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JANUARY 17 - IN THE HISTORY Calender Search
 
2008
In Pakistan a suspected Sunni extremist opened fire in a Shiite mosque, in the northwestern city of Peshawar, and then blew himself up, killing 9 people and wounding at least 20 on the eve of the Ashoura religious festival. Helicopter gunships opened fire on two suspect cars near a third fort in South Waziristan, killing eight militants. A teenager (15) who said he was part of a team of assassins sent to kill former PM Benazir Bhutto was arrested near the Afghan border. The teen was also involved in a plot to attack Shiites during an Ashoura festival.
2008
In Somalia Islamic militants fired mortar shells and guns in Mogadishu sparking crossfire with Ethiopian troops that left at least 20 people dead.
2008
Sri Lanka's military said air force jets destroyed a hideout used by senior Tiger rebels. The pro-rebel TamilNet Web site said the jets had struck a civilian area and seven people had been wounded. Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels fatally shot 10 ethnic Sinhalese civilians in southern Thanamalwila village. A pro-rebel Web site said those killed were civilians carrying guns provided by the government after an attack on a farm in the same area that killed 32 people this week.
2007
A suicide car bomb struck a market in the Shiite district of Sadr City and police said 17 people died. Another suicide car bomb exploded earlier at a checkpoint in the city of Kirkuk after guards opened fire as the driver approached a police station. The blast killed eight people and injured dozens. A mortar attack on a residential area in Iskandariyah killed a woman and injured 10 people. Police found the body of an Iraqi policeman whose hands and legs had been bound hanging by electric wire, two days after he was kidnapped while going to his home in the same area. Gunmen in a car also opened fire on two brothers, aged 30 and 35, on their way to work as construction workers in Mahaweel, 35 miles south of Baghdad. One was killed and the other was wounded. In Baghdad, a civilian was killed in a drive-by shooting and police found 5 unidentified bodies. An attack in Baghdad on a convoy of a Western democracy institute killed a 28-year-old Ohio woman and three security contractors.
2007
Alice Lakwena, a Ugandan warrior priestess who led an insurgency in the 1980s, died at a Kenyan refugee camp. She was known as Alice Auma and claimed to have been possessed by a spirit called Lakwena, which gave her spiritual powers to protect her fighters from bullets by anointing them with oil. Her cousin, Joseph Kony, is the messianic leader of the Lord's Resistance Army.
2007
Nepal's former communist guerrillas began an orderly handover of weapons to UN monitors, putting in motion a landmark peace deal that calls for thousands of fighters to disarm and be confined to camps.
2007
In Nigeria rebels released 5 Chinese telecommunications workers and an Italian oil worker abducted in the southern delta region. A female (22) in Lagos died from bird flu. This was Nigeria’s first confirmed fatality from Avian Influenza. Tests on 3 other deaths were inconclusive.
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