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A widening investigation into allegations of high-level corruption on the island of Malta, first levelled by murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, stretches to China and a $400 million investment into Europe by a Chinese state power company, Reuters has found. Caruana Galizia was murdered in October 2017 as she investigated a web of companies that she believed were funneling bribes to Maltese politicians. Now, Reuters and a consortium of journalists have traced two firms involved in that web to relatives of a senior Chinese executive for Accenture, the global consultancy firm. The executive, 43-year-old Chen Cheng from Shanghai, negotiated investments...

Anthony Quinn Warner is a 63-year-old Tennessee man who has been named as the person of interest accused in the explosion of a parked RV in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, according to CBS News. An RV similar to the one used in the Nashville bombing was once parked at an address linked to his name in images available on both Google Maps and Google Earth. Jeff Pegues, a CBS News journalist, wrote on Twitter, “@CBSNews has learned the name of a person of interest tied to the explosion that rocked #Nashville on #Christmas Day. Multiple sources tell us that...

BREAKING: Flights out of Nashville airport have been halted due to telecommunications issues associated with explosion downtown. Police say an RV exploded outside a building housing AT&T network equipment. 911 systems up to 180 miles away were knocked out

New Delhi, Jun 24: With no word from Tehran yet, India is all set to send legal request letters to four nations including Iran seeking help in its probe into the bombing of an Israeli embassy’s vehicle here in February. Official sources said today that Letters Rogatory for Iran, Malaysia, Thailand and Georgia has been sent to Union Home Ministry for vetting after which it would sent to Legals and Treaty Division of Ministry of External Affairs to be sent to these respective countries. The sources said Iran had been earlier requested through diplomatic channels for help in tracing Houshang...

Are the NYT's and James Risen at fault here? Investigators of the failed car bombing in Times Square are looking for a money courier they say helped funnel cash from overseas to finance a Pakistani-American's preparations to blow up the crude gasoline-and-propane bomb in the heart of New York, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Investigators have the name of the courier they believe helped Faisal Shahzad pay for the used SUV and other materials to rig up a car bomb that would have caused a huge fireball in Times Square if it had gone off, the official...

Lawmaker arrested for alleged murder of mistress 2007-7-16 A CHINESE lawmaker has been arrested in connection with the murder of his mistress with a car bomb earlier this month. Duan Yihe, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Jinan Municipal People's Congress, is alleged to have hired his nephew-in-law, a Jinan policeman, to plant the car bomb that killed Liu Haiping on July 9, according to a source with the Shandong Provincial Public Security Department. Police found remnants of the bomb in Liu's car after the blast, which killed her on the spot and also engulfed a nearby taxi in...

Explosion killed five in JiNanBy BoxunJul 11, 2007 - 8:57:22 AM At 5;30pm, July 9, Beijing Time, JiNan, capital city of Shandong Province, a car explosion killed at least five, according to a statement by witness. Boxun just released all the pictures received today.The witness said police grabbed a camera from a lady who took photos and smashed it. One reporter lost the tape and was forced to leave. Media have received order “not report this incident”.Witness said that at least five killed, it was from explosive not gas tank explosion. The license plate started “Lu0”, i.e. it is...

BAGHDAD - Leaders of a car-bombing ring believed responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Iraqis in the Shiite Sadr City enclave and elsewhere in Baghdad have been captured, the U.S. military said on Monday. The suspected bombers were rounded up last week by American forces during continuing security sweeps in Azamiyah, the Sunni stronghold in northern Baghdad, the military statement said. The U.S. command said one of the detained men, Haitham al-Shimari, was suspected in the "planning and execution of the majority of car bombs which have killed hundreds of Iraqi citizens in Sadr City." The reported "second-in-command" of...

Six car bombs exploded at dusk on Sunday in four crowded markets in a Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, and an Interior Ministry official and witnesses said the bombs killed at least 46 people, wounded more than 200 others and spurred Shiite militiamen to take to the streets. The powerful blasts set vehicles aflame in the Sadr City neighborhood and scattered body parts across city blocks. In the gathering darkness, with ambulances wailing through the streets, black-clad militiamen loyal to the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr raced among the debris and set up checkpoints. Firemen aimed their hoses at charred metal...

Foreign Al Qaeda militants waging a campaign of suicide car bombings in Iraq plan to send some fighters home in preparation for similar operations in their own countries, the Iraqi interior minister said. Interior Minister Bayan Jabor said documents found with Abu Azzam, said to be a lieutenant of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted man in Iraq, signalled a plan to send foreign Arab Sunni militants back home to widen the battlefield beyond Iraq. "We got hold of a very important letter from Abu Azzam to Zarqawi asking him to begin to move a number of Arab fighters to the countries they came...

Why the Car Bomb is King in Iraq by James Dunnigan June 26, 2005 Discussion Board on this DLS topic In Iraq, car bombs are becoming the principal, and most popular, weapon of the terrorists, In May there were 143 car bomb attacks (both suicide and remotely detonated), up from 145 in April, 69 in March, and an average of 20-25 a month for the year before that. The bombs are getting larger, and more often composed of explosives, and not 152mm artillery shells, or 120mm mortar shells, rigged with detonators. The larger, all explosives, bombs are more likely to...

BAGHDAD The Iraqi government announced Sunday it had arrested a suspected member of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s al-Qaida in Iraq, a man it claimed was responsible for building car bombs and carrying out more than 60 bombings around the capital. Musaab Kasser Abdul Rahman Hassan, known as Abu Younis, was arrested on May 26 during an operation in Baghdad, the government said in a statement. “The terrorist Abu Younis is one of the extremists who has close ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and is the mastermind of more than 60 terrorist attacks in Baghdad, targeting governmental officials and Iraqi army and...

... Continuing violence during the past days has claimed the lives of at least four children, two US soldiers and a Sunni Muslim cleric, underscoring the rampant, random nature of an insurgency that has killed at least 810 people since the April 28 announcement of Iraq’s new Shiite-led government. ... A new online posting purportedly by the al Qaida group in Iraq has declared the creation of a new cell of suicide bombers called the “al-Bara bin Malek Brigade,” and claimed it has already carried out a number of unspecified attacks. It wasn’t possible to verify the authenticity of the...

Three Suicide Bombings In Iraq Kill 17 Associated Press June 2, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three suicide car bombings killed 17 people in northern Iraq on Thursday, including a top municipal council leader and a bodyguard of Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister, police said. Continuing violence during the past days has also claimed the lives of three children, a U.S. soldier and a Sunni Muslim cleric, underscoring the rampant, random nature of an insurgency that has killed more than 780 people since the April 28 announcement of Iraq's new Shiite-led government. At least 10 people were killed and 40 wounded...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three suicide car bombings struck within an hour and two parked motorcycles exploded in northern Iraq on Thursday, while gunmen in speeding cars opened fire on a crowded market in Baghdad in a wave of attacks that killed at least 38 Iraqis.

Iraqi police hurled insults at US soldiers after two suicide car bomb blasts in Baghdad killed at least seven people and left 19 wounded, including policemen. "It's all because you're here," a policeman shouted in Arabic at a group of US soldiers after the latest in a bloody wave of attacks that have rocked Baghdad this month. "Get out of our country and there will be no more explosions," he told the uncomprehending Americans staring at the smouldering wreck of a car bomb. The explosion wounded three policemen as they stood guard at the entrance to the River Police compound...

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who founded a humanitarian group to aid civilian casualties in Iraq has died in a car bombing in Baghdad, officials said Sunday. Marla Ruzicka, founder of Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, died Saturday in the blast, which also killed an Iraqi and another foreigner, officials said. She had been in Iraq conducting door-to-door surveys trying to determine the number of civilian casualties in the country. Ruzicka, 28, founded CIVIC in 2003 to "mitigate the impact of the conflict and its aftermath on the people of Iraq by ensuring that timely and effective life-saving assistance...

All was pretty quiet in Iraq for most of last week. But Saturday, after Terrorists prayed in Mosques on Friday, was the day for Terrorists to start a series of car bombings. There are lives that might be saved if INTELS outsmart me and the TERRORISTS at this point -- it seems there could be things done. Also, the military leadership in Iraq could be taking Counter-Measures for the weekend. I hope our INTELS are awake. This also continued somewhat into Sunday -- a little as I remember. Or maybe the information was just able to get to the US...

We are reeling from the most frontal terrorist act in our recent history. Because this is what the assassination by a bomb in the car of Danilo Anderson, prosecutor extraordinaire, is. Of course it is too early to draw any conclusion as to whom, and why, though people interested in such a death and benefiting from it are scores, from all sides, from here and abroad. Perhaps a little listing might help.