Middle East ; Gaza official escapes bomb blast
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Middle East News, A controversial Palestinian security official related to Yasser Arafat has escaped an apparent car bomb attack in Gaza City without injury.
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GAZA, Gaza Strip  - An explosion wounded a senior  Islamic Jihad field commander in a Gaza refugee camp Thursday  in what the Palestinian militant group called an Israeli  assassination attempt.
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An Afghan vice president on Monday escaped a bomb attack, which slightly injured his driver, while travelling in north-east Afghanistan.
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A car bomb explodes near the convoy of a Palestinian security chief, Moussa Arafat, reports from Gaza City say.
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A top Palestinian security leader who is a related to Yasser Arafat escaped unharmed on Tuesday when a booby-trapped car exploded near his convoy in Gaza City. The blast came as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to cobble together a governing team to carry out his plan to withdraw from Gaza next year.
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A militant leader survived an Israeli missile strike on his car in Gaza on Thursday in Israel's first assassination attempt in the Palestinian territories since Yasser Arafat died in a Paris hospital.
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GAZA CITY (CNN) -- An explosion rocked a house in Gaza City early Wednesday, killing at least five people -- including a Hamas commander -- and wounding 16 others, Palestinian security sources and hospital sources said.
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Palestinian police thwarted an attack Sunday on a security commander &amp;#151; the second ally of President Mahmoud Abbas targeted in two days &amp;#151; as the rivalry between his moderate Fatah Party and the Hamas militant group threatened to explode.
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An explosion occurred near the convoy of a  Palestinian security chief in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday,  witnesses said.
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An explosion at a Hamas activist's house in Gaza City kills at least two, Palestinian sources say.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the temporary successor to Yasser Arafat, escaped unharmed Sunday when militants firing assault rifles burst into a mourning tent for the deceased Palestinian leader, killing two security guards and wounding six other people.
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JERUSALEM -- A Hamas official was killed Sunday when his sport utility vehicle exploded in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, seconds after he started the engine, according to witnesses and the Palestinian militant group&#39;s leaders, who accused Israel of
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An explosion was heard in Gaza City early Monday, but Palestinian and Israeli security officials said the blast had apparently been caused by a sonic boom.
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A militant leader survived an Israeli missile strike on his car in Gaza on Thursday in Israel&#39;s first apparent assassination attempt in the Palestinian territories since Yasser Arafat died in a Paris hospital.
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An official from the Palestinian  militant group Hamas was killed on Sunday when a bomb exploded  in his car in Damascus, Hamas spokesmen and witnesses said.
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Iraq's Shiite vice president escaped an apparent assassination attempt Monday after a bomb exploded in municipal offices where he was making a speech
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A huge explosion was heard east of Gaza City in Thursday, residents said. It was apparently in the area of a main road from an Israel-Gaza crossing point into the city.