Home » Topics » suicide bomber
Chicago Muslims irate over ‘suicide bomber’ doll parody
Members of Chicago’s Muslim community denounced a parody greeting card depicting a muslim “talking doll” as a toy suicide bomber. WGN-TV reported on Sunday that the card, which features phrases like “Pull string for message, if you dare” and “She’ll blow your brains out,” was brought to the attention of…
Afghan ‘girl-in-green’ revisits Ashura massacre site
In a brave gesture of defiance against suicide bombers, Afghanistan’s “girl-in-green” on Saturday revisited the scene of a Shiite Muslim holy-day massacre that made her image world famous. Tarana Akbari, now 13, was pictured screaming in horror among piles of bodies moments after a suicide bomber killed 80 people at…
Afghan suicide bomber kills foreigners in minibus attack
A suicide bomber blew himself up alongside a minivan carrying foreigners on a busy highway leading to the airport in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, police said, killing six people. “There has been a suicide bombing next to a minivan, carrying foreigners. There are a lot of casualties. I cannot…
Afghan wedding suicide attack kills MP, 16 others
A suicide bomber killed a prominent Afghan lawmaker and 16 other people at his daughter’s wedding party in the north of the country on Saturday, officials said. The attacker embraced MP Ahmad Khan, a former militia commander, in front of wedding guests before detonating the explosives strapped around his waist,…
Girl in Pulitzer-winning picture still has nightmares
Down a rutted dirt alley in Old Kabul, the “Girl in the green dress” — the subject of AFP’s Pulitzer-winning photograph — still has nightmares about the day a suicide bomber made her image world famous. Tarana Akbari, 11, no longer wears her best dress, which was drenched in her own blood…
Brand new on Raw Story
- John Oliver: Republicans resisting immigration reform ‘like a child with vegetables’
- North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un urges top officials to read Hitler’s Mein Kampf
- Maddow points out ‘fetal masturbation theorist’ is vice chair of House’s health panel
- Rand Paul slams U.S. spy chief for lying to Congress about NSA surveillance
- Doctors urge Obama to provide independent medical examiners to Guantanamo detainees
- Internet freaks out as Facebook goes down
- Young American pianist resurrects lost works of Nazi concentration camp inmates
- Actor Edward Furlong charged with assaulting ex-girlfriend
- Study: Painful and extreme rituals enhance social cohesion and charity
- Conservative Republican at IRS casts doubt on conspiracy to target tea party
Commentary
Republicans’ latest abortion ban is staggeringly stupid
By Ana Marie Cox, The Guardian
The Orange Couch does Mad Men: S6E12, “The Quality of Mercy”
By Amanda Marcotte
The Center For Inquiry Likes Atheism’s Cranky White Guy Image, So Screw You Ladies
By Amanda Marcotte
Raw Exclusives
Featured Video
Follow Us!
