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Baghdad suicide bomber kills 60

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A man blew himself up Tuesday and killed 60 people. The said suicide bomber also wounded 125 people. He blew himself up among hundreds of army recruits who had gathered near a military headquarters in an attack officials. This attack is said to be one of the bloodiest bombings in months in the Iraqi capital.

The blast on Tuesday happened around 7:30 a.m. outside the former Iraqi Ministry of Defense building that is now the house of the army’s 11th division headquarters.

The massive strike happened outside a major division headquarters and recruitment center where bodies of young men were scattered in the site, specially of young men who were still holding or clutching job applications and other documents on their hands.

There were two recruits who said that a possibility of a car bomb explosion happened due to the high death toll but Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, an Iraqi military spokesman, blamed the deaths on just a single bomber.

“We were sitting there, and somebody began shouting about a parked car,” said Ali Ibrahim, one of the recruits who suffered from minor shrapnel wounds due to the blast.

Maj. Gen. al-Moussawi also blamed al-Qaida in Iraq for enlisting the bomber, whose upper body he said was found at the scene of the blast. He said that the blast was caused by a single suicide bomber who detonated by wearing an explosive vest among the packed crowd.

The blast site receives about 250 new recruits each week as Iraqi security forces try to bolster their ranks in preparation for the U.S. military’s looming withdrawal after the long seven years of war. There were about 1,000 army recruits gathered at the division headquarters according to al-Moussawi, crowded because Tuesday was to be the last day of signing up for the soldiers.

“We couldn’t get another place for the recruits,” al-Moussawi said. “It was difficult to control the area because it’s an open area and because of the large number of recruits.”

Yasir Ali, one of the hopeful recruits said that he saw the bomber and described him as a blond young man and was sitting quietly among the recruits and then later walked up to an officer collecting I.D. cards and that’s the time he blew himself up.

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Baghdad attacks leave 16 dead

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Sixteen people were reported killed in the strings of attacks in Baghdad Thursday. The dead includes nine security force members. There were also 14 who were wounded in the series of attacks that happened in the Iraqi’s capital’s Sunni district of Al-Adhamiyah, according to the interior ministry.

The assailants shoot three soldiers to death in Al-Adhamiyah and they set the bodies of the soldiers ablaze, the ministry said.

Three bombs that were said to be homemade, had been put up on different routes to the scene of the shooting that had killed thirteen more people that includes three soldiers and three policemen.
The fourteen wounded includes seven police and two civil defense members.

In the first attack, suspected insurgents shot at a check point and killed three soldiers. The assailants later on set the three bodies on fire.
Minutes later, the suspects detonated three roadside bombs at several police and army patrols on different routes to the scene of the shooting. The attacks which took place within a 15-minute time frame had killed 13 people and injured 14.

Gunmen who said to launched a rare and coordinated attack on Iraqi soldiers in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood. The gunmen were armed with pistols and with silencers.

The bloodshed had suggested that the Sunni insurgent group remains capable of launching high-profile attacks and appears intent on regaining its foothold in areas it once controlled.

Store owner Abu Jasem had witnessed the attack and said that he saw masked gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades roaming the streets after the explosions. “We saw the pickup trucks of the police burning,” he said.
Jasem also said that Iraqi soldiers took scores of young men into custody and imposed a curfew in the area. “People are now afraid of the soldiers,” he said.

The latest attack came after a new Iraqi army brigade was deployed to Adhamiyah, according to residents. It also came three days after insurgents targeted the heavily guarded compound of al-Arabiya television in Baghdad.

Maj. Gen. Qasim Atta, an Iraqi army spokesman, said on television that security forces had the situation controlled.
“Now there are tight security measures in Adhamiyah,” he said. “I urge the people of Adhamiya to cooperate with the security forces.”

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Shootout in Mexico border city, killed 12

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A dozen of people were said to be killed in the shootout in Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo and wounded 21 in the series of gun battles between soldiers and cartel  gunmen.

The drug cartel has used a car bomb and this is the first they used in Mexico’s decades-long fight against traffickers. They set a deadly trap against the federal police in a city across the border from Texas according to the Mayor of Ciudad Juarez, Mayor Jose Reyes on Friday.

The commander of the regional military zone, Brig. Gen. Eduardo Zarate told the reporters that the explosives that they have used might weigh up to 122 pounds or 10 kilograms and investigators were still trying to determine what type of explosives they used. He also said that the bomb might have been detonated remotely through a cellphone because some of the burned batteries that were connected to a mobile phone were found at the scene.

“From what distance? We don’t know. But we think it was a distance that allowed (the assailants) to watch the area, waiting for the police to get out of their vehicle,” said Zarate.

Mayor Reyes said that the federal police gave confirmed to him that a car bomb was used in the attack that had killed three people on Thursday.

The attack was used for the Mexican Security forces that marked an escalation in a raging drug war that is already extremely deadly. While federal police and paramedics were lured to the scene of the car bomb on Thursday, they received a phone call that shots were fired at a major intersection and a municipal police officer got wounded and as the paramedics were trying to aid a wounded man, a parked car exploded according to Mayor Reyes.

Authorities later determined that the wounded man that the paramedics were working on was not a policeman though he was wearing a fake uniform. The said man were among those three people who died in the attack. The other two were determined to be a federal police officer and a medical technician.

The shootouts in Nuevo Lavedo in at least three points of the said city has prompted the U.S. Consulate to warn American citizens in the city to stay in their homes. The gunmen were blocking some streets with hijacked vehicles at the height of the battles according to the U.S. Consulate.

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Pakistan suicide bombing death toll raises

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Two suicide bombers killed about 102 people in a village in Pakistan. This also wounded 168 people in the village of Yakaghund in Pakistani tribal area of Mohmand.

A suicide bomber struck outside a government office in a tribal region where the army of Pakistan has fought over Taliban forces who had been a cause of violence in the said country for so many years now and caused to kill scores of people and left many injured.

The said attackers on Friday had detonated their explosives near the office of a deputy Mohmand administrator Rasool Khan. He managed to escaped unharm.

Rasool Khan also said that there were about seventy to eighty shops that were damaged and destroyed during the bombing. This also cause a damage to a prison building that had been the cause of twenty eight inmates which are ordinary criminals not militants to flee from the prison.

The Islamist extremists had remain a deadly force along Pakistan’s northwest border with Afghanistan though barraged by army offensives or drone-fired U.S. missiles.

Officials said that Pakistani Taliban spokesman Akramullah Mohmand called some journalists late Friday and did claimed responsibility of the said attack. The spokesman said that the target was the elders but officials said that none of those said elders were hurt in the attack.

The attack, Friday, was the third attack of this year to have killed more than ninety people and also, Friday’s attack was the worst attack in the country since a car bombing killed one hundred twelve people at a crowded market in the main northwest city of Peshawar last October.

On Saturday, many people kept up the search through the piles of brick and rubble left behind. There were at least 15 people who were still believed to be trapped somewhere beneath according to a local security official, Ibrahim Khan, who gave the latest casualty tolls.

“People came here yesterday to receive biscuits and edible oil,” the college student said midday Saturday. “I don’t know why terrorists killed them.”

The Pakistani army has carried out operations in Mohmand, but it has been unable to extirpate the militants. Its efforts to rely on citizen militias to take on militants have had limited success there, though elders who have been involved in such efforts have been targeted by militants in Mohmand and elsewhere in the tribal belt.

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Southern Afghanistan : 2 US troops, 11 Afghan civilians killed

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Violence sparked again in Southern Afghanistan that killed two U.S troops and at least eleven civilians. The recent violence include one attack with a suicide bomber. The said suicide bomber wore a burqa who knew himself up in a bazaar.

This happened in the neighboring Zabul province. The suicide bomber detonated his cache of explosives in a shopping area in Shahjoy district. The explosion killed two civilians and wounded at least sixteen according to spokesman for the provincial governor, Mohamad Jan Rasoolyar.

The attack was made by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan’s volatile South to destroy and destruct the planned major operation of NATO forces. The operation planned of NATO is being done to secure the main city of Kandahar which is said to be the birth place of the Taliban.

Friday’s violence in Kandahar province has killed nine civilians which includes four women and three children. There were also eight people who were wounded. The victims were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Maiwan district. This happened when the driver hit the mine when veered off the road to go around a section that was damaged according to Zalmai Ayonbi, spokesman for the provincial governor.

Also, two U.S. troops, particularly American service members died in an explosion on Friday in Southern Afghanistan. There were at least thirty-three troops who served the international coalition have been killed this month and twenty three of them were Americans.

Taliban has  claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on Bagram Air Field north of Kabul also on Friday. NATO confirmed that a rocket landed in a field inside the base of the Bagram Air Field but NATO said that it did not cause any injuries or damage. NATO forces also said that the second rocket that the Taliban fired landed outside the base.

David Cameron, the British Prime Minister has planned to visit a front-line base in Helmand province which is next to Kandahar, was canceled on Thursday due to a cell phone call referring to a possible rocket attack on a helicopter were intercepted. British Prime Minister, David Cameron visited Afghanistan the very first time on Friday since coming to power just last month.

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