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Bomb Blast Kills Physics Professor in Tehran

January 12, 2010 - A remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle killed an Iranian physics professor outside his home in northern Tehran on Tuesday, state media reported, blaming the United States and Israel for the attack.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. One state broadcaster, IRIB, quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying that “in the initial investigation, signs of the triangle of wickedness by the Zionist regime, America and their hired agents are visible in the terrorist act” against the scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi.

There was some dispute about his field of scientific specialization.

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Pakistan hit by another deadly bomb blast

Oct. 12, 2009 After a suicide attack against a UN building on last Monday, a bomb in central Peshawar that killed 53 people on Friday and an audacious assault on the Pakistani military headquarters in Rawalpindi this week-end, the Talibans struck again today when at least 41 people were killed in a suicide car bombing targeting an army vehicle in the north-western district of Shangla.

Shangla lies east of Swat, which has been the focus of an intense military offensive against the Taliban. The army says it has largely cleared the valley of the insurgents. Many of the Taliban are believed to have melted into the rural areas or gone to neighbouring districts.

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