A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives-laden vest killing at least 43 people at an aid distribution center in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday.
The female suicide bomber dressed in a Burqa tossed grenades at police before she got close to a crowd of people and blew herself up. The explosion occurred in Khar, the main town of lawless Bajaur tribal district, once a stronghold of Taliban militants.
There are three main tribes in Bajaur: Utman Khel, Tarkalanri, and Mamund. The largest tribe is Utman Khel, judged by population or territory. The Utman Khel are at the southeast of Bajaur, while Mamund are at the southwest, and the Tarkani are at the north of Bajaur. Its border with Afghanistan’s Kunar province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistan and the region.
Three people were killed and 36 were injured in back-to-back explosions in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday
The blasts occurred on points on a road only 200 meters apart in the capital city Mehtar Lam of Laghman province. NATO troops and police frequently travel on the road where the attacks are suspected of being the result of bicycle-riding suicide bombers.
The first suspected suicide bomber detonated near a public hospital and a police post around 9:30 a.m. (12:30 a.m. ET). Three civilians were killed and 25 people were injured, including one police officer.
The second alleged suicide attack injured 11 civilians.
Two female suicide bombers detonated blasts during morning rush hour in central Moscow. The first explosion was at the Lubyanka metro station near the headquarters of the Russian State Security Service FSB (Federal Security Service), formerly known as the Soviet KGB. The second blast came 40 minutes later at the Park Kultury station near Gorky Amusement Park.
A suicide bomber has attacked a police building in Lahore used to interrrogate suspects. At least 15 people were killed and at least 70 injured in Monday’s blast. Women were among the wounded. The Taliban in Pakistan has claimed responsibility. The attack on the Special Intelligence Agency (SIA) office in Model Town on Monday is the first terrorist attack in the city in 2010.
Suicide bomb blast in Lahore — the second largest city in Pakistan.
AP VIDEO: At least 32 people were killed by a triple suicide bombing northeast of the Iraqi capital. The blasts in Baqouba, including one at the emergency hospital, come days ahead of key elections.
Suicide bombers attacked two police stations and a hospital Wednesday in Baqubah, Iraq, killing at least 32 people. Bombings to disrupt upcoming elections are anticipated, and this attack on security forces who guard the polling stations on Sunday, confirms those suspicions.
Two suicide bombers struck almost simultaneously at police stations in the center of the city. As emergency workers were transporting the wounded in ambulances, another suicide bomber detonated a vest rigged with explosives at the gates of the hospital, injuring and killing more. Twelve policemen were among those killed.
Defne Bayrak, the wife of double agent Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who killed seven CIA officers in a suicide attack at FOB Chapman, Afghanistan, said on Thursday that her husband regarded the United States as an enemy and she was proud of his mission.
“I am proud of my husband. He has carried out a very important mission in such a war”
– Defne Bayrak, who now lives in Istanbul
Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi blew himself up inside a gym in Forward Operating base Chapman in Khost province in southeast Pakistan.
A suicide bomber targeted pro-government militia commander Nasir Paray and detonated his suicide bomb vest in a southeastern provincial capital, Gardez of Patkia Province on Thursday, Ten people (including the commander and 4 childeren) were killed and 27 people (mostly civilians) were injured about 50 miles south Kabul.
JAN 05 2010 — US intelligence sources named the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA agents and a Jordanian intelligence officer at a secret CIA facility at Forward Operation Base Chapman in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, 2009 as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, 36, a Jordanian medical doctor. Read the full story
Villagers watching a volleyball match between two village teams were killed and injured when a suicide bomber drove a vehicle into the crowd and detonated a bomb. The bomb was possibly retaliation for a militia that was set up to expel Taliban militants. The bomb killed at least 96 people.
WED DEC 30 2009 — Eight American civilians killed in a suicide attack at Forward Operating Base Chapman military base in Afghanistan’s southeastern Khost province. Some or all of the civilians were CIA agents or contractors. Bomber was an informant invited onto base that blew himself up in a gym.
UNVERIFIED UPDATE: Taliban claimed responsibility late Wednesday. Read the full story
