India Times:
Within a week of blowing up several wagon-tankers of a train laden with fuel, suspected Ulfa militants triggered two back-to-back bomb explosions outside a police station killing seven people. (Read More)
India Times:
Hours after ULFA militants triggered the latest blasts in Assam, chief minister Tarun Gogoi said the banned north-east terror outfit is trying to shift base to China. (Read More)
India Times:
Senior lawyer and former minister Ram Jethmalani's charge that Wahabi sect was responsible for terrorism provoked a walkout by Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to India. (Read More)
India Times:
The arrests of LeT suspects Tahawwur Hussain Rana and David Headley have widened into a global terrorism inquiry, implicating a former Pakistani military officer as a co-conspirator, US officials have said. (Read More)
Reuters:
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles at a northwestern Pakistani militant stronghold on Friday, killing eight people, the second such attack this week, security and Taliban officials said.
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washingtonpost.com - Africa:
PAKISTAN A blast early Friday killed two police officers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attacks by Islamist insurgents retaliating against an army offensive near the Afghan border.
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washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns:
F or late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic. (Read More)
Reuters:
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed six people including one policeman and wounded 36 in an attack in a crowded area in southwest Afghanistan on Friday, a provincial police chief said.
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Reuters:
PESHAWAR (Reuters) - Three policemen were killed and six wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Pakistan's volatile city of Peshawar early on Friday, police said.
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Washington Post:
CHICAGO -- David C. Headley, a peripatetic Chicagoan accused of scouting potential terrorism targets in India and plotting to kill two Danish journalists, was not always David C. Headley.
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washingtonpost.com - Style:
Sarah Palin really blossomed during her interview at Fox News Channel on Wednesday night, telling Sean Hannity the killing of 13 people at Fort Hood on Nov. 5 was an "act of terrorism" and that Maj. Nidal M. Hasan should have been "profiled."
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Reuters:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb went off outside a court building in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, a doctor said.
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Washington Post:
After enduring four hours of hostile questions in a crowded Capitol Hill hearing room about his decision to send the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes to Manhattan for trial, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. submitted himself to one more round of interrogation Wednesday.
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