Above: Al Qaeda's bomb blast A crowded, predominantly Shi’ite Baghdad shopping area was bombed twice by suspected al Qaeda on Thursday at around 7 in the evening. The first attack, according to police, was a roadside bomb that was detonated on a street in the central Karadah district. The area was filled with vendors and their customers since Thursday is already weekend for Muslims. Women and children were among the more than 50 casualties; 120 plus more were injured. The second attack, which came only ... Read More

Above: Osama bin London A court in London has convicted seven men involved in terrorist training which they referred to as “camping weekends” wherein young Muslims are brought to English parks around Britain; they were trained to throw imaginary grenades, to stage mock ambushes with rifles fashioned from branches and to chop watermelons in simulated beheadings. Their leader Mohammed Hamid (pictured above) has called himself Osama bin London since 2004. Hamid is a 50-year-old Tanzanian who lives in London as a mosque preacher. One ... Read More

Above: The bombing scene The bombing (pictured above) killed the police chief, Abdul Hakim Jan (a prominent anti-Taliban commander), some guards and most of the villagers (including six children according to reports) attending a dog fighting event in the Argandab district, just outside the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. He wounded 90 more in the attack “Thousands of people were watching the dogs fighting, including young children and old people. People had come from different parts of Kandahar Province.” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ... Read More