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Dozens Dead After Twin Suicide Blasts in Pakistan
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Dec. 6) -- At least 50 people were killed in explosions in northwest Pakistan today after two suicide bombers attacked a meeting of hundreds of anti-Taliban tribal leaders at a government compound. More than 100 were wounded in the blasts, which apparently were intended to stop local tribal leaders from organizing an anti-Taliban militia in the volatile Mohmand region. Amjad Ali Khan, the top government official in Mohmand, was at the meeting as well and may have been a key target of the blasts, but survived. Khan said the explosions were especially deadly because the militants wore ...
32 Injured in Istanbul Bombing
By Justin Vela - AOL News
ISTANBUL (Oct. 31) -- A suspected suicide bomber injured at least 32 people, including 17 civilians, Sunday morning in central Istanbul. The others injured were policemen who are regularly stationed at the square in case of demonstrations. The bomb when off in Taksim Square, a major tourist site that boasts numerous hotels, restaurants, a metro stop, and a bus station. The blast comes as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is due to end its latest ceasefire. The PKK has waged a nearly 30- year war against the Turkish state for Kurdish rights and autonomy in southeast Turkey, a conflict that ...
Al-Qaida Attack Survivor Wages His Own Jihad
By Betwa Sharma - AOL News
UNITED NATIONS (Oct. 11) -- On Ashraf al-Khaled's wedding day, a suicide bomber killed 27 members of his family. Five years later, al-Khaled is waging his own jihad -- against terrorism. The Jordanian wants to stop young Muslims from becoming radicalized, and he is urging other terror attack survivors to be more vocal in the condemnation of the bloodshed. "We can penetrate them [terrorists] and we can stop their manpower if we speak to the kids," al-Khaled said. "We have to clean our house by our hands, so this is why I am speaking out." He was addressing an audience at the United Nations ...
Twin Attacks on Sufi Shrine in Pakistan Kill Dozens
By Adnan R. Khan - AOL NewsPESHAWAR, Pakistan (July 2) -- Two suicide bombers detonated more than 65 pounds of explosives in one of Lahore's iconic cultural landmarks, killing at least 37 people and wounding 175. The attack on the Sufi shrine, locally known as Data Darbar, has sent shockwaves through Pakistan's Sufi community, who have lived in fear of such violence for four years. Sufism, the mystical strand of Islam, is a largely nonviolent, apolitical religious creed that places an individual's relationship with God above the demands of any single doctrine. It is credited with producing some of Islam's greatest ...
Are Female Suicide Bombers the Wave of the Future?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyIn the aftermath of the Christmas Day bomb plot, Western countries are beefing up security to combat terrorism at airports and universities. Mounting evidence suggests that, as they do this, they should pay particular attention to one group of people who've so far flown under the radar: women. ...
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