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...days before a presidential election will name Pervez Musharraf's successor. Pakistan has been rocked by a spate of violence that has seen hundreds die in suicide bombings and explosions over the past month. At the same time, speculation is stirring that Wednesday's seemingly spur-of-the-moment attack on Gilani's convoy may have been retaliation for a U.S.-led attack earlier in the day along the Afghan-Pakistan border. Previous military activity in the same area has ratcheted up tensions between the trio of uneasy allies in the war against terror...
Philippines police connect the bombing to al-Khobar, a shadowy extortion gang that has carried out numerous attacks against public buses in southern Mindanao in recent years. Police Chief Inspector Querubin L. Manalang Jr. said the group called the bus company late last week threatening new attacks if their demands for payment weren't met. He said nails and other debris recovered from the site resemble bomb material used in a July attack that killed one bus passenger and wounded 35. "It was the signature bomb of the al-Kohbar group," Manalang said...
Manalang says there is no evidence of a connection between Monday's attack and last month's separatist fighting in the island's north, which left dozens of civilians dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Mindanao, long home to a simmering insurgency, exploded into violence in August after the country's Supreme Court halted an agreement between government negotiators and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) that would have set boundaries for a semi-autonomous Muslim homeland. In apparent frustration with the stalled negotiations, two rogue MILF commanders have been accused of leading their fighters on a murderous rampage...
...predicting that John McCain could not count, at a moment's notice, the number of houses he and his wife own. But they reacted instantly. Within hours, Obama's minions pounced, broadcasting the gaffe for days in what amounted to the Democrat's single biggest negative attack of the campaign...
...Still, Palin seems well-cast to take up the traditional Veep role of attack dog. "It's said the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is lipstick," Palin wrote in 2004 - and she didn't dispute the claim. "So with lipstick on," she added, "the gloves come...