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...regrouped in the ungoverned tribal areas along Pakistan's long border with Afghanistan, and a newly unified militant group is hounding the military with devastating success. Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the group and al-Qaeda's viceroy in the region, has been blamed for last December's suicide-bomb attack that killed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Twelve out of 14 suspects arrested in January for planning terrorist attacks in Spain are Pakistani; all are thought to have trained in the country's tribal areas. Sixty suicide bombings in Pakistan last year left at least 770 people dead...
Police say the man killed in the blast was probably himself carrying the bomb because the device went off about a three feet from the ground, blowing out surrounding car windows but not causing a crater. "The man completely lost his hand. He surely did this when he was handling the explosive device," Mexico City Police Chief Joel Ortega told reporters...
...this is the case, the bomb may have gone off before it was planned, the detectives say. It exploded two blocks from Mexico City's police headquarters. A woman who received burns from the blast was being questioned by detectives in her hospital bed Monday while under police guard. Identified as Tania Vazquez, 22, the woman lives in the rough market neighborhood of Tepito, known as a center of drug dealing. Police raided her home on Sunday and took about $2,500 in cash and lists of phone numbers, officials said. No charges have been leveled against her at this...
...opened; scores were injured and at least six killed. In Lahore, five party workers, including one candidate for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party, were killed on the eve of elections. On Saturday more than 40 Pakistan People's Party workers were killed when a bomb exploded at a rally in Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province. Sakina Bibi, 57, was undisturbed by the threat of violence as she waited patiently in line at a women's polling station in Rawalpindi, not far from the capital. "I am not worried," she said...
...Iraq, Cassidy's job was to protect the serpentine convoys that carry food, fuel and mail to and from Kuwait. On a routine mission in August 2006, a roadside bomb blew up 10 yds. (9 m) from his armored humvee. There was no apparent damage to the humvee or the four men in it. But for two to three minutes after the attack, Cassidy lost his hearing, and he quickly developed a bad headache. The next day medics diagnosed a minor concussion. "Since that time," he wrote in a January 2007 statement, "I have been plagued with migraine headaches every...