Posts Tagged ‘Bomber’

Suicide bomber kills 13 Americans in Afghanistan (AP)

US soldiers walk at the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed. In the background is the palace of former Afghan King Darul Aman which was destroyed during the civil war (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP – A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a van into an armored NATO bus Saturday, killing 13 American troops and four Afghans on a busy street in Kabul in the deadliest attack on coalition forces in more than two months and a major setback for the U.S.-led coalition as it begins to draw down combat troops.


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Suicide bomber kills former Afghan president (AP)

FILE - In this Oct.14, 2010, file photo, former Afghan President and chief of a new peace council Burhanuddin Rabbani holds a press conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two Afghan government sources said Tuesday Sept. 20, 2011 that  Rabbani has been killed in the capital Kabul.  (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, file)AP – A suicide attacker with a bomb in his turban posed as a Taliban peace envoy and assassinated a former Afghan president who for the past year headed a government council seeking a political settlement with the insurgents.


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Suicide bomber kills head of Afghan peace council (AP)

FILE - In this Oct.14, 2010, file photo, former Afghan President and chief of a new peace council Burhanuddin Rabbani holds a press conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two Afghan government sources said Tuesday Sept. 20, 2011 that  Rabbani has been killed in the capital Kabul.  (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, file)AP – A suicide bomber posing as a Taliban peace envoy assassinated a former Afghan president who for the past year headed a government council trying to negotiate a political settlement with the insurgents.


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Turban bomber kills ex-Afghan President Rabbani (AP)

FILE - In this Oct.14, 2010, file photo, former Afghan President and chief of a new peace council Burhanuddin Rabbani holds a press conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two Afghan government sources said Tuesday Sept. 20, 2011 that  Rabbani has been killed in the capital Kabul.  (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, file)AP – A suicide bomber hiding explosives in his turban assassinated former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who headed a government peace council trying to cultivate contacts with Taliban insurgents. Four of Rabbani’s bodyguards also died and a key presidential adviser was wounded in the attack at Rabbani’s Kabul home Tuesday.


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Suicide bomber kills ex-Afghan President Rabbani (AP)

FILE - In this Oct.14, 2010, file photo, former Afghan President and chief of a new peace council Burhanuddin Rabbani holds a press conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two Afghan government sources said Tuesday Sept. 20, 2011 that  Rabbani has been killed in the capital Kabul.  (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, file)AP – Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who headed a government peace council set up to facilitate contacts with Taliban insurgents, was assassinated Tuesday by a suicide bomber concealing explosives in his turban, officials said. Four of Rabbani’s bodyguards also died and a key presidential adviser was wounded.


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Lockerbie bomber is near death, brother says (AP)

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2009 file photo, Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, gestures on his arrival in Tripoli, Libya. The Libyan rebels' interim government says it will not deport the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. The rebel Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi told journalists in Tripoli Sunday that no Libyan citizen would be deported, even Abdel-Baset al-Megrahi, who was convicted in a Scottish court and imprisoned for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people, but then released due to sickness.(AP Photo, File)AP – The Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is near death and slipping in and out of consciousness, his brother said Monday, insisting he should not return to prison for the 1998 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people.


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Libya won’t turn over Lockerbie bomber

Libya’s rebels won’t hand over the Lockerbie bomber.

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