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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.

Contents 1 1800s 2 1900s-1940s 3 1950s 4 1960s 5 1970s 5.1 1970 5.2 1971 5.3 1972 5.4 1973 5.5 1974 5.6 1975 5.7 1976 5.8 1977 5.9 1978 5.10 1979 6 1980s 6.1 1980 6.2 1981 6.3 1982 6.4 1983 6.5 1984 6.6 1985 6.7 1986 6.8 1987 6.9 1988 6.10 1989 7 1990s 7.1 1990 7.2 1991 7.3 1992 7.4 1993 7.5 1994 7.6 1995 7.7 1996 7.8 1997 7.9 1998 7.10 1999 8 2000s 8.1 2000 8.2 2001 8.3 2002 8.4 2003 8.5 2004 8.6 2005 8.7 2006 8.8 2007 8.9 2008 9 See also 10 References 11 External links

[edit] 1800s

• Image:US flag 31 stars.svg Image:US flag 32 stars.svg Image:US flag 33 stars.svg 1856, 1858, 1859: raids by John Brown in his fight against slavery
• Image:US flag 34 stars.svg Image:US flag 35 stars.svg 1863: Morgan's Raid led by John Hunt Morgan
• Image:US flag 37 stars.svg 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.^[1]
• Image:Flag of New South Wales.svg 1868: Attempted assassination of Prince Alfred in Sydney, Australia
• Image:Flag of Canada-1868-Red.svg The Fenian Brotherhood attacked Canadian targets in order to bring pressure on Britain to withdraw from Ireland
• Image:US flag 38 stars.svg 1881, July 2: American President James Garfield is assassinated by religious fanatic Charles J. Guiteau.
• Image:Romanov Flag.svg 1881: Tzar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated by a People's Will (Narodnaya volya) terrorist.
• Image:US flag 38 stars.svg 1886: Bomb at Haymarket Square, Chicago during a labor rally kills twelve people.
• Image:Flag of Japan.svg 1891, May 11: Assassination attempt on Nicholas II of Russia by a Japanese police officer named Tsuda Sanzo.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 1894: Explosion at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London. The bomb goes off prematurely, killing only the bomber.
• Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg 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

[edit] 1900s-1940s

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1901, September 6: American President William McKinley is assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
• Image:Flag of Morocco.svg 1904, May 18: Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley kidnapped and ransomed by bandit Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli in Morocco.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg 1904, June 16: Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov is assassinated in Senate House in Helsinki by Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman.
• Image:Flag of Japan.svg 1909, October 26: Assassination of Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi by Korean independence activist An Jung-geun.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1910, October 1: A bomb at the Los Angeles Times newspaper building in Los Angeles, California, United States, killed 21 workers.
• Image:Austria-Hungary flag 1869-1918.svg 1914, June 28: Assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, precipitating World War I.
• Image:Flag of Australia.svg 1915, January 1: Battle of Broken Hill - Turkish nationalists shoot at civilians in the Australian town, killing six.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.^[2]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1920, September 16: Wall Street Bombing kills 38 people and wounds 300 others.
• Image:Flag of Bulgaria.svg 1925, April 16: St Nedelya Church assault kills 150 people, mostly high-ranked individuals, and wounds 500 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1927: The Ku Klux Klan launch a wave of political terror in Alabama.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of France.svg 1934, October 9: Assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou in Marseille by Ustashas and IMRO
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Palestine-Mandate-Ensign-1927-1948.svg 1946, July 22: Bombing of King David Hotel, the British Military HQ in Jerusalem, by the Zionist group Irgun, with 91 deaths - a mix of military and civilian. This was the first terrorist attack of the modern era in the Middle East.
• Image:Flag of India.svg 1948, January 30: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 1948, September 17: Assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator in Palestine, and his aide by Lehi

[edit] 1950s

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg During this and the next decade The Ku Klux Klan re-emerges. Some of the tactics used are lynching, cross burning and assassination.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1950, November 1: Puerto Rican nationalists fail to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
• Image:Flag of Sweden.svg 1952, August 22: Hurvamorden in Hurva, Sweden. Tore Hedin killed 7 people.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1954, March 1: U.S. Capitol shooting incident by Puerto Rican nationalists, wounding five Congressmen.
• Image:Flag of Indonesia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1955, August 28: Lynching of Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi.
• Image:Flag of Algeria.svg 1955, August: Members of the Algerian FLN massacre civilians in the town of Philippeville.
• Image:Flag of Algeria.svg 1956, September 30: The FLN sets off bombs at the office of Air France and elsewhere in Algiers.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1958, October 12: Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple Atlanta, Georgia suspicion done by white racists.

[edit] 1960s

• Image:Flag of Cuba.svg 1960, March 4: Possible bombing of the Belgian ammunition carrier La Coubre in the port of Habana, killing over 30 people
• Image:Flag of Oman.svg 1961, April 8: Omani terrorists blow up the passenger liner MV Dara, killing 238 people
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1963, November 22: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while riding in an open vehicle in Texas.
• Image:Flag of Cyprus.svg 1963: Bloody Christmas. The Greek Terror Groups EOKA attacked Turks on Christmas night, killing Thousands of people. Most famous frame is the 3 children and wife of Nihat Ilhan, a Turkish doctor lying in a bathtub filled with their blood. The lady tried to hide her children in the bathtub when she heard EOKA coming. However, that couldn't save them. The children and the lady were killed in the bathtub. There were 27 bullet holes in the bathtub. A few months later, the UNFCYP (united nations peacekeeping force in cyprus) was sent to the island (1964) and finally in 1967 the island was split into 2 with the Green Line by the UNFICYP commander.^[3]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of Ireland.svg 1966, March 8: A group of former IRA men planted a bomb that destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 1966: Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the IRA; on June 26 they commit three sectarian murders.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1966: NAACP leader Vernon Dahme assassinated by firebomb exploded by The Ku Klux Klan.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg 1966, September 22: A bazooka attack on the Cuban embassy in Ottawa is made.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg 1966, October 5: Anti-Castro forces bomb the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa.
• Image:Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1968, June 6: Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of Greece.svg 1968 December 26: Two Palestinian gunmen travel from Beirut to Athens, and attack an El Al jet there, killing one person
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg 1969, December 12: Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, killing 16 people.

[edit] 1970s

[edit] 1970

• Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg 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 terrorist group PFLP
• Image:Flag of Japan.svg, Image:Flag of South Korea.svg, Image:Flag of North Korea.svg March 31: Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by nine members of the Japanese Red Army group. 23 passengers were freed at Fukuoka Airport, mainly children or old aged. 108 passengers and all crew members with Red Army group left Fukuoka, bound for Gimpo Airport, near Seoul, South Korea. Three days after, Red Army group ask to be flown to North Korean capital Pyongyang, before leaving from Seoul, 103 passenger and crew hostages are freed, and nine Red Army group members surrendered to North Korean authorities.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg May 8: Avivim school bus attacks by Palestinian PLO members, killing nine children and three adults and crippling 19 children.

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg August 24: the Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was blown up resulting in one death
• Image:Flag of Jordan.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg October 5 – 17: October Crisis (Quebec): FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.

[edit] 1971

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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][8]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 31: A bomb explodes in the Post Office Tower in London causing extensive damage but no injuries. The "Kilburn Battalion" of the IRA claimed responsibility for the explosion.^[9]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg December 4: In the McGurk's Bar bombing, an Ulster Volunteer Force bomb in Belfast's North Queen Street kills 15 people.

[edit] 1972

• Image:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg January 26: Yugoslavian Airlines Flight 364 is brought down by an explosion. Officially a bomb was placed on the plane by Ustasa agents, but it's speculated that the plane was downed by two Czechoslovak SA-12 surface-to-air missiles because it has entered a restricted military area without permission. 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of Japan.svg February 19: A stand off between five Japanese United Red Army members and many Japanese police, riot controller begin taking the 31 years-old wife has hostarged lodge house at Karuizawa, Japan, where continue to ten days.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 22: The Official Irish Republican Army kills seven civilians in Aldershot after it bombs a British military barracks.
• Image:Flag of Japan.svg February 28: In Karuizawa, Japan, Japanese authority move to rescue hostarge, 640 minutes ago, 31 years-old wife has freed by rescue authority, however, occurred between satndoff five Japanese United Red Army and authority, where two policemen killed, 12 injured.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg April 4: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg May 30: Lod Airport Massacre by the Japanese Red Army terrorists, killing 26 and injuring 78.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg July 21: Bloody Friday nine are killed and 130 injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) sets off 22 bombs.
• Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg July 31: Claudy bombings; three car bombs are detonated in Claudy killing nine people. No group has claimed responsibility.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg Image:Flag of Germany.svg September 5: Black September kidnaps and kills eleven Israeli Olympic athletes and one German policeman in the Munich Massacre.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Image:Flag of Israel.svg September 19: The group Black September post a letter bomb to the Israeli embassy in London killing an Israeli diplomat.^[10]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg October 27: Police car bombing in Los Angeles claimed by Afro American Liberation Army.^[7]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.^{[citation needed]}
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1972 December 11: New York City. The VA-Cuba Forwarding Company is bombed. Cuban exile groups opposed to the government of Fidel Castro suspected.^{[citation needed]}
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg December 28: A Brooklyn, New York bartender is held for $12000 ransom by the Black Liberation Army.^[7]

[edit] 1973

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg
  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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of Sudan.svg March 1: Black September takes ten hostages (five of them diplomats) at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. Three western diplomats are killed.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg May 17: The IRA kills 5 British soldiers in a roadside bomb attack in Tullyvallen, Northern Ireland.^[11]
• Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg September 1: A man blows himself up inside Lenin Mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square. Two women standing next to him also died.^[12]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg September 10: The IRA set off bombs at Londons King's Cross Station and Euston Station injuring 21 people.^[13]
• Image:Flag of Austria.svg 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 Bruno Kreisky (Jewish himself) complies and allows the terrorists to evade to Libya.
• Image:Flag of France.svg December 14: The Algerian consulate in Marseilles was bombed by the anti-Arab Charles Martel Group. Four people were killed and another twenty were injured in the bombing.^[14]
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg December 17: Pan Am Flight 110: 30 passengers were killed when phosphorus bombs are thrown aboard the aircraft as it prepares for departure.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg December 20: Prime Minister Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by ETA.

[edit] 1974

• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Singapore.svg January 31: Laju incident: JRA–PFLP attack on a Shell facility in Singapore and the simultaneous seizure of the Japanese embassy in Kuwait.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 4: Twelve people (9 soldiers & 3 civilians) are killed by the IRA in the M62 Coach Bombing.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Ireland.svg 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'.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg June 17: The IRA plant a bomb which explodes at the Houses of Parliament, London, causing extensive damage and injuring eleven people.^[15]
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg August 4: Italicus Express train between Roma and Brennero explodes, killing twelve and injuring 44. Attributed to fascist group Ordine nero.
• Image:Flag of Japan.svg August 30: Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg September 8: TWA Flight 841: Bomb kills 88 on jetliner. Attributed to Abu Nidal and his terrorist organization.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg September 13: Basque ETA group bombs the "Rolando" cafeteria in Madrid and kills twelve people.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 5: Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves four off duty soldiers and a civilian dead and 44 injured.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 22: A bomb planted by the Provisional IRA explodes in London injuring three people.^[16]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg November 21: Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA kills 21, 182 people are injured.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.

[edit] 1975

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 24: FALN bomb the Fraunces Tavern, killing four and injuring more than 50.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 26: London police officer Stephen Tibble, 22, is shot dead as he chases an IRA gunman escaping from a bomb factory.
• Image:Flag of France.svg March 2: Air Algerie's office in Toulouse and Lyons were bombed by the Charles Martel Group. No one was killed or injured in either attack. ^[17]
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg April 19: FALN sets off four bombs within a forty minute period in Manhattan, New York injuring at least five people.
• Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Image:Flag of Germany.svg April 24: West German embassy siege. RAF occupies West Germany's embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, and blows up the building before surrendering to the Swedish police.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Image:Flag of Ireland.svg July 31: Three members of Ireland's popular Miami Showband killed in Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) gun attack in Co. Down.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg September 22: Sarah Jane Moore tries to assassinate United States President Ford in San Francisco,California. The attempt fails when a bystander grabs her arm and deflects the shot. Moore has stated the motive was to create chaos to bring "the winds of change" because the U.S. government had declared war on the left wing^[18][19][20].
• Image:Flag of Austria.svg December: 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.
• Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Greece.svg December 23: American CIA Station Chief Richard Welch was shot dead outside his home in Athens by Marxist terrorist group Revolutionary Organization 17 November. Welch's murder led to the passage of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, making it illegal to reveal the name of an agent who has a covert relationship with an American intelligence organization.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.

[edit] 1976

• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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
• Image:Flag of Djibouti.svg February 3: Somali Coast Liberation Front hijack a school bus in Djibouti, killing one girl.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg May 9: Far right gunmen (including Stefano Delle Chiaie) kill two left-wing Carlists in Montejurra.
• Image:Flag of Uganda.svg Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Image:Flag of Ireland.svg July 21: An IRA landmine kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the newly appointed British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, and his secretary Judith Cook.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg Image:Flag of Canada.svg Image:Flag of France.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg September 21: Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington by Chilean government.
• Image:Flag of Cuba.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of Indonesia.svg December 4: In the Netherlands, members of the RMS movement occupy the Indonesian diplomatic consulate in The Hague. One Indonesian official is killed.

[edit] 1977

• Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 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.^[12]
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg January 27: Atocha massacre in Spain. Far-right members kill five in a shooting.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg April 7: Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver were shot by two Red Army Faction members.
• Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg May 23: School hostage crisis in the Netherlands. RMS activists kept 105 children and five teachers hostage in a school in Smilde.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg June 11: Train hostage crisis 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.
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg July 30: Jürgen Ponto, then head of the Dresdner Bank, was shot and killed by the Red Army Faction in a failed kidnapping.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.^[23]
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg September 5: Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction. He was murdered by the Red Army Faction on October 19, 1977.
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg October 13: Lufthansa flight LH 181 was kidnapped by a group of four PFLP to Mogadishu it was freed by GSG 9 commando group.

[edit] 1978

• Image:Flag of Israel.svg Members of the Arab Revolutionary Council poison Israeli oranges with mercury, injuring at least twelve people and reducing exports by 40 percent.^[24]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 1978–1995: The Unabomber kills three and injures 29 in a string of anti-technology bombings.
• Image:Flag of Australia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 17: The IRA kill twelve people in the La Mon Restaurant Bombing.
• Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg March 11: Coastal Road massacre: Fatah gunmen killed several tourists and hijack a bus near Haifa; 37 Israelis on the bus are killed.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg March 16 – May 9: The Red Brigade kidnap Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and assassinate him 55 days later.

[edit] 1979

• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg 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
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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)
• Image:Flag of Norway.svg Image:Flag of the United States.svg Image:Flag of Israel.svg July: Norwegian police prevents terrorist attacks against the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Oslo, Norway.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg June 9: Puerto Rican nationalist organization FALN exploded a bomb outside of the Shubert Theatre in Chicago, injuring five people.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg July 29: Basque ETA members bomb two railway stations in Madrid, killing seven.
• Image:Flag of Ireland.svgImage:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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 tourist was accidentally fired upon by British forces and killed.
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg 2 November: Sunni militant group of 1,300 to 1,500 men seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca Saudi Arabia.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg November 15: American Airlines Flight 444 is attacked by the Unabomber - his bomb gives off large quantities of smoke but fails to detonate.

[edit] 1980s

[edit] 1980

• Image:Flag of Canada.svg January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of El Salvador.svg March 24: Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated by death squads in El Salvador.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg April 30: DRMLA start the Iranian Embassy Siege in London
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg August 2: Strage di Bologna: Terrorists of the far-right group NAR at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
• Image:Flag of France.svg 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.

[edit] 1981

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg May 16: One dead in an explosion in the toilets at the Pan Am terminal at New York's JFK airport. The bombing is claimed by the Puerto Rican Resistance Army.^[25]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg June 10: Eight IRA prisoners shoot their way out of the Crumlin Road Jail in Belfast, using 3 handguns they had smuggled in.
• Image:Flag of Austria.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Egypt.svg October 6: Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad.
• Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg October 20: Attack on a synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium, killing three and wounding sixty.

[edit] 1982

• Image:Flag of France.svg March 29: A bomb on board the Paris-Toulouse train kills five and injures 27 people. Carlos assumed to be responsible.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Turkey.svg August 7: A bomb is set off in Ankara airport, killing nine people and wounding 70. Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia claims responsibility.
• Image:Flag of France.svg August 9: Rue des Rosiers, Paris gunning and bombing of Goldenberg restaurant: six killed and 22 wounded - Fatah - the Revolutionary Council
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg August 11: A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, enroute from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg September 14: Assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel and twenty-five others in a car explosion at the Kataeb headquarters.
• Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg October 9: Attack with grenades and machine guns on the central synagogue in Rome, Italy. A child dies, ten people are injured.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg October 14: Direct Action bombs a Litton Industries factory.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg December 6: Ballykelly disco bombing in which Irish National Liberation Army kills seventeen soldiers and civilians in Northern Ireland.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg December 31: FALN a Puerto Rican separatist group explodes bombs outside of the 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, FBI Headquarters and a United States courthouse in Brooklyn. Three NYPD police officers are blinded with one officer losing both eyes. All 3 officers sustained other serious injuries trying to diffuse a second Federal Plaza bomb. ^[27],^[28]

[edit] 1983

• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg April 18: U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon kills 63.
• Image:Flag of France.svg July 15: Turkish airline counter in the Orly Airport is bombed, killing eight people and wounding over 50.Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia claims responsibility.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg September 23: Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
• Image:Flag of France.svg October 1: The Algerian pavilion at an international trade fair in Marseilles was bombed by the Charles Martel Group. One person was killed and twenty-six were injured. ^[29]
• Image:Flag of Myanmar.svg October 9: Rangoon bombing by North Koreans targets South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, killing 21 persons and injuring 48.
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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)
• Image:Flag of France.svg 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.

[edit] 1984

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.^[24] See also 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg March 7: three killed and nine injured in the bombing of a civilian bus in Ashdod.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg April 2: 48 people are wounded by a machine gun attack on a crowded shopping mall in Jerusalem.
• Image:Flag of Turkey.svg August 17: One soldier killed, 6 soldiers and 3 civilians wounded by the PKK attack to a gendarmeire outpost in Eruh, Siirt. This was the first paramiliter attack og PKK.
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg September 20: U.S. embassy annex bombed in Beirut killing 20.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 12: Brighton hotel bombing by the IRA: five are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.
• Image:Flag of India.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg 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.

[edit] 1985

• Image:Flag of France.svg February 23: Paris Marks & Spencer shop, one bomb, one dead, 18 wounded, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 28: IRA mortar attack kills nine police officers in Newry.
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg March 8: Car bomb explodes in Beirut, killing 80, injuring 175; allegedly planned and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.^[30]
• Image:Flag of France.svg March 9: Paris, Cinema Rivoli, 18 injured, pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah
• Image:Flag of Hezbollah.svg Image:Flag of Greece.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg April 25: Lord Justice Maurice Gibson and his wife Lady Cecily Gibson are assassinated by an IRA radio-controlled bomb in Killeen, South Armagh.
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg May 14: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam massacre 146 Sinhalese civilians in the Anuradhapura massacre.^[31] 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.
• Image:Flag of El Salvador.svg 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'
• Image:Flag of France.svgParty (PRTC) and its terrorist arm, the Mardoqueo Cruz Urban Commando (CMC)
• Image:Flag of India.svg Image:Flag of Canada.svg 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, most of them Canadian citizens, 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.
• Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg July 10: Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior bombed in Auckland harbour by operatives from the French foreign intelligence agency (DGSE), killing one person.
• Image:Flag of Denmark.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Egypt.svg and Image:Flag of Italy.svg October 7 – October 10: Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer is shot dead.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg October 11: Arab anti-discrimination group leader Alex Odeh is killed when a bomb explodes in his Santa Ana, California office.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Malta.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of France.svg December 7: Paris, Galeries Lafayette and Printemps shops, two bombs, 51 injured, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hizbollah
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg Image:Flag of Austria.svg December 27: Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks.
• Image:Flag of Nicaragua.svg Investigators associated with the WHO reported that U.S.-funded Contras repeatedly destroyed health-care facilities and murdered health-care workers in Nicaraqua.
• Image:Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg December 23 Amanzimtoti South Africa bombing by MK cadre Andrew Sibusiso Zondo, detonated in a rubbish bin at the Sanlam shopping centre. Five people died in the blast and more than forty were injured.

[edit] 1986

• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.^[32]
• Image:Flag of France.svg February 3: Paris, Claridge passage (Champs Élysées) seven injured, another bomb failed to explode in the Eiffel tower, pro-Iranian (Fouad Ali Saleh group)
• Image:Flag of France.svg February 4: Paris, Gibert book shop, seven injured, Fouad Ali Saleh
• Image:Flag of France.svg February 5: Paris, FNAC-sports, 15 injured
• Image:Flag of France.svg March 17: TGV Paris, nine injured
• Image:Flag of France.svg March 20: Paris, Galerie Point-Show bombed, two dead, 21 injured
• Image:Flag of Greece.svg April 2: TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; four passengers (all of them American), including an infant, are killed.
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg 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,^[33] while trying to kill Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, who survived the attack.
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg May 3: A bomb explodes aboard a Sri Lankan airliner in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 21 and injuring 40
• Image:Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg June 14: ANC bombs Why Not Restaurant and Magoo's Bar in Durban, South Africa, three people killed, 73 wounded.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg July 15: ETA Basque militant group bombs a Guardia Civil police truck, killing twelve.
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg September 5: Pan Am Flight 73, an American civilian airliner, is hijacked; 22 people die when plane is stormed in Karachi, Pakistan.
• Image:Flag of France.svg September 8: Paris town hall's post office bombed, one dead, 16 injured
• Image:Flag of France.svg September 12: Paris La Défense, Casino Supermarket's restaurant bombed, 43 injured
• Image:Flag of France.svg September 14: Paris, Pub Renault bombed, two dead, one injured
• Image:Flag of France.svg September 15: Paris, police headquarters bombed, one dead, 45 injured
• Image:Flag of France.svg September 17: Paris, Rue de Rennes a bomb explodes in the street, seven dead, 54 injured.
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg December 25: Iraqi Airways Flight 163 is hijacked. The pro-Iranian group "Islamic Jihad" claimed responsibility.
• Image:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg 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.

[edit] 1987

• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg April 21: Car bomb at bus terminal in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 110 people.^[34] This attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.
• Image:Flag of Greece.svg April 25: Bombing of Greek Air Force bus carrying American military personnel. A group called November 17 claims responsibility.^[35]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg June 6: The LTTE massacres 33 monks and their mentor, Chief Priest Ven. Hegoda Indrasara, at Aranthalawa in Eastern Sri Lanka.^[36]
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg November 8: Remembrance Day Bombing parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh by the IRA. Eleven are killed and 63 injured.
• Image:Flag of South Korea.svg November 29: KAL Flight 858 bombed by North Korea.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg December 11: Basque militant group ETA bomb a Guardia Civil police barracks in Zaragoza, killing eleven, 40 are injured.

[edit] 1988

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.^[37]
• Image:Flag of Gibraltar.svg March 6:An attempted attack on an army band by the Provisional IRA is foiled by the SAS.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg March 16: Michael Stone kills three mourners in a gun and grenade attack on an IRA funeral in Belfast.^[38]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg June: The IRA shoots down a British army helicopter in Northern Ireland^[39]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg June 15: Six British soldiers are killed by an IRA booby trap bomb attached to their vehicle in Market Square, Lisburn.
• Image:Flag of Greece.svg June 28: American diplomat, and defense naval attache Captain William Nordeen was assassinated by Marxist terrorist group Revolutionary Organization 17 November by a remote controlled car bomb in Athens.

• Image:Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg August 25: Planet Hollywood restaurant in Cape Town South Africa bombed killing 1 and injuring 26.^[40]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. 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.

[edit] 1989

• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg May 30: A bomb kills four and injures 37 on an assassination attempt against Miguel Maza Marquez head of the Colombian Secret Service.^[41]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg July 5: A car bomb kills six, including the governor of Antioquia, Antonio Roldan Betancur. No claim is made for the attack.^[42]
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg July 9: Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[43]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg August 31: A bomb in a bicycle cart injures 13 in Medellín.^[44]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg September 2: A bomb partially destroys the headquarters of El Espectador, a Colombian newspaper, leaving 84 wounded. Bomb is blamed on Pablo Escobar
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg September 4: A bomb detonates in front of the Intercontinental Hotel in Medellín.^[45]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg September 4: An unidentified man opens fire at the Medellín airport, killing one and wounding 14, before being gunned down by the police.^[46]
• Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[47]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg September 18: Three bombs explode in Cali killing one person.^[48]
• Image:Flag of France.svg September 19: Suitcase-bomb destroys UTA Flight UT-772 en route to Paris, killing all 171 passengers and crew. Libyan intelligence involved.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg September 21: The Medellín Cartel claims responsibility for the car bomb attack to the Colombian Liberal Party's offices in downtown Bogotá
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg September 22: Deal barracks bombing: Eleven Royal Marines bandsmen are killed and 22 injured when base in Deal, Kent, is bombed by the IRA.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg September 25: A bomb kills two and injures one at the Hilton hotel in Cartagena.^[49]
• Image:Flag of Greece.svg September 26: Liberal Greek politician Pavlos Bakoyannis who was well known for his broadcasts against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 on Deutsche Welle radio, was shot and killed in the front entrance of his office in by members of the Marxist terrorist group Revolutionary Organization 17 November.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg September 28: A bomb kills two at a suburban gas station in Bogotá. The dead are believed to be terrorists.^[50]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg September 29: A bomb injures one at the parking garage of the Intercontinental Hotel in Bogotá. The attack was blamed on the Medellín Cartel.^[51]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg October 8: A fire bomb kills seven and injures seven in a bus in Bogotá. The action is blamed on the Medellín Cartel.^[52]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[53]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg October 16: A car bomb against the Vanguardia Liberal newspaper kills four in Bucaramanga.^[54]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg October 18: A bomb explodes prematurely outside the Colombian Congress, injuring one.^[55]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg October 21: A car bomb in front of a hotel in Barranquilla leaves six injured.^[56]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg October 30: A bomb hidden beneath a bus kills five police officer and injures 15 more in Medellín. The drug lords are believed responsible.^[57]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg November 27: Avianca Flight 203 bombed over Colombia; 110 victims. Medellín drug cartel claimed responsibility.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg December 13: Two British soldiers are killed near Rosslea, County Fermanagh when an IRA unit burns them alive with a flamethrower.

[edit] 1990s

[edit] 1990

• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[58]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February: The IRA detonate a bomb at Leicester Army Recruiting Office. MP Keith Vaz suggests that the army may have planted the bomb.^[59]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 12: The IRA shoot down a British army helicopter in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, near the border with the Irish Republic.^[60]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[61]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[62]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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 commercial airliner.^[63]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg April 25: A bomb hidden in a dump truck kills six and injures at least 36 in Bogotá.^[64]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[65]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[66]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg May 16 The IRA detonate a bomb under a military minibus in London, killing Sgt Charles Chapman, and injuring four other soldiers.^[67]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg May 17: A bomb inside a shopping mall in Cartagena wounds 22. The Medellín Cartel is blamed.^[68]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg May 25: A suicide bomber detonates a car bomb when stopped by police, killing himself and three others in Medellín.^[69]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svgImage:Flag of Germany.svg June 1: A British Royal Artillery officer is assassinated by the IRA in Dortmund in West Germany.^[70]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[71]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg June 29: A car bomb kills 14 and injures 30 in Medellín. The Medellín Cartel is blamed by authorities.^[72]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg July 15: A round of terrorist attacks leaves 40 dead in Medellín. Another bomb exploded in Puerto Asís, killing six and injuring five.^[73]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg July 20: The IRA detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange causing damage to the building. Nobody was injured in the blast.^[74]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg July 30: Ian Gow MP killed by a car bomb planted by the IRA while at his home in Sussex.
• Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg August 10: A bus going from Tbilisi, Georgia to Agdam, Azerbaijan is blown up. Twenty people die and 33 are injured.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg PLF attack in the beaches on Tel Aviv.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg PLO attack on the US embassy.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[75]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg December 13: A remote control bomb kills seven police officer and injures 23 more in Medellín. Authorities blame the Medellín Cartel for the attack.^[76]

[edit] 1991

• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg January 6: A bomb kills three and wounds seven in La Dorada, Caldas. No group claims responsibility.^[77]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 7: The IRA launched a mortar shell into the back garden of 10 Downing Street, London. (See 10 Downing Street#Security)
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg February 16: The Medellín Cartel detonates a 440-pound car bomb near the Medellín bullring, killing 22 people, including 9 police officers.^[78]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg May 13: Nine police officers die while deactivating a bomb left behind by leftist guerillas.^[79]
• Image:Flag of India.svg 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.^[34] This is also the first time that the suicide vest is used by any terrorist group.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg May 29: Basque ETA terrorist group bombs the Guardia Civil police barracks in Vic (Barcelona), killing ten people.
• Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg July 12: Leftist groups bomb the runway at the Rafael Núñez International Airport in Cartagena.^[81]

[edit] 1992

• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg January 17: Eight Protestant British army contractors are killed by an IRA bomb on their way to work at an Army base near Omagh.
• Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg February 5: Three civilians were killed and 29 injured by East Turkestan Islamic Movement two bus bombs in Urumqi (see: 5 February 1992 Urumqi Bombings)
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 28 1992: A bomb explodes at London Bridge station injuring 29 people.
• Image:Flag of Argentina.svg March 17: Israeli Embassy bombing by "Islamic Jihad" in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 killed, 242 injured.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg April 5, 1992: The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq-supported religious right group.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg April 10 1992: The IRA detonate a lmassive bomb 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg September 1: Nine die, including a six-month old baby, and seven are injured when a bomb explodes in a suburb of Medellín.^[82]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg December 3: Ten police officers and four civilians die when a bomb planted by drug traffickers explode in Medellín.^[84]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg December 29: Two police officers and 50 civilians wounded when a car bomb explodes at a party in a suburban area of Medellín.^[85]

[edit] 1993

• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg January 30: A bomb kills 20 in downtown Bogotá. The attack is blamed on drug leader Pablo Escobar.^[87]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg February 11: A bomb kills 14 and injures 25 at an auto repair shop in Barrancabermeja.^[88]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of India.svg March 12: Mumbai car bombings in India leave 257 dead with 1,400 others injured.
• Image:Flag of India.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of India.svg March 19: A bomb exploded in the Calcutta's Sealdah rail terminus, killing one person and wounding a dozen others
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg April 15: A bomb kills 15 and wounds over 100 at the Centro 93 shopping mall in Bogotá. Authorities blame Pablo Escobar.^[91]
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg April 16: Hamas kill 2 in Mehola Junction bombing.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg March 20: IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children (See Warrington Bomb Attacks).
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg April 24: IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £1bn of damage.^[92] (See 1993 Bishopsgate bombing.)
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg 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.^[34]
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg May 27: A car-bomb placed by mafia in the neighbourhood of the Uffizi museum in Florence kills five people and wounds 40.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg June: Failed New York City landmark bomb plot, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg June 21: ETA Basque terrorist group bombs a military truck in Madrid, kills seven, 36 injured.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Italy.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 23: the Shankill Road bombing at a fish and chip shop on the Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast kills ten people, including two children.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg October 30: Seven people killed in the Rising Sun Bar massacre, when Loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters gunmen attack a bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry.

[edit] 1994

• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.^[93]
• Image:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg March 19: A handmade bomb explodes in Baku Metro in Baku, Azerbaijan, killing 14 and wounding 58.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg March 20: The IRA shoot down a British army Lynx Helicopter over a military barracks in Crossmaglen with a barrack buster mortar.
• Image:Flag of Japan.svg June 28: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg July 2: Andres Escobar was murdered by Humberto Muñoz.
• Image:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg July 3: A bomb explodes in Baku Metro, Azerbaijan, killing 13 and wounding 42.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg June 18: Six Catholic men shot dead by Loyalists in a pub in Loughinisland, Co Down.
• Image:Flag of Panama.svg July 19: Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is bombed, killing 21. Generally attributed to Hezbollah.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg July 26: Israeli Embassy Attack in London and a Jewish charity are car-bombed, wounding 20. Attributed by Britain, Argentina, and Israel to Hezbollah.
• Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg 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
• Image:Flag of France.svg December 24: Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by GIA members who planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn't succeed.

[edit] 1995

• Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg 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
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Japan.svg March 20: Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway by AUM Shinrikyo cultists kills twelve people and 5,510 injures.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Latvia.svg May 6: A synagogue is bombed by terrorists in Riga.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg June 11: Leftist group FARC claims responsibility for a bomb that kills 29 and injures 205 at a music concert in Medellín.^[94]
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg June 14—June 19: Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis, 105 civilians and 25 Russian troops were killed.
• Image:Flag of France.svg July—October: Bombings in France by a GIA unit led by Khaled Kelkal kill eight and injure more than 100.
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg November 13: Bombing of OPM-SANG building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills seven
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg November 19: Bombing of Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan kills 19.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg December 11: ETA Basque militant group bombs a military truck in Madrid, killing six civilians.

[edit] 1996

• Image:Flag of Russia.svg January: In Kizlyar, 350 Chechen militants took 3,000 hostages in a hospital. The attempt to free them kills 65 civilians and soldiers.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg January: Provisional Irish Republican Army plants a bomb that police defuse at the Canary Wharf towers in London.
• Image:Flag of Indonesia.svg January 9: The separatist Free Papua Movement kidnapped several Western and Indonesian scientists. In May, after weeks of failed negotiations, the Indonesian Army launched a rescue operation in which two hostages and six guerillas were killed.^[95]
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg January 31: LTTE carries out Central Bank Bombing in Sri Lanka kills 90 and wounds 1,400.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg February 9: IRA plants a bomb near the South Quay station, killing two people and causing over $1 billion worth of damage. (see 1996 Docklands bombing)
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg February 25 - March 4: A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within ten days.
• Image:Flag of Egypt.svg April 18: 18 people are killed when Islamist gunmen fire on the Europa hotel in Cairo.^[96]
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg 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.^[97]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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. Following the large number of bombings in major English cities and the huge monetary damage inflicted on the British State, it was decided to reopen peace negotiations with the IRA. A year later the Good Friday Agreement was signed securing a ceasefire which is still in place. (see Manchester bombing by IRA).
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg 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
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg July 24: LTTE plants bomb on commuter train in Sri Lanka kills 57.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing, killing one and wounding 111.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg August: Marina Roscha Synagogue in Moscow is bombed shortly after being rebuilt after a fire in 1993.
• Image:Flag of France.svg October 17:The Algerian Armed Islamic Group bombs an underground train injuring 28 people. ^[98]
• Image:Flag of Peru.svg 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.

[edit] 1997

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.^[99]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg February 27: A car bomb kills seven and injures 49 in the town of Apartadó, Chocó. No groups claim responsibility.^[100]
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg June 28: A bomb explodes on a train traveling from Moscow to Saint Petersburg, Russia, killing three and injuring seven.^[101]
• Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg February 25: Three bus bombs in Urumqi destroy the No. 2, 10, and 44 buses, killing nine people.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg June 17: Eight elite police officers die after a truck bomb explodes in Bogotá. Authorities say FARC is responsible for the attack.^[102]
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg October 4 LTTE attack in Columbo on Hilton Hotel and Parliament kills 17, 100 wounded. Running gun battle on streets with govt forces.
• Image:Flag of Egypt.svg November 17: Luxor Massacre – Islamist gunmen attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 and injuring 24 people, most of them European and Japanese holidaymakers.
• Image:Flag of Mexico.svg December 22: Acteal massacre – 46 killed while praying in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico. A paramilitary group associated with ex-president Salinas is held responsible.
• Image:Flag of Cuba.svg 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.

[edit] 1998

• Image:Flag of India.svg January: Wandhama Massacre - 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by Kashmiri militants in the city of Wandhama in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
• Image:Flag of Algeria.svg January 11: Sidi-Hamed massacre Between 120 and 400 people are killed when the Armed Islamic Group bombs a mosque in Haouche Sahraoui and opens fire on civilians in a cinema in Sidi Ahmen. ^[103]
• Image:Flag of India.svg February 14: 1998 Coimbatore bombings - Bombings by suspected Islamic Jihadi groups on an election rally in Indian city of Coimbatore kill about 60 people.
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg January 25: LTTE bombs the sacred Buddhist shrine Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy, Sri Lanka killing 17.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg January 29: The anti-abortion Army of God bombs a health clinic in Birmingham, Alabama killing a police officer and injuring a worker at the clinic.
• Image:Flag of Latvia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg May 13: A bomb blast destroys the outer wall of the Marina Roscha Synagogue in Moscow. The third time the building has been attacked.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[104]
• Image:Flag of Tanzania.svg Image:Flag of Kenya.svg Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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
• Image:Flag of Ireland.svg August 15: Omagh bombing by the Real IRA (an IRA splinter group) kills 29.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[105]

[edit] 1999

• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg January 3: Gunmen open fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people injuring 25.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg April: David Copeland's nail bomb attacks against ethnic minorities and gays in London kill three people and injure over 160.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg April 20: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill twelve 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 the perpetrators plan was to take the whole school down with two propane bombs and it also followed death threats on the website of Harris – an attempt to terrorize.)
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg April 26: An explosion inside an elevator at the Intourist hotel in Moscow injured eleven people.^[106]
• Image:Flag of France.svg June 18: The separatist Breton Revolutionary Army dynamites a tax office in Cintegabelle causing extensive damage. ^[107].
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg July 30: A car bomb kills nine and injures 38 at a military base in Medellín. Authorities blame leftist guerrillas for the attack.^[108]
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg August 31 – September 22: Russian Apartment Bombings kills about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War.
• Image:Flag of Jordan.svg 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
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg November 12: Seven die and dozens are injured when a bomb explodes in Bogotá. No claim for responsibility is made.^[109]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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
• Image:Flag of India.svg 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.

[edit] 2000s

[edit] 2000

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg German police foil Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot.
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg May: The Balochistan Liberation Army begins its attacks against government and military targets in Balochistan.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg March 15: A botched rocket attack by rebels against an army base left two dead and 14 injured near Medellín.^[110]
• Image:Flag of France.svg April 19:The Breton Revolutionary Army bombs a McDonalds in Dinan, killing a waitress. ^[111]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Greece.svg June 8: Stephen Saunders, a British Defense Attaché, was assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November in Athens.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg August 8: A bomb exploded at an underpass in Pushkin Square in Moscow, killing eleven people and wounding more than 90.^[112]
• Image:Flag of Latvia.svg August 17: Two bombs exploded in a shopping center in Riga, Latvia, injuring 35 people.^[113]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg October 8: A car bomb injures four near a military base in Cali. Rebel group ELN is blamed.^[114]
• Image:Flag of Yemen.svg Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.^[115]

• Image:Flag of Indonesia.svg December 24: Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings, terrorists blow up churches in Indonesia killing 17 and injuring more than 150 people.
• Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg December 30: Rizal Day Bombings, terrorists blow up LRts in Manila killing 22 and injuring more than 100 people.

[edit] 2001

• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg January 10: A car bomb wounds at least 50 in a shopping center parking lot in Medellín.^[116]
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people.
• Image:Flag of Serbia.svg February 18: Podujevo bus bombing, 13 Serbian civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Serbia, Kosovo by Albanian Terrorists..
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.^[117] (See 4 March 2001 BBC bombing)
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg March 24: Twenty people die and 93 are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg March 26: 10-months-old Israeli infant Shalhevet Pass is intentionally and fatally shot in the head by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg May 4: A car bomb kills four and injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali. No group claims the attack.^[118]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg May 6: The Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.^[119]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg May 17: A car bomb kills seven and injures at least 50 in a park in Medellín.^[120]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[121]
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[122]
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg August 3: The last (at time of writing) IRA bomb on mainland Britain explodes in Ealing, West London, injuring seven people.^[123] (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing)
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg August 9: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg August 23: In a series of attacks near Medellín, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims responsibility.^[124]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg August 23: At least 15 members of terrorist group ELN die when they explosives they were carrying detonate.^[125]

• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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 Capitol Building, crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers; by Al-Qaeda, being the most catastrophic terrorist event ever known.
• Image:Flag of France.svg September 13: Paris embassy attack plot foiled.
• Image:Flag of India.svg October 1: A car bomb explodes near the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly in Srinagar, India killing 35 people and injuring 40 more.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg October 17: Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloid.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of India.svg December 13: Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.

[edit] 2002

• Image:Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore embassies attack plot foiled.
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg January: Kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl by Pakistani terrorists.
• Image:Flag of India.svg January 22: Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on guards at the American Center in Kolkata, killing five people.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg January 25: A bomb kills a child and four police officers and injures 28 people in Bogotá. Rebel group FARC is blamed.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg January 30: A car bomb kills five and injures 40 in the city of Florencia in the state of Caquetá. No group claims responsibility.
• Image:Flag of Peru.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg March 27: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 and injures 140 during Passover festivities in a hotel in Netanya, Israel in the Passover massacre.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg March 31: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 15 and injures over 40 in Haifa, Israel, in the Matza restaurant massacre.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg April 7: Two bombs explode in the restaurant district of Villavicencio, killing twelve and injuring 70. FARC is the prime suspect for the attack.^[126]
• Image:Flag of Tunisia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg April 12: A rocket explodes near the studios of RCN TV in Bogotá.^[127]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg April 19: Two bombs, allegedly placed by FARC kill three and injure ten near Cartagena
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg May 8: May 8 Bus Attack in Karachi kills eleven Frenchmen and two Pakistanis.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg May 9: A bomb explosion in Kaspiisk in Dagestan kills at least 42 people and injures 130 or more during Victory Day festivities.
• Image:Flag of India.svg May 13: Twelve people are killed in the Jaunpur train crash in India, caused when Islamic extremists cut the rails.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg May 23: In the 2002 Pi Glilot bombing, disaster was averted when sprinklers put out a fire after a diesel truck was detonated in a gas depot. The bombing could have caused a chain reaction, killing thousands of people.
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg June 14: Car bomb at US Consulate in Karachi kills twelve.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg June 20: Car bomb in Riyadh kills Simon Veness, a British National
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg June 24: A grenade, allegedly thrown by FARC members, injures six police officers in Bogotá.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg July 28: A carbomb partially destroys government buildings in Cali. FARC is blamed for the attack. No casualties.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg August 7: Three round of mortars are fired against an Army base in Bogotá injuring six. FARC is blamed for the attack.^[128]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[128]
• Image:Flag of India.svg September 10: A train derailment in India kills 130 people in the Rafiganj rail disaster. Naxalite terrorism is suspected.
• Image:Flag of India.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Yemen.svg October 6: Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen.
• Image:Flag of Finland.svg October 11: Myyrmanni bombing in shopping mall at Vantaa, Finland. Killing seven and injuring 80.
• Image:Flag of Indonesia.svg October 12: Bali bombing of holidaymakers kills 202 people, mostly Western tourists and local Balinese hospitality staff.
• Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg October 17: Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines kill six and wounds about 150.
• Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg October 18: A bus bomb in Manila kills three people and wounds 22.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg October 19: A car bomb explodes outside a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in Moscow, killing one person and wounding five.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg October 22: A bomb kills three and wounds at least eleven in Bogotá. No claims are made for the attack.^[129]
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg October 23: Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue three days later.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg November 19: Colombian police deactivate a bomb left by ELN members in front of newspaper La Opinion in Cúcuta.^[130]
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Kenya.svg November 28: Kenyan hotel bombing.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg December 9: A car bomb injures 50 in western Bogotá. Authorities blame FARC.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg December 13: A package bomb injures 32 on the 30th floor of the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Bogotá. No groups claim responsibility.^[131]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg December 17: A bomb blast kills one and injures 20 in Neiva. The bomb was placed outside the building of the National Telecommunications Company, Telecom Colombia. Authorities suspect FARC is responsible for the attack.^[131]
• Image:Flag of India.svg December 21: Kurnool train crash, Islamic extremists derail a train and kill 20 people in India.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg December 27: The truck bombing of the Chechen parliament in Grozny kills 83 people.

[edit] 2003

• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2003.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg January 9: A car bomb explodes in Saravena, Arauca, killing four and injuring 14. Authorities blame ELN.^[132]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[133]
• Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg March 4: Bomb attack in an airport in Davao kills 21.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[134]
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Serbia.svg March 13: Serbian prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, assassinated by snipers.
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg March 23: SGT Hasan Akbar, USA, murdered two officers and wounded 14 soldiers in a grenade attack at an Army base in Iraq.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg May 8: A bomb kills three in an attack against a water treatment plant in Cali. FARC is blamed.
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg May 12: A truck bomb attack on a government building in the Chechen town of Znamenskoye kills 59.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg May 14: As many as 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern Chechnya.
• Image:Flag of Morocco.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg July 5: 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg August 1: An explosion at the Russian hospital in Mozdok in North Ossetia kills at least 50 people and injures 76.
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg August 19: Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 22 people (including the top UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello) and wounds over 100.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[135]
• Image:Flag of India.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg September 3: A bomb blast on a passenger train near Kislovodsk in southern Russia kills seven people and injures 90.
• Image:Flag of Sweden.svg September 11: Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh dies in the early morning of September 11, 2003, following a knife attack in Stockholm on the afternoon of September 10. Mijailo Mijailović is later arrested and sentenced for the assassination. Mijailović is said to have been greatly angered by Lindh's staunch support for the U.S.-led military campaign against Serbia.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[136]
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg October 4: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 21 and wounds 51 in a Haifa restaurant in the Maxim restaurant massacre.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg September 29: A motorcycle packed with explosives kills ten and injures 54 in downtown Florencia, capital of Caquetá. Rebel group FARC is blamed.^[137]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg October 8: A car bomb kills six and injures eleven in downtown Bogotá. FARC is blamed.^[138]
• Image:Flag of Palestine.svg October 15: A bomb is detonated by Palestinians against a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip, killing three Americans.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg November 15: A grenade attack from a motorcycle kills two and injures seventy in the Bogotá Beer Company, a popular pub in Bogotá. Two FARC members were captured.
• Image:Flag of Turkey.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg December 5: Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg December 9: A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds at least eleven. (See Red Square Bombing)

[edit] 2004

• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2004.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg February 6: Bomb on Moscow Metro kills 41.
• Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg February 27: Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116, the world's deadliest terrorist attack at sea to date.
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg March 2: Ashoura Massacre: Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500 during the Ashura.
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg March 2: Attack on procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan kills 43 and wounds 160. (See also: Ashoura Massacre in Iraq.)
• Image:Flag of Turkey.svg March 9: Attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey.
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg March 11: Coordinated bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500. Al-Qaeda authorship.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg April 21: Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills five.
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg May 1: 2004 Yanbu attack kills six Westerners and a Saudi in Saudi Arabia.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg May 29: Al-Khobar massacres, in which Islamic militants kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.
• Image:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg July 24: A Uzbekistan, a suicide bomber detonates explosives at the US embassy in Tashkent, killing two Uzbek security guards.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg August 4: A car bomb kills nine police officers in a rural area of southwestern Colombia. Rebel group FARC is blamed for the attack.^[139]
• Image:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg August 16: Al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for the bombings outside the restaurants in Dubai. 37 people including 4 Danish and 13 French were killed. The rest casualties were the local citizens. Estimated 200 were injured.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg August 24: Russian aircraft bombings kill 90.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg August 31: A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills ten people and injures 33.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg September 1 – 3: Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia, results in 344 dead, mostly children.
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg September 4: 4 people including a boy were killed in a blast near a McDonald's restaurant.
• Image:Flag of Indonesia.svg Image:Flag of Australia.svg September 9: Jakarta embassy bombing, in which the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing 8 people.
• Image:Flag of Egypt.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg October 28: Two people killed, 38 injured by two explosions in southern Thailand.^[140]
• Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg November 2: Theo Van Gogh is murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri in Amsterdam, Netherlands for his criticism of Islam.
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg December 6: Suspected al Qaeda-linked group attacks U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing five local employees.
• Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg December 12: A bombing at the Christmas market in General Santos, Philippines, kills 15.

[edit] 2005

• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2005.
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg January 7: Explosion at a railroad crossing - no casualties. One Buddhist shot dead in southern Thailand.^[140]
• Image:Flag of Indonesia.svg January 9: Blast in Sulawesi inside a church. Four killed and injuring over 30.
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg January 16: One person dead, over 50 others injured in an explosion in a commercial area in southern Thailand.^[140]
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg February 14: A car bomb kills former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 20 others in Beirut. See also: 2005 Lebanon bombings.
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg February 17: Seven people dead, 40 injured by a car bomb outside a hotel in southern Thailand.^[140]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg February 22: A car bomb explodes in front of the offices of RCN TV, injuring two.^[141]
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg February 25: A suicide bomber in Tel Aviv kills five Israelis and undermines a weeks-old truce between the two sides.
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg March 6: A Buddhist monk was killed by gunmen in southern Thailand.^[140]
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg 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.^[140]
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg March 15: One policeman was killed, three injured by bomb in southern Thailand.^[140]
• Image:Flag of Qatar.svg March 19: Car bomb attack on theatre in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and wounds twelve others.
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg March 19: 15 people, ten of them policemen, injured in two explosions. One of the bombs was detonated via a cellphone.^[140]
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg March 26: One Buddhist dead, two injured, in two attacks by gunmen in southern Thailand.^[140]
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg 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.^[140]
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg 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.^[140]
• Image:Flag of Egypt.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Myanmar.svg May 7: Multiple bomb explosions across Myanmar's former capital Yangon kill 19 and injures 160.
• Image:Flag of Afghanistan.svg June 1: A suicide bomber blows up in a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing 20 people.
• Image:Flag of Iran.svg June 12: Bombs explode in the Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Tehran, leaving ten dead and 80 wounded days before the Iranian presidential election.
• Image:Flag of India.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg July 12: Islamic Jihad takes responsibility for a suicide bombing in Netanya, Israel, which kills five people at a shopping mall.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Egypt.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of India.svg July 28: Jaunpur train bombing: 13 are killed when militants detonate a bomb on a commuter train in India.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg August 4: Jewish settler in an IDF uniform opens fire on a bus in Shfaram, Israel, killing four Israeli Arabs and wounding five.
• Image:Flag of Bangladesh.svg August 17: 17 August 2005 Bangladesh bombings: Around 100 homemade bombs explode in 58 different locations in Bangladesh, killing two and wounding 100.
• Image:Flag of Indonesia.svg October 1: A series of explosions occurs in resort areas of Jimabaran Beach and Kuta in Bali, Indonesia.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg October 10: A car bomb injures nine people in Bogotá.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Iran.svg October 15: Two bombs exploded at a shopping mall in Ahvaz, Khuzestan in Iran. Six people died and over 100 were injured.
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg 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.^[142]
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.^[143]
• Image:Flag of India.svg October 29: Multiple bomb blasts hit markets in Delhi, India, leaving at least 61 dead and more than 200 injured.
• Image:Flag of Indonesia.svg 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.^[144][145] Central Jakarta District Court sentenced two of the killers to 14 years in prison and mastermind Hasanuddin to 20 years.^[146] See: 2005 Indonesian beheadings of Christian girls
• Image:Flag of Jordan.svg November 9: Three explosions at hotels in Amman, Jordan, leave at least 60 dead and 120 wounded.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg December 5: A suicide bomb attack kills at least five people in Netanya in north-western Israel.
• Image:Flag of India.svg 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.

[edit] 2006

• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 2006: Qassam rockets fired by Hamas into Israel, especially the cities of Ashkelon and Sderot, injures many citizens.
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2006.
• Image:Flag of Syria.svg February 1: Three blasts at the South Korean Embassy in Damascus by Muslim extremists linked to al-Qaeda. 23 people were killed including 7 Korean.
• Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg 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, 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.^[147]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg February 22: Al Askari Mosque bombing ignites sectarian strife in Iraq.
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg March 2: Bombing in Karachi, Pakistan kills four, including a U.S. diplomat.^[148]
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg March 2: The battle escalated between Lebanese security guard and several gunmen when the attackers attempt to attack the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. One Lebanese guard, one bystanders, and four attackers were killed. According to the captives, they were Christians that angry on the Muslim protesters tourched a church in the retaliation to the Danish cartoon controversy.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of India.svg March 7: Bombings in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, India kill 28 and injures more than 100.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg March 30: Palestinian suicide bomber kills himself and four others at Kedumim Junction in the West Bank.^[149][150]
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg April 11: A suicide bomber explodes himself in Karachi, Pakistan, and kills 57 Sunni worshippers.^[151]
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg April 17: Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing eleven people and injuring 70.
• Image:Flag of Egypt.svg April 24: Bombings at three locations in Dahab, Egypt kill 20 Egyptians and three foreigners, and injure 62 others.
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg May 11: Six policemen die and twelve are injured when five bombs go off in a police academy in Quetta, Pakistan.^[152]
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg 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.

• Image:Flag of Israel.svg June 25: Eliyahu Asheri, an Israeli citizen, was kidnapped and murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg July 3: 67 people including 23 American and 2 Japanese were killed when a car bomb attack by a pro-Taliban group on a church in Rawalpindi. According to the police, the attack was believed in the order by local Sunni cleric that view the local Christian as the allies of the Western crusader on Muslim.
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg July 9: 40 Sunni civilians are massacred by Shia militants in Baghdad, Iraq.
• Image:Flag of India.svg July 11: A series of explosions rock commuter trains in Mumbai, India, killing 209 and wounding another 714 civilians.
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg July 14: Suicide bomber in Karachi, Pakistan kills a Shiite Islamic cleric Allama Hasan Turabi and his nephew.
• Image:Flag of Libya.svg July 15: Suicide bomber in Tripoli kills a dozen Christian inside a church. According to the police, the target was the priest.
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg July 17: Explosions and gunmen kill 48 people in a market in Mahmoudiya, Iraq.^[153]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg July 18: Car bombing near a Shiite shrine in Kufa, Iraq kills 53 and injures 103.^[154]
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg 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.^[155] 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.^[156][157]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[158]
• Image:Flag of Afghanistan.svg August 4: A suicide car bomber struck a market in Kandahar, Afghanistan killing 21 people.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg August 4: A car bomb kills five outside a police station in Cali. The local government blames FARC.^[159]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Image:Flag of the United States.svg August 10: A major anti-terrorist operation by British Police disrupts an alleged bomb plot targeting multiple airplanes bound for the United States flying through Heathrow Airport, near London, UK.
• Image:Flag of Moldova.svg August 13: Two grenades explode on a trolleybus in Tiraspol, Moldova, killing two people and injuring ten.^[160]
• Image:Flag of India.svg August 16: A bomb exploded in a Hindu temple near Imphal, India, killing five and injuring nearly 50 other.^[161]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg August 20: Gunmen spray bullets on Shiites in Baghdad, killing 20 people and wounding more than 300.^[162]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg August 30: An Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV in the San Francisco Bay area.
• Image:Flag of India.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Syria.svg 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.^[163] See Damascus terrorist attacks.
• Image:Flag of Yemen.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg 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.^[164]
• Image:Flag of Somalia.svg September 18: Eleven people, including the presidents brother and six attackers, are killed in an assassination attempt on the Somalian president.^[165] See 2006 Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed assassination attempt.
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg 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.^[166]
• Image:Flag of Norway.svg September 19: A Muslim extremist fire with an automatic weapon on a synagoge in Oslo. On August 31, 2007, the trial against Arfan Bhatti (29), of Pakistani origin, and two others (one Norwegian and one of Turkish origin) begun, accused for the responsibility for the attack and for plots to attack the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Oslo. ^[167][168]
• Image:Flag of Afghanistan.svg September 30: A suicide bomber detonates his explosives outside the interior ministry in Kabul. The attack kills twelve and wounds over 40.^[169] 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.^[170]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg October 19: A car bomb explodes in a military college in northern Bogotá, injuring five.^[171]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg October 28: A car bomb kills two and injures four outside a military base in Villavicencio, Meta. FARC is blamed.^[172]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.^[173]
• Image:Flag of India.svg November 20: A suspected terrorist bomb explodes on a train in India. See 2006 West Bengal train disaster.
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg 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.^[174]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg November 24: Michael Stone, prevented from murdering members of the Sinn Féin political party.^[175][176]
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg December 31: Eight bomb explosions in seven areas of Bangkok, Thailand's capital city, three people died, nearly 40 injured.

[edit] 2007

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
January 5	6	30	Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka, Nittambuwa. A bus was bombed. The government blamed Tamil Tiger, who denied it.[177][178] See 2007 Sri Lankan bus bombs.
January 6	15	~24	Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka, near the tourist resort of Hikkaduwa. A bus was bombed. The government blamed Tamil Tiger, who denied it.[178]
January 10	6	34	Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines, General Santos City, Kidapawan City, Cotabato City. Three bombs detonated, muslim militants trying to disrupt ASEAN Summit suspected.[179]
January 12	0	0	Image:Flag of Greece.svg Greece, Image:Flag of the United States.svg US Embassy in central Athens. Rocket causes minimal damage, police suspect spinoff of Greek left wing group November 17.[180]
January 22	~131	~186	Image:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq, Haraj market in Baghdad, Khalis market near Baquba, west Baghdad, south Baghdad, Baghdad. See 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings.[181]
January 26	1	~5	Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan, the Marriott hotel in Islamabad. A suicide bomber kills himself and a security guard trying to enter.[182]
January 27	~14	~30	Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan, Peshawar. A suicide bombing before a Shia religious procession started.[183]
January 29	3		Image:Flag of Israel.svg Israel, Eilat. Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility for a suicide bombing.[184]
February 3	~135	305	Image:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq, Baghdad, al-Sadriya district market. Truck bombing. See 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing.[185]
February 17	15	~24	Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan, Quetta. A suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a courtroom.[186]
February 18	~4		Image:Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia, Mogadishu. A car bomb, the first such attack of the Islamist insurgency in Somalia (2007–present).[187]
February 19	68	~49	Image:Flag of India.svg India, Samjhauta Express, a train headed toward Lahore an hour after it left New Delhi. Two bombs explode. See 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings.[188][189]

• Image:Flag of Afghanistan.svg January – February: 52 civilians killed in insurgent attacks in Afghanistan according to Human Rights Watch.^[170]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg January-February: 2007 United Kingdom letter bombs.
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg February: 2007 chlorine bombings in Iraq.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg 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.^[190]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg March 3: A bomb kills four police officers and one civilian in the city of Neiva, as they attempted to deactivate it.^[190]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.^[191][192]
• Image:Flag of Afghanistan.svg 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.^[193]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg March 6: Two suicide bombers kill 114 Shiite pilgrims in Hilla, Iraq.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg March 16: A bomb kills 16 and injures 16 in Buenaventura. Authorities blame FARC.^[194]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg March 27: Two truck bombs kill 152 people and injure 347 in Tal Afar, Iraq. See 2007 Tal Afar bombings.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg March 28: A bomb injures ten in a grocery store in Buenaventura. Authorities blame FARC.^[194]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg March 29: Two suicide bombers kill 79 people and injure 81 in a market in Baghdad.
• Image:Flag of Afghanistan.svg 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.^[193]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg April 9: A bomb used against a police headquarters in Cali kills one and injures 30. FARC are blamed.^[195]
• Image:Flag of Morocco.svg April 10: Three suicide bombers kill one police man and injure 23 people in Casablanca, Morocco.
• Image:Flag of Algeria.svg April 11: Two suicide car bombs kill 33 people and injure 222 in Algiers, Algeria. Al-Qaeda takes responsibility. See 2007 Algiers bombings.
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg April 12: One suicide bomber kills eight people and injures 20 in the cafeteria of the Iraqi Parliament in the Green Zone in Baghdad.
• Image:Flag of Europe.svg 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.^[196]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg April 14: A suicide car bomb kills 65 people and injure 100 in Karbala, Iraq.
• Image:Flag of Morocco.svg April 14: Two suicide bombers explode near the American Language Center in Casablanca, Morocco. One person was injured.
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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 including a manifesto tape to NBC News descrbing his motives – an attempt to terrorize).
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg April 18: A series of explosions kill 198 people and injure 251 in Baghdad, Iraq. See 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings.
• Image:Flag of Turkey.svg 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."^{[197][198][199]}
• Image:Flag of Palestine.svg 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.^[200]
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg 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.^[201]
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg 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.^[202]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg April 28: A car bomb kills 63 people and injures 70 in Karbala, Iraq.
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg May 6: A car bomb kills 35 people and injures 80 in Baghdad, Iraq.
• Image:Flag of Palestine.svg 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.^[203]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg May 9: A roadside bomb kills nine police officers engaged in anti-narcotics operations. Attacked is blamed on FARC.^[204]
• Image:Flag of Colombia.svg May 10: A second roadside bomb kills ten soldiers while on patrol. Attack is blamed on FARC.^[205]
• Image:Flag of Turkey.svg 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.^[206]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg May 13: A suicide truck bomb kills 50 people and injures 115 in Makhmur, Iraq.
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg May 15: A bomb explodes in a restaurant in Pakistan's north-west city of Peshawar. Up to 24 people are killed.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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".^[207]
• Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg 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.^[208]
• Image:Flag of India.svg May 18: Attack on Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad. For details see 18 May 2007 Mecca Masjid bombing.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg 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.^[209]
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg May 21: A Qassam rocket fired by Hamas hits a car in Sderot, killing 35-year-old Shir-El Friedman in the blast.^[210]
• Image:Flag of Turkey.svg May 22: A suicide bombing ripped through an Ankara shopping district Tuesday, killing at six people and wounding dozens more. See 2007 Ankara bombing.
• Image:Flag of Canada.svg June 2-3: Canadian police raids capture 17 conspirators (an 18th captured later) planning to bomb multiple targets including Parliament, and to behead the Prime Minister.^[211]
• Image:Flag of Palestine.svg June 3: The Righteous Swords of Islam splash acid on allegedly immodestly dressed women in the Gaza Strip and threaten female employees of Palestine TV with beheading unless they dress more modestly.^[212]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg June 3: 2007 John F. Kennedy International Airport attack 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 casualties by blowing up the connecting pipeline system that runs through densely populated neighborhoods.
• Image:Flag of Somalia.svg 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.^[213]
• Image:Flag of Thailand.svg June 8: An explosion occurred outside of a tea shop in the city of Yala and killed one woman and wounded 28 other people.^[214]
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg 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.^[215]
• Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg June 8: An improvised bomb exploded aboard a bus in a remote area of Cotabato. Ten people were injured.^[216]
• Image:Flag of Turkey.svg June 10: A bomb exploded outside of a clothing store in Istanbul and injured 14 people.^[217]
• Image:Flag of Kenya.svg 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.^[218]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg 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.^[219]
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg June 14: A car bomb kills ten people in Beirut, Lebanon. Among the killed is the MP Walid Eido.^[220]
• Image:Flag of Bangladesh.svg 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.^[221]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg June 19: A truck bomb blast on a square near a mosque killed 75 and wounded 204 people.
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg 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.^[222]
• Image:Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg June 29: Four people are dead and ten are injured by three launched rockets and fired AK-47s in an assassination attempt on prime minister Guillaume Soro.^[223]
• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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.^[224] 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".^[225][226] The two incidents have been linked, by police, to the same two people.^[227]
• Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg 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.^[228]
• Image:Flag of Yemen.svg 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.^[229]
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg 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.^[230]
• Image:Flag of Afghanistan.svg 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.^[231] 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.^[232]
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg 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.^[233]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg August 14: The 2007 Qahtaniya bombings in northern Iraq kills at least 500 people.
• Image:Flag of India.svg 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.
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg August 31: A car bomb kills four Russian policemen in Nazran.^[234]
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg September 4: Two bomb blasts, one on a bus carrying government employees, killed at least 21 people and wounded 74 in Rawalpindi.^[235]
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg 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 Pakistani.^[236] See Alleged 2007 bomb plot in Germany.^[237]
• Image:Flag of Denmark.svg 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.^[238]
• Image:Flag of Algeria.svg September 6: A bombing targets President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's motorcade.^[239]
• Image:Flag of Mexico.svg July, September 10: Mexican gas and oil pipelines were attacked in six places causing explosions, fires and gas leaks that forced the evacuation of thousands of people and closed hundreds of factories in ten states for up to a week. Two women in their 70s who lived nearby died of heart attacks afterward. The bombers filled fire extinguishers with a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, then detonated them with plastic explosives wired to digital watches and batteries. Popular Revolutionary Army, a Marxist guerrilla group, are blamed for these attacks and at least 88 kidnappings that have forced the payment of millions of dollars in ransom.^[240][241]
• Image:Flag of Maldives.svg September 29: A bomb explodes in the Maldivian capital, Malé, injuring twelve foreign tourists.
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg October 1: In the town of Bannu in northwestern Pakistan, a male suicide bomber disguised as a woman and wearing a burqa, set off a blast that killed at least 15 people and injured 22 others.^[242]
• Image:Flag of Afghanistan.svg October 2: In Kabul, a suicide bomber wearing a pakul and a chador blew up a police bus killing 13 officers and civilians on a day that a U.N. report found that while 76 percent of all suicide bombings during 2007 in the country have targeted international and Afghan security forces, 143 civilians were killed by those bombs through August.^[243]
• Image:Flag of Austria.svg October 2: Two Bosnians are arrested in an apparent plot to bomb the United States embassy in Vienna. One was arrested after his bag packed with explosives and several handfuls of nails and screws set off a metal detector at the entrance to the embassy. He was also carrying a Muslim prayer manual. He fled on foot but was captured a short distance away after tossing the backpack into the street. It did not explode, and no one was injured.^[244]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg October 3: The Polish ambassador to Iraq General Edward Pietrzyk was injured in an assassination attempt in Baghdad. His convoy was hit by three bombs and was then fired upon. The diplomat had a leg wound and suffered burns in the attack and was evacuated from the scene via a Blackwater helicopter. The attacks killed three in his entourage and two Iraqi civilians and wounded eleven Iraqi civilians.^[245]
• Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg October 14: In a suicide attack on a police station of the Amsterdam district Slotervaart, Bilal Bajaka, a 22-year-old Amsterdammer of Moroccan origin severely injured two Dutch police officers by stabbing them eight times before he was shot dead by an injured policewoman. Bajaka was in contact with the Hofstad terrorist group and had been visited by Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of Theo van Gogh (film director). According to media reports, Bajaka's brother Abdullah was investigated in 2005 for planning a terrorist attack on an El-Al Boeing at Schiphol airport. On the day after Bajaka's death, a group of youths threw stones at a Slotervaart police station and set cars on fire.^{[246][247][248][249][250]}
• Image:Flag of India.svg October 14: A bomb explodes in the Shingar Cinema in Ludhiana, killing at least six people and wounding 20, police say.^{[citation needed]}
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg October 18: 2007 Karachi bombings. Twin suicide bombings occur in Karachi near a truck carrying former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto through a crowded street of supporters eight hours after her return from exile despite 20,000 security officers assigned to protect her. At least 136 were killed and 387 were wounded. Bhutto escaped unharmed. The Taliban or Al Qaeda are suspected.^[251][252]
• Image:Flag of Turkey.svg October 21: PKK staged an attack to Turkish outpost in Hakkari. The attack wounded 16 and killed twelve Turkish soldiers carried out of northern Iraq. Also eight soldiers were kidnapped.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg October 24: An off-duty Israeli Defense Force soldier was badly injured and a civilian was slightly injured in a shooting attack on the Trans-Samaria road near the entrance to Ariel. Responsibility for the shooting was claimed by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.^[253]
• Image:Flag of the United States.svg October 26: A pair of improvised explosive devices were thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black powder and detonated by fuses causing very minor damage. Police were investigating the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005.^[254]
• Image:Flag of Afghanistan.svg November 6: A bomb exploded outside a sugar factory in the northern part of the country killing at least 80 people including members of the Afghan parliament according to officials.^[255]
• Image:Flag of Finland.svg November 7: Jokela school shooting. Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a gunman, kills seven students, the principal and the school nurse at the school located in Tuusula and also injured ten before committing suicide. Auvinen on varous web postings and videos said he was a Social Darwinist and a believer in natural selection. Auvinen wrote, "This is my war: one man's war against humanity, governments and weak-minded masses of the world".^[256]
• Image:Flag of the Philippines.svg November 13: An explosion in the Philippine House of Representatives kills two people, including a congressman, and wounds nine others.^[257]
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg November 19: IDF Soldiers shoot and kill three terrorists attempting to climb the Gaza security fence near Israeli community Netiv Ha'asara. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the infiltration attempt. An organization spokesman said, "It was planned to be a suicide attack".^[258]
• Image:Flag of India.svg November 23: Uttar Pradesh serial blasts Near-simultaneous blasts triggered by militants in court premises in Varanasi, Faizabad and the state capital kills 15 people, and injures over 80.^[259]
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg November 23: A bomb goes off on a bus, which was travelling from Vladikavkaz, in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia, to the neighboring city of Pyatigorsk. Five people were killed and another 13 were injured.^[260]
• Image:Flag of France.svg December 6: A parcel bomb explodes in Paris, France and kills one, seriously injuring another, and injuring several other people.^[261]
• Image:Flag of Algeria.svg December 11: Bombings in Algiers kills 37 or more people and injures 177 people.^[262]
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg December 12: A car bomb kills Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj, a top candidate to head Lebanon's military, his driver, and injures dozens more. The bombing occurred in front of the municipal building in Baabda, a Christian suburb of Beirut.^[263]
• Image:Flag of Iraq.svg December 12. Three car bombs detonate in rapid succession, killing at least 40 and wounding 125 in the Shi'ite city of Amara. Iraqi State television reported that many of the casualties involved women and children.^[264]
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg December 21: A mosque suicide bombing kills at least 50, targeting Aftab Khan Sherpao, Interior Minister of Pakistan. ^[265]
• Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg December 21: Belgium police arrests 14 in Plan to Free Bomb Plotter.^[266]
• Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg December 23: Saudi security forces arrest 28 Al Qaeda militants suspected of planning "criminal acts". ^[267]
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg December 23: Suicide bombing kills nine, wounding 23.^[268]
• Image:Flag of Turkey.svg December 24: Police stop would-be bomber in Istanbul outside a subway station with 3.5 kg of plastic explosives. ^[269]
• Image:Flag of Mauritania.svg December 24: Four French tourists were gunned down in Aleg, Mauritania; the family's father survived with serious injuries. Mauritanian police says two of the three suspects are affiliated with a salafist group close to Al-Qaeda.^[270][271]
• Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg December 27: Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by an attacker who shot her after a campaign rally in Rawalpindi and then blew himself up. At least 20 are known dead. Islamic terrorists or Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf suspected.^[272],^[273] See Benazir Bhutto assassination.
• Image:Flag of Israel.svg December 28: Palestinian militants have killed two Israeli hikers, Israeli soldiers on leave, near the West Bank city of Hebron. The shooters belong to Mahmoud Abass's Fatah movement, and are directly linked to the PA security forces.^[274],^[275]

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• Image:Flag of Turkey.svgIn southern Turkey, an explosion has killed at least five people and injured 70. Turkey accuses rebels from the outlawed PKK.^[276]

[edit] See also

• Category:Terrorism by country
• Terrorist organizations
• List of assassinated persons
• Aircraft hijacking
• List of massacres

[edit] References