BUB: Conflict A-Go-Go

Today's morning BUB rounds up a lot of shooting from the past 24 hours. We're keeping the excerpts short to get them all in here. Go read the original articles...

We start in Pakistan, where 45 are dead in a series of riots and revenge killings triggered by a political assassination.

Gunmen killed at least 45 people in Pakistan's largest city after the assassination of a prominent lawmaker set off a cycle of revenge attacks, officials said Tuesday. Dozens of vehicles and shops were set ablaze as security forces struggled to regain control of Karachi.

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Israel and Lebanon(?!) have exchanged gunfire across their border.

A senior Lebanese army officer says Lebanese and Israeli troops have exchanged fire on the border and one Lebanese soldier has been lightly wounded.

The officer says Tuesday's rare clash occurred in the border town of Aadassi as Israeli troops tried to remove a tree from the Lebanese side of the border. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

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A bank heist in Afghanistan leaves 6 guards beheaded and a lot of coin gone missing.

Six Afghan private security guards were beheaded during a bank robbery in northern Afghanistan, police said Tuesday.

It appeared that the security guards were poisoned before they were beheaded, said Sherjan Durani, a police spokesman for Balkh province. He said someone apparently mixed a poison into the guards' food Monday night at a branch of Kabul Bank in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.

Durani says an unknown number of robbers beheaded the guards and took about $269,000 in U.S. and Afghan currency.

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Another Al Qaeda attack in Iraq, and another signature planting of the 'Al Qaeda' flag.

Suspected al-Qaida militants killed 5 Iraqi soldiers in a brazen dawn attack Tuesday at a western Baghdad checkpoint and planted the terror group's black banner before fleeing the scene, officials said.

The attackers arrived in three cars and used pistols fitted with silencers in the assault in the mainly Sunni Mansour district, police and hospital officials said. The assailants, according to the officials, then planted the al-Qaida banner on a pole next to the checkpoint.

It was the second time in a week that al-Qaida's flag has appeared at the scene of an attack. On Thursday, in Baghdad's Sunni Azamiyah district — a former al-Qaida stronghold — suspected al-Qaida militants stormed a checkpoint, killed 16 members of the security forces and briefly planted their banner nearby before fleeing.

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By: Brant