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04-17-2006, 03:42 PM
(AP) - Palestinian militants have carried out nine suicide attacks in Israel and the West Bank since a Feb. 8, 2005, truce declaration. All but one attack have been carried out by Islamic Jihad, a violent group with close ties to Iran:

_ April 17, 2006: A bomber blows himself up at a Tel Aviv restaurant targeted previously, killing eight other people.

_ March 30, 2006: A bomber disguised as a Jewish hitchhiker blows himself up in a car outside a West Bank settlement, killing four Israelis who stopped to pick him up. The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party, claims responsibility.

_ Jan. 19, 2006: A bomber disguised as a peddler blows himself up at a Tel Aviv felafel restaurant, wounding 20 people.

_ Dec. 29, 2005: A bomber explodes at an Israeli army checkpoint in the West Bank, killing an Israeli soldier and two Palestinians.

_ Dec. 5, 2005: A bomber blows himself up at a shopping mall in the coastal town of Netanya, killing five.

_ Oct. 26, 2005: A bomber blows himself up in Hadera at a food stand, killing five.

_ Aug. 28, 2005: A bomber blows himself up in the southern city of Beersheba, killing only himself.

_ July 12, 2005: A bomber blows himself up outside a shopping mall in Netanya, killing five.

_ Feb. 25, 2005: In the first attack after a truce is declared, a bomber blows himself up near a Tel Aviv nightclub, killing four.
credit BellSOuth