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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: truck bomb

truck bomb stories: 6 news summaries

(AP) - Attackers paid $10,000 to get a bomb-laden truck past checkpoints and next to the Iraqi Finance Ministry in last week's attacks, one of the suspected masterminds said in a confession broadcast today. Seeking to fend off widespread criticism over security lapses, the Iraqi military released what it said was... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • suicide bombing • truck bomb • terrorist attack • confession

(AP) - A massive truck bomb near Kabul killed 25 people today, including 13 primary school students, and sent pieces of the vehicle flying more than a mile from the blast, reports the AP. The truck overturned in the road last night, and when police arrived this morning to clear the way... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Kabul • bombing • car bomb • truck bomb • Afghanistan war

 Mosul Truck 
 Bomb Kills 
 5 US Troops 

Two Iraqi cops killed, 18 others wounded in deadliest attack of year

Apr 10, 09 9:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - A truck filled with explosives crashed into a police headquarters in Mosul today, killing five American soldiers and two Iraqi policemen. The suicide attack was the deadliest single incident involving US troops this year, the AP reports. The chief of operations in Mosul said the policemen were the target, and... More »

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Iraq • suicide bombing • Iraq death toll • US troops • death toll • Mosul • truck bomb • Iraq police • casualties • war dead

Pakistan Bomb Near Miss for President, PM

Zardari was scheduled to be at reception when Marriott exploded

Sep 22, 08 7:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan's president and prime minister were supposed to be at a reception at the Islamabad hotel where a huge bomb killed at least 60 people and injured 270, reports the Times of London. Asif Ali Zardari and Yousaf Raza Gilani were expected to attend a large dinner at the Marriott,... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamabad • Marriott • truck bomb • Asif Ali Zardari • Baitullah Mehsud • al-Qaeda • Yousaf Raza Gilani

Pakistan Bomb Toll Climbs
to 53, Al-Qaeda Accused

Nearly 300 wounded in Marriott blast

Sep 21, 08 7:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistani intelligence authorities have blamed al-Qaeda for a massive bomb attack that has so far claimed 53 lives, Reuters reports. The truck bomb slammed into an Islamabad Marriott yesterday, turning the busy hotel into an inferno of flame. The Czech ambassador to Pakistan, and an American and German national were... More »

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Pakistan • bomb • Marriott • truck bomb • Asif Ali Zardari • al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda Claims Algeria Attacks

North African group says it launched suicide bombings that killed 50

Sep 9, 07 4:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - An al-Qaeda affiliate has claimed responsibility for bombings that claimed more than 50 lives in Algeria in the last two days. The group, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, took credit for the attacks in an Internet statement , BBC reports. An explosives-laden truck drove into a naval barracks in a port... More »

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Algeria • suicide bombing • Algiers • Maghreb • truck bomb • al-Qaeda Islamic Maghreb • al-Qaeda

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