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  Car bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Car bomb in Iraq, made from a number of concealed artillery shells in the back of a pickup truck.
Car bombs act as their own delivery mechanisms and can carry a relatively large amount of explosive without attracting suspicion.
Car bombs have been used by terrorist groups for many years — the IRA used them frequently in The Troubles in Northern Ireland and Great Britain — but mass casualty car bombing, and especially suicide car bombing, is principally a Middle Eastern phenomenon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Car_bomb   (713 words)

  
 Omagh bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Several warnings mentioned that the bomb was 200 yards away from the courthouse, the actual bombing was between 300-400 yards from the courthouse.
It is believed that the bombing of BBC Television Centre in London was a revenge attack for the broadcast.
  The Real IRA claimed 'minimal responsibility' for bombing the courthouse at Omagh, and later released a statement saying that after a long investigation they believed 2 MI5 agents (that were believed to be genuine Republicans at the time) to be largely responsible for the planning and implementation of the Omagh bombing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omagh_bombing   (778 words)

  
 Car bomb injures Lebanese journalist - The Boston Globe
BEIRUT -- A prominent journalist for an anti-Syrian television station was severely injured yesterday after a bomb rigged to her car exploded, the latest in a string of targeted blasts in Lebanon's capital.
May Chidiac, a political talk show host with the private Lebanese Broadcasting Corp., was inside her car when the bomb exploded, according to Lebanese security officials and the TV station.
The bombing occurred in Ghadir, a town near the Christian port city of Jounieh, north of the capital.
www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2005/09/26/car_bomb_injures_lebanese_journalist   (453 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Car Bomb Kills 5, Injures 40, in Thai Tourist Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It was the first car bomb blast in the troubled Muslim region, where remote-controlled bombs, ambush killings and school arson attacks have claimed more than 500 lives in just over a year.
Officials said the bomb, estimated to contain about 220 pounds of fertilizer, exploded in a car behind a hotel in Sungai Kolok, a town near the Malaysian border whose bars and nightclubs are popular with tourists.
The bomb was thought to be the work of the same militant network blamed for 13 months of violence in the region.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/02/17/car_bomb_kills_5_injures_40_in_thai_tourist_town   (837 words)

  
 ABC News: Car Bomb Explosion Kills 7 in Baghdad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
BAGHDAD, Iraq May 10, 2005 (AP)— A car bomb exploded in a business district of central Baghdad on Tuesday morning, and a police officer said at least seven people were killed and 16 wounded.
A police officer with the Interior Ministry said on condition of anonymity that at least seven people were killed and 16 wounded by a suicide car bomb that exploded just as a U.S. military convoy of Humvees and armored vehicles was passing.
On Saturday, two car bombs exploded a few hundred yards from the site of Tuesday's blast, hitting an American security company convoy and killing at least 22 people including two Americans.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=743230   (294 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | world news Seventeen killed by Iraq car bomb
A fresh car bomb attack killed 17 people south of Baghdad on Saturday, as violence continued to engulf Iraq ahead of the announcement of the country's election results.
The car bomb in the mixed Sunni-Shiite town of Musayyib, on the edge of the infamous "triangle of death", went off at 8.30am (0530 GMT).
On Friday, 14 people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack near a Shiite mosque in the town of Balad Ruz, northeast of Baghdad, while another seven were killed in an attack on Shiite-owned bakeries in the capital.
iafrica.com /news/worldnews/413177.htm   (429 words)

  
 Car bomb at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This kind of bomb is a favorite instrument of terrorists and assassins because the car bomb acts as its own delivery mechanism and can carry a large amount of explosives without attracting suspicion.
In assassination attempts, it is more common for the bomb to be affixed to the underside of the car and then detonated by remote control, by the car's motion, or other means.
Defending against a car bomb involved keeping cars at a distance from buildings and hardening buildings to withstand an explosion.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Car_bomb.html   (296 words)

  
 CNN.com - Car bomb at Madrid airport - August 27, 2001
The bomb was placed in a white Renault 19 vehicle left in a car park for Terminal 2 which carries mainly domestic flights but also some European destinations.
ETA was blamed for a car bomb placed at the busy southern Malaga airport in July, which prompted an evacuation of travellers before police finally defused the bomb.
A car bomb in the Mediterranean resort of Salou earlier this month was also blamed on the Basque group.
edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/08/27/spain.airport   (440 words)

  
 Aljazeera.Net - Multiple car bomb blasts rock Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At least 10 car bombs have exploded in Iraq a day after the country formed a new government.
Five more people died and 14 were wounded when three more car bombs exploded in al-Madain, a town 30km south of the capital that was swept only 10 days ago by the Iraqi army in search of fighters.
A tenth car bomb blew up near a Shia mosque in the eastern district of Ubaidi, but there were no casualties and only minor damage.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/F9C466B0-D41A-4161-A68F-649B7BCD773E.htm   (751 words)

  
 Car bomb detonates near Baghdad airport - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
In separate attacks, a roadside bomb killed an American soldier, the U.S. military said, and a senior Oil Ministry official was killed by gunmen on his way to work, according to a ministry spokesman.
A car immediately behind was also completely burned out and a third one badly damaged in the blast.
In Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded near a military convoy carrying an Iraqi general, killing four civilians and wounding at least seven soldiers on Tuesday.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6316493   (1083 words)

  
 Bomb rocks Indian Kashmir’s capital - South and Central Asia - MSNBC.com
Many cars, motorcycles and bicycles were damaged in the powerful blast near the four-story corporate headquarters of the state-owned Jammu-Kashmir Bank Ltd. in the Lal Chowk area.
Lohia said the bomb was fashioned from a land mine placed in a car.
Large metallic, mangled chunks of the destroyed car were strewn at the front gate of the bank.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10059697   (456 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Car bomb hits Lebanon's capital
A car bomb has wounded at least 11 people in a predominantly Christian suburb in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
The opposition has blamed Damascus for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a car bomb on 14 February in Beirut.
Car bombs were common during Lebanon's civil war from 1975 until the early 1990s.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/4363325.stm   (349 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Baghdad car bomb kills 5 Westerners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb shattered a convoy of Westerners in Baghdad Monday, killing at least 13 people, including three General Electric workers and two bodyguards an Interior Ministry official said.
Nevertheless, the bombing dramatizes the dangerous challenge the United States faces as it struggles to revive the country's power supply and show Iraqis the occupation can improve their lives.
In other violence Monday, police said a car bomb went off near the town of Salman Pak southeast of Baghdad when a gray Opel drove between police vehicles and exploded, killing four people and wounding four others.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-06-14-car-blast_x.htm   (1065 words)

  
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The intelligence sources point to damage at the crime scene in the Beit Israel district of Jerusalem as proof of their claims that the weapon used was a car bomb rather than a suicide bomber.
This bombing took place during the evening of the Sabbath in one of the most radical and Orthodox Jewish districts in the city, with literally hundreds of armed policemen and troops patrolling the streets.
Well, after the car bomb in Beit Israel which killed so many “innocent” Jews, Ariel Sharon should be able to continue with his Palestinian genocide plans in relative peace for a least the next few weeks.
www.geocities.com /jewishterrorists/black.html   (789 words)

  
 Car Bomb Kills Nine At Shiite Mosque (washingtonpost.com)
Bombings and other attacks have surged in number, lethality and boldness this month, although the country has yet to see a return of the kind of attacks that each killed scores of people before the elections.
The bombing on Friday was one of many targeting the Shiite majority, which has become politically dominant since President Saddam Hussein and the Sunni Muslims he favored were routed in March 2003.
As Shiite worshipers gathered for Friday prayers and a funeral, witnesses said, a car packed with bombs exploded behind the mosque in east Baghdad.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A8570-2005Apr22.html   (928 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Car bomb explodes near Iraqi president's home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The explosion came on a day when six car bombs targeted American and Iraqi troops across Baghdad, killing as many as 20 people, and the military said two U.S. Marines had been killed the day before by a roadside bomb near the Jordanian border.
A car bomb also exploded near a U.S. convoy in the Rustamiyah area of southeastern Baghdad, wounding two Americans, the U.S. military said.
Elsewhere, a car bomb was discovered near Yarmouk Hospital, the largest in west Baghdad, police said, Security forces blocked the road and called experts to dismantle it.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-07-15-iraq_x.htm   (1177 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Car bomb kills five as Thai prime minister tours troubled southern region
The car bomb was believed to be Thailand's first.
The bomb was planted in a car parked near the Marina Hotel in Sungai Kolok, a town on the Malaysian border that is popular with male tourists.
The street where the bomb exploded is an area with many open-front bars and has been target of other deadly bombings in recent years.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050217-1345-thailand-violence.html   (634 words)

  
 Genocide Charges Against Saddam - CBS News
A car bomb exploded Tuesday in an eastern Baghdad lot, killing at least 10 people and wounding 28 others, police said, in a large lot in Habibiyah, a poor, mostly Shiite area, police said.
The woman's 13-year-old son was wounded in the bombing, as were two brothers of the second family, a police lieutenant said.
A car bomb parked near the home of a city council member in Samarra exploded as his son was leaving the house, police said.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml   (1009 words)

  
 DefenseLINK News: Suicide Car Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier in Baghdad
The car bomb exploded next to the convoy as it was stopped at a crowded intersection waiting for traffic to clear.
Marines also discovered a car bomb factory with six vehicles rigged with explosives in varying stages of completion in northern Haqliniyah on Aug. 8.
In a related operation prior to the destruction of the house, EOD troops destroyed a vehicle after discovering it was rigged for use as a suicide bomb.
www.defenselink.mil /news/Aug2005/20050809_2373.html   (1163 words)

  
 CNN.com - Najaf bombing kills Shiite leader, followers say - Aug. 30, 2003
A car bomb triggered a massive explosion at one of Iraq's most sacred mosques in Najaf.
A massive car bomb that claimed the lives of one of Shiite Islam's top clerics and 124 others Friday was the deadliest attack in Iraq since the regime of Saddam Hussein fell and the third in a string of terrorist attacks this month.
The deadly attack comes after a truck bombing at U.N. headquarters August 19 that killed 23 people and a car bombing at the Jordanian Embassy on August 7 that killed at least 10.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/08/29/sprj.irq.najaf   (1000 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
By April, the whole issue of the election and the new government had faded into the background as an onslaught of car bombings exchanged headlines with two new military offensives by the American military near the Syrian border and a much ballyhooed Iraqi military offensive in Baghdad.
The car bombings are the centerpiece of these new events, and they represent, I believe, a new and qualitatively different offensive strategy by the resistance.
While there have been innumerable instances where such caution is not applied and many battles in which civilians were caught in the crossfire, the recent car bombings represent the first instance in which a guerrilla campaign has generated this level of civilian casualties.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/GF08Ak01.html   (2838 words)

  
 CNN.com - Madrid car bomb: 43 injured - Feb 9, 2005
After the explosion a plume of white smoke could be been seen rising from the scene of the blast near the convention center, which is in a residential area in the north of the city and near Madrid's airport.
The interior minister said he did not believe the bombing was in response to the recent arrests of 14 suspected ETA members in the Basque region and two other provinces, but noted it was hard to determine the motive for such attacks.
It was the most serious bomb blast in Madrid since March 11 last year, when 191 people were killed and hundreds injured in bomb attacks on four commuter trains first blamed on ETA but soon found to have been carried out by a group linked to al Qaeda.
edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/02/09/spain.blast   (700 words)

  
 ABC News: Car Bomb Explodes in Spain, Injuring 52   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A policeman passes the scene where a powerful car bomb exploded in Madrid, Wednesday, May 25, 2005, after a warning call from the armed Basque separatist group ETA.
The explosion the first blamed on ETA in Madrid since February shattered windows and damaged building facades and cars, but none of the 52 people injured were critically wounded and only five of them were hospitalized, the city's emergency medical services said.
Zapatero, speaking during a scheduled Senate session, condemned the blast and insisted that "the only fate that the terrorist group ETA has is to lay down weapons and dissolve." He did not mention his offer of talks.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=790892   (423 words)

  
 Vehicle explodes near Opryland - Thursday, 07/22/04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
However, they said they knew an explosive was used and the car did not erupt in flames because of a mechanical malfunction.
Their plan was to use the new car as a model as they piece together Young's vehicle.
Young's car had been parked in a far corner of the Opryland lot, in an area being used as a construction staging site for contractors doing work at the hotel.
www.tennessean.com /local/archives/04/07/54736023.shtml?Element_ID=54736023   (776 words)

  
 Aljazeera.Net - Lebanese columnist killed in car bomb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A prominent anti-Syria journalist has been killed in a car bomb explosion in a residential sector of mostly Christian eastern Beirut.
Samir Kassir of the An-Nahar newspaper was killed instantly when a bomb exploded in his car as he started the engine outside his home in the Ashrafiyeh neighbourhood.
Michel Aoun, an opposition leader who was announcing his list of candidates for the elections in central Lebanon, began the news conference with a moment of silence, describing Kassir as "one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon".
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/235F441E-4FD7-4701-B0E9-DE2664739359.htm   (542 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | world news Car bomb explodes in Qatar
A Briton was killed and 12 people were injured when a car bomb exploded outside a theatre near a British school in the Qatari capital Doha late on Saturday.
Authorities said the bombing was still under investigation, but the incident raised fears that violence attributed to Islamist militants was spreading in the oil-rich Gulf region.
In February 2004, former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was killed in a car bomb blast in Doha, where he had been living in exile for three years.
iafrica.com /news/worldnews/426291.htm   (712 words)

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