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...early evening bombing occurred along a narrow road between the southern Lebanese towns of Khiam and Marjayoun, four miles north of the border with Israel. An armored vehicle carrying Spanish UNIFIL troops was struck by a suicide car bomb that blasted the vehicle off the road and set it on fire. Six soldiers died in the blast and two others were wounded, according to UNIFIL. Near the UNIFIL vehicle was the twisted wreckage of a civilian car containing human remains. An initial report that the explosion was caused by a powerful roadside bomb was later discounted in favor...
...What does this sorry mean?" Asks Takbeer party leader Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai. "They are bombarding villages because they hear the Taliban are there. But this is not the way, to bomb and kill 20 people for one Taliban. This is why people are losing hope and trust in the government and the internationals." Like many Afghans, Ahmadzai is starting to suspect a more sinister meaning behind the recent spate of civilian deaths."The Americans can make a mistake once, twice, maybe three times," he says. "But 20, 30 times? I am not convinced that they are doing this without intention...
...someone exploded a bomb on his body, he would be right to do so unless the British government apologizes and withdraws the "sir" title.' MOHAMMED IJAZ UL-HAQ, Pakistani Religious Affairs Minister, saying that the knighting of controversial author Salman Rushdie could justify a suicide bombing...
BAGHDAD Truck bomb destroys Shi'ite mosque; kills over...
...said he hoped people realized that he was no longer a radical bomb-thrower but was now firmly in the American mainstream. "Three years ago I was booed off the Oscar for daring to suggest that we were being led to war for fictitious reasons," Moore said, recalling the night in 2003 when he accepted the Oscar for his documentary Bowling For Columbine and made headlines with an anti-war outburst that ended with the proclamation "Shame on you! Shame on you!" directed at President Bush. Moore said that today "70% of the country agrees with [that sentiment]. They...