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WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2005 – Iraqi and U.S. soldiers assigned to Task Force Baghdad responded immediately to the deadly suicide-bomb attack in central Baghdad around 9:45 a.m. local time today. Initial reports indicate 25 Iraqi citizens were killed and 14 wounded in the terrorist attack, U.S. military officials with Task Force Baghdad reported. Media reports put the death toll as high as 34 in the attack on a Baghdad restaurant frequented by Iraqi police. Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, and elements of a U.S. military police unit quickly arrived on the site to assist Iraqi...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide bomber captured before he could blow himself up in a Shiite mosque claimed he was kidnapped, beaten and drugged by insurgents who forced him to take on the mission. The U.S. military said its medical tests indicated the man was telling the truth. Mohammed Ali, who claimed to be Saudi-born and appeared to be in his 20s, said he managed to flee after another suicide attacker set off his bomb, killing at least 12 worshippers Friday as they left a mosque in the northern city of Tuz Khormato. In confession broadcast on state television...

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.

Authorities across the Palmetto State were trained to deal with suicide bombers by an Israeli police officer last week in Columbia at the Criminal Justice Academy.

As part of a series of photo journals about ordinary people's experiences, BBC News Online looks at the life of a survivor of a suicide bomb attack in Israel. Elad Wafa lives in Netanya, Israel. He is 27 years old and was born in Ethiopia. On the afternoon of 19 May 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber let off his explosives near the vegetable stall where Elad worked. Elad suffered severe injuries and is now paralysed from the lower back downwards.

Death Toll Rises in Iraq Bombings - 67 Bremer Statement Condemns Attacks, Promises Justice By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press Writer IRBIL, Iraq - American military officials raised the death toll in suicide bombings at two Kurdish party offices to 67 on Monday, while a Kurdish official said he suspected the bombings were carried out by terrorists linked to al-Qaida. Bremer Statement Condemns Attacks, Promises Justice No group claimed responsibility for Sunday's attacks, the bloodiest in Iraq (news - web sites) in six months. But American and Kurdish officials suspected foreign militants or Ansar al-Islam, an al-Qaida-linked Islamic militant group operating...

J E R U S A L E M, Jan. 14— A young Palestinian woman made history of sorts today in the 3-year-old Arab uprising against Israeli occupation. She killed four Israelis in a suicide bomb attack at the main border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Reem Raiyshi, 22, managed to get right inside the border security office with a bomb belt under her clothes. According to the Israeli military, she calmly told soldiers she had a metal splint in her leg that would set off their detector. As she was taken to a special room for a...

Top breaking news on Yahoo Japanese news (in Japanese) from the newly released German weekly newsmagazine "Spiegel" which contains interview (for release tomorrow) with Number 2 leader of Iraq, Vice President Ramadan, who states that Iraq is now ready to launch a 'worldwide suicide bombing attack' against the US interests.' He threatens that since Iraq has no Weapons of Mass Destruction or nukes (sic), they do have other weapons, such as suicide bombers. He stated that they will mobilize a team of 1000 youths as suicide bombers to unleash attacks worldwide upon Americans and others if the US dares attack...

THE DEATH TOLL IN THE TEL AVIV BOMBINGS AS REPORTED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THIS EVENING: 03:57p AP Bomb Goes Off in Tel Aviv, Six Die 04:59p AP Suicide Attack in Tel Aviv Kills 7 05:06p AP Suicide Attack in Tel Aviv Kills 5 05:20p AP Suicide Attack in Tel Aviv Kills 3

<p>JERUSALEM (AP) --  Israeli troops on Friday killed two leading Palestinian militants, including the mastermind of a Passover suicide bombing in Israel that killed 26 people and triggered Israel's current military offensive, Palestinian sources and Israeli TV reports said.</p> <p>The militant leaders were identified as Qeis Odwan, head of the military wing of the Islamic militant group Hamas in the northern West Bank, and Nasser Awais, leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade militia in the same region.</p>

A victim of the Netanya hotel bomb blast, with his face covered in blood, sits in an ambulance arriving at the Kfar Saba hospital Wednesday, March 27, 2002. A suicide bomber blew himself up Wednesday in the hotel dining room in this Israeli resort as guests gathered for a Passover Seder, the ritual evening meal ushering in the Jewish holiday. Police said 15 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in one of the deadliest attacks in 18 months of fighting. (AP Photo/Gadi Kabalo) ***ISRAEL OUT*** A policeman stands near a line of bodies outside a hotel in...