Showing posts with label suicide bombing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide bombing. Show all posts
Saturday, June 20, 2009
SKY NEWS: A bomb has exploded in Tehran near the shrine of Iran's revolutionary founder as thousands of people protest at the result of the country's election, reports say.
At least one person was killed and two others injured close to the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, said the Fars news agency.
Reports said it was a suicide bombing and the attacker died.
Elsewhere in the Iranian capital, police are using tear gas and water cannon on protesters, according to witnesses.
Reports said many people have defied Government warnings that any protests would be suppressed.
Eyewitnesses say some 3,000 protesters chanted "Death to the dictator!" and "Death to dictatorship!" near Revolution Square in the city centre.
Riot police were sent out on to the streets following a demand by Iran's supreme leader for the demonstrations to end. >>> | Saturday, June 20, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Web Support Pours Out for Iran Protesters
NEW YORK — Google and Facebook have rushed out services in Farsi. Twitter users have changed their home cities to Tehran to provide cover for Internet users there. Others have configured their computers to serve as relay points to bypass Iranian censorship.
In the aftermath of the disputed Iranian election, Internet companies and individuals around the world have stepped in to help Iranians communicate and organize.
Twitter delayed a scheduled maintenance shutdown so that people could continue to access the microblogging site while scores of Americans set up remote proxy servers so Iranians could access blocked Web sites from inside their country.
All week, Internet users in the U.S. and around the world fixed their eyes on the events unfolding in Iran, the way viewers might have been glued to their television sets 30 years ago. But unlike 30, or even five years ago, this time they could participate. >>> Associated Press | Saturday, June 20, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
TIMES ONLINE: A prominent Pakistani Muslim cleric who founded a religious alliance against the Taleban was killed today in a suicide bomb attack on his Islamic college in the eastern city of Lahore.
Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi appeared to have been the target of the blast in his office at the Jamia Naeemia madrassa, which he headed and where he had just conducted Friday prayers.
Dr Naeemi — whose father founded the madrassa and who was well known and respected in Lahore and across Pakistan — died on the way to hospital, according to his son, Waqar.
“I was still in the mosque when I heard a big bang. We rushed towards the office and there was a smell of explosives in the air. There was blood and several people were crying in pain,” Waqar said.
Geo TV showed Dr Naeemi’s body lying on a stretcher, his beard and hair covered in dust and blood stains around his nostrils. >>> Jeremy Page, South Asia Correspondent | Friday, June 12, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
THE TELEGRAPH: Terrorists struck against Pakistan's security forces with devastating effect, killing at least 23 people in a suicide car bombing in Lahore.
Almost 300 more people were injured in an attack that the government said was revenge for its offensive against the Taliban.
The assault began when a car was driven up to the gates of a provincial headquarters of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. Several men inside the car jumped out and opened up with a volley of gunfire. Guards outside the building returned fire.
A few seconds later the explosives in the car were detonated, causing a huge explosion which flattened a police building next to the ISI offices, and shattered surrounding buildings, including a hospital.
A wide crater was left where the car had blown up. At least nine policemen and several intelligence agents, including a senior officer, were among the dead. The remainder of the dead and the bulk of the wounded were civilians caught in the midmorning blast on Wednesday in the centre of the city.
Muhammad Ali, a bystander, said: "The moment the blast happened, everything went dark in front of my eyes. The way the blast happened, then gunfire, it looked as if there was a battle going on." >>> By Isambard Wilkinson in Islamabad | Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Friday, October 17, 2008
BBC: A Moroccan court has sentenced more than 40 people to up to 30 years in prison over a suicide bombing last year at an internet cafe in Casablanca.
The bomber died in the attack, and three people were wounded.
The state news agency MAP said that those accused had been planning a string of attacks in Casablanca using home-made explosives.
The plot was uncovered by the investigation following the internet cafe bombing, authorities said.
The sentences came one day after another major terrorism trial got under way, involving the alleged leader of an extremist cell accused of links to al-Qaeda and planning to murder prominent figures within Morocco. >>> | October 17, 2008
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Monday, September 22, 2008
THE TELEGRAPH: Westerners and foreign companies were considering their future in Pakistan yesterday after the country suffered its most devastating terrorist strike since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Expatriates said they saw the attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad as a watershed moment with its deliberate targeting of a local landmark where diplomats, politicians and the middle classes gather for business meetings, or to exercise at its gymnasium and dine out.
It came after a string of suicide bombings across the country had already forced the cancellation of an international cricket tournament.
Many who had dismissed these smaller attacks are now considering leaving. "I'll be speaking to my boss tomorrow," said a Briton who has worked in Islamabad for a Pakistani firm for several years and did not want to be named.
There are currently 150 British staff working for the High Commission in the Pakistan capital, making it one of the largest in the world.
The mission – two of whose staff were injured in the attack – is still expected to function as normal. However, employees are being relocated within a safe diplomatic enclave as part of long-term plan initiated since Pakistan's security began to deteriorate significantly last year. Islamabad Suicide Bombing: Westerners Fear for Their Future in Pakistan >>> By Isambard Wilkinson | September 22, 2008
THE TELEGRAPH:
Pakistan Leaders Escaped Marriott Bomb at Last Minute: Pakistan's president and prime minister were scheduled to eat at the Islamabad Marriott the night it was bombed, but changed plans at the last minute, a top official has said. >>> By Isambard Wilkinson in Islamabad | September 22, 2008
NZZ Online:
Attentat auf Marriott-Hotel galt dem Präsidenten: Pakistan Staatsspitze beinahe getroffen >>> | 22. September 2008
LE FIGARO:
Al-Qaida défie l'Occident en frappant au Pakistan >>> Marie-France Calle à New Delhi | 22.09.2008
DIE PRESSE:
Anschlag in Pakistan – ein Land am Abgrund: Mit ihrem Anschlag auf das Marriott-Hotel in Islamabad wollten Fanatiker Pakistan ins Herz treffen. Sie sehen die Zeit gekommen, den Atomstaat zu kippen. Doch die Stimmung könnte sich nun gegen sie wenden.
DELHI/ISLAMABAD. Es sind Bilder wie aus einem Kriegsgebiet: Am Tag nach dem verheerenden Selbstmordattentat auf das Marriott-Hotel in Islamabad stießen Rettungskräfte in den verkohlten Trümmern immer noch auf Leichen. Ein zehn Meter tiefer Bombenkrater klaffte vor den rauchenden Ruinen des US-Luxus-Hotels.
Die Terroristen wollten den pakistanischen Staat mitten ins Herz treffen. Das Inferno spielte sich nahe dem Machtzentrum des Landes ab, wo sich der Sitz des Präsidenten, das Parlament und das Oberste Gericht befinden. Nun erwägen mehrere Botschaften, die Familien ihrer Mitarbeiter aus Pakistan abzuziehen. Das Land würde damit als genauso gefährlich eingestuft wie Afghanistan und der Irak. >>> Von Sascha Zastiral | 21. September 2008
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Friday, October 19, 2007
FINANCIAL TIMES: The Pakistan government blamed Islamist militants for twin explosions that killed more than 130 supporters of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto during her homecoming parade in the early hours of Friday morning.
The attack underscored the turbulence which lay in store for Pakistan ahead of an election due by January, but it was unclear how the assassination attempt might affect a possible power-sharing deal between Ms Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf.
No-one claimed responsibility, but Ms Bhutto’s husband held Pakistan’s intelligence agency to blame, while police were investigating whether the attack was connected to al-Qaeda linked militants in tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.
Militants linked to al-Qaeda, angered by the former prime minister’s support for the US war on terrorism, had this week threatened to assassinate her, and officials said there were intelligence reports of plots by three separate groups.
”Definitely, it is the work of the militants and terrorists,” said Javed Iqbal Cheema, interior ministry spokesman, adding it was too early to say which group was involved. Pakistan blames Islamist militants for bombs (more) By Jo Johnson and Farhan Bokhari in Karachi and Reuters
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