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EspañolLIST OF TERRORIST INCIDENTS
The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism. Massacres more generally are listed chronologically at List of massacres; assassinations are listed by location at List of assassinated people.
''Note: there is no single accepted definition of non-state terrorism in common use. Incidents listed here are restricted to those that: (a) are not believed to have been state-sponsored; and (b) are commonly called terrorism or meet some of the commonly used criteria.''
Prior to 19th century
Some modern authors use the term "terrorism" in reference to events from ancient times.
★ 1st century, Judea: The Sicarii (''Daggers''), a radical group of Jewish Zealots, murdered Romans, Herodians, and other Jews they deemed treacherous to their kin, using daggers hidden inside their cloaks. When faced with an open battle they committed mass suicide at the fortress at Masada.[1]
19th century
★ 1831: Jan van Speyk detonates his own ship in the harbour of Antwerp.
★ 1840: Benjamin Lett destroys a monument to British general Sir Isaac Brock
★ 1856, 1858, 1859: raids by John Brown in his fight against slavery.
★ 1863: Morgan's Raid led by John Hunt Morgan
★ 1865: John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Lincoln during a comedy at a theatre in Washington D.C.
★ 1868: The Ku Klux Klan in Georgia engage in many acts including whipping of black women and assassination of Republican Party members. It is impossible to untangle local vigilante violence from political terrorism by the organized Klan, but it is clear that attacks on blacks became common during 1868. The Freedmen's Bureau agents reported 336 cases of murder or assault with intent to kill on freedmen across the state from January 1 through November 15. In the next three years Black churches and schools were burned, teachers were attacked, and freed people who refused to show "proper" deference were beaten and killed.[2]
★ 1868: Attempted assassination of Prince Alfred in Sydney, Australia
★ The Fenian Brotherhood attacked Canadian targets in order to bring pressure on Britain to withdraw from Ireland
★ 1881, July 2: American President James Garfield is assassinated by religious fanatic Charles J. Guiteau.
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★ 1886: Bomb at Haymarket Square, Chicago during a labor rally kills twelve people.
★ 1891, May 11: Assassination attempt on Nicholas II of Russia by a Japanese police officer named Tsuda Sanzo.
★ 1894: Explosion at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London. The bomb goes off prematurely, killing only the bomber.
★ 1898, September 10: Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria of Austria-Hungary (commonly called "Sissi") is stabbed to death by a young Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni, in Geneva
1900s-1940s
The Wall Street Bombing
★ 1901, September 6: American President William McKinley is assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
★ 1904, May 18: Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley kidnapped and ransomed by bandit Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli in Morocco.
★ 1904, June 16: Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov is assassinated in Senate House in Helsinki by Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman.
★ 1909, October 26: Assassination of Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi by Korean independence activist An Jung-geun.
★ 1910, October 1: A bomb at the Los Angeles Times newspaper building in Los Angeles, California, United States, killed 21 workers.
★ 1914, June 28: Assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, precipitating World War I.
★ 1915, January 1: Battle of Broken Hill - Turkish nationalists shoot at civilians in the Australian town, killing six.
★ 1915 July 2 Frank Holt, (a.k.a. Erich Muenter) a German professor exploded a bomb in the reception room of the U.S. Senate. The next morning he tried to assassinate J.P. Morgan, Jr., son of the financier whose company served as Great Britain’s principal U.S. purchasing agent for munitions and other war supplies to try and stop the United States entry into World War I against Germany.[3]
★ 1920, September 16: Wall Street Bombing kills 38 people and wounds 300 others.
★ 1925, April 16: St Nedelya Church assault kills 150 people, mostly high-ranked individuals, and wounds 500 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia
★ 1927: The Ku Klux Klan launch a wave of political terror in Alabama.
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★ 1933, October 10: A Boeing 247 is destroyed in midflight by a nitroglycerin bomb. All seven people aboard are killed. This incident is the first proven case of air sabotage in the history of aviation.
★ 1934, October 9: Assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou in Marseille by Ustashas and IMRO
★ 1940 - 1956: George Metesky, "the Mad Bomber" placed over 30 bombs in New York City in public places such as Grand Central Station and The Paramount Theatere injuring ten during this period in protest of the local electric utility. He also sent many threatening letters.
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★ 1948, January 30: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse
★ 1948, September 17: Assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator in Palestine, and his aide by Lehi
1950s
★ During this and the next decade The Ku Klux Klan re-emerges. Some of the tactics used are lynching, cross burning and assassination.
★ 1950, November 1: Puerto Rican nationalists fail to assassinate President Truman.
★ 1954: Lavon Affair – Mossad agents bomb targets in Egypt, attempting to discredit the Egyptian government.
★ 1954, March 1: U.S. Capitol shooting incident by Puerto Rican nationalists, wounding five Congressmen.
★ 1955, April 11: Air India "Kashmir Princess" (Lockheed Constellation) went down on the sea near Natuna Island, Indonesia after a bomb explosion, killing 16 people. The plane was chartered by the People's Republic of China (PRC) government for carrying an official delegation to Bandung Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. Possible suspects include a Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) secret agent who put the bomb in the aircraft during transit in Hong Kong intending to kill PRC Prime Minister Zhou Enlai.
★ 1955, August 28: Lynching of Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi.
★ 1955, August: Members of the Algerian FLN massacre civilians in the town of Philippeville.
★ 1956, September 30: The FLN sets off bombs at the office of Air France and elsewhere in Algiers.
★ 1958, October 12: Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple Atlanta, Georgia suspicion done by white racists.
1960s
★ 1960, March 4: Possible bombing of the Belgian ammunition carrier La Coubre in the port of Habana, killing over 30 people
★ 1961, April 8: Omani terrorists blow up the passenger liner MV Dara, killing 238 people
★ 1963: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. A member of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls aged 11-14.
★ 1963, November 22: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while at a rally in Texas.
★ 1965: The Ku Klux Klan murders Viola Liuzzo, a Southern-raised white mother of five who was visiting the South from her home in Detroit to attend a civil rights march. At the time of her murder Liuzzo was transporting Civil Rights Marchers.
★ 1965: The Monumental Plot - New York Police thwart an attempt to dynamite the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell, and the Washington Monument by three members of the pro Castro Black Liberation Front and a Quebec Separatist.[4]
★ 1966, March 8: A group of former IRA men planted a bomb that destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin
★ 1966: Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the IRA; on June 26 they commit three sectarian murders.
★ 1966: NAACP leader Vernon Dahme assassinated by firebomb exploded by The Ku Klux Klan.
★ 1966, September 22: A bazooka attack on the Cuban embassy in Ottawa is made.
★ 1966, October 5: Anti-Castro forces bomb the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa.
★ 1967: May - December: In the Hong Kong 1967 riots, evolved from civil disobedience to terrorism. Leftists killed at least 51 people including eleven policemen, a bomb expert of the British forces and a fireman, through murders or bombs.
★ 1968: Spring During a student rebellion at Columbia University members of the Students for a Democratic Society and Student Afro-American Society held a Dean hostage demanding an end to both military research on campus and construction of a gymnasium in nearby Harlem.[5]
★ 1968, June 6: Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
★ 1968, August: Prior to Democratic Convention that year in Chicago Yippie party cofounder Abbie Hoffman threatened to spike the water of that city with LSD.[6]
★ 1968 December 26: Two Palestinian gunmen travel from Beirut to Athens, and attack an El Al jet there, killing one person
★ 1969, February 13: the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) set off a powerful bomb that ripped through the Montreal Stock Exchange causing massive destruction and seriously injuring 27 people.
★ 1969, December 12: Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, killing 16 people.
1970s
1970
★ February 21: A bomb explodes in the rear of Swissair Flight 330, causing it to crash near Zürich, Switzerland, killing 38 passengers and all nine crew members. The attack was carried out by Palestinian terror group PFLP
★ May 8: Avivim school bus attacks by Palestinian PLO members, killing nine children and three adults and crippling 19 children.
★ August 24: the Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was blown up resulting in one death
★ September 6: Coordinated hijacking of four airliners. One hijacking is foiled in midair and two planes are diverted to Jordan’s Dawson Field. Nicaraguan hijacker Sandinista Patrick Arguello was killed and all passengers were freed after negotiated release of captured hijacker Leila Khaled and three PFLP prisoners. The following day a fifth aircraft was also hijacked. See ''Dawson's Field hijackings, Black September in Jordan.''
★ October 5 – 17: October Crisis (Quebec): FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross.
★ October 22: An antipersonnel time bomb explodes outside a San Francisco church, showering steel shrapnel on mourners of a patrolman slain in a bank holdup; no one is injured. The Black Liberation Army is suspected.[7]
★ 1970-1972: The Jewish Defense League was linked with a bomb explosion outside of Aeroflot's New York City office, and a detonation outside of Soviet cultural offices in Washington. Also a JDL member allegedly fired a rifle into the Soviet Union's mission office at the United Nations. Two JDL members were convicted of bomb possession and burglary in a conspiracy to blow up the Long Island residence of the Soviet Mission to the UN.
1971
★ During this year, The Black Liberation Army is suspected of killing three policemen (one at his desk), shooting four others, opening fire on three patrol cars and rolling a grenade which heavily damaged a police car and injured two officers. An attempt is made to bomb a police station. These incidents happen in various cities around the country. In August the group runs a one month long guerrilla warfare school in Fayetteville, Georgia. Seven arrested in January 2007 in relation to the shooting of the policeman at his desk.[7][9]
★ October 31: A bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes in the Post Office tower in London causing extensive damage but no injuries.[10]
★ December 4: In the McGurk's Bar bombing, an Ulster Volunteer Force bomb in Belfast's North Queen Street kills 15 people.
1972
★ January 26: Yugoslavian Airlines Flight 364 is brought down by an explosive device planted by Ustasa agents. The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airplane is destroyed and 27 of 28 passengers die. One stewardess survives a 10,160 meter (33,330 ft) drop.
★ January 27: Two policemen, Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie, are shot in the back by at least three persons; four suspects in the case are members of the Black Liberation Army; one suspect is later killed in a street battle with St. Louis police; the recovered pistol matches Laurie's.[7]
★ February 22: The Official Irish Republican Army kills seven civilians in the Aldershot bombing.
★ April 4: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal.
★ May 30: Lod Airport Massacre by the Japanese Red Army terrorists, killing 26 and injuring 78.
★ July 21: Bloody Friday nine are killed and 130 injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) sets off 22 bombs.
★ Four PLO terrorists hijacked a Sabena airliner carrying 99 passengers and ten crew members on route from Brussels to Tel Aviv. In a mission titled "Operation Isotope", 16 members of Sayeret Matkal posed as refueling and technical personnel and stormed the plane, killing the terrorists and releasing the passengers.
★ July 31: Claudy bombings; the Provisional Irish Republican Army sets off three car bombs in Claudy killing nine.
★ September 5: Black September kidnaps and kills eleven Israeli Olympic athletes and one German policeman in the Munich Massacre.
★ September 19: The group Black September post a letter bomb to the Israeli embassy in London killing an Israeli diplomat.[12]
★ October 27: Police car bombing in Los Angeles claimed by Afro American Liberation Army.[7]
★ 1972 December: A travel agency in Queens, New York is bombed; the incident is attributed to FIN, a Cuban exile groups opposed to the government of Fidel Castro.
★ 1972 December 11: New York City. The VA-Cuba Forwarding Company is bombed. Cuban exile groups opposed to the government of Fidel Castro suspected.
★ December 28: A Brooklyn, New York bartender is held for $12000 ransom by the Black Liberation Army.[7]
1973
★ January 7: After shooting a police officer a week earlier, Mark Essex, a former Black Panther party member shot nineteen people (ten of them police officers) in retaliation for police killings at a Howard Johnsons hotel in New Orleans. In addition, he also set fires in the hotel before being killed by police.
★ A New York City transit detective is killed and ten law enforcement personnel are shot, four by machine gun, during the year mostly in and around New York City by the Black Liberation Army. Also two members of that organization are arrested with a car full of explosives. In the next few years there are a number of violent incidents involving this organization but they are more criminal in nature.[7]
★ March 1: Black September takes ten hostages (five of them diplomats) at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. Three western diplomats are killed.
★ May 17: The Provisional Irish Republican Army kills 5 British soldiers in a roadside bomb attack in Tullyvallen, Northern Ireland.[16]
★ September 1: A man blows himself up inside Lenin Mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square. Two women standing next to him also died.[17]
★ September 10: The IRA set off bombs at Londons King's Cross Station and Euston Station injuring 21 people.[18]
★ September 28: Chopin-Express: Two Arab terrorists hijack the Chopin-Express from Moscow to Vienna at the East-West border in Marchegg. The train is often used by Jewish exilants from the USSR. The terrorists demand the closure of an Austrian transit camp for Jews on their way to Israel. Chancellor Kreisky (Jewish himself) complies and allows the terrorists to evade to Libya.
★ December 17: Pan Am Flight 110: 30 passengers were killed when phosphorus bombs are thrown aboard the aircraft as it prepares for departure.
★ December 30: Prime Minister Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by ETA.
1974
★ January 20: Two IRA volunteers hijack a helicopter from Donegal in the Irish Republic and use it to drop bombs on a British Barracks in Strabane, Northern Ireland.
★ January 31: Laju incident: JRA–PFLP attack on a Shell facility in Singapore and the simultaneous seizure of the Japanese embassy in Kuwait.
★ February 4: Twelve people (9 soldiers & 3 civilians) are killed by the IRA in the M62 Coach Bombing.
★ April 11: Kiryat Shmona massacre at an apartment building by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members, killing 18 people, nine of whom were children.
★ May 15: Ma'alot massacre at the Ma'alot High School in Northern Israel by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members: 26 of the hostages were killed, 66 wounded.
★ May 17: Ulster Volunteer Force detonate three car bombs in Dublin and one in Monaghan; 35 dead – killing 35 civilians, the deadliest toll of any one day in Ireland's 'Troubles'.
★ May 28: Eight people are killed and at least 90 wounded when a bomb placed in a rubbish bin explodes in the Piazza della Loggia bombing.
★ June 17: The IRA plant a bomb which explodes at the Houses of Parliament, London, causing extensive damage and injuring eleven people.[19]
★ August 4: ''Italicus Express'' train between Roma and Brennero explodes, killing twelve and injuring 44. Attributed to fascist group Ordine nero.
★ September 8: TWA Flight 841: Bomb kills 88 on jetliner. Attributed to Abu Nidal and his terror organization.
★ September 13: Basque ETA group bombs the "Rolando" cafeteria in Madrid and kills twelve people.
★ October 5: Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves four off suty soldiers and a civilian dead and 44 injured.
★ October 22: A bomb planted by the Provisional IRA explodes in London injuring three people.[20]
★ November 21: Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA kills 21, 182 people are injured.
★ December 11: A bomb set off by the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in East Harlem, New York permanently disables a police officer. The officer lost an eye as a result of this act.
1975
★ January 24: FALN bomb the Fraunces Tavern, killing four and injuring more than 50.
★ February 26: London police officer Stephen Tibble, 22, is shot dead as he chases an IRA gunman escaping from a bomb factory.
★ March 5: In the Savoy Operation PLO gunmen from Lebanon take dozens of hostages at the Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel eventually killing eight hostages and three IDF soldiers, and wounding eleven hostages.
★ April 19: FALN sets off four bombs within a forty minute period in Manhattan, New York injuring at least five people.
★ April 24: RAF occupies West Germany's embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, and blows up the building before surrendering to the Swedish police.
★ July 31: Three members of Ireland's popular Miami Showband killed in UVF gun attack in Co. Down.
★ December 1975: Carlos the Jackal and his rebels attack OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria and take over 60 hostages - mostly they were OPEC countries' leaders. On December 22 the hostages and rebels are transported in a DC-9 to Algiers where 30 hostages were freed; the plane was then flown to Tripoli, Libya where more hostages were freed before flying back to Algiers where the remaining hostages were freed and the rebels were granted asylum.
★ December 14: In the Netherlands, near Beilen, a passenger train was hijacked by members of the RMS movement, passengers were kept hostage. Three passengers were killed by the hijackers.
★ December 29: Bomb explodes at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing eleven and injuring 75. No arrests ever made in this case and the reason for this attack remains unknown.
1976
★ January 5: The IRA operating under the cover name of the South Armagh Republican Action Force, kill ten Unionist workers in the Kingsmill massacre, County Armagh in retaliation for the killing of six Nationalists by loyalist paramilitaries
★ February 3: Somali Coast Liberation Front hijack a school bus in Djibouti, killing one girl.
★ February 16: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia assassinate Turkish diplomat Oktay Cerit in Paris.
★ May 9: Far right gunmen (including Stefano Delle Chiaie) kill two left-wing Carlists in Montejurra.
★ June 26–July 4: Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Paris) by Palestinian PFLP and German Revolutionäre Zellen; see Operation Entebbe: four hostages, one Sayeret Matkal soldier and 45 Ugandian soldiers killed.
★ July 21: An IRA landmine kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the newly appointed British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, and his secretary Judith Cook.
★ September 10-September 11: Croatian Freedom Fighters hijack a TWA airliner diverting it to Gander, Newfoundland, and then Paris demanding a manifesto be printed. One police officer was killed and three injured during an attempt to defuse a bomb that contained their communiques in a New York City train station locker.[21]
★ September 21: Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington by Chilean government.
★ October 6: Cubana Flight 455 was bombed while flying from Barbados to Havana, killing 73 passengers plus crew members. Anti-Castro exiles with suspected ties to the CIA are involved, among them Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles. Victims included six Guyanese medical students and the entire Cuban youth fencing team.[22]
★ December 4: In the Netherlands, members of the RMS movement occupy the Indonesian diplomatic consulate in The Hague. One Indonesian official is killed.
1977
★ January 8: A bomb goes off on a Moscow subway train as it rolls into Kurskaya station. Seven die and 33 are seriously injured in the incident, attributed to Armenian terrorists.[23]
★ January 27: Atocha massacre in Spain. Far-right members kill five in a shooting.
★ March 9: Three buildings in Washington, DC are seized by members of the militant African-American Muslim Hanafi sect and over 100 hostages taken. One bystander is shot and killed, and Washington city councilman Marion Barry is shot in the chest. After a two-day standoff all hostages are released from the District Building (city hall), B'nai B'rith headquarters, and the Islamic Center.
★ April 7: Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver were shot by two Red Army Faction members.
★ May 23: In the Netherlands, RMS activists kept 105 children and five teachers hostage in a school in Smilde.
★ June 2: Three members of a RUC Police Force mobile patrol are shot and killed by IRA snipers near Ardboe, County Tyrone. Part of ongoing attacks on Police and Army.
★ June 11: In the Netherlands, near Groningen, a passenger train was hijacked by members of the RMS, 55 passengers were kept hostage. In an army attack six hijackers and two passengers were killed.
★ July 30: Jürgen Ponto, then head of the Dresdner Bank, was shot and killed by the Red Army Faction in a failed kidnapping.
★ August 3: Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in Manhattan, New York bombs the offices of Mobil and a building containing Defense Department security personal killing one and injuring eight in the Mobil offices. In addition the group warned that bombs were located in thirteen other buildings, including the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center resulting in the evacuation of one hundred thousand. Five days later a bomb attributed to the group was found in the AMEX building.[24]
★ September 5: Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction. He was murdered by the Red Army Faction on October 19, 1977.
★ October 13: Lufthansa flight LH 181 was kidnapped by a group of four PFLP to Mogadishu it was freed by GSG-9 commando group.
1978
★ Members of the Arab Revolutionary Council poison Israeli oranges with mercury, injuring at least twelve people and reducing exports by 40 percent.Carol Eisenberg: Agroterrorism - Behind this very real threat, ''Newsday.com'', December 15, 2006
★ 1978–1995: The Unabomber kills three and injures 29 in a string of anti-technology bombings.
★ February 13: Hilton bombing: A bomb is detonated outside the CHOGM meeting in Sydney, Australia, killing two people. Three Ananda Marga members are later arrested and jailed for the attack, but later released due to lack of proof.
★ February 17: The IRA kill twelve people in the La Mon Restaurant Bombing.
★ March: In the Netherlands members of the RMS movement occupy a provincial office in Assen. 67 persons were held hostage, one official was killed on the spot, another died of injuries a month later.
★ March 11: Coastal Road massacre: Fatah gunmen killed several tourists and hijack a bus near Haifa; 37 Israelis on the bus are killed.
★ March 16 – May 9: The Red Brigade kidnap Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and assassinate him 55 days later.
1979
★ March 22: The IRA kill Richard Sykes, then British Ambassador to the Netherlands, and his Dutch valet, Krel Straub, in a gun attack in Den Haag, Netherlands. The IRA also carried out 24 bomb attacks across Northern Ireland
★ March 30: A car bomb explodes in the Palace of Westminster car park killing the driver. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility for the killing. (see Airey Neave)
★ June 9: Puerto Rican nationalist organization FALN exploded a bomb outside of the Shubert Theatre in Chicago, injuring five people.
★ July 29: Basque ETA members bomb two railway stations in Madrid, killing seven.
★ August 27: Lord Mountbatten and three others are killed by IRA bomb on board his boat off Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo. The same day two IRA bombs kill 18 British soldiers near Warrenpoint. After the explosions a heavy gun battle ensued between the soldiers and the attackers firing from their position inside the border with the Republic of Ireland. One British civilian was accidentally fired upon by British forces and killed.
★ 2 November: Sunni militant group of 1,300 to 1,500 men seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca Saudi Arabia.
★ November 4: Iran hostage crisis, a 444-day standoff during which student proxies of the new Iranian regime held hostage 66 diplomats and citizens of the United States inside the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
★ November 15: American Airlines Flight 444 is attacked by the Unabomber - his bomb gives off large quantities of smoke but fails to detonate.
1980s
1980
★ January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
★ February 27: Dominican embassy siege: Guerrillas from M-19 take diplomats hostage at the Dominican embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. After 61 days, all are released on April 27.
★ March 15: armed members of FALN raided the campaign headquarters of President Jimmy Carter in Chicago and the campaign headquarters of George H. W. Bush in New York City. Seven people in Chicago and ten people in New York were tied up as the offices were vandalized before the FALN members fled. A few days later, Carter delegates in Chicago received threatening letters from FALN.
★ March 24: Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated by death squads in El Salvador.
★ April 30: Iranian Embassy siege: Iraqi agents take over the Iranian Embassy in London, gaining hostages. After a number of days, one hostage was killed by the Iraqis, and the Special Air Service assaulted the building to rescue the remaining hostages. One hostage died during the assault.
★ June 3: A bomb destroys most of the exhibits in the Statue of Liberty story room. No one is arrested, but Croatian separatists are suspected.
★ July 27: A member of the Abu Nidal Organization carried out a grenade attack on a group of Jews waiting for a bus in Antwerp, Belgium, killing a child and wounding twenty others. Said Al Nasr will be convicted for this act.
★ August 2: Strage di Bologna: A bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
★ October 3: Four congregants were killed and twelve others injured in a bomb attack on the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, France. Responsibility was claimed by the National European Fascists (FNE), but the police investigation concluded that Palestinian terrorists were involved.
1981
★ May 16: One dead in an explosion in the toilets at thePan Am terminal at New York's JFK airport. The bombing is claimed by the Puerto Rican Resistance Army.[25]
★ June 10: Eight IRA prisoners shoot their way out of the Crumlin Road Jail in Belfast, using 3 handguns they had smuggled in.
★ August 29: Machine gun and grenade attack on the Stadttempel synagogue in Vienna, killing two people and wounding 23. Marwan Hasan and Hesham Mohammed Rajeh were convicted.
★ October 6: Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad.
★ October 20: Attack on a synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium, killing three and wounding sixty.
1982
★ March 29: A bomb on board the Paris-Toulouse train kills five and injures 27 people. Carlos assumed to be responsible.
★ July 20: The Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings in London by the IRA kill eleven members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets.
★ August 7: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia set off a bomb in Ankara airport, killing nine people and wounding 70.
★ August 9: Rue des Rosiers, Paris gunning and bombing of Goldenberg restaurant : six killed and 22 wounded - Fatah - the Revolutionary Council
★ August 11: A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, enroute from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
★ September 14: Assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel and twenty-five others in a car explosion at the Kataeb headquarters.
★ September 18: Four people are wounded when a synagogue in Brussels is attacked in a "shoot and run" incident. Guards were taken by surprise and the gunman, believed to be from the Abu Nidal Organization, escaped.
★ October 9: Attack with grenades and machine guns on the central synagogue in Rome, Italy. A child dies, ten people are injured.
★ October 14: Direct Action bombs a Litton Industries factory.
★ November 30: A group called the Animal Rights Militia send a letter bomb to Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street, London the device exploded injuring one person.[26]
★ December 6: Ballykelly disco bombing in which Irish National Liberation Army kills seventeen soldiers and civilians in Northern Ireland.
1983
★ April 18: U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon kills 63.
★ July 15: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia bombed a Turkish airline counter in the Orly Airport, killing eight people and wounding over 50.
★ September 25: Thirty Eight IRA prisoners shoot their way out of the maximum security Long Kesh prison. A prison officer is killed and six others injured.
★ September 23: Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
★ October 9: Rangoon bombing by North Koreans targets South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, killing 21 persons and injuring 48.
★ October 23: Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut kills 241 U.S. Marines. 58 French troops from the multinational force are also killed in a separate attack.
★ November 9: U.S. Senate bombing. A time bomb consisting of several sticks of dynamite explodes at the United States Senate in response to the U.S. invasion of Grenada. No one was injured, a group known as the Armed Resistance Unit claims responsibility.
★ December 17: Harrods was bombed by the IRA. Six were killed (including three police officers) and 90 wounded during Christmas shopping at the West London department store. (See 17 December 1983 Harrods bombing)
★ December 31: On the way to New Year's Eve seven persons are killed and 70 wounded by bombs on the Marseille to Paris TGV and at the St-Charles station in Marseille. The attack is attributed to Carlos on behalf of the O.L.A.
1984
★ The Rajneeshee cult spreads salmonella in salad bars at ten restaurants in The Dalles, Oregon to influence a local election. Health officials say that 751 people were sickened and more than 40 hospitalized.Carol Eisenberg: Agroterrorism - Behind this very real threat, ''Newsday.com'', December 15, 2006
★ March 7: three killed and nine injured in the bombing of a civilian bus in Ashdod.
★ April 2: 48 people are wounded by a machine gun attack on a crowded shopping mall in Jerusalem.
★ September 20: U.S. embassy annex bombed in Beirut killing 20.
★ October 12: Brighton hotel bombing by the IRA: five are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.
★ October 31: Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. The killing was in retaliation for the Indian army's entry into the Golden Temple at Amritsar to flush out Sikh extremists who were using the temple as a base for their operations.
★ December 23: A bomb placed on the Naples-Milan Express train 904 explodes in the same tunnel as the Italicus Expressen massacre, killing 17 and wounding 250. The attack is attributed to mafia.
1985
★ February 23: Paris Marks & Spencer shop, one bomb, one dead, 18 wounded, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah.
★ February 28: IRA mortar attack kills nine police officers in Newry.
★ March 8: Car bomb explodes in Beirut, killing 80, injuring 175; allegedly planned and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.[27]
★ March 9: Paris, Cinema Rivoli, 18 injured, pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah
★ June 14: TWA Flight 847 skyjacking, Hezbollah, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists. Terrorists take passengers of an Athens-Rome flight hostage, murdering US Navy Seaman, Robert Stethem.
★ May 14: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam massacre 146 Sinhalese civilians in the Anuradhapura massacre.[28] This remains one of the largest massacres of civilians carried out by any terrorist group to-date. This was also the deadliest terrorist attack in Sri Lankan history.
★ June 19: Zona Rosa Attacks Four United States Marines, two United States businessmen, a Guatemalan, a Chilean, and four Salvadorans were killed in a machine gun attack in the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador, El Salvador. The groups responsible for carrying out the attack were the Central American Revolutionary Workers'
★ Party (PRTC) and its terrorist arm, the Mardoqueo Cruz Urban Commando (CMC)
★ June 22: Air India Flight 182 is blown up by a bomb put onboard the flight from Canada to India by unknown terrorists. All 329 people on board are killed. At the time, the deadliest terrorist attack ever, and still the deadliest act of terrorism in Canadian history. A second Air India flight from Canada was targeted on the same day, but the bomb exploded at the Tokyo airport, in the luggage outside the aircraft, killing two baggage handlers, bringing the total death toll of the act to 331.
★ July 10: Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior bombed in Auckland harbour by operatives from the French foreign intelligence agency (DGSE), killing one person.
★ July 22: Two near-simultaneous bombs in Copenhagen, at the Jewish synagogue and at the offices of Northwest Orient, explode, killing one and injuring 32. The bombers are interrupted while placing a third, more powerful, bomb, which they later dispose of in the city's harbour. The bombs are later linked to Islamic Jihad.
★ and October 7 – October 10: ''Achille Lauro'' cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer is shot dead.
★ October 11: Arab anti-discrimination group leader Alex Odeh is killed when a bomb explodes in his Santa Ana, California office.
★ November 6: Palace of Justice siege: M-19 guerrillas seize the Supreme Court building in Bogotá, Colombia. The next day, an operation to free the hostages leaves some 100 people dead.
★ November 23: EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacked by Abu Nidal group, flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
★ December 7: Paris, Galeries Lafayette and Printemps shops, two bombs, 51 injured, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hizbollah
★ December 27: Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks.
★ Investigators associated with the WHO reported that U.S.-funded Contras repeatedly destroyed health-care facilities and murdered health-care workers in Nicaraqua.
★ In the Amanzimtoti bombing on 23 December 1985, MK cadre Andrew Sibusiso Zondo detonated an explosive in a rubbish bin at the Sanlam shopping centre. Five people died in the blast and more than forty were injured.
1986
★ A bomb place on a bus in the West Bank kills one and severely injures three. A Jordanian Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta is arrested, extradited to Israel, convicted, sentenced to life in prison and freed by the Israeli Supreme Court. After the September 11 attacks, he was confused with ringleader Egyptian Mohammed Atta.[29]
★ February 3: Paris, Claridge passage (Champs Élysées) seven injured, another bomb failed to explode in the Eiffel tower, pro-Iranian (Fouad Ali Saleh group)
★ February 4: Paris, Gibert book shop, seven injured, Fouad Ali Saleh
★ February 5: Paris, FNAC-sports, 15 injured
★ March 17: TGV Paris, nine injured
★ March 20: Paris, Galerie Point-Show bombed, two dead, 21 injured
★ April 2: TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; four passengers (all of them American), including an infant, are killed.
★ April 6: the La Belle discotheque in Berlin, a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing three and injuring 230 people, for which Libya is held responsible. In retaliation, the US bombs Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon, hitting civilian targets and killing at least 100 people,[30] while trying to kill Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, who survived the attack.
★ May 3: A bomb explodes aboard a Sri Lankan airliner in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 21 and injuring 40
★ June 14: ANC bombs Why Not Restaurant and Magoo's Bar in Durban, South Africa, three people killed, 73 wounded.
★ July 15: ETA Basque militant group bombs a Guardia Civil police truck, killing twelve.
★ September 5: Pan Am Flight 73, an American civilian airliner, is hijacked; 22 people die when plane is stormed in Karachi, Pakistan.
★ September 8: Paris town hall's post office bombed, one dead, 16 injured
★ September 12: Paris La Défense, Casino Supermarket's restaurant bombed, 43 injured
★ September 14: Paris, Pub Renault bombed, two dead, one injured
★ September 15: Paris, police headquarters bombed, one dead, 45 injured
★ September 17: Paris, Rue de Rennes a bomb explodes in the street, seven dead, 54 injured.
★ December 25: Iraqi Airways Flight 163 is hijacked. The pro-Iranian group "Islamic Jihad" claimed responsibility.
★ December 31: New Year's Eve fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, claimed 97 lives, mainly in the casino area. Fire set by three hotel workers, trying to make tourists stay away from Puerto Rico as a protest to their working wages.
1987
★ April 21: Car bomb at bus terminal in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 110 people.[31] This attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.
★ April 25: Bombing of Greek Air Force bus carrying American military personnel. A group called November 17 claims responsibility.[32]
★ May 8: An assault by an IRA team on Loughgall RUC base is stopped by SAS commandos, who kill eight attackers and a civilian. See Loughgall Ambush.
★ June 6: The LTTE massacres 33 monks and their mentor, Chief Priest Ven. Hegoda Indrasara, at Aranthalawa in Eastern Sri Lanka.[33]
★ June 19: Basque militant group ETA plant a bomb in the parking lot under the Hipercor hypermarket in Barcelona. It kills 21, 45 are injured.
★ November 8: Remembrance Day Bombing parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh by the IRA. Eleven are killed and 63 injured.
★ November 29: KAL Flight 858 bombed by North Korea.
★ December 11: Basque militant group ETA bomb a Guardia Civil police barracks in Zaragoza, killing eleven, 40 are injured.
1988
★ January 13: A bomb place outside the Monaco building, property of Medellín Cartel leader,Pablo Escobar kills two security guards. The bomb was blamed on the rival Cali Cartel.[34]
★ April 12: Japanese Red Army terrorist Yu Kikumura was arrested at a rest stop on the New Jersey turnpike in possession of pipe bombs on his way to New York.[35]
Wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland.
★ December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, UK. At the time, it was the worst act of terrorism perpetrated against the United States, and involved the greatest number of peacetime fatalities (270) in the United Kingdom. Just over 12 years after the event, at the conclusion of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, a Libyan agent, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, was convicted on 270 counts of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Libya subsequently agreed to pay relatives of the Lockerbie bombing victims $2.7 billion ($10 million each) in compensation.
★ March 16: Michael Stone killed three mourners in an attack on an Irish Republican Army funeral in Belfast as Sinn Féin leaders, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, stood by the grave.[36]
★ March 19: During the funeral of IRA member Kevin Brady, killed in the cemetery attack by Michael Stone, a car approached the funeral procession at high speed. The car was surrounded by mourners, and two men later identified as corporals in the British Army were overpowered, dragged from the car, taken to waste ground and shot dead by the IRA
★ June: The IRA shoots down a British army helicopter in Northern Ireland[37]
★ June 15: Six British soldiers are killed by an IRA booby trap bomb attached to their vehicle in Market Square, Lisburn.
1989
★ May 30: A bomb kills four and injures 37 on an assassination attempt against Miguel Maza Marquez head of the Colombian Secret Service.[38]
★ July 5: A car bomb kills six, including the governor of Antioquia, Antonio Roldan Betancur. No claim is made for the attack.[39]
★ July 9: Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
★ August 18: The Medellín Cartel declares "total and absolute war" against the Colombian government. The offices of the two main political parties were bombed and the homes of two local politicians were burned.[40]
★ August 31: A bomb in a bicycle cart injures 13 in Medellín.[41]
★ September 2: A bomb partially destroys the headquarters of El Espectador, a Colombian newspaper, leaving 84 wounded. Bomb is blamed on Pablo Escobar
★ September 4: A bomb detonates in front of the Intercontinental Hotel in Medellín.[42]
★ September 4: An unidentified man opens fire at the Medellín airport, killing one and wounding 14, before being gunned down by the police.[43]
★ September 16: A bomb explodes on a bus bound from Tbilisi to Baku, USSR when it passes near Yevlakh, Azerbaijan, killing five people and wounding 27.[44]
★ September 18: Five bombs kill twelve people in Medellín during the ongoing war the Medellín Cartel declared on the Colombia government. On the same day, the Pablo Escobar has liberal leader Pablo Pelaez Gonzalez assassinated.[45]
★ September 18: Three bombs explode in Cali killing one person.[46]
★ September 19: Suitcase-bomb destroys UTA Flight UT-772 en route to Paris, killing all 171 passengers and crew. Libyan intelligence involved.
★ September 21: The Medellín Cartel claims responsibility for the car bomb attack to the Colombian Liberal Party's offices in downtown Bogotá
★ September 22: Deal barracks bombing: Eleven Royal Marines bandsmen are killed and 22 injured when base in Deal, Kent, is bombed by the IRA.
★ September 25: A bomb kills two and injures one at the Hilton hotel in Cartagena.[47]
★ September 28: A bomb kills two at a suburban gas station in Bogotá. The dead are believed to be terrorists.[48]
★ September 29: A bomb injures one at the parking garage of the Intercontinental Hotel in Bogotá. The attack was blamed on the Medellín Cartel.[49]
★ October 8: A fire bomb kills seven and injures seven in a bus in Bogotá. The action is blamed on the Medellín Cartel.[50]
★ October 9: Ten bombs go off in two Colombian cities, injuring 32. The bombs coincide with the visit of a senior US Army officer on talks about drug control.[51]
★ October 16: A car bomb against the Vanguardia Liberal newspaper kills four in Bucaramanga.[52]
★ October 18: A bomb explodes prematurely outside the Colombian Congress, injuring one.[53]
★ October 21: A car bomb in front of a hotel in Barranquilla leaves six injured.[54]
★ October 30: A bomb hidden beneath a bus kills five police officer and injures 15 more in Medellín. The drug lords are believed responsible.[55]
★ November 27: Avianca Flight 203 bombed over Colombia; 110 victims. Medellín drug cartel claimed responsibility.
★ December 6: Truck bomb kills 52 and injures 1,000 outside the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) building near downtown Bogotá, Colombia; blast is blamed on drug lord Pablo Escobar and it's widely believed to be an assassination attempt on the director of DAS, Miguel Maza Marquez.
★ December 6: Anti-feminist Marc Lépine shoots 26 people, killing 14 women, at the École Polytechnique de Montréal - the event is dubbed the Montreal massacre.
★ December 13: Two British soldiers are killed near Rosslea, County Fermanagh when an IRA unit burns them alive with a flamethrower.
1990s
1990
★ January 6: A car bomb explodes outside private offices in Bogotá. While no casualties are reported, the office belonged to the son of the personal secretary of Colombian president, Virgilio Barco.[56]
★ February: The IRA detonate a bomb at Leicester Army Recruiting Office. MP Keith Vaz suggests that the army may have planted the bomb.[57]
★ February 12: The IRA shoot down a British army helicopter in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, near the border with the Irish Republic.[58]
★ April 6: Colombian police defuse a truck containing more than a half-ton of explosives in a wealthy residential area of Bogotá. The truck had been parked in front of a high school and was set to go off during the morning rush.[59]
★ April 11: A bomb kills 14 and injures 100 in Medellín. The bomb was directed at a group of Elite Police and it is blamed on the Medellín Cartel, which had offered $100,000 for every anti-terrorism police killed and $ 4,500 for every regular policeman assassinated.[60]
★ April 25: A car bomb kills nine in Medellín. Authorities believe the Medellín Cartel is responsible. The next day, presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro Leongómez is assassinated while onboard a comercial airliner.[61]
★ April 25: A bomb hidden in a dump truck kills six and injures at least 36 in Bogotá.[62]
★ May 4: A bomb exploded in front of a pharmacy in Cali, killing four and wounding 20. It is blamed on the ongoing war between the two rival drug cartels in Colombia.
★ May 7: A car bomb kills one and injures five, outside a government building in Pereira, capital of Risaralda State. No group claims responsibility but the government blames drug lords who declared war on the country nine months earlier.[63]
★ May 13: Two car bombs explode simultaneously in the Quirigua and Niza shopping malls during Mother's Day in Bogotá killing 19, including six children, and wounding 140, while another bomb exploded in a restaurant in Cali, killing six and injuring 20. Authorities say the Medellín Cartel is to blame for the attacks.[64]
★ May 16 The IRA detonate a bomb under a military minibus in London, killing Sgt Charles Chapman, and injuring four other soldiers.[65]
★ May 17: A bomb inside a shopping mall in Cartagena wounds 22. The Medellín Cartel is blamed.[66]
★ May 25: A suicide bomber detonates a car bomb when stopped by police, killing himself and three others in Medellín.[67]
★ June 01: A British Royal Artillery officer is assassinated by the IRA in Dortmund in West Germany.[68]
★ June 15: A car bomb kills four near a police station in Medellín. Authorities blame the Medellín Cartel which had previously pledged to murder police in retaliation to the government's anti-drug policies.[69]
★ June 29: A car bomb kills 14 and injures 30 in Medellín. The Medellín Cartel is blamed by authorities.[70]
★ July 15: A round of terrorist attacks leaves 40 dead in Medellín. Another bomb exploded in Puerto Asís, killing six and injuring five.[71]
★ July 20: The IRA detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange causing damage to the building. Nobody was injured in the blast.[72]
★ July 30: Ian Gow MP killed by a car bomb planted by the IRA while at his home in Sussex.
★ August 10: A bus going from Tbilisi, Georgia to Agdam, Azerbaijan is blown up, allegedly at the hands of Armenian terrorists. Twenty people die and 33 are injured.[73]
★ October 24: A series of car bombings directed by the IRA in Northern Ireland leave six British soldiers and a civilian dead and 37 wounded.
★ PLF attack in the beaches on Tel Aviv.
★ PLO attack on the US embassy.
★ September: Rebels bomb two sections of Colombia's Caño Limón pipeline. It is the fourth attack against the pipeline in two weeks, and rebel group ELN claims responsibility.[74]
★ November 5: Assassination of Meir Kahane head of Israel's Koch party and founder of the American vigilante group the Jewish Defense League in a Manhattan, New York hotel lobby by early elements of Al Queda.
★ December 13: A remote control bomb kills seven police officer and injures 23 more in Medellín. Authorities blame the Medellín Cartel for the attack.[75]
1991
★ January 6: A bomb kills three and wounds seven in La Dorada, Caldas. No group claims responsibility.[76]
★ February 7: The IRA launched a mortar shell into the back garden of 10 Downing Street, London. (See 10 Downing Street#Security)
★ February 16: The Medellín Cartel detonates a 440-pound car bomb near the Medellín bullring, killing 22 people, including 9 police officers.[77]
★ May 13: Nine police officers die while deactivating a bomb left behind by leftist guerillas.[78]
★ May 21: Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi assassinated in a bomb blast believed to be the work of Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.[31] This is also the first time that the suicide vest is used by any terrorist group.
★ May 29: Basque ETA terror group bombs the Guardia Civil police barracks in Vic (Barcelona), killing ten people.
★ May 30: A train traveling from Moscow to Baku explodes near Karvin-Yurt station between Gudermes and Makhachkala in Dagestan, Russia. Eleven people die and eight are injured.[80]
★ July 12: Leftist groups bomb the runway at the Rafael Núñez International Airport in Cartagena.[81]
1992
★ January 17: Eight Protestant British army contractors are killed by an IRA bomb on their way to work at an Army base near Omagh.
★ February 5: Three civilians were killed and 29 injuried by East Turkestan Islamic Movement two bus bombs in Urumqi (see: 5 February 1992 Urumqi Bombings)
★ February 28 1992: A bomb explodes at London Bridge station injuring 29 people.
★ March 17: Israeli Embassy bombing by "Islamic Jihad" in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 killed, 242 injured.
★ April 5, 1992: The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq-supported religious right group.
★ April 10 1992: A large bomb explodes in St Mary Axe in the City of London killing three people and injuring 91. Many buildings are heavily damaged and the Baltic Exchange is completely destroyed.
★ September 1: Nine die, including a six-month old baby, and seven are injured when a bomb explodes in a suburb of Medellín.[82]
★ October 12 1992: A device explodes in the gents' toilet of the ''Sussex Arms'' public house in Covent Garden killing one person and injuring four others.
★ November 11: Bombs explode in nine Colombian cities, leaving one person dead and 35 injured. The Medellín Cartel is held responsible for the attacks.[83]
★ December 3: Ten police officers and four civilians die when a bomb planted by drug traffickers explode in Medellín.[84]
★ December 29: Two police officers and 50 civilians wounded when a car bomb explodes at a party in a suburban area of Medellín.[85]
1993
★ January 7: A car bomb kills two and injures 39 in the parking lot of a building where several judges lived, in the city of Medellín.[86]
★ January 25: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fires an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, killing two and injuring three others, see FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
★ January 30: A bomb kills 20 in downtown Bogotá. The attack is blamed on drug leader Pablo Escobar.[87]
★ February 11: A bomb kills 14 and injures 25 at an auto repair shop in Barrancabermeja.[88]
★ February 22: Two powerful car bombs kill four and injure 100 in a commercial district and a shopping mall in Bogotá. The attacks are likely linked to drug traffickers waging war against the Colombian government.[89]
★ February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra'/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front,[90] see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ramzi Yousef.
★ March 12: Mumbai car bombings in India leave 257 dead with 1,400 others injured.
★ March 17: A bomb blast in Calcutta killed at least 50 people. Two apartment blocks came crashing down when the blast rocked central Calcutta's Bowbazar locality shortly after midnight.
★ March 19: A bomb exploded in the Calcutta's Sealdah rail terminus, killing one person and wounding a dozen others
★ April 15: A bomb kills 15 and wounds over 100 at the Centro 93 shopping mall in Bogotá. Authorities blame Pablo Escobar.[91]
★ March 20: IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children (See Warrington Bomb Attacks).
★ April 24: IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £1bn of damage.[92]
★ May 1: Suicide bomber in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa. This is one of the few occasions in modern history in which an existing head of state has been assassinated by a terrorist group. Attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.[31]
★ May 27: A car-bomb placed by mafia in the neighbourhood of the Uffizi museum in Florence kills five people and wounds 40.
★ June: Failed New York City landmark bomb plot, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
★ June 21: ETA Basque terrorist group bombs a military truck in Madrid, kills seven, 36 injured.
★ July 5: the IRA detonate a 1500 lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but severe property damage is caused to the town centre.
★ July 27: Three car-bombs explode simultaneously and in a street in the center of Milan, killing five, and in front of two churches in Rome. The attack is attributed to mafia.
★ October 23: the Shankill Road bombing at a fish and chip shop on the Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast kills ten people, including two children.
★ October 30: Seven people killed in the Rising Sun Bar massacre, when Loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters gunmen attack a bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry.
1994
★ February 25: In the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, Baruch Goldstein kills 29 Palestinian civilians in an attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
★ March 1: In the Brooklyn Bridge Shooting, Rashid Baz kills a Hasidic seminary student and wounds four on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City in response to the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.Uriel Heilman: ''Murder on the Brooklyn Bridge'', Middle East Quarterly. Summer 2001. Accessed June 12, 2006.
★ March 20: The IRA shoot down a British army Lynx Helicopter over a military barracks in Crossmaglen with a barrack buster mortar.
★ June 18: Six Catholic men shot dead by Loyalists in a pub in Loughinisland, Co Down.
★ July 18: Bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 86 and wounds 300. Generally attributed to Hezbollah acting on behalf of Iran.
★ July 19: Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is bombed, killing 21. Generally attributed to Hezbollah.
★ July 26: Israeli Embassy Attack in London and a Jewish charity are car-bombed, wounding 20. Attributed by Britain, Argentina, and Israel to Hezbollah.
★ December 11: A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. Authorities found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for his planned terrorist attack, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
★ December 24: Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by GIA members who planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn't succeed.
1995
★ January 6: Oplan Bojinka plot to bomb eleven U.S. airliners is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after an apartment fire occurred in the apartment, by Jemaah Islamiyah/Konsojaya/Abu Sayyaf Group/Ramzi Yousef/Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
★ March 8: Terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan, armed with automatic rifles, murdered two American consulate employees and wounded a third as they traveled in the consulate shuttle bus. See Rewards for Justice.
★ March 20: Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway by AUM Shinrikyo cultists kills twelve people and injures 6000.
★ April 19: ETA Basque militant group tries to kill José María Aznar (then leader of the Popular Party, later a Spanish Prime Minister) bombing his car, kills a woman.
★ April 19: Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people, 19 of them children; the most deadly act of domestic terrorism in the United States to date.
★ May 6: A synagogue is bombed by terrorists in Riga.
★ June 11: Leftist group FARC claims responsibility for a bomb that kills 29 and injures 205 at a music concert in Medellín.[94]
★ June 14—June 19: Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis, 105 civilians and 25 Russian troops were killed.
★ July—October: Bombings in France by a GIA unit led by Khaled Kelkal kill eight and injure more than 100.
★ August 27: Suicide bomber in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 24 civilians, injures 40. Attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.
★ October 9: An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by anti-government saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona. One person is killed and 78 are injured.
★ November 11: Suicide bombing of army headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 15. Attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.
★ November 13: Bombing of OPM-SANG building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills seven
★ November 19: Bombing of Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan kills 19.
★ December 11: ETA Basque militant group bombs a military truck in Madrid, killing six civilians.
1996
★ January: In Kizlyar, 350 Chechen militants took 3,000 hostages in a hospital. The attempt to free them kills 65 civilians and soldiers.
★ January: Provisional Irish Republican Army plants a bomb that police defuse at the Canary Wharf towers in London.
★ January 31: LTTE carries out Central Bank Bombing in Sri Lanka kills 90 and wounds 1,400.
★ February 9: IRA bombs the South Quay station, killing two people and causing over $1 billion worth of damage. (see 9 February 1996 South Quay bombing)
★ February 25 - March 4: A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within ten days.
★ June 11: A bomb explodes on a train traveling on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, killing four people and seriously injuring at least twelve.[95]
★ June 15: A bomb containing 1500 kg of explosives was detonated by the IRA in Manchester city centre. Due to a warning being given the area was evacuated and nobody was killed. (see Manchester bombing by IRA).
★ June 25: Khobar Towers bombing -- In all, 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi were killed and 372 wounded, by Hizballah Al-Hijaz (Saudi Hizballah) with Iranian support, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
★ July 24: LTTE plants bomb on commuter train in Sri Lanka kills 57.
★ July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing, killing one and wounding 111.
★ August: Marina Roscha Synagogue in Moscow is bombed shortly after being rebuilt after a fire in 1993.
★ December 17: Japanese embassy hostage crisis begins in Lima, Peru; it ends April 22, 1997 with the deaths of 14 rebels, two soldiers and a hostage.
1997
★ Israeli settlers spray pesticides on grapevines in two Palestinian villages, destroying up to 17,000 metric tons of grapes.Carol Eisenberg: Agroterrorism - Behind this very real threat, ''Newsday.com'', December 15, 2006
★ February 24: Ali Abu Kamal opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, United States, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine". His widow claimed he became suicidal after losing $300,000 in a business venture. In a 2007 interview with the New York Daily News his daughter said her mothers story was a cover crafted by the Palestinian Authority and that her father wanted to punish the United States for its support of Israel.[96]
★ February 27: A car bomb kills seven and injures 49 in the town of Apartadó, Chocó. No groups claim responsibility.[97]
★ June 28: A bomb explodes on a train traveling from Moscow to Saint Petersburg, Russia, killing three and injuring seven.[98]
★ February 25: Three bus bombs in Urumqi destroy the No. 2, 10, and 44 buses, killing nine people.
★ June 17: Eight elite police officers die after a truck bomb explodes in Bogotá. Authorities say FARC is responsible for the attack.[99]
★ November 17: Luxor Massacre – Islamist gunmen attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 and injuring 24 people, most of them European and Japanese holidaymakers.
★ December 22: Acteal massacre – 46 killed while praying in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico. A paramilitary group associated with ex-president Salinas is held responsible.
★ Luis Posada Carriles organized a string of bombings at luxury hotels in Cuba in 1997 in order to discourage the growth of the tourism industry. One Italian tourist died.
1998
★ January: Wandhama Massacre - 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by Pakistan-backed insurgents in the city of Wandhama in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
★ February 14: 1998 Coimbatore bombings - Bombings by suspected Islamic Jihadi groups on an election rally in Indian city of Coimbatore kill about 60 people.
★ January 25: LTTE bombs the sacred Buddhist shrine Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy, Sri Lanka killing 17.
★ April 2/April 6: Two bombs explode in Riga targeting a Synagogue and the Russian Embassy building for Latvia, linked to Fascist extremist movements. See also Riga Bombing 1998.
★ May 13: A bomb blast destroys the outer wall of the Marina Roscha Synagogue in Moscow. The third time the building has been attacked.
★ August 5: Rebel groups ELN and FARC attack police and army bases, a major dam, oil pipelines and other targets in 17 of the 32 states, killing at least 26 police officers. [100]
★ August 7: U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000, by al-Qaeda, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
★ August 15: Omagh bombing by the Real IRA (an IRA splinter group) kills 29.
★ October 18: The rebel group ELN blows the Ocensa pipeline near Machuca, Antioquia. The resulting fire kills 84 civilians, most of them burned alive, and injures at least 100. Initially, ELN denies responsibly but then accepts it as a "military error". The heads of ELN have been sentenced to 40 years in prison for this action. During the following years, ELN and FARC conduct over 600 attacks with explosives on pipelines in Colombia, mostly targeting the Caño Limón line, according to the Colombian Ministry of Defense.[101]
1999
★ January 3: Gunmen open fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people injuring 25.
★ April: David Copeland's nail bomb attacks against ethnic minorities and gays in London kill three people and injure over 160.
★ April 20: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill thirteen students and a teacher and wound 24 others in the Columbine High School massacre. (Note: this may be commonly considered a general massacre and thus included in the List of massacres, but it also followed death threats on the website of Harris – an attempt to terrorize.)
★ April 26: An explosion inside an elevator at the Intourist hotel in Moscow injured eleven people.[102]
★ July 30: A car bomb kills nine and injures 38 at a military base in Medellín. Authorities blame leftist guerrillas for the attack.[103]
★ August 31 – September 22: Russian Apartment Bombings kills about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War.
★ December: Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US and Israeli tourists in Jordan and pick up 28 suspects as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
★ November 12: Seven die and dozens are injured when a bomb explodes in Bogotá. No claim for responsibility is made.[104]
★ December 14: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States–Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
★ December 24: Indian Airlines Flight 814 from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi, India is hijacked. One passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released in exchange for release of four terrorists.
2000s
2000
★ The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS ''The Sullivans'' sinks.
★ German police foil Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot.
★ May: The Balochistan Liberation Army begins its attacks against government and military targets in Balochistan.
★ March 15: A botched rocket attack by rebels against an army base left two dead and 14 injured near Medellín.[105]
★ May 16: Suspected FARC guerrillas detonated a collar bomb they attached to dairy farmer Elvia Cortes, age 55, after she refused to pay a $7,500 extorsion. This event is the theme of the movie PVC-1, winner of the Director's Fortnight Selection Award at the Cannes Film Festival 2007.
★ June 8: Stephen Saunders, a British Defense Attaché, was assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November in Athens.
★ August 8: A bomb exploded at an underpass in Pushkin Square in Moscow, killing eleven people and wounding more than 90.[106]
★ August 17: Two bombs exploded in a shopping center in Riga, Latvia, injuring 35 people.[107]
★ October 8: A car bomb injures four near a military base in Cali. Rebel group ELN is blamed.[108]
★ October 12: USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors and wounds 40 off the port coast of Aden, Yemen, by al-Qaeda, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, the Buffalo Six Lackawanna Cell.[109]
★ December 30: Rizal Day Bombings, terrorists blow up LRts in Manila killing 22 and injuring more than 100 people.
2001
★ January 10: A car bomb wounds at least 50 in a shopping center parking lot in Medellín.[110]
★ February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people.
★ February 18: Podujevo bus bombing, 13 Serbian civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Northern Kosovo.
★ March 1: A bomb destroys a high-voltage pylon leaving vast areas of the country without power for five hours. Attack is blamed on ELN
★ March 4: The Real IRA exploded a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre in London. One London Underground worker suffered deep cuts to his eye from flying glass and some damage was caused to the front of the building.[111] (See 4 March 2001 BBC bombing)
★ March 24: Twenty people die and 93 are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.
★ March 26: 10-months-old Israeli infant Shalhevet Pass is intentionally and fatally shot in the head by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron.
★ May 4: A car bomb kills four and injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali. No group claims the attack.[112]
★ May 6: The Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.[113]
★ May 17: A car bomb kills seven and injures at least 50 in a park in Medellín.[114]
★ May 24: Two bombs kill four near the Universidad Nacional campus in Bogotá. One more bomb is defused before it could explode. Right-wing paramilitaries are suspected.[115]
★ June 1: 21 civilians, mostly teenagers from the former Soviet Union, are killed by a Hamas suicide bomber in the Dolphinarium massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel
★ June 17: A car bomb injures 16 in the town of San Martin, Meta. No group claims responsibility, but both FARC and AUC are suspected.[116]
★ July 24: A suicide squad of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) staged an attack on Sri Lanka's Bandaranaike International Airport and the adjoining air force base at Katunayake. The 14 man-squad destroyed or damaged about 20 aircraft and killed seven Sri Lankan workers and soldiers.
★ August 3: The last (at time of writing) IRA bomb on mainland Britain explodes in Ealing, West London, injuring seven people.[117] (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing)
★ August 9: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
★ August 23: In a series of attacks near Medellín, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims resposibility.[118]
★ August 23: At least 15 members of terrorist group ELN die when they explosives they were carrying detonate.[119]
★ September 11: Attacks kill 2,997 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane, originally intended to hit the United States Capital Building, crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers; by Al-Qaeda.
★ September 13: Paris embassy attack plot foiled.
★ October 1: A car bomb explodes near the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly in Srinagar, India killing 35 people and injuring 40 more.
★ October 17: Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
★ Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloid.
★ December 12: Jewish Defense League plot by Chairman Irv Rubin and follower Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California and the office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell Issa, foiled.
★ December 13: Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
★ December 22: Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.
2002
★ Singapore embassies attack plot foiled.
★ January: Kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl by Pakistani terrorists.
★ January 22: Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on guards at the American Center in Kolkata, killing five people.
★ January 25: A bomb kills a child and four police officers and injures 28 people in Bogotá. Rebel group FARC is blamed.
★ January 30: A car bomb kills five and injures 40 in the city of Florencia in the state of Caquetá. No group claims responsibility.
★ March 21: At least nine people were killed and 30 injured by a powerful car bomb which went off near the United States embassy in the Peruvian capital, Lima.
★ March 27: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 and injures 140 during Passover festivities in a hotel in Netanya, Israel in the Passover massacre.
★ March 31: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 15 and injures over 40 in Haifa, Israel, in the Matza restaurant massacre.
★ April 7: Two bombs explode in the restaurant district of Villavicencio, killing twelve and injuring 70. FARC is the prime suspect for the attack.[120]
★ April 11: A natural gas truck fitted with explosives is driven into a synagogue in Tunisia by an al-Qaeda member, killing 21 and wounding more than 30 in the Ghriba Synagogue Attack.
★ April 12: A rocket explodes near the studios of RCN TV in Bogotá.[121]
★ April 14: During an assassination attempt of then-presidential candidate Alvaro Uribe Velez a bomb kills two and injures 20 in Barranquilla. Rebel group FARC is blamed.
★ April 19: Two bombs, allegedly placed by FARC kill three and injure ten near Cartagena
★ May Luke Helder injures 6 by placing pipebombs in mailboxes in the Midwest. Motivation to protest government control over daily lives and the illegality of marijuana and promotion of astral projection
★ May 2: FARC launchs a mortar bomb against a church during combats with AUC, killing at least 117 civilians, 48 of them children in what is known as the Bojayá massacre. Delayed response from the authorities make it impossible to establish a final count, as most of the dead were buried before they could be accounted for.
★ May 8: May 8 Bus Attack in Karachi kills eleven Frenchmen and two Pakistanis.
★ May 9: A bomb explosion in Kaspiisk in Dagestan kills at least 42 people and injures 130 or more during Victory Day festivities.
★ May 13: Twelve people are killed in the Jaunpur train crash in India, caused when Islamic extremists cut the rails.
★ June 14: Car bomb at US Consulate in Karachi kills twelve.
★ June 18: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates himself on a bus in Jerusalem in the Patt junction massacre. The attack kills 19 people and wounds over 74.
★ June 20: Car bomb in Riyadh kills Simon Veness, a British National
★ June 24: A grenade, allegedly thrown by FARC members, injures six police officers in Bogotá.
★ July 4: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being killed himself.
★ July 28: A carbomb partially destroys government buildings in Cali. FARC is blamed for the attack. No casualties.
★ August 7: Three round of mortars are fired against an Army base in Bogotá injuring six. FARC is blamed for the attack.[122]
★ August 7: Four rounds of mortars are fired against the Presidential Palace in Bogotá during the inauguration ceremony of President Alvaro Uribe Velez. 13 people, mostly homeless, die and 50 are wounded when some of the rounds hit slums in downtown Bogotá. FARC is blamed.[122]
★ September 10: A train derailment in India kills 130 people in the Rafiganj rail disaster. Naxalite terrorism is suspected.
★ September 25: Two terrorists belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammed group raid the Akshardham temple complex in Ahmedabad, India killing 30 people and injuring many more.
★ October: John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct the Beltway Sniper Attacks, killing ten people in various locations throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area from October 2 until they are arrested on October 24.
★ October 6: Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen.
★ October 11: Myyrmanni bombing in shopping mall at Vantaa, Finland. Killing seven and injuring 80.
★ October 12: Bali bombing of holidaymakers kills 202 people, mostly Western tourists and local Balinese hospitality staff.
★ October 17: Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines kill six and wounds about 150.
★ October 18: A bus bomb in Manila kills three people and wounds 22.
★ October 19: A car bomb explodes outside a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in Moscow, killing one person and wounding five.
★ October 22: A bomb kills three and wounds at least eleven in Bogotá. No claims are made for the attack.[124]
★ October 23: Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue three days later.
★ November 19: Colombian police deactivate a bomb left by ELN members in front of newspaper La Opinion in Cúcuta.[125]
★ November 21: Hamas orchestrates the Jerusalem bus 20 massacre. Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated on a crowded bus in central Jerusalem.
★ November 28: Kenyan hotel bombing.
★ December 9: A car bomb injures 50 in western Bogotá. Authorities blame FARC.
★ December 13: A package bomb injures 32 on the 30th floor of the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Bogotá. No groups claim responsibility.[126]
★ December 17: A bomb blast kills one and injures 20 in Neiva. The bomb was placed outside the building of the National Telecomunications Company, Telecom Colombia. Authorities suspect FARC is responsible for the attack.[126]
★ December 21: Kurnool train crash, Islamic extremists derail a train and kill 20 people in India.
★ December 27: The truck bombing of the Chechen parliament in Grozny kills 83 people.
2003
One of the compounds hit by the Riyadh Compound Bombings.
★ Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2003.
★ January 9: A car bomb explodes in Saravena, Arauca, killing four and injuring 14. Authorities blame ELN.[128]
★ January 16: A car bomb kills four and injures 27 at a shopping mall in Medellín. The attack is believed to be a retaliation of FARC for the arrest of 53 of its members in the preceding days.
★ February 7: 2003 El Nogal Club bombing. Car bomb kills 36 and injures more than 200 at the ''El Nogal'' social club in Bogotá, Colombia; FARC rebels are blamed but deny responsibility for the attack.
★ February 14: A bomb kills 18 and wounds 37 in Neiva, destroying 70 homes. Amongst the dead are the chief prosecutor in Neiva and the chief of police. FARC is blamed for the attack.[129]
★ March 4: Bomb attack in an airport in Davao kills 21.
★ March 5: A car bomb kills six and injures 68 in a covered parking lot in Cúcuta. Rebel group ELN is blamed for the attack.[130]
★ March 5: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 17 people and wounds 53 when he detonates a bomb hidden under his clothing in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
★ March 13: Serbian prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, assassinated by snipers.
★ March 23: SGT Hasan Akbar, USA, murdered two officers and wounded 14 soldiers in a grenade attack at an Army base in Iraq.
★ May 8: A bomb kills three in an attack against a water treatment plant in Cali. FARC is blamed.
★ May 12: Bombings of United States expatriate housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Al-Qaeda blamed.
★ May 12: A truck bomb attack on a government building in the Chechen town of Znamenskoye kills 59.
★ May 14: As many as 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern Chechnya.
★ May 16: Casablanca Attacks by twelve bombers on five "Western and Jewish" targets in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead and over 100 injured. Attack attributed to a Moroccan al-Qaeda-linked group.
★ July 5: 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow.
★ August 1: An explosion at the Russian hospital in Mozdok in North Ossetia kills at least 50 people and injures 76.
★ August 19: Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 22 people (including the top UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello) and wounds over 100.
★ August 19: Jerusalem bus 2 massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates himself on a crowded bus carrying mostly Orthodox Jewish Israelis, including many children returning from the Western Wall. 23 people are killed and over 130 wounded.
★ August 24: Six die and 28 are wounded when a bomb explodes in a riverboat in the town of Puerto Rico. Rebel group FARC is blamed.[131]
★ August 25: At least 48 people were killed and 150 injured in two blasts in south Mumbai - one near the Gateway of India at the other at the Zaveri Bazaar.
★ September 3: A bomb blast on a passenger train near Kislovodsk in southern Russia kills seven people and injures 90.
★ September 11: A bomb strapped to a horse kills eight and injures 15 in the village of Chita. The attack is blamed on FARC, as the same technique had been used in the past.[132]
★ October 4: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 21 and wounds 51 in a Haifa restaurant in the Maxim restaurant massacre.
★ September 29: A motorcycle packed with explosives kills ten and injures 54 in downtown Florencia, capital of Caquetá. Rebel group FARC is blamed.[133]
★ October 8: A car bomb kills six and injures eleven in downtown Bogotá. FARC is blamed.[134]
★ October 15: A bomb is detonated by Palestinians against a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip, killing three Americans.
★ November 15 and November 20: Truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 57 and wounding 700 in the 2003 Istanbul Bombings.
★ December 5: Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia
★ December 9: A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds at least eleven. (See Red Square Bombing)
2004
★ Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2004.
★ January 29: Jerusalem bus 19 massacre: Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades orchestrate a suicide bombing on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel killing eleven people and wounding more than 50.
★ February 6: Bomb on Moscow Metro kills 41.
★ February 27: Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116, the world's deadliest terrorist attack at sea to date.
★ March 2: Ashoura Massacre: Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500 during the Ashura.
★ March 2: Attack on procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan kills 43 and wounds 160. (See also: Ashoura Massacre in Iraq.)
★ March 9: Attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey.
★ March 11: Coordinated bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500. Al-Qaeda authorship.
★ March 24: Israeli soldiers arrest Hussam Abdo, a 15 year-old Palestinian boy with explosives strapped to his chest at the Hawara Checkpoint. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades sent Abdo on a suicide mission to bomb the checkpoint.
★ April 21: Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills five.
★ May 1: 2004 Yanbu attack kills six Westerners and a Saudi in Saudi Arabia.
★ May 2: Pregnant Israeli commuter Tali Hatuel and her four young children are gunned down at close range by militants from the Popular Resistance Committees and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
★ May 29: Al-Khobar massacres, in which Islamic militants kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.
★ July 24: A Uzbekistan, a suicide bomber detonates explosives at the US embassy in Tashkent, killing two Uzbek security guards.
★ August 4: A car bomb kills nine police officers in a rural area of southwestern Colombia. Rebel group FARC is blamed for the attack.[135]
★ August 24: Russian aircraft bombings kill 90.
★ August 28: Shahawar Matin Siraj and James Elshafay are arrested for planning to bomb the 34th Street–Herald Square subway station in New York City during the 2004 Republican National Convention.
★ August 31: A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills ten people and injures 33.
★ September 1 – 3: Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia, results in 344 dead, mostly children.
★ September 9: Jakarta embassy bombing, in which the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing 8 people.
★ October 7: Sinai bombings: Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 34 and wounding 171, many of them Israeli and other foreign tourists.
★ October 28: Two people killed, 38 injured by two explosions in southern Thailand.[136]
★ November 2: Theo Van Gogh is murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri in Amsterdam, Netherlands for his criticism of Islam.
★ December 6: Suspected al Qaeda-linked group attacks U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing five local employees.
★ December 12: A bombing at the Christmas market in General Santos, Philippines, kills 15.
2005
★ Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2005.
★ January 7: Explosion at a railroad crossing - no casualties. One Buddhist shot dead in southern Thailand.[136]
★ January 16: One person dead, over 50 others injured in an explosion in a commercial area in southern Thailand.[136]
★ February 14: A car bomb kills former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 20 others in Beirut. See also: 2005 Lebanon bombings.
★ February 17: Seven people dead, 40 injured by a car bomb outside a hotel in southern Thailand.[136]
★ February 22: A car bomb explodes in front of the offices of RCN TV, injuring two.[140]
★ February 25: A suicide bomber in Tel Aviv kills five Israelis and undermines a weeks-old truce between the two sides.
★ March 6: A Buddhist monk was killed by gunmen in southern Thailand.[136]
★ March 7: Two policemen and three unknown attackers were killed in a shootout with five gunmen disguised as veiled Muslim women at a police station in southern Thailand.[136]
★ March 15: One policeman was killed, three injured by bomb in southern Thailand.[136]
★ March 19: Car bomb attack on theatre in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and wounds twelve others.
★ March 19: 15 people, ten of them policemen, injured in two explosions. One of the bombs was detonated via a cellphone.[136]
★ March 26: One Buddhist dead, two injured, in two attacks by gunmen in southern Thailand.[136]
★ March 27: Two bombs used to stop an armoured train patrolling in southern Thailand, terrorists then fired on the policemen on the train. Approximately 20 policemen and some other passengers were wounded.[136]
★ April 3: 2005 Songkhla bombings: Two people killed (possibly five), 54 injured, by three explosions in Hat Yai -one at the airport, one at a hotel, and another at a department store.[136]
★ April: April 2005 terrorist attacks in Cairo – On April 7 a suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing three foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. In two further attacks on April 30, suspected accomplices detonate a bomb and spray a tourist coach with gunfire.
★ May 7: Multiple bomb explosions across Myanmar's former capital Yangon kill 19 and injures 160.
★ June 1: A suicide bomber blows up in a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing 20 people.
★ June 12: Bombs explode in the Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Tehran, leaving ten dead and 80 wounded days before the Iranian presidential election.
★ July 5: 2005 Terrorist attack on Ayodhya – Six terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba storm the Ayodhya Ram Janmbhomi complex in India. Before the terrorists could reach the main disputed site, they were shot down by Indian security forces. One devotee and two policemen were injured.
★ July 7: London bombings – Bombs explode on one double-decker bus and three London Underground trains, killing 56 people and injuring over 700, occurring on the first day of the 31st G8 Conference. The attacks are the first suicide bombings in Western Europe.
★ July 12: Islamic Jihad takes responsibility for a suicide bombing in Netanya, Israel, which kills five people at a shopping mall.
★ July 21: Attempted London bombings - Small explosions in three London Underground stations and one double-decker bus. This was pronounced as a "major incident" rather than an attack, and only minor injuries were reported. These four bombs were designed to cause as much damage as the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but the explosives had deteriorated and failed to detonate.
★ July 23: Sharm el-Sheikh bombings – Car bombs explode at tourist sites in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing at least 88 and wounding more than 100.
★ July 28: Jaunpur train bombing: 13 are killed when militants detonate a bomb on a commuter train in India.
★ August 4: Jewish settler in an IDF uniform opens fire on a bus in Shfaram, Israel, killing four Israeli Arabs and wounding five.
★ August 17: 17 August 2005 Bangladesh bombings: Around 100 homemade bombs explode in 58 different locations in Bangladesh, killing two and wounding 100.
★ October 1: A series of explosions occurs in resort areas of Jimabaran Beach and Kuta in Bali, Indonesia.
★ October 10: A car bomb injures nine people in Bogotá.
★ October 13: A large group of Chechen rebels launched coordinated attacks on Russian federal buildings, local police stations, and the airport in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria. At least 137 people, including 92 rebels, were killed.
★ October 15: Two bombs exploded at a shopping mall in Ahvaz, Khuzestan in Iran. Six people died and over 100 were injured.
★ October 24: Multiple car bombs explode outside the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 20. It is thought that the attacks were targeting journalists inside the Palestine Hotel and the Sheraton Ishtar.[148]
★ October 26: A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates a bomb near a falafel stand in Hadera, Israel that kills himself and six others. Twenty-six people were also wounded.[149]
★ October 29: Multiple bomb blasts hit markets in Delhi, India, leaving at least 61 dead and more than 200 injured.
★ October 29: In Poso, Central Sulawesi (Indonesia), four Christian schoolgirls aged 15 to 17 years on their way home from school were assaulted by six masked Muslim men who beheaded three of them, Theresia Morangke, Alfita Poliwo, and Yarni Sambue, with machetes and placed their severed heads in front of a church and a police station. The fourth girl, Noviana Malewa, survived but suffered serious machete wounds. The terrorists belong to the group Tanah Runtuh whose leader Hasanuddin confessed at his trial that the well-planned assault was inspired and financed by Guru Sanusi, a former Muslim rebel (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) from Mindanao.[150][151] Central Jakarta District Court sentenced two of the killers to 14 years in prison and mastermind Hasanuddin to 20 years.[152]
★ November 9: Three explosions at hotels in Amman, Jordan, leave at least 60 dead and 120 wounded.
★ December 5: A suicide bomb attack kills at least five people in Netanya in north-western Israel.
★ December 28: Two or more unidentified gunmen open fire at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, killing a retired professor of mathematics and wounding four others.
2006
★ 2006: Qassam rockets fired by Hamas into Israel, especially the cities of Ashkelon and Sderot, injures many citizens.
★ Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2006.
★ February 2: In a deliberate anti-Christian massacre muslim extremists killed at least five people on a farm in Patikul, a small town on Sulu Island near Jolo (Mindanao). After asking the residents if they were Christian, fearless Abu Sayyaf gunmen opened fire on 9-month old Melanie Patinga who was killed and a three-year old boy who was seriously wounded. Also killed were Emma (16) and Pedro Casipong, Itting Pontilla (45) and Selma Patinga.[153]
★ February 22: Al Askari Mosque bombing ignites sectarian strife in Iraq.
★ March 2: Bombing in Karachi, Pakistan kills four, including a U.S. diplomat.[154]
★ March 3: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
★ March 7: Bombings in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, India kill 28 and injures more than 100.
★ March 30: Palestinian suicide bomber kills himself and four others at Kedumim Junction in the West Bank.[155][156]
★ April 11: A suicide bomber explodes himself in Karachi, Pakistan, and kills 57 Sunni worshippers.[157]
★ April 17: Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing eleven people and injuring 70.
★ April 24: Bombings at three locations in Dahab, Egypt kill 20 Egyptians and three foreigners, and injure 62 others.
★ May 11: Six policemen die and twelve are injured when five bombs go off in a police academy in Quetta, Pakistan.[158]
★ June 15: The LTTE detonate two claymore mines targeting a bus carrying 140 civilians in Sri Lanka. 68 civilians, including ten children, three pregnant women and their unborns, are killed. Approximately 60 civilians are injured.
★ June 25: Eliyahu Asheri, an Israeli citizen, was kidnapped and murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).
★ July 9: 40 Sunni civilians are massacred by Shia militants in Baghdad, Iraq.
★ July 11: A series of explosions rock commuter trains in Mumbai, India, killing 209 and wounding another 714 civilians.
★ July 14: Suicide bomber in Karachi, Pakistan kills a Shiite Islamic cleric Allama Hasan Turabi and his nephew.
★ July 17: Explosions and gunmen kill 48 people in a market in Mahmoudiya, Iraq.[159]
★ July 18: Car bombing near a Shiite shrine in Kufa, Iraq kills 53 and injures 103.[160]
★ July 31: Two suitcase bombs are discovered in trains near the German towns of Dortmund and Koblenz, undetonated due to an assembly error. Video footage from Cologne train station, where the bombs were put on the trains, led to the arrest of two Lebanese students in Germany, Youssef al-Hajdib and Jihad Hamad, and subsequently of three suspected co-conspirators in Lebanon.[161] On 1 September 2006, Jörg Ziercke, head of the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Police), reports that the suspects saw the Muhammad cartoons as an "assault by the West on Islam" and the "initial spark" for the attack, originally planned to coincide with the 2006 Football World Cup in Germany.[162][163]
★ July 31: 16 soldiers die in an ambush in Tibu and a car bomb kills one and injures 22 in Bogotá. Both attacks are blamed on FARC.[164]
★ August 4: A suicide car bomber struck a market in Kandahar, Afghanistan killing 21 people.
★ August 4: A car bomb kills five outside a police station in Cali. The local government blames FARC.[165]
★ August 10: A major anti-terrorist operation disrupts an alleged bomb plot targeting multiple airplanes bound for the United States flying through Heathrow Airport, near London, UK.
★ August 13: Two grenades explode on a trolleybus in Tiraspol, Moldova, killing two people and injuring ten.[166]
★ August 16: A bomb exploded in a Hindu temple near Imphal, India, killing five and injuring nearly 50 other.[167]
★ August 20: Gunmen spray bullets on Shiites in Baghdad, killing 20 people and wounding more than 300.[168]
★ August 30: An Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV in the San Francisco Bay area.
★ September 8: At least two bomb blasts target a Muslim cemetery in the western town of Malegaon. The blasts kill 37 people and leave 125 others wounded.
★ September 12: Four attackers armed with grenades and machine guns attempt to storm the U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria. Three of the gunmen and one Syrian guard are killed during a battle between the attackers and Syrian security forces. One Syrian employee of the embassy and at least ten bystanders are wounded, among them, seven Syrian telephone company workers and a senior Chinese diplomat. Police recover a car laden with explosives and other IEDs. Syrian Ambassador to the United States Imad Moustapha announces that his government suspects a group called Jund al-Sham is responsible.[169] See Damascus terrorist attacks.
★ September 15: Four suicide bombers and a security guard are killed in early-morning attacks on the Safer refinery in Marib and the al-Dhabba terminal in Hadramout, Yemen. Although no group has claimed responsibility Islamic extremists are suspected. See the September 15 Yemen attacks page.
★ September 16: 2006 Hat Yai bombings: four people killed, 82 injured, by six bombs along the main commercial street of Hat Yai. The devices were placed approximately 500 meters apart, and were remotely set off every five minutes.[170]
★ September 18: Eleven people, including the presidents brother and six attackers, are killed in an assassination attempt on the Somalian president.[171] See 2006 Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed assassination attempt.
★ September 18: An LTTE suicide bomber rams a truck packed with explosives into convoy carrying unarmed Sri Lankan Navy personal going on leave, killing at least 92 sailors.[172]
★ September 30: A suicide bomber detonates his explosives outside the interior ministry in Kabul. The attack kills twelve and wounds over 40.[173]. This is one of three hundred and fifty attacks mostly suicide bombings that killed six hundred and sixty nine civilians in 2006 according to Human Rights Watch.[174]
★ October 19: A car bomb explodes in a military college in northern Bogotá, injuring five.[175]
★ October 28: A car bomb kills two and injures four outside a military base in Villavicencio, Meta. FARC is blamed.[176]
★ November 1: The Real IRA detonates a series of firebombs in a large hardware retailers, a sports store and toy shop all in [Belfast]], Northern Ireland; the hardware retailers and sports store were completely destroyed. No fatalities.[177]
★ November 20: A suspected terrorist bomb explodes on a train in India. See 2006 West Bengal train disaster.
★ November 21: Assassination of Pierre Amine Gemayel, an anti-Syrian politician and scion of Lebanon’s most prominent Christian family blamed on Syria, Iran and Hezbollah despite their denials.[178]
★ November 23: A series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City, Iraq kills at least 215 people and wounds a further 257. See Sadr City bombings for details.
★ November 24: Michael Stone, prevented from murdering members of the Sinn Féin political party.[179][180]
★ December 30: A bomb explodes at the Madrid airport, killing two Ecuadorians and injuring 26 people. The ETA a Basque terrorist group has claimed responsibility.
★ December 31: Eight bomb explosions in seven areas of Bangkok, Thailand's capital city, three people died, nearly 40 injured.
2007
★ January, February: 52 civilians killed in insurgent attacks in Afghanistan according to Human Rights Watch.[174]
★ January 05 2007 & January 06 2007: A suspected LTTE suicide bomber blows himself up aboard a bus and there is an explosion on another, during rush hour in Nittambuwa and Peraliya killing six and 16 civilians respectively. A further 100 are injured in the incidents.[182][183][184] See 2007 Sri Lankan bus bombs.
★ January 10: Three bombs kill six and injure twenty seven in the southern part of the Philippines. Muslim militants trying to disrupt ASEAN Summit suspected.[185]
★ January 12: Rocket causes minimal damage at the US Embassy in central Athens; police suspect spinoff of Greek left wing group November 17.[186]
★ January-February: 2007 United Kingdom letter bombs.
★ January 22: A bombing in a market in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 88 people and wounds 160 others.
★ January 26: A suicide bomber kills himself and a security guard trying to enter the Marriott hotel in Islamabad.[187]
★ January 27: A suicide bombing in Pakistan's north-west city of Peshawar kills at least 14 people, mostly policemen, and injures at least 30. Security forces had been on high alert ahead of the annual Shia festival of Ashoura.[188]
★ January 29: A suicide bombing in the Israeli resort city of Eilat kills three people. Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility.[189]
★ February 3: A truck bombing in a crowded Baghdad market kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339 others.[190] See 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing.
★ February 17: A suicide bomber kills 15 people, including a judge, inside a courtroom in Pakistan. The Taliban is suspected.
★ February 18: A car bomb in Mogadishu kills four people, the first such attack of the Islamist insurgency in Somalia (2007–present).[191]
★ February 19: Two bombs explode aboard the Samjhauta Express, a train headed toward Lahore, Pakistan, hour after it left New Delhi. 68 people died in the incident.[192]
★ February: 2007 chlorine bombings in Iraq.
★ March 1: Ten injured in a car bomb blast in Neiva, capital of Huila. Rebel group FARC is believed to be responsible. The action is believed to be an assassination attempt on Neiva's mayor.[193]
★ March 3: A bomb kills four police officers and one civilian in the city of Neiva, as they attempted to deactivate it.[193]
★ March 5: A Rikers Island inmate offered to pay an undercover police officer posing as a hit man to behead New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly and bomb police headquarters in retaliation for the controversial police shooting of Sean Bell. The suspect wanted the bombing to be considered a terrorist act.[195][196]
★ March 5: The Taliban kidnap Italian Journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo whilst beheading his driver. Mastrogiacomo was released March 19 after Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed to free five Taliban prisoners. His translator was left behind. On April 8, an Afghan government official confirmed the translator was killed.[197]
★ March 6: Two suicide bombers kill 114 Shiite pilgrims in Hilla, Iraq.
★ March 16: A bomb kills 16 and injures 16 in Buenaventura. Authorities blame FARC.[198]
★ March 22: A rocket or mortar lands within 100 yards of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in the Green Zone in Baghdad, in an apparent assassination attempt.
★ March 27: Two truck bombs kill 152 people and injure 347 in Tal Afar, Iraq. See 2007 Tal Afar bombings.
★ March 28: A bomb injures ten in a grocery store in Buenaventura. Authorities blame FARC.[199]
★ March 29: Two suicide bombers kill 79 people and injure 81 in a market in Baghdad.
★ In the two weeks prior to April 8, at least thirteen Afghans and two French aid workers have been kidnapped. Rebels have demanded further releases of their jailed associates in exchange for some of the hostages.[197]
★ April 9: A bomb used against a police headquarters in Cali kills one and injures 30. FARC are blamed.[201]
★ April 10: Three suicide bombers kill one police man and injure 23 people in Casablanca, Morocco.
★ April 11: Two suicide car bombs kill 33 people and injure 222 in Algiers, Algeria. Al-Qaeda takes responsibility. See 2007 Algiers bombings.
★ April 12: One suicide bomber kills eight people and injures 20 in the cafeteria of the Iraqi Parliament in the Green Zone in Baghdad.
★ April 12: A U.S. federal grand jury indicted Christopher Paul, 43, a U.S. citizen and resident of Columbus, Ohio on charges of joining al-Qaeda and conspiring to bomb European tourist resorts and U.S. government facilities and military bases overseas.[202]
★ April 14: A suicide car bomb kills 65 people and injure 100 in Karbala, Iraq.
★ April 14: Two suicide bombers explode near the American Language Center in Casablanca, Morocco. One person was injured.
★ April 16: Seung-Hui Cho kills 33 people including himself in the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst civilian shooting spree in United States history, and the worst case of mass murder in the United States since 9/11. (Note: this may be commonly considered a general massacre and thus included in the List of massacres, but there had been several hints of Cho's attempt to kill – an attempt to terrorize).
★ April 18: A series of explosions kill 198 people and injure 251 in Baghdad, Iraq. See 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings.
★ April 18: In Malatya, Turkey, hometown of Mehmet Ali Agca, three Christian men, one of them 45-year-old German father of three children Tilman Geske, were brutally murdered by at least four young men who already have confessed to the slayings. The assassins tortured their victims for hours before cutting their throats. An autopsy of the German victim found 156 stab wounds. Hurriyet newspaper quoted a suspect: "Let this be a lesson to enemies of our religion."[203][204][205]
★ April 25: The American International School in the Gaza Strip is stormed by a dozen gunman claiming to be members of al-Qaeda of Palestine who stole eight computers, planted explosives in adjoining buildings, doused the school with gasoline and set it ablaze.[206]
★ April 28: Saudi Arabia announced it has arrested one hundred and seventy two people in an Al Qaeda plot to attack oil facilities, military bases and public figures using civilian aircraft as suicide missiles.[207]
★ April 28: Interior minister Aftab Khan Sherpao of Pakistan suffers minor injuries, 28 are killed and 35 are injured, ten critically, in a suicide bombing after the minister had finished speaking.[208]
★ April 28: A car bomb kills 63 people and injures 70 in Karbala, Iraq.
★ May 6: A car bomb kills 35 people and injures 80 in Baghdad, Iraq.
★ May 6: In a bomb attack on an UN-run elementary school in the southern Gaza refugee camp of Rafah by Muslim extremists, one person, a bodyguard of a local Fatah politician, was killed and eight others, including two children, were injured. The attack happened during a sports festival that earlier had been denounced as un-Islamic by the extremists.[209]
★ May 7: 2007 Fort Dix attack plot. Six men inspired by jihadist videos arrested in the US, in a failed homegrown terrorism plot to kill US soldiers.
★ May 9: A roadside bomb kills nine police officers engaged in anti-narcotics operations. Attacked is blamed on FARC.[210]
★ May 10: A second roadside bomb kills ten soldiers while on patrol. Attack is blamed on FARC.[211]
★ May 12: In Izmir, Turkey, a bomb explosion on a market kills one person and injures 14 others, one day before a planned march of secular Turks to demonstrate against the Islamic-rooted government.[212]
★ May 13: A suicide truck bomb kills 50 people and injures 115 in Makhmur, Iraq.
★ May 15: A bomb explodes in a restaurant in Pakistan's north-west city of Peshawar. Up to 24 people are killed.
★ May 15, May 16: Hamas launches twenty eight rockets into an Israeli town injuring five. Despite Hamas claiming the motive was retaliation for Israeli violence, NBC News claims "likely it was an attempt to draw Israel into the fighting as a way of uniting the Palestinians against a common foe".[213]
★ May 18: 5-year-old Adril Watangao was killed and 37 other people were injured when a bomb, probably laid by Islamic extremists, exploded in the Weena bus terminal in Cotabato city, in the Mindanao region of southern Philippines.[214]
★ May 20: Two women, one of them pregnant, were stopped at the Erez Crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip while they were en route to commit suicide bombings in Tel Aviv and Netanya. Both women admitted to being members of Islamic Jihad.[215]
★ May 21: A Qassam rocket fired by Hamas hits a car in Sderot, killing 35-year-old Shir-El Friedman in the blast.[216]
★ May 22: A suicide bombing ripped through an Ankara shopping district Tuesday, killing at six people and wounding dozens more. See 2007 Ankara bombing.
★ May 25: Attack on Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad.
★ June 3: The Righteous Swords of Islam splash acid on women in the Gaza Strip who dress immodestly and threaten female employees of Palestine TV with beheading unless they dress more modestly.[217]
★ June 3: John F. Kennedy International Airport terror plot. Thwarted homegrown Islamist terrorism plot to destroy the fuel supply system for the airport located in New York City and cause a large amount of causalities by blowing up the connecting pipeline system that runs through densely populated neighborhoods.
★ June 3: A car-bomb suicide attack on the Prime Minister's house in Mogadishu kills six guards and injures 20, while PM Ali Mohamed Gedi survives his third assassination attempt unhurt.[218]
★ June 8: An explosion occurred outside of a tea shop in the city of Yala and killed one woman and wounded 28 other people.[219]
★ June 8: A bomb exploded on a bus as it was traveling through the town of Hub, in Balochistan province. Two passengers died and five suffered injuries.[220]
★ June 8: An improvised bomb exploded aboard a bus in a remote area of Cotabato. Ten people were injured.[221]
★ June 10: A bomb exploded outside of a clothing store in Istanbul and injured 14 people.[222]
★ June 11: A bomb exploded in a business district of Nairobi. The blast occurred outside of the Ambassador Hotel just a few blocks from the U.S. Embassy, the scene of a devastating bomb attack in 1998, and killed one person while injuring 37 others.[223]
★ June 13: Explosions occurred at the Askariya mosque in Samarra and destroyed the two minarets. No casualties were reported. The same mosque was the target of a February 2006 blast that damaged the building and destroyed its golden dome.[224]
★ June 14: A car bomb kills ten people in Beirut, Lebanon. Among the killed is the MP Walid Eido.[225]
★ June 14: Motihar police were able to defuse a bomb planted at the main gate of the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET). The bomb was the latest in a series targeting the area and was claimed by Jadid al Qaeda.[226]
★ June 19: A truck bomb blast on a square near a mosque killed 75 and wounded 204 people.
★ June 24: A suicide car bomb targeted and killed six members of Unifil near the border with Israel. Two others were also injured. The casualties were Spanish and Colombian nationals.[227]
★ June 29, June 30: 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, 2007 London car bombs, 2007 UK terrorist incidents. Car bomb plot suspected Al-Qaeda. At Glasgow Airport, a car rams into the main terminal causing minor injuries to five people and setting off blaze. Explosive device caught fire instead of detonating. In London's West End, an attempt to set off two car bombs by suspected cell phone triggers fail. One car is towed before device is discovered in an underground car park. Police link two incidents, and find suicide notes on two suspects in London incident.[228] Eight men arrested, one Glasgow suspect critically burned. One of the five men could be an associate of Dhiren Bharot, a high level Al-Qaeda operative. Authorities say London bombs could have caused "significant loss of life".[229][230] The two incidents have been linked, by police, to the same two people.[231]
★ June 29: Sri Lanka Navy personnel find a truck packed with over 1000 kg (2200 lbs) of high explosives in the eastern port city of Trincomalee. It is suspected the Tamil Tiger (LTTE) rebels were planning to use it to blow up a major civilian target in the area. Two weeks earlier, a similar explosive laden truck of the Tamil Tigers was detected close to Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka.[232]
★ July 2: Seven Spanish tourists and at least two Yemenis killed and another five wounded in suicide bombing attack at the Queen of Sheba temple in Marib[233]
★ Week ending July 21: More than one hundred and fifty killed in various incidents in retaliation for Pakistani Army assault on the Red Mosque. Attacks organized by Ayman Al-Zawahiri according to Pakistani and Taliban officials interviewed by Newsweek magazine.[234]
★ July 19: Taliban kidnap 23 South Korean church workers, killing two execution-style and dumping their bloodied bodies by the roadside. Two of the female hostages reported being repeatedly raped. On August 30, after negotiations between the parties, all the hostages have been released. An Afghan official involved in the negotiations told ABC News that South Korea paid the Taliban $950,000 or $50,000 a head to secure the their release a charge which was denied by South Korea.[235] However, Seoul has confirmed that it negotiated the withdrawal of its 200 noncombatant troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2007 in exchange for the release of the hostages. The South Korean government also agreed to prevent future missionaries from entering the country.[236]
★ August 14: A Moscow St. Petersburg train was derailed by an explosion half way between the two cities on the country's busiest rail route, leaving 60 injured with 30 hospitalized.[237]
★ August 14: The 2007 Qahtaniya bombings in northern Iraq kills at least 500 people.
★ August 25: Hyderabad bombings. Twin bombings kill at least 44 and injure 54 in Hyderabad. Two bombs are diffused and 19 others are found unexploded. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh state blamed Islamic militants with ties to Pakistan or Bangladesh saying the extremists want to foment tension between India's Hindu's and Muslims. Both Bangladesh and Pakistan have denied the accusations.
★ August 31: A car bomb kills four Russian policemen in Nazran.[238]
★ September 4: Two bomb blasts, one on a bus carrying government employees, killed at least 21 people and wounded 74 in Rawalpindi.[239]
★ September 4: Three men were arrested and more were being sought on suspicion of planning attacks that could potentially have been much larger than the London or Madrid bombings on the Frankfurt International Airport,the U.S. military base in Ramstein and pubs and schools frequented by Americans. The German Defense minister who said "there was an imminent threat". Two of the suspects were said to be connected to a German cell of Islamic Jihad with likely Al Qaeda ties. Two of the suspects were Muslim converts and had German citizenship while the third was Pakistan.[240] See German Terror Plot 9/07.[241]
★ September 4: Eight men with alleged links to leading senior Al Qaeda terrorists were arrested, the country's intelligence service said, claiming to have thwarted a bomb plot. The arrests occurred without incident in raids on eleven locations in and around Copenhagen. The suspects are of Afghan, Pakistani, Somali and Turkish origin.[242]
See also
★ List of terrorist incidents in the United Kingdom List of terrorist incidents in London 2007 UK terrorist incidents Chronology of Provisional IRA actions
★ Terrorist attacks attributed to the LTTE
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★ Terrorist organizations
★ List of assassinated persons
★ Aircraft hijacking
★ List of massacres
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203. Der Spiegel: ATTACK ON CHRISTIANS IN TURKEY: Three Killed at Bible Publishing Firm, April 18, 2007
204. CNN: Bible attack suspects detained, April 19, 2007
205. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:Bizarre Furcht vor Missionaren, April 19, 2007
206. Sonia Verma: Wary Return after Attack, ''Newsday.com'', April 26, 2007
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218. CNN: Somali prime minister survives bomb attack, June 3, 2007
219. Times of India: Bomb blast in southern Thailand kills one, wounds 28, June 9, 2007
220. Times of India: Bus bomb kills 2 passengers, wounds 5 in southwestern Pak, June 9, 2007
221. Anthony Vargas:Cotabato bomb blast hurts 10, ''Manila Times'', 9 June 2007
222. New York Times: Small Bomb Wounds 14 in Istanbul, June 10, 2007
223. IHT: Police questioning 3 suspects in connection with explosion in Kenyan capital, June 12, 2007,
224. Al Jazeera: Blasts at Iraq's Askariya shrine, June 13, 2007
225. New York Times: Anti-Syrian Lawmaker Killed in Lebanon Blast, June 14, 2007
226. Daily Star: Bomb planted by Jadid found in Rajshahi, June 15, 2007
227. Al Jazeera: Lebanon blast kills Unifil troops, June 24, 2007
228. CNN: UK terror police find suicide note about terror plot, July 4, 2007
229. BBC: Two car bombs found in West End, June 29, 2007
230. MSNBC and NBC News: U.K. police hunt for London car bomb plotters, June 30, 2007
231. Investigators: Scotland and London Bomb Attempts Linked to Same Two Men
232. Explosive-packed truck found in eastern Sri Lanka, navy says
233. BBC: Yemen bomb kills Spanish tourists, July 2, 2007
234. Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau: Al Qaeda Family Feud, ''Newsweek'', July 30th 2007
235. Afghans: Seoul Paid Hostage Ransom After Reported Taliban Rapes ABC News September 1, 2007
236. Radio Free Afghanistan: Taliban Release Last Korean Hostages, Vow To Abduct More Foreigners 31 August 2007
237. RIA Novosti: Russia's security chief urges tighter security after train crash, August 14, 2007
238. Car Bomb Kills 4 Police in Russia By ZURAB MARKHIYEV Associated Press Writer August 31, 2007
239. Pakistan bomb blasts kill 21, hurt dozens CNN September 4, 2007
240. David Mchugh: Germans arrest 3 for alleged terror plot, ''Associated Press'', September 5, 2007
241. Germany arrests 3 terror suspects, CNN, September 5, 2007
242. Jan M. Olsen: 8 Terror Suspects Arrested in Denmark, Associated Press, September 4, 2007
External links
★ U.S. National Counterterrorism Center's Worldwide Incidents Tracking System
★ MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
★ Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel since the Declaration of Principles (September 1993) to September 2000
★ US State Department's List of Significant Terrorist Incidents (1961 - 2003)
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★ Terrorism Time Line
★ History of Terrorism : Timeline of Terrorist Acts - Chronology
★ Thinkquest : Timeline of Terror
★ Time.com: A Timeline of Terrorism - Hits and Misses
★ Infoplease : Terrorist Attacks on Americans
★ Infoplease : Terrorist Attacks (within the United States or against Americans abroad)
★ Frontline : Terrorist Attacks on Americans
★ PBS FRONTLINE/New York Times "Al Qaeda's New Front" Chronology of significant plots uncovered in Europe both before and after 9/11. January 2005.
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