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	CNN.com - Bush: 'Radical killers' behind Karachi bomb - June 15, 2002
		The attack targeted the U.S. consulate where American-born al Qaeda suspect Jose Padilla applied for a new passport in February, according to the State Department.
		Karachi also is where Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and killed earlier this year.
		In Washington, a senior State Department official said the Bush administration suspects the attack was carried out by al Qaeda because of its resemblance to the bombing of a Karachi bus in May. That attack killed 14 people, including 11 French nationals.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/06/15/karachi.blast/index.html (868 words)

	2002 Karachi bus bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2002 Karachi bus bombing was one of a series of deadly strikes on Westerners in Pakistan in 2002.
		On May 8, 2002, a man driving a car bomb stopped next to a bus in Karachi outside the Sheraton Hotel.
		The suspected bombmaker, Mufti Mohammad Sabir, was arrested on September 8, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2002_Karachi_bus_bombing (202 words)

	Hugh Hewitt
		May 8: May 8 Bus Attack in Karachi kills 11 Frenchmen and two Pakistanis.
		May 13: 12 people are killed in the Jaunpur train crash in India, caused when Islamic extremists cut the rails.
		June 18: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates himself on a bus in Jerusalem in the Patt junction massacre.
	hughhewitt.townhall.com /g/3933f196-a881-444a-a869-d19beca7666c (860 words)

	Asia Times: India/Pakistan
		KARACHI - The Pakistani port city of Karachi on Wednesday felt what many believe to be the beginning of a campaign of unrest as a result of President General Pervez Musharraf allowing US troops into the country's sensitive tribal areas to look for Taliban and al-Qaeda suspects.
		Shortly before 8 am, a suspected suicide bomber in a car killed at least 10 French and two Pakistani nationals when a bomb ripped through a navy bus as it was picking up the French nationals from the Sheraton Hotel, where they were staying while maintaining submarines for the Pakistani government.
		Karachi has also been targeted by Pakistani and US intelligence officials for a crackdown as it is considered a hub for al-Qaeda activities.
	www.atimes.com /ind-pak/DE09Df06.html (466 words)

	Major incidents of terrorist violence in Pakistan, 1988-2007
		May 27: At least 25 people, including a suspected suicide bomber, are killed and approximately 100 others sustain injuries during a powerful explosion at the Bari Imam shrine of the Shia sect located in vicinity of the diplomatic enclave in capital Islamabad.
		May 31: At least 24 worshippers are killed and 34 others sustain injuries when a high-intensity bomb explodes during the evening prayers at a Shia mosque situated on the MA Jinnah Road in Karachi.
		May 30: The pro-Taliban Sunni cleric and chief of Binoria mosque in Karachi, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, is killed and his son, nephew and driver are wounded, when armed men ambushed their vehicle in front of the mosque.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/pakistan/database/majorincidents.htm (4947 words)

	rediff.com: Suicide bomber kills 16 in Karachi
		Eyewitnesses said a Pakistan Navy bus carrying French technicians to the Karachi shipyard was about to start at 7.40 am, when a explosive-laden red Toyota Corolla-74 rammed into it.
		Karachi, where hundreds of people have been killed in ethnic and sectarian violence during the past three years, has been racked by a fresh wave of violence recently.
		Shah said among the five Pakistanis killed in Wednesday's blast were the driver and conductor of the bus that was to carry the victims to the Karachi harbour.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/may/08pak2.htm (709 words)

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		He may be opposed to Allama Sajid Naqvi in view of "popular sentiment" but cannot compromise on the present policies for a host of reasons.
		It may be mentioned that the elected representatives have also complained of load-shedding by the KESC in the assembly session and demanded that the government should take notice of such serious issues.
		Ali Akbar Shah, it may be recalled, had been very active in the campaign against theft of electricity and illegal kunda connections and had not surrendered to the pressure of the unscrupulous elements, said a press release.
	www.karachipage.com /news/may97/0521_31.txt (21848 words)

	CNN.com - Karachi bomb 'terrorist murders' -- Bush - May 9, 2002
		Pakistani police say a bomb ripped through a bus in Karachi, killing at least 11 people, most of them foreign nationals.
		Bomb blasts are not unusual in Karachi, which is torn by religious and political strife.
		Karachi is also where Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and later killed earlier this year.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/05/08/pakistan.bombing (845 words)

	DAWN - Local; May 7, 2006
		KARACHI, May 6: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that the city government is not directly involved in the operation to remove encroachments in some part of Sikandar Goth, raised on the land of Al-Mashriq Cooperative Housing Society....
		KARACHI, May 6: People lit bonfires and staged a sit-in at Sohrab Goth on Saturday on the occasion of funeral of a boy who was killed in violence on Friday....
		KARACHI, May 6: Administrative judge of anti-terrorism courts in Karachi on Saturday sent four activists of the banned Hizbul Tehrir to jail, who are facing charges under anti-terrorism law, turning down police request for further police remand....
	www.dawn.com /2006/05/07/local.htm (833 words)

	DAWN - Front Page; May 9, 2002
		KARACHI, May 8: Fourteen people, including 11 French nationals, were killed and 18 others, including 10 foreigners, were injured, some of them seriously, when a “suicide bomber”, riding in a red...
		KARACHI, May 8: The second cricket Test between Pakistan and New Zealand, which was scheduled to begin on Wednesday morning, was called off and the Kiwis’ tour of Pakistan was cancelled...
		KARACHI, May 8: Arrangements are being made for sending back to France the bodies of the French nationals killed in the car bomb blast in Karachi....
	www.dawn.com /2002/05/09 (564 words)

	Suicide attack In Karachi, Pakistan: eleven dead, including nine French
		KARACHI (Pakistan), May 8 (AFP) - an attack with the booby-trapped car perpetrated against a bus made eleven died, according to the police force, including nine French nationals, and 18 wounded Wednesday morning in front of the Sheraton hotels and Pearl Continental of Karachi, in the south of Pakistan.
		The bus was used for transport of the personnel of the DCN, which employs some 80 French nationals in Karachi, the large port of the south of Pakistan and economic capital of the country.
		The attack was never asserted but had been clearly interpreted like aiming at the Western community after the rallying of Pakistan, with the autumn, the coalition anti-terrorist installation by the United States after the attacks of September 11.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/679711/posts (1071 words)

	2002 Karachi bus bombing at AllExperts
		The 2002 Karachi bus bombing was one of a series of deadly strikes on Westerners in Pakistan in 2002.
		On May 8, 2002, a man driving a car bomb stopped next to a bus in Karachi outside the Sheraton Hotel.
		It is suspected that those responsible for the attack have links to al-Qaeda, and are seeking to oust Westerners from that country following the US Invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/2002_Karachi_bus_bombing.htm (235 words)

	List of terrorist incidents at AllExperts
		* 1904, May 18: Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley kidnapped and ransomed by bandit Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli in Morocco.
		The attack is attributed to Carlos on behalf of the O.L.A. October 12: Brighton hotel bombing by the IRA: 5 are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.
		* February 18: Gracanica bus bombing, 13 Serbian civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Northern Kosovo.
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/li/list_of_terrorist_incidents.htm (8596 words)

	CNN.com - Confusion surrounds Karachi bombing - June 16, 2002
		KARACHI, Pakistan -- Investigators who first blamed a suicide bomber for a deadly blast outside the U.S. consulate are examining whether it was caused by a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a driver's education car taking three women to get licenses.
		Police said the bomb may have been stashed in the vehicle by someone who knew it would pass by the consulate and who detonated the explosives by radio from nearby.
		Analysts say Friday's attack suggests the al Qaeda terrorist network is attempting a comeback after being battered by U.S. attacks in Afghanistan.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/06/16/karachi.blast (965 words)

	rediff.com: Suicide bombing in Karachi; 10 foreigners killed
		The blast occurred in a car, which was standing next to a naval bus that was carrying French engineers and technicians, who were working in the country's submarine project, reports said.
		Several religious extremist groups had expressed their opposition to the Karachi airport being used as a transit point by the international security forces being deployed in Afghanistan for the US-led war on terror.
		Wednesday's blast was by far the biggest attack on foreigners in Karachi since US journalists Daniel Pearl was abducted and subsequently murdered a few months ago.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/may/08pak.htm (398 words)

	City of Fear
		The suicide bomb explosion in the city on May 8 which killed at least 11 French nationals and two Pakistanis has clearly rattled foreigners as well as locals associated with diplomatic missions.
		The missile not only missed its target, landing instead in the grounds of a nearby college and causing some damage to the building, but also left the men with burn injuries that prevented them from fleeing the scene, and resulting in their arrest by the police.
		Initial investigations have revealed that the explosive used in the bombing was derived from urea, a fertiliser commonly used by farmers.
	www.newsline.com.pk /NewsJune2002/newsbeatjune5.htm (2114 words)

	No Place to Run
		May 15: Ma'alot massacre at the Ma'alot High School in Northern Israel by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members: 26 of the hostages were killed, 66 wounded.
		May 12: Bombings of United States expatriate housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings.
		May 2: Pregnant Israeli commuter Tali Hatuel and her four young children are gunned down at close range by militants from the Popular Resistance Committees and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1712146/posts (5438 words)

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		A handwritten note carried by the gunman claimed this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine".
		The attack involved 12 bombers and 5 targets.
	www.bluesnews.com /cgi-bin/edit.pl?id=220174&start=0 (1014 words)

	Template:Timeline of Islamist militancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		2002 May 9 A bomb explosion in Kaspiisk in Dagestan kills at least 42 people and injures 130 or more during Victory Day festivities.
		Attacks on some coalition forces may not be terrorist attacks under Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions which gives lawful combatant status to non-uniformed guerrillas resisting foreign occupation if they display arms openly.
		As neither the U.S. or Iraq have signed this protocol it is not applicable to attacks on US forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Template:Timeline_of_Islamist_militancy (1484 words)

	The News - International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The area in Pech district is a hotspot for attacks by Taliban insurgents.
		The attacks came despite a public call by al-Sadr to halt the killings, suggesting that splinter groups were developing within his militia.
		It may be recalled that some unknown persons had also blown up a gas pipeline carrying gas to Quetta at this very place ‘Karidoor’ yesterday night.
	www.thenews.com.pk /updates.asp (6847 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - Pakistan arrests two over US consulate bombing
		KARACHI - Pakistani police have arrested two people over a deadly suicide bombing at the US consulate in the southern city of Karachi in March, a provincial governor said.
		He said they were being questioned about their links to the bombing, but did not elaborate on their identities or on any group that they might be affiliated with.
		Karachi police chief Niaz Siddiqui said earlier this week that he seriously doubted the authenticity of the claim.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/May/subcontinent_May130.xml§ion=subcontinent&col= (391 words)

	Pakistan Arrests Bomb Mastermind - CBS News
		"One of the apprehended terrorists is suspected to have masterminded the attack on a bus near the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi" in which the French engineers and three other people died, a government statement said.
		The May car bombing led to an exodus of foreign diplomats, businessmen and their families from Pakistan's largest city.
		There was also suspicion that al-Qaida fugitives may have been involved, in part because of the sophistication of the bomb and because Pakistani extremist groups had no history of suicide attacks.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/09/25/world/main523196.shtml (811 words)

	Blogs for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: Is Osama bin Laden Dead?
		The French defense ministry on Saturday called for an internal investigation of the leak of an intelligence document that raises the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan a month ago but said the report of the death remained unverified.
		He may pop up as the new head of the dnc, if howard dean steps down.
		These extremist forces were killing people in Afghanistan and around for years, closing schools, burning mosques, killing children, uprooting vineyards, with vine trees, grapes hanging on them, forcing populations to poverty and misery.
	www.blogsforbush.com /mt/archives/007941.html (5780 words)

	Pakistan Peoples Party
		In a deadly suicide attack on May 8, bombers in Pakistan struck at foreign targets again.
		Against the growing pressure, the Karachi terror attack near a five star hotel killing the Frenchmen and others took place shocking the city.
		Released from prison on the eve of the Karachi terror attacks were one hundred and thirty convicted militants from the nineties.
	www.ppp.org.pk /articles/article51.htm (1181 words)

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		Thirteen persons, including 11 French nationals, working on a submarine project in Pakistan were killed in a suicide attack in Karachi which the authorities say might have been carried out by the Al-Qaida.
		Pakistani officials inspect the ruins of a bus after an explosion in Karachi on Wednesday.
		The needle of suspicion in the powerful bus explosion in Karachi today in which 14 persons, including nine French, were killed, points to Al-Qaida sympathisers, according to credible information received here through diplomatic channels.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020509 (420 words)

	Townhall.com::Blog::Blog
		(They actually have one.) Observers suspect Lieberman's crappy ballot position may cost him 1-2 points, which is why you'll see Lieberman's advertising focused on that in the next two weeks.
		Sick people may want cures and treatments more than the healthy population, but that doesn’t make them/us experts on morality.
		On Sunday, a band of about 30 youths, some wearing masks, forced passengers out of a bus in a southern Paris suburb in broad daylight Sunday, set it on fire, then stoned firefighters who came to the rescue, police said.
	townhall.com /blogs/soapbox/users/WillMalven/stories.html (4218 words)

	The Democratic Party
		Kosovo February 18: Podujevo bus bombing, 13 Serbian civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Northern Kosovo.
		Israel June 18: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates himself on a bus in Jerusalem in the Patt junction massacre.
		Israel May 2: Pregnant Israeli commuter Tali Hatuel and her four young children are gunned down at close range by militants from the Popular Resistance Committees and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
	www.democrats.org /a/2007/01/tgif_open_threa_23.php (14135 words)

	TGIF Open Thread
		Many of you may remember the discussions we had last year about the concept of the "state-based" impeachment procedure, based on the notes in Jefferson's Manual, which indicate that impeachment proceedings may be initiated by the transmission of charges from a state legislature.
		The transmission of charges from a state legislature must still be memorialized on the floor of the House by a Member.
		This is the site of a major political party and is open to all views as long as they are not launched as personal attacks upon the posters.
	democrats.org /a/p/tgif_open_threa_23.html (17993 words)

	Daily Times - Site Edition
		SCBA Karachi office to open on October 30
		Fast bowlers Shoaib and Asif may be forgiven, says tribunal member
		‘Dad’s Army’ Australia may be past it for Ashes, warns Lillee
	www.dailytimes.com.pk /default.asp?page=2006 (711 words)

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