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	Ghriba synagogue bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ghriba synagogue bombing was a deadly bombing carried out in Tunisia by the al-Qaeda terrorist group on the El Ghriba synagogue.
		The truck detonated at the front of the synagogue, killing 14 German tourists, six Tunisians, and one Frenchman.
		Although the attack was initially called an accident, as Tunisia, France, and Germany investigated, it became clear the attack was deliberate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ghriba_Synagogue_Attack (210 words)

	El Ghriba synagogue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The history of the synagogue is reported to go back about 2000 years, making it the oldest synagogue in Africa and one of the oldest ones in the world.
		The synagogue is the destination of an annual pilgrimage of many Tunisian Jews after the celebration of Passover.
		On April 11, 2002, a truck full of explosives was detonated close to the synagogue, killing 21 people (of whom 14 were German tourists).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/El_Ghriba_synagogue (221 words)

	List of terrorist incidents - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		January 31: * JRA–PFLP attack on a Shell Oil facility in Singapore and the simultaneous seizure of the Japanese embassy in Kuwait.
		February 25: Baruch Goldstein kills 29 Palestinian civilians in an attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
		In two further attacks on 30 April, suspected accomplices detonate a bomb and spray a tourist coach with gunfire.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Terrorist_attack (4379 words)

	Al-Qaida Claims Tunisian Synagogue Attack
		A "senior military leader" of al-Qaida claims that last month's attack on the ancient synagogue in Djerba was the work of al-Qaida militants.
		The paper quoted al-Mujahir as saying that the attack on the synagogue, in which a truck laden with natural gas exploded outside the synagogue, "was carried out by brothers in the al-Qaida network." Nineteen people died in the explosion, including 14 German tourists.
		In the wake of the Djerba attack, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) detained a suspect in Duisburg who had allegedly received a phone call from the attacker several hours prior to the blast.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=779 (778 words)

	Tunisia synagogue, monastir, things to do in tunisia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Tunisia synagogue DJERBA - TUNISIA'S ISLE OF FORGETFULNESS.
		Although the survival of the synagogue is not in doubt, Tunisia's ancient Jewishcommunity has shrunk from 120000 in 1948 to 1000 on the island of Djerba.
		The Ghriba Synagogue Attack was a deadly bombing carried out in Tunisia by theal-Qaeda terrorist group on the El Ghriba synagogue.
	www.independent-study.org /tunisia/tunisia_synagogue.html (914 words)

	USATODAY.com - No answers yet in Tunisian synagogue explosion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The main damage to the ornate Ghriba synagogue occurred at its entrance, where a painted ceiling was charred and the stained-glass window panes were blown out.
		Perez Trabelsi, the synagogue's president, said he believed the crash was an accident, as did the regional governor, Mohamed Ben Salem.
		The Ghriba synagogue was built in the early 20th century on the foundations of one of the oldest synagogues in Africa.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/04/12/tunisia-synagogue.htm (520 words)

	AV Press: Al-Qaida leader: Attack on U.S. soon
		Al-Muhajir told the paper that the April 11 truck-bombing of the Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba "was carried out by brothers in the al-Qaida network." Fourteen of the 19 victims were German tourists.
		The newspaper also said al-Muhajir identified the truck driver who carried out the synagogue attack as Nizar Seif Eddin al-Tunisi, a name that has arisen before in connection with the blast, and said he was a member of al-Qaida.
		A statement published last month in the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Quds said the synagogue attack was carried out by the Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Sites, which earlier claimed responsibility for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
	www.avpress.com /n/sp/attack/sty790.hts (682 words)

	CNN.com - Tunisia synagogue blast kills 5 - April 12, 2002
		Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior said the blast near the historic El Ghriba synagogue on Djerba, an island off the south-eastern Tunisian coast, was a deliberate anti-Jewish attack, according to the Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz.
		Synagogues in Europe, notably in France, have been targeted by attackers, and many acts of violence against Jews and Jewish sites in Europe have been reported since the Palestinian intifada began in September 2000.
		In the most serious case, a synagogue in the southern French city of Marseille was recently burned to the ground.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/africa/04/11/tunisia.blast (403 words)

	CBS News \| French Say Suspect Is Qaeda Big \| June 12, 2003 11:34:49
		Christian Ganczarski, 36, was arrested June 3 at Charles de Gaulle Airport for his alleged role in an April 2002 attack that killed 21 people, including 14 German tourists, at a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia.
		Nizar Naouar, the suspected suicide attacker who blew up a truckload of natural gas at the historic synagogue, was believed to have placed a call to Ganczarski just before the attack.
		Meanwhile, a Moroccan arrested June 1 as he traveled through Paris told investigators that Ganczarski was "one of the organizers and the financier" of an attack being planned on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, Sarkozy said.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/06/12/attack/main558333.shtml (728 words)

	The Attack on the U.S. Dollar and Energy Needs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The U.S. embassy in Lebanon, Beirut, is attacked by rocket-propelled grenades.
		An al Qaeda plot to attack U.S. embassies and the Eagle Base airfield in Paris, France, and Brussels, Belgium, is thwarted by NATO officials.
		The attacks are blamed on Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Hezb-e-Islami.
	www.conservativecrusader.com /articles/267/1/The-Attack-on-the-US-Dollar-and-Energy-Needs/Page1.html (5709 words)

	USATODAY.com - Explosion at synagogue in Tunisia kills five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The official news agency and the synagogue president both said they believed it was an accident, but Israel's deputy foreign minister called it a deliberate anti-Semitic attack.
		In the most serious case, a synagogue in the southern French city of Marseille was burned to the ground on March 31.
		Its Ghriba synagogue, a large, airy building filled with intricate carved woodwork, is a site of pilgrimage for Jews and is built on the foundations of one of the oldest synagogues in Africa.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/04/11/tunisia.htm (537 words)

	Guardian \| Eight held for suicide attack on synagogue
		French intelligence agents have arrested eight people in connection with the suicide attack earlier this year on a synagogue in Tunisia that killed 21 people, the interior ministry said yesterday.
		Judicial sources identified one of the eight as Walid Naouar, the brother of the man believed to have been driving the lorry when it exploded outside the 2,000- year-old El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian holiday island of Djerba on April 11.
		Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Sites, a group believed to have close ties with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4540537-103681,00.html (291 words)

	Blue's News: Edit Message
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		After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released * 1999 August 31 - September 22 Russian Apartment Bombings kills about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War.
		The attack involved 12 bombers and 5 targets.
	www.bluesnews.com /cgi-bin/edit.pl?id=220174&start=0 (1006 words)

	Newsvine - How to Control a Society 101
		1994 February 25: In the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, Baruch Goldstein kills 29 Palestinian civilians in an attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
		February 18: Gracanica bus bombing, 13 Serbian civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Northern Kosovo.
		The attacks on September 11 killed 2,996 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
	thepef.newsvine.com /_news/2006/08/14/324345-how-to-control-a-society-101 (4945 words)

	Worldandnation: Tunisia agrees synagogue attack was terror act
		TUNIS, Tunisia -- A gas truck explosion outside the oldest synagogue in Africa was a deliberate criminal attack -- not an accident -- the Tunisian government has acknowledged.
		Germany has raised the possibility Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network was behind the explosion at the 2,000-year-old Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba.
		German police on Tuesday arrested 11 members of a Palestinian organization that prosecutors contend was planning terrorist attacks in the country.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/04/24/news_pf/Worldandnation/Tunisia_agrees_synago.shtml (473 words)

	Free information of Flu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		For example, people with asthma may experience asthma attacks while they have the flu, and people with chronic congestive heart failure may have a worsening of this condition, that is triggered by the flu.
		The first militant attack that al-Qaeda allegedly carried out consisted of three bombings at hotels where American troops were staying in Aden, Yemen, on December 29, 1992.
		The attack was the deadliest terrorist action in the history of Egypt.
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	Terrorist Organizations
		The blast took place outside the famous Ghriba synagogue, a popular tourist site on Djerba.
		The Ghriba synagogue annually draws thousands of Jews from all over the world and is built on the foundations of one of the oldest synagogues in Africa.
		However, it is now believed that the crash was a suicide attack.
	www.ict.org.il /inter_ter/attackdet.cfm?IncidentID=2808 (76 words)

	Steve Quayle News Alerts
		The London-based Asharq al-Awsat said it interviewed Abdel Azeem al-Muhajir, whom it described as a "senior military leader" of al-Qaida, in the western Pakistani mountains near the border with Afghanistan The newspaper did not say when the interview was conducted.
		Al-Muhajir told the paper that the April 11 truck-bombing of Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba "was carried out by brothers in the al-Qaida network."
		Israeli and U.S. officials have said that are indications that the attack in Tunisia was linked to al-Qaida, although no definite evidence has been found so far.
	www.stevequayle.com /News.alert/Terrorism/020518.Al-Qaida.attack.syn.html (538 words)

	Al Qaeda Says It's Behind Synagogue Attack, Vows More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		It was the first direct claim of al Qaeda involvement in the blast near El Ghriba synagogue on the resort island of Djerba in April which killed 21 people, including 14 Germans.
		Bin Laden, who has never clearly claimed responsibility for the attacks on New York and Washington, regards the United States as the enemy of Muslims for what he calls bias toward Israel and for having a military presence in Muslim countries, mainly Saudi Arabia.
		Bu Ghaith praised the attacks and other previous ones against U.S. interests as a "victory," but it was not clear if he was referring to al Qaeda or Muslims in general.
	dupagepeacethroughjustice.org /alqueda1.html (751 words)

	CNN.com - Tunis blast 'a terror attack' - April 22, 2002
		Schily said he was "100 percent sure that it was a terrorist crime," but cast doubts on speculation in Germany that the blast was linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
		A truck exploded near the entrance of the Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba, killing 16 people, including 11 German tourists, on April 11.
		Michael Esper, 35, told the Bild newspaper: "The force of the blast was so massive that I couldn't hold on to my son's hand and I was hurled through the synagogue onto the floor.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/africa/04/22/tunisia.blast (361 words)

	Al-Qaeda 'spurred on' by Iraq war [Archive] - DiscussAnything.com -
		It says that recent attacks in Spain, Turkey and Saudi Arabia show that the group has fully reconstituted itself after the loss of its base in Afghanistan.
		The report also addresses the broader issue of relations between Islam and the West, saying the Bush administration did not fully appreciate that the 11 September attacks were a "violent reaction to America's pre-eminence".
		The May 2003 attacks in Saudi Arabia and Morocco, the gathering of foreign jihadists in Iraq, and the November 2003 attacks in Saudi Arabia and Turkey confirmed this expectation.
	www.discussanything.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-56781.html (2618 words)

	JTA NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Despite a recent terror attack on the synagogue that killed 18, Tunisian Jews carried on with their annual Lag B´Omer festivities this week.
		But then it became clear it was a deliberate act of terrorism, officials say, and the government has moved quickly to denounce the violence and contain the damage.
		This year´s pilgrimage was a "victory against obscurantism and fanaticism," he was quoted as saying as he pledged that Tunisia would protect religious freedoms.
	www.jta.org /story.asp?id=020430-jerb (954 words)

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		The EU ought to invade Israel and torture all Jews to death, and then burn all synagogues to the ground.
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		QURAN urge us to fight back when a muslim country's been attacked, this is the only reason to fight in ISLAM.
	www.perspectives.com /forums/view_topic.php?id=84234&forum_id=39&page=3 (4095 words)

	Police and Terrorism
		to worry about one particular result from a terrorist attack that is near and dear to their hearts… blame.
		The success of the attacks was probably beyond the terrorists' wildest expectations.
		us, bemoaned the horror of the attacks, before they returned to their normal politics of blame and shame.
	www.careerpoliceofficer.com /PoliceandTerrorism.html (2601 words)

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		A second Air India flight from Canada was targeted on the same day, but the bomb exploded at the Tokyo airport, in the luggage outside the aircraft, killing two baggage handlers, bringing the total death toll of the act to 331.
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	The Wide Awakes » Islamofascist Suicide Bomber in OK City Identity Revealed
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	Blue's News: News Comments
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		There's no coincidence that PAG is looking at a fall target date -- just around the time of the 2006 election cycle.
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