Terrorist Incidents since 1970

2000

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  The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.
  
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  German police foil Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot.
  
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  May: The Balochistan Liberation Army begins its attacks against government and military targets in Balochistan.
  
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  March 15: A botched rocket attack by rebels against an army base left two dead and 14 injured near Medellín.^[104]
  
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  April 19:The Breton Revolutionary Army bombs a McDonalds in Dinan, killing a waitress. ^[105]
  
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  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.
  
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  June 8: Stephen Saunders, a British Defense Attaché, was assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November in Athens.
  
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  August 8: A bomb exploded at an underpass in Pushkin Square in Moscow, killing eleven people and wounding more than 90.
  
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  August 17: Two bombs exploded in a shopping center in Riga, Latvia, injuring 35 people.^[107]
  
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  October 8: A car bomb injures four near a military base in Cali. Rebel group ELN is blamed.
  
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  October 12: USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors and wounds 40 off the port coast of Aden, Yemen, by al-Qaeda, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, the Buffalo Six Lackawanna Cell.^[109]
  

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

2001

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  January 10: A car bomb wounds at least 50 in a shopping center parking lot in Medellín.^[110]
  
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  February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people.
  
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  February 18: Podujevo bus bombing, 13 Serbian civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Serbia, Kosovo by Albanian Terrorists..
  
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  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
  
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  March 4: The Real IRA exploded a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre in London. One London Underground worker suffered deep cuts to his eye from flying glass and some damage was caused to the front of the building.^[111] (See 4 March 2001 BBC bombing)
  
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  March 24: Twenty people die and 93 are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.
  
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  March 26: 10-months-old Israeli infant Shalhevet Pass is intentionally and fatally shot in the head by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron.
  
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  May 4: A car bomb kills four and injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali. No group claims the attack.^[112]
  
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  May 6: The Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.^[113]
  
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  May 17: A car bomb kills seven and injures at least 50 in a park in Medellín.^[114]
  
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  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.
  
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  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
  
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  June 17: A car bomb injures 16 in the town of San Martin, Meta. No group claims responsibility, but both FARC and AUC are suspected.^[116]
  
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  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.
  
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  August 3: The last (at time of writing) IRA bomb on mainland Britain explodes in Ealing, West London, injuring seven people.^[117] (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing)
  
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  August 9: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
  
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  August 23: In a series of attacks near Medellín, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims resposibility.
  
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  August 23: At least 15 members of terrorist group ELN die when they explosives they were carrying detonate.
  

The World Trade Center after being hit by the hijacked airliners.

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  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.
  
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  September 13: Paris embassy attack plot foiled.
  
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  October 1: A car bomb explodes near the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly in Srinagar, India killing 35 people and injuring 40 more.
  
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  October 17: Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
  
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  Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloid.
  
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  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.
  
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  December 13: Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
  
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  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.