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At Least 50 Killed in Blasts Targeting Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq

At least 50 people died in a series of blasts in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala today, as suicide bombers targeted Shiite pilgrims in the third attack in recent days. More than 100 others were injured by the car bombs, and the death toll is expected to rise, police said. The bombs were detonated along the route of the...

Feds: Somali Teen Tried to Bomb Oregon Tree Lighting

(Nov. 27) -- Police in Oregon have arrested a Somali teenager for allegedly trying to detonate a car bomb in a crowd of revelers at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland. Agents swooped in to nab 19-year-old Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. citizen, just after he dialed a mobile phone Friday...

Suicide Car Bomber Kills 17 in Russia

(Sept. 9) -- A suicide car bomber struck a busy market today in Russia's North Caucasus, killing 17 people and wounding more than 130 in a normally quiet Christian enclave that has mostly avoided previous attacks by the region's Muslim separatists. The bomb exploded at the main entrance to the Vladikavkaz market around...

Iraq's Reality-TV Car-Bomb Show a Real Blast, Some Viewers Say

(Sept. 9) -- Iraqi television has taken reality programming to a controversial new level by broadcasting a show in which celebrities are pranked into believing their vehicles are transporting car bombs. In what appears to be a cross between "Candid Camera," "Punk'd" and the Academy Award-winning film "The Hurt Locker,"...

Mayhem Raises Fears of Wider Mexican Violence

(July 28) -- The call came earlier this month to the Mexican federal police in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, that a fellow officer was lying wounded on a street. When the police and a medical crew arrived, someone used a cell phone to detonate a car bomb, killing three of the rescuers --...

Background on Car Bomb

A Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED), commonly known as a car bomb, is an improvised explosive device placed inside a car or other vehicle and then detonated.

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