Algiers bomber's family blames "ignorance": paper
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The family of a suicide bomber who  killed 17 U.N. staff in Algiers this week said he joined  Islamist rebels after failing to get a taxi license and was  motivated by "ignorance, not poverty," a newspaper reported.
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A little-known Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for the Bombay train bombings warned Tuesday that it was planning attacks against government and historic sites in India in an e-mail to an Indian television station. Also, the death toll in the July 11 bombings was raised to 207.
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PARIS (BBC News) - An Algerian man has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison for helping fund a wave of deadly bomb attacks on Paris Metro stations 12 years ago.  Rachid Ramda, of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), was jailed for a minimum of 22 years for his role in the attacks that killed eight and injured 150.  The blasts in three stations in 1995 were the worst bombings in France since World War II. Ramda was arrested in London in 1995 and accused of financing the operation from Britain.  After a 10-year battle between French and British authorities, he was extradited to France to face trial.
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A petrol bomb attack on the home of a Portuguese family is being treated as a racist incident by police.
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A suicide bombing in Algeria that killed 19 people marked two worrying developments for the energy exporting country's bid to end attacks by armed groups seeking a purist Islamic state.
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Nablus - The family of a Palestinian teenager who was said to have carried out a suicide attack at a Tel Aviv marketplace on Monday told AFP he was only 16 years old.
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The Palestinian mother of the bomber who blew himself up in a crowded Tel Aviv marketplace is questioning why her teenage son was selected for the operation.
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A leading Spanish newspaper, El Pais, is using the terrorist attack of September 11 on New York City in an e-mail advertisement for its online version, prompting scathing criticism in the blogosphere.
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At least 17 people were killed and 30 wounded on Saturday by a car bomb in the port of Dellys, 50 miles from Algiers, hospital sources told state news agency Algerie Presse Service.
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THE finger of blame for the Egypt blasts was yesterday pointed at the al-Qaeda terrorist network. Israel killed the military chief of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad
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Deputy al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri   has urged a militant Algerian Islamist group to punish   "Crusader nation" France, even though it vehemently opposed the   U.S.-led war in Iraq, a newspaper said on Thursday.
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The United Nations is setting up an independent panel to investigate a bombing that killed 17 U.N. employees in Algiers on December 11, the world body announced on Monday.
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Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, under Indian government protection from Islamist death threats, described her life in hiding as a "slow and lingering death" in a text released in France on Friday.
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Algeria's interior minister on Thursday scoffed at a U.N. plan for an independent probe into the December terror attacks in Algiers that killed 17 U.N. employees.
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Newspapers remembered the victims of the September 11 attacks and condemned those responsible, but many also expressed deep unease at the US government's reaction to the atrocity.
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Editorial writers throughout the Middle East have reacted with revulsion at the loss of life in the Russian town of Beslan, accusing the attackers of tarnishing and distorting the image of Islam.
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A number of people die and more are injured in a car bomb attack in Dellys on Algeria's east coast, officials say.