Sentences with phrase «car bomb attack»

In 2009, he became president of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon established by the United Nations to try the alleged assassins of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al - Hariri, who was killed in 2005 in a car bomb attack in Beirut.

The group has claimed responsibility for Sunday's car bomb attack on a shopping street in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in which more than 200 people were killed.

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Another car bomb, in the mixed Shi'ite - Sunni southern neighbourhood of al - Rasheed, killed six and wounded 21, the sources said, in what a military spokesman described as a suicide attack.

For example, in the first months of 2007, rising car - bomb attacks in Baghdad were making a mockery of Bush administration and Pentagon claims that the U.S. troop escalation in the capital had brought about «a dramatic drop in sectarian violence.»

In the most notorious attack, former Allende cabinet member Orlando Letelier and his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, were killed in a September 1976 car bomb explosion in Washington, D.C — in Dinges's words, «the most egregious act of foreign - inspired terrorism ever committed in the U.S. capital» prior to 9/11.

Yesterday the government raised its terror threat level to critical after police confirmed an attack upon Glasgow airport was connected to the discovery of two car bombs in London on Friday.

[20] Eight days after the AMIA attack, the Israeli embassy in London was car - bombed, and thirteen hours later a similar car bomb exploded outside a Jewish community centre in London.

Five people have been arrested across the UK as police respond to yesterday's attack upon Glasgow airport and two failed car bombs in central London.

Suicide attacks, car bombings, and assassinations - by - machete have been documented throughout the country, Africa's most populous and the linchpin of Western engagement with the continent.

Terrorists dressed as military officials attack the U.S. Embassy with an arsenal of weapons including RPGs and detonate two car bombs.

Officials cited the 9/11 attacks, the attempted car bombing in Times Square and recent tornadoes as examples of threats that could merit an emergency alert — «something so imminent it threatens the life and safety of people,» Office of Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph Bruno said.

The car bombing is the latest in a long string of attacks on UCLA researchers, and Jentsch says he felt he had to do something when he saw the impact the attack on his car had on his students and colleagues.

«The reality is that conventional weapons are easier to manufacture, transport, and detonate,» says Acquista, a point graphically illustrated by the recent propane - based car - bomb attacks in the United Kingdom.

Seismic equipment installed in Iraq to measure to detect and measure earthquakes could also help emergency responders following mortar attacks and car bombs

The teenager accused of plotting a bombing attack on his school in Albany, Ore., wanted his car stereo to blare the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 soundtrack — specifically, the song from the infamous «No Russian» mission — as he carried out his assault, according to his handwritten plans, police there said.

How to play: — Tilt or Touch to steer & auto speed - up — Touch N2O button to get extra turbo engine boost — Touch Missile button to attack the cars above yours — Touch Shield button to resist attack or obstruction — Touch Bomb button create some troubles to the cars behind yours — Earn cash to buy new cars and powerful props

His work has included organising a life class with Iggy Pop, making a film about Depeche Mode fans, and travelling across America towing a car destroyed in a Baghdad bomb attack.

He travelled from New York to Los Angeles with an Iraqi citizen and a US war veteran, towing a car destroyed in a bomb attack in Baghdad.

Perhaps this attitude is why the Taliban felt emboldened enough to attack the Afghanistan parliament while it was in session to endorse a new defense minister, replete with a huge car bomb?

An insurance agent with CSA proceeded to tell me that the car bomb was not what their company would define as a «terrorist attack,» even thought the US Department of state and the UN Secretary General publicly declared it as such.