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Violence erupted across Iraq on Monday in attacks that left at least 32 people dead and scores wounded, including a suicide bombing at a crowded wake that killed at least 19 mourners.Read at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/world/middleeast/24iraq.html

A huge car bomb tore through a congested market of narrow alleys and crowded stalls in Peshawar’s old town on Wednesday, killing at least 80 people, many of them women, while scores were seriously injured.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/world/asia/29pstan.html?hp

At least two people have been killed in a bicycle bombing in Baghdad, a day after a series of bombings left 101 people dead and 500 more wounded in the Iraqi capital.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/08/200982071827259549....

Three people were killed near a major Shiite shrine here Thursday by an explosion next to a bus that had been carrying Iranian pilgrims , Syrian officials said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/world/middleeast/04syria.html

The Indonesian city of Padang was in chaos on Thursday fires burning, sirens blaring, dazed residents wandering the streets, thousands of people reportedly trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings after a powerful earthquake struck the island of Sumatra.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/world/asia/02quake.html

The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/us/20intel.html?hp

A private plane carrying children and adults from California to a skiing vacation in Montana diverted from its planned destination and crashed on Sunday as it attempted to land at an airport in Butte, and a Federal Aviation Administration official said all on board — 14 to 17 people — had been killed.Read at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/us/23crash.html

A Foreign Office spokesman in London, speaking in return for customary anonymity, said the men had been released
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/world/middleeast/03sailors.html

After a quiet stretch at the North American box office, Hollywood discovered once again that audiences want to see the world and a cast of B-list actors ripped into pieces in a blitz of computer-generated effects.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/movies/16box.html