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Civilian deaths rose slightly in August as a huge suicide attack in the north two weeks ago offset security gains elsewhere, making it the second deadliest month for Iraqis since the U.S. troop buildup began, according to figures compiled Saturday by The Associated Press. U.S. deaths remained well below figures from last winter when the U.S began dispatching 30,000 additional troops to Iraq.

HANOVER, Germany, March 29 (UPI) -- With uncharacteristic bluntness, top Christian clerics in Europe are criticizing Muslim leaders for not censuring suicide attacks unequivocally. "We appeal to our fellow Muslim citizens and their organizations to speak up, in the name of their Islamic faith, against suicide attacks and deny them their religious legitimization," the governing council of the state-related Evangelical (Protestant) Church in Germany, or EKD, said Monday. Echoing an earlier statement by the Vatican, the EKD scolded "Palestinian terrorists" for "recruiting children with deceptive promises to commit suicide bombings." Earlier, George Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, attacked the...

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Palestinians Support Suicide Bombing By Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research PSR | October 20, 2003 With Yasser Arafat's popularity reaching its highest level in five years, three-quarters of Palestinians support the Haifa restaurant suicide bombing. Another two-thirds believe the Road Map is dead. Despite that, 85 percent of Palestinians support a mutual cessation of violence. Two-thirds support a return to "husna" (truce) and 59 percent support taking action against those who would violate a ceasefire. October 7-14,2003 The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in Ramallah has conducted a public opinion poll in the West Bank...

In the ancient land now called Iraq, the Bible describes how a group of people came together to build a city with an immense tower that would reach to heaven. Work on this great temple-tower, or ziggurat, was well under way when God confounded the tongues of the people so they did not understand one another's speech. Unable to make sense from their attempts to communicate, the people of that early Babylonian enterprise, according to Genesis 11: 1-9, scattered throughout the world. The descendants of those people who constructed the Tower of Babel have regrouped in the United Nations. They...

Suicide bomb attack came as unpleasant surprise FdL Marine hopes to regain use of leg, hand A Fond du Lac native injured by shrapnel in a suicide bombing near Baghdad will spend several weeks recuperating locally with his family. Cpl. Brian Wilcox, 23, who is with the First Marine Division based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., is hoping he’ll regain the use of his right leg and hand, which were among areas sprayed with bits of shrapnel when the suicide bomber’s device exploded. Wilcox is exercising his limbs while regaining his strength with rest and steady meals. “The (Iraqi) civilians were...

TERRORISM: Syrian Suicide Bombers in Turkey April 20, 2003: Turkey reported a suicide bomb attack in Silopi yesterday. Turkish security personnel arrested a second would-be suicide bomber. There were no reports of casualties. A subsequent report said both of the suicide bombers were Syrians. This is highly unusual, as the Turks have long made it clear to the Syrians that the Turkish army would move south into Syria if the Syrians supported any kind of terrorist activity in Turkey. This is the traditional relationship between the Syrians and Turks and no Syrian has ever advocated trying to take on the...

Apr. 12, 2003 US Marines discover cache of suicide vests in Baghdad school By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq US Marines have discovered an enormous cache of suicide bomb vests hidden in a school in a residential neighborhood of central Baghdad. The black leather vests with wires running along them weighed about 8 kilograms (20 pounds) and were filled with long rectangular blocks of C4 plastic explosive and hundreds of ball bearings. The cache was discovered on Thursday and reporters were shown the site on Saturday. The Marines found the 50 vests, on hangers and sealed in plastic, arranged in...

  A SUICIDE bomber gave himself up outside a Royal Marines base yesterday after abandoning his mission to detonate six hand grenades in his pockets.A suspected Iraqi special operations unit kidnapped the 52-year-old man and threatened to shoot him unless he walked up to 40 Commando's HQ in a Basra suburb and blew himself up.They told him British troops were sure to execute him if he tried to turn himself in, he told the Daily Mirror.But after walking to the base he decided to take his chances and surrender.Two sentries aimed their SA80 rifles at him as he walked...

They carried the bodies of the children out first. There was a girl of about 12, whom the Marines wrapped in her black abaya cloak.Next off the shattered minibus was her brother, a boy of about four, whom the Marines covered in a sports jacket. A sister, about six years old, had fallen between the seats. They placed her beside her siblings on a blanket.The children's mother and grandfather also died on the bus late Friday night when they failed to stop at a Marine roadblock while fleeing Baghdad. Four other Iraqis also died trying to speed past in other...

About 30 minutes after a suicide bomber killed four soldiers from the 2-7 Mechanized Infantry Battalion, Operations Officer Maj. Rod Coffey stood before the maps lying on the table of the battalion operation tent absentmindedly but violently smashing his plastic water bottle on the table. Coffey managed the front-rear coordination of the operation to secure the checkpoint on Highway 9 that had just been attacked and to retrieve the soldiers' bodies. During each radio contact with the units concerned ambulances, logistics, company commanders Coffey would speak quietly and calmly while violently smashing the bottle on the table again and again....

CAIRO, April 5 (Reuters) - Egypt's top Islamic cleric gave his blessing on Saturday to volunteers wishing to help Iraqis in the war against U.S. and British forces, but blamed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for the conflict. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, the state-appointed grand sheikh of al-Azhar mosque and university in Cairo, said the war on Iraq was an attack on all Arab countries, but added that Saddam could have avoided it by going into exile. "Whoever wants to go to Iraq to support the Iraqi people, the door is open, and I say the door for Jihad (holy struggle) is...

NEAR BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber has attacked U.S. army soldiers at Baghdad international airport, a U.S. Marine gunnery sergeant told Reuters on Saturday. There was no immediate word on casualties from the attack. Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf threatened on Friday a "non-conventional" act against U.S.-led forces who have seized Baghdad airport, and hinted at suicide attacks while ruling out use of weapons of mass destruction. An apparent suicide car bomb killed three soldiers, a pregnant woman and the driver of the car at a checkpoint northwest of Baghdad in the night from Thursday to Friday....

A suicide bomber has attacked US soldiers at Baghdad Airport, according to the US military. More to follow...

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar (AP) -- Iraqi television on Friday broadcast statements by two Iraqi women it said blew themselves up in an attack on U.S. forces, apparently in the blast that killed three American soldiers in western Iraq. U.S. military officials said Friday that one of the women was pregnant; they said it was impossible to know if she voluntarily took part in the attack. The attack happened Thursday night about 10 miles southwest of the Haditha Dam when a car exploded at a U.S. checkpoint. The site is northwest of Baghdad and about 80 miles east of the...

Iraq's state news agency has claimed two Iraqi women carried out a suicide attack on US forces north-west of Baghdad. The claim appeared to refer to a blast hours earlier at a checkpoint that killed three coalition soldiers, a pregnant woman and the car's driver. Arabic satellite station Al-Jazeera later carried videos of two women vowing to commit suicide attacks. It did not specify if the two were involved in the explosion earlier in the day, but it broadcast their statements immediately after mentioning the Iraqi news agency report. US Central Command said the car exploded at a US special...

TROOPS KILLED BY CAR BOMB Three Coaltion soldiers and a pregnant woman have been killed in a suspected suicide bombing at a checkpoint in Iraq, US officials say. A US Central Command spokesman said a car exploded at the checkpoint. The driver also died. They said it appeared to be a suicide attack. More follows . . . Last Updated: 13:32 UK, Friday April 04, 2003

<p>A. Suicide bombings gained fame and became more lethal in the early 1980s in Lebanon, according to the military affairs journal, Jane's Terrorism and Security Monitor.</p> <p>On Oct. 23, 1982, a truck loaded with 5,000 pounds of explosives rammed into U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 service members.</p>

CAIRO -- Many Arabs hailed Saturday's suicide attack on U.S. soldiers in Iraq as an act of martyrdom yesterday, underlining the stark difference between Arab views of that most desperate of tactics and sentiment in the West. In Rabat, Morocco, a crowd of 150,000 marched in an anti-American protest, many of them chanting, "Martyr attacks lead to freedom." Cairo's Egyptian Gazette ran a headline describing the Iraqi attacker as a "martyr bomber." The militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad said it was sending "martyrdom seekers" to Iraq.Four U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division were killed Saturday when a bomb was...

THE SAS has arrested four busloads of suspected suicide bombers and would-be fighters in Iraq’s western desert. The men, who are being held as prisoners of war, came from various Arab countries but all carried Syrian passports. They are thought to be among thousands of Arab zealots making their way to the battle front. Syria has issued about 2,000 passports to people volunteering to fight for President Saddam Hussein in recent weeks, raising serious concerns in Britain and America, which suspects Damascus of smuggling war supplies to Iraq. The coalition is to protest to the Syrians. Syrian officials have made...