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07/03/2008 > ISRAEL / PALESTINE
"We’re waiting anxiously for the Israeli backlash"
The school after the shooting, 6 March 08. Photo: S. Meshi – ZAKA.
An armed man walked into a religious school on Thursday evening and opened fire leaving eight dead and several injured. Our Observers in the region young Palestinian Rafe Jabari and Israeli Talmudic teacher Ariel Woolf react to the killing. Read more…
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07/02/2008 > ISRAEL
"I class my friends by how afraid they are"
Our Observer in Israel responds to the media reaction to a suicide bombing that killed three (including two bombers) in Dimona, south Israel on Monday. The attack was the first in Israel for over a year. Read more...
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17/01/2008 > SRI LANKA
31 killed in an explosion, civilians back to being targeted
Sri Lanka saw yet more bloodshed on Wednesday when thirty-one
civilians were killed in an attack on a bus in the south-east of the country.
The island is not unaccustomed to this type of violence, but this attack could
prove to be a turning point in the war between the Tamil Tigers and the state
army. Our Observer Kumar explains why civilian attacks - which had become a
rarity in recent years - may be on the increase again.
Read more...
Posted on the Sinhalese site ‘Master of News', 16 January 2008. Warning, you may find these images upsetting.
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31/12/2007 > PAKISTAN
New amateur video of the Bhutto assassination
In the midst of growing uncertainties surrounding the cause of death of Benazir Bhutto, a new amateur video of the assassination was released by Channel 4 yesterday. According to Bhutto's supporters, the video proves that the ex-Prime Minister was in fact killed by a bullet, and not a by fracturing her skull as she tried to protect herself; the explanation given by the Home Minister on Friday. One of our Observers, Awab Alvi, tells us how the video was first posted on the online network Orkut before it was found by the British channel. Read more...
Images broadcast by Channel 4 on 30 December 2007
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12/12/2007 > ALGERIA
A bus, destroyed by the blasts in Ben Aknoun
Algerians react to attacks
The Algerian capital was rocked by two car-bomb attacks yesterday morning, leaving around sixty dead (hospital source), and the Algerian people dismayed. One of them, who now lives in France, filmed himself with a message to the terrorists which he posted on YouTube: ‘I'm Muslim, don't kill in my name!' Read more...
Post your questions to Mahi, our observer in Algeria
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