Another case of premature detonation syndrome.

LADDAH/KHAR, Sept 5: Two militants were killed when a bomb exploded prematurely in Kalosha area of South Waziristan Agency on the night between Sunday and Monday, sources said.

They said that two militants were planting an explosive device on the road leading to the house of Taliban commander Sharif Wazir in Kalosha area when it went off, killing them on the spot.

Sharif Wazir was a confidant of Taliban commanders Mullah Nazir and Nek Mohammad. He had played a prominent role in eviction of Uzbek militants from South Waziristan Agency in 2008.

Sources said that militants were planting the bomb to target Sharif Wazir.

Allah works in mysterious ways.

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A senior police official says a suspected suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle in Pakistan’s largest city prematurely detonated his explosives, killing himself and his companion.

Ahsan Umar says the two men were traveling through a residential area in the southern port city of Karachi when the blast occurred Tuesday. It is unclear where the bomber was headed. Umar is one of the top police investigators in Karachi.

The city has experienced fewer Taliban attacks than other major cities in Pakistan. But the city does have a long history of political, sectarian and ethnic violence.

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KABUL (AFP) — A suspected suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden vehicle detonated Sunday while driving towards Afghanistan’s biggest US-run military base, authorities said.

The explosion appeared to have happened prematurely on a road about five minutes’ drive from Bagram Air Field, 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of the capital Kabul, the interior ministry said.

“Again the enemies of Afghanistan failed to achieve their goal. A suicide bomber with his bomb-filled car detonated before reaching his target,” the statement said.

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ADEN, YEMEN (AFP) — Six suspected al-Qaeda gunmen have been killed in the south Yemen province of Abyan in an air raid by government forces, a local official and a witness said on Tuesday.

The official said the six militants were killed on Monday as Yemeni forces raided several al-Qaeda posts in the area of Arkub, which was overrun Sunday by armed men suspected of belonging to the jihadist network.

al-Qaeda gunmen have seized control of several areas in the lawless Abyan province, including the provincial capital Zinjibar, Jaar, and Shaqra.

Meanwhile, the body of a suspected suicide bomber was torn into pieces when a booby-trapped motorbike he was riding exploded early Tuesday in Lawder, according to tribal sources.

The international community has expressed fears that the power vacuum in the impoverished country could play into the hands of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the local branch of the network.

AQAP was behind several attacks, including the failed Christmas Day attempt to blow a US airliner over Detroit in 2009.

Premature detonation syndrome strikes again.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Authorities say two men were killed when a bomb they were allegedly carrying exploded prematurely along a highway in the restive southern Philippines.

No motive has been established, but Muslim rebels and criminal syndicates operate in the region.

Police chief Chino Mamburam in Kidapawan city says the homemade explosive went off early Friday, killing the suspected bomber instantly. He says investigators managed to talk to his companion before he died in a hospital.

Mamburam says it’s possible the bomb was meant to disrupt peace talks with Muslim rebels.

The military blamed al-Qaida-linked militants for a blast last week in nearby Cotabato city that killed one man and wounded 12 people outside a gun store.

Oopsy daisy.

(Ynet) — Palestinian sources reported Thursday that a Hamas operative was killed overnight in a massive explosion at his Rafah home.

Hamas security forces in Gaza are said to be investigating the circumstances of the blast. The man was most likely killed in a “work accident” while preparing an explosive device.

Premature detonation syndrome.

KABUL (Xinhua) — Afghan police during operations eliminated 14 Taliban and detained 43 more insurgents elsewhere in the country over the last 24 hours, Interior Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

“Afghan National Police (ANP) with the assistance of the Afghan army and Coalition Forces launched 12 joint and independent operations over the past 24 hours in Nangarhar, Baghlan, Kandahar, Helmand, Maidan Wardak, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika and Paktia provinces,” said the statement issued by Interior Ministry.

In a separate incident, two more insurgents, who had the intention of planting an anti-vehicle mine along a road, were killed when their mine exploded prematurely in Dilaram district of the country’s western Farah province on Tuesday, the statement added.

(JPost) — Hezbollah security forces prevented Lebanese police from investigating the scene of an explosion Friday overnight which rocked Hezbollah’s headquarters in a south Beirut suburb, DPA reported Saturday.

The blast, which took place inside an apartment on the tenth floor of a building in the the Roueiss neighborhood, killed at least one person and injured another, DPA said.

Immediately after the explosion, the area was blocked off by Hezbollah security forces who. A Lebanese security source told DPA that Hezbollah forces fired into the air to disperse curious crowds who gathered at the site.

The circumstances behind the blast were unclear, but DPA cited some Lebanese newspapers as saying that a small bomb or hand grenade could have been the cause of the blast.

Lebanese website Lebanon Files also reported that Samir Kuntar, a terrorist previously jailed in Israel, was injured in the explosion. The report could not be confirmed, however it is believed that several Hezbollah members live in the Roueiss neighborhood.

Sadly, he took his kids with him.

(Telegraph) — An al-Qaeda militant has been killed together with his two children when a car bomb he was making at his home exploded near the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk, police said.

“An al-Qaeda terrorist, Mohammed Nussayef Jasim al-Hamdani, was killed while trying to fit a bomb inside a vehicle at his home,” a police official in Kirkuk said today.

“His two children, aged 10 and 11, also were killed, part of his house was destroyed, and 20 of his neighbours were wounded,” he added, saying the incident occurred before midnight yesterday west of Kirkuk city.

Hamdani had been in detention on suspicion of terrorism, but was recently released due to “insufficient evidence against him,” the official said.

He asked not to be named because he is not authorised to speak to the media.

On Sunday, an anti-terrorism official said that Iraqi security forces had smashed an al-Qaeda network allegedly responsible for more than 100 killings in Baghdad.

Sadly, he took a few civilians with him.

(AFP) — A suicide bomber on a bicycle struck Mazar-i-Sharif on Wednesday, killing four Afghans in one of the country’s safest cities poised to transition from NATO to local control.

The attack will likely fuel fears that putting Afghan security forces in control of seven different areas this week is happening too quickly, with violence at a record high in the decade long Taliban insurgency.

Police and ministry officials said the attack in the centre of the northern city, close to its famous Blue Mosque, also injured 11 people and shattered shop windows.

He also played down Wednesday’s attack as an “accident”, saying the explosives had detonated prematurely when the bicycle collided with a car.

“There were no Afghan or foreign troops present at the time, so we believe the explosion was accidental, the attacker had probably planned to carry out the attack somewhere else,” he said.

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KABUL(Xinhua) — Six Taliban insurgents were killed when their explosive device went off prematurely in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, 555 km south of capital city of Kabul, provincial government said on Monday.

“Six Taliban insurgents were busy in planting a mine on a road in Sangin district of Helmand province Sunday but their explosive device detonated prematurely, killing all rebels on the spot,” a statement issued by Helmand provincial government here said.

Taliban militants who largely rely on roadside bombing and suicide attacks have yet to make comment.

Allah works in mysterious ways.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A man reportedly trying to show students how to make explosives was killed by a homemade bomb inside an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia, police said Tuesday.

School officials and students have prevented police from entering the building since Monday’s explosion, local police spokesman Lt. Col. Sukarman Husen said.

But they discovered the body of the suspected bomb maker, a 30-year-old man identified only as Firdaus, on a bus Tuesday as it tried to leave the school compound, he said.

Eleven people have been taken in for questioning, Husen said, adding that police also confiscated a number of arrows and machetes.

Husen said the bombing victim was a treasurer at the school, but media reports alleged he was a former bomb trainee in the Philippine region of Mindanao. According to TVOne, he was killed in an unintentional explosion while training students about bomb-making.

Police are still persuading the school officials to let them enter the compound, Husen said.

National Police Spokesman Maj. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said the explosion was suspected to be from a homemade bomb being prepared to attack the police.

Allah works in mysterious ways.

KABUL, 23 May 2011 (IRIN) – About 100 boys aged 12-17 are being detained by Afghanistan’s National Intelligence Directorate (NDS) on charges of attempting suicide attacks on behalf of the Taliban, but the insurgents deny they recruit minors as their presence could cause “vice” in the ranks.

On 20 May, a suicide vest strapped to a 12-year-old boy in the eastern province of Nooristan prematurely exploded, killing several suspected insurgents including the boy, NDS and the provincial authorities allege.

Premature explosion syndrome strikes again.

(Dawn) — One person was killed and eight others were injured in exchange of fire between rival tribes in different areas of the troubled Kurram Agency.

Separately, two suspected militants were killed in a remote controlled blast at Teyarza area of South Waziristan tribal region on Saturday.

The clashes in Kurram broke out between the residents of Sadda and Balishkhel areas when a funeral ceremony was attacked on Friday. The residents of the area said that one person identified as Saqleen was killed and six others got injuries in the attack.

Two suspected militants were killed in remote controlled blast at Teyarza area of South Waziristan tribal region on Saturday.

Security sources said that two suspected persons were planting a remote controlled along the Wana-Teyarza Road near Manzakai area when the bomb exploded prematurely.

“As a result the suspected persons identified as Ikhlas and Ghaniur Reham of Masud tribe were killed on the spot,” they said.

Security officials said the two men, having links with Taliban, were involved in sabotage activities. They were planting explosive to target the security convoys passing through the road, they said.

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FARYAB — All the insurgents involved in a coordinated weekend attack against key government buildings in the southern city of Kandahar have either been captured or killed, NATO said Monday.

More than two dozen insurgents were killed in the battle, which raised new questions about the effectiveness of a yearlong campaign to secure Afghanistan’s south and Kandahar in particular. The city was the birthplace of the Taliban and is the economic hub of southern Afghanistan.

Two militants were killed when a roadside bomb they were planting went off prematurely in northwestern Faryab province late Sunday.

Premature explosion syndrome.

(Reuters) — Hundreds of prisoners escaped from a jail in southern Kandahar province through a tunnel dug by Taliban insurgents, government officials said. . . .

A suicide bomber driving a tractor was killed when his explosives detonated prematurely in the Barmal district of southeastern Paktika province on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said.

Allah works in mysterious ways.

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said one of the group’s fighters was killed Thursday morning, when an explosive device detonated while the young man was on a “jihad mission,” a statement said.

It is the second accidental death of a Gaza resistance fighter reported in as many days, following the death of an Al-Qassam brigadesman in Khan Younis on Wednesday.

A DFLP statement said National Resistance Brigades fighter Khader Abu Elbeh, 22, was seriously wounded during an operation west of the Jabaliya area in the northern Gaza Strip and later died of his injuries.

Medical sources in Gaza confirmed that a man was pronounced dead after being seriously wounded by a bomb which exploded, apparently prematurely.

In their statement, the NRB mourned the death of the fighter, saying he was killed while “on a jihad mission,” and vowed to continue resistance activities as a “goal and a promise to our nation.”

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KABUL, April 13 (Xinhua) — Double suicide attacks rocked two separate areas in Afghanistan Wednesday leaving 10 civilians dead and injured 11 others, officials confirmed.

n the first incident which occurred in the eastern Kunar province left 10 people dead, all civilians, and injured seven others, provincial police chief Khalilullah Ziae told Xinhua. . . .

“A suicide bomber riding a motor bike had the intention of attacking an unknown target in Nijrab District this morning, but his explosive vest went off prematurely injuring four civilians,” a member of Provincial Council, Najibullah Rahimi told Xinhua.

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MAKHACHKALA, April 10 (RIA Novosti) — A man wearing a suicide bomber vest died in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan after his bomb apparently exploded ahead of time, with no one hurt in the explosion, local police said on Sunday.

The incident occurred late on Saturday in the town of Kizlyar. The body of a man was found at the site of the explosion. He was identified as a 30-year old resident of Dagestan. A submachine gun, two grenades and the fragments of a suicide bomber vest were found near him, the police said.

The man was found near a railway station and a filling station, the police said.

Russia has been fighting terrorists in its volatile southern republics for over a decade. Terrorist attacks are common in the mainly-Muslim region and regularly stray to the Russian capital.

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(Trend News) — Two suicide bombers were killed on Monday in front of a government agency building in Lashkar Gah, capital of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a provincial administration spokesman said.

“Two suicide bombers attempted to enter and attack a provincial court in Lashkar Gah at around 11:30 a.m. but the first bomber was killed after his explosive vest went off prematurely,” the spokesman, Daud Ahmadi, told Xinhua.