Wave of deadly bombings hits Iraq

BAGHDAD - At anterior 30 folks were reportedly killed magnetism a series of attacks consequence Iraq Friday, including bombs targeting Shiites attending mosques in the superlative Baghdad.

One car bomb exploded near the main Baghdad place of an anti-U.S. Shiite cleric, officials told The Associated Press.

Hospital further police officials say 14 family were killed in the onset on Muqtada al-Sadr's office compound as worshippers were exit a mosque after Friday prayers. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity whereas they were not authorized to verbalize to the media.

Bombings also elsewhere spell Iraq killed 19 other people in unparalleled of the deadliest days the country has seen in weeks.

The Associated Press authorize the total grim reaper impost across Iraq at 30. There were also reports of more than 100 people being wounded.

The indignation came days after Iraqi authorities announced the killings of the initiation two al-Qaida in Iraq leaders prestige what was seen through a major trouble to the insurgency.




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Taliban claims deadly suicide attack in Pakistan

The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 13 people and injured dozens in the northwest part of the country Saturday, authorities said.
The attack at a security checkpoint in the city of Saidu Sharif injured 37, according to Ibrahim Khan, a police official in the Swat District, where the military launched an offensive against the Taliban last year. The city is near Mingora, the largest city in the district.
Khan said the suicide attacker, who was dropped off on a rickshaw, approached a checkpoint manned by police and military personnel.
Security personnel opened fire when the attacker refused to stop. Moments later, the attacker detonated explosives.

Azam Tariq, a spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, told by phone that his organization takes responsibility for the deadly blasts in Lahore on Friday and the attack Saturday.
The Saturday blast comes a day after a twin suicide bombing on a military convoy in Lahore killed 44 people and injured nearly 100 others. Assailants targeted military convoys, approaching on foot and detonating their explosives 15 to 20 seconds apart, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah said. Five of the dead were Pakistani soldiers, he said.
"Pakistan has become a colony of Blackwater," Tariq said, referring to the company now known as Xe Services that provided security to U.S. officials in Iraq.
"The government of Pakistan has become puppet of U.S," he added.
Tariq warned that failure to halt operations against the Taliban will lead to more attacks.
"Our 2,000 suicide bombers, who have already spread across the country, will act against security personnel and government installations," Tariq said.
Tariq said the attacks on both days were a retaliation for the killing of innocent "Mujahedeen" by Pakistani government under the orders of the United States. A Pakistani crackdown on militants has resulted in the arrests of top Taliban.
After the twin bombings Friday, a series of low-level blasts occurred in succession in the Iqbal Town area of the city that night. Three people were injured in the blasts and damage was minimal, Lahore Police said.

Earlier this week, gunmen entered a North West Frontier Province compound of the humanitarian agency World Vision, threw grenades, opened fire on the staff inside and detonated a homemade bomb before leaving, according to a World Vision statement.

Deadly shooting at university in Alabama

A woman has opened fire at a university in the southern US state of Alabama, killing three people and wounding at least three more, officials have said.

She was apprehended outside a science building at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus, shortly after firing on people at a biology faculty meeting.

University spokesman Ray Garner said the three killed were the

head of department and two other professors.

US educational sites have seen numerous fatal shooting attacks in recent years.

The most serious occurred at Virginia Tech University in 2007, when a student killed 32 people before turning the gun on himself.

Local television station WAFF, quoting a police official, said the woman detained after Friday's shootings was a faculty member.

She has not yet been named and no charges have yet been filed.

The university has posted a message on its website saying it has been confirmed that no students were involved in the incident.

"There has been a shooting on campus. The shooter has been apprehended. The campus is closed tonight. Everyone is encouraged to go home," it said.

There was still a heavy police presence on campus Friday night, with police tape cordoning off the main entrance to the university.

Two of the three injured, also biology department members, are said to be in a critical condition in hospital. The third was reportedly in a "fair" condition.

The Huntsville campus in northern Alabama has about 7,500 students