Posts Tagged ‘Bomber’
Suicide bomber kills 13 Americans in Afghanistan (AP)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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