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Taliban Exact Revenge on Pakistani Town That Stood Up

Car bombing punishes crackdown on militants

Dec 29, 08 8:53 AM CST
(Newser) - A few months ago, villagers in a Pakistani town killed six Taliban fighters who had bound and killed local police; yesterday, the Taliban retaliated, targeting the town of Shalbandi with a suicide car bomb that killed more than 30. The explosion rocked a school that was holding a vote to... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • suicide bomber • school • car bomb • militant • retaliation • polling places • village

 Israel Bombs 
 Gaza Supply Tunnels 

Egypt begins stopping Palestinians from entering

Dec 28, 08 11:40 AM CST
(Newser) - As Gaza air strikes raged on for a second day, Israel said it bombed more than 40 Palestinian supply tunnels used to transport weapons, BBC reports. Palestine said one tunnel intended to carry fuel from Egypt to Gaza had been destroyed. Fleeing the southern strip into Egypt, hundreds of Palestinians... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • rocket attacks • Egypt • bombing • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinian people • militant • tunnels • Gaza Egypt border

 21 Killed in Iraq Car Bombings 

25 wounded in Baghdad square blast

Dec 27, 08 7:27 AM CST
(AP) - A bomb tore through a busy square in Baghdad at midday today, killing at least 18 people and wounding 25, the AP reports. Iraqi police said the blast in a northern Baghdad Shiite neighborhood was a parked car bomb, apparently targeting a taxi stand. Some 60 miles south of Baghdad,... More »

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Iraq • insurgents • Baghdad • car bomb • militant • Iraq war

Mumbai-Linked Terror Crew
Hunts Western Recruits

Lashkar-e-Taiba seen as stepping stone to al-Qaeda

Dec 8, 08 9:52 AM CST
(Newser) - The Islamic militant group thought to be behind the Mumbai terror attacks has recruited Westerners, particularly Americans and Britons, to aid in planning and executing attacks, the Los Angeles Times reports. A 23-year-old Brit, convicted this year on terror-related charges, was among the Lashkar-e-Taiba adherents helping get converts to Pakistan... More »

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British • recruitment • terrorist • Mumbai • militant • al-Qaeda • American • Lashkar-e-Taiba • Westerner

 Afghan Supply Trucks 
 Torched in Pakistan 

Attack raises concerns about supply pipeline

Dec 7, 08 8:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Militants torched more than 160 trucks in two Pakistani terminals supplying US-led troops in Afghanistan, AP reports. A security guard was killed in the assault at one of the terminals. While some witnesses reported hundreds of gunmen, a US official called the attack “militarily insignificant,” saying it would... More »

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ANALYSIS

 How 10 Young Men 
 'Took Over Our City' 

In minutes, group landing from sea spread terror across Mumbai

Dec 1, 08 11:23 AM CST
(Newser) - How did 10 young men cripple a bustling Indian city in minutes? It started when four arrived on an inflatable boat in a poor fishing colony, scaring off inquisitive residents and jumping into taxis for the Oberoi Trident hotel, the Washington Post reports. “It’s a slum area. We... More »

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 We Aimed to 
 Murder 5,000: 
 Mumbai Terrorist 

'I have done right,' militant declares to police

Nov 30, 08 6:55 AM CST
(Newser) - The lone Mumbai terrorist captured alive said months of training had prepped him and his cohorts to kill 5,000 people, the Daily Mail reports. Describing the massacre to police, Azam Amir Kasab of Pakistan, 21, said his instructions were to “target whites, preferably Americans and British.” He... More »

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India • resignation • terrorist • training • Mumbai • militant • terrorist attack • minister

Rabbi, Wife
Slain in Mumbai Jewish Center

Other US victims were Virginia man and his teenage daughter

Nov 28, 08 2:32 PM CST
(Newser) - The massacre in Mumbai has left at least four Americans dead: A Brooklyn-raised rabbi and his wife, and a Virginia man and his teenage daughter. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and Rivka Holtzberg, 28, were slain at a Jewish center they helped run. Family and friends in Brooklyn have one speck... More »

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India • Jews • Chabad Lubavitch • Brooklyn • Virginia • explosion • terrorist • Mumbai • militant • terrorist attack • hostage

 Mumbai Jewish Center Siege 
 Over; Hostages Dead 

Local news says assault on militants there is over

Nov 28, 08 8:00 AM CST
(Newser) - A huge explosion shook Mumbai’s Jewish center as Indian commandos ended a siege on militants holding foreign hostages there, MSNBC reports. A local rescue service reported that all hostages inside were dead, including two Americans. Local news reports said the mission was over, with militants either dead or captured... More »

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ANALYSIS

 Pakistanis Fear 
 US May Be Out to 
 Carve Up Nation 

Many fear Yanks may be colluding with India

Nov 23, 08 7:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistanis are fearful that the US is part of an India-Afghanistan plot to carve up the nation, writes Jane Perlez in the New York Times. Those worries have been fueled by a theoretical map drawn by US neoconservatives featuring a shrunken Pakistan and larger neighbors. “One of the biggest... More »

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 US Missiles Kill 5 in Pakistan 

Strike is second this week in militant stronghold

Oct 12, 08 6:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - A pair of US missiles yesterday killed five militants in a Pakistani border community, according to a local intelligence official. Some were foreigners living in a village in North Waziristan, an al-Qaeda and Taliban stronghold, the official said. US drones had been circulating for hours and delivered the missiles after... More »

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Afghan Governor, 3 Others Killed by Roadside Bomb

Official had helped in 2001 US defeat of Taliban

Sep 13, 08 8:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - A bomb detonated near Kabul killed an Afghan provincial governor and three others today, Reuters reports; Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the attack. The governor and former cabinet minister, Abdullah Wardak, had helped the US when it toppled the Taliban in 2001. It was unclear whether the roadside attack was... More »

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US Missile Strike
Kills at Least 10 in Pakistan

New fuel for tensions between US and Pakistan


Sep 12, 08 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A US missile attack killed at least 10 people today in northwest Pakistan, where many al-Qaeda and Taliban militants are based, Reuters reports. Drones fired missiles at a former government school that housed militants and their families in the latest move in  a heated US-Pakistan disagreement over militants in the... More »

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Suspected US Strike Kills 5
in Pakistan

Drone attack is the latest of several near Afghan border

Sep 5, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A suspected US airstrike on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan killed at least 5 people today, part of a stepped-up effort against militants in the region, the AP reports. The victims' identities remained unclear. Conflicting intelligence reports called them either al-Qaeda operatives or innocent women and children, AFP notes. US... More »

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 Unrest Spikes in Kashmir

Militants take family hostage, trade fire with Indian forces

Aug 27, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Militants who snuck into Indian-administered Kashmir from neighboring Pakistan were holding a family hostage today in after killing several people yesterday, the Times of London reports. Tensions are high in Jammu, some 300 miles northwest of New Delhi; Muslim groups in the area have long agitated for independence from Hindu-dominated... More »

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Syria Remains Key for
Foreign Fighters in Iraq: US

90% of Iraq's foreign fighters come across neighbor's borders, new report contends

Mar 12, 08 3:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Syria is a key jumping-off point for foreign militants in Iraq, with 90% entering through the Syrian border, the Pentagon reported yesterday. “It is not clear that Syria has made a strategic decision to deal with foreign terrorists using Syria as a transit point,” the report notes. Meanwhile,... More »

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Nigerian Rebels Seek Help From Clooney

Militants offer invite
after UN names him 'messenger of peace'

Jan 19, 08 7:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Nigeria’s top rebel group urged George Clooney to come heal their war-torn land today, the AP reports. The militants, who often pressure officials by blowing up oil pipelines, promised to work with Clooney “and other credible peace makers" to cool off fighting in Nigeria. Clooney gave no immediate... More »

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United Nations • Nigeria • MEND • peace • George Clooney • Rebel • militant

CIA Chief Names Groups Behind Bhutto Assassination

Pakistani militants, al-Qaeda blamed

Jan 18, 08 12:41 PM CST
(Newser) - The CIA director blames a cooperative effort by al-Qaeda and a group of Pakistani militants for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Washington Post reports. The conclusion jibes with the explanation Pervez Musharraf has offered, though some Pakistanis still suspect the president and his government had a hand in the... More »

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CIA • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Michael Hayden • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • militant • Baitullah Mehsud

US Lets Cuban Terror Slide
in Florida

5 anti-Castro groups planning coup get free ride from FBI

Jan 14, 08 8:19 PM CST
(Newser) - At least five anti-Castro paramilitary groups are operating on US soil, planning to overthrow the Cuban regime—and getting a free ride from Washington despite bolstered anti-terrorist laws that would back a crackdown. Holed up in Florida training camps, the Cuban exiles have been linked to commando raids, hotel bombings,... More »

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Hezbollah • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Colin Powell • militant

Thousands Rally in Gaza

Police kill West Bank protester; Israel guns down three in other incidents

Nov 27, 07 8:14 PM CST
(Newser) - Massive crowds demonstrated in Gaza today, condemning the Annapolis conference and chanting "Death to America!" Hamas leaders told tens of thousands of supporters that the peace summit was "doomed to failure" and vowed that "whoever thinks we will recognize a Jewish state are deluding themselves."... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians • militant • Annapolis summit • Arab Israeli conflict

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