Rape and Murder by US Troops in Iraq

[scandium]

"Five American soldiers have been accused of raping an Iraqi woman then killing her along with three members of her family, including a child, before burning their bodies to destroy the evidence.

Military officials in Baghdad said yesterday that the men were the subject of a criminal investigation after two soldiers from the same infantry platoon came forward with information about the alleged incident. A week-long preliminary inquiry had established that there was sufficient evidence to proceed.

One soldier is reported to have been arrested after admitting his role in the incident, while four others have had their weapons taken away."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/01/wirq01.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/07/01/ixnews.html

[Drebbel]

Ofcourse !

Thats just a mather of statistics. Rape and Murder is committed by a certain percentage of the pupulation. That percentage includes Millitary, priests, sweet school teachers, brothers, and the guy working at the news paper stand on the corner.

[scandium]

Right... rape and murder... just a statistic. :roll:

Edit: there are a few things about this that I find particularly notable:

It involved 4 or 5 perpetrators (depending on the article you look at); unlike the Haditha incident, it was reportedly a "crime of opportunity" (and not done in the heat of battle); three members of her family were killed and the house burned down to cover it up; the incident was initially attributed to sectarian violence (until someone came forward).

Its also a little different from a crime committed by "priests, sweet school teachers, brothers, and the guy working at the news paper stand on the corner" because:

a: None of the above are armed by a foreign occupying power;

b: None of the above are responsible, as an occupying power, for maintaining the security of the people;

c: None of the above are engaged in fighting an insurgency and "winning the hearts and minds of the people".

[Skybird]

That comes with every war. I have predicted things like Abu Graib, this mess now, or guerilla warfare emerging after the field battle and later switching to terror and civil war even beoire the invasion 2003 and was bashed for that. Not the first and not the last incident of this kind. Maybe one should not be so enthusiastic about going to war, then. "Krieg vertiert" (E. Bahr).

[scandium]

That comes with every war. I have predicted things like Abu Graib, this mess now, or guerilla warfare emerging after the field battle and later switching to terror and civil war even beoire the invasion 2003 and was bashed for that. Not the first and not the last incident of this kind. Maybe one should not be so enthusiastic about going to war, then. "Krieg vertiert" (E. Bahr).
I was never in favour of it and felt quite relieved when our PM declined the "invitation" to join. But you cannot just dismiss this stuff as "inevitable" or "merely a statistic" either; after all, the US is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions and has a responsibility, as an occupying power, to respect them - as do those in its military (which is why these incidents are naturally being investigated and why, if there is guilt, the perpetrators will presumably be held accountable).

Edit: there's another factor here that makes this intriguing:

This happened back in March. In June two soldiers from the same regiment were kidnapped, killed, and mutilated which was what prompted one of the accused in the March rape incident to come forward (according to various articles). The coincidences, timeline, and circumstances of the confession lead me to speculate as to if the kidnappings were prompted as retaliation for the March rape/murders - not that the insurgencies seem to need any excuse to commit their own atrocities, mind you (and therefore the two incidents could easily be completely unrelated). However the enemy's ability to recruit among the disaffected, its ability to hold grudges and inflict stupendous brutality all indicate to me just how important it is to scrupulously follow the Geneva Conventions and punish those who violate them; else who knows how more civilians decide to join the insurgency and perpetrate brutality of their own in reprisal.

I pity the people over there - both the military trying to do an uneviable job and those simply trying to live their lives in this hellhole.

[gabeeg]

In defence of Drebbel, I dont think he is limiting the tragedy to that of a simple statistic but making the point that In a certain population...whatever the population you will have a certain percentage of bad apples. Like in a city or 150,000 people you may have 20 rapes and 15 murders in a year. Well, when you have 150,000 troops you are going to get similar statistics (actually the percentages of crimes commited are lower for military personel from what I have heard, when this was discussed during desert storm).

If it turns out they are guilty, they deserve never to see the light of day again, or breath free air. (If I were in favor of the death penalty this would be one instance considering the circumstances where a firing squad would be in order).

[LoBlo]

Right... rape and murder... just a statistic. :roll:

Edit: there are a few things about this that I find particularly notable:

It involved 4 or 5 perpetrators (depending on the article you look at); unlike the Haditha incident, it was reportedly a "crime of opportunity" (and not done in the heat of battle); three members of her family were killed and the house burned down to cover it up; the incident was initially attributed to sectarian violence (until someone came forward).

Its also a little different from a crime committed by "priests, sweet school teachers, brothers, and the guy working at the news paper stand on the corner" because:

a: None of the above are armed by a foreign occupying power;

b: None of the above are responsible, as an occupying power, for maintaining the security of the people;

c: None of the above are engaged in fighting an insurgency and "winning the hearts and minds of the people".

I'm not sure what your curiousity or confusion is about. A criminal is a criminal, even if he's whering a uniform. These guys should be prosecuted and it sounds like its already underway.

[SUBMAN1]

Yep - simple statistics. Actually, if this is the only incident, then it is a low statistic as suggested.

-S

PS. Read up on Napoleonic times - this happened then too as well as throughout history.

[scandium]

If it turns out they are guilty, they deserve never to see the light of day again, or breath free air. (If I were in favor of the death penalty this would be one instance considering the circumstances where a firing squad would be in order).
Apparently this was planned and premeditated, which under US Military law does make them eligible for the death penalty - if the allegations are true and they are convicted.

Edit: as to this: In defence of Drebbel, I dont think he is limiting the tragedy to that of a simple statistic but making the point that In a certain population...whatever the population you will have a certain percentage of bad apples. Like in a city or 150,000 people you may have 20 rapes and 15 murders in a year. Well, when you have 150,000 troops you are going to get similar statistics (actually the percentages of crimes commited are lower for military personel from what I have heard, when this was discussed during desert storm).
If I lived in a city of 150,000 where the rape of a woman and killing of her family was so common as to be regarded as simply "a statistic" (that is, a norm) I would move. I live in a city of 180,000 and I don't think there's been a single rape/murder here in the 10 years that I've lived here so this behaviour is not normal to me. And there are nowhere even close to 20 rapes or 15 murders per year here. I would say that if things in your own societies have gotten this degenerate than perhaps you'd have been a lot smarter and better off to spend that $200 billion on fixing your own rape and murder problems rather than trying to fix someone elses.

[bradclark1]

Yes, but your city isn't mired in violence as a way of life is it? Move your 180,000 to Iraq and see what happens. Military services are not all filled with perfect citizens.

[scandium]

Yes, but your city isn't mired in violence as a way of life is it? Move your 180,000 to Iraq and see what happens. Military services are not all filled with perfect citizens.

That's a bit circular. Is the rape and murder of a woman and her family the norm in cities where the US Military is stationed in peacetime? If the National Guard responds to a domestic crisis and there is looting and violence, would Americans like yourself expect some of them to take that as an opportunity to commit premeditated rape and murder? Or is it merely expected because the woman who was raped and then murdered, along with her family, happened to be Iraqi, and therefore somehow less than human anyway?

[bradclark1]

Ah, I see. You want an argument.
Afraid you really aren't going to get one. There really isn't anything to argue about. I think you want me to defend the incident for some reason but it's not going to happen.
I will however expand on the military in peacetime and wartime. The peacetime miliary is kept strictly supervised and disiplined. Wartime on the other hand is not so strictly supervised and disiplined. It's impossible too. What could get you busted in peacetime will get you nothing but an eye roll in wartime. It's harder to control your soldiers because they are more spread out and communication is done by radio ( in a city enviroment). You expect and trust that your soldiers will do the right thing. If they do the wrong thing as in rape and murder and it is found out they will be disiplined under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMF). What more could you expect? No military force in the world has a pych test to see how you will react under the pressures of combat that I am aware of. You put a loaded firearm in someones hands and they change and thats a fact. Skybird might have a twenty page essay on the subject somewhere dealing with the subject. I'm not going to get into it.
You are under the mistaken impression that soldiers are supposed to be knights in shining armour and we are in the age of chivalry. I find that amusing. You have good and bad just like any society and you trust that justice will prevail as it will in this case.
To expect everyone in an armed force to be perfect gentlemen is pretty delusional. That hasn't happened in the age of mankind yet and it won't in the future.

[Skybird]

An army is no representative image of society. It is still mostly a male society, and it only attracts - in non-conscript armies - people with an interest in that. And sociological reserach probably reveals that certain social groups are over- (under-) represented. So the argument that the army reflects the ammount of crime to be expected from civil society, necessarily must be distorted a bit. the first is not representative for the latter. But the overall climate and mood may change and influence the spirit inside an army. For example I am very much aware that British soldiers and officers behave and talk in different and mnore relaxed way than many German ones. the tradition in both armies is different.

But all that is not so much decisive, I think.Decisive is that EVERY man, civilian as military as well, will change and will be affected by the presence of violance of that scale over a long time, with his life at risk for so long, with situations he do not see meaning in, and the genral situation of chaos that war necessarily brings. War changes man's mind and attitude, and for the worst it does so. That's no question of guilt or non-guilt, it simple a reality of human nature - man bears so much, and beyond that he brakes, in whatever that symptom will show up: hate, frustration that leads to vandalism or an attiude tnot to care for life anymore. It has always been that way in every war ever fought, and it will always be like that. That's why it is "war", and not a picnic in the park. By the way an army is trained and lead, and the spriit that is held alive in it, the time-factor and the degree to which such barbaric things happen can be influenced: but it cvannot be totally prevented. All you can do is examine what happened, and force the ones guilty to accept legal consequences by military code of law - that's what it is there for.

"Krieg vertiert." War turns men into dogs. If you don't want to see it happen, don't wage war.

[scandium]

Ah, I see. You want an argument.
Afraid you really aren't going to get one. There really isn't anything to argue about. I think you want me to defend the incident for some reason but it's not going to happen.
A discussion perhaps, but fair enough. :D

I will however expand on the military in peacetime and wartime. The peacetime miliary is kept strictly supervised and disiplined. Wartime on the other hand is not so strictly supervised and disiplined. It's impossible too. What could get you busted in peacetime will get you nothing but an eye roll in wartime. It's harder to control your soldiers because they are more spread out and communication is done by radio ( in a city enviroment). You expect and trust that your soldiers will do the right thing. If they do the wrong thing as in rape and murder and it is found out they will be disiplined under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMF). What more could you expect? No military force in the world has a pych test to see how you will react under the pressures of combat that I am aware of. You put a loaded firearm in someones hands and they change and thats a fact. Skybird might have a twenty page essay on the subject somewhere dealing with the subject. I'm not going to get into it.
You are under the mistaken impression that soldiers are supposed to be knights in shining armour and we are in the age of chivalry. I find that amusing. You have good and bad just like any society and you trust that justice will prevail as it will in this case.
To expect everyone in an armed force to be perfect gentlemen is pretty delusional. That hasn't happened in the age of mankind yet and it won't in the future.
Well said, and in fact I don't expect the armed forces to behave as chivalarous knights. :lol: This is actually a very good arguement as to why the US Military had no business "liberating" Iraq from its own government, unless of course they themselves would not succumb to the same behaviour that Saddam Hussein's henchmen had partaken in. But as you say, this is an impossible standard and the brutality of acts such as this and warfare in general completely undermines the "liberation" rationale for the war. Perhaps that's what Skybird was getting at (I won't put words in his mouth, and besides, he can write his own essays on this and probably already has :)).

I won't say you're guilty of this, because I don't know your feelings on the subject, but there seems to me to be a definite disconnect among those who advocated the war on humanitarian grounds but are curiously silent on this subject, or else simply dismiss it as "statistics", the "heat of battle", etc. I mean collateral damage is one thing, and that's been dismissed from the outset as a "necessary evil", but this is a whole other thing to me. Especially after Abu Ghraib and Haditha - and especially in light of the fact that there is still no end to this occupation in sight.

[bradclark1]

Nobody likes to be told their side is doing something wrong. I don't like being told that something I was a part of for so long is commiting atrocities. But I also know that sh!t happens and it can't be ignored.
I also think that the general public is so used to hearing about violence, day in and day out that they have become anesthetized to it and are able to just shrug it off and say stuff happens..

[scandium]

Nobody likes to be told their side is doing something wrong. I don't like being told that something I was a part of for so long is commiting atrocities. But I also know that sh!t happens and it can't be ignored.
I also think that the general public is so used to hearing about violence, day in and day out that they have become anesthetized to it and are able to just shrug it off and say stuff happens..

Yeah you have some good points here and I agree with you.

[Iceman]

Dang...and I thought Skybird was the only one sniffing for dirty underwear around here....nothing about the 100 killed today by some A-HOLE wannabe Osama jerkoff who blew himself up in a crowd and the 14 yr old boy who said he heard the blast and ran and then looked down and realized his arm was gone.....stfu scandium get out of the glass bubble you live in and see things the way they are not he way you wish they were.

[scandium]

Dang...and I thought Skybird was the only one sniffing for dirty underwear around here....nothing about the 100 killed today by some A-HOLE wannabe Osama jerkoff who blew himself up in a crowd and the 14 yr old boy who said he heard the blast and ran and then looked down and realized his arm was gone.....stfu scandium get out of the glass bubble you live in and see things the way they are not he way you wish they were.

To be honest I hadn't seen anything on the bombing until after I posted this article. I decided not to post another Iraq article, one on the bombing, because to people such as myself who have been following events there this past three years, it is nothing new. But it is stupid to criticize me for what I didn't post - what am I CNN? If you think that is newsworthy then post it yourself instead of getting pissy with me. :roll:

[Iceman]

Dang...and I thought Skybird was the only one sniffing for dirty underwear around here....nothing about the 100 killed today by some A-HOLE wannabe Osama jerkoff who blew himself up in a crowd and the 14 yr old boy who said he heard the blast and ran and then looked down and realized his arm was gone.....stfu scandium get out of the glass bubble you live in and see things the way they are not he way you wish they were.

To be honest I hadn't seen anything on the bombing until after I posted this article. I decided not to post another Iraq article, one on the bombing, because to people such as myself who have been following events there this past three years, it is nothing new. But it is stupid to criticize me for what I didn't post - what am I CNN? If you think that is newsworthy then post it yourself instead of getting pissy with me. :roll:

Nothing new....rape and murder is as old as dirt....your trolling...you think anyone here doesn't watch the news...do we need you to point out a news event that is brodcast on every news agency?

You post a headline ..."Rape and Murder by US Troops in Iraq" to get some attention ...well you got some... from an American who follows it's countries affairs in the world....Pissy?...no...just had a few beers and margaritas now celebrating my countries independence day and tired of listening to whinning,sniveling people like yourself sorry.

[scandium]

Nothing new....rape and murder is as old as dirt....your trolling...you think anyone here doesn't watch the news...do we need you to point out a news event that is brodcast on every news agency?
Nope, I was not trolling. Not everyone watches the news (I know I don't watch it everyday), and even for those that do its hard to discuss current events with CNN - which is what makes "General Discussion" forums like this one useful and interesting.

You post a headline ..."Rape and Murder by US Troops in Iraq" to get some attention ...well you got some... from an American who follows it's countries affairs in the world....Pissy?...no...just had a few beers and margaritas now celebrating my countries independence day and tired of listening to whinning,sniveling people like yourself sorry.
I posted, as my topic headline, the headline that appeared in the article that I linked to. If you don't like the headline then take it up with those who wrote the article - they wrote it, not me. And if you don't like the content of the article then why shoot the messenger? I only posted an article here that had struck me as newsworthy, which is a common enough occurence here in General Discussion.

As to the "whining and sniveling" comment, the only thing I have to say to that is get off your high horse Mr. Holier-than-thou. You are a walking contradiction. One day you are throwing your religion around to preach to the unbelievers on Subsim, the next its your nationality. The common denominator in both cases being a misplaced sense of entitlement leading you to believe your opinion, as a Christian or an American, puts your opinion above anyone else's and that you can use whichever is more applicable to berate and insult those you disagree with. Sorry Ice, that doesn't cut it with me.

[Drebbel]

You post a headline ..."Rape and Murder by US Troops in Iraq" to get some attention ...well you got some...

Hear hear. Just posting an article to stirr up things and even without adding anything to it your self is totally useless imho. This is not a news paper, this is a forum !

which is what makes "General Discussion" forums like this one useful and interesting.

You did not do any discussion or even try to make the forum interesting, you just did a copy and paste job. You just dumped a news paper article in the forums to stirr up things. No comments from you at all.

Seems too many people focus on the same subject, political discussions in these forums seem to be very narrow minded focussed on 1 or 2 subjects. Why not even try to find a different interesting article (like i.e the newest technology China uses to flood the invaded country of Tibet with fresh Chinese people) But you choose an easy subject that is already in the head lines all over the world.

Too many people make this General Forum a "Fart Alarm Forum" ---> when ever America farts it will be posted here.

:arrgh!:

[scandium]

Just posting an article to stirr up things and even without adding anything to it your self is totally useless imho. This is not a news paper, this is a forum !

You did not do any discussion or even try to make the forum interesting, you just did a copy and paste job. You just dumped a news paper article in the forums to stirr up things. No comments from you at all.

I posted no comments in my initial post because the convention here, with newspaper articles, seems to be to post either first post the entire article or just a link to it - instead I posted part of the artcle and a link to it to keep the initial post short but still provide some substance (there was even a discussion about this recently). Would you like some examples of this as they are everywhere in this forum? Why you are jumping on me for doing this, given that I rarely ever even post articles of any kind here, I don't know.


Seems too many people focus on the same subject, political discussions in these forums seem to be very narrow minded focussed on 1 or 2 subjects. Why not even try to find a different interesting article (like i.e the newest technology China uses to flood the invaded country of Tibet with fresh Chinese people).

Again I don't know why you're picking this particular bone with me - why not sticky something about it up top rather than grind this axe with someone who rarely starts new threads and in a thread that not many people are even reading? Also, btw, at the same time I posted this article I posted a humourous article that was not on politics so again you're grinding this axe on the wrong person. As to the Tibet article I didn't know this forum was "General Discussions about Tibet" - I thought "General Discussions" meant General Discussions - my mistake.


But you choose an easy subject that is already in the head lines all over the world.

As I said in my previous post, one cannot have a discussion with CNN. If you look through this thread and not at the initial post, you will see that I made several comments throughout it (not being aware when I made them that I was required to pre-emptively put all my comments in my initial post, unlike everyone else here) and again I mistakenly thought "General Discussion" was for General Discussions (and not for being berated by another forum member for having the nerve to post an article that he did not like, but still read anyway, or a mod who seems more interested in selectively moderating the topics to conform to his interest in Tibet rather than anything else).


Too many people make this General Forum a "Fart Alarm Forum" ---> when ever America farts it will be posted here.

Again, you're directing this at the wrong person. Also last I checked, Iraqis (the people that were killed in the article I posted) are not American and Iraq (where the incident occurred) is not part of the US. And for that matter, as I understand it, the Iraq debate long predates my arrival here. :arrgh!:

[scandium]

By the way, Drebbel, here is an article by Neal that features the first pargraph of a news article and a link but with no commentary of his own in the initial post (beyond the word "Stunned!"):

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=94898

Why don't you go grind your axe with him on how you think things should be done here, since I had only posted using the same convention as the site owner.

[The Avon Lady]

Statistics. :roll:
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Date, Country, City, Killed, Injured, Description
7/1/06 Iraq Mosul 2 6 Two people are killed by a suicide bomber.
7/1/06 Iraq Baghdad 62 114 Sixty-two Shiite shoppers are blown to bits in a horrific marketplace bombing by Sunni terrorists that leaves over a hundred others in various stages of suffering.
6/30/06 Pakistan Spinkai Raghzai 1 3 Local Taliban shoot a rival religious leader to death.
6/30/06 Iraq Baghdad 7 0 Six bodies are found dumped in a house and Jihadi terrorists elsewhere gun down an Imam.
6/30/06 Pakistan Ipi 1 0 Shouting "Allah akbar," executioners shoot a man to death in a public square.
6/29/06 Iraq Kirkuk 2 0 A 15-year-old girl is among two people kidnapped and murdered by radical Muslims.
6/29/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 4 In separate attacks, Jihadis kill eight civilians including a baker, and electrical worker, a garbage collector and a university professor.
6/29/06 Iraq Hilla 14 0 Fourteen bodies are found in Hilla, Kut and Karbala. The victims included women and children who were killed in brutal fashion.
6/29/06 Iraq Kirkuk 4 27 A suicide bomber kills four Iraqis at a funeral.
6/29/06 India Kashmir 2 0 Two civilians are shot to death by radical Muslims in separate attacks (Kangan and Bandipore).
6/29/06 Algeria Albalouta 2 11 Islamic fundamentalists attack a communal guard post with rockets, killing two people, whose bodies they later burned.
6/28/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 5 Islamic gunmen storm into a karaoke bar, killing one and injuring five others.
6/28/06 Nigeria Izom 1 0 A 20-year-old woman is stoned to death by a Muslim mob after she criticized Islam.
6/28/06 Philippines Maguindanao 1 2 A government official is gunned down and two 9-year-old girls are wounded by suspected Muslims .
6/28/06 Iraq Baqubah 3 12 Jihadis use a car bomb in a crowd of laborers looking for work. Children are among the casualties.
6/27/06 Somalia Lafole 6 0 Islamic militias break a truce and attack two checkpoints.
6/27/06 Iraq Kirkuk 3 21 Jihadis blow up a gas station, killing three patrons.
6/27/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 3 Three policemen are killed in a roadside terror bombing.
6/27/06 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two villagers are murdered by Islamic radicals.
6/27/06 Thailand Yala 5 1 Islamists target a convoy of teachers with a bomb. Five security guards are killed in the explosion.
6/27/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 10 A nail-packed bomb at a market kills three.
6/27/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A man is killed in his home by Islamists.
6/27/06 Afghanistan Kunduz 2 8 Fedayeen bombers target German peacekeepers, but kill two civilians.
6/27/06 India Rajpora 2 0 Two people are kidnapped by Islamic militants, and then exectuted with their bodies thrown into a stream.
6/26/06 Iraq Baqubah 18 25 Islamic terrorists bomb a crowded market, slaughtering at least eighteen innocents.
6/26/06 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A Muslim man slits his pregnant wife's throat in an honor killing.
6/26/06 Pakistan North Waziristan 6 5 A Fedayeen suicide bomber plows into a checkpoint, taking the lives of six Pakistanis.
6/26/06 India Baramulla 2 0 Two civilians are murdered by the Mujahideen in separate attacks.
6/26/06 Iraq Hilla 6 56 Six shoppers at a market are murdered in a Jihad bombing.
6/26/06 Pakistan Guldar 5 0 Local Talibanis attack a civilian and kill him along with four family members.
6/26/06 India Bandipore 3 0 Islamic radicals gun down three civilians.
6/25/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Islamists read from the Qur'an as they execute three Russian hostages in cold blood. The last two are forced to stand over the blood and decapitated body of the first.
6/25/06 Israel Ramallah 1 0 An 18-year-old Israeli hitchhiker is picked up by Palestinian terrorists and murdered.
6/25/06 Iraq Hawija 3 0 Three Shiites are killed in a drive-by shooting.
6/25/06 Pakistan Karachi 2 0 Muslims gun down two civilians in a suspected sectarian attack.
6/25/06 India Tral 1 0 The Mujahideen kidnap a policeman and then torture and execute him.
6/25/06 Israel Kerem Shalom 2 3 Hamas takes credit for an attack on Israel that leaves two IDF soldiers dead and a third kidnapped.
6/25/06 USA Denver, CO 1 5 Saying that it was 'Allah's choice', a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer.
6/25/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 22 Two Jihad bombings, one in a shopping center and the other on a minibus, leave at least five Iraqi civilians dead.
6/24/06 Iraq Suwayra 1 0 A young woman is tortured and beheaded by angry Muslims.
6/24/06 Iraq Baqubah 14 5 Three civilians at a car dealership are among fourteen who loose their lives to Islam in four terror attacks.
6/24/06 Afghanistan Khost 1 0 Religious extremists kill a policeman as he is driving to work.
6/24/06 India Palhalan 1 1 A 12-year-old boy is killed in a Mujahideen ambush.
6/24/06 India Srinigar 1 9 An Islamic militant tosses a grenade into a crowded street crossing.
6/23/06 Afghanistan Zabul 4 0 The Taliban kidnap four civilians and then cut off their heads.
6/23/06 India Lal Chowk 1 0 Islamists murder a police officer on a city street in the capital.
6/23/06 Philippines Shariff Aguak 6 9 Six shoppers are blown to bits when Filipino Muslims set off a bomb at a crowded market.
6/23/06 Iraq Hibhib 10 15 Shia terrorists bomb a Sunni mosque, killing at least ten.
6/23/06 Iraq Basra 5 15 At least five people are killed when Islamic militants bomb a gas station.
6/23/06 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 A Swedish journalist attending an Islamic rally is shot fatally in the chest.
6/23/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 The bodies of five factory workers, kidnapped the day before, are found in a river.
6/22/06 India Sopore 2 20 Muslim militants hurl a grenade at the house of a religious rival, killing a woman and a child, and injuring twenty others.
6/22/06 India Rajpura 1 0 A civilian is killed in his home by the Mujahideen.
6/22/06 Iraq Hawija 1 0 A carpenter is murdered by Islamic terrorists.
6/21/06 Dagestan Khasavyurt 2 0 Two policemen sitting in a car are slaughtered in a brutal shooting attack at a traffic stop.
6/21/06 Pakistan Bannu 3 1 Three Pakistan policemen on patrol are murdered by al-Qaeda backed terrorists.
6/21/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 7 A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills a civilian and injures seven others.
6/21/06 Algeria Bouira 6 3 Islamic fundamentalists ambush a security patrol, killing six individuals.
6/21/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 6 Jihadis murder two people with a car bomb at a crowded market. Elsewhere, a Sunni imam and a high school teacher are gunned down.
6/20/06 Iraq Suwayra 7 0 The bodies of seven victims of Islamic radicals are found handcuffed and tortured.
6/20/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 18 Islamic terrorists kill two civilians in a bomb attack on a commercial area.
6/20/06 Algeria Blida 5 0 Five farmers are murdered by Islamic fundamentalists in a gruesome knife attack.
6/20/06 Iraq Basra 2 3 Elderly patients at an old age home are targeted by a Sunni suicide bomber. Two are killed.
6/20/06 India Aaora Missipora 1 0 A political activist is shot to death by the Mujahideen.
6/19/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 4 0 Four members of a construction company are killed when religious extremists attack their vehicle.
6/19/06 Pakistan Wana 1 0 Militant Muslims assassinate a tribal chief.
6/19/06 Iraq Baghdad 7 13 Seven civilians are murdered by Islamic terrorists in two car bombings.
6/19/06 India Tangmarg 1 0 A civilian is abducted and murdered by the Mujahideen.
6/18/06 Thailand Pattani 1 2 An 88-year-old woman is murdered when Islamists open up on a crowd with automatic weapons.
6/18/06 Afghanistan Helmand 32 14 Some thirty members of the same family are massacred by the Taliban.
6/18/06 Iraq Baqubah 13 0 Radical Muslims gun down three people in cold blood, as ten other bodies are found elsewhere.
6/18/06 Iraq Mosul 1 19 Jihadis murder a high-school girl and injure nineteen others with a car bomb.
6/18/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 48-year-old man out for a Sunday drive is shot to death by Islamists.
6/17/06 Thailand Yala 1 2 Islamists bomb a karaoke bar, killing one patron.
6/17/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 14 Muslim extremists bomb a minibus, killing at least four passengers.
6/17/06 Iraq Baghdad 23 52 Two suicidal Sunnis slaughter dozens in separate attacks at traffic checkpoints.
6/17/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 37 Jihadis target two markets with explosives, killing at least eight shoppers and leaving another 25 in various stages of injury.
6/16/06 India Bandipore 2 3 The Mujahideen stages a grenade attack along a city street, killing two civilians.
6/16/06 Iraq Yusifiyah 3 0 Islamic terrorists attack a checkpoint and kidnap two U.S. soldiers, who are later tortured to death.
6/16/06 Pakistan Muzzafargarh 1 0 A man accussed of blasphemy is knifed to death by two religious men outside a courtroom.
6/16/06 India Kashmir 2 0 Two civilians are murdered by militant Muslims in separate attacks.
6/16/06 Iraq Fallujah 5 0 Jihad gunmen massacre five truck drivers trying to make a living.
6/16/06 Pakistan Orakzai 4 0 Two girls under the age of 5 are slaughtered along with two women working for an NGO by Muslim gunmen who broke into their home in the middle of the night.
6/16/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 16 Muslim terrorists fire mortar rounds into a residential neighborhood, killing at least three Iraqis.
6/16/06 Iraq Baghdad 11 25 A Sunni suicide bomber hits a Shiite mosque, blasting eleven worshippers to Allah and leaving dozens more in agony.
6/15/06 Pakistan Mir Ali 1 0 A journalist who was abducted six months earlier is executed by Islamists while in handcuffs.
6/15/06 India Srundoo 1 0 The Mujahideen gun down a civilian.
6/15/06 India Dunga 1 13 Two brothers are brutally tortured by Islamists, who cut off their tongues, noses and ears. A 65-year-old man is also shot to death.
6/15/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 10 16 Religious extremists bomb a minibus carrying laborers, killing at least ten people.
6/15/06 Thailand Pattani 1 10 Islamists bomb a tea shop, killing a Buddhist patron. Just one of 41 bombs set that morning.
6/15/06 Iraq Baqubah 10 2 Muslim gunmen slaughter ten laborers as they are headed to work. All are shot to death.
6/15/06 Pakistan Hasilpur 1 1 An elderly man is killed by a Muslim mob as he tries to protect another man from torture over suspicion of blasphemy.
6/15/06 Algeria Gouraya 10 0 Two people are beheaded by Islamic fundamentalists, who also kill seven other persons in separate attacks.
6/15/06 Iraq Tikrit 4 15 Radicals storm a mosque and shoot a cleric and three others to death.
6/15/06 Pakistan Karachi 5 6 Militants ambush a car carrying policemen on a city street, killing five people.
6/15/06 Thailand Pattani 1 6 A man is killed by Muslim bombers targeting a city hall.
6/14/06 India Bandipore 2 0 Two civilians are gunned down by the Mujahideen.
6/14/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 7 Jihadis detonate a car bomb near a market, killing two civilians.
6/14/06 Pakistan Thabi 1 0 A man is kidnapped and beheaded by local Taliban.
6/14/06 India Sopore 1 0 A man is murdered by Islamic terrorists.
6/13/06 India Anantnag 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct a civilian, murder him and then toss his body in a stream.
6/13/06 Algeria Skikda 1 3 A bomb attack by Islamic fundamentalists kills an Algerian soldier.
6/13/06 Iraq Kirkuk 22 43 A series of Jihad car bombings leave at least twenty people dead, mostly civilians.
6/13/06 Iraq Baghdad 7 0 Islamists shoot a university professor to death as six bodies showing signs of torture are found elsewhere.
6/12/06 India Jammu 1 22 Hindu pilgrims at a busstop are the targets of a grenade attack by Islamic militants.
6/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 19 A suicidal Sunni blows up five Shiites at a market.
6/12/06 Afghanistan Paktia 2 5 Two passengers in a car are killed and five injured when the Taliban place a bomb under a bridge.
6/12/06 Afghanistan Ghazni 1 1 Religious extremists attack a private truck convoy, killing one of the drivers.
6/12/06 Pakistan Quetta 5 17 A bomb attached to a bicycle kill five people, including a woman and a child.
6/12/06 Iraq Tal Afar 4 43 A Fedayeen suicide bomber plows into a gas station, sending at least four civilians to Allah.
6/12/06 Iraq Balad 2 26 A market is once again the target of Islamic militants, who blast at least two shoppers to Allah.
6/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 6 12 Sunni radicals bomb a minibus carrying oil workers, killing six.
6/12/06 India Sopore 3 0 Three people are killed in two separate Islamic grenade attacks.
6/12/06 India Budora 1 0 A newly recruited soldier, home on leave, is abducted, tortured and beheaded by the Mujahideen.
6/12/06 India Kulgam 8 5 Hibul Mujahideen massacre eight migrant laborers.
6/12/06 Iraq Suwayra 9 0 A 10-year-old boy is among nine people killed by radical Shiites and dumped into a river.
6/11/06 Algeria Skikda 1 3 Fundamentalists capture a civilian and cut his throat on video.
6/11/06 Iraq Tikrit 1 0 An Iraqi soldier is captured and beheaded by the Mujahideen.
6/11/06 Chechnya Niki-Khita 1 1 A Jihad ambush kills one Russian and injures another.
6/11/06 Israel Jerusalem 1 4 Palestinian gunmen fire on a car carrying Israelis, killing a 35-year-old father.
6/11/06 Iraq Fallujah 2 0 A man and a woman are brutally gunned down by Muslim terrorists.
6/11/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A young man is murdered by Islamic extremists outside a mosque.
6/11/06 Iraq Baghdad 6 42 Muslim terrorists detonate a car bomb in a commercial district, killing at least six innocents.
6/11/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 4 0 Four road workers are murdered by the Taliban.
6/10/06 Iraq Baghdad 9 41 Islamic radicals set off bombs near two crowded shopping areas, killing at least nine and injuring over forty others.
6/10/06 Iraq Khan Bani Saad 2 0 Shiites kidnap two Sunni brothers from their workplace and then chop off their heads.
6/9/06 Ingushetia Karabulak 1 0 A woman is gunned down by Muslim radicals.
6/9/06 Pakistan Wana 1 4 An 18-year-old farm worker is killed in a landmine attack.
6/9/06 Ingushetia Ordzhonikidzevskaya 6 0 Three young children are among six killed in a targeted Jihad ambush on a vehicle.
6/8/06 Afghanistan Ghazni 3 1 Three Afghans are murdered by a Taliban roadside bomb.
6/8/06 Thailand Narathiwat 5 3 Five policemen are blown to bits by militant Muslims in a landmine attack.
6/8/06 Turkey Istanbul 1 0 Islamists suspected in the assassination of a lawyer.
6/8/06 Iraq Baghdad 19 50 Nineteen people are killed and more than fifty injured by two terror bombings near a market.
6/8/06 Philippines Patikul 1 2 Islamists attack Christians at a carnival, killing one and injuring two more.
6/8/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 0 The Taliban kill two policemen, then mutilated their bodies.
6/8/06 Iraq Baghdad 15 23 Jihadis target an outdoor market with separate car bombs, killing at least fifteen innocents.
6/8/06 Iraq Kazimiyah 6 15 Six day laborers are blown apart by a Muslim car bomb.
6/8/06 Afghanistan Bala Buluk 1 0 Two Talibanis kill a government official on a city street.
6/8/06 Afghanistan Balkh 2 1 Two humanitarian workers are murdered in a shooting attack by religious fundamentalists.
6/7/06 Iraq Baghdad 11 5 Separate attacks and the discovery of five bodies add up to eleven dead in sectarian violence.
6/7/06 Iraq Baqubah 2 0 Two shopowners are gunned down by Islamic radicals.
6/7/06 India Patnazi 1 0 Islamic terrorists murder an 18-year-old girl in her home.
6/7/06 Iraq Mosul 6 0 Six people, including three university students are shot to death by Muslim terrorists.
6/6/06 Afghanistan Khogyani 2 2 A Taliban roadside attack leaves two soldiers dead.
6/6/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 7 At least two women are among five civilians killed by Muslim terrorists in three attacks, which include a husband and wife gunned down on a city street.
6/6/06 Iraq Baqubah 9 0 Nine more severed heads are found, courtesy of the Religion of Peace..
6/6/06 Afghanistan Oal a-I Oadzi 3 8 Three children are among the casualties when religious extremists blow up a mosque and school.
6/5/06 Iraq Suwayra 4 0 Four men are stabbed to death by Muslim militants.
6/4/06 Afghanistan Paktika 1 0 A health official is shot dead by the Taliban as he is leaving his home.
6/4/06 Iraq Diyala 21 1 Sunnis drag twenty-one people, mostly Shia high school students, from a bus and execute them in cold blood.
6/4/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 4 13 A suicidal religious extremist blows up four civilians with an explosives-laden vehicle.
6/4/06 Ingushetia Nazran 1 2 Muslim militants kill a soldier in a terror attack.
6/4/06 Iraq Baghdad 19 2 Radical Islamic gunmen kill four employees at a local company and fifteen others in various parts of the capital.
6/4/06 Pakistan Shena Khowar 2 3 al-Qaeda back militants use an IED to kill two Pakistani soldiers in a roadside blast.
6/4/06 Pal. Auth. Khan Younis 1 2 Militants kill a pregnant woman.
6/4/06 India Rajouri 1 0 Islamic radicals kill a man inside his home.
6/4/06 Pal. Auth Gaza 3 0 Three civilian bystanders are shot to death by Hamas gunmen.
6/3/06 Iraq Basra 28 62 'Insurgents' bomb a packed market, blowing twenty-eight innocent souls to Allah and injuring dozens more.
6/3/06 Iraq Baghdad 23 4 Twenty-two bodies are found showing signs of torture and Islamists also kill a Russian diplomat.
6/3/06 Iraq Baquba 8 0 Eight severed Sunni heads are found.
6/3/06 Iraq Baquba 9 2 Islamic radicals storm an auto parts shop killing three workers. Six police are killed in a separate attack on a checkpoint.
6/2/06 Pakistan Miran Shah 4 7 Two Fedayeen suicide bombers blow themselves to Allah, taking four Pakistani soliders with them.
6/2/06 Iraq Baghdad 7 61 Three terrorist bombings, two at the same market, kill at least seven innocents.
6/2/06 Syria Damascus 1 0 Armed Islamists attempt to strom a radio station. A security guard is killed.
6/2/06 Iraq Khaldiya 3 0 Three victims of sectarian violence are found tortured and executed.
6/2/06 Afghanistan Azmarai 3 0 A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills three civilians returning from a picnic.
6/2/06 India Bhata 1 0 A civilian is abducted and murdered by the Mujahideen.
6/2/06 Pakistan Noor Gul 2 1 Two people are killed when militants fire a rocket at a house.
6/2/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A local official is gunned down by Islamists.
6/1/06 Iraq Baghdad 6 21 Islamic terrorist kill six people, including two laborers in a roadside bombing.
6/1/06 Kosovo Zitkovac 1 0 A 22-year-old man is shot to death in an automatic weapons ambush by suspected Albanians.
6/1/06 India Budhal 1 0 A civilian is abducted and murdered by the Mujahideen.
6/1/06 Iraq Samarra 1 4 A woman is blown apart by Islamic terrorists.
5/31/06 Iraq Baghdad 46 0 Forty-six victims of sectarian violence are found with signs of torture in various locales around the capital.
5/31/06 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 A TV sports anchorman is killed by religious fundamentalists as he stepped out of his house.
5/31/06 Iraq Muqdadiya 2 0 The mayor and his cousin are killed when Islamic radical put a bomb under his car.
5/31/06 India Thal 1 0 Islamic terrorists slit the throat of a villager.
5/31/06 India Dalgate 1 36 Thirty-six tourists are injured in two Mujahideen attacks on their buses. One succumbs to injuries on June 2.
5/30/06 Afghanistan Qalat 1 4 A rocket attack by Taliban fundamentalists leaves at least one Afghan dead.
5/30/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Mulslims shoot a 50-year-old man to death.
5/30/06 Iraq Husaniya 25 65 Jihadis bomb a market, slaughtering at least twenty-five innocents.
5/30/06 India Srinagar 1 9 A Jaish-e-Mohammad militant tosses a grenade into a crowd of people, killing one.
5/30/06 Iraq Hilla 12 36 A Fedayeen suicide car bomber massacres at least a dozen people near a car dealership.
5/30/06 Iraq Baghdad 9 10 Nine people in a bakery are cut down by a terrorist bombing.
5/30/06 Afghanistan Badakhshan 2 2 Two Afghan employees of a U.S. firm are murdered by Taliban terrorists in a landmine attack.
5/30/06 Pal. Auth. Raffidiyeh 1 0 A mother of four is shot to death in a hospital courtyard by relatives and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
5/30/06 Pakistan Ferozewala 4 20 Four people, including a woman and child, are killed when terrorists spray their vehicle with automatic weapons fire.
5/30/06 Afghanistan Shiberghan 4 0 Three Afghan women working for a humanitarian aid agency are gunned down in cold blood along with their driver by religious fundamentalists.
5/30/06 Pal. Auth. Balata 1 0 A man is executed on a city street on suspicion of helping Jews.
5/29/06 Iraq Samarra 2 0 Two brothers are gunned down by Muslim radicals as the are walking by the side of the road.
5/29/06 Iraq Khalis 14 17 Fourteen laborers traveling to work are blown to bits, and another sixteen left in agony by a bomb planted on a passenger bus.
5/29/06 Philippines Jolo 1 0 Abu Sayyaf gunmen murder a police officer.
5/29/06 Pakistan Chakmalai 1 0 A tribal leader is assassinated by pro-Taliban elements.
5/29/06 Pakistan Akori 3 0 Local Taliban suspected in a landmine attack that leaves three small girls dead.
5/29/06 Pakistan Jacobabad 5 0 A man kills his wife and four other relatives in an honor killing.
5/29/06 Iraq Baghdad 29 46 Three separate Jihad bombings targeting a university, mosque, and a residential area leave at least twenty-seven innocents dead and nearly fifty injured.
5/29/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 7 Four people are killed, including two members of a news crew, when radical Muslims bomb a U.S. convoy.
5/28/06 Pakistan Sindh 2 7 Muslim gunmen open fire on a group of Hindus returning from a religious ceremony, killing two and injuring seven.
5/28/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 17 Two civilians are killed in a double bombing by Islamic radicals.
5/28/06 Pakistan Mir Ali 1 0 Pro-Talibanis assassinate a tribal leader at a bazaar.
5/28/06 Iraq Baqubah 3 0 Three severed heads are thrown out of a car as it passes through the area where Islamic terrorists kidnapped three civilians.
5/28/06 India Srinagar 3 0 Three civilians are murdered by Islamic terrorists in separate attacks - one as he lay injured in a hospital bed.
5/28/06 Thailand Narathiwat 2 1 Two men riding in a pickup up truck are killed, and a woman seriously injured in an Islamic shooting attack.
5/28/06 Pakistan Datta Khel 2 3 Two people are killed and three injured when a car bomb goes off at a checkpoint.
5/27/06 India Bandipura 2 1 A woman is among two people shot to death by Islamic terrorists.
5/27/06 Iraq Baqubah 7 5 Islamic gunmen kill two brothers at an ironsmith shop, then three brothers at a nearby tire shop. Two other people are killed elsewhere.
5/27/06 Iraq Baiji 2 1 Jihadis murder two oil truck drivers.
5/27/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 15 Terrorists lob a mortar into a marketplace, killing at least four shoppers.
5/27/06 Thailand Pattani 1 3 A 3-year-old baby is shot to death by Islamists, who also injure the mother, father and a brother in the attack.
5/26/06 Iraq Baghdad 9 51 Islamic terrorists detonate two bombs at outdoor markets, killing at least nine and injuring over fifty.
5/26/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Religious fundamentalists shoot three tennis players to death for wearing shorts.
5/26/06 Pakistan Miranshah 1 0 A local man is executed by radical fundamentalists.
5/26/06 India Kishtwar 2 0 Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami shoot two farmers to death in their field.
5/25/06 India Chewa 1 0 A civilian is murdered by the Mujahideen.
5/25/06 India Srinagar 4 7 An 8-year-old boy is among four killed when militant Muslims hurl a grenade at a tourist bus.
5/25/06 Iraq Tikrit 9 0 A Sufi mosque is bombed, killing two, and sectarian violence claims seven more lives elsewhere.
5/25/06 Somalia Mogadishu 48 50 Nearly fifty more people are killed in violence sparked by Islamic militias.
5/25/06 Iraq Muqdadiya 5 0 Sunni Holy Warriors abduct five men from a wedding, including the groom and his father, then behead them in captivity.
5/25/06 Afghanistan Kabul 2 2 A Taliban rocket attack on a residential area kills two civilians.
5/25/06 Philippines Jolo 1 0 A 32-year-old cigarette vendor is gunned down by Abu Sayyaf near a Catholic church.
5/24/06 Afghanistan Wazi Khwa 3 1 Three truck drivers are murdered by the Taliban. The victims included a 15-year-old boy.
5/24/06 Pal. Auth. Gaza 1 2 Hamas assassination claims one life.
5/24/06 Iraq Latifiya 7 0 Seven people are brutally slain by Islamic terrorists.
5/24/06 Philippines Jolo 1 0 Abu Sayyaf kill a 22-year-old coffee shop worker.
5/23/06 Iraq Baghdad 11 9 Eleven people are killed when Sunnis detonate a bomb in the courtyard of a Shia mosque.
5/23/06 Chechnya Eshilkhatoy 4 3 A Mujahideen attack on a security patrol leaves four dead and three injured.
5/23/06 Afghanistan Wardak 4 0 Three health workers and their driver are killed when the Taliban bomb their car.
5/23/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 5 Terrorists detonate a car bomb, killing five inocents.
5/23/06 Iraq Ain al- Tamur 4 0 The bodies of four victims of sectarian violence are found blindfolded and shot.
5/23/06 Iraq Aswad 3 7 Sunnis spray bullets into a crowd of Shia laborers, killing at least three.
5/23/06 India Srinagar 2 38 Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists rampage against unarmed civilians in the capital city.
5/23/06 Thailand Yala 2 0 Two policemen are shot to death in the head and chest by Muslim militants.
5/23/06 Afghanistan Helmand 3 6 The Taliban ambush a vehicle carrying police, killing at least three.
5/23/06 India Thanala 1 0 A civilian is beheaded by Islamic extremists.
5/23/06 India Srinagar 2 20 Two people are killed when a Fedayeen detonates an explosives-laden vehicle along a city street.
5/23/06 Pal. Auth. Ramle 1 0 A 24-year old woman is stabbed 29 times in broad daylight by her brother for 'unIslamic' behavior.
5/23/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Muslim gunmen murder a civilian and seriously injure another.
5/23/06 Philippines Jolo 4 0 Muslim terrorists kill four government soldiers in three separate attacks over the weekend.
5/23/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 12 Radical Muslims bomb a bakery, killing three people inside.
5/22/06 Iraq Baghdad 9 15 Separate Jihad bombings at a market and clinic end the lives of at least nine innocents.
5/22/06 Iraq Jurf al-Sakhar 4 0 Four policemen are blown to bits by radical Islamics.
5/22/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A Buddhist is shot off his motorcycle by Islamists, who then burn his body.
5/22/06 Pal. Auth. Gaza 1 1 Hamas suspected in the assissination of a Fatah militant.
5/22/06 Iraq Jbela 3 6 Three civilians are killed by a terrorist bombing.
5/22/06 Iraq Muqdadiya 2 0 An Islamic radical walks into a shop and murders two occupants.
5/21/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Muslims gun down a plantation worker.
5/21/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A 69-year-old man is killed and his wife seriously injured in the brutal assault by Islamic militants.
5/21/06 Iraq Baghdad 13 17 An al-Qaeda suicide bomber detonates himself at a restaurant, slaughtering over a dozen patrons.
5/21/06 Afghanistan Kabul 2 8 A Fedayeen car bomber kills himself and two innocent civilians.
5/21/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 23 Islamists hide two bombs at a fish market, killing at least three people.
5/21/06 India Srinagar 6 22 Two Islamic groups vie for responsibility for a bloody attack on a youth rally that leaves six innocents dead.
5/21/06 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A 14-year-old girl dies after her family shoots her in an honor killing for rejecting an arranged marriage.
5/21/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 22-year-old laborer is murdered by Islamic radicals on his job site.
5/20/06 Iraq Baghdad 19 58 al-Qaeda thought to be behind a brutal bombing that kills nineteen Shiite laborers gathering for work along a city street.
5/20/06 Pakistan Hurmuz 2 1 Two Pakistani soldiers were killed when a Muslim radical tossed a grenade at their post in a Fedayeen attack.
5/20/06 Iraq Al-Udhaim 2 3 A man and his wife are killed in their home by Islamic radicals. Three of their children are injured in the invasion.
5/20/06 Iraq Mussayab 19 0 Nineteen victims of sectarian violence are discovered.
5/20/06 Iraq Qaim 5 10 A Fedayeen suicide car bomber murders at least five others on his way to paradise.
5/20/06 Pal. Auth. Gaza 1 6 Hamas suspected in elevator blast that kills a bodyguard.
5/19/06 Pakistan Khaddi 1 0 A tribal leader is dragged from his car by militant Islamists and shot to death.
5/19/06 Sudan Baja Baju 6 0 Six civilians are killed by the Janjaweed Arab militia.
5/19/06 Sudan Natiqa 29 5 The Janjaweed raid an African village, killing nearly thirty people.
5/19/06 Somalia Mogadishu 6 0 Islamic militias break a truce, killing at least a half-dozen more.
5/18/06 India Srinagar 1 23 A Muslim woman tosses a grenade out a car window, killing a civilian. A second blast in Pulwama injures twenty-three.
5/18/06 Afghanistan Ghazni 1 0 A suicide bomber kills a civilian along a city street.
5/18/06 Afghanistan Herat 1 0 An American civilian is killed by a suicidal religious extremist.
5/18/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Islamic militants murder a house painter.
5/18/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 0 Radical Islamic gunmen stop a minibus carrying auto mechanics and their driver. All eight are machine-gunned to death.
5/18/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 9 Eight innocents are blown to bits, and another nine suffer injury when Jihadis detonate a bomb along a city street.
5/18/06 Iraq Kirkuk 3 0 Jihadis kill two people in a drive-by shooting. They also kidnap a woman and remove her head.
5/18/06 Iraq Karbala 1 0 A math teacher is gunned down by a radical Shiite.
5/17/06 Turkey Ankara 1 4 Shouting 'Allah Akbar,' a gunmen murders a judge and injures four others in a courtroom shooting sparked by a limited ban of hijabs.
5/17/06 India Doda 0 18 Eighteen people are injured when a Muslim hurls a grenade at a crowd.
5/17/06 Ingushetia Nazran 7 0 Seven innocent people are killed when terrorists bomb a car carrying a deputy minister.
5/17/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 The lives of four civilians are destroyed by a terrorist bombing.
5/17/06 Iraq Baqubah 4 11 Jihadis shoot a baker to death, then murder others who arrive on the scene to help.
5/17/06 Somalia Mogadishu 5 0 Islamic militia attacks a compound, killing five people.
5/17/06 Chechnya Kurchaloi 5 6 Five Russian servicemen are slaughtered in a Mujahideen ambush on their vehicle.
5/17/06 Pakistan Miser 1 4 Pro-Taliban militants attack a security patrol, killing one.
5/17/06 Afghanistan Mosa Qala 13 6 The Taliban attack a small town, killing at least thirteen defenders.
5/16/06 Iraq Baghdad 23 37 Sunni gunmen attack Shiites at a bus stop with automatic weapons and a bomb, killing at least twenty innocents and leaving dozens more in agony.
5/16/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A policeman is killed in a bomb attack by Islamic militants.
5/16/06 Afghanistan Zangali 2 0 Two government employees are kidnapped and beheaded by radical Islamists.
5/16/06 Iraq Karbala 1 0 An Egyptian working at a bakery is gunned down by Muslim extremists.
5/16/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 Radical Sunnis murder four Iraqis on their way home from working at a U.S. base.
5/16/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Three people are kidnapped, tortured and executed by Islamic radicals.
5/16/06 Somalia Mogadishu 2 0 Islamic militias kill two of a rival's bodyguards.
5/16/06 India Handwara 1 0 A civilian is lynched from a tree by the Mujahideen.
5/16/06 Pakistan Miranshah 2 0 Two guards are gunned down by Islamic terrorists while on duty at a bazaar.
5/15/06 Pakistan Amma Khel 1 0 Pro-Taliban gunmen murder a civil employee on his way to restore power to a remote village.
5/15/06 Iraq Wajihiya 1 7 Jihadis kill a 7-year-old girl with a mortar round. Seven members of her family are injured in the explosion.
5/15/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 In a brutal attack, Islamic terrorists kidnap five members of the same family and shoot them to death.
5/15/06 Iraq Balad Ruz 4 0 Sunni gunmen shoot four primary school teachers to death as they are making their way in to work.
5/15/06 India Chatibandi Bandipore 2 0 The Mujahideen behead two civilians.
5/15/06 India Batpora 2 0 Two civilians are kidnapped by Muslim radicals, then killed by having their throats slit. One was a shopkeeper.
5/14/06 Iraq Karbala 9 0 Four brothers working on a humanitarian project are kidnapped by Islamic radicals and beheaded. Five other bodies are found elsewhere.
5/14/06 Afghanistan Helmand 1 7 An intelligence officer is gunned down by the Taliban as a bomb injures seven other people, including two girls.
5/14/06 Algeria Jijel 21 0 The bodies of eighteen children and three women are found massacred in a cave used by armed Islamic fundamentalists.
5/14/06 India Kunan Poshpora 1 0 The Mujahideen ambush and kill a civilian.
5/14/06 Pakistan Jandola 1 0 A government official is assassinated in his home by pro-Taliban militants.
5/14/06 Iraq Baghdad 26 66 Two suicide car bombings at an airport, and several other bombings elsewhere leave at least twenty-six Iraqis dead, including children and other civilians.
5/13/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Sunni extremists kill the 22-year-old son of a judge and two bodyguards.
5/13/06 Iraq Mosul 2 4 Two policemen are ambushed and killed by Sunni radicals.
5/13/06 India Doda 2 41 Militant Muslims attack Hindus civilians at a rally with grenades. At least two are killed.
5/13/06 Iran Kerman 12 0 Sunnis execute eleven Iranians after stopping their cars. They also string an injured 12-year-old boy up on pole before fleeing.
5/13/06 Somalia Mogadishu 11 0 Another eleven civilians die in violence sparked by Islamic militias.
5/12/06 Afghanistan Herat 2 1 The Taliban targets a UN vehicle with a rocket, killing two employees.
5/12/06 Iraq Balad Ruz 2 2 A funeral is attacked by Islamic radicals, who kill two more civilians.
5/12/06 Kenya Nairobi 1 2 A Christian radio station airing the testimony of Muslim apostates is targeted in a bombing attack. One guard is shot to death by the radicals.
5/12/06 Somalia Yaqshid 12 0 At least a dozen more civilians are killed in a gun battle sparked by Islamic militias.
5/12/06 Kyrgyzstan Batken 6 3 In a rolling gunbattle that begins in Tajikistan, a group of Islamic extremists kill several border guards and civilian drivers.
5/12/06 Iraq Basra 2 0 Radical Shiites murder a Sunni cleric and his son as they are leaving a mosque.
5/11/06 Kosovo Kosovska Mitrovica 0 2 Two Christian youth are seriously injured when Muslims open up on them with automatic weapons.
5/11/06 Somalia Siisii 27 0 Islamic militias claim another twenty-seven lives, mostly civilians. The dead include a pregnant woman and at least three children.
5/11/06 Pakistan Quetta 6 9 Six police are killed when terrorists plant a string of bombs at a firing range.
5/11/06 Iraq Baqubah 1 2 A female school teacher is murdered by Islamists, and her 14-year-old nephew and 12-year-old daughter are badly injured.
5/11/06 Pakistan Khar 1 0 al-Qaeda backed militants behead a man and pin a note to his body.
5/11/06 India Bi-Tara 1 1 The Mujahideen murder a civilian and injure another in a shooting attack.
5/11/06 India Dhandli 1 0 A woman is murdered inside her home by a group of militant Muslims.
5/11/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A man is brutally slain while riding a motorcycle with his 2-year-old daughter on his lap.
5/11/06 India Srinagar 2 0 Al Mansoorian terrorists gun down two police officers in cold blood.
5/11/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 1 Jihadis kill four street sweepers with a planted bomb.
5/10/06 India Gandoh 1 0 A guard is killed in a Mujahideen attack on a civilian's home.
5/10/06 Thailand Pattani 3 13 Three Buddhists, including two women, are killed when Muslim radicals hide a bomb on a motorcycle along a city street.
5/10/06 Iraq Baqubah 11 6 Sunni gunmen kill eleven workers at an electrical plant in brutal fashion.
5/10/06 Somalia Siisii 47 103 Islamic militias clash, leaving about fifty dead.
5/10/06 India Doda 1 2 A Mujahideen attack on a house leaves one civilian dead.
5/9/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Radical Muslims kill a man attending a memorial service for one of their previous victims.
5/9/06 Iraq Suwayra 26 0 The headless body of a 10-year-old boy is among twenty-six victims of sectarian violence that are found in three locations.
5/9/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 5 Islamic terrorists target an electrical plant, killing two civilians.
5/9/06 Iraq Ramadi 4 0 Four policemen are brutally murdered by Jihadis, who ambush their car.
5/9/06 Iraq Tal Afar 37 134 Fedayeen suicide bombers leave a horrific scene of death and suffering after targeting a crowded Shiite market. Nearly forty people lose their lives.
5/9/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Islamic radicals use shotguns to take down a 44-year-old man walking by the side of the road.
5/9/06 Thailand Songkhla 1 0 A 65-year-old female schoolteacher is shot four times in the back by radical Muslims.
5/9/06 India Kilimanoor 1 0 A father of three is brutally stabbed to death by Muslim militants.
5/9/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 The owner of a motorcycle repair shop is murdered by Muslims posing as customers.
5/8/06 Iraq Balad Ruz 2 3 Two civilians are killed by a Jihadi bombing.
5/8/06 Somalia Mogadishu 11 40 An Islamic militia sparks a gunbattle that leaves eleven dead over a two day period.
5/8/06 Iraq Baghdad 16 35 Three terrorist bombings leave at least fifteen civilians dead. Another six bodies are found elsewhere.
5/8/06 Iraq Khalisa 2 0 Two Iraqi journalists are kidnapped by religious fanatics and murdered.
5/8/06 Pakistan Inayat Kili 1 0 Pro-Taliban terrorists kill a policeman with a landmine.
5/8/06 Thailand Pattani 2 5 Muslim radicals open fire on Buddhist sanitation workers, killing two.
5/8/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A part-time teacher is shot seven times by Muslim assassins on motorcycles.
5/7/06 Iraq Baghdad 10 15 Ten people in a residential neighborhood are blown to bits by a suicidal religious fanatic.
5/7/06 Iraq Karbala 21 52 A suicide car bomber kills twenty-one innocents on a city street near a bus station.
5/7/06 Iraq Baghdad 42 0 The bodies of forty-two victims of Muslim sectarian violence are discovered in several locations.
5/7/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim terrorists kill a 38-year-old man as he is riding a motorcycle with his wife.
5/7/06 India Pulwama 2 0 Two Mujahideen, who are considering quitting, are gunned down by their peers.
5/7/06 Afghanistan Zabul 2 0 Taliban terrorists ambush a police patrol, killing two officers.
5/6/06 Afghanistan Kabul 2 4 Taliban extremists kill two Italian peacekeepers in a bomb attack.
5/6/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 3 Two children, ages 5 and 6, are killed when Muslim insurgents lob a mortar shell at their family. Six other bodies are found tortured and executed elsewhere.
5/6/06 Iraq Tikrit 3 1 A Fedayeen suicide bomber detonates himself inside a military base, killing three Iraqis.
5/6/06 Somalia Coast 1 2 Muslim pirates kill an Indian crewmember of a commercial ship.
5/6/06 India Kupwara 1 0 A civilian is killed inside his home by the Muhahideen.
5/6/06 Iraq Kirkuk 1 2 Sunni radicals open fire on a group of civilians, killing at least one.
5/5/06 India Bijnour 1 0 A civilian is kidnapped from his home by the Mujahideen and killed in captivity.
5/5/06 Afghanistan Necha 3 0 Three civilians traveling in a car are killed by a bomb set by religious extremists.
5/5/06 Pakistan Leghari 1 1 al-Qaeda militants fire a rocket at a checkpoint, killing a Pakistani soldier.
5/4/06 Iraq Baghdad 10 52 A Fedayeen suicide bomber attacks a crowd of civilians waiting outside a courthouse, slaughtering at least ten.
5/4/06 Israel Beit Shemesh 1 0 An 8-year-old is raped and murdered by a Palestinian.
5/4/06 India Chadoora 2 9 Two civilians are killed when Islamic militants hurl a grenade into a market.
5/3/06 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Islamic militants gun down two neighbors in separate attacks.
5/3/06 Iraq Fallujah 16 25 Fedayeen suicide bomber blows himself to Allah, taking at least sixteen young police recruits with him.
5/3/06 Iraq Baghdad 16 15 Fourteen bodies, victims of sectarian violence are discovered, some with signs of torture, as a bomb kills two civilians at a market.
5/3/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 Islamic terrorists pull four college students off a bus and shoot them in the head.
5/3/06 Pakistan Bajaur 3 0 al-Qaeda backed militants storm a police station and murder three officers.
5/3/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A civilian is killed in his home by Islamists.
5/3/06 Iraq Tikrit 1 0 A tailor is murdered by Islamic radicals.
5/3/06 Pakistan Khanpur 1 0 A Muslim man hacks his wife to death with an axe over suspicion that she may have been stepping out on him.
5/3/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A villager is killed by Muslim radicals in a roadside shooting attack.
5/2/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists gun down a civilian as he is walking home.
5/2/06 India Doda 1 0 A civilian is abducted from a forested area and executed by the Mujahideen.
5/2/06 Pakistan Jatree 6 3 Six members of a family, including two children, were gunned down in an honor killing over a love affair.
5/2/06 Afghanistan Farah 1 0 A judge is assassinated by religious extremists.
5/2/06 Pakistan Chichawatni 1 0 A man slits his sister's throat in an honor killing.
5/2/06 Iraq Yusufiya 20 0 The bodies of twenty men, bound and tortured, are found in three locations, including the capital.
5/2/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 5 Terrorists plant a bomb on a passenger bus, killing at least two civilians.
5/2/06 Afghanistan Kabul 1 2 A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills at least one civilian on a city street.
5/1/06 India Doda 22 9 Islamic militants rouse Hindu villagers in the middle of the night and have them line up outside their homes, where they are massacred. Twenty-two are killed. Only nine survive with injury. The victims include women and children.
5/1/06 India Handwara 1 3 The Mujahideen kill a construction worker and injure three others with an IED on their job site.
5/1/06 India Kulangam 1 0 A civilian is killed when the Mujahideen detonate a roadside bomb.
5/1/06 Pakistan Mir Ali 1 0 Islamists kidnap and kill an 80-year-old man.
4/30/06 India Udhampur 13 0 Thirteen Hindus are kidnapped by Muslim extremists and brutally executed. Families are among the dead.
4/30/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 0 An Indian engineer is kidnapped and brutally decapitated by the Taliban.
4/30/06 Iraq Baghdad 9 6 Sunni radicals plant a bomb inside a minibus, killing two civilians. Seven bodies are discovered elsewhere.
4/30/06 Afghanistan Lashkargah 1 2 Religious extremists open fire on a civilian car, killing one occupant.
4/30/06 Iraq Ramadi 2 0 Two children are killed in an RPG attack by Muslim insurgents.
4/30/06 Philippines Surallah 1 7 A 13-year-old girl is killed by Moro Islamic Front terrorists, who attack a cargo truck carrying her family.
4/30/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 2 Islamic terrorists kill three civilian contractors from Fiji.
4/29/06 Iraq Basra 2 3 Two British contractors are killed by a Muslim terrorist bombing.
4/29/06 Afghanistan Baghran 3 1 Religious extremists fire a rocket at a police patrol, killing three and injuring another.
4/29/06 Iraq Baghdad 9 14 Nine Iraqis are killed in various terror attacks around the country.
4/29/06 Iraq Jurf al-Sakhar 2 0 Islamic radicals abduct a policeman and his brother, then dump their bodies by their house two hours later.
4/29/06 Iraq Qaim 3 7 Three civilians are killed by a Fedayen suicide car bomber.
4/28/06 Iraq Diyala 9 18 Terrorists launch a series of assaults against police stations and checkpoints, killing at least nine.
4/28/06 India Kulgam 1 0 The Mujahideen kill a Communist Party activist inside his home.
4/27/06 Iraq Baghdad 15 0 The sister of the country's vice president is gunned down along with her bodyguard by Muslim terrorists as thirteen headless bodies are discovered elsewhere.
4/27/06 Iraq Nassiriya 4 1 Three Italian soldiers and one Romanian are killed when terrorists bomb their convoy.
4/27/06 India Awantipore 1 0 The Mujahideen gun down a policeman.
4/27/06 India Pahalgam 0 20 Twenty people, including eight tourists, are injured when a Muslim radical tosses a grenade into a crowded bus stop.
4/26/06 Iraq Baghdad 24 22 Five bombs kill twelve civilians in various parts of the country. Jihadis also shoot a truck driver to death and murder eleven kidnapped men.
4/26/06 Jordan Irbid 1 0 A man kills his sister to restore 'honor' after seeing her picture on a friend's mobile phone.
4/25/06 Afghanistan Kabul 2 3 Religious extremists fire rockets into a city street, killing two civilians.
4/25/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 45-year-old civilian is killed by Muslim terrorists while walking home.
4/25/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Islamists gun down a Buddhist pig farmer.
4/25/06 India Shopian 1 0 A bookseller succumbs to injuries suffered from an Islamic terror attack.
4/25/06 India Arnora 2 0 Two bodyguards are killed by Muslim terrorists attempting to wipe out the family of a legislator.
4/25/06 India Tral 0 24 Twelve schoolchildren are among twenty-four people injured when an Islamic radical hurls a grenade into a crowded market.
4/25/06 Pakistan Quetta 4 2 An Aghan bombmaker connects the wrong wires, killing four members of his own family and injuring his 2nd wife and 13-year-old son.
4/25/06 Pakistan Shavai Kainari 1 0 Islamic militants kidnap and behead a taxi driver.
4/25/06 Pakistan Dattakhel 4 9 al-Qaeda militants attack a security patrol, killing four people, including a journalist.
4/25/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 5 Radical Sunnis plant a bomb on a minibus, killing at least two.
4/25/06 Iraq Baqubah 4 0 Holy warriors gun down four civilians, including an 8-year-old girl.
4/24/06 Iraq Mosul 28 0 The bodies of twenty-eight young men are found bound and tortured in Mosul and in the capital.
4/24/06 Iraq Baghdad 10 80 A string of Jihadi car bombings kill ten innocents and injure eighty.
4/24/06 Egypt Dahab 19 62 Three bombings at an Egyptian resort area leave at least nineteen victims dead and another sixty injured.
4/24/06 India Srinagar 1 25 One civilian was killed, and two dozen others wounded, when Muslim militants stage three grenade attacks on polling stations.
4/24/06 Pakistan Karwan Manza 1 0 The body of a government employee is found beheaded several days after being abducted by local Islamists.
4/23/06 Yemen Sana'a 7 13 A Muslim throws a grenade into a market, killing seven.
4/23/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Islamic militants gun down a civilian and seriously injure his wife in a drive-by attack.
4/23/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 27-year-old shopkeeper loses his life to Allah's holy warriors while tending his business.
4/23/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 2 Taliban militants attack a road construction crew, killing a guard.
4/23/06 Iraq Baghdad 15 0 Jihadis use a rocket to take out seven civilians riding in a car. Eight bound bodies are found elsewhere.
4/23/06 Pakistan Razmak 1 0 Islamists murder a security officer's younger brother.
4/23/06 Pakistan Dungan 1 2 Militant Islamists ambush a group of villagers, killing one.
4/23/06 India Pulwama 1 0 A civilian is abducted and murdered by the Mujahideen.
4/23/06 Iraq Mahmudiya 2 7 A child is among two fatalities from an Islamist mortar attack. Seven other children are injured.
4/23/06 Algeria Skikda 10 8 Islamic fundamentalists slaughter ten people at a roadblock in a remote area.
4/22/06 Afghanistan Gumbad 4 0 Four Canadian troops are killed by religious extremists, who detonated a bomb under their vehicle.
4/22/06 Iraq Muqdadiya 13 15 Two people are killed in a market bombing, as eleven bodies are found in the capital.
4/22/06 Iraq Hawija 2 0 Two civilians are gunned down by Sunni extremists.
4/21/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 0 The bodies of eight men, bound and executed, with signs of torture are found in two locations in the country.
4/21/06 Afghanistan Maiwand 6 0 Six policemen are killed at their post by Taliban extremists.
4/21/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 A baker and two bakery workers are murdered in two separate attacks by Islamic fundamentalists.
4/21/06 Iraq Baiji 6 0 In a heinous act, Islamic terrorists kidnap six off-duty policemen from and murder them.
4/21/06 India Kishtwar 1 0 A civilian is gunned down by the Mujahideen.
4/21/06 India Cherwan 1 0 The Mujahideen murders a civilian outside his village.
4/21/06 India Gool 2 0 Two transportation employees are shot to death on the job by Muslim radicals.
4/20/06 Iraq Kirkuk 9 1 Nine people, including four security guards, are killed by Muslim terrorists in four separate attacks around the country.
4/20/06 Pakistan Sarobi 7 22 al-Qaeda militants ambush a military convoy, killing seven Pakistani soldiers and injuring twenty-two.
4/20/06 India Bhaderwah 1 3 A Mujahideen grenade attack on a police station leaves one dead and three injured.
4/20/06 Iraq Tal Afar 3 4 Three people, including a doctor in his clinic, are murdered by Islamists in two attacks.
4/19/06 Iraq Baqubah 3 1 Three university professors are gunned down by religious extremists.
4/19/06 India Handwara 2 0 Two soldiers on leave are killed inside their home by the Mujahideen.
4/19/06 Iraq Rashad 5 3 Sunni gunmen take out five civilians and injure three.
4/19/06 Thailand Narathiwat 3 17 Three people, including a female election volunteer are murdered in separate attacks by Thai Islamists attempting to disrupt elections.
4/19/06 Iraq Baiji 5 4 Jihadis use a roadside car bomb to kill five civilians.
4/18/06 Iraq Baghdad 7 20 Seven people are blown apart in a cafe when Islamic radicals place a bomb under a chair. At least twenty others are injured.
4/18/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists kill a 24-year-old man on his way to work by shooting him multiple times in the chest.
4/18/06 Iraq Yusufiya 4 0 Islamic radicals kidnap, torture and kill four young men.
4/18/06 India Sildhar 2 0 The Hizb-ul-Mujahideen abduct two civilians from their homes and murder them in captivity.
4/18/06 Iraq Baghdad 19 0 Fourteen victims of execution are found in the same neighborhood, and five elsewhere, over the last two days.
4/18/06 Pakistan Mirali 1 0 Islamists kidnap and behead a civilian.
4/18/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 22 Four civilians are killed when Muslim terrorists detonate a roadside bomb.
4/18/06 Pakistan Faisalabad 2 0 A Shia cleric and his driver are shot to death by radical Sunnis.
4/17/06 India Tral 1 4 Muslim militants attempt a political assassination, killing one and injuring four.
4/17/06 Pakistan Madakhel 1 0 Islamic fundamentalists kidnap and behead a civilian.
4/17/06 Israel Tel Aviv 9 66 With the blessing of Hamas, Islamic Jihad sends a teenage suicide bomber into a restaurant and massacre at least nine innocents. More than sixty others are injured.
4/17/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 4 Four terror attacks leave four innocents dead, including a mosque guard and a shepherd
4/17/06 Ethiopia Gedo 3 30 Three people are killed when a Muslim radical hurls a grenade into a market.
4/17/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 50-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim fanatics.
4/17/06 Pakistan Datakhel 1 0 al-Qaeda kills a local tribesman for supplying food to Americans.
4/16/06 Philippines North Cotabato 1 0 The Moro Islamic Front guns down a man in front of his wife inside a gamehall.
4/16/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 32-year-old civilian is gunned down by Muslim terrorists while riding a motorcycle.
4/16/06 Ethiopia Jijiga 3 23 Islamists bomb a two bars and a church, killing three people and injuring two dozen.
4/16/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 6 Four ordinary Iraqis are blown apart by a terrorist car bombing near a mosque.
4/15/06 Iraq Baghdad 7 26 Seven people are murdered in two bomb attacks by Islamic militants, including one in a restaurant.
4/15/06 Yemen Sanaa 1 5 A guard is killed when radical Shiites attack a rival mosque.
4/15/06 Chechnya Dargo 2 5 Jihadis use a landmine and small arms fire to ambush a security patrol.
4/15/06 Pakistan North Waziristan 1 0 al-Qaeda kidnap and behead a civilian - attaching a note to the body warning more of the same.
4/15/06 Pakistan Ghulam Khan 1 1 Islamists plant a bomb at a bazaar, killing at least one shopper.
4/14/06 Iraq Baqubah 4 5 Four people are killed by two mosque bombings.
4/14/06 Afghanistan Khost 3 2 Three Afghan policemen are killed in a Taliban roadside bombing attack.
4/14/06 India Srinagar 5 31 A series of deadly grenade attacks on civilians leave three women and two men dead.
4/14/06 Iraq Basra 2 4 A suicide bomber kills two Iraqi civilians.
4/14/06 Iraq Basra 7 3 Ten employees of a construction company are handcuffed, blindfolded, then lined up against a wall and shot by Muslim extremists. Seven die.
4/14/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 4 Militant Muslims hide in the bushes to surprise a civilian party with automatic weapons.
4/14/06 Egypt Alexandria 1 3 Knife-wielding Islamists attack Christians gathered outside a church, stabbing four of them. A 78-year-old man dies.
4/13/06 Iraq Fallujah 7 0 Terrorists kill five people in Fallujah and two truck drivers are gunned down near the capital.
4/13/06 Iraq Baghdad 13 8 Thirteen people are killed when Muslim terrorists car bomb a crowded market.
4/13/06 Chad Djawara 118 0 Janjaweed Arab terrorists rampage through four African villages over a 2-day period, hacking, stabbing and shooting more than a hundred people to death.
4/13/06 Sudan Akobo 15 11 Four attacks by government-armed militias leave fifteen dead, including four children.
4/12/06 Iraq Howaydir 23 50 Radical Sunnis detonate a car bomb outside a Shiite mosque, blowing nearly two dozen people into bits. Another fifty are injured.
4/12/06 Kabardino-Balk. Nalchik 1 0 Terrorists fire a grenade into an anti-Terrorism headquarters, killing a guard.
4/12/06 Pal. Auth. Jericho 1 0 An Arab man is tortured and killed by the al-Aqsa Brigade for selling property to a Jew.
4/12/06 India Tral 1 1 A Mujahideen ambush against a vehicle leaves one dead.
4/12/06 Iraq Kirkuk 1 1 Terrorists attack a gas company executive and his wife, killing the woman.
4/12/06 Iraq Khalis 4 27 Two car bombs targeting vegetable markets leave four dead in Khalis and Tal Afar.
4/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 15 9 Six separate Jihad attacks leave fifteen dead around the country, including truck drivers and oil workers.
4/11/06 Iraq Jurf al-Sahkar 4 0 Four Iraqi soldiers are abducted and beheaded by 'Holy Warriors'.
4/11/06 Afghanistan Asadabad 7 34 The Taliban fire two rockets into a school, killing seven children between the ages of 7 and 10.
4/11/06 Pakistan Karachi 55 77 Fifty-five people attending a religious gathering in a city park are blown apart by two suicide bombers. Some seventy others are injured.
4/11/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 4 Islamic terrorists bomb a passenger bus, killing three civilians.
4/11/06 Iraq Kirkuk 1 0 A man is kidnapped, tortured and beheaded by Jihad extremists.
4/11/06 India Kangan 1 0 A civilian is abducted and murdered by the Mujahideen.
4/10/06 Iraq Baqubah 1 0 An Iranian woman is found shot through the head in a Sunni area.
4/10/06 Afghanistan Badghis 5 0 Five Afghan humanitarian workers working for a Christian aid agency are slaughtered by Muslim extremists at their clinic.
4/10/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Islamic radicals murder three members of the same family.
4/10/06 Somalia Baidoa 6 3 Armed Muslims open fire on a food convoy, killing six humanitarian aid workers.
4/10/06 India Bijbehara 1 0 A forest worker is abducted and murdered by the Mujahideen.
4/10/06 Pakistan Dherdoni 2 0 Islamic terrorists murder a water tanker driver and his assistant.
4/9/06 Chechnya Sernovodsk 3 0 A policemen and two family members are massacred in a Jihad ambush on their vehicle.
4/9/06 India Challad 3 0 Three members of a family, including two brothers and a woman, are murdered by the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
4/8/06 Afghanistan Heart 2 7 A suicide car bomber murders two Afghans and leaves seven injured.
4/8/06 Iraq Kirkuk 4 0 Four Iraqi soldiers are kidnapped, tortured and executed by Islamic militants.
4/8/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 Islamic terrorists place a bomb in the doorway of a home, killing two family members.
4/8/06 Iraq Musayib 6 16 Suspected al-Qaeda car bombing kills six innocents near a Shia mosque.
4/7/06 Iraq Baghdad 85 164 At least eighty Shia worshippers are slaughtered when Sunni terrorists stage a triple suicide attack against a mosque.
4/7/06 Philippines Asturias 1 9 Abu Sayyaf terrorists are suspected in a drive-by that leaves a woman dead and children injured.
4/7/06 Algeria Ouardhia 13 8 Thirteen Algerians are massacred by Islamic fundamentalists in an ambush on their vehicles.
4/7/06 Iraq Kirkuk 1 0 Sunni terrorists murder a Shia tailor in his shop.
4/7/06 India Baradari 1 4 A Mujahideen bombing on a bus kills at least one civilian.
4/7/06 India Kashiyar 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct and behead a civilian.
4/7/06 India Parne 2 0 An elderly couple are murdered inside their home by Islamic radicals in a heinous attack.
4/6/06 Afghanistan Bagram 1 3 A rocket fired by Taliban extremists kills a civilian.
4/6/06 Iraq Baghdad 6 0 Six bodies are found bound and executed by police.
4/6/06 India Harhama 1 0 A 70-year-old man is shot to death by Muslim terrorists.
4/6/06 Iraq Najaf 13 39 'Iraqi Freedom Fighters' bomb a Shia cemetery near a mosque, killing at least thirteen and injuring dozens more. The victims were mostly women and children.
4/5/06 Pakistan Miranshah 3 3 Three Pakistanis are killed in an Islamist rocket attack on their post.
4/5/06 Iraq Diwaniya 1 1 Terrorists kill a Polish translator and injure his nephew.
4/5/06 Iraq Baghdad 9 18 Two car bombs by Muslim terrorists kill three civilians and injure eighteen as six bodies are found elsewhere.
4/5/06 Afghanistan Nimroz 1 0 Religious extremists kill a government official.
4/5/06 Afghanistan Ghanzi 1 0 The Taliban gun down a man as he is driving to work.
4/4/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 3 Two children are killed when Islamic terrorists bomb their home. Their mother and brother are injured.
4/4/06 India Tral 1 0 A policeman is abducted and killed by Islamic radicals.
4/4/06 India Baramulla 1 2 Militant Muslims kill a party activist and injure two women with automatic weapons.
4/4/06 Iraq Baghdad 10 28 Ten people are blown apart by a Sunni car bomb in a Shiite neighborhood. Nearly thirty others are injured.
4/3/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 Sunni gunmen invade a Shia family's home, line up two sisters, a brother and an uncle, then machine-gun them to death.
4/3/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists murder a 52-year old man.
4/3/06 Iraq Basra 6 0 A young child is among six victims of a drive-by shooting by Muslim terrorists at a market.
4/3/06 Pakistan Dattakhel 5 1 Pro-Talibanis plant a landmine and detonate it under a civilian vehicle, killing at least five, including a mother and her son.
4/3/06 Iraq Baghdad 11 6 Terrorists use a car bomb to kill two civilians. Nine bodies are also found bound and tortured over the next 24 hours.
4/3/06 Pakistan Jandola 4 0 A man, his wife and two children are slaughtered by Islamic fundamentalists in a bomb blast.
4/2/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 5 3 Religious extremists ambush a police checkpoint, killing five officers.
4/2/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim extremists stalk and kill a 45-year-old man on the way to pick up his wife.
4/2/06 Pakistan Sararogha 1 0 Islamists murder a pro-government cleric.
4/2/06 India Lama Dhar 1 0 A teenager is killed in a grenade attack by the Mujahideen.
4/2/06 India Chadoora 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct and murder a university grad student.
4/2/06 India Sopore 1 0 Islamic militants assassinate a city councilman.
4/2/06 Philippines Lamitan 1 1 Suspected Abu Sayyaf terrorists gun down a policeman and seriously injure his son.
4/2/06 Afghanistan Nimroz 1 0 The Taliban stop a vehicle and force a Turkish engineer out. They then shoot him to death and burn his body.
4/2/06 Iraq Balad Ruz 2 3 Islamists kill two members of a family, including a 12-year-old girl, in a shooting ambush.
4/1/06 Afghanistan Girishk 4 0 A religious extremist poses as a hitchhiker, then kills the four policemen who stop to help.
4/1/06 Iraq Tikrit 1 0 Fundamentalists bomb a music shop, killing at least one person.
4/1/06 Iraq Baghdad 15 1 Islamic terrorists kill fifteen innocents in five attacks, including three ice cream vendors and a butcher and his son.
4/1/06 Iraq Youssifiyah 2 0 Muslims shoot down a U.S. helicopter, then drag the pilots' bodies through the street shouting "Allah Akbar."
4/1/06 Pakistan Dattakhel 1 3 Local Taliban militants fire a rocket into a military camp, killing one Pakistani soldier.
4/1/06 India Gharat 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct and kill a civilian.
3/31/06 India Soura 1 5 The Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist group uses an IED against a military vehicle, killing one and injuring five.
3/31/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 52-year-old policeman is killed by Islamic radcials as he is waiting for his wife outside a school.
3/31/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 Five victims of sectarian violence are found bound, tortured and executed.
3/31/06 Afghanistan Tahhar 1 0 A lawmaker is killed in his home by the Taliban.
3/31/06 Iraq Balad Ruz 6 1 Radical Sunnis kill six Shia pilgrims as they are riding in a minibus.
3/31/06 Iraq Baqubah 5 0 Sunni gunmen shoot five civilians to death as they are riding in a car.
3/31/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Islamists murder a 24-year-old civilian in a drive-by shooting.
3/30/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 6 A woman, two children and four men are injured by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. A 4-year-old boy dies a day later.
3/30/06 India Gandipora 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct and murder a local folk singer.
3/30/06 Israel Kedumim 4 0 A young Muslim dresses as a Jewish hitchhiker, then murders the elderly Jewish couple who stop to offer assistance, along with a teenager and one other.
3/30/06 Iraq Baiji 8 1 Islamic terrorists ambush a minivan carrying oil workers, killing at least eight.
3/30/06 Afghanistan Laghman 4 0 Four men are killed in a rocket attack on their vehicle by religious extremists.
3/30/06 Afghanistan Helmand 2 0 Taliban terrorists open fire on a car carrying a police director and his brother, killing both.
3/29/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 6 Muslim terrorists line up fourteen employees of a trading company and shoot them one-by-one. Three women are among the dead.
3/29/06 Iraq Baghdad 17 0 The bodies of seventeen young men are found bound and executed with signs of torture.
3/29/06 Pakistan Mir Ali 2 9 Local Taliban kill a woman and a young girl with a rocket.
3/28/06 Pakistan Fort Salop 26 25 At least twenty-six people are killed when a radical Muslim cleric incites his followers to attack resettled Afghan families.
3/28/06 Afghanistan Helmand 6 0 The Taliban kill six Afghan soldiers with a roadside bomb.
3/28/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 0 Two policemen are murdered by the Taliban.
3/28/06 Afghanistan Farah 4 0 Four employees of a mining company are killed by two Fedayeen suicide bombers in a car.
3/28/06 Iraq Baghdad 14 0 The bodies of fourteen people are found bound and executed.
3/28/06 Israel Negev 2 0 A shepherd and his 16-year-old son are killed by an Islamic Jihad rocket.
3/28/06 Pakistan Peshawar 1 16 A policeman is killed, and sixteen civilians injured, by a motorcycle bomb detonated at a crowded market.
3/27/06 Iraq Mosul 40 30 A Saudi suicide bomber attacks Iraqis at a recruiting center, killing at least forty and injuring dozens.
3/27/06 Iraq Baghdad 21 0 Twenty-one bodies are discovered, some with nooses around their necks, as sectarian violence continues.
3/27/06 Philippines Jolo 9 20 Suspected Abu Sayyaf terrorists bomb a department store, killing nine and injuring over twenty.
3/27/06 Pakistan Shakai 0 6 Six children on their way to school are injured when Islamists bomb their bus.
3/27/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 35 Islamic radicals fire two rockets into a commercial district, killing eight people and injuring dozens.
3/27/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Muslim radicals kill a medical doctor as he is shopping at an electronics store.
3/27/06 India Sanjote 1 0 A youth is kidnapped and tortured by the Mujahideen, who finish him off by slitting his throat.
3/27/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Radical Muslims shoot a man to death in front of his 4-year-old daughter.
3/27/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A government worker is murdered by Muslim gunmen.
3/27/06 India Rohama 1 0 A civilian is shot dead by the Mujahideen.
3/27/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 32-year-old man is murdered by Muslim gunmen on his way home.
3/27/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 75-year-old man is gunned down by Islamists.
3/27/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A 19-year-old Chinese trader is shot twice in the head by Muslim radicals as he is going door-to-door with his father.
3/27/06 Afghanistan Helmand 3 2 Religious extremists kill a woman and two other villagers with a roadside bomb.
3/26/06 Somalia Mogadishu 144 354 Islamic militias of rival clerics set off four days of violence, leaving more than one-hundred dead.
3/26/06 Iraq Mullah Eid 30 0 Thirty victims of Jihadis are discovered by a road, some were beheaded.
3/26/06 Pakistan South Waziristan 1 0 The local Taliban capture and execute a man under Sharia law.
3/26/06 Iraq Baghdad 14 3 A woman is blown apart in front of her house by radical Sunnis. Thirteen bodies are also discovered at three separate locations elsewhere.
3/26/06 Iraq Basra 1 2 Terrorists kill a 14-year-old boy in front of his school.
3/26/06 India Pampore 1 7 Lashker-e-Toiba militants attack an Indian army convoy on a highway, killing at least one.
3/25/06 Algeria Blida 4 0 Four farmers are machine-gunned to death in their fields by Islamic fundamentalists.
3/25/06 Iraq Mahmudiya 4 13 Sunni insurgents kill four residents in their homes with mortars.
3/25/06 India Sangiot 1 0 A boy is abducted and murdered by the Mujahideen.
3/25/06 Iraq Baghdad 15 4 Four civilians are among five killed in a bombing, and ten victims of sectarian violence are found elsewhere, some showing signs of torture.
3/25/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 4 Islamic gunmen attack voters as they are leaving the polls, killing at least one person.
3/24/06 Pakistan Datta Kheil 1 2 One person is killed when al-Qaeda backed militants fire a rocket at a security post.
3/24/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 1 Fundamentalists bomb a bake shop killing five people including four bakery employees.
3/24/06 Iraq Khalis 5 17 Five worshippers are killed, and seventeen wounded, when radical Shias bomb a Sunni mosque.
3/24/06 Iraq Mahmoudiya 4 1 Muslim radicals shoot four members of a family to death in their home, including a child. The mother is critically injured.
3/24/06 Iraq Baghdad 15 1 Three policemen are killed in an ambush by radical Sunnis and eighteen bodies are found at three locations in the city.
3/24/06 Algeria Boumerdes 1 0 Islamic fundamentalists shoot a town's mayor to death outside his home.
3/23/06 Iraq Baghdad 7 22 A suicide bomber at a market murders at least seven innocents.
3/23/06 Iraq Baghdad 23 35 Twenty-three people are blown apart by a Fedayeen suicide bomber on a city street.
3/23/06 Iraq Baqubah 4 0 Four policemen are killed by terrorists using a remote-controlled roadside bomb.
3/23/06 Afghanistan Maidan Wardak 1 1 At least one civilian is killed when Jihadis fire a rocket into the center of a town.
3/23/06 Iraq Fallujah 14 0 Eight victims of religious militants are found, along with six others in the capital.
3/23/06 Dagestan Makhachkala 1 9 Gunmen open fire on a car carrying a senior government official, killing him and injuring nine others.
3/23/06 Pakistan Kohlu 1 9 A man is killed and nine people, including two children, are injured when extremists bomb a telephone booth.
3/23/06 Afghanistan Andar 1 0 The Taliban assassinate a policeman in front of his home.
3/22/06 Iraq Baghdad 21 24 In a cold-blooded attack, Sunni radicals gun down sixteen Shia pilgrims in two separate attacks. Five other bodies are also discovered.
3/22/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 22 A Shia pilgrim is killed when Sunni radicals attack a bus ful of passenger. Seven bodies are found in two locations elsewhere.
3/22/06 Ethiopia Arisi Negellie 1 0 Muslims gun down a father of seven in front of a Lutheran church. The victim was a convert from Islam.
3/22/06 Pakistan South Waziristan 1 3 Islamists kill a pro-government cleric and abduct three other people.
3/22/06 Iraq Madaen 4 6 Jihadis attack a police station with RPGs and mortars, killing four officers.
3/21/06 Somalia Salagle 1 0 A humanitarian worker is killed by an Islamic militia as he is delivering food supplies.
3/21/06 Iraq Miqdadiya 17 4 Islamic insurgents attack a police station with rockets and arms fire, killing seventeen people, including two civilians.
3/20/06 Iraq Baghdad 9 3 Four separate attacks by Muslim radicals leave nine dead, including a woman and a university lecturer
3/20/06 Iraq Fallujah 1 1 Militants invade a home and kill a man while injuring his wife.
3/20/06 India Rajouri 1 0 A civilian is murdered by the Mujahideen.
3/20/06 Afghanistan Musa Qala 4 0 Religious extremists stage a vicious attack on a police vehicle in a remote area, killing all four occupants.
3/20/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 4 Passengers on a minibus are the targets of Islamic terrorists who kill at least three with a bomb.
3/20/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 23 Muslims kill three people in a coffee shop by skillfully hiding a bomb in a bag. Twenty-three people are injured, many seriously.
3/19/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 4 Two policmen are killed by the Taliban. The fundamentalists take four other people hostage in the attack.
3/19/06 Iraq Hawija 2 0 Religious extremists abduct and behead two soldiers.
3/19/06 Iraq Mosul 4 1 Jihadi gunmen murder four people.
3/19/06 Iraq Baghdad 14 10 Twelve bodies are found in the capital and Jihadis also gun down two civilians in Ramadi.
3/19/06 Pakistan Dera Ismail Khan 7 4 al-Qaeda militants detonate a bomb on a road, killing seven people and injuring four.
3/19/06 Pakistan Pir Ghaib 2 1 After ascertaining that the victims were Punjabis, Muslim radicals shoot three men at a picnic area, killing two.
3/19/06 India Sopore 2 5 Al Mansooran terrorists kill two security guards by tossing a grenade into their complex.
3/19/06 Pakistan Zafar Colony 7 7 Islamic militants are suspected in a bombing attack on a security convoy that leaves seven dead.
3/18/06 India Rawalpora 0 10 A woman and nine others are injured in a powerful Hizb-ul-Mujahideen car blast.
3/18/06 Afghanistan Ghazni 5 0 Religious extremists assassinate a former governor, two relatives and two employees in a residential neighborhood.
3/18/06 India Sumbal 1 0 Muslim gunmen murder a young civilian.
3/18/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 8 Sunni extremists kill two more Shia pilgrims with a roadside bomb.
3/18/06 Iraq Baghdad 22 0 The bodies of twenty-two men showing signs of torture are found by police.
3/18/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists gun down a 53-year-old man who was riding out to his rubber plantation.
3/18/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 39-year-old man is murdered by Islamic separatists.
3/17/06 Afghanistan Zabul 1 2 The Taliban attack a construction site, killing a guard and taking two people hostage.
3/17/06 Iran Sistan-Baluchistan 21 7 Sunni rebels (Jundollah, 'God's Soldiers') in Iran pose as police officers to stop cars carrying Shias, then machine-gun the occupants, killing twenty-one.
3/17/06 Afghanistan Maiwand 9 0 The Taliban kill nine policemen with a bomb as they are transporting the bodies of four Albanians kidnapped and murdered earlier.
3/17/06 Iraq Adil 3 2 Sunni gunmen shoot Shia pilgrims from a passing car, killing three.
3/17/06 Iraq Miqdadiya 4 4 Four U.S. soldiers are killed in a terrorist bombing on a police checkpoint.
3/17/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 4 A Fedayeen suicide bomber blows up a minibus, and seven bodies are found over the last two days, some showing signs of torture.
3/16/06 Thailand Yala 1 1 An ice cream vendor is murdered and his 8-year-old son inujured by militant Islamists.
3/16/06 Iraq Baqubah 3 0 Islamic terrorists kill three schoolgirls with a roadside bomb.
3/16/06 Thailand Pattani 6 2 In a shocking attack, a group of Muslims walk into a government office and gun down six officials meeting in a conference room.
3/16/06 Iraq Baijii 2 4 Radical Sunnis invade a home and kill a translator and his son inside.
3/16/06 Iraq Ramadi 3 6 Sunni radicals attack a checkpoint at an intersection, killing three civilians.
3/16/06 Iraq Mosul 5 2 Jihad gunmen murder four college students. Another civilian is killed in a bombing.
3/15/06 Thailand Pattani 1 1 Islamists attack a husband and wife on a road, killing the man and leaving the woman severely injured.
3/15/06 India Bhajja 2 0 An older husband and wife are shot to death by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists after forcing their way into the couple's home.
3/15/06 Thailand Muang 2 0 A man and his son are attacked by Muslim radicals while riding home on a motorbike. Both are killed.
3/15/06 Iraq Baghdad 22 0 Twenty-two bodies, victims of sectarian violence, are reported found.
3/15/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 2 Jihadis murder two Shia pilgrims walking by the road and kill two other innocents in separate bomb attacks.
3/15/06 Iraq Baqubah 2 11 Two people are killed when religious fundamentalists bomb a photography studio.
3/15/06 Iraq Baqubah 2 6 A woman and two children are among the casualities as a suicide bomber on a bicycle pedels his way to paradise.
3/14/06 Iraq Baghdad 87 0 Eighty-seven victims of sectarian violence are found in at least four separate locations around the city in a 24-hour period.
3/14/06 Indonesia Ambon 1 0 In a suspected Muslim attack, a 33-year-old Catholic nun is stabbed to death by an intruder.
3/13/06 Bangladesh Comilla 3 0 An Islamic militant sets off a suicide blast to avoid arrest. A mother and two children are blown apart as well.
3/13/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 7 Three civilians, including a child, are killed by two terrorist bombings.
3/13/06 Iraq Tikrit 5 18 At least five people are killed when Islamic radicals set off a bomb along a city street.
3/13/06 Afghanistan Kandahar 4 0 The Taliban execute four Albanian cleaning-company contractors that were abducted a day earlier.
3/13/06 India Ganderbal 1 0 After keeping him in captivity for two days under harsh conditions, the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen hang an abducted civilian.
3/13/06 Afghanistan Miansheen 5 6 Religious extremists attack a police post, killing five officers.
3/13/06 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 Radicals gun down a journalist outside his home.
3/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 14 Jihadis kill six civilians with a remote-controlled bomb and shoot two policemen to death in a separate attack.
3/12/06 Thailand Pattani 1 2 Islamic militants kill a 44-year-old Buddhist as he is riding his motorcycle. They also bomb a Buddhist temple, injuring a young girl and her mother.
3/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 52 204 al-Qaeda suicide bombers tear apart forty-four poor Shias living in a slum in two separate market attacks. About two-hundred others are injured. Eight are hanged or beaten to death in revenge
3/12/06 Iraq Baghdad 10 4 A paint shop is the target of a terror blast as eight bodies are found bound and executed elsewhere in the city.
3/12/06 Afghanistan Kabul 2 5 Suicide bombers kill a young girl on her way to school and a man on a motorbike.
3/12/06 Afghanistan Kabul 2 5 A Fedayeen suicide bomber attempts a political assassination. Two people are killed in the blast.
3/12/06 India Kader 1 0 A boy is abducted and beheaded by the Mujahideen.
3/12/06 Pakistan Anghar 1 0 Islamists kill a man and pin a note to his body.
3/12/06 Pakistan Madakhel 1 0 A civlian is abducted, tortured and killed by Muslim radicals.
3/12/06 Afghanistan Kunar 4 0 Four American soliders are killed by a remote-controlled blast while on security patrol to protect civilians from Taliban attacks.
3/11/06 India Reasi 1 1 Mujahideen terrorists force their way into a civilian's house and shoot him to death.
3/11/06 Iraq Baghdad 1 1 A television station director is killed by Islamic terrorists outside his home.
3/11/06 Afghanistan Helmand 1 0 A police officer is killed by a Taliban landmine.
3/11/06 Afghanistan Helmand 2 0 The decapitated bodies of two men abducted two days earlier by religious extremists are found in the desert.
3/11/06 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 A 'Christian Peacemaker' pacifist is kidnapped by Islamic radicals, held for three months, tortured and then shot to death.
3/11/06 India Thathri 0 1 Muslim terrorists force their way into a home and deliberately cripple a young girl by shooting her in both legs.
3/11/06 India Ladi Pahalgam 1 1 The Mujahideen abducts two civilians from their home and shoots one to death in captivity.
3/10/06 Turkey Van 2 19 An apparent Fedayeen suicide bombing leaves two other people dead.
3/10/06 Pakistan Quetta 28 5 Twenty-six people traveling to a wedding party are blown to bits by a terrorist landmine. Another two die of injuries overnight.
3/10/06 Iraq Kirkuk 1 14 A civilian is killed by gunmen, and another ten injured. Jihadis also kidnap four women.
3/10/06 Iraq Samarra 3 5 Two car bombings leave three civilians dead.
3/10/06 Iraq Fallujah 11 0 Eleven people are killed by a suicide truck bomber at an intersection.
3/10/06 Dagestan Makhachkala 1 1 Radicals plant a bomb under the car of a government official, killing him and badly injuring his driver.
3/10/06 Pakistan Jandola 1 0 Islamic fundamentalists murder a man, then circulate pamphlets as a warning to others.
3/10/06 Nigeria Kaduna 1 1 Angry Muslims shoot into the house of an Anglican bishop, killing one person and injuring another.
3/10/06 Sudan Graida 27 23 The Islamic government targets six villages, killing at least twenty-seven people and injuring dozens more including women and children.
3/10/06 Iraq Baghdad 6 0 Six bodies are found bound and executed.
3/9/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 15 Terrorists set off a bomb in front of a hospital and another in a street to kill eight civilians and injure fifteen.
3/9/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists gun down a Buddhist outside his home.
3/9/06 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A Buddhist man is found murdered with a note on his body from Islamists acknowledging that they are killing the innocent.
3/9/06 Pakistan Miran Ali 2 1 al-Qaeda backed militants attack a Pakistani checkpoint, killing two soldiers.
3/9/06 Pakistan Quetta 2 0 A policemen and his daughter are killed when radicals toss a bomb into their home.
3/9/06 Algeria El Oued 1 0 Armed fundamentalists kill a freed prisoner by spraying his home with automatic weapons fire.
3/9/06 Iraq Mosul 2 2 Religious fundamentalists kill the host of an educational and cultural TV show while on his way to interview poets.
3/9/06 Pakistan Ouspas 1 0 The son of a pro-government leader is murdered by the local Taliban.
3/8/06 Iraq Baghdad 23 0 The bodies of eighteen men are found bound and strangled on a minibus. Five other bodies are found elsewhere.
3/8/06 India Chajru 1 0 A villager is brutally gunned down by the Mujahideen.
3/8/06 Iraq Baghdad 4 5 Two young boys selling gas are among four people killed in two bombings by Jihadis.
3/8/06 India Awantipora 1 0 An SPO is kidnapped by Islamic militants and killed in captivity.
3/8/06 Iraq Fallujah 4 2 Islamic terrorists kill four civilians with a remote-controlled bomb.
3/8/06 Pakistan Tabba Takka 1 0 al-Qaeda militants shoot a civilian to death and pin a warning note to his body.
3/7/06 India Varanasi 23 62 Muslim terrorists (Lashkar-e-Toiba) use a trio of bombs against Hindu civilians at a religious prayer offering. At least twenty-three innocents are massacred and several dozen injured.
3/7/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists behead a 41-year-old plantation worker.
3/7/06 Iraq Baiji 3 4 Three security force members are killed outside an oil refinery in an ambush by Sunni insurgents.
3/7/06 Pakistan Mirali 1 1 Fundamentalists attack a vehicle, killing one of the occupants.
3/7/06 Iraq Baqubah 4 5 Sunni gunmen kill three Shias at a political office. A separate car bombing kills one civilian.
3/7/06 Chechnya Kurchaloi 2 2 A woman and her 12-year-old son are killed by the Mujahideen in a bomb explosion.
3/7/06 India Handwara 1 0 A woman who suffered injuries when Muslims attacked her on 11/21 finally succumbs. Elsewhere, the Mujahideen kidnaps a 17-year-old and chops off his fingers.
3/6/06 Pakistan Miranshah 1 2 Militants fire a rocket into a house, killing a young woman and injuring two children.
3/6/06 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Two civilians are gunned down by Islamic separatists.
3/6/06 Iraq Baqubah 9 23 Two girls under the age of 4 are among the six deaths when Sunni radicals detonate a car bomb at a busy market. Three other people are killed is separate shooting attacks.
3/6/06 Iraq Baghdad 5 16 Three Jihad car bombs kill five and injure sixteen.
3/6/06 Thailand Pattani 3 2 Radical Muslims storm a Buddhist village and shoot an elderly couple and their neighbor to death, then set fire to their homes.
3/6/06 Pakistan Barwan 1 0 Islamic militants kidnap and behead a school teacher.
3/5/06 Iraq Baiji 2 0 Religious fundamentalists murder two barbers who were on their way to work.
3/5/06 Iraq Baghdad 3 7 Shia gunmen storm a Sunni mosque, killing three people.
3/5/06 India Srinagar 2 3 Two policemen die when a Jaish-e-Mohammad radical lobs a grenade at their picket.
3/5/06 India Baramulla 1 0 A man is gunned down by the Mujahideen at a bus stop.
3/5/06 India Pulwama 0 26 Twenty-four civilians and two police are injured when a Jaish-e-Mohammad militant tosses a grenade into the road.
3/4/06 Iraq Salman Pak 2 3 Two civilians die from injuries received in a car bombing on a city street.
3/4/06 Iraq Gisr Diyala 7 20 Seven people are killed when Jihadis lob a mortar round into a crowded market.
3/4/06 Iraq Kirkuk 2 0 Two Shias are killed inside their mosque by Sunni gunmen.
3/4/06 Thailand Sungai Padi 1 1 A 21-year-old man is gunned down in an Islamist attack against him and his teenage sister.
3/4/06 Iraq Baqubah 1 8 Fundamentalists kill a young girl with a bombing of a store that sold musical paraphernalia.
3/4/06 Pakistan Quetta 2 3 A militant throws a grenade at children playing in the street, killing two young girls.
3/4/06 Afghanistan Lashkargah 5 0 Religious extremists kill four Afghan security agents and an electrician with a remote-controlled bomb.
3/4/06 Afghanistan Helmand 1 0 Taliban terrorists assassinate a government official with machine-gun fire into his car from motorcycles.
3/4/06 Afghanistan Nakhonak 1 2 One person is killed by a Taliban landmine.
3/4/06 Afghanistan Bala Buluk 1 0 Six Taliban terrorists drag a UN engineer from his car and shoot him to death.
3/4/06 Pakistan Mir Ali 2 7 al-Qaeda backed militants attack a security patrol, killing two Pakistani troops.
3/3/06 Iraq Nahrawan 25 0 Sunnis attack Shiite laborers at two brick factories, executing twenty-five people with a shot to the forehead. Among the dead was at least one woman and three children, including a 6-year-old girl.
3/3/06 Philippines Basilan 1 4 Abu Sayyaf suspected in the shooting assassination of a city mayor.
3/3/06 India Lucknow 2 12 Muslim rioters kill two Hindus and injure a dozen more.
3/3/06 USA Chapel Hill, NC 0 9 Calling it the will of Allah, an Iranian immigrant plows his SUV into a crowd of students as 'retribution' for foreign policy overseas.
3/2/06 Iraq Baghdad 8 14 Islamic militants bomb a market, slaughtering eight innocents including a child.
3/2/06 Iraq Mosul 4 0 In a senseless act of violence, gunmen spray a car with machine-gun fire after it left a police academy.
3/2/06 Pakistan Karachi 4 51 A suicide bomber kills four people, including two Americans, outside a hotel.
3/2/06 Iraq Tikrit 6 3 Jihadis attack a police checkpoint, killing six officers.
3/2/06 India Tarzoo 1 0 A civilian is murdered by the Mujahideen.
3/2/06 Iraq Basra 3 0 A Sunni cleric is assassinated, and a man and woman are found dead from a separate Shiite attack.
3/2/06 Iraq Baghdad 10 8 Five people are killed when Muslim radicals bomb a passenger bus. Five additional bodies are found elsewhere.
3/1/06 India Baramulla 2 0 Two policemen are murdered by Islamic militants while on street patrol.
3/1/06 Iraq Kirkuk 4 8 Jihadis ambush a police patrol, killing four officers.
3/1/06 Thailand Yala 1 0 A postman is shot to death by Islamists.
3/1/06 Israel Samaria 1 1 Two Muslims gun down a Jew outside a gas station. The victim was a father of two.
3/1/06 Iraq Baghdad 27 68 Radical Muslims set off two car bombs in civilian areas. At least twenty-five people are burned to death or torn apart by shrapnel.
3/1/06 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Islamic militants murder a rubber wood trader.
3/1/06 India Baramulla 2 0 Two security personnel are gunned down by the Mujahideen.
3/1/06 Pakistan Sergardan Chowk 1 0 The local Taliban kill a civilian and leave his body in the open.
3/1/06 India Titwan 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct a teenage boy and then behead him in captivity.
3/1/06 Iraq Baghdad 2 5 Radicals kill two family members attending a Shiite funeral.
3/1/06 Iraq Mahmudiya 3 2 Terrorists use mortar rounds to kill three members of the same family.
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[scandium]

Quite a list AL. What was the remark Stalin once made? '1 death is a tragedy, but a million merely a statistic'?:hmm:

[The Avon Lady]

Quite a list AL. What was the remark Stalin once made? '1 death is a tragedy, but a million merely a statistic'?:hmm:
Bingo.

[Skybird]

What was the remark Stalin once made? '1 death is a tragedy, but a million merely a statistic'?:hmm:

But you cannot just dismiss this stuff as "inevitable" or "merely a statistic"

Decide. You cannot make an argument of both.

[Skybird]

Sorry. Forum limits do not allow for posting the remaining figures from 9/2001 through 2/2006. Complete listings at TROP (http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/).

Try splitting it into several replies :D

[The Avon Lady]

Sorry. Forum limits do not allow for posting the remaining figures from 9/2001 through 2/2006. Complete listings at TROP (http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/).
Try splitting it into several replies :D
The link will suffice. Consider my post just a snippet - unfortunately.

[scandium]

What was the remark Stalin once made? '1 death is a tragedy, but a million merely a statistic'?:hmm:
But you cannot just dismiss this stuff as "inevitable" or "merely a statistic"
Decide. You cannot make an argument of both.

I wasn't making an arguement out of the Stalin quote Skybird. My feeling is that this type of incident should not be dismissed as just inevitable, or merely a statistic, yet all too often when these incidents happen to nameless people that is exactly the reaction that is gotten. It is part of human nature, I suppose, and that is where the truth lies in this famous quote by Stalin (who knew this first hand).

[bradclark1]

"Helping your enemy to become stronger does not necessarily earn you his sympathy and make him your friend. It is more likely that you just win a stronger enemy."

Very good sig Skybird. I take it that is in reference to Germany's donation to Hamas.

[The Avon Lady]

"Helping your enemy to become stronger does not necessarily earn you his sympathy and make him your friend. It is more likely that you just win a stronger enemy."
Very good sig Skybird. I take it that is in reference to Germany's donation to Hamas.
If I could read Skybird's mind, I don't think he would argue.

[Skybird]

Very good sig Skybird. I take it that it is in reference to Germany's donation to Hamas. Amongst others, yes. Germany granted an extra 20+ million Euros payment some days ago :dead:, and most politicians of our (and the European) left still insist that Palestinians are not responsible for having voted Hamas into office. :dead: The sig, of course, also with regard to the general european attitude towards Muslim countries. But I think it is a general truth, not only valid for this cultural conflict in special.

[bradclark1]

@ Scandium
People took this thread as another instance of USA bashing. I know I did, but seeing as I don't know you yet and I don't know what country you are from I thought I would come with a low level approach and see what happens. Nothing happened. I think we are not used to your style of posting and you might want to put a little more thought into your threads.

Back in the day, Skybird made us very sensitive to USA bashing. :rotfl:

[The Avon Lady]

"Helping your enemy to become stronger does not necessarily earn you his sympathy and make him your friend. It is more likely that you just win a stronger enemy."
Very good sig Skybird. I take it that is in reference to Germany's donation to Hamas.
If I could read Skybird's mind, I don't think he would argue.
Amongst others, yes.
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4097/carmac9mp.jpg

[Skybird]

Back in the day, Skybird made us very sensitive to USA bashing. :rotfl:
I hope meanwhile you have managed to make your wounds stop bleeding :-j

AL, I meant Brad with my last post. you just happened to be faster again with your own. Have edited it.

[Fish]

Dang...and I thought Skybird was the only one sniffing for dirty underwear around here....nothing about the 100 killed today by some A-HOLE wannabe Osama jerkoff who blew himself up in a crowd and the 14 yr old boy who said he heard the blast and ran and then looked down and realized his arm was gone.....stfu scandium get out of the glass bubble you live in and see things the way they are not he way you wish they were.

Yeah, right a eye for a eye isn't it Iceman?

[scandium]

@ Scandium
People took this thread as another instance of USA bashing. I know I did, but seeing as I don't know you yet and I don't know what country you are from I thought I would come with a low level approach and see what happens. Nothing happened. I think we are not used to your style of posting and you might want to put a little more thought into your threads.

Back in the day, Skybird made us very sensitive to USA bashing. :rotfl:

It wasn't intended that way, I posted this article because it seemed genuinely discussion worthy and I thought I'd keep my initial post brief by witholding my own comments from it. I'm not sure what you mean by putting "more thought" into my threads, do you mean adding comments in the initial post of my own after the article?

[bradclark1]

Yes. To me just posting the article was saying "See the U.S. is f'''''ing up again" and trying to rub my/our noses in it.

[scandium]

Yes. To me just posting the article was saying "See the U.S. is f'''''ing up again" and trying to rub my/our noses in it.

Fair enough, and I'll keep that in mind in the future. In my own defence, I had not known when I posted it that it would come across that way, so I only posted in the fashion many others use where only the link, the article itself, or a mix of both is first posted.

[bradclark1]

Depends on the content. :D

[Iceman]

Dang...and I thought Skybird was the only one sniffing for dirty underwear around here....nothing about the 100 killed today by some A-HOLE wannabe Osama jerkoff who blew himself up in a crowd and the 14 yr old boy who said he heard the blast and ran and then looked down and realized his arm was gone.....stfu scandium get out of the glass bubble you live in and see things the way they are not he way you wish they were.

Yeah, right a eye for a eye isn't it Iceman?

Eye for an eye has never worked save to gratify the flesh at present.Harder to do the right the as some may know...if eye for an eye were the flavor of the day for America, Germany would be a crater...Japan would be an Island of total Glass as would much of the Middle East.Please try to post an intelligent post with some real substance and meat not just some obscure one line headline that points out the obvious evil nature of some.All have sinned and continue to do so....Vanity of vanity ALL is vanity.

Maybe tommorrow I'll post the weather report for central Arizona in case some of you were intrested....or I can save you the trouble....hot..next day hot...next day hot...you get the idea.

[jumpy]

Tbqh, the squabling on this thread is without purpose (isnt it always?). Sounds to me like some of you chaps ought to chill out a tad and not 'shoot first, ask question later' when it comes to peoples motivation for posting- to take the posting of a news article as some kind of implied national slurr reveals a good deal more than the content of the atricle itself.
Would it have been so worthy of pique had it been a case of an iraqi unit commiting the offense? Probably not, missing the point entirely: possibly a nasty bit of crime has been commited and a coverup attempt made by those who are responsible for integrity and disciplin in the field. It's news, not america bashing. The same was said of the British a while back concerning beatings meeted out to 'civilians' etc.

I know it's a past 'theme' here on subsim for lively debate where america and her foreign aspirations are concerned (thought not exclusively), but really, it sounds very parochial sometimes :lol:.

What can I say, you can't fight a war these days without every man and his dog wanting to have an oppinion to share about it - if you're gonna get your hands dirty, then expect people to comment on the smell. And I always thought you lot accross the water didn't give a monkeys for what other nations/people thought of you, turns out you just a bunch of marshmallows underneath all of that 'don't tread on me' thing heheheheh :arrgh!:

[bradclark1]

I know it's a past 'theme' here on subsim for lively debate where america and her foreign aspirations are concerned ...............

Well if you said Bush and his foreign asperations that would be OK. :lol:

And I always thought you lot accross the water didn't give a monkeys for what other nations/people thought of you,
Of course we care. What do you think we are doing all this for? We did it to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. Doing this for WMD was just an excuse. We really wanted to liberate them. Now they are free to shoot, bomb, and kill whoever they want.

to take the posting of a news article as some kind of implied national slurr reveals a good deal more than the content of the atricle itself.

Oh? Pray share your revelations with us.

[jumpy]

Oh? Pray share your revelations with us.
I can't say it's a 'revalation' unless that's said toungue in cheek?

Well, there's deffinitely a sense of caution and perhaps guarded suspicion of such articles as this given the recent spate of serious allegations directed at troops and the whole tone of coalition opperations in Iraq and the reasons for being there in the first place. Nobody likes to be told their side is doing something wrong. I don't like being told that something I was a part of for so long is commiting atrocities. But I also know that sh!t happens and it can't be ignored. and I'm not implying some sort of criticism here - nor boldly stating it, for that matter.
Understandably some topics are best aproached with caution (especially around here sometimes ;) ) but occasionally it seems as if there's an anticipation or pre-emptive thought that one should expect every topic of this sort should be considered a dig at the US or the military in Iraq. Scandium even said I pity the people over there - both the military trying to do an uneviable job and those simply trying to live their lives in this hellhole. hardly having a real dig?
Maybe this is expressed in terms of national pride (in a good way? I'm not sure I have the right term there 'national' in this instance) and an understanding not to condemn but to support, sometimes vociferously, regardless of the full story being investigated. A similar thing occured on another forum I visit concerning the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes: as soon as the news was released that a man had been shot to death on the london underground, as a suspected terrorist, a thread immideately appeared titled 'We got one of the bastards...' a little premature in the event.

Dismissing a discussion as mere trolling is a bit forwards (maybe subsim has a more highbrow trolling content than elsewhere? hehe) though maybe I'm being overly generous there?
I don't think it matters who is responsible for rape and murder as soldiers, so long as something is seen to be investigated, as it appears to be in this case. That these are american troops is irrelevant, they might as well be British for all the difference it makes. Regardless, it's news worth discussing with the days unfolding events. On the whole this article or scandiums reference to it is no more a criticism of the US army (or its intentions in iraq) based upon a minority of squaddies than the initial reporting of the article in the news headlines is a critique of the US military.
Following my comment on not caring what others think, I allude to the gentle stereotype of the brash american, similarily we english are seen as tea drinking chaps who wear bowler hats and read the times who say things like 'jolly good' and 'righto' and 'I say..!' in that insufferably polite english mannerism. :lol:
I guess such reactions are to be expected with some of the times facing the world these days, but I always remember being told by my mother that if you go through life with a frown on your countenance as opposed to a smile, then people will respond according to how they see you- frowning.
:shrugs:

[scandium]

One of the soldiers that had been part of this incident, possibly even the ring leader, had already been discharged for a "personality disorder" and has now been arraigned in a federal (civilian) court:

"Quoting other soldiers, the FBI affidavit states that Green and other soldiers planned to rape a woman who lived near the checkpoint.

It alleges that Green shot the woman's relatives, including a girl of about 5, and then raped the woman before shooting her to death."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/07/03/iraq.charge/

[bradclark1]

Dismissing a discussion as mere trolling is a bit forwards (maybe subsim has a more highbrow trolling content than elsewhere? hehe) though maybe I'm being overly generous there?
To me just posting the article was saying "See the U.S. is f'''''ing up again" and trying to rub my/our noses in it.

I can't say it's a 'revalation' unless that's said toungue in cheek?

It was.

I think the whole thing was miscommunication as in how not to start a prossible hot topic. I also think Iceman was somewhat over the edge with his comments and overreacted.

[Fish]

Dang...and I thought Skybird was the only one sniffing for dirty underwear around here....nothing about the 100 killed today by some A-HOLE wannabe Osama jerkoff who blew himself up in a crowd and the 14 yr old boy who said he heard the blast and ran and then looked down and realized his arm was gone.....stfu scandium get out of the glass bubble you live in and see things the way they are not he way you wish they were.

Yeah, right a eye for a eye isn't it Iceman?

Eye for an eye has never worked save to gratify the flesh at present.Harder to do the right the as some may know...if eye for an eye were the flavor of the day for America, Germany would be a crater...Japan would be an Island of total Glass as would much of the Middle East.Please try to post an intelligent post with some real substance and meat not just some obscure one line headline that points out the obvious evil nature of some.All have sinned and continue to do so....Vanity of vanity ALL is vanity.

Maybe tommorrow I'll post the weather report for central Arizona in case some of you were intrested....or I can save you the trouble....hot..next day hot...next day hot...you get the idea.

My remark was not pointed at the USA.

[The Avon Lady]

A different view of US troops in Iraq, that the press seems uninterested in conveying:

Interview with an Iraqi general - Part 1 (http://boredsoldier.blogspot.com/2006/07/interview-with-iraqi-general.html).

Interview with an Iraqi general - Part 2 (http://boredsoldier.blogspot.com/2006/07/part-ii-interview-with-iraqi-general.html).

[August]

As I, and others, have mentioned before, in any group of humans there will be a few bad eggs who will commit horrible crimes. No Army ever created in the history of the world has been immune to such things, nor will it ever be.

What is important is how the parent organization concerned deals with such incidents when (not if) they occur. Are the perpetrators actions ignored, or even encouraged and applauded, or are they investigated and punished when they are found out?

There are those who will point to such incidents and claim we're worse than Saddam or Al Quaeda or any of the insurgent groups we're fighting, but unlike them, we punish such the perpetrators of such actions, whereas they reward them with everything from money and promotions to promises of a privileged place in Heaven.

THAT is the essential difference between us and our enemies and a point even our harshest internet critics ought to remember.

[The Avon Lady]

As I, and others, have mentioned before, in any group of humans there will be a few bad eggs who will commit horrible crimes. No Army ever created in the history of the world has been immune to such things, nor will it ever be.

What is important is how the parent organization concerned deals with such incidents when (not if) they occur. Are the perpetrators actions ignored, or even encouraged and applauded, or are they investigated and punished when they are found out?

There are those who will point to such incidents and claim we're worse than Saddam or Al Quaeda or any of the insurgent groups we're fighting, but unlike them, we punish such the perpetrators of such actions, whereas they reward them with everything from money and promotions to promises of a privileged place in Heaven.

THAT is the essential difference between us and our enemies and a point even our harshest internet critics ought to remember.
Just one small addition to your excellent post, August.

Not only is it important how the parent organization concerned deals with such incidents but also how the society the parent organization belongs to views such incidents.

Is there anyone here who doesn't view this case with disgust and disdain, assuming the facts are correct? As far as I'm concerned, anyone directly involved in incidents of intentional killing, raping and plunder of innocents should be executed by firing squad.

[August]

As far as I'm concerned, anyone directly involved in incidents of intentional killing, raping and plunder of innocents should be executed by firing squad.

You're too nice. If it were me i'd strip the perps of their weapons, equipment and uniforms, hog tie them, then drop them off in the middle of the town where they commited their crimes.

[kiwi_2005]

I would first try to find out what drove them to this, do the psychology thing first. I mean rape and pillaging has been going on in every war since day one. The only time soldiers can do an act like this and feel okay about it is in war, would they had done the same thing during peace time? Very unlikely. So what drove them to murder innocents? First whos to blardy well blame, who sent them there telling them to kill in the first place.

No dont kill them. long term prision yes but no need to bring out the knives.

[scandium]

You raise some interesting questions.

I would first try to find out what drove them to this, do the psychology thing first. I mean rape and pillaging has been going on in every war since day one. The only time soldiers can do an act like this and feel okay about it is in war
Let's deal in the tangible and not the abstract, that is if we're going to discuss "war" in the context of this article, then let's do it in the context of this war which is a concrete event and not an abstraction; in this vein, what is it about this war that you feel would make the premeditated rape and murder of a young woman, and the murder of her family, an okay thing to do? Personally I see nothing about this war that would make such an act "okay".

would they had done the same thing during peace time? Very unlikely.
Why is this unlikely? Please elaborate on what specific circumstances of this conflict make it "very unlikely" that they could commit the same crimes in peacetime that they're accused of commiting over there.

So what drove them to murder innocents? First whos to blardy well blame, who sent them there telling them to kill in the first place.
Perhaps there may be some responsibility to go around for at least some of the various war crimes that have been making the news, but I don't know about in this particular case. Because of the nature of this specific crime I'm more inclined to put the blame, and the responsibility, exclusively on the shoulders of the perpetrators.

No dont kill them. long term prision yes but no need to bring out the knives.
Personally I don't support capital punishment, but by the laws of their own country they are eligible for the death sentence and based upon what I have read so far, and if the accusations are true, I won't shed any tears if they are convicted and executed for their crimes.

[August]

The only time soldiers can do an act like this and feel okay about it is in war, would they had done the same thing during peace time? Very unlikely. So what drove them to murder innocents? First whos to blardy well blame, who sent them there telling them to kill in the first place..

I disagree, it's just as likely. Armies do tend to have lower crime rates than comparably sized civilian populations, mainly due to the increased supervision they undergo, but they still contain their fair share of evil minded people. Besides such things have occured in peace time armies as well, even ones stationed back home, just as they occur in civvie street.

Who is to blame? THEY are! The perpetrators of the crime, end of story man. How do you drive a person to commit such an act? Do you think someone could drive you do rape and murder a family in cold blood like that? I for one don't think I could draw down on a 5 year old even if someone held a gun to my head and threatened to blow my brains out if i didn't.

[kiwi_2005]

Scandium,
Hey man, im a ex - bushman by trade i left school at 14 to help my dad, i taught myself to read and write, I can kill a wild boar with a knive with my pitbull as backup. Pitbulls are very loyal angry beasts i might add :cool: Im not all that brainy academic wise therefore i can't reply to your blardy statement in a manner your all admire!!! :88) :D Be easy on me dudes. :lol:

We should try to find out what makes certain soldiers do these nasty crimes, shooting them aint going to solve the problem. Like i said do the psychology thing and treat them, find the signs then maybe change the training - make training very stressful (probably already is) and see how they react to it, surely they would show signs.

Hope that was okay :hmm:

[August]

Scandium,
Hey man, im a ex - bushman by trade i left school at 14 to help my dad, i taught myself to read and write, I can kill a wild boar with a knive with my pitbull as backup. Pitbulls are very loyal angry beasts i might add :cool: Im not all that brainy academic wise therefore i can't reply to your blardy statement in a manner your all admire!!! :88) :D Be easy on me dudes. :lol:

We should try to find out what makes certain soldiers do these nasty crimes, shooting them aint going to solve the problem. Like i said do the psychology thing and treat them, find the signs then maybe change the training - make training very stressful (probably already is) and see how they react to it, surely they would show signs.

Hope that was okay :hmm:

That's the problem with your idea though Kiwi. You think it's somehow related to military training and/or a war environment but these type of crimes are also committed by members of the civilan population during peacetime who aren't exposed to such things.

[kiwi_2005]

Yeah true your made a good point, but soldiers are not suppose to lose there cool in war like this. They are trained to handle all types of dangerous situations. My theory is they lost it after probably seeing to much killings, buddies blown to bits some just couldn't handle it anymore and went on a rampage of total revenge killing everything in there way - raping and pillaging the enemy, no mercy. When a person flips what he does is right in his mind.

[scandium]

Scandium,
Hey man, im a ex - bushman by trade i left school at 14 to help my dad, i taught myself to read and write, I can kill a wild boar with a knive with my pitbull as backup. Pitbulls are very loyal angry beasts i might add :cool: Im not all that brainy academic wise therefore i can't reply to your blardy statement in a manner your all admire!!! :88) :D Be easy on me dudes. :lol:

We should try to find out what makes certain soldiers do these nasty crimes, shooting them aint going to solve the problem. Like i said do the psychology thing and treat them, find the signs then maybe change the training - make training very stressful (probably already is) and see how they react to it, surely they would show signs.

Hope that was okay :hmm:
You don't need to be an academic to bring up interesting questions (or interesting answers) :D. You make a good point on the training issue, but I mostly agree with the answer August gave.

Where I disagree with him somewhat, and lean more toward what you said above, is a sentiment I've heard here and there since the Abu Ghraib scandal: U.S. troops are trained to kill (sorry to generalize by lumping all the military branches and occupations together), and are perhaps one of the most effective killing machines in the world (to give credit where credit is do) but are maybe not so effective at keeping the peace (and if this is true I don't place the blame for it on the grunt in the field).

Baghdad fell remarkably fast, but to me it appears that Iraq has slowly disintegrated ever since. What began with looting and lawlessness (which Rumsfeld dismissed with the remark "freedom is messy) slowly escalated into an armed uprising (which Rumsfeld dismissed as the acts of a "few dead-enders") and then a full blown insurgency. Could it have been prevented, or at least contained? I don't know and we'll never know, but as Rumsfeld famously said: "you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might wish you had" and maybe liberating Iraq of its government wasn't such a good idea when the Army that has to replace so many of its functions (in having to provide for the safety and security of the people) hasn't had that much training and experience in the art of keeping the peace.

I'm not saying, by the way, that any amount of training would have prevented the types of people who are alleged to commit the acts they're accused of from commiting them, just that it might have weeded them out beforehand. However now that the acts have been commited, the only thing to do is, if applicable, punish the perpetrators.

By the way, I think the importance of tackling questions like this and punishing the perpetrator isn't so much to deal with any individual incident as it is to reduce the tit-for-tat that these kinds of incidents can lead to.

[scandium]

A more personal perspective on these crimes:

"BAGHDAD — He was the first to enter the charred farmhouse where the bodies of his relatives lay strewn about the floor, shot and bludgeoned to death.

And he watched more than three months later as a U.S. Army officer took the two surviving children in his arms, barely able to hold back tears as he told them that the people who had killed their family would be punished.

"Never in my mind could I have imagined such a gruesome sight," Abu Firas Janabi said of the day in March when his cousin, Fakhriya Taha Muhsen; her husband, Kasim Hamza Rasheed; and their two daughters were slain and their farmhouse set ablaze."Kasim's corpse was in the corner of the room, and his head was smashed into pieces," he said. The 5-year-old daughter, Hadel, was beside her father, and Janabi said he could see that Fakhriya's arms had been broken.

In another room, he found 15-year-old Abeer, naked and burned, with her head smashed in "by a concrete block or a piece of iron."

"There were burns from the bottom of her stomach to the end of her body, except for her feet," he said.

"I did not believe what I was seeing. I tried to fool myself into believing I was in a dream. But the problem was that we were not dreaming. We put a piece of cloth over her body. Then I left the house together with my wife.""

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-rape6jul06,0,3149499.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Onkel Neal]

If found guilty, send him to Bagdad for punishment.

[kiwi_2005]

A more personal perspective on these crimes:

"BAGHDAD — He was the first to enter the charred farmhouse where the bodies of his relatives lay strewn about the floor, shot and bludgeoned to death.

And he watched more than three months later as a U.S. Army officer took the two surviving children in his arms, barely able to hold back tears as he told them that the people who had killed their family would be punished.

"Never in my mind could I have imagined such a gruesome sight," Abu Firas Janabi said of the day in March when his cousin, Fakhriya Taha Muhsen; her husband, Kasim Hamza Rasheed; and their two daughters were slain and their farmhouse set ablaze."Kasim's corpse was in the corner of the room, and his head was smashed into pieces," he said. The 5-year-old daughter, Hadel, was beside her father, and Janabi said he could see that Fakhriya's arms had been broken.

In another room, he found 15-year-old Abeer, naked and burned, with her head smashed in "by a concrete block or a piece of iron."

"There were burns from the bottom of her stomach to the end of her body, except for her feet," he said.

"I did not believe what I was seeing. I tried to fool myself into believing I was in a dream. But the problem was that we were not dreaming. We put a piece of cloth over her body. Then I left the house together with my wife.""

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-rape6jul06,0,3149499.story?coll=la-home-headlines

:o okay thats bad, no thats beyond bad thats just plain evil! What ive read just gave me a change of heart, do what ever you americans think is necessary. God bless those victims...

[August]

Where I disagree with him somewhat, and lean more toward what you said above, is a sentiment I've heard here and there since the Abu Ghraib scandal: U.S. troops are trained to kill (sorry to generalize by lumping all the military branches and occupations together), and are perhaps one of the most effective killing machines in the world (to give credit where credit is do) but are maybe not so effective at keeping the peace (and if this is true I don't place the blame for it on the grunt in the field).

Well relax, that statement "trained to kill" means trained in the operation of weapons and military equipment, not some kind of psychological regimen that turns innocent farm boys into killers.

Don't let anyone kid you. Our effectiveness is due mainly to our advantages in technology and our training methods to use that technology. Against an opponent that is an even match to that, it'd come down to which side wanted to win the most, and of course, "General Chaos" ie which side had the best luck.

[bradclark1]

Scum is scum. They used the war as an opportunity to commit and cover up this crime.
Would I sentence these guys to death? Most certainly.
Do I think it will happen? I don't think so, that would be a political landmine.
They will probably spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
I'm also leaning that death would be an escape of sorts for these people.
The rest of there lives in an 8'x10' cell 23 hours a day gives them plenty of time for reflection on what put them there.

[August]

Scum is scum. They used the war as an opportunity to commit and cover up this crime.
Would I sentence these guys to death? Most certainly.
Do I think it will happen? I don't think so, that would be a political landmine.
They will probably spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
I'm also leaning that death would be an escape of sorts for these people.
The rest of there lives in an 8'x10' cell 23 hours a day gives them plenty of time for reflection on what put them there.

Yeah the rest of their lives spent in a steel cage in Leavensworth is not something they're likely to prefer over a quick and semi painless death. I wonder if they still have hard labor?

[bradclark1]

Why is this unlikely? Please elaborate on what specific circumstances of this conflict make it "very unlikely" that they could commit the same crimes in peacetime that they're accused of commiting over there.

Because the criminals feel there is nobody to police them. They have the ultimate power. The power to give death and get away with it.
Combat and weapons change people for the worst or better. They can do in the combat zone what they wouldn't even think about at home.
How many times have you been around an a$$hole and wished you could put a bullet in his head, cut his throat or beat the crap out of him? I do often but I don't act on those thoughts because I don't want to go to jail.
Well guess what? In a combat zone you can act on those thoughts and can get away with it. You have a rifle in your hand and opportunity. All you got to say if questioned is "He was coming at me with a knife" or "He was running at me and wouldn't stop when I called on him to halt" or "I thought my life was in danger".
Pretty simple huh! Why would you question it? You are in a combat zone and that guys a deacon in his church back home. You have more on your mind running your fire team/platoon than having to worry about some rag-head.
Here is an example. Not to pick on the Brits. Remember a year or two ago when those British security guys were in the habit of going down the road then letting loose on cars that were just going about their business?
Do you even think they would do that back in the U.K.? Not on your life. They did it because they figured they could get away with it.
Look at it like this. You have to figure that 80% or more of people on this earth are s#!theads. Figure half of that at the minimum would commit a crime if they knew they could get away with it. You have to figure that a fraction of that 40% would join the military. Now give them a gun and stick them in Iraq or some other combat zone. What do you think is going to happen? Thats why armies have Military Police, CID, Uniformed Code of Military Justice and the Fort Leavenworth federal penitentiary.
Now you also have my view on the human race.:D

[scandium]

Some pretty good points there Brad and I can't say I disagree with you. The US Military has a pretty good track record when we think of how long this war's been going on, the relatively small number of incidents, and the brutal nature of the insurgency these guys (most of them you young guys in their late teens or early twenties) are up against, and so its unfortunate that its this stuff that grabs the headlines.