| June 25, 2007 | - At least 11 successful suicide bombings were reported in Iraq,.
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Guardian
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Guardian
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McClatchy
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| June 10, 2007 | - A suicide bomber drove his truck through the gates of the unprotected police station in Alam, killing at least 12 people and injuring sixty. “This is the first bombing in Alam,” said a policeman who lost his left arm. “That's why people did not expect an explosion.”
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Washington Post
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| May 21, 2007 | - Ten people, including a schoolboy, were killed in an Afghanistan
suicide bombing.
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New York Times
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| February 28, 2007 | - A suicide bomber attacked Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, killing twenty Afghans, a South Korean, and two Americans but missing his prime target, Vice President Dick Cheney, who has taken to speaking in the first person on the condition of anonymity. “I've seen some reporting,” said the “senior administration official” of his meeting with Pakistani authorities, “that says, ‘Cheney went in to beat up on them, threaten them.' That's not the way I work.”
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New York Times
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San Jose Mercury News
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| February 2, 2007 | - In Hillah, where a further 45 people were killed, a police officer attempted to smother the blast from a suicide bomber. “He hugged him” said a witness, “and the explosives tore apart both bodies.”
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Los Angeles Times
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| April 17, 2006 | - A suicide bomber killed nine people at a falafel restaurant in Tel Aviv.
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The New York Times
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| April 7, 2006 | - A car bomb killed 10 people at a Shiite shrine in Najaf, Iraq, and a suicide bombing killed 85 people at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.
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BBC News
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| April 3, 2006 | - In Iraq
a suicide bomber killed 50 people and a car bomb killed 10 people. At least 15 U.S. troops were also killed. Hostage Jill Carroll was freed.
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CNN.com
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CNN.com
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| March 2, 2006 | - In Pakistan, four people, including a U.S. diplomat, were killed in a suicide bombing.
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The New York Times
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| February 24, 2006 | - In Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda attempted to bomb the Abqaiq oil facility but was thwarted. Two guards died in the attack.
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BBC News
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NineMSN
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| January 18, 2006 | - In Iraq 30 people were killed at makeshift checkpoints, 22 people died in suicide bombings, 9 people were killed in an ambush, 5 bodies were found in the Qaid River, 4 children were killed by rocket-propelled grenades, and 2 American civilians were killed in a roadside bombing. Suicide bombings killed at least 22 people in Afghanistan and injured 30 people in Tel Aviv.
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Democracy Now!
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The Boston Globe
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CRI Online
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Sign On San Diego.com
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| January 5, 2006 | - A suicide bombing in Afghanistan killed ten people.
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Reuters
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| January 5, 2006 | - In San Francisco an air passenger was arrested for having the words “suicide bomber” in his journal; it turned out that the words referred to the name of a band or a song.
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Reuters
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| January 2, 2006 | - Seven people died in a suicide car bombing in Iraq.
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The Guardian
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| December 9, 2005 | - At least 66 people were killed in suicide bombings in Iraq.
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PakTribune
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| December 8, 2005 | - In Miami an air marshal shot and killed an American Airlines passenger, Rigoberto Alpizar, who, according to the air marshal, claimed to have a bomb in his backpack. Before the shooting, Alpizar's wife attempted to explain that her husband was bipolar and off his medication. No bomb was found.
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Detroit News
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| November 10, 2005 | - In Amman, Jordan, 57 people were killed in explosions at three different hotels. “We thought it was fireworks for the wedding,” said Ahmed at the Radisson. An Iraqi woman named Sajida Rishawi later described how she, her husband, and two other Iraqis had entered Jordan on forged passports intending to blow up the hotels; while the other three suicide bombers succeeded, she explained, her exploding belt malfunctioned, so she ran.
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BBC News
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The Los Angeles Times
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| October 6, 2005 | - A suicide bomber in Iraq blew himself up on a bus, killing ten people.
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BBC News
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| October 2, 2005 | - A suicide bomber in Oklahoma blew himself up at a Sooners game.
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ESPN.com
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| September 1, 2005 | - In Iraq nearly 1,000 Shiite pilgrims were killed during a march across the Al-Aaimmah bridge when rumors of a suicide bomber in the crowd caused a stampede. Most of the victims were women and children who died from trampling or, after they fell or jumped into the Tigris River, from drowning.
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The New York Times
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| August 9, 2005 | - A suicide car bombing in Baghdad killed 4 people.
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BBC News
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| August 8, 2005 | - A suicide bomber detonated a bomb in Fuzhou, China, killing himself and and injuring over thirty people.
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BBC News
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| July 24, 2005 | - In Baghdad, a suicide truck bomb killed twenty-five more people.
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BBC News
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| July 18, 2005 | -
Suicide bombers killed at least 170 Iraqis, including twenty-six children who were waiting for American soldiers to give them candy.
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Washington Post
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| June 27, 2005 | - A suicide melon truck exploded in Mosul, killing six people and damaging many melons.
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The Australian
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| June 2, 2005 | -
Donald Rumsfeld said that he did not know how foreign suicide bombers were getting into Iraq.
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New York Daily News
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| May 4, 2005 | - A suicide bomber in Iraq killed sixty people at a police-recruitment center.
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BBC News
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| May 2, 2005 | - In Iraq at least one hundred Iraqis and eleven U.S. troops were killed in a span of four days. More than twenty car bombs were detonated, and in one case, a suicide bomber drove a car bomb into a Kurdish funeral tent, killing at least twenty-five people.
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Los Angeles Times
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| April 21, 2005 | - In Iraq, the bodies of fifty Shiite hostages, some mutilated or headless, were pulled from the Tigris river, and the bodies of nineteen Iraqi soldiers were found in a soccer stadium in the city of Haditha. A suicide bomber tried to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
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Los Angeles Times
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| April 21, 2005 | - In Tehran, around 400 Iranians signed up to become suicide bombers. “As a Muslim, it is my duty,” said a mother of two, “to sacrifice my life for oppressed Palestinian
children.”
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Reuters
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| April 18, 2005 | - Marla Ruzicka, an activist from California who made it her mission to count the number of civilian casualties in Iraq, was killed in Baghdad by a suicide bomber.
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Guardian
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| April 14, 2005 | - Two suicide car bombs blew up in central Baghdad, killing fifteen and injuring thirty.
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BBC News
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| March 16, 2005 | - As soldiers in Apache helicopters and Humvees kept watch, the National Assembly of Iraq held its first meeting. Two hundred and seventy-five members met at a convention center on the Tigris River while explosions rattled the convention center's windows. North of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed three members of the Iraqi National Guard and wounded eleven.
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The New York Times
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| March 10, 2005 | - A suicide bomber killed forty-seven at a Shiite funeral in Mosul.
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ABC News
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| March 9, 2005 | - In Iraq, a gunman opened fire on a minibus filled with people working for a Kuwaiti company, killing one and wounding three, and a garbage-truck suicide bomb killed three people and injured more than twenty.
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BBC News
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| February 28, 2005 | - A suicide bomber in Iraq killed over one hundred people as they stood waiting to join the Iraqi National Guard.
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New York Timesimes
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| February 28, 2005 | - A suicide bomber killed five in Tel Aviv. Israel blamed Syria, which hosts Islamic Jihad, for the attack. Syria handed over Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti, Saddam Hussein's half-brother, to Iraqi authorities.
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Economist
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| January 31, 2005 | - succeeded in carrying out nine suicide bombings, one of which was performed by a handicapped child.
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Associated Press
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| January 19, 2005 | - The day after he was sworn in as president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas asked militants to refrain from violence so as not to "provide excuses to Israel" to attack Palestinians. Two hours later a suicide bomber killed one Israeli and wounded seven, and Ariel Sharon ordered a new crackdown on factions in Gaza.
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New York Daily News
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| January 5, 2005 | - A suicide bomber killed twenty people at the Baghdad Police Academy,
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New York Times
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| December 21, 2004 | - A suicide bomber set off a bomb at a mess tent on a U.S. base in Mosul, killing 22 and wounding 69. Among the dead were 13 American soldiers and four employees and subcontractors of Halliburton. A spokeswoman for Halliburton called for a full investigation into the attack. South of Kirkuk, insurgents set an oil well on fire.
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AP
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| November 5, 2004 | - Three British soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing, and Doctors Without Borders announced that it will cease its operations in Iraq.
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New York Times
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| November 1, 2004 | - A teenage suicide bomber killed three people in Tel Aviv when he set off his explosives in a vegetable stall.
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Reuters
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| October 15, 2004 | - Two suicide bombers penetrated the Green Zone in Baghdad and killed five people.
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Washington Times
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| October 7, 2004 | - A suicide car bombing killed at least 39 people at a rally in central Pakistan.
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Reuters
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| October 2, 2004 | - A suicide bomber killed 23 people at a Shiite mosque in Sialkot, Pakistan.
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New York Times
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| September 30, 2004 | - In Baghdad, suicide bombs killed dozens of children who were gathering to receive candy from U.S. soldiers.
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BBC
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| September 18, 2004 | -
Chaos continued to rule Iraq; there were many attacks by insurgents, including several large suicide bombings, hostages were beheaded, and many civilians, including women and children, were killed in American airstrikes.
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New York Times
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| August 31, 2004 | - A suicide bomber blew herself up in a Moscow subway station, killing at least 10 people.
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Associated Press
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| August 31, 2004 | - Palestinian suicide bombers blew up two buses in Beersheba, killing 16 and wounding at least 80.
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Associated Press
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| August 28, 2004 | - Two Russian airliners were destroyed by suicide bombers.
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Guardian
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| July 17, 2004 | - Iraq's justice minister narrowly escaped when a suicide car bomber attacked a convoy in Baghdad.
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Reuters
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| July 8, 2004 | - A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed four policemen in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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New York Times
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| June 15, 2004 | -
Chaos continued to rule Iraq; a suicide bomber killed at least 13 people when he attacked a convoy of civilian contractors in Baghdad, whereupon a mob descended on the wreckage and set it on fire under the watchful eyes of Iraqi policemen; on the same day other bombs killed eight people.
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International Herald Tribune
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| May 17, 2004 | - A suicide bomber killed the president of Iraq's Governing Council.
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Washington Post
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| May 7, 2004 | - At least ten people died in a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Agence France-Presse
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| April 22, 2004 | -
Suicide attacks continued; in Basra dozens of people were killed, including more than 20 children who were on their way to school.
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New York Times
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| April 22, 2004 | -
Suicide bombers attacked a government building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and
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New York Times
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| March 14, 2004 | - Two suicide bombers killed eight people in Ashdod, Israel.
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Associated Press
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| February 23, 2004 | - A Palestinian
suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing 8 people, including two high school seniors.
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New York Times
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| February 2, 2004 | - At least 67 Iraqi Kurds were killed and 247 were wounded in another suicide bombing.
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Reuters
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| February 1, 2004 | - Three American soldiers were killed when a homemade bomb destroyed their Humvee, and nine Iraqis died when a suicide attacker drove a car into a police station.
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New York Times
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| January 30, 2004 | - In Jerusalem, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus, killing at least 11 people and spraying body parts into nearby buildings.
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Washington Post
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| January 29, 2004 | - A Canadian soldier was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan, as was a British peacekeeper.
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New York Times
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| January 28, 2004 | - In Iraq, a suicide bomber drove a car into a Baghdad hotel and killed three people.
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Reuters
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| January 17, 2004 | - The Israeli ambassador to Sweden attacked and damaged an artwork at the Historical Museum in Stockholm; the work, by an Israeli artist and his Swedish wife, consists of a portrait of Hanadi Jaradat, a Palestinian suicide bomber who killed 19 people at a cafe in Haifa, on a boat floating in a pool of red liquid. The ambassador ripped electrical wires out of the piece and threw a light into the pool.
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Reuters
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| December 28, 2003 | - Five Afghan soldiers died when a man they had detained blew himself up.
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Reuters
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| December 25, 2003 | - Four Israelis died in a bus-stop suicide bombing outside Tel Aviv, and
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Associated Press
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| December 14, 2003 | - A suicide car bomber blew up outside an Iraqi police station, killing at least 17 people; a gas truck exploded in the middle of Baghdad, and an American soldier died while trying to disarm a bomb.
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Christian Science Monitor
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| November 17, 2003 | -
Al Qaeda
suicide bombers blew up two synagogues in Istanbul.
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New York Times
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| November 13, 2003 | - Twenty-six people were killed in the car bombing of the Italian paramilitary headquarters in Nasiriya; seventeen Italian military policemen died along with nine Iraqis, including three ten-year-old schoolgirls who happened to be driving by in a minibus.
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New York Times, Nelson Report
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| November 10, 2003 | - A suicide car bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 17 people, including 5 children, in a housing compound inhabited by foreign workers. Al Qaeda was blamed for the attack.
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Associated Press
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| October 29, 2003 | - Trent Lott suggested that more U.S. troops be moved to the area around Tikrit. "Honestly, it's a little tougher than I thought it was going to be," he said. "If we have to, we just mow the whole place down, see what happens. You're dealing with insane suicide bombers who are killing our people, and we need to be very aggressive in taking them out."
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The Hill
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| October 25, 2003 | - Iraqi guerrillas using a homemade launching pad fired eight to ten rockets at the Al Rasheed hotel in Baghdad, where American officials have been staying since April. Some of the Americans were seen fleeing the luxury hotel in their pajamas and shorts; one of the missiles struck a floor just below Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, but he escaped unhurt. The following day, a suicide bomber driving an ambulance struck the offices of the International Red Cross in Baghdad; the bomb left a six-foot-deep crater and broke windows a mile away. Within 45 minutes, bombers struck four police stations in other neighborhoods; at least 34 died and more than 200 were injured in the attacks. "The more successful we are on the ground," said President Bush, "the more these killers will react."
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Associated Press
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| October 20, 2003 | -
Osama bin Laden released two new tapes and promised a new wave of suicide bombings.
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Voice of America
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| September 11, 2003 | - A suicide bomber struck in Kurdish Iraq, killing one child and wounding about 50 people.
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New York Times
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| September 10, 2003 | - A Palestinian
suicide bomber blew up a bus stop near Tel Aviv; another bomber exploded in front of a café in Jerusalem.
At least 13 people died in the attacks.
Israeli forces killed three men, two of whom were said to be Hamas leaders, and a twelve-year-old boy, who was hit by shrapnel.
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New York Times
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| August 21, 2003 | - Palestinians and Israelis were slaughtering one another again.
A Hamas suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing 20 people, six of whom were children, and wounding many more.
One nine-year-old boy who survived was blown out of the bus and landed on some dead babies.
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New York Times
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| August 20, 2003 | - A suicide bomber in a shiny new cement truck blew up the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad and killed 23 people, including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the U.N.
special representative in Iraq.
A pair of hands and a pair of feet, possibly those of the truck's driver, were found 150 yards from the wreckage.
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New York Times
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| August 15, 2003 | - The Middle East peace process continued as Israeli forces conducted a raid in Nablus, killing at least two Hamas members; Hamas retaliated with a suicide bombing, killing an Israeli settler.
The Al Aksa Martyrs brigade also carried out a bombing, killing one Israeli.
Israel killed an Islamic Jihad commander, and the group promised revenge attacks.
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New York Times
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| July 15, 2003 | - The Justice Department said that it will defy an order by a federal judge to allow Zacarias Moussaoui, who is being tried in connection with the September 11 attacks, to cross-examine a captured Al Qaeda member who is a witness in the case.
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New York Times
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| July 9, 2003 | - The federal commission investigating the September 11 attacks complained that the Justice Department and the Pentagon were not cooperating.
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New York Times
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| June 19, 2003 | - a suicide bomber blew up a grocery store in a small farming town in northern Israel, killing the owner.
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Deutsche Welle
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| May 19, 2003 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon cancelled a meeting with George W. Bush in response to a new round of suicide attacks and restated his long-standing position that Israel will make peace with the Palestinians only after there is peace with the Palestinians.
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New York Times
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| May 18, 2003 | - Forty-one people died in simultaneous suicide bombings in Casablanca, Morocco; the targets included a Jewish community center and the Casa de España club.
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New York Times
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| May 16, 2003 | - In Taipei, Taiwan, a man drove a truck containing 15 barrels of gasoline into the Ministry of Transport building, killing himself and setting the building on fire.
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New York Times
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| May 1, 2003 | - A suicide bomber, who turned out to be a British citizen, responded to the confirmation of Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister by blowing up a nightclub in Tel Aviv, leaving body parts scattered along the shore.
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| April 1, 2003 | -
Thousands of Muslims from all over the world were traveling to Iraq to fight against the American invasion; an Iraqi general claimed to have 4,000 volunteer suicide bombers from 23 Arab countries.
“This is a war for oil and Zionism,” said an Egyptian student volunteer.
“I want to help Iraqis, not Saddam.
I know I might die.
I don't want to kill people but I will if I have to, to protect people like those children with their heads missing.”
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| April 1, 2003 | -
Palestinian Islamic Jihad said it had sent suicide bombers to Baghdad “to fulfill the holy duty of defending Arab and Muslim land.” One hundred fifty thousand Moroccans demonstrated against the war, chanting “suicide attacks lead to freedom,” and there were reports that the Moroccan government had offered to send 2,000 monkeys to Iraq to help clear land mines.
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| April 1, 2003 | -
A Palestinian exploded in Netanya, Israel, and wounded three dozen people.
Islamic Jihad said the attack was a gift to the Iraqi people.
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| March 18, 2003 | -
Tom Ridge, the secretary of “homeland” security, declared that suicide bombings in the United States are “inevitable.” An Israeli soldier killed an American girl who knelt down in front of his bulldozer to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home; Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old from Olympia, Washington, was wearing a bright orange jacket and was shouting at the driver with a bullhorn before she went down on her knees.
The bulldozer kept on rolling, crushing her to death.
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| March 11, 2003 | -
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus in Haifa, Israel, killing 15 people, including young children on their way home from school.
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| January 7, 2003 | -
Two suicide bombers struck in Tel Aviv, killing 23 people and wounding 100; body parts were scattered throughout the area and the injured left trails of blood as they fled.
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| December 31, 2002 | -
Suicide bombers attacked the headquarters of Chechnya's pro-Russian government, killing more than 50 people.
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| December 3, 2002 | -
Terrorists attacked Israelis in Kenya: a shoulder-fired missile just missed a passenger jet on its way to Tel Aviv, and suicide bombers blew up the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel in Mombasa, killing 13. “It was just like being back home,” said one survivor. “It really was.”
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| November 12, 2002 | -
A suicide bomber killed two people at an Israeli mall.
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| October 29, 2002 | -
Another suicide bomber killed three people after he was shot by soldiers at a gas station. A reporter at the scene noticed that a cell phone was ringing in a dead soldier's pocket.
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| September 24, 2002 | -
A suicide bomber killed an Israeli soldier, and another blew up a bus in Tel Aviv, killing five.
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| September 17, 2002 | -
An Israeli Arab who had been indicted but not convicted of helping a suicide bomber was stripped of his Israeli citizenship.
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| August 6, 2002 | -
A teenage suicide bomber killed himself and injured five others at a falafel stand in Jerusalem.
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| August 6, 2002 | -
Israel demolished several homes belonging to relatives of past suicide bombers in an attempt, officials said, to deter future attacks.
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| July 23, 2002 | -
After a month of relative calm, a new wave of Palestinian suicide bombings struck Israel.
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| July 16, 2002 | -
Israeli authorities shut down the office of Sari Nusseibeh, the leading Palestinian moderate, and seized all his files; Nusseibeh, the president of Al Quds University in East Jerusalem, has called on Palestinians to stop suicide bombings and to renounce their claim to a right of return for refugees.
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| June 11, 2002 | -
A Palestinian suicide bomber attacked a bus in northern Israel and killed 17 people, including 13 soldiers; in retaliation, Israeli forces attacked Yasir Arafat's headquarters, and a tank fired a shell through his bathroom wall.
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| May 28, 2002 | -
Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, predicted that suicide bombing attacks in America are “inevitable.” Other officials, including the vice president and the secretary of defense, also warned of vague, unspecified threats.
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| May 28, 2002 | -
Israel suffered a number of suicide bombings and prevented several more.
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| May 21, 2002 | -
In 1999 that confession and other information led to a widely distributed intelligence analysis by the Library of Congress warning that “suicide bomber(s) belonging to Al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency or the White House.” Vice President Dick Cheney warned that a new Al Qaeda attack on the United States was “almost certain.” A trucking industry group offered the services of the nation's truckers in the war on terrorism.
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| May 21, 2002 | -
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded market in Netanya, Israel, killing two and wounding at least 50 people, including a number of young children.
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| May 14, 2002 | -
Hamas carried out a suicide bombing near Tel Aviv, killing 15 people.
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| April 23, 2002 | -
“However just the cause is, there are illegitimate means, and the means that have been used here are illegitimate and morally repugnant.” A Palestinian suicide bomber attacked a military checkpoint in the Gaza strip.
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| April 9, 2002 | -
Israel's transportation minister proposed deporting the parents, brothers, sisters, wives, and children of suicide bombers.
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| April 9, 2002 | -
A Palestinian transplant patient received the kidneys of a Jewish woman who was killed by a suicide bomber.
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| April 2, 2002 | -
Palestinian militants carried out five suicide bombings in Israel, one of which was an attack on a Passover seder, and killed at least 44 Israelis.
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| March 19, 2002 | -
In the meantime, a special envoy was sent to Israel to make peace between Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat after a week of suicide bombings and other violence in which scores were killed, including a Palestinian woman and her four children when a bomb exploded near their donkey cart.
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| March 12, 2002 | -
The carnage continued in Palestine: There were several suicide bombings, with the usual Israeli counterattacks, and civilian casualties were heavy on both sides.
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| December 18, 2001 | - The White House announced that the anthrax used in recent mail attacks probably originated in the United States; Army officials confirmed that the bacteria was a genetic match with anthrax in the Army's stockpile but pointed out that their supply had come from the Agriculture Department.
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| December 11, 2001 | - Bandits in Afghanistan stopped a bus and cut off the ears and noses of six men who had shaved their beards.
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| December 4, 2001 | -
Hamas proved that it still has the power to prevent such negotiations by sending a wave of suicide bombers into Israel, which culminated in a double bombing on a crowded Jerusalem street that left at least 10 people dead.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Former FBI director William Webster said that long-term surveillance and undercover operations were much more effective than mass arrests and led to 131 prevented terrorist
attacks between 1981 and 2000.
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| November 27, 2001 | - Yaakov Levy, an Israeli delegate, told the committee that a “close reading” of the 1987 Convention Against Torture, which Israel signed, “clearly suggests that pain and suffering, in themselves, do not necessarily constitute torture.” An Israeli death squad killed a Hamas leader in the West Bank who was suspected of planning suicide attacks.
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| November 27, 2001 | - A 22-year-old Palestinian
suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint, injuring two Israeli border guards.
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| November 27, 2001 | -
Spain announced that it would not extradite eight men who were arrested for participating in the September 11
attacks unless the United States agreed to give them a civilian trial; the military courts envisioned by the Bush Administration would violate the European Convention on Human Rights.
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| November 13, 2001 | - The government said it would no longer issue a running tally of the number of people arrested in its investigation of the September 11
attacks.
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Osama bin Laden told a Pakistani newspaper that he didn't know anything about the anthrax
attacks in the United States.
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| November 6, 2001 | -
Democrats and Republican moderates said they were more concerned about preventing terrorist
attacks.
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| November 6, 2001 | - In October, 415,000 Americans lost their jobs, one quarter of which were attributed to the September 11
attacks.
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| October 23, 2001 | - Credit cards belonging to the September 11
suicide bombers were still being used, authorities said.
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| October 16, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been hiding out in an undisclosed location, observed that there might be a connection between the anthrax cases and the September 11
attacks.
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| October 16, 2001 | -
President Bush was still trying to exploit the terrorist
attacks as an excuse to drill for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge.
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| October 9, 2001 | - The director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which was created by the 1997 treaty that bans such weapons, complained that he didn't have enough money in his budget to make even basic preparations to respond to chemical attacks by terrorists.
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| September 18, 2001 | - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer noted that missile defense and the terrorist
attacks were unconnected: “The United States still faces risks of many natures. This was a terrorist risk that was carried out in a different form of delivery, within our borders. But that does not mean there are not other threats out there that also need to be addressed, per missile defense.”
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| September 13, 2001 | - One thousand prostitutes marched in Calcutta to condemn the attacks and kindly offered to donate their blood.
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| September 11, 2001 | - A Palestinian
suicide bomber disguised as an ultra-Orthodox Jew smiled out of the corner of his mouth and blew himself up on the Street of the Prophets in Jerusalem, wounding 20 people. It was the fifth bomb to go off in Jerusalem that day. Other bombers had better luck and succeeded in killing innocent people.
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| September 4, 2001 | - American officials pointed out that such extrajudicial killings tend only to inspire suicide bombers.
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| August 14, 2001 | -
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in a Sbarro restaurant in downtown Jerusalem; at least 18 people, including 6 children, were killed.
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| August 14, 2001 | - Another suicide bomber injured about 20 people in Haifa.
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| July 31, 2001 | - A watermelon rigged with a bomb inside was left on an Israeli
bus; the fruit was detonated safely.
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| June 26, 2001 | -
Killings continued in Israel and Palestine despite the cease-fire; among those murdered were two Israeli soldiers, who were lured into a trap by a suicide bomber, and a Palestinian man who was thought to be “moving suspiciously” and ran when challenged by soldiers, who shot him in the back.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing, decided to ask for a stay of execution; his lawyer said that “the most important thing in his life is to help bring integrity to the criminal justice system.” In Israel, a Palestinian
suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded sidewalk outside a beachside nightclub frequented by teenagers, killing at least 20 and wounding almost 100.
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| May 22, 2001 | - The Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot observed that “only a revenge-seeking fool could believe that eliminations and missile fire, the demolition of neighborhoods, the killing of soldiers and civilians and the destruction of homes could restore personal calm and security.” A Palestinian
suicide bomber killed ten Israelis and wounded 100 others at a shopping mall; Israel responded with F-16 air strikes.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Terrorism
attacks were up last year, according to a new report.
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| March 20, 2001 | - Khalid Abu Elba, the Palestinian
bus driver who ran down and killed eight Israelis at a bus stop last month, testified in court. “I am not sorry,” he announced. Israel relaxed the blockade of the West Bank town of Ramallah, changing it, in the official jargon, from a “suffocating blockade” to a “breathing blockade.”
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| March 13, 2001 | -
China's prime minister denied that the eighth graders were making fireworks and claimed instead that a crazed suicide bomber had caused the explosion.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
Hamas announced a new campaign of suicide bombings to welcome Ariel Sharon's new government.
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| March 6, 2001 | - A Palestinian
suicide bomber killed himself and three elderly Israeli women and injured many others in Netanya. A mob immediately tried to lynch an Arab bystander; police arrived just as they were about to hitch the unconscious man to a truck and drag him through the marketplace.
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| February 27, 2001 | - Okinawa City's assembly demanded a curfew for American troops stationed there after a series of sexual attacks by soldiers.
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| February 27, 2001 | - Subcommander Marcos and twenty-three other Zapatista fighters were traveling to Mexico City in a bus convoy as federal police cars and cheering crowds lined the Panamerican Highway.
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| February 20, 2001 | - A Palestinian
bus driver ran down a crowd of Israelis at a bus stop, killing eight.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
Islamic rebels in Algeria murdered three men, twelve women, and twelve children in their homes; a new book published in France claims that similar attacks have been carried out by soldiers disguised as rebels.
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| January 23, 2001 | - A sixteen-year-old Montreal hacker called Mafiaboy pled guilty to charges stemming from a series of major attacks on commercial websites last year; the FBI claimed Mafiaboy caused $1.7 billion in damages.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Terrorists bombed a school
bus filled with children of Israeli settlers; two adults were killed and several children were dismembered.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Israeli
defense forces responded to terrorist
attacks with bombs of their own, killing several adults and dismembering at least one child.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Attacks on Canadian Jews were increasing.
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| November 21, 2000 | - Montreal experienced a series of egg and paint attacks against stores displaying Christmas decorations; responsibility was claimed by a group called No Christmas Before Its Time.
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