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Car Bomb Near Baquba Iraq Kills 15

Posted by barb On July - 21 - 2010

Car bomb kills 15
Car bomb kills 15
The explosion happened in a marketplace close to the city of Baquba in Iraq. There were 15 or more people killed in the explosion of the car bombing. Another 40 were injured.

The bomb was set off close by a mosque in Abu Sayda. It is a village that consist of mostly Shia and is located around 45 miles on the north side of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.

According to police, the explosion resulted in buildings falling down. There were both women and children wounded in the explosion.

The city of Baquba has experienced quite a few assaults lately.

A curfew has been put into action in Abu Sayda by the officials. They are concerned there could be more explosives in the area.

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Soldiers cordon off a street near the site of a suicide bomb attack in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday.
Soldiers cordon off a street near the site of a suicide bomb attack in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday.
Police in Lahore have updated the death toll from today’s detonation to 43, with at least 100 injured. Two suicide bombers targeting army motor vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other in the Pakistani city quicker today. About 10 of those slaughtered were soldiers, said Lahore police chief Parvaiz Rathore. A series of small explosions went off later, terrifying residents in a dissimilar Lahore neighborhood. Police officials said the four low-intensity detonations, that injured at least three population,  describe the apparent  resulted from loose explosives – not crowded bombs – scattered through the residential area.  Some of the wounded were missing limbs, lying in pools of blood after the explosions.  No group immediately claimed responsibility, but suspicion quickly fell on the Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaida. The militants are believed to have been behind scores of attacks in U.S.-allied Pakistan over the last several years, including a series of strikes that began in October and lasted around three months, killing some 600 people in apparent retaliation for an army offensive along the Afghan border. In more recent months, the attacks were smaller, fewer and confined to remote regions near Afghanistan.

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A bomb burst in Pakistan and killed more than 10 people.

Posted by ben_young74 On February - 18 - 2010

Local troops doing patrol after the terrible explosion on Thursday.
Local troops doing patrol after the terrible explosion on Thursday.
Pakistan – A bomb blast at a mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal band slain 29 persons encompassing some militants on Thursday, pointing the relentless security risk in Pakistan even as Pakistani-U.S.  collaboration against extremism seems on the upswing efforts.

It was reported that the explosion in Khyber tribal district came as U.S. exceptional envoy Richard Holbrooke contacted with Pakistan’s major minister in Islamabad, the capital. It is moreover pursued revelations that Pakistani administration have been picking up Afghan Taliban managers on their dirt, a longtime U.S. demand.

The great and terribly blast ripped through a mosque in the Aka Khel locality of Khyber, murdering not less than 29 persons and wounding some 50 other ones, localized authorized Jawed Khan said. Earlier accounts had said the explodes appeared in the Orakzai locality at a beef cattle market. The two localities boundary one another, and the market is evidently beside the mosque. Officials were still examine if the blast was initiated by a suicide bomber or a sown device.

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Residents of Gardez, Afghanistan, on Thursday examine the scene where a suicide bomber killed at least seven people.
Residents of Gardez, Afghanistan, on Thursday examine the scene where a suicide bomber killed at least seven people.
A suicide bomber powering a van crammed with explosives detonated in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, murder at least one citizen and wounding a figure of others, encompassing three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers. The Taliban took accountability for the assault. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the suicide attacker targeted a U.S. military convoy, murder seven Americans and three Afghan police officers. The  mortality was the 9th U.S. victim this month and the 15th  alliance death. It was the 634th U.S. mortality and 1,049th alliance mortality since Operation Enduring Freedom originated in 2001.

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New year’s day bomb attack in Pakistan killed almost 100 people.

Posted by ben_young74 On January - 3 - 2010

Residents of Shah Hassan Khail, Pakistan, on Saturday search the rubble of several dozen homes destroyed in the suicide blast on Friday that killed at least 96 people.
Residents of Shah Hassan Khail, Pakistan, on Saturday search the rubble of several dozen homes destroyed in the suicide blast on Friday that killed at least 96 people.
The death toll from a suicide strike at a volleyball game in Pakistan has increased to 99, policeman state, as administration  labor to contend with one of the country’s bloodiest ever bombings. There has been no assertion of blame for the strike, but  policeman said the bomber came from South Waziristan, the neighboring locality where Pakistan has been conducting an attack on Taliban militants since October.

Suicide and blasting apparatus attacks accused on the Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants have slain more than 2,880 persons in Pakistan since July 2007, progressively aiming at citizens as well as government security installations.

In October 2009, a vehicle bombing in the northwest town Peshawar slain 125 persons and a suicide strike at the homecoming of previous major minister Benazir Bhutto slain not less than 139 persons in October 2007.

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Again, a suicide bomb killed policemen in Afganistan.

Posted by ben_young74 On December - 25 - 2009

The influx of troops is expected to lead to more battles and subsequently more deaths
The influx of troops is expected to lead to more battles and subsequently more deaths
KABUL – A suicide bomber with a horse and cart detonated himself Thursday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing eight people and wounding five, a senior police officer said.

The explosion happened around 7.15 pm (1445 GMT) outside the Kandahar provincial health ministry directorate and a guesthouse sometimes used by foreigners, deputy provincial police chief Sazel Ahmad Shairzad said. Kandahar was the site in late August of a massive truck bomb that killed 43 people and injured another 65, most of them civilians. Taliban denials of involvement in the attack were dismissed as the militants often distance themselves from operations that claim high numbers of civilians.

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More than 30 Al-Qaeda militants were killed in Yemen.

Posted by ben_young74 On December - 18 - 2009

SAN'A, Yemen  —  Authorities say military operations targeting Al Qaeda hideouts and a training camp in Yemen have withdrew higher to 34 suspected militants dead, surrounding four would-be suicide bombers, and led to the detain of 17 others.
SAN'A, Yemen — Authorities say military operations targeting Al Qaeda hideouts and a training camp in Yemen have withdrew higher to 34 suspected militants dead, surrounding four would-be suicide bombers, and led to the detain of 17 others.
SAN’A, Yemen  —  Authorities say military operations targeting Al Qaeda hideouts and a training camp in Yemen have withdrew higher to 34 suspected militants dead, surrounding four would-be suicide bombers, and led to the detain of 17 others.

Provincial protection official Saleh el-Shamsy said air-strikes pursued by a ground task targeting a training camp in Abyan province southerly of San’a slaughtered 30 suspected militants.

Separately, the Interior Ministry said operations were progressed to also Thursday in paddocks into the open San’a, slaughter four would-be suicide bombers and arresting 17 suspected militants. The suicide bombers were in the Arhab locality northeast of the capital.   Yemen is troubled by a weak central government and a growing Al Qaeda presence.

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Two rockets hit French military force in Afghanistan.

Posted by ben_young74 On November - 18 - 2009

The head of French military force in Afghanistan were attacked by two rockets
The head of French military force in Afghanistan were attacked by two rockets
The head of French military force in Afghanistan were attacked by two rockets. Even the rockets were bombed The head of French military force, all of the dead victims are all Afghanistan civilians and more than 30 civilians are injured.  The commander of the French military force said there is no French or Nato troops were injured from the attack.

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