2007
The Indian Express
Suicide bomber strikes airport in Islamabad, PM Aziz ?likely target?
RAWALPINDI: A suicide attacker tonight detonated a bomb in a parking area at the international airport that serves Pakistan?s capital Islamabad, wounding at least two policemen and killing himself. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz was returning from Gwadar at the time of the attack. Officials were trying to figure out whether the militant was acting on inside information. It?s likely that the bomber did not have precise information since senior officials use a separate terminal. A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that airport security officials arrested a man who was trying to flee the scene. It was unclear whether the detained man was a suspected accomplice of the attacker. This is the latest in a series of suicide attacks in the capital and in the North-West Frontier Province following a US airstrike against a madrassa in Pakistan?s tribal belt.

3 February 2007
The Guardian
Suicide Bomber Kills 121 in Baghdad
Baghdad: A suicide truck bomber struck a market in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 121 people and wounding scores among the crowd buying food for evening meals, the most devastating strike in the capital in more than two months. The attacker was driving a truck carrying food when he detonated his explosives, destroying stores and stalls that had been set up in the busy outdoor Sadriyah market, police said. The late-afternoon explosion was the latest in a series of attacks against mainly Shiite commercial targets in the capital. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it appeared to be part of a bid by Sunni insurgents to provoke retaliatory violence and kill as many people as possible ahead of a planned U.S.-Iraqi security sweep.

1 February 2007
Indian Express
At Least 62 Killed in Iraqi Violence
Baghdad: A pair of suicide bombers detonated explosives Thursday among shoppers in a crowded outdoor market in a Shiite city south of Baghdad, killing at least 45 people and wounding 150, police said. Bombs and a mortar attack killed at least 17 others in both Shiite and Sunni areas of Baghdad. Overall, more than 100 people were killed or found dead across the country, reflecting the ongoing wave of sectarian and insurgency bloodletting as the U.S. military gears up for a major security operation to stem the violence.

30 January 2007
DAWN
Suicide bomber kills 3 in Israel
EILAT (Israel), Jan 29: A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a bakery in Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat on Monday, killing three people in the first militant attack in the Jewish state in nine months. The bombing came amid tentative attempts to jumpstart the Middle East peace process and was condemned by the European Union and the White House.

27 January 2007
The Times of India
Blast at R-Day function venue in Islamabad
Islamabad: A suicide bomber killed a security guard and himself in an attack outside the Marriott Hotel here on Friday, hours before an Indian high commission function to celebrate Republic Day was due to be held there. "It was a suicide attack. The bomber and one security official of the hotel were killed," interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said. The blast took place around 2.37 pm. At least six people were wounded but there were no foreigners among them, officials said. The Marriott is one of Islamabad's main hotels, and is frequented by foreign diplomats and businessmen, making it a potential target for militants angered by President Pervez Musharraf's post-9/11 alliance with the US and his efforts to make peace with India. Musharraf condemned the attack and vowed to continue fighting terrorism. "Musharraf reiterated Pakistan?s unwavering commitment in the fight against extremism and terrorism and said that all-out efforts be made to unmask and bring to book the perpetrators of this crime," the official APP quoted the minister as saying.

24 January 2007
Daily Times
Over 30 killed in Afghan violence
Khost: More than 30 people were killed in Taliban-linked violence in Afghanistan on Tuesday, including 10 Afghans caught up in a suicide blast among laborers queuing for work at a NATO base. A suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body while he was standing in a crowd of people waiting to pass security checks to enter an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) base near Khost. As a result 10 of our compatriots were martyred and 14 others were wounded,? the Interior Ministry said in a statement. There were no ISAF casualties, spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Angela Billings said in Kabul. The Taliban reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack.

19 January 2007
The Indian Express
Suicide Bomber Kills 1 Afghan Soldier
Kabul: A suicide bomber detonated his explosives next to Afghan soldiers in an eastern Afghan market Thursday, killing one soldier and wounding three, an official said. The bomber, who struck at a market in Paktika province's capital, Sharan, also wounded two civilians, said Akram Akhpelwak, Paktika's governor. Meanwhile, authorities detained two suspected bombers in southern Afghan border town of Spin Boldak on Wednesday. Police stopped their car and discovered suicide vests filled with explosives ready to be used in an attack, said Asadullah Khalid, governor of Kandahar province.Last year, militant supporters of the resurgent Taliban stepped up attacks, targeting Afghan government and foreign security forces. According to the U.S. military, there were 139 suicide attacks during 2006, up from 27 in 2005.

17 January 2007
The Hindu
65 killed in Baghdad varsity attack
Dubai: Sixty-five people, including several women students and teachers, were killed and 110 injured on Tuesday in a devastating twin suicide bombing at the gates of a university in Baghdad, marking a surge in violence in the embattled city. The toll is likely to go up. The attack was part of a string of deadly bombings in the city, where 95 people were killed and scores wounded. The bloodbath witnessed comes a day after two close associates of the former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, were hanged.

30 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security Developments in Iraq
A suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body killed five people and wounded eight, including four policemen, in the northern city of Tal Afar, police said.

29 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Suicide Bomber kills 10 north of Baghdad
A suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 11 near a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. They said the bomber targeted the Shi'ite mosque after Friday prayers in the town, which is in the religiously mixed province of Diyala, a hotbed of sectarian violence.

28 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security Developments in Iraq
A suicide bomber in a minibus attacked the offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the northern city of Mosul, witnesses said. Police said two people were killed and 19 wounded in the blast.

25 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide bomber killed three people and wounded 20 others when he blew himself up aboard a crowded bus in the Shi'ite Talibiya district in northeastern Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said. In a separate incident, a suicide bomber targeting a police checkpoint near the main entrance of Anbar University killed three policemen and wounded two students in the city of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, police Lieutenant Kareem al-Rishawi said.

24 December 2006
CNN
Iraqi suicide bomber kills 7 police officers
A suicide bomber walked into a police station in Muqdadiya, Iraq, on Sunday morning and blew himself up, killing at least seven police officers and wounding 30 more, according to a security official in the Diyala province.

22 December 2006
Daily Times
Suicide bomber kills 15 Iraqi police cadets
A suicide bomber killed 15 police officers and recruits in central Baghdad on Thursday as US Defence Secretary Robert Gates met Iraqi leaders in a bid to draw up a new plan to end the war.

20 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a police checkpoint near Baghdad University in the southwestern Jadriya district, killing 11 people and wounding 31, including some students, an Interior Ministry source said.

15 December 2006
Daily Times
Suicide bomber kills 5 in Afghanistan
A suicide car attack killed at least five people in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, police and a hospital doctor said. The blast occurred soon after a convoy of presidential security guards passed through Qalat, the provincial capital of southern Zabul province, on their way back to Kabul from a visit to the south by President Hamid Karzai. Residents said they believed the guards were the intended target.

15 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Car bombs explode outside US bases in Iraq- poilce
Two suicide car bombers exploded on Friday outside two U.S. bases in central Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's volatile Anbar province, Iraqi police said. Captain Ahmed Ali said he had no word on any injuries. Ali said one bomber, driving a truck, rammed the gates of a former government building that now houses U.S. troops. A second, driving a car, attacked a U.S. base in a former football club.

15 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Bombers hit Afghanistan as NATO launches operations
Two suicide bombers, one dressed in an Islamic burqa, killed at least two Afghan soldiers and wounded a foreigner on Friday as hundreds of British-led troops launched a major operation in the Taliban's heartland. Another male suicide bomber dressed in a burqa -- the all-covering dress worn by some Islamic women -- wounded two more Afghan soldiers in neighbouring Paktika province.

13 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
Two suicide bombers struck an Iraqi army base in the town of Riyadh, 60 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, killing seven soldiers and wounding 15, police said.

13 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Suicide bombers kill 7 Iraqi soldiers in N. Iraq
Two suicide bombers struck an Iraqi army base in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing seven soldiers and wounding 15, police said. General Torhan Abdul Rahman said the first bomber detonated his vehicle after ramming the gate of the base in the town of Riyadh, some 60 km (40 miles) south of the volatile oil city of Kirkuk. The second bomber managed to enter the base before blowing himself up, Abdul Rahman told Reuters.

12 December 2006
CNN
71 killed in Baghdad suicide truck bombing
A suicide bomber targeting laborers killed 71 people on Tuesday in Baghdad and wounded 220, Iraqi officials said. A pickup truck loaded with about 440 pounds of explosives pulled into central Baghdad's Tayaran Square as hundreds of unemployed Iraqis holding picks and shovels gathered seeking a day's work. Iraqi police Lt. Bilal Ali Majid told The Associated Press most of the victims were Shiites from poor areas of Baghdad such as Sadr City.

12 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Suicide raid in Afghan governor's compound kills 8
A suicide bomber blew himself up inside the compound of the Afghan governor of southern Helmand province on Tuesday, killing eight people, provincial officials said. Four police, two soldiers and two civilians were killed in the attack in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand which is part of the Taliban's heartland and the main drug producing region of Afghanistan, the world's leading producer of heroin.

11 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomber blew himself up near a house used as a base by police commandos, killing a policeman and wounding five others in Doura district in southern Baghdad, police said.

10 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a fuel truck carpark, setting four trucks on fire, police said.

9 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomber killed seven people and wounded 44 in a crowded market in the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala, hospital sources said. Police put the death toll at six, with 44 hurt.

8 December 2006
Daily Times
Suicide blast, shootings leave four more dead in Afghanistan
A suicide car bomb targeting a NATO convoy in Afghanistan killed two civilians Thursday, while elsewhere a district chief and a senior policemen were killed by Taliban gunmen. The bomber struck as NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) military vehicles drove through the southern city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban movement and scene of a rash of recent suicide attacks.

6 December 2006
Hindustan Times
Seven dead in Afghan suicide blast
A suicide bomber on foot blew himself up outside a compound for security contractors in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two Americans and five Afghans, officials and witnesses said... The area where the attack happened is located opposite the Canadian Provincial Reconstruction Team inside Kandahar city. The blast was the sixth suicide attack in Kandahar province in the last nine days.

6 December 2006
Hindustan Times
Seven dead in Afghan suicide blast
A suicide bomber on foot blew himself up outside a compound for security contractors in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two Americans and five Afghans, officials and witnesses said. The area where the attack happened is located opposite the Canadian Provincial Reconstruction Team inside Kandahar city. The blast was the sixth suicide attack in Kandahar province in the last nine days.

6 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a minibus in Shi'ite Sadr City, killing three people and wounding 16, Interior Ministry sources said.

5 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Suicide bomber hits foreign troops in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber ploughed his car into a convoy of NATO troops in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Tuesday, wounding nine civilians and two soldiers, witnesses and officials said. It was the second such attack in three days?Two NATO soldiers were wounded in the blast and two vehicles damaged, a spokesman for the organisation said.

4 December 2006
DAWN
Suicide blast near Bannu; policeman killed
A suicide bomber allegedly blew himself up by detonating explosives strapped to his body, while a policeman died of shrapnel injuries near Speen Tangi, 24km east of Bannu, on Sunday. The bomber, suspected to be of Uzbek origin, had earlier shot and injured the policeman, Khalil, near Speen Tangi when his car was stopped at a checkpoint. After injuring the policeman, he fled towards the Frontier Region, and police chased him, officials said. During the chase, the man opened fire on the police party, which resulted in an hour-long exchange of fire. Police said that when the suspect received a bullet injury and fell down, Platoon Commander Ahmad Khan went up to him, but he detonated the explosives strapped to his body, blowing himself up and seriously wounding the policeman, who died latter in a hospital. The officials said the body was blown into pieces but its facial features suggested that he was a foreigner.

4 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomber blew himself up near a U.S. military convoy wounding five civilians in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

3 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomb exploded near a police patrol in Mosul, killing two and wounding four, police said.

1 December 2006
Hindustan Times
President's brother attacked in Lanka
A suicide bomber targeted a convoy of vehicles carrying Sri Lanka's defence secretary and other security officials in the capital Friday, wounding at least 14 people, the military and a hospital official said. Military spokesman Brig Prasad Samarasinghe said the bomber, whose identity was not immediately known, triggered the explosives as the 5-car convoy of vehicles was passing? The suicide bomber apparently came on a scooter rickshaw from the opposite direction and targeted the convoy, said Deputy Inspector General of Police, Jayantha Wickremeratne.

1 December 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomber targeted a U.S. patrol, killing two civilians and wounding four in the northern city of Kirkuk, police and hospital sources said.

30 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Suicide attack kills 8 near Somali government seat
A suicide blast killed at least eight people near the Somali government seat of Baidoa on Thursday in an attack the administration blamed on Islamists backed by al Qaeda.

29 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomber targeting a police patrol killed a policeman and wounded seven people, including three policemen, in southwestern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. In a separate incident, a suicide car bomber exploded near a police patrol, killing a policeman and wounding five civilians in al-Nidhal street in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. Meanwhile, in Mosul, a suicide car bomber targeting a police station killed one civilian and wounded 23 in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

28 November 2006
Hindustan Times
Afghanistan suicide attack kills two Canadian soldiers
A Taliban suicide car bomber rammed a convoy of the NATO-led force near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing two Canadian soldiers in the latest of a spate of such attacks. The extremist Taliban rooted in Kandahar province said it had carried out the attack on NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

28 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Suicide bomber attacks Iraq Governor's Convoy
A man wearing an explosive vest blew himself up next to the convoy of the governor of a northern Iraqi province on Tuesday, killing a passerby and wounding 12 people, the governor and health officials said."It was the third assassination attempt on my life, but it will not stop me doing my job," Kirkuk governor Abdul-Rahman Mustafa told Reuters after escaping the attack unharmed.

26 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
Two U.S. Marines died on Saturday from wounds suffered in combat in Iraq's western Anbar province, the U.S. military said. One of them was killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint in Khaldiya, about 80 km (50 miles) west of Baghdad, killing three Iraqi civilians, including two children. Nine civilians were also wounded.

24 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A double suicide attack killed 22 people and wounded 45 at a market in a Shi'ite district in the northern city of Tal Afar, near the Syrian border, police said.

23 November 2006
Hindustan Times
Suicide attacks kills 160 in Iraq
In the deadliest attack since the beginning of the Iraq war, suspected Sunni-Arab militants used three suicide car bombs and two mortar rounds on the capital's Shia Sadr City slum to kill at least 160 people and wound 238 on Thursday, police said. Shias responded almost immediately, firing 10 mortar rounds at the Abu Hanifa Sunni mosque, killing one person and wounding seven people in their attack on the holiest Sunni shrine in Baghdad.

20 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle near a police checkpoint and killed two people, including a policeman, and wounded six others, including four policemen, in Ramadi, police and hospital sources said. Meanwhile, a suicide car bomber rammed his car into a joint Iraqi police-army patrol and killed three soldiers and wounded four others, including a policeman, on Sunday in a town west of Mosul, police said.

19 November 2006
Hindustan Times
22 killed, 44 hurt in Baghdad suicide attack
A suicide car bomber blew himself up among a crowd of construction labourers on Sunday, killing at least 22 and wounding 44 in the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, a doctor said? The bombing took place in the Bab al-Hussein area in the centre of Hilla at around 7:00 am (0930 IST), a police officer said.

19 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Car bomb kills three at funeral in Iraq's Kirkuk
A suicide car bomb killed three people and wounded 22 when it exploded near a funeral procession in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, police said. The attack occurred on the same day as a car bomb in Hilla, south of Baghdad, killed 22 people.

18 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomber wounded seven Iraqi soldiers when he attacked an army checkpoint on the northern outskirts of Mosul, an ethnically mixed city in northern Iraq, an army major said.

15 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomb exploded near a funeral in south Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding 15, police and Interior Ministry sources said.

14 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomb exploded near a funeral in south Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding 15, police and Interior Ministry sources said.

13 November 2006
Daily Times
Suicide bombers kill 35 at police recruitment centre
Two suicide bombers attacked a Baghdad police commando base on Sunday, killing 35, while another 19 people were killed in separate violence around the city, provoking Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri-al-Maliki to call for a ?comprehensive? cabinet reshuffle to stem the bloodshed. Separately, three US soldiers and four British soldiers were killed in Iraq violence.

13 November 2006
CNN
Suicide bomber kills 10 on Baghdad bus
A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up inside a bus on Monday in northeastern Baghdad, killing 10 people and wounding 17 others, emergency police said. Meanwhile, in a separate incident, two U.S. soldiers on patrol in Salaheddin province were killed and two others wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded near their vehicle, the military said.

12 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Iraq PM plans govt shake up, bomber kills 35
A suicide bomber killed 35 Iraqi police recruits on Sunday, the bloodiest such attack in weeks? The deaths of three American soldiers were announced -- as well as four British troops on a patrol boat in the south -- but the White House warned against fixing a withdrawal timetable? Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for killing 35 and wounding 58 in the blast. It called the victims agents of the "Safavid" government -- a historical reference to Iranian Shi'ite rulers and increasingly used by Sunni Arabs who accuse Maliki's administration of answering to non-Arab Tehran.

11 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomber attacked a police station, killing two people, including one woman, in the town of Zaghinya to the north of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

10 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomber hit an army checkpoint, killing a colonel and four soldiers, and wounding 17 people including 10 soldiers in Tal Afar, about 240 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.

10 November 2006
Daily News
Navy foils LTTE attack on civilian ship
Nagarkovil: Naval troops yesterday foiled a major LTTE attack on the civilian passenger vessel 'Green Ocean I' with 300 Jaffna bound civilians from Trincomalee in the sea off Nagarkovil destroying a flotilla of Sea Tiger boats including three suicide boats. Navy Commander Vice Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda told the Daily News last night that the Navy escorted the 'Green Ocean I' to a safer area amidst the Sea Tiger attack without any harm to the civilian passengers.

9 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
In the Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed five people and wounded six near a mosque, an interior ministry source said.

8 November 2006
DAWN
Suicide attack on army base: 40 troops dead; search on for bomber's aide
At least 40 soldiers were killed and 20 others wounded when a suicide bomber struck a military base in Dargai, 100kms north of here, on Wednesday morning, officials said. Military and security officials told Dawn that the suicide bomber, wrapped in a cloak, came running into the training area of the Punjab Regimental Centre and blew himself up, killing 38 soldiers and leaving 22 others wounded. Two of the wounded died later at the Combined Military Hospital in Mardan, officials said, requesting they not be named.The incident, the deadliest attack yet on the Pakistan Army, took place at around 8:40am, when a group of about 130 recruits had changed their sporting kits and were preparing for the parade, the officials said, quoting wounded soldiers.

7 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
A suicide bomber walked into a cafe in the Shi'ite Greyat district and blew himself up after dark, killing 17 people and wounding 20, police and Interior Ministry sources said. In nearby Adhamiya, dominated by Sunnis, mortars killed five people and wounded 26.

1 November 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertNet
Security developments in Iraq
Two suicide car bomb attacks on police positions north of Ramadi killed five policemen and wounded three, police Colonel Abdul Jabaar al-Nimrawi said. Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, sees intense activity by Sunni Arab insurgents.

20 October 2006
DAWN
Bombers hit Afghanistan
A suicide bomber on foot killed an Afghan soldier and wounded seven more in Khost on Friday, the army said. The attack came hours after an operation by U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan troops killed a militant and captured four in the same province. Meanwhile, Tajikistan border guards shot dead two Afghan drug smugglers on Friday and seized 200 kg of drugs, a spokesman said in Dushanbe.

19 October 2006
Hindustan Times
Suicide bomber, clashes kill 20 in Iraq
A suicide bomber blew up a fuel truck outside a police centre in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killing 11 people, and rebels fired mortar rounds at another station in coordinated attacks, police and doctors said.

19 October 2006
CNN
Children die as UK troops attacked
Two children were killed and three British soldiers were wounded in a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province Thursday, police and military officials said. According to NATO International Security Assistance Force spokesman Maj. Luke Knittig, a trio of British soldiers suffered injuries in the bombing of an ISAF convoy that took place around 11 a.m. in Lashkar Gah.

18 October 2006
ABC News International
LTTE suicide raid on Sri Lanka navy base kills 16
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a naval base in an apparent suicide mission in the southern city of Galle on Wednesday, leading to at least 16 deaths and triggering brief looting of minority Tamil shops. It was the latest in a series of blows to an already battered peace process that have dimmed hopes ahead of planned peace talks between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Geneva on October 28-29.

17 October 2006
Daily News
Nearly 100 sailors killed in LTTE suicide attack
Nearly one hundred sailors were killed and 116 including civilians were injured in a barbaric suicide attack by the LTTE by driving an explosives-laden truck targeting hundreds of unarmed Naval personnel at Digampathana on the Trincomalee-Habarana road. "It was a transit point for changing over sailors going on leave and those reporting to camps after leave. The sailors were resting before boarding the buses when the suicide cadres drove in," a Navy official describing the brutal attack said...There were around 15 buses in the convoy. The blast occurred around 1.30 p.m. when the suicide cadres in the Mitsubishi Canter blew up their deadly cargo. Navy sources said the transit point is changed frequently as a security measure and Digampathana was chosen as yesterday's meeting point of the convoys heading to and from Trincomalee.

13 October 2006
CNN
Afghan car bomb kills 9
Eight civilians and a NATO soldier were killed on Friday in a suicide car bomb attack on a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said...Two ISAF soldiers and "an unspecified number" of Afghan civilians had been wounded. One of the soldiers wounded later died.The nationalities of the ISAF troops were not immediately available.

7 October 2006
ABC News International
At least 25 killed in Iraq violence
A suicide bomber rammed a police checkpoint in northern Iraq with an explosives-laden vehicle Saturday, killing 14 people, including some who died when their homes collapsed in the blast. The suicide bombing in Tal Afar a city cited by President Bush earlier this year as an example of improving security in Iraq was the deadliest attack on a day when more than two dozen people died in violence around the country.

6 October 2006
ABC News International
Afghan suicide bombing kills 1, wounds 3
A suicide bomber on foot blew himself up outside a regional police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing himself and one officer, police said. Three other people were wounded in the blast in the city of Khost, said Mohammed Ayub, police chief of Khost province.

4 October 2006
Hindustan Times
Suicide strike by militants foiled
Al-Mansooreen militants broke the Ramzan calm in Srinagar on Wednesday by mounting a suicide attack on a CRPF formation at Akhara Building in Budshah Chowk. The CRPF, however, foiled the militants? attempt to storm the camp, barricaded them inside a hotel opposite the Akhara Building and engaged them in a gunfight.

30 September 2006
DAWN
12 killed in Afghan suicide blast
A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the interior ministry in the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing 12 people and wounding more than 50. The Taliban said it had carried out the morning rush-hour attack with a remote-controlled bomb, but police insisted it was a suicide attack.

27 September 2006
The Independent
Helmand governor escapes a suicide bomber
The governor of Helmand, a key British ally in Afghanistan, was the target of a suicide bomb attack yesterday which killed 18 people. The bomb was detonated at the front gate of the home and office of Mohammed Daoud Safi in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gar. Nine soldiers and nine civilians, including pilgrims seeking paperwork to travel to Mecca for the haj, were among those dead.

26 September 2006
The Independent
18 killed in Afghanistan suicide attack
At least 18 people were killed today when a suicide bomber struck outside the compound of a southern Afghan provincial governor. The dead included several Muslim pilgrims seeking paperwork to travel to Mecca?Nine Afghan soldiers and nine civilians were killed, said Rahmatullah Mohammdi, director of the hospital in Lashkar Gah. Seventeen people were wounded, he said.

18 September 2006
The Independent
Suicide bomber kills 4 NATO troops
A suicide bomber on a bicycle attacked Canadian troops handing out sweets to children in southern Afghanistan today, killing four Nato soldiers and wounding many others, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast.

17 September 2006
CNN
6 wounded in suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan
Three Afghans and three soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were wounded on Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked a military convoy west of Kandahar, an ISAF spokesman said. The incident occurred on a highway in the Zhare district, ISAF spokesman Maj. Luke Knittig added in a statement.

15 September 2006
CNN
Iraq suicide blast kills 2 US soldiers at Army outpost
A suicide truck bomb hit a U.S. Army outpost Thursday in Baghdad, killing two American soldiers and leaving 25 wounded, the U.S. military said.

11 September 2006
CNN
Suicide bomber kills 10 Iraqi recruits
At least 10 Iraqi army recruits were killed and three civilians wounded when a suicide bomber wearing an explosives vest detonated on board a minibus Monday morning, Iraqi police said. The attack took place around 10 a.m., just outside the army's Al-Muthana recruiting center in northern Baghdad. The bomber boarded the minibus that is commonly used by recruits going to and from the center.

10 September 2006
CNN
Suicide bomb kills Afghan Governor
A suicide bomber killed the governor of Afghanistan's southeastern Paktia province Sunday afternoon as he was leaving his office, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.Gov. Abdul Hakim Taniwal's bodyguard and his nephew were also killed when the suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body while standing next to the governor's car?There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assassination of the Paktia governor.

8 September 2006
The Independent
18 killed in Kabul blast near US embassy
A massive suicide car bomb struck a convoy of US military vehicles in the Afghan capital today, killing at least 18 people, including two American soldiers, and injuring more than 30 others.

29 August 2006
The Independent
At least 100 die as militia force Iraqi troops out of town
At least 100 people were killed across Iraq yesterday in a day of intense gun battles and suicide bombings, contradicting US military claims that the security situation in the war-torn nation was improving. A total of 34 bodies, including seven civilians and 25 Iraqi government soldiers, were brought into the central hospital in the town of Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, after fighting between government forces and gunmen of the Mehdi Army, a Shia militia loyal to the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Fifty militiamen were also killed in the gunfight, according to the Iraqi defence ministry. In a separate development, a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into the Interior Ministry in Baghdad during the midmorning rush hour, killing 16 people, including 13 policemen, and wounding up to 62.

20 August 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertnetNews
Security incidents in Iraq
Two simultaneous car bombs killed at least 13 people and wounded 43 in Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. The attacks took place on Tunis Street, a busy commercial area in central Baghdad.

17 August 2006
Reutes Foundation: AlertNet
Security incidents in Iraq
At least three people were killed and 28 wounded when a car bomb exploded at a market in Sadr City, a stronghold of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in northeastern Baghdad, police sources said.Nine people were wounded, including four civilians, when a suicide car bomber targeting Kurdish security forces blew himself up on a road in Sinjar, northwest of Mosul, said police Colonel Kareem Khalaf.

15 August 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertnetNews
Security incidents in Iraq
A suicide bomber detonated a truck rigged with explosives outside the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the northern city of Mosul, killing nine people and wounding 36, police said. Five Kurdish peshmerga militias were among the dead, police said.

14 August 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertnetNews
Security incidents in Iraq
Five killed by car bomb on a bridge over the Diyala river in the southern outskirts of Baghdad, police and Iraqi state television said.Nine Iraqi soldiers were wounded on Sunday night by a suicide car bomb near their checkpoint in Tal Afar, about 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.

13 August 2006
Kuwait News Agency
Final death toll of attack at Al-Zafaraniyah : 57 killed, 145 injured
A high ranking Iraqi security source in the Interior ministry said Sunday that the final death toll of the bombings in the Al-Zafaraniyah district in southern Baghdad is 57 killed and 145 injured, most of them women and children.The source, who asked not to be named, told KUNA final estimates came based on hospital reports from several hospitals near the attacks and that they match local police estimates and figures.Among the victims who were killed was a whole family whose house was destroyed because it was near the attacks which consisted of tens of howitzer projectiles and a booby-trapped car, the source added.The source also said attackers used highly explosive missiles of the type known as "Krad." The source discribed the attack as a terrorist's attack which was targeting big numbers of innocent civilians and security personnel.

13 August 2006
The New York Times
5 Bombs Kill at Least 57 in Baghdad
As American forces conducted a new security sweep in western Baghdad on Sunday, five apparently coordinated bombings in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood on the city’s south side killed at least 57 people and wounded 148, an Iraqi government official said.The death toll could rise, the official said, as emergency workers searched for victims in the rubble of an apartment building that collapsed as a result of the bombings.The attacks, which killed civilians in a largely residential neighborhood, were the deadliest in the capital since the American military dispatched new forces here more than a week ago to quell a surge in killings and kidnappings by sectarian militias and criminal gangs.he five bombings in the Zafaraniya district of southern Baghdad occurred in two waves about an hour apart on Sunday evening, an Interior Ministry official said.At 7:30 p.m., the first of three successive blasts rocked an apartment building, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Shortly thereafter, in a market about 60 yards away, a car bomb detonated, killing people involved in rescuing victims of the first blast, the official said. The third explosion, minutes later, occurred on a road near the building as a police patrol sped toward the scene, the official said.Then, at 8:30 p.m., about 300 yards from the scene of the first three explosions, a bomb rigged to a motorcycle blew up after neighbors confronted its driver, who was trying to park on the street, the Interior Ministry official said. Two minutes later, the official added, a fifth bomb exploded near the wreckage left by the motorcycle bomb, killing bystanders.

11 August 2006
The New York Times
4 Die in Attacks by Insurgents in Afghanistan
Three American soldiers and a Canadian were killed Friday in two separate attacks, as operations continued against the Taliban and other militants, military officials said.The other attack, a suicide bombing that took the life of a Canadian soldier serving with the NATO force now in southern Afghanistan, happened in the Kandahar Province, where suicide bombers have staged many of their attacks in the last 10 months. A white Toyota exploded as it drove toward a NATO convoy headed from the border town of Spinbaldak to Kandahar, said a statement from the NATO International Security Assistance Force.

10 August 2006
Turkish Press
Suicide bomber kills 33 near Iraqi Shiite shrine
A suicide bomber has detonated his explosive vest in a market in the ancient Iraqi city of Najaf, killing at least 33 people a short distance from Shiite Islam's holiest shrine.The blast was triggered Thursday at the entrance to a market in the old city, 150 metres (yards) from the Imam Ali mausoleum and close to the offices of Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, police said. "The total casualties are 33 killed and 94 wounded, including four Iranian visitors. One of them is in serious condition." said Doctor Munther al-Athari, head of the Najaf health directorate.

7 August 2006
ABC News International
Bomber Attacks Iraqi Funeral, Killing 10
Fighting erupted early Monday in a Shiite militia stronghold of Baghdad, and a suicide bomber blew himself up among mourners at a funeral in Saddam Hussein's hometown, killing 10 people and injuring 22.The attack on the mourners occurred about 8:15 p.m. in Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad. The bomber mingled among the crowd in a funeral hall and detonated an explosive belt, police said.Also Sunday[August 6th] several U.S. Marines were wounded and a few vehicles were destroyed by a suicide car bombing in Anbar province, the U.S. military said without further details. Iraqi police said the attack was in Fallujah, a heavily guarded city 40 miles west of Baghdad.

7 August 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertnetNews
Developments in Iraq
At least nine people were killed and 10 wounded when a suicide bomber strapped with explosives blew himself up at a police station in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

6 August 2006
DAWN
Suicide bomber killed in Hub
A suspected suicide bomber riding a bicycle was killed on Sunday in Hub, police said.The man, aged about 25, was blown to bits while he was riding through the main market in the town of Hub 600km south of Quetta, police official Mohammad Rafiq told AFP.No one else was injured in the blast, he said. Initial investigations revealed that the suspect had strapped explosives on his body and it appeared he was on a suicide missions somewhere, Rafiq said.The official said investigators were trying to establish the identity of the bomber and his possible links to any terrorist outfit in the region.

6 August 2006
MSNBC
Afghan car bomber wounds U.S. soldier in Kandahar
A British soldier was fatally shot Sunday as NATO-led troops went after Taliban insurgents in a southern mountain range, and a U.S. soldier suffered minor injuries in the suicide truck bombing of a military convoy in a neighboring province, officials said.Officials said British and Afghan forces had used air power and ground troops to kill 17 Taliban fighters.

4 August 2006
CNN
Car bombings, clashes in Mosul
Insurgents and police slugged it out Friday across the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, leaving three police officers and an unknown number of insurgents dead.The clashes led officials to enforce a citywide curfew until dawn on Saturday.The violence erupted as 3,500 U.S. troops were being moved from the Mosul area to Baghdad to help bolster security in the capital. Fighting raged in at least eight neighborhoods in Mosul, the largest city in Iraq's northern tier about 250 miles (400 kilometers) north of Baghdad. At least 80 insurgents drove vehicles into several neighborhoods and attacked police patrols and checkpoints, police said. Two car bombs also went off. In one of the attacks, Col. Jassim Mohammed Bilal, a police battalion commander, and two other police officers were slain when attackers targeted his convoy in the eastern Noor neighborhood, said Nineveh province Gov. Duraid Kashmoula.Police and civilians were wounded in the blast. The bodies of an unknown number of insurgents were strewn on the ground across the city. South of Mosul, a suicide bomber in a pickup struck a police patrol near a sports field Thursday night, killing 10 people, according to a Mosul police official.Three police officers were among the dead, and 12 others, including seven police, were wounded in the attack in Hadhar, about 55 miles (88 kilometers) south of Mosul.

4 August 2006
Associated Press
Developments in Iraq
A suicide car bomber drove into a football field and blew up the vehicle and himself, killing three policemen who were among the players. The incident occurred in Hatra, 70 kilometre southeast of Mosul, police Col. Abdul Karim Ahmed Khalaf said.

3 August 2006
The New York Times
21 Killed by Suicide Bomber in Afghan
A suicide bomber blew up his car in the center of a small-town bazaar in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing himself and 21 civilians and injuring 14 others, among them children. Hours earlier, 4 NATO soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in two attacks in the same area, Afghan and NATO officials said.n a nearby village, Afghan police officers clashed with insurgents. One policeman was killed and three were wounded, a doctor in a hospital near the village said.The suicide bomber detonated his charge in the middle of shoppers in Panjwai, a district center west of Kandahar, killing and wounding civilians and igniting a row of shops. The wounded included children ages 9 to 15, said Gen. Said Aziz Ahmad, the police chief in Kandahar, where many of them had been taken.

1 August 2006
Yahoo News
Car bomb kills 14 in Baghdad
A suicide car bomb ripped through the middle class Baghdad neighbourhood of Karrada, killing 10 soldiers and four civilians, according to defence ministry and hospital sources.The local hospital reported receiving 10 dead soldiers and dozens of wounded.An interior ministry official said the suicide bomber targeted a military patrol as it was passing a police checkpoint.Four civilians were also killed, a defence ministry official said.The bomb exploded along Rushdie street, not far from where a car bombing and a series of mortar strikes killed 31 of people on Thursday.In recent weeks, there has been a spike in attacks in the mostly Shiite neighbourhood, including a mass kidnapping of people from a mobile phone company and the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Monday. Karrada, once known as a middle class haven in amid the persistent violence in the city, is one of the few places in Baghdad completely under Iraqi control with no US military oversight or joint patrols. The attack came shortly after another car bomb exploded in the violent city of Muqdadiyah, 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, killing four people and injuring 10, local police said. The blast took place outside a police post and a bus station in a religiously-mixed area plagued by sectarian violence and attacks by anti-government insurgents. One police officer was killed and four wounded, but the rest of the victims were civilians, police said.

1 August 2006
The New York Times
44 Die in Attacks Aimed at Iraqi Security Forces
Attacks aimed at Iraqi soldiers and police officers killed at least 44 people on Tuesday and wounded at least 57, officials said, as American and Iraqi generals continued to shift security forces to Baghdad as part of their retooled strategy to roll back surging violence in the capital.In the deadliest attack, a powerful improvised bomb exploded before dawn next to a bus carrying Iraqi troops from Mosul to Baghdad, Iraqi military officials reported. At least 23 soldiers were killed and 20 were wounded in the blast near the Sunni Arab bastion of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein?s hometown. Several hours later, a suicide bomber drove a sedan packed with explosives toward a Baghdad bank where Iraqi troops were collecting their monthly pay, but the vehicle exploded before it reached its apparent target when soldiers opened fire on it, military officials said. The attack killed at least 10 people, including civilians, and wounded at least 22, according to an official at the Interior Ministry, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the news media.Iraq?s security forces were the focus of some of the day?s bloodiest attacks. In the troubled town of Muqdadiya, north of Baghdad, a car bomb apparently timed to explode next to an Iraqi police patrol near the main hospital killed six people ? five civilians and one policeman ? and wounded nine, according to the police in Diyala Province. Another car bomb killed three soldiers in Tal Afar and wounded four, news agencies reported, citing the police there.

31 July 2006
BBC News
Afghan mosque blast 'kills eight'
At least eight people have been killed in a car bomb attack outside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, police say.The governor of Nangarhar province, where the attack took place, escaped unhurt in the blast which wounded 16."I was the target and it was the work of Afghanistan's enemies," the governor, Gul Agha Sherzai, told the Reuters news agency.He was among hundreds gathered at the mosque for a ceremony to mark the death of a former mujahideen commander.Younis Khalis, one of the leaders of the mujahideen force which fought the Soviets in the 1980s and a strong supporter of the Taleban, died last week.The blast took place at Hada, 10km (six miles) south of the Nangarhar capital, Jalalabad, close to the Pakistan border.Witnesses say a car carrying the governor's bodyguards was damaged in the attack - four of them were among those killed, reports say. The attack comes on the day that Nato forces assume command of military operations in southern Afghanistan, taking over from the US-led coalition.

30 July 2006
Kuwait News Agency
Three policemen injured in car bomb explosion in Mosul
Three Iraqi policemen were wounded as result of an explosion of a car bomb targeting a police patrol Southeast of the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said on Sunday.A source in the Iraqi police in Mosul told the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that suicide bomber detonated his vehicle in the neighborhood of Sumar Southeast of the city of Mosul wounding the three policemen and causing material damage to the patrol.

30 July 2006
Yahoo News
Car bomb rocks Iraq oil city under 'terrorist' assault
Insurgents have detonated a car bomb in a protected enclave housing the US and British consulates in Iraq's oil city of Kirkuk in the latest in a string of deadly blasts.City leaders described the two-month-old bombing campaign as the work of Islamist extremists bent on terrorizing the population and fomenting civil strife in the ethnically and confessionally mixed city.The blast, which killed two and wounded six, came overnight beside a row of shops in the previously untouched Arafa Naftiya area, a predominantly Christian neighborhood containing the headquarters of the Northern Oil Company and foreign consulates."The terrorists are no longer targeting police, army, US forces, or political leaders, but are now going after gatherings of civilians to spread fear and hatred in the souls of the innocent," Rizgar Ali, chairman of the provincial council, told AFP on Sunday.Since June, Kirkuk has been hit by a series of bomb attacks, killing dozens of civilians at gas stations, in city markets and, most dramatically, in front of the courthouse where 22 people were killed on June 23.On Saturday, six were killed and 17 wounded by a car bomb near a gas station.

29 July 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertnetNews
Developments in Iraq
A car bomb killed three people and wounded 15 when it blew up near a petrol station in central Kirkuk, city police chief Torhan Abdul-Rahman said.

27 July 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertnetNews
Developments in Iraq
The toll from a car bombing and mortar attacks in central Baghdad climbed to at least 27 people killed and 101 wounded, Interior Ministry sources said.A car bomb exploded in Baquba, wounding three people, police sources said.

26 July 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertnetNews
Developments in Iraq
Seven people were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a gas station in central Kirkuk, police said.

25 July 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertnetNews
Developments in Iraq
Eleven people, including two policemen, were wounded when a car driven by a suicide bomber exploded near a U.S. military patrol in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

24 July 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertnetNews
Developments in Iraq
A car bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in the city of Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding 17 others, seven of them policemen, medical sources said.Five Iraqi soldiers were killed and four wounded when a car driven by a suicide bomber exploded near their patrol in Mosul, police said.

23 July 2006
The New York Times
8 Killed by 2 Suicide Bombers in Afghanistan
Eight people were killed, including two Canadian soldiers, and dozens wounded in a pair of suicide attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday, officials said. The attacks come just over a week before a NATO-led mission takes over security in the south, at a time of the bloodiest phase of an insurgency since coalition forces overthrew the Taliban in 2001.Maj. Scott Lundy, a spokesman for the American-led coalition, said a suicide car bomber had rammed one of the force’s convoys in the city, a Taliban stronghold, just before sunset. The Canadian military said two of its soldiers were killed, and the Afghan police said at least one civilian also was killed.As authorities tried to push back onlookers and deal with casualties from the blast, the police said a second suicide bomber, on foot, blew himself up, killing five Afghans.

23 July 2006
The Los Angeles Times
2 Shattering Blasts Kill up to 60 Iraqis
Two car bombings killing nearly 60 people, many of them women and their children out grocery shopping, overshadowing a day of United Nations-sponsored peacemaking talks between political leaders representing the country's warring factions.The morning's first cataclysmic car bomb struck a heavily trafficked outdoor market in the Shiite district of Sadr City, a vast eastern Baghdad slum that is a stronghold of rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army militiamen. At least 37 civilians were killed and dozens more injured, police and hospital officials said.Another car bomb struck a crowded marketplace near the main courthouse in downtown Kirkuk, the oil-rich northern city contested by ethnic Kurds, Arabs and Turkoman. At least 21 were killed and more than a hundred were injured.

21 July 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertnetNews
Developments in Iraq
A suicide bomber in a car killed six policemen and wounded 13 others near the former rebel stronghold of Falluja 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, said police official Saad Farhan.

20 July 2006
San Fransico Chronicle
Developments in Iraq
The violence centered on Baghdad, where a car bomb in the morning killed six people, including three police officers, in the neighborhood of Baladiyat; another at noon in the city center also killed three police officers and three civilians; and a third in the afternoon killed three more police officers and three more civilians in the northern Shiite neighborhood of Shula, according to Col. Sami Hassan of the Interior Ministry. And in Kirkuk, 160 miles from the capital, a car bomb targeting a police patrol blew up in front of Ishtar, one of the city's best- known ice cream shops. The explosion, which killed seven people and wounded 18, occurred at 8:10 p.m., said police Col. Taha Salah al-Din. Most of the casualties were civilians eating ice cream at the end of a hot day.

20 July 2006
Reutes Foundation: AlertNet
Developments in Iraq
A car bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, killing four civilians and wounding 20, police said.A car bomb detonated in the mostly Shi'ite district of Shula in northwestern Baghdad, killing three civilians and wounding 10, a police source said. Also, Three people were killed and 10 wounded by a car bomb in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

19 July 2006
Reuters Foundation: AlertnetNews
Developments in Iraq
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest at a U.S. checkpoint in the town of Qaim, western Baghdad, causing a number of U.S. casualties, police said. The U.S. military said it was unaware of the incident.

18 July 2006
The New York Times
Car Bomb Kills Dozens Near Shiite Shrine in Iraq
A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside a Shiite shrine in southern Iraq, killing 43 people and wounding 65, a Health official said.The bomb went off at about 7:30 a.m. across the street from the gold-domed mosque in Kufa, 100 miles south of Baghdad,, police Capt. Nafie Mohammed said. The shrine marks the place where Imam Ali, cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, was mortally wounded.

17 July 2006
The New York Times
Bomber Kills 4 in Afghanistan; Coalition Forces Clash With Taliban
A suicide bomber struck outside a government building in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing three civilians and an Afghan soldier, as the American-led coalition pushed on with a big offensive in the volatile south. The attacker, with explosives strapped to his body, blew himself up in front of the provincial government office in the southeast town of Gardez, wounding dozens, a local government official said. Foreign troops are engaged in one of the biggest offensives against militants since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. The operation is in the south, where NATO plans to take over from the coalition force at the end of the month.

16 July 2006
BBC World Service [Online]
Suicide attack on north Iraq cafe
At least 23 people have been killed and 22 injured in a suicide attack in a crowded cafe in northern Iraq. The explosion happened in a coffee shop in Tuz Khurmatu, a town 75km (50 miles) from Kirkuk. Police chief Colonel Abbas Mohammed Amin said the bomber asked for a glass of water before detonating himself. Mr Amin said the cafe was close to a Shia mosque in an area populated by Turkmen, and warned that the number of people who had died could rise. Turkmen make up one of Iraq's main ethnic groups and follow both the Sunni and Shia traditions of Islam. Friction exists between the Turkmen and Kurdish populations but the motive for the attack was unclear. Meanwhile, a suicide bomb attack on a joint US-Iraqi patrol in the northern city of Mosul killed three civilians, while a bomb in Baghdad's Karrada district killed at least three people.

14 July 2006
The New York Times
Suicide Bomb Kills Pakistani Shiite Leader
Sectarian terror struck the southern port city of Karachi today as a suicide bomber killed a prominent Shiite leader, his ten-year-old nephew and a security guard, according to officials and local media. Allama Hassan Turabi, a Shiite leader and scholar was attacked this afternoon near his house after leading a protest rally against Israel and United States following Friday prayers earlier.?Allama Turabi was seriously injured and expired at the hospital an hour after the attack,?? said a colleague of Mr. Turabi?s, Allama Furqan Haider Abidi. Two police guards were also injured in the suicide attack, officials said. The protest rally Mr. Turabi led was organized by Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, a coalition of hard-line Islamic parties that won record number of votes in the last parliamentary elections. This holy day for Muslims was declared as a day of solidarity with Palestinians by the group. Mr. Turabi had strongly criticized Israel for its airstrikes on Lebanon and expressed support for Hamas and Hezbollah, according to reports in local media. Religious leaders appealed for calm and restraint as enraged protesters took to the streets after the news of the suicide attack. There were reports of car tires being set on fire and of protesters pelting stones at vehicles and traffic signals in various parts of the city. Shiites and Sunni leaders dubbed the suicide bombing as a ?conspiracy to create a wedge between Muslims.??

14 July 2006
The New York Times
Carnage Eases in Baghdad, but Continues to Take Toll
In Kirkuk, a car bomb killed two police officers, a Kurdish security guard and a child and wounded eight on Thursday, Col. Yadgar Abdullah of the Iraqi police said.

12 July 2006
The Times of India
Over 150 killed in Mumbai serial blasts
Terrorists struck big on Tuesday, setting off seven blasts in suburban trains that left at least 151 dead, preceded by five grenade attacks in Srinagar earlier in the day in which eight people were killed. Over 300 people were injured in the string of blasts in first-class compartments of suburban trains around 6 pm, during peak-hour traffic. As the blasts ripped apart train compartments, mangled bodies of passengers were hurled out and survivors, many of them bleeding profusely, jostled to come out, leading to chaotic scenes. The blasts occurred between 6.24 pm and 6.35 pm at Mahim, Bandra, Matunga, Borivili, Mira Road, Jogeshwari and Khar when most office-goers were returning home.

12 July 2006
The Times of India
LeT, SIMI hand in Mumbai blasts
The terror attack on Mumbai trains was carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba and local Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists and was designed to trigger communal conflagration in the country’s financial capital, intelligence sources said. While still waiting for clues to emerge, top intelligence sources in New Delhi seem pretty sure the blasts on the trains were plotted by Lashkar modules which are increasingly collaborating with activists of SIMI, which boasts of strong pockets of influence across Maharashtra. The estimate of intelligence agencies here is derived from the scale of the attack, as well as precise information about the Lashkar’s sleeper cells that have proliferated in Maharashtra. Sources in the home ministry, in fact, said that a carnage had seemed very much on the cards with information pouring in about stockpiling of arms and explosives by religious extremists.

11 July 2006
The New York Times
Wave of Violence in Baghdad Puts 3-Day Death Toll Past 100
More than 50 people were killed in Baghdad on Tuesday in violence that included a double suicide bombing near busy entrances to the fortified Green Zone, scattered shootings, mortar attacks, a series of car bombs and the ambush of a bus with Shiite mourners returning from a burial. Tuesday’s killings, many of them apparently carried out with sectarian vengeance, raised the three-day death toll in the capital alone to well over 100, magnified the daunting challenges facing the new government and deepened a sense of dread among Iraqis.In Tuesday’s most deadly attack, two pedestrians wearing vests made of explosives blew themselves up near a restaurant outside the walls of the Green Zone, within a few hundred yards of three busy entrances, Iraqi and American officials said. Soon after the initial blasts, a hidden bomb was detonated nearby, adding to the carnage, the American military said. Some Iraqi authorities said the third explosion was caused by a car bomb.The Mujahedeen Shura Council in Iraq said it was behind the two suicide bombings, according to SITE Institute, which monitors jihadist postings on the Internet. The Islamic Army in Iraq claimed in a separate posting that it was responsible for the third explosion, which it said was a car bomb, according to a translation provided by SITE.

10 July 2006
CNN
More violence shakes Baghdad
Five people were killed Monday when a car bomb exploded in a Shi'a section of eastern Baghdad, Iraqi emergency police said.The attack in the Jamila neighborhood took place around about 10 a.m. and also wounded 46 people. About an hour earlier, five people were wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near an Iraqi police patrol close to Mustansariye University in eastern Baghdad. There are varying casualty tolls as a result of explosions in Baghdad Monday, with Reuters news agency quoting police as saying 7 civilians were killed and 17 were wounded. The bombs came a day after gunmen roaming a Baghdad neighborhood on Sunday killed at least 42 unarmed Iraqis as soon as they identified them as Sunnis, emergency police said.

10 July 2006
MSNBC
Deadly car bombs hit Shiite enclave in Baghdad
Deadly car bombs hit Shiite enclave in Baghdad- BAGHDAD, Iraq - Car bombs killed eight people in a Shiite slum and gunmen mounted a deadly ambush on a bus in a Sunni area of the capital Monday as Iraq’s sectarian violence showed no sign of easing.The coordinated bombing attack in Baghdad’s Sadr City began at midmorning when a car exploded near a repair shop. Minutes later, a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle in a crowd of curiosity-seekers who were milling around the first blast site, witnesses and police said.In addition to the dead, 41 people were wounded, most of them in the second blast, police said.

10 July 2006
MSNBC
Bomber kills 5 in Kirkuk
In the northern city of Kirkuk, a suicide truck bomber attacked an office of President Jalal Talabani’s political party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, killing five people and wounding 12, police said.

9 July 2006
Al-Jazeera Online
Double car bombing at mosque
At least 15 people have been killed and 35 injured by two car bombs near a Shia mosque in Baghdad. The blasts came hours after at least 41 people were killed in a Sunni area of the Iraqi capital by militia members who set up a fake checkpoint.

9 July 2006
The New York Times
Baghdad Erupts in Mob Volence
A mob of gunmen went on a brazen daytime rampage through a predominantly Sunni Arab district of western Baghdad on Sunday, pulling people from their cars and homes and killing them in what officials and residents called a spasm of revenge by Shiite militias for the bombing of a Shiite mosque on Saturday. Hours later, two car bombs exploded beside a Shiite mosque in another Baghdad neighborhood in a deadly act of what appeared to be retaliation.

8 July 2006
The Jerusalem Post
Car bomb wounds 4 US troops in Ramadi
A car bomb struck a convoy in Ramadi on Sunday, wounding four American troops, the military said. The explosion occurred near the convoy as it was headed to the government center in the insurgent-ridden city, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad. Four coalition forces were wounded, the military said in a statement. US and Iraqi forces have recently stepped up their presence in the city, where many areas are so dangerous that they go unpatrolled.

8 July 2006
Foucs 1 News [English] http://www.focus-fen.net
Iraq Car Bomb
At least two people were killed and nine were injured in a car bomb blast in Baghdad, AP reported citing a statement of local police. The attack was carried out near a mosque in the western part of the Iraqi capital.

7 July 2006
The New York Times
Iraq Mosques Bombed
Attacks on mosques after Friday prayers killed 11 people in Iraq and 40 were killed or wounded in a Baghdad raid on Shi'ite fighters that the U.S. military said netted a top militant wanted for kidnap and murder.The sectarian attacks, three on Sunni mosques and a car bomb that killed at least six after Shi'ite prayers, dealt new blows to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's attempts to end communal bloodshed between fellow Shi'ites and the once-dominant minority Sunni Arabs that has pitched Iraq toward all-out civil war.

6 July 2006
The New York Times
Suicide Bombing
A suicide car bomber rammed his sedan into a Shiite shrine in the holy town of Kufa, killing at least 12 people, including five Iranians, and injuring dozens, Iraqi officials said. Iraqi and American forces have generally maintained tight security around the southern holy sites of Najaf and Kufa, to which Shiite pilgrims, including many Iranians, flock by the thousands.In Baghdad, two car bombs exploded near a high school, killing at least three people and injuring six.

5 July 2006
The New York Times
Wave of Bodies in Baghdad' s Central Morgue Signals a Stepped-Up Pace of Sectarian Killing
Among the violent episodes around the country on Wednesday, a car bomb exploded in the Washash district of northern Baghdad, killing 7 civilians and wounding 19, an Interior Ministry official said. Another bomb exploded in Tayaran Square, killing a civilian and wounding seven, the official said.A suicide car bomber detonated his charge near a police station in northeast Mosul on Wednesday, killing a police officer, the police said.

4 July 2006
newKerala.com
Sri Lanka on red alert for "Black Tiger Day"
Sri Lanka today stepped up vigil ahead of the Tamil Tiger rebels' programme to honour some 261 of their men and women who carried out suicide bombings.The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) mark tomorrow as "Black Tiger Day." The first Tiger suicide bombing was carried out by a Tiger rebel known as Captain Miller in 1987 against the Nelliyadi army camp in the Jaffna peninsula, killing 40 soldiers.Officially, the Tigers hold Hindu religious services to invoke blessings on the suicide cadres known as Black Tigers, but the anniversary also has seen some violent attacks by the Tigers.

3 July 2006
The New York Times
Sucide Bombing
In Mosul, a car bomb exploded in a neighborhood of butcher shops, killing 4 police officers and 3 civilians and wounding at least 33 civilians, according to police officials. The bomb appeared to have been meant for a passing police patrol, officials said, though as with many such attacks in Iraq, the civilian population ended up bearing the brunt of the casualties.

3 July 2006
The New York Times
Suicide Bombing
A suicide bomber blew himself up in Kandahar outside a government guesthouse at 9 p.m. Monday, killing one policeman and wounding three other people.

1 July 2006
The New York Times
Suicide Bombing
Baghdad-A powerful suicide car bomb ripped through a bustling street market in a Shiite slum here on Saturday, killing at least 62 people and wounding nearly 120 in the deadliest insurgent assault since the new Shiite-led government was installed in May, police officials and witnesses said.

27 June 2006
Dawn
52 die as violence rages on in Afghanistan
Two British soldiers died in a battle that also left 12 Taliban dead in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday while two Afghan civilians lost their lives in a suicide blast aimed at a German patrol. The Afghan and US-led coalition forces meanwhile announced that 32 rebels and four Afghan soldiers were killed in various battles in the south, most of them on Monday as part of the biggest counter-insurgency operation. The violence came on the eve of a stopover by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who will hold talks with President Hamid Karzai...The suicide blast struck a German patrol with a NATO-led force operating in northern province of Kunduz. An attacker drove an explosives-filled vehicle near the convoy and then detonated it- police said. The attack struck as President Karzai was visiting Balkh province.

27 June 2006
Dawn
21 killed in Iraq
At least 21 people were killed on Tuesday in rebel attacks across Iraq as violence continued unabated for the second day after a peace plan was unveiled to end the bloodshed. Three people were killed and 10 others wounded in a suicide bombing in the northern oil hub of Kirkuk as a bomber detonated his car at a petrol station used by government officials, security officials said. The bomber blew up his car as a number of civil servants were filling their cars and destroyed the station and a number of vehicles...

26 June 2006
The Lanka Academic
LTTE suicide bombers kill Major General Parami Kulatunga
Major General Parami Kulatunga and two other army officers were killed today morning at Pannipitiya at around 7.45 a.m. today, when two LTTE suicide bombers travelling in a motor cycle rammed into the vehicle in which the Army officers were travelling in, a spokesman attached to the Media Centre for Sri Lanka's National Security told the Lanka Academic. Major General Kulatunga who was also the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army reportedly died instantly following the attack. Unconfirmed reports stated that there have been civilian causalities owing to the incident.

26 June 2006
BBC News
Suicide attack on Pakistan army
A suicide car bomber has killed at least six soldiers in Pakistan's North Waziristan district, officials say. At least two others were wounded when the bomber rammed his car into a checkpoint near the town of Miranshah, officials said. The blast came a day after local militants in the area declared a month-long truce with security forces. BBC's Zaffar Abbas says such bombings in the Waziristan region are a major new challenge for authorities. It is the third suicide attack in the area in the space of a month. Dozens of militants and troops have been killed in the area this year. Tens of thousands of Pakistani security forces are trying to flush out foreign Islamic militants and their local supporters in the country's restive tribal belt along the border with Afghanistan...Local pro-Taleban militants first denied involvement, and then told the BBC one of their members had detonated the explosives...

26 June 2006
Times of India
Suicide attack near Afghanistan's main US base
A suicide car bomber targeted a coalition convoy on Monday and wounded two Afghan civilian bystanders near a US base north of the Afghan capital, officials said. The attacker detonated his explosives-packed Toyota Corolla behind the convoy, which was heading toward Kabul, said district official Kabir Ahmed. The incident occurred about one kilometer (0.62 miles) outside Bagram Air Field, the main US military base in Afghanistan, Ahmed said. Two civilian bystanders, including a child, were wounded, said Parwan provincial police chief Gen Abdulrahman Sayedkhail.

21 June 2006
The Statesman
LTTE may use suicide bombers if war erupts
The political chief of the Tamil Tiger rebels said today his group would use all means necessary, including suicide bombers, if full-scale war erupts on this island nation. The comments by SP Tamilselvan, made in an exclusive interview came amid weeks of increasing violence that he blamed on the Sri Lankan military and other groups opposed to the Tigers, denying the separatist militants had played any role in violence in areas under government control. He called the 2002 ceasefire that ended nearly 20 years of combat "a dead letter," adding "it is just a piece of paper that has no meaning at all."...

19 June 2006
Daily Times
Suicide car bomb kills 4 in Iraq
A suicide car bomber targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint killed four people and wounded 10 in Baghdad on Monday, police said. All the victims were civilians, police said. Iraqi security forces will take control of the country's southernmost province from a British-led multinational force in July in the first move of its kind, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday. Insurgents have defied a government crackdown involving 50,000 Iraqi troops backed by 7,000 US-led soldiers, launched last week in a bid to put pressure on Al Qaeda in Baghdad...

17 June 2006
Daily Times
Attacks kill 43 in Iraq
A series of bomb and suicide attacks killed at least 43 people in and near Baghdad on Saturday, police said. The violence came despite a security crackdown in the Iraqi capital. In the deadliest attack, a car bomb struck an Iraqi police checkpoint southwest of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people and wounding 38, police said. Earlier, another car bomb targeting Iraqi army and police killed 11 people. Militants hit security forces across the capital and bombed at least two crowded markets, including one in central Baghdad that left six people dead. In the town of Mahmudiya just south of the capital, a car bomb targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint killed seven people...

16 June 2006
Dawn
Suicide bomber kills 11 in Baghdad mosque
At least 11 people were killed on Friday by a suicide bomber carrying explosives in his shoes inside a Shia mosque, despite a security crackdown in the Iraqi capital and claims of success in the battle against Al Qaeda, police said. The blast, which also wounded 25 people, came less than an hour before the Friday prayers, when the Baratha mosque in Baghdad would have been filled with thousands of worshippers. The mosque, which is used by members of Iraq's Shia majority, had been attacked before. On April 7, a triple suicide bombing by men dressed as women targeted worshippers just as they were leaving, killing 90 and wounding 175. Sheikh Jalaluddin al-Saghir, the mosque's imam, said the bomber had shoes filled with explosives and that he himself was a main target...

13 June 2006
Daily Times
36 killed as Bush makes surprise visit to Baghdad
At least 36 people were killed across Iraq on Tuesday, including 18 in a bombing campaign in Kirkuk, as US President George W Bush made a surprise five-hour visit to Baghdad. Five car bombs, several of them involving suicide attackers, rocked the ethnically diverse city that has been more known individual killings between ethnic and sectarian groups...The first car bomb exploded at around 7:30 am in the Tisaeen market, killing 13 people, including two policemen, and wounding 18. Approximately half an hour later, a suicide car bomber attempted to ram the main police headquarters, prompting police to open fire on it. The car exploded before reaching its target, police Major General Torhan Yussef said, but two policemen died and eight civilians were wounded. The three other car bombs, one of which was a suicide attack, exploded in different parts of the city, killing three more policemen and wounding more than a dozen, including Colonel Taher Salah al-Din, police chief in the southern Hurriyah neighbourhood...

11 June 2006
Times Of India
Eight killed in Iraq suicide attack
A suicide car bomber slammed into a security checkpoint outside Baqouba, killing at least eight people and wounding four others, police said. The explosion occurred around 8:40 pm on Sunday near a checkpoint Iraqi soldiers had put up a day earlier to provide security in the aftermath of a US-led bombing on a safe house being used by al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in the blast. Among those injured in the attack were seven Iraqi soldiers and one civilian. Three other Iraqi soldiers and a women were injured in the attack.

4 June 2006
Khaleej Times
Afghan governor escapes suicide blast; official's body found
The governor of violence-wracked Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan narrowly escaped a suicide car bombing that rocked the provincial capital on Sunday, killing four civilians and injuring nearly a dozen more. Governor Asadullah Khalid's motorcade had been travelling behind a Canadian military convoy that was the target of the car bomb, which exploded around 40 metres from the his vehicle on Sunday morning, according to the Pajhwok Afghan news agency. Khalid and Canadian military forces were not injured in the attack in Kandahar city's Eidgah Mosque district, but the bomber and four civilians died...Witnesses said at least eight civilians were either killed or injured in the attack. It was the second suicide attack in less than 48 hours in Kandahar province. Earlier, a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden car in the Arghandab district, killing three civilians and himself...

3 June 2006
Times of India
Suicide bomber kills 28, hurts 62 in Iraq
A suicide car bomber blew himself up in a crowded market in oil-rich southern Basra on Saturday, killing 28 people and wounding 62. In Baghdad, a Russian diplomat was killed and four diplomatic employees were kidnapped...Around Iraq, at least 42 people were killed Saturday and dozens were wounded, and police discovered the remains of 12 people, including eight severed heads. In Basra, the suicide car bomb exploded in the late afternoon when many people were shopping, police Captain Mushtaq Kadhim said. There were pools of blood around the market square and several vehicles were on fire. It wasn't known who staged the attack, but Basra has seen growing violence, leading Prime Minister Al-Maliki last week to declare a month-long state of emergency in the mainly Shia city. The attack came one day after Jordanian-born terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi called on Iraq's Sunnis to kill Shias...

2 June 2006
The Hindustan Times
Six people killed in Pakistan terrorist attack
At least four paramilitary soldiers were killed and eight others wounded on Friday in a suspected suicide attack by Islamic militants in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan region, said an official. Two suspected bombers were also killed in the attack in BakaKhel area, an official said on conditions of anonymity. According to initial reports, the militants rammed their explosive-laden car into the vehicle carrying the paramilitary troops to Bannu district of the North-Western Frontier Province (NWFP)...

2 June 2006
Daily Times
Afghan 'suicide blast' kills three
Three civilian men riding a motorbike were killed on Friday when a suspected suicide car bomb exploded near a convoy of Canadian and Afghan troops here, said police. The bomb exploded on a stretch of highway about 15 kilometres northeast of Kandahar city, said the Kandahar Police Chief Zamarai. Initial reports said there was no military target in the area but a provincial government spokesman said later that the bomb exploded as a joint Canadian and Afghan military patrol passed. None of the soldiers was hurt, said the spokesman, Daud Ahmadi...

1 June 2006
Daily Times
Suicide car bomber' dies in Afghanistan
A would-be suicide car bomber was killed on Thursday close to a base for US troops serving with a NATO-led peacekeeping mission in western Afghanistan after his bomb went off too soon, a provincial governor said. The incident in Farah, the main town in a province of the same name, came during the bloodiest phase in a Taliban insurgency since US-backed forces overthrew the Islamist government in late 2001. Farah's governor, Izatullah Wasifi, said the suicide attacker was killed in a car he was driving just a few hundred metres from a base used by US troops serving with the NATO mission. "We do not know the target of the attack, but we can say it was a suicide raid and there were no other casualties apart from the suicide car bomber," he said by phone from Farah...

1 June 2006
Dawn
33 killed in Iraq violence
At least 33 people were killed in a wave of violence that swept over northern Iraq on Thursday, as Baghdad vowed that all groups in the fragmented country would take part in the political process...A suicide car bombing targeted a US diplomatic convoy entering the complex of the Northern Oil Company in Kirkuk, killing a four-year-old child and wounding 11 civilians, police said. Four more people were killed, including a local politician, and five others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Baquba, about 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, an Iraqi security source said.

31 May 2006
The News
Three German women 'suicide bombers' held
Three German women who converted to Islam have been apprehended in Germany for expressing the desire in Internet chat rooms to stage suicide attacks in Iraq or Pakistan, local media reported on Wednesday. The daily Der Tagesspiegel said that two of the women planned to take their babies with them on suicide missions in Pakistan or against US troops in Iraq. The women in their late 20s to 40s became radicalized under the influence of their Islamic extremist spouses and in repeated visits to radical chat rooms, the expert was quoted as saying. He said entries on such websites had exposed them to investigators as a potential threat. Two of the three women were believed to have been in contact with each other. Investigators are reportedly probing whether the women had contacts with the Iraqi extremist organization Ansar al-Islam which has mounted dozens of attacks in the country and is also known to have operatives in Germany.

30 May 2006
The News
54 killed in Iraq violence
Car bombs targeting Shia areas tear through a car dealership in southern Iraq and a bustling outdoor market north of Baghdad on Tuesday as attacks nationwide killed 54 people and wounded 120 in the bloodiest day in recent weeks...A suicide car bomber tried to ram into an Iraqi army checkpoint in a village west of Mosul, but Iraqi soldiers opened fire, killing the driver...In the meantime, US military commanders have moved about 1,500 combat troops from a reserve force in Kuwait into the volatile Anbar province in western Iraq to help local authorities establish order in the insurgent hotbed that stretches from west of Baghdad to the Syrian border...

29 May 2006
The News
Two British journalists among 60 dead in Iraq
In the most violent day in weeks, some 60 people were killed in a bloody explosion of violence across Iraq on Monday, including a suicide car bomb attack that killed two British journalists...In the deadliest attack on Monday, 14 people were killed and 17 wounded when a bomb tore through a bus carrying Iraqis work from Khalis, about 80 kilometres north of Baghdad, to Camp Ashraf, the home of an Iranian opposition movement...Another 12 people were killed, including a child, and 24 wounded when a massive car bomb exploded in Baghdad's predominantly Sunni Arab neighbourhood of Adhamiyah. Only minutes later, a second car bomb exploded in the same district, killing five and wounding seven. Just across the Tigris, a bus in the Shia neighbourhood of Kadhimiya was blown up, killing seven people and wounding nine. The British journalists killed, cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, worked for the New York-based CBS News and were embedded with the US 4th Infantry division. They were outside their armoured Humvee in the Karrada neighbourhood in Baghdad when their convoy was rammed by a suicide car bomb, the US military said. A US army captain and an Iraqi interpreter working for the military were also killed in the attack, which seriously injured CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier, a dual US-British national, and six other US soldiers...

28 May 2006
BBC News Online
Three dead in Waziristan attacks
At least three people have been killed and several others injured in two separate attacks in Pakistan's northern tribal areas. Two security personnel died when a car exploded at a checkpoint in North Waziristan near the Afghan border. The driver of the car was also killed. In another incident masked gunmen shot dead a pro-government tribal leader...A soldier and a policeman were killed at the checkpoint in Datta Khel, when they tried to stop a car. The driver refused to stop and opened fire, killing the two men, and wounded three other soldiers, before he was shot dead as the car exploded. The blast was the result of a suicide attack, said a spokesman for a local militant group, Abdullah Farhad...

28 May 2006
Daily Excelsior
Fidayeen arrested with car laden with explosives
In a major success, troops of 50 Rashtriya Rifle and police arrested a fidayeen of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit and seized a car filled with explosives from his possession at Pampore. The fidayeen, who was captured alive before he could succeed in triggering a car blast targetting security forces, has been identified as Raja Arshad alias Abu Atif, 28, son of Mohd Maqbool Bhat, a resident of Dadsarai. A white Maruti Zen car, which had no registration, engine or chassis number was seized from the possession of fidayeen. It was filled with explosives...Official sources said the militant was conducting a recee at Pampore when troops and police personnel became suspicious of his movement and kept a track on him. He was immediately arrested and subjected to questioning during which he admitted that he was a fidayeen and had been assigned the task of carrying out a car blast. He also admitted his affiliation with the LeT...

25 May 2006
Dawn
'Martyrdom seekers'
A hardline Iranian group announced on Thursday the creation of a new 'battalion' of 'martyrdom seekers' - or suicide attackers - ready to carry out operations against targets including Israel and author Salman Rushdie. The group, called the Committee for the Glorification of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, made the announcement at Tehran's main cemetery where hundreds of supporters had gathered. "Every six months we sign up volunteers. Now we have 55,000 of them. Then we choose the volunteers and divide them up into battalions," spokesman Mohammad Mohammadi said.

23 May 2006
Daily Excelsior
Suicide bomber injures 25 BSF jawans
Few hours ahead of Prime Minister's visit to Valley to convene a roundtable confab in Srinagar, a suicide bomber blew himself up as a patrol party of Border Security Force (BSF) passed a posh colony of Hyderpora, just a couple of kilometers away from Srinagar Airport injuring at least 25 BSF troopers, though officials till late evening maintained that only 10 BSF soldiers were injured in the attack. According to sources, a suicide bomber triggered an explosive laden car near Hyderpora airport road and besides killing himself, also injured at least 25 BSF jawans. The Suicide bomber smashed his explosive laden car into the vehicle in which clerical staff of the BSF was being carried from Sanat-Nagar headquarters to STC, BSF Humhama...Militant outfit, Hizbul Mujahideen has owned responsibility of the attack. Spokesman of the outfit called Srinagar based news agencies and owned the attack...

21 May 2006
The News
Iraq PM vows to fight terror as 20 killed in violence
Iraq's prime minister on Sunday pledged a new drive to tackle insurgent violence as his government met on its first full day in office and at least 20 people were killed in a new wave of bloodshed. Thirteen of the dead came in a suicide blast which ripped through a crowded Baghdad restaurant in the upmarket Karrada district, highlighting the importance of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's new security plans...Shortly after al-Maliki's first Cabinet meeting, a suicide bomber, killed at least 13 people and injured 17, walked into a downtown Baghdad restaurant popular with police officers and blew himself up amid the bustling lunch tables. Three of the dead were policemen. The attack against the Safar restaurant was part of a spree of roadside bombs that killed at least 20 Iraqis and wounded dozens.Two roadside bombs also exploded in a crowded fruit market in Baghdad, a mixed Shia, Sunni Arab and Christian area in an eastern part of the capital. Police found the first bomb and detonated it after trying to evacuate the market, but a second hidden bomb exploded a moment later, killing three civilians and wounding 23. A car bomb targeting a police patrol in northwestern Baghdad instead killed a bystander and injured 15 others.

21 May 2006
Daily Excelsior
IGP injured, 7 killed in fidayeen strike on Azad's rally
In yet another major security lapse, militants in Police uniform today reached close to the dais and struck on a Youth Congress rally at Sher-e-Kashmir Park, killing three political workers and two Police personnel, minutes before the scheduled arrival of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. IGP Kashmir, K Rajendra Kumar, was among 25 persons injured in the shootout that was immediately claimed by militant outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba and Al-Mansoorain. Militants---two of them killed in the encounter---carried out the suicide attack on a day when the ruling Congress party was paying homage to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 15th death anniversary in the Civil Lines and the separatist Hurriyat Conference was remembering Mirwaiz Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone at Iddgah Grounds in downtown. Today's bloodshed came three days before the Prime Minister's scheduled arrival for his second roundtable of political parties on the Kashmir problem...

21 May 2006
Dawn
Two die in Kabul suicide blast
A suicide car bomb aimed at a US military convoy struck Kabul on Sunday, killing at least two civilians and wounding around eight others, security officials and witnesses said. The car bomb exploded as the convoy was passing by on a main road about 100 metres from a coalition military base used to train Afghan security forces, US military spokesman Major Chris Miller said. A US soldier was slightly hurt, Miller said confirming the attack was aimed at the convoy. Two people were killed and around eight wounded, police and the Nato-led force that also patrols the capital said. A taxi was used for the bombing, interior ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanizai said. "As a result the bomber himself, a driver of a truck nearby and a civilian passer-by were killed," he said.

20 May 2006
Daily Times
Iraq gets new govt as bombs kill 24
Iraq's parliament finally approved a new national unity government on Saturday, ending months of deadlock as bomb attacks that killed 24 people served a grim reminder of the security challenges it will face...Just hours before parliament sat in the heavily fortified Green Zone, protected by US military firepower, a bomb killed at least 19 people in the poor Shia Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad, blasting a spot where crowds of workers had gathered in the hope of being hired for day labouring jobs.A further 58 people were wounded in a blast that was typical of attacks by Sunni Islamist groups like Abu Musab Al Zarqawi's Al Qaeda in Iraq. Baghdad and, especially, the Shia-dominated south of Iraq has also seen violence between Shia factions...In the Sunni town of Qaim, near the Syrian border, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-packed vest inside a police station killing five policemen and wounding 10, police said...

18 May 2006
Daily Times
100 killed in fighting across Afghanistan
About 100 people were killed in two of the most violent days in Afghanistan since the 2001 ouster of the Taliban, as hundreds of insurgents attacked a southern town and fighting flared across the country. Government officials said 13 policemen and 40 Taliban were killed in hours of fighting that raged after the strike on Mosa Qala town, 470 kilometres southwest of Kabul, was launched on Wednesday evening...In a separate incident, a suicide car bomber attacked a convoy in the generally peaceful western city of Herat, killing himself and an American civilian. A suicide bomber also attacked a US military convoy near Ghazni town, killing himself and a man on a motorcycle. In fighting in the area on Thursday, seven Taliban were confirmed killed and up to 20 others might have been killed in an airstrike, the US military said. Three policemen and an intelligence official were killed in other attacks in Ghazni, the provincial governor said...

17 May 2006
Hindustan Times
Suicide bomber kills 7 in southern Russia
A suicide bomber killed seven people including a top Russian policeman on Wednesday when he drove his car into a police convoy in the southern Russian region of Ingushetia, local media reported. Russian news agencies reported that among the dead was Dzhabrail Kostoyev, deputy head of the Ingushetia interior ministry, two of his guards, and four civilians. It was not clear if the suicide bomber was included in the total. "This morning the deputy minister was going to work from the village of Ekazhevo to the town of Nazran. A car containing the suicide bomber drove onto the road from a side-street ... at the moment the convoy was passing," said a police spokesman quoted by Itar-Tass news agency...Ingushetia, which borders Chechnya and is inhabited by people closely related to the Chechens, has in recent years been infected by the fighting that has plagued its neighbour since the end of the Soviet Union. A series of suicide bombings since 2000 have killed hundreds of people in Russia, targeting planes, trains, concerts, government buildings and other objects, but their use has tailed off more recently. The last deadly suicide attack killed nine police in Chechnya in early 2005, although one such militant blew himself up without causing any other casualties in the nearby region of Dagestan in December.

15 May 2006
Khaleej Times
Jihad threatens suicide attacks to avenge Israel killings
The radical Palestinian group Islamic Jihad vowed on Monday to carry out further suicide attacks to avenge the killing of six Palestinians, including two of its leaders, by Israeli troops. "We confirm that the occupation crime will make us stronger and not weaken the resolve of our fighters. The enemy will not rest easy on our land," its armed wing, the Al Quds Brigades, said in a statement. "We confirm to the criminal enemy that we will continue our martyrdom operations and nobody can stop the martyrs," it added. "We will succeed in facing up to the agression until we are victorious."...Five Palestinians, including the two Jihad leaders were shot dead by Israeli troops during clashes in the northern West Bank town of Qabatiya on Sunday...Among the dead in Qabatiya was Elias Al Ashkar, a leader of Jihad's armed wing and who Israel held responsible for the last eight suicide bombings.

14 May 2006
BBC News Online
Blasts kill 14 at Baghdad airport
Fourteen people have died and six were hurt in a double suicide attack near Baghdad airport, on a day of violence that claimed at least 30 lives in Iraq.The blasts took place in a car park close to the airport compound, the US military said. Militants north of the capital also attacked the Iraqi foreign minister's convoy, killing two of his bodyguards. The violence came a day after two British soldiers died in a bombing near Basra, the British army said...The airport attacks saw two vehicles packed with explosives detonated in a busy car park...Elsewhere in the capital, at least another 11 people died in a series of attacks on police patrols and a market, officials said...Sunday's blasts came after a spate of overnight bombings destroyed several Shia Muslim shrines near the city of Baquba, some 40 miles (65 km) north-east of Baghdad...

12 May 2006
Hindustan Times
Taliban film shows last words of suicide bombers
Afghanistan's Taliban militia has released a DVD purporting to show suicide bombers shortly before they carry out attacks and calling for more strikes on US and British coalition troops. The film, a copy of which was seen by AFP, is called "Convoy of Martyrdom Seekers" and is sold at markets in restive northwest Pakistan and on the other side of the border in eastern Afghanistan. Its release comes as Britain prepares to deploy 3,300 troops in southern Afghanistan. The United States already has more than 17,000 soldiers fighting rebels from the hardline Taliban, who were ousted in late 2001. It features three men wearing white headbands with black script in the Pashto language reading out statements. Laid out in front of them are explosives and detonators. "It is the only way of getting rid of US, British occupation, and this is the only way through which once again we can pave the way for the establishment of an Islamic government in Afghanistan," one of the alleged bombers says...

9 May 2006
Times of India
Suicide bomber kills 20 in northern Iraq
At least 20 people were killed and 70 injured when a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle in a busy market in Tel Afar in northern Iraq, said a police official. Most of the victims on Tuesday were women and children, said Wathik al Hammadani, the police commander of Ninive province. The explosive device was hidden under a cargo of flour in the vehicle. Tel Afar is about 480 km north of Baghdad and remains a centre of armed extremist groups, despite several military offensives and raids by US and Iraqi troops in the past months...

7 May 2006
Khaleej Times
Car bombs kill 30 in Iraq as government talks progress
Car bombs killed 30 people in Iraq on Sunday and wounded more than 70 in one of the bloodiest spasms of violence of recent weeks as political leaders closed in on a deal to form a national unity government... At least 21 people were killed and 52 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a car on a crowded street in the Shiite holy city of Kerbala, south of Baghdad, police and doctors said. The effect was devastating. Around the same time, two cars exploded in the capital. A suicide car bomber hit an Iraqi army patrol in the rebellious, mainly Sunni northern district of Aadhamiya, killing eight people and wounding 15... A second car bomb exploded at a busy intersection close to the offices of a government-funded newspaper in northern Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding five...

5 May 2006
The Lanka Academic
Sri Lankan navy says it has destroyed a Tamil Tiger suicide boat in the country's west
Sri Lankan navy boats patrolling the country's west coast came under attack on Friday from suspected Tamil Tiger rebel boats, including a suspected suicide vessel which exploded when the military returned fire, a navy official said. Navy Spokesman Commander D.K.P. Dassanayake said five navy boats were patrolling near Kalpitiya, a fishing area about 140 kilometers (86 miles) northwest of the capital, Colombo, when the attack occurred, the latest unrest that is threatening to push the country back into civil war...The navy boats fired back and one of the attacking boats exploded and sank, Dassanayake said. The size of the blast indicated it may have been packed with explosives and was intended to be used in a suicide attack against the navy, he said...On Thursday, 10 people including seven alleged Tamil Tiger rebels, were killed in fighting that has increased recently to levels not seen since the Sri Lankan government and rebels signed a truce four years ago. More than 150 people have been killed in spiraling violence since April, threatening the 2002 cease-fire brokered by Norway...

3 May 2006
Khaleej Times
15 Iraqis killed by suicide bomber outside police HQ
A suicide bomber blew himself up while standing in a line of recruits outside Fallujah's police headquarters on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 30, in an attack aimed at discouraging Sunni Arabs from joining the force, police said. Thirteen of the dead were recruits and two policemen, said police 1st Lt. Omar Ahmed. Police also found the bodies of 14 Iraqi men in Baghdad who apparently were the latest victims of a wave of sectarian violence involving death squads that kidnap civilians, torture them in captivity and dump their bodies on city streets. The attack in Fallujah, a former insurgent stronghold 65 kilometers west of Baghdad, was part of an insurgent campaign against US efforts to bring more Sunnis into the police and army...

3 May 2006
Khaleej Times
Hamas chief says suicide bombings "a natural right"
Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal on Wednesday defended Palestinian suicide bombings as a "natural right" while denouncing what he called Washington's ambitions to dominate the Middle East. "Our enemies don't understand that a suicide operation is a natural right," the exiled leader told students in Damascus, adding that Palestinians live "under Israeli occupation and have the right to fight and defend themselves"...However, Hamas, which is responsible for the majority of suicide bombings during the five-year intifada, has not carried out any such anti-Israeli attacks since agreeing to a temporary period of calm early last year."The United States want to impose their hegemony on countries of the region. They don't offer relations that are balanced, of mutual interest and respect," Meshaal said...

27 April 2006
Daily Times
Two suicide bombers blow themselves up in Egypt
Cairo: Two men blew themselves up in Egypt's north Sinai on Wednesday, one near an airport used by an international observer force, security sources said. Spokesman for the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) Normand St Pierre said the first bomber appeared to target MFO vehicles but there were no MFO injuries. Egyptian security sources had earlier said two MFO members had been hurt. The second man blew himself up next to a police car outside a police station in Sheikh Zuwayed, near the northern coast town of El Arish. The car was empty and there were no other casualties, the security sources said. The first suicide bombing on Wednesday was near the MFO camp at El Gorah, about 35 km (22 miles) from El Arish, close to the site of the attack in August. On Monday, three bombs in the resort of Dahab on the east coast of Sinai killed 18 people and injured scores. Meanwhile, Egyptian security forces have arrested some 30 suspects over the triple bombings at the Red Sea resort of Dahab that left at least 18 people dead on Monday, an Interior Ministry source said on Wednesday...

26 April 2006
Daily News
Eight killed in blast at Army HQ; Commander injured
Colombo: Army Commander Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka was critically injured and eight others killed yesterday when a female Black Tiger suicide cadre disguised as a pregnant woman, blew herself up in front of the exit of the Military Hospital inside the Colombo Army headquarters. Twenty seven others, most of them visitors to the Army Hospital, were also injured, some critically. "The Commander is now in a stable condition and out of danger," Military Spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said. Investigations revealed that the LTTE suicide bomber disguised as a pregnant woman had been transported to the hospital premises from the main gate in an Army vehicle....

23 April 2006
Daily Excelsior
Suicide bomber dies ahead of launching attack
Srinagar, April 22: A major tragedy was averted on Saturday as an explosive laden car driven by a suspected Fidayeen blew up ahead of few kilometers from of intended target of an Indian Air Force base in Awantipura south Kashmir. The suicide attacker was killed while as there were no other casualties... The police officer said that the probable target of the Fidayeen was an Air Force, which leaves the airbase every Saturday at the same time. A major tragedy got averted, as two air force buses were about to reach the spot, where the explosion occurred. Sources said that at least 50-60 air force personnel were on board of the buses, which were heading to the winter capital Jammu. The identification of the killed militant was not established, however, independent sources said that he was Sheikh Zaheer Abbas of Pakistan, affiliated with Lashkar-e-Toiba militant outfit... Militant outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahideen have jointly owned the responsibility of the attack.

20 April 2006
Indian Express
Call for UK suicide bombers (Press Trust Of India)
London:: A Tehran-based hardline group has claimed it is trying to recruit Iranians and other Muslims in Britain to carry out suicide bombings against Israel. "The Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign," which claims to be independent, said it is targeting potential recruits in Britain because of the relative ease with which UK passport holders can enter Israel, The Guardian reported on Wednesday. Mohammad Samadi, a spokesman for the group, told The Guardian in Tehran that striking at Israel was a priority in its recruitment drive.

18 April 2006
Jerusalem Post
Nine killed in Tel Aviv suicide bombing (Yaakov Katz and Talya Halkin)
Less than two hours before the 17th Knesset was sworn in on Monday afternoon, terror struck in southern Tel Aviv as a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd at the entrance to a fast food stand, killing nine people and wounding close to 70 others. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing that ripped through the Rosh Ha'ir shwarma stand on Rehov Salome in the southern Tel Aviv neighborhood of Neveh Sha'anan, not far from the old Tel Aviv central bus station... Four of the victims were women, and five were men...

18 April 2006
Jerusalem Post
Egyptian editorial lauds suicide bomb (Associated Press)
An Egyptian state-controlled newspaper praised Monday's suicide attack in Tel Aviv, which killed nine people and wounded dozens, calling it an act of sacrifice and martyrdom. Egypt has always taken pains to condemn the violence by both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is exceptional for one of the country's three biggest newspapers, whose editor is effectively appointed by President Hosni Mubarak, to endorse a Palestinian attack on Israeli civilians. "It is not required of the Palestinian people that they raise their hands in surrender, accept the daily Israeli attacks and watch waves of settlers occupy their land and build settlements," wrote Al Gomhuria in an editorial of its Tuesday edition. "It is not required of the Palestinian people that they clap Israel and its allies while they mobilize the whole world to besiege the heroic [Palestinian] people... because they have chosen Hamas," the editorial said, referring to the United States and European Union's cutting off funds to the Palestinian Authority because its Hamas government refuses to renounce violence. "For all that, the sacrificial and martyrdom attack occurred in the heart of Tel Aviv, and there will be more later," the daily warned. In the Islamic faith, a martyr goes to heaven. A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Cairo declined to comment on the editorial because he had not yet read it.

13 April 2006
Daily Times
57 dead in Karachi 'suicide' bombing (Abbas Naqvi and Maqbool Ahmed)
Karachi: Top leaders of the Sunni Tehreek (ST) were among 57 people killed in a suicide bomb attack during a special Eid Miladun Nabi congregation arranged by the Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnat (JAS) at Nishtar Park on Tuesday evening. An estimated 100 people, including children, were injured in the attack, and at least ten are in critical condition. "The death toll has now risen to 57, while there are also reports that some people are still missing," Sindh government spokesman Salahuddin Haider said. On Tuesday, approximately 15,000 men and children headed for Nishtar Park at Numaish for Maghrib prayers after an Eid Miladun Nabi procession...At about 7:00pm a suicide bomber came to the front of the stage during the third rakaat of Maghrib prayers and detonated explosives around his torso. About 150 men were on the stage at the time. The suicide bomber was believed to be closest to ST leader Abbas Qadri, who is usually accompanied by many guards... The ST leaders who were killed included chief Abbas Qadri, Iftikhar Bhatti, Akram Qadri, Maulana Abdul Qadir, Hafiz Mohammad Taqi, Pir Yaqoob Shah, Maulana Waheed Bandhiani, Hafiz Yameen, Hafiz Noor Mohammad, Maulana Kashif, Zakir Hussain, Hafiz Mohammad Yaseen, Haji Hanif Billo and Shah Faridul Hassan Kazmi of the JAS...

12 April 2006
The Hindu
Karachi bomb blast toll rises to 57 (AP)
Karachi, April 12: The death toll from a suicide bombing at an outdoor Sunni Muslim prayer service rose Wednesday to 57 after some of the injured died overnight in hospital, an official said. About 100 other people were injured in the attack Tuesday in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, where blasts triggered by two suicide bombers ripped through a gathering to celebrate the birth of Islam's Prophet Muhammad in a downtown park. The attack triggered rioting in Karachi, with mobs burning cars and buses and hurling stones at police...

10 April 2006
Dawn
Triple Afghan blasts leave soldier dead, 16 wounded (AFP)
Kandahar, April 9: Three explosions including a suicide blast killed a soldier and wounded 16 other Afghans on Sunday, officials said. The suicide attacker struck an Afghan army checkpoint in the eastern province of Paktika, provincial government spokesman Salam Mangal said. Six soldiers were wounded with one later dying in hospital. Two of the injured were in a serious condition, provincial governor Akram Khealwak said. It was the first suicide attack in the province, he said. The bomber blew up a taxi in front of the checkpoint in Barmal district on a main route to Pakistan, Mangal said...

8 April 2006
Dawn
Suicide blasts at mosque in Iraq kill 79 (AFP)
Baghdad, April 7: Three suicide bombers, two of them disguised as women, killed on Friday at least 79 people and wounded 164 as worshippers left a popular Baghdad Shia mosque after Friday prayers, in the second major attack on Iraq's majority community in as many days. The blasts took place outside northern Baghdad's Baratha mosque where the imam, Sheikh Jalaluddin al-Saghir, is an MP with the Shia United Iraqi Alliance, the largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament... The channel announced 79 people had been killed and another 164 wounded in the blasts. "At least two of the bombers were dressed as women and blew themselves up inside the mosque complex," a security official told AFP...

8 April 2006
Daily Times
Suicide blast at US base hurts 3 in Afghanistan
Kandahar: A suicide bomber set off his explosives-laden car outside a US military base in Afghanistan on Friday, wounding three Americans in the second attack on a US base in 24 hours. The police chief of the southern province of Helmand, Abdur Rahman, initially said two British soldiers were wounded when the bomber rammed his car into their vehicle just outside their base in the provincial capital Lashkar Ghar. But the US military later said two US service members and a US civilian contractor were slightly wounded in the blast at the main gate of their base. "The suicide bomber was killed in the blast. A nearby pickup truck and the bomber's vehicle were destroyed," a US military spokesman said...

4 April 2006
Jerusalem Post
Is Fatah doing Hamas's dirty work? (Yaakov Katz)
The suicide attack near the entrance to Kedumim on Thursday was a daring and audacious operation. It involved a young Palestinian from the Hebron area, who traveled to Nablus, picked up a bomb, crossed through an IDF checkpoint, disguised himself as a haredi and stood at a popular hitchhiking post where he caught a ride which ended up being his target. Defense officials admitted that the attack was impressive but what concerned them the most, they said, was the group that claimed responsibility - the Aksa Martyrs Brigades armed branch of the Fatah movement. While Fatah, the long dominant Palestinian party, has never completely abstained from terror activity and has been involved particularly in Kassam rocket attacks in Gaza, Thursday's suicide attack, officials said, was the first perpetrated by a Fatah affiliate since a February 2005 Palestinian cease-fire...

3 April 2006
Daily Times
Taliban lend queer angle to suicidal couple's 'mission'
Peshawar: The suicidal Afghan couple's whereabouts are still unknown, though unconfirmed reports said that they had committed a suicide attack in Afghanistan some months ago. 'There are unofficial reports that the couple has already committed suicide near the Pule-Charkhi prison outside Kabul, for which we are looking for evidence,' said an official familiar with the case and its investigation, adding that the case would be closed if evidence were found... Pakistani security agencies are searching for information as to whether or not the Taliban were inspiring Pak-Afghans to become suicide bombers...

31 March 2006
Khaleej Times
Suicide bomber kills three Israelis in West Bank (Reuters)
Jerusalem: Israeli planes hit rocket launch sites in Gaza early on Friday, hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed at least three Israelis near a West Bank settlement in the worst spike in violence recently. The flare-ups come just days after militant Islamist group Hamas took office and Israeli leader Ehud Olmert's Kadima party won elections with a platform of imposing a border in the occupied West Bank if peacemaking remains frozen. The suicide attack late on Thursday was the first such bombing in two months. Rescue workers said the bomber was disguised as a religious Jew and was hitchhiking. He talked his way into a car near the entrance to the settlement, then blew himself up... Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, claimed the bombing and said it was in response to Israeli attacks.

31 March 2006
The Dawn
Hunt for 'suicide couple'
Peshawar, March 30: Intelligence agencies are looking for a couple on a suicide mission who recently left their home on the University Road, reliable sources told Dawn on Thursday. A federal intelligence agency got hold of a cassette of a couple, Azizullah Hamidullah alias Dr Aziz, and his wife, Feroza, which indicated that they had left their home and joined a group of suicide bombers. In the cassette, Azizullah informs his relatives that he and his wife were on a suicide mission and nobody should try to look for them anywhere. 'We will meet in heaven,' a source who had heard the audiotape quoted Azizullah as saying. Eight days ago, the provincial home department released a photograph of Azizullah, aged between 35 and 40 years, and his wife Feroza to provincial security agencies and informed them that they might be suicide bombers...

28 March 2006
The Dawn
Suicide bomber kills 40 at Iraq army centre
Baghdad, March 27: A suicide bomber killed 40 people waiting outside an Iraqi army recruitment centre as tension rose on Monday between Shia leaders and US forces over a deadly night raid in Baghdad. Ten other Iraqis were killed in other incidents across Iraq - seven of them in mortar attacks in Baghdad. The latest suicide bombing on the recruitment centre at an Iraqi army base called Tamarat near the town of Tal Afar, close to the Syrian border, was the deadliest single attack since a January suicide attack on police recruits in Ramadi. A militant coalition led by Al Qaeda's Iraq branch claimed it was behind the attack and the suicide bomber was a Saudi...

28 March 2006
The Khaleej Times
Suicide bomber kills himself, accomplice in southern Afghanistan (AFP)
Kabul 28 March 2006: A suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body, killing himself and his accomplice when he was confronted by police on Tuesday in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan, a governor said. The police, acting on a tip-off, confronted the pair in the centre of Kandahar city and ordered them to "freeze", provincial governor Assadullah Khalid told AFP. The bomber, who apparently planned to attack a government target, then detonated his explosives. "A suicide bomber and his local guide died when the bomber detonated just after police tried to stop them," Khalid said. "We had earlier intelligence information on the two, they were attempting to attack a government target."...

27 March 2006
The Daily Times
Suicide blast kills six Tamil Tigers
Colombo: Six suspected Tamil Tigers were killed and eight Sri Lankan sailors were missing after rebels blew themselves up Saturday and sank a navy gunboat that had approached their trawler, the military said. A search was under way for the eight sailors missing in the incident off the coast of Mannar in the northwest of the island, a defence official here said, adding that 11 sailors had been rescued by local fishermen. "The navy suspected that the trawler was involved in gun running and got near it to carry out a search," a defence official told AFP. "As the FAC (Fast Attack Craft) got near, the six people aboard the trawler blew themselves up." In January, suspected Tamil Tiger rebels blew up a similar gunboat, killing 15 sailors, in a suicide attack outside the northeastern port of Trincomalee...

24 March 2006
The Daily Times
56 Iraqis die in bombings, sectarian violence
Baghdad: At least 56 Iraqis died in violence on Thursday, including a car bombing that killed 25 people in the third major attack on a police lockup in three days. A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives at the entrance to the Interior Ministry Major Crimes unit in Baghdad's central Karradah district, killing 10 civilians and 15 policemen employed there, authorities said...

21 March 2006
Jerusalem Post
Security forces foil suicide bombing
A suicide bomber was apprehended on Tuesday afternoon with an explosive belt weighing five kilograms on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway near the Sha'ar Hagai Interchange. Bomb squads were in the process of defusing the bomb. Ten people were pulled from a GMC van and held in custody on the side of the road. The operation was launched after specific intelligence indicated that a suicide bomber had entered Israel. As of Tuesday, the Shin Bet had 13 concrete warnings of planned terror attacks. A helicopter had chased the bomber from the exit of Jerusalem to the site near Sha'ar Hagai on Highway 1 while police cars, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) officers and bomb squads were seen on the ground. Police told drivers to move 100 meters away from their vehicles. A heightened state of alert was declared earlier in Jerusalem, central Israel and the Modi'in region remains in effect...

20 March 2006
The Dawn
Car bomber killed in Kandahar (AFP)
Kandahar, March 19: A suicide car bomber was killed on Sunday when he rammed his vehicle into a US-led coalition convoy in southern Afghanistan, a witness and an official said but there were no military casualties. A local police commander in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar said the convoy comprised several vehicles of French troops operating under the US-led coalition in the region. "No one but the attacker was killed in the explosion. It was a suicide car bomb," the commander said... Around 200 French special forces are operating under the US-led coalition force in Kandahar while another 600 are taking part in the Nato-led peacekeeping force in Kabul...

16 March 2006
Daily Times
20 including two US soldiers killed in Iraq
Isahaqi: At least 20 people including two US soldiers were killed in fresh violence in Iraq on Wednesday... Also, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed two Iraqis and wounded five others in Baquba. The attack came shortly after another bomb killed a policemen here...

16 March 2006
Khaleej Times
One in 10 Indonesians back suicide bombings: survey (Reuters)
Jakarta: Eleven percent of the people in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, believe suicide attacks against civilian targets are sometimes justifiable, a survey said on Thursday. Though the number is relatively small, analysts say the findings of the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) are a wake-up call for Indonesian leaders and moderate clerics who fear a tiny radical Muslim fringe may be making inroads into the general public. The government has been making an extra effort to counter militant Islamic ideas since the discovery of videos last November showing the last words of suicide bombers who killed 20 people in restaurants on Bali island last year. Authorities and moderate clerics were shocked that young Indonesians could talk so blithely about the horrific bombings...

16 March 2006
The Jerusalem Post
Hamas denies running kids' suicide Web site (Orly Halpern)
Hamas has denied charges by two Israeli organizations that a cartoon-style Web site for kids that praises suicide bombings belongs to the militant Islamic movement. The al-fateh.net site encourages children to commit suicide in order to kill Israeli soldiers and civilians. On Wednesday the site had an item telling a short story about a young girl who knowingly leads Israeli soldiers to a bomb and dies with them. The story said that "Suhad became a shahida (martyr) lying on the grass and smiling because she was a shahida for Palestine." Itamar Marcus, Director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), an Israeli organization which monitors and translates Palestinian Arabic language media, said that the site, along with palestine-info.com and palestinegallery.com are official Hamas sites... According to a Hamas official in Ramallah, Hamas has long been falsely accused of running the palestine-info.com Web site... Abu-Assad said that many Islamic sites sympathize with Hamas "but that does not make them Hamas Web sites. The [people who run these sites] are private individuals that might sympathize with Hamas, but Hamas does not recognize these Web sites"...

13 March 2006
The Daily Times
Mujadadi survives suicide attack, blames Pakistan
Kabul: At least four people were killed in an assassination attempt on an ex-Afghan president, a roadside bomb killed three US soldiers and four Albanians were kidnapped in different parts of Afghanistan on Sunday. Two attackers and two bystanders were killed Sunday in the Afghan capital in a suicide car bombing targeting the head of the country's Senate, who escaped unharmed, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. "There was a suicide attack this morning. Four people have died. The attack targeted Sebghatullah Mujadidi, who was not hurt," said Yousuf Stanizai, the ministry spokesman... Mujadidi, a former Afghan president, now heads the upper house of parliament. He was quoted as blaming Pakistani agents for the blast and Afghan President Hamid Karzai separately blamed unspecified foreigners. It was not immediately known who was behind the attack...

10 March 2006
The Daily Times
'Suicide bombings a challenge to Kabul'
United Nations: A sharp rise in suicide bombings and attacks on schools in Afghanistan underscore the security challenge facing the Kabul government as it struggles to become a viable democratic state, the United Nations said on Wednesday. There were 17 suicide bombings last year and 11 in the first two months of 2006, compared to five in the preceding three years, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a progress report to the Security Council. Afghan principals, teachers and officials are being assassinated, schools burned or bombed and students threatened, prompting school closures in 16 southern districts, Annan reported... The report appeared to provide new evidence that Taliban guerrillas, who have been fighting the government since their regime was ousted after the Sept. 11 attacks, are waging an increasingly vicious insurgency. But Annan blamed the rising violence on a variety of factors like weak state institutions, a thriving illicit economy based on opium, factional violence and disputes over resources as well as the insurgency and terrorism...

4 March 2006
The Frontier Post
Suicide bomb wounds Canadian troops
KANDAHAR (Agencies): Five Canadian soldiers were wounded, one seriously, in a suspected suicide car bomb attack on Friday on their armored vehicle in southern Afghanistan, the Canadian military said. The attack happened about 15 km (10 miles) outside the city of Kandahar, and about 10 km (six miles) from the airport, where Canadian troops are based. Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said the guerrillas were responsible. "A car full of explosives blew up near a Canadian armored vehicle. The bomber was killed," General Rahmatullah Raufi, commander of the Afghan army's southern region, said. A spokesman for the Canadian military, Lieutenant Mark MacIntyre, said the badly wounded soldier was expected to be evacuated to the U.S. military hospital at Landstuhl in Germany, while the others were expected to return to duty shortly...

3 March 2006
The Daily Times
US diplomat, 3 others killed in Karachi attack (Abbas Naqvi)
Karachi: A suicide car bomber rammed into a diplomatic vehicle outside the United States Consulate in Karachi on Thursday, killing an American diplomat and three others, including the attacker... Reportedly, a white car packed with about 12 to 15 kilogrammes of explosives rammed into the American diplomat's five-door vehicle between 9.02am and 9.05am, killing the diplomat and three others. Police sources said the plan was made to deliberately use a small car so that it would be able to hit the chassis of the diplomat's larger vehicle in such a way that it exploded upwards. The car was parked outside the nearby Naval hospital... The explosion left a 15-foot wide and almost 3.25-foot deep crater in the road. Twenty cars were also destroyed... The attack came less than two days before Bush is scheduled to make a trip to Pakistan...

25 February 2006
The Hindu
Suicide attack bid on Saudi oil facility
DUBAI: Saudi security forces appeared to have foiled an attempt by suicide car bombers to attack a major oil refinery complex in the kingdom's oil-rich eastern province. Officials said the bombers in two cars tried to storm the Abqaiq refinery complex. The Arabic language Al Araybia television quoting an Interior Ministry statement said two cars exploded at a side entrance of the facility after a firefight with security guards. The facility run by the state monopoly Aramco had not been damaged and oil supplies not disrupted. The blasts caused a "limited" fire, which was brought under control.

11 February 2006
Dawn
37 die in two Hangu blasts, violence -By Abdul Saboor Khan
HANGU, Feb 10: Death toll on Friday rose to 37 and the number of injured to 91 in two days of sectarian violence in Hangu, NWFP. A blast, apparently caused by a suicide bomber, struck Ashura mourners on the main Hangu-Tall road at about 9.35am on Thursday, triggering violence. Another blast followed immediately causing further casualties, security officials and eyewitnesses said. NWFP police chief Riffat Pasha put the death toll at 31, saying that there had been reports of few more casualties in Ibrahimzai, but that remained to be confirmed. Riots broke out in different parts of the city and surrounding villages, about 130km from Peshawar. Army was immediately called out to control the situation that had gone out of police control. But locals said that their number was too small to control the rioters. There were widespread incidents of arson attacks and lootings. Fire fighters face hardships to put out raging flames that have burnt almost 75 per cent of shops in the main bazaar.

9 February 2006
Daily Excelsior
35 killed in suicide attack on Pak Shiite procession - PTI
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: At least 35 people were killed and scores injured today in a suspected suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession marking Muharram in northwestern Pakistan, setting off riots with angry faithful torching shops and vehicles prompting authorities to impose curfew. A series of explosions ripped through the procession in the main bazaar of North West Frontier Province's Hangu town, some 200 kilometres northwest of Islamabad, between 9.30 am and 9.40 am. Reports reaching here said that at least 35 people were killed in the attack and scores injured. The situation became tense as angry mob burnt shops and vehicles and also fired in the air.

2 February 2006
The Times of India
UK troops may face suicide bombers in Afghanistan - AP
LONDON: Afghanistan's defence minister General Abdul Rahim Wardak has said that British troops could face suicide bombers in a new NATO-led effort to seize control of lawless southern provinces. Wardak, in London for an aid conference, said on Wednesday that foreign terrorists were behind an increase in attacks on aid workers and coalition forces. His bleak assessment of security in southern Afghanistan -- where thousands of NATO soldiers are to be deployed -- was later echoed in comments to a British television station from a man who claimed to represent the Taliban. The anonymous interviewee, who spoke by telephone to Channel 4 News and claimed to be in Helmand province, said soldiers will be met with resistance by supporters of the ousted regime. US troops deployed in the region as part of Operation Enduring Freedom -- a mission to seek out suspected terrorists -- have come under regular attack. Last month an American soldier was injured when a suicide bomber targeted a military convoy in Helmand -- where around 3,300 British troops will be deployed by the summer. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) is expanding into southern Afghanistan as part of a mission to extend governance and provide security for rebuilding efforts. US forces are expected to roll back numbers in the provinces as NATO soldiers arrive, with plans announced to cut US troops in Afghanistan from 19,000 to 16,500 during 2006.

2 February 2006
Dawn
3 Pakistanis among 5 held in Afghanistan - Reuters
KABUL, Feb 1: Afghan authorities have detained five foreigners suspected of having links with Al Qaeda and planning acts of sabotage including suicide attacks, government officials said on Wednesday. The five men, three Pakistanis, an Iraqi and an Iranian, were arrested in the southern province of Nimroz close to the border with Iran. Four were arrested on Tuesday and one last Friday, the officials said. "They entered Afghanistan from Iran illegally and preliminary investigations show that they had links with Al Qaeda and other terrorist organisations," said Interior Ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanezai. The spokesman declined to say why authorities suspected the five were planning attacks, saying an investigation was continuing. Dozens of people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a wave of attacks including 13 suicide bombings across Afghanistan's south and east in recent months.

2 February 2006
Daily Times
4 killed as blasts rock Baghdad - Agencies
BAGHDAD: Three blasts rocked Baghdad on Wednesday morning on the eve of the resumption of Saddam Hussein's trial, killing four people and wounding dozens more, the interior ministry said. A suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt detonated himself at a gathering point for laborers seeking day work early in the morning in Baghdad's southern neighborhood of A-Jadida, killing three and wounding 61. Initial reports had put the death toll much higher. The nearby Al-Kindi hospital said it received two dead and 76 injured from the blast. The wide square which also includes a post office, a cinema and popular coffee shops, is a common meeting point, usually just before dawn, for workers looking for day labour . One witness sitting in the coffee shop said he had been about to approach the area where the workers were gathered when he decided to have a second cup of tea and so escaped the blast. He described the area as littered with dead and wounded. A roadside bomb also exploded in the western Baghdad neighbourhood of Amiriya, killing one and wounding three passers-by. A bomb also went off next to the interior ministry, a blast heard throughout central Baghdad, injuring two people. Remote controlled bombs remain one of the main perils of daily life in Iraq, especially along the country's roads.

31 January 2006
The Daily Times
Bombing foiled near US embassy in Afghanistan (Associated Presse)
KABUL: Security forces defused two roadside bombs near the heavily guarded US Embassy and arrested a suspected suicide attacker driving a minibus packed with explosives and gas canisters close to a US base, officials said. The thwarted high-profile attacks came as international donors gathered in London to discuss Afghanistan's future. Authorities fear militants opposed to the country's US-backed government may time high-profile attacks to coincide with the meeting. The two roadside bombs were discovered in a ditch about 300 meters from the US Embassy in the capital, Kabul, said Ehbrar Ahmad, a police official...

26 January 2006
The Daily Times
Two suspected suicide bombers arrested in Afghanistan (Reuters)
KANDAHAR: Afghan security forces arrested two suspected suicide bombers wearing vests packed with explosives on Wednesday, hours after a grenade was thrown at an Indian consulate, police said. Dozens of people have been killed in a wave of bomb attacks, including 13 suicide blasts, in Afghanistan over the past few months, most in the restive south and east. Police in the southern city of Kandahar said that they had received intelligence about suicide attacks and had set up a checkpoint on a road about 25 kilometres south of the city... The government blames Taliban fighters and their Al Qaeda allies for the blasts, saying the militants are intent on scaring off North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) members who are due to expand peacekeeping operations into the south in coming months...

22 January 2006
The Daily Times
Hundreds of Afghans protest suicide bombings
GHAZNI: Hundreds of Afghans staged a protest on Saturday to denounce a wave of suicide bomb attacks, with many of the protesters blaming neighbouring Pakistan for the violence. "We condemn these suicide attacks", protesters shouted outside the provincial governor's offices in the city of Ghazni, 140 km south of the capital, Kabul. There have been 13 suicide blasts since November, the worst last Monday when 23 people were killed in the town of Spin Boldak, on the border with Pakistan. The government blames foreign al Qaeda and Taliban supporters for the violence. US forces in Afghanistan say the bombings show the insurgents are becoming increasingly desperate, after suffering heavy losses in their guerrilla campaign last year, and are now going after soft targets. Security analysts suspects the Taliban have stepped up suicide attacks after seeing al Qaeda?s success in Iraq...

20 January 2006
The Hindu
Blasts in Baghdad kill 23
BAGHDAD: A suicide attacker detonated an explosive vest inside a crowded downtown coffee shop on Thursday and seconds later another bomb exploded under a nearby car, killing at least 23 persons and wounding 26, police and hospital officials said... The suicide bombing occurred in a coffee shop on Baghdad's Saadoun Street, killing 16 persons and wounding 21, said police Lt. Bilal Mohammed. The blast under a parked car outside the nearby al-Mathak restaurant killed at least seven more...

20 January 2006
The Daily Times
Palestinian suicide bomber wounds 30 in Tel Aviv (Reuters)
TEL AVIV: A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at a sandwich stand in Tel Aviv on Thursday, wounding at least 30 people in the first such attack in Israel since a truce expired at the end of last year. The bombing was also the first since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was incapacitated by a stroke on January 4... The bomber targeted a small, open-air sandwich stand on a busy pedestrian mall near Tel Aviv's old central bus station. One witness said that the man wore a backpack and pretended to be blind before detonating his explosives.

20 January 2006
The Washington Post
Afghan Bombings May Be Shift in Tactics (DANIEL COONEY)
KABUL: Bashir Jan remembers the bearded suicide bomber arriving on a motorbike. The blast that followed tore through the crowd where he was watching a wrestling match and left a carnage of severed limbs, bloodied faces and 21 dead. It was the latest of 20 suicide attacks that have rocked Afghanistan since late September, compared with just four in the first nine months of 2005, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press, marking a tactical shift by Taliban and al-Qaida militants. The U.S. military calls it a sign of desperation, but it's spooking other NATO countries as they prepare to deploy thousands of troops to the volatile south of the country to take over from American forces... Monday's attack on the wrestling match at a fair in Spinboldak, near the border with Pakistan, was the deadliest suicide bombing since the ouster of the Taliban regime in 2001...

19 January 2006
The Daily Times
Afghan suicide attacks - a signal to NATO, donors agencies (Sardar Ahmad)
An increase in suicide bombings in Afghanistan is likely an attempt to warn off NATO troops set for deployment in the south and rattle international donors meeting in London this month, analysts said... Monday's blasts, which follow around 20 other suicide attacks in the past four months, were the bloodiest since the toppling of the Taliban regime and its Al Qaeda allies in a US-led invasion in late 2001... "Terrorists - remnants of the Taliban backed by Al Qaeda insurgents and foreign terrorist elements - are trying to show that the country is insecure and the NATO troops will be vulnerable once deployed," political analyst Rangin Dadfar Spanta told AFP. Fear of attacks in the south is fuelling opposition in the Netherlands to its planned deployment of some 1,100 Dutch troops to southern Uruzgan province, one of the most dangerous... The suicide bombings, including six this year, have fed fears that insurgents are copying terrorist tactics used in Iraq. Such attacks were previously rare in this Central Asian country even during the armed resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980s... "In essence it's the same: they do it in Iraq and they do it in Afghanistan. But here it is different from Iraq,"...

17 January 2006
The D