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Russia Identifies Suicide Bomber in Moscow Airport Attack
By not in system - AOL NewsMOSCOW -- The suicide bomber who killed 35 people and wounded 180 at Moscow's largest airport was a 20-year-old man from the volatile southern Caucasus region, Russian investigators said Saturday. Breaking a five-day silence over the probe, federal investigators also said foreigners were deliberately targeted, marking an ominous new tactic in Russia's losing battle with extremism. Islamist rebels from the Caucacus, a group of mountainous Russian provinces that are beset with an entrenched separatist insurgency, have been widely suspected in the attack at Domodedovo Airport. Saturday's ...
Bombs Hit 2 Pakistani Cities, Killing 9
By not in system - AOL NewsLAHORE, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber blew himself up near a march by minority Shiite Muslims in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding dozens, many of them security officers, officials said. A second bomb blast, also apparently targeting Shiites, wounded six in the southern city of Karachi. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the Lahore attack, which laid bare the challenges facing Pakistani officials trying to secure cities far from the northwest where the militants have long thrived. Many recent attacks have targeted minority Muslim ...
Ambulance Bomber Blasts Iraqi Police, Latest in a Wave of Attacks
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsInsurgents struck Iraqi security forces this morning for the second time in two days, when a suicide bomber rammed an ambulance packed with explosives into police headquarters in the city of Baquba, 35 miles north of Baghdad. Faris al-Azzawi, a spokesman for the provincial health department, told Agence France-Presse that at least 14 people were killed in the blast. A further 64 were wounded. Two men are believed to have carried out the attack, reported the BBC. One insurgent jumped out of the ambulance as it approached the Facilities Protection Services building in the heart of the city and ...
Suicide Bombing Kills 17 in Pakistan
By not in system - AOL NewsPESHAWAR, Pakistan (Sept. 6) -- A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes. About 40 people were wounded in the attack in Lakki Marwat, which sits on the main road between Punjab province, Pakistan's largest and most prosperous, and the North and South Waziristan tribal regions. A Pakistani army offensive pushed many militants out of South Waziristan in October. The militants still control ...
Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens at Afghan Wedding
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(June 10) -- A suicide blast shattered an Afghan wedding party just as guests -- including off-duty policemen and anti-Taliban militiamen -- were sitting down to dinner, killing at least 40 partygoers and wounding more than 70 in the Taliban's spiritual homeland, officials said today. The attack hit the Nadahan village in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar late Wednesday. The bomber struck a tent filled with men, while the party's women were segregated in another room according to local custom. All the victims were men or boys, villagers told several news agencies. Allauddin Khan, ...
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Suicide Bomber in CIA Deaths Was al-Qaeda Double Agent
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe suicide bomber who killed eight people at a CIA base in Afghanistan last week was a Jordanian working as an al-Qaeda double agent. Western intelligence officials identified the suicide bomber as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a 36-year-old doctor from Zarqa, Jordan, the Los Angeles Times reported. Jordanian authorities, working with the CIA, arrested al-Balawi in 2008 and eventually recruited him to infiltrate al-Qaeda, believing he had rejected the terrorist group, according to the Times. "What this tells you is that al-Qaeda is now capable of running a fairly sophisticated ...
Suicide Bomber Was Double Agent, Sources Say
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 5) -- The suicide bomber who killed eight people inside a CIA base in Afghanistan claimed to have information about Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, and was being recruited as a double agent to infiltrate al-Qaida, a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a foreign government official confirmed Monday. The bombing killed seven CIA employees - four officers and three contracted security guards - and a Jordanian intelligence officer, Ali bin Zaid, according to a second former U.S. intelligence official. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were ...
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