From the Sept. 9 New York Times, buried at the bottom of page 4 (below a much larger "profile" piece on a New Age self-help book written by Slovenia's president). Links added.

Explosions Hit Indian Mosque, Stoking Fear of Further Violence 
NEW DELHI — A series of explosions struck in and near the largest mosque in a flashpoint textile town in western India on Friday, killing more than two dozen people, wounding more than 100 and raising the specter of renewed sectarian clashes.

Now, why should this story make the front page of the New York Times Sept. 9—above the fold, no less? Because the attack was near the US embassy? This is but the latest, and not even the deadliest, in a wave of such attacks in recent months—which have all been buried in the inner pages.

Suicide Bomber Kills 16 in Kabul Near Embassy

KABUL — A suicide bomber smashed his car into an American military vehicle just yards from the United States Embassy in downtown Kabul on Friday morning, killing as many as 16 people and wounding 29, Afghan and American officials said.

Turkish anti-terrorism police report they have captured four suspected al-Qaeda militants who were plotting to carry out a bomb attack in Istanbul. The raids, in the city's Bagcilar district, turned up two guns and explosive materials. Police said that the suspects came under suspicion after they held an illegal protest in favor of al-Qaeda on June 8, when the leader of "al-Qaeda in Iraq" Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed. (Zaman, Sept. 9)

The latest in Bush's 9-11 exploitation propaganda blitz. This is especially perverse given how the first responders have been shamelessly screwed by the federal government. The trick for New York activists is to find some way to protest this without seeming to disrespect the first responders (and to avoid the egregious errors of some of last Sept. 11's protests). From the Daily News, Sept. 8:

The White House has just released its 2006 National Strategy for Combatting Terrorism. The page on "Today's Terrorist Enemy" again acknowledges that al-Qaeda has only transformed over the past five years from a tight cadre organization around Osama bin Laden to a "transnational movement". Yet it says this while avoiding overt recognition of the obvious implication that this constitutes a massive expansion of al-Qaeda's numbers, power and reach (if not of Osama bin Laden's direct control), and that the Global War on Terrorism has only backfired horribly (if we are to accept its apparent aims as the intended ones.)

From New York's WNBC, Sept. 7:

Woman Killed In Queens Hit-And-Run
NEW YORK -- Police on Wednesday were searching for two men wanted in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Queens that left a woman dead. Yon S. Chong, 67, was hit by a pickup truck at 23rd Avenue and Northern Boulevard in Bayside around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, investigators said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Six bomb attacks in Baghdad killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50 Sept. 8, hours before a much-touted ceremony in which the US-led international coalition officially handed over control of the country’s armed forces command to Iraqi authorities. The bombs, including three suicide car attacks, all targeted police patrols and occurred within about three hours of each other. Meanwhile, the nephew of Iraq’s parliament speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, was kidnapped from his home in the Hurriyah neighborhood of north Baghdad. (IOL, Sept. 7)

Far from pursuing ultra-ambitious neocon agendas to dismantle Iraq, Washington appears terrified of a unified Iraqi state under at least some degree of US control breaking down, and sparking a crisis that could engulf the entire Middle East. On Sept. 5, the US harshly criticized the decree by Masoud Barzani, president of Iraq's northern Kurdish region, banning the Iraqi national flag. "Unilateral steps by regions or parties on this issue are inappropriate and do not have the support of the United States," envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said, adding Washington was committed to "Iraq's unity and territorial integrity".