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Yangon. A bomb exploded in a public toilet in a railway station, injuring one woman. This was the third bombing incident in three days. One other took place on Friday, in a railway station toilet in Nay Pyi Taw, killing one woman. Another man died, and four people were injured, when a bomb exploded in Pyu, north of Rangoon.[5]
Buttala: A civilian bus was bombed, and the fleeing passengers were gunned down and the feeing gunmen also attacked farmers, killing at least 30 people.[10][11] The Sri Lankan government claimed that the gunman belonged to LTTE.
Khan Bani Saad: A woman wearing a vest lined with explosives blew herself up near Shiite worshippers in turbulent Diyala province north of the capital Wednesday, killing nine of them.[12]
Sderot ;Western Negev. In 72 hours, more than 120 Qassam rockets and 65 mortars were fired towards the Western Negev, an exceptionally high number. More than 8 Israelis are injured by the rocketattacks. Two rockets nearly missed a kindergarten, full with children. See List of Qassam rocket attacks[13]
Hadhramaut Governorate. Gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists, killing two Belgian women, their Yemeni driver and a Yemeni man believed to be a tourist guide. Belgian tourist and a Yemeni were wounded in the incident. Al-Qaida suspected.[14]
Athens. A Chilean diplomatic car was destroyed by an IED. An organization calling itself “Radical Solidarity” claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had been in support of Chile’s indigenous population.[15]
West Bank. Two Palestinians infiltrated a religious seminary and stabbed 3 students in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion before being shot dead. The same day, Palestinian gunmen opened fire at Israelis outside the Shuafat refugee camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem, killing a border police officer and seriously wounding a female officer.[17]
Thenia. Four people killed and 20 wounded in an attack by a suicide bomber on a police station at Thenia, 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Algiers.[19]
Lashkar Gah. Taliban insurgents were blamed for a suicide bomb attack in a mosque, killing at least six including a provincial deputy governor, Per Mohammad.[20][21]
North Waziristan. A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into a Pakistani security force checkpost in the North Waziristan tribal region on Friday, killing six men. [22]
Baghdad. Two mentally disabled women were strapped with explosives and sent into busy Baghdad markets, where they were blown up by remote control. The bombs killed at least 98 people and wounded more than 200 at two popular pet markets [24]
Dimona. A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosion belt in a shopping centre and kills one woman and injures nine other people. A second suicide bomber is hurt in the blast and shot to death by Israeli police before he could detonate his own belt.[30][31] See Dimona attack.
Weli-Oya and Colombo.Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed 13 people with two roadside bombs on Monday, just hours after the government celebrated the island's 60th anniversary of independence with a parade of military might in the capital. [32]
Baghdad. In a popular market in the Karada shopping area, a roadside bomb detonates. As a crowd gathered around the site of the blast, a few minutes later a suicide bomber blew himself up which killed dozens and wounded scores.[46]
Kanaan. A female suicide bomber entered the home of Sheik Thaeir Ghadhban al-Karkhi, a prominent Sunni who had turned against al-Qaeda, and blew herself up, killing al-Karkhi, his 5-year-old niece, and a security guard.[47]
Shiraz. An bomb exploded inside of the Shohada Hosseiniyeh mosque at around 9 p.m. during a sermon by a cleric well-known for criticism of Wahhabism and Bahaii. Tehran blamed Western-backed monarchists for the attack.[48][49] On its website, a group called Anjoman-e Padeshahi-e Iran (API), or Soldiers of the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, claimed responsibility.[50]
Baquba. At least 53 died and another 90 were injured when explosives packed in a bus detonated outside a restaurant near a court in Baquba, north of Bagdad.[51]
Islamabad. A suicide car bombing blast occurred at around 1 p.m. local time outside of the Danish embassy. Nearby buildings also suffered damage. The attack is thought to be the work of fundamentalist terrorists.[53]
Colombo. A bomb blast targeted a commuter train as it sped towards the capital. The explosive had been left along the track and detonated at around 7:10 a.m. as the last car passed. Government sources implicated the LTTE.[54]
Moratuwa suburb of Colombo. A roadside bomb blast targeted a crowded state-run commuter bus at about 7:35 a.m. The government quickly placed blame upon LTTE, who had yet to claim responsibility.[55]
Kandy district. The Sri Lankan government blamed LTTE militants for a bomb explosion that occurred aboard a commuter bus only a few hours after a similar attack near the capital.[56]
^Jones, Dorian (2008-01-03). "Blast kills 5 in mainly Kurdish city in turkey". Voice of America. Retrieved 2008-01-06. In the center of the city of Diyarbakir, authorities say a car bomb exploded [...] Turkey accuses rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, of launching attacks [...]The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the bombing. He said terrorism has reared its ugly head again.
^"Turkish Jets Bomb 60 Kurdish Targets". CBS. 2008-01-18. Retrieved 2008-02-17. The United States - which with Turkey and the European Union considers the PKK a terrorist organization [...] The death toll in the bombing rose to seven [...] the 66 injured
^Ahmed, Hamid (2008-01-07). "Bombings kill at least 17 in Baghdad". The Associated Press. Retrieved 2008-01-07. A police officer said as many as 14 people died in the twin bombing, the deadliest in a series of attacks across the capital. [...] in the fight against the terror network [...] and that 28 were wounded [...] killing four people, including a student, and wounding 11 others [...] two roadside bombs went off minutes apart, killing one civilian and wounding four other people [...] a parked car bomb exploded near a restaurant in the afternoon, police said, wounding seven people
^Masood, Salman (2008-11-01). "Bomb Kills at Least 23 in Pakistan". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-11-01. A suicide bomber approached a crowd of police officers outside a courthouse in Lahore on Thursday and set off a powerful explosion, killing at least 23 people and wounding 58, police officials said.
^"Bombing kills 6 in Kabul". CTV.ca. 2008-01-14. Retrieved 2008-01-14. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was quoted as saying: I'm again very much surprised by this terrorist attack.
^Daragahi, Borzou (2008-01-16). "Beirut bomb targets U.S. convoy". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-01-16. A car bomb struck a convoy of U.S. Embassy vehicles Tuesday, killing three people and injuring at least 22 others, the latest in a string of attacks on high-profile targets in Lebanon
^"Bomb at Thai Market Wounds Dozens". New York Times. 2008-01-16. Retrieved 2008-01-16. Militants suspected of being Islamic separatists bombed a busy market in southern Thailand on Tuesday, wounding more than three dozen civilians, a day after rebels killed eight soldiers.
^"Claymore attack on APC". cnn.com. 2008-01-16. Retrieved 2008-01-16. Soon after the attack on the bus, a second roadside bomb struck an APC in the same region Monaragla, injuring three soldiers, Nanayakkara said.{{cite news}}: Text "0" ignored (help); Text "3" ignored (help); Text "" ignored (help); Text "January 16" ignored (help)
^CHESTER, CHRISTOPHER (2008-01-16). "Female Suicide Bomber Kills 9 in Iraq". sfgate.com. Retrieved 2008-01-16. Although female suicide bombings have been fairly rare in Iraq, extremists have been using women more frequently in recent months. U.S. officials say this indicates the militants are running short of male volunteers. However, it also could be that al-Qaida in Iraq believes women are less likely than men to be searched and that explosives are easier to conceal under women's clothing.
^"2 Palestinians infiltrate West Bank school, stab students, shot dead". David Baker, an official in Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office, denounced the attacks. "These terror attacks are an example of the brutality of Palestinian terror which Israel battles on a daily basis," he said.
^ abBrinkley, Joel (2008-02-17). "Poppy fields prove fertile ground for Taliban". San Francisco Chronicle. p. E - 5. Retrieved 2008-02-17. Taliban leaders [...] the opium trade is a steady, reliable gravy train - for their terrorist insurgency
^"Bomb hits bus in central Sri Lanka". Ashland Daily Tidings. 2008-02-02. Retrieved 2008-02-04. military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara, blaming separatist Tamil Tiger rebels [...] the group, listed as a terror organization by the U.S. and European Union
^"Afghan suicide bombing kills 80". BBC. 2008-02-17. Retrieved 2008-02-17. Kabul's interior ministry, which originally said more than 80 died, later dropped its toll to 65, saying more than 50 were wounded. [...] "This suicide attack was the work of the Taleban," [Governor Assadullah] Khalid said
^Shankar, Jay (2008-02-17). "Afghan Explosion Leaves `Dozens' Dead, Wounded (Update1)". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 2008-02-17. At least 56 people were dead and 40 hurt in the explosion, Agence France-Press reported, citing an unidentified police official.
^Salahuddin, Sayed (2008-02-18). "Le bilan de l'attentat de Kandahar dépasse les 100 morts" (in French). Reuters. Retrieved 2008-02-18. Assadullah Khalid a ajouté qu'on déplorait un nombre similaire de blessés, après l'explosion qui a frappé un site de combats de chiens où de nombreux Afghans s'étaient rassemblés.