Bush, speaking before heading to watch the US women's basketball team in Beijing, said he was "deeply concerned about the situation", notably Russia's bombing inside Georgia.
PAGE A13 TWO KILLED IN AFGHAN BOMBING A Taliban spokesman immediately claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing inside the police headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which killed two police officers and wounded 29 officers and eight civilians.
The coalition was not bombing inside the cities to avoid inflicting civilian casualties, he said.
And while 52percentt supported suicide bombing inside Israel, 86 percent opposed arresting the bombers.
Though there have been suicidal shooting attacks on settlements, this was the first suicide bombing inside one.
The mosque where he preached was known as the Mosque of Martyrs, and he strongly advocated suicide bombing inside Israel.
BAGHDAD — A suicide bombing inside a Shiite mosque during evening prayers and other attacks north of Baghdad killed 23 people in Iraq on Saturday, officials said.
For three weeks, armed attacks in the occupied territories were reduced to a trickle, and suicide bombing inside Israel was stopped altogether.
