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Five get life term in suicide attack case (Dawn)

16 May 2008

QUETTA, May 15: An anti-terrorism court on Thursday jailed five accused for life for their involvement in a suicide attack on an Ashura procession. At least 44 people were killed and 154 were injured when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the Liaquat Bazaar on March 2, 2004.

If I Did That Over There, They'd Cut My Hands Off (San Diego Reader)

14 May 2008

What’s it like, being Muslim in San Diego? The question arose for me earlier this year when I decided to hit Ocean Beach on maybe the worst night of the winter. It was Wednesday, the end of market day.

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12 May 2008

by Iraqiya state television. Security in Hilla had been tight for fear of a repetition of suicide bombings and attacks against Shi’ite religious rituals by suspected Sunni insurgents of the sort that killed 171 people in Baghdad and Kerbala in March 2004.