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Friday, April 24, 2009

Twin blasts rock Iraq, 76 killed

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Two suicide bombers wearing vests stuffed with explosives blew themselves up in separate attacks in Iraq on Thursday, killing 76 people.

Shortly after the two attacks, the authorities in Baghdad said they had arrested the purported leader of an Al Qaeda afmiated insurgent group, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.

One of the attacks occurred in a crowded restaurant at lunchtime near Muqdadiya, 80 km northeast of Baghdad.

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Friday, November 28, 2008

The age of suicide fighters

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The clean-shaven, lithe young men ravaging Mumbai are suicide fighters — planned, armed and committed for long battles — not the shadowy hit-and-run suicide bombers with which India is so familiar.

The detonation of a taxi on Wednesday seemed a diversion: the real teeth of the attack lay in small teams of highly trained commando-like fighters capturing buildings, taking hostages and preparing for a siege.

The Mumbai terror strikes fit neatly into the paradigm of jihad international. For the first time, the targets are no longer random markets or innocent Indians, but westerners.

Mumbai 26/11, said an Indian intelligence official, was executed by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyeba. Luxury hotels where westerners stay have become a popular target — assuring deeper fear and global publicity.

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