Obama has committed the U.S. to what looks to be a long war in Iraq, with Iran's help; an attack on the large city of Mosul is due soon.
The Rajneeshees' attacks on the larger community — such as infecting restaurant salad bars with salmonella in a test of their capacity to depress voter turnout — are rivalled, in their moral deformity, by their intramural skullduggery.
It is not easy to attack Al Qaeda without taking on the larger Sunni insurgency, notwithstanding a few cases in which Sunni tribes have decided to confront Al Qaeda themselves.
The Bitcoin correction we wrote about yesterday was not caused by a DDOS attack on one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges, Mt.Gox, but rather by a massive spike in interest in the crypto currency, according to Mt.Gox.
Another three Nato troops were wounded in the attack, the largest attack on foreign troops in Afghanistan since August, according to Nato.
In April, the Taliban carried out its deadliest attack since 2001 on the largest military base in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 140 people.
Al-Qaida has threatened more strikes on Saudi oil facilities after a failed attack on the world's largest oil processing plant at Abqaiq in February 2006.
A heavily armed suicide squad assaulted Parliament House here today in a brazen attack on the world's largest democracy, killing 7 people and injuring 18 before dying themselves.
Still, the rhythm of violence seemed to be returning, with three suicide bombings in four days, as well as an attack on the country's largest fuel depot that narrowly missed being an out-and-out disaster.
Iraqi government forces say they have defeated a militant attack on the country's largest oil refinery, killing several insurgents.
