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Allaoui has escaped with an attempted murder BAGHDAD - Iraqi the Prime Minister outgoing Iyad Allaoui has escaped Wednesday evening with an attempted murder when a booby-trapped car exploded in the passing of its convoy in Baghdad killing two police officers, declared with AFP his spokesman Thaër Al-Naqib. "Mr. Allaoui took part in an important meeting on the composition of the government and returned at his place when a kamikaze exploded himself close to the convoy whereas it approached the driving stopping" to the headquarters of his party, Mr. Naqib affirmed. "God thank you, the Prime Minister is healthy...

The Condemned man has rammed the American motorcade [PHOTO] On Monday it became known about the new act of terrorism accomplished in the north of Iraq. As the broadcasting company of NTV transfers, on the eve in the evening on highway in suburb of Mosul the condemned man by the mined machine has rammed a motorcade of army of the USA. According to eyewitnesses, explosion was audible in several kilometers from a place of act of terrorism. On road have remained huge voronka and a burning skeleton of the car. On quantity of victims till now it is not...

RAMADI, Iraq, March 19 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. military convoy in Iraq's rebel stronghold of Ramadi on Saturday, said a police official. No immediate information was available on whether there were any casualties. Insurgents frequently target U.S. patrols and convoys in Ramadi, some 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad.

German police have arrested two suspected al-Qaida terrorists – one who was allegedly trying to buy enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb and other planning a suicide attack in Iraq. According to a German prosecutor, the arrests, which occurred early Sunday, came after months of investigation, Knight-Ridder reported. The suspects were nabbed after early morning police raids in Mainz and Bonn. President Bush is scheduled to visit Mainz next month, which heightens the security concerns in the city. It was determined today there was enough evidence to keep the pair in custody pending possible charges. Authorities described one suspect, Ibrahim...

BERLIN (AP) — Two suspected al-Qaida members were arrested by German authorities Sunday, federal prosecutors said. Police arrested the pair on Sunday in Mainz and Bonn for allegedly breaking German laws forbidding membership in a foreign terrorist organization, federal prosecutor Kay Nehm said.

[Announcer-read report] [FBIS Translated Text] Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi Group, which is closely connected with Al-Qa'ida Organization in Iraq, has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on the US troops in southern Al-Fallujah city, west of Baghdad. The claim of responsibility was announced in a statement that was posted on an Islamic website on the Internet in which the group said that the attack specifically took place in Al-Nu'aymiyah town in southern Al-Fallujah. [Description of Source: Dubai Al-Arabiyah Television in Arabic -- independent television station financed by Arab businessmen ]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Officials have identified the two bombers in a suicide attack that killed 17 people at a Riyadh housing compound, the official Saudi Press Agency reported Monday. The agency, quoting an unnamed Interior Ministry official, said DNA tests confirmed that Ali bin Hamid Elmabady Alharbi and Nasser bin Abdullah bin Nasser Alsiary attacked the housing complex of mostly Arab and Muslim residents, injuring 120 people. The agency said the two men, both of them Saudis, had been wanted by Saudi authorities in other security-related cases. It did not elaborate. The official was also quoted as saying that...

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...

Attack on J-K Army camp foiled, two dead In yet another unsuccessful suicide attack, two militants, who tried to sneak into an Army camp in frontier district of Kupwara, were shot dead by the troops early on Tuesday morning, official sources said. Heavily-armed militants came around 0400 hours, IST and tried to storm seven sector Rashtriya Rifles at Drugmulla, six km from Kupwara, but were gunned down by the troops, the sources said.

Terror rakes Valley while Delhi, Islamabad talk peace Seven security personnel, including an Army major, and a block President of the ruling People's Democratic Party, were among 15 people killed and 40 injured on Friday as militants stepped up their attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said. The escalated violence saw the first suicide attack of the year in the state which made a vain attempt to target a sector headquarters of BSF, ambush on an Army patrol and a blast inside a court in Baramulla district of north Kashmir which witnessed the maximum number of militancy-related incidents on...

A previously unknown group calling itself the Army of Palestine has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack, which has killed at least eight Kenyans and up to three Israelis near the African port city of Mombasa. Just minutes earlier, an Israeli charter plane taking off from Mombasa had narrowly avoided being shot down. Two rockets fired from a shoulder-launcher missed the aircraft by metres. The plane carrying 140 Israeli tourists landed safely in Tel Aviv a few hours later. Just five minutes after the rocket attack, witnesses say three Arab men drove a four-wheel drive packed with explosives into...