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  • 20
    Oct
    2012
    12:44pm, EDT

    After bomb in Beirut, protesters take to the streets, links to Syrian crisis emerge

    Hussein Malla / AP

    Protesters march in the Achrafieh neighborhood a day after a car bomb attack that killed Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan and at least seven others in Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 20. Protesters burned tires and set up roadblocks around Lebanon on Saturday in a sign of boiling anger over a massive car bomb a day earlier-- a devastating attack that threatened to bring Syria's civil war to Lebanon. The writing on the woman's face reads, 'Rafik Hariri,' and 'Wissam al-Hassan.'

    NBC News producer Paul Nassar reported an unusual calm had swept over Beirut.

    "The city is dead, absolutely quiet," Nassar, reporting from Beirut, said. "All the major shopping districts are closed -- this city would usually be brimming with activity, but now, nothing."

    Nassar added that the bomb was an especially devastating blow to the city because it came on the cusp of the major Islam holiday Eid, which starts next weekend.

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    Slideshow: Bombing in Beirut

    Mahmoud Zayyat / AFP - Getty Images

    Protesters show anger over massive car bomb that killed a high-profile security official in Beirut, Lebanon.

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  • 2
    May
    2012
    12:51am, EDT

    Suicide blast in Afghan capital after Obama leaves

    Johannes Eisele / AFP - Getty Images

    Afghan police personnel gesture as they evacuate onlookers from the site of a suicide bomb attack in Kabul on Wednesday, May 2.

    Omar Sobhani / Reuters

    Afghan security forces members inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Kabul on Wednesday.

    NBC News and msnbc.com news services reports: A suicide bomber rammed a car full of explosives into a blast wall in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, an interior ministry spokesman said. Sediq Sediqqi said that there was only one attacker, dismissing reports that more than one insurgent was involved in the assault against a housing compound for westerners.

    Police chief Ayub Salangi told Reuters the car bomb exploded on Jalalabad road, the main road out of the capital heading east, where several U.S. military bases and compounds housing Westerners are located. A guard and five civilians were killed. Salangi told NBC News that one of the civilians is a school child.

    At least six people were killed in an early morning suicide attack in the Afghan capital, hours after a surprise visit to the country by President Obama. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.

    Slideshow: Afghanistan: Nation at a crossroads

    Rahmat Gul / AP

    More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.

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  • 26
    May
    2011
    8:07am, EDT

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    Officials standing beside damaged cars at a government office after an explosion in Fuzhou city, in eastern China's Jiangxi province, on May 26. Three explosions including two car blasts struck government buildings, an official said, with state media reporting at least five people were injured.

    Car bombs explode in Fuzhou, southern China

    The AP reports from BEIJING: Explosions, some from car bombs, occurred within a half-hour outside three government buildings in a south China city Thursday, killing two people and wounding at least six others, officials said. Continue reading.

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  • 2
    Feb
    2011
    5:33am, EST

    Car bomb in Peshawar kills 9 and leaves 20 injured

    Hasham Ahmed / AFP - Getty Images

    Paramedics treat an injured girl, victim of a car bomb blast, at a hospital in Peshawar on Feb. 2. A car bomb tore through a packed market, killing nine people in the sixth attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar in less than a week, officials said.

    K. Parvez / Reuters

    A girl is treated by medics at the Lady Reading hospital after suffering injuries from a bomb attack in Peshawar on Feb. 2.

    Arshad Arbab / EPA

    Locals topple over a burnt out car after a car bomb blast near a market in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Feb. 2. A bomb planted in a car exploded, ripping through a residential area killing 9 people and injuring over 20.

    Fayaz Aziz / Reuters

    Residents move a damaged vehicle from the site of a bomb attack in Peshawar on Feb. 2.

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    A car bomb killed nine people in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Wednesday, the latest in a rash of attacks that are challenging recent police claims of progress against Islamist militants in the region. Full story.

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  • 23
    Jan
    2011
    10:56am, EST

    Karim Kadim / AP

    An Iraqi teenager is seen through a shattered car windshield after a bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 23. A flurry of morning bombs killed and wounded several across Baghdad on Sunday, police said, in what one Iraqi official called an attempt to undermine security ahead of a much anticipated meeting of Arab heads of state in two months.

    Five deadly car bombs strike Baghdad

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    The boy is smoking, too

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  • 1
    Jan
    2011
    11:11am, EST

    Blast at Coptic church in Egypt kills 21, sparks clashes between Christians, Muslims after New Year's Mass

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    Tarek Fawzy / AP

    An Egyptian Christian grieves outside the Coptic Christian Saints Church in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. A car exploded in front of the church early Saturday as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass, killing at least 21 people according to officials, and sparking clashes between Christians and Muslims, a sign of the sectarian anger that has been arising with greater frequency in Egypt.

    Ahmed Youssef / EPA

    Egyptian firemen try to put out a vehicle fire following a car bomb blast outside a church in the north Egyptian city of Alexandria, Egypt, Jan. 1, 2011, killing at least 21 people and injuring 43. Witnesses said that a car that was parked outside the church exploded around 20 minutes after midnight, targeting Coptic Christians who were attending the New Year‘s Eve mass. Christians account for roughly 10 per cent of Egypt's population, according to official figures.

    Reuters

    Egyptian riot police clash with Christians in front of the Coptic Orthodox church in Alexandria, 230 km (140 miles) north of Cairo, Jan. 1, 2011. A car bombing outside the church killed 21 people as worshippers gathered to mark the New Year, security and medical sources said on Saturday.

    Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

    Egyptian Christians shout as the bodies of several victims of a car bomb attack are carried into ambulances in front of the the Coptic Orthodox church in Alexandria, Egypt, Jan. 1, 2011. The car bombing outside the church killed 21 people as worshippers gathered to mark the New Year, security and medical sources said on Saturday.

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    Yeah...brought to you by the "religion of peace. Where's the out cry from the "peace loving silent majority Muslums? Ummmmm???? Yeah right...

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  • 27
    Nov
    2010
    2:56pm, EST

    Craig Mitchelldyer / Getty Images

    A person walks in Pioneer Courthouse Square, the site of an attempted bombing Nov. 27, in Portland, Ore. A Somali-born teenager, Mohamed Osman Mohamud was arrested and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction when the previous night he allegedly attempted to set off a car bomb during Christmas tree lighting ceremony in the park. It was reported that civilians were not at risk because the bomb was supplied to him by undercover federal agents and the explosives were inert.

    Somali-born teenager arrested and charged in plot to set off car bomb at Portland, Ore., tree lighting ceremony

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