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"We’re waiting anxiously for the Israeli backlash"

Julien — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:33:59 +0100

The school after the shooting, 6 March 08. Photo: www.juif.org

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.

"I class my friends by how afraid they are"

Julien — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:29:03 +0100

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.

31 killed in an explosion, civilians back to being targeted

Julien — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:09:51 +0100

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. The carnage took place in the early morning of 16 January, the day that a six-year truce between the warmongers - never entirely respected - officially ended. The bus drove over a bomb, causing it to detonate. Armed men then shot at passengers who tried to flee. Nobody has taken responsibility for the attack, but the LTTE (the Tamil Tigers) are suspected; particularly a branch of the armed group who were cut off from the rest in the east of the country following a government offensive.

New amateur video of the Bhutto assassination

Julien — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:20:11 +0100

In the midst of growing uncertainties surrounding the cause of death of Benazir Bhutto, a new amateur video of the assassination was released by British 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.

Images broadcast by Channel 4 on 30 December 2007

Algerians react to attacks

Julien — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:21:31 +0100

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!'

Post your questions to Mahi, our observer in Algeria