Terrorist Incidents since 1970



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2007


Date

Dead

Injured

Location and description

January 5    

6

30

 Sri Lanka, Nittambuwa. A bus was bombed. The government blamed Tamil Tiger, who denied it.[171][172] See 2007 Sri Lankan bus bombs.

January 6

15

~24

 Sri Lanka, near the tourist resort of Hikkaduwa. A bus was bombed. The government blamed Tamil Tiger, who denied it.[172]

January 10

6

34

 Philippines, General Santos City, Kidapawan City, Cotabato City. Three bombs detonated, muslim militants trying to disrupt ASEAN Summit suspected.[173]

January 12

0

0

 Greece, US Embassy in central Athens. Rocket causes minimal damage, police suspect spinoff of Greek left wing group November 17.[174]

January 22

~131

~186

 Iraq, Haraj market in Baghdad, Khalis market near Baquba, west Baghdad, south Baghdad, Baghdad. See 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings.[175]

January 26

1

~5

 Pakistan, the Marriott hotel in Islamabad. A suicide bomber kills himself and a security guard trying to enter.[176]

January 27

~14

~30

 Pakistan, Peshawar. A suicide bombing before a Shia religious procession started.[177]

January 29

3




 Israel, Eilat. Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility for a suicide bombing.[178]

February 3

~135

305

 Iraq, Baghdad, al-Sadriya district market. Truck bombing. See 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing.[179]

February 17

15

~24

 Pakistan, Quetta. A suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a courtroom.[180]

February 18

~4




 Somalia, Mogadishu. A car bomb, the first such attack of the Islamist insurgency in Somalia (2007–present).[181]

February 19

68

~49

 India, Samjhauta Express, a train headed toward Lahore an hour after it left New Delhi. Two bombs explode. See 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings.[182][183]

  • January – February: 52 civilians killed in insurgent attacks in Afghanistan according to Human Rights Watch.[164]

  • January-February: 2007 United Kingdom letter bombs.

  • February: 2007 chlorine bombings in Iraq.

  • March 1: Ten injured in a car bomb blast in Neiva, capital of Huila. Rebel group FARC is believed to be responsible. The action is believed to be an assassination attempt on Neiva's mayor.[184]

  • March 3: A bomb kills four police officers and one civilian in the city of Neiva, as they attempted to deactivate it.[184]

  • 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.[185][186]

  • 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.[187]

  • March 6: Two suicide bombers kill 114 Shiite pilgrims in Hilla, Iraq.

  • March 16: A bomb kills 16 and injures 16 in Buenaventura. Authorities blame FARC.[188]

  • March 22: A rocket or mortar lands within 100 yards of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in the Green Zone in Baghdad, in an apparent assassination attempt.

  • March 27: Two truck bombs kill 152 people and injure 347 in Tal Afar, Iraq. See 2007 Tal Afar bombings.

  • March 28: A bomb injures ten in a grocery store in Buenaventura. Authorities blame FARC.[188]

  • March 29: Two suicide bombers kill 79 people and injure 81 in a market in Baghdad.

  • In the two weeks prior to April 8, at least thirteen Afghans and two French aid workers have been kidnapped. Rebels have demanded further releases of their jailed associates in exchange for some of the hostages.[187]

  • April 9: A bomb used against a police headquarters in Cali kills one and injures 30. FARC are blamed.[189]

  • April 10: Three suicide bombers kill one police man and injure 23 people in Casablanca, Morocco.

  • April 11: Two suicide car bombs kill 33 people and injure 222 in Algiers, Algeria. Al-Qaeda takes responsibility. See 2007 Algiers bombings.

  • April 12: One suicide bomber kills eight people and injures 20 in the cafeteria of the Iraqi Parliament in the Green Zone in Baghdad.

  • April 12: A U.S. federal grand jury indicted Christopher Paul, 43, a U.S. citizen and resident of Columbus, Ohio on charges of joining al-Qaeda and conspiring to bomb European tourist resorts and U.S. government facilities and military bases overseas.[190]

  • April 14: A suicide car bomb kills 65 people and injure 100 in Karbala, Iraq.

  • April 14: Two suicide bombers explode near the American Language Center in Casablanca, Morocco. One person was injured.

  • April 16: Seung-Hui Cho kills 33 people including himself in the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst civilian shooting spree in United States history, and the worst case of mass murder in the United States since 9/11. (Note: this may be commonly considered a general massacre and thus included in the List of massacres, but there had been several hints of Cho's attempt to kill including a manifesto tape to NBC News describing his motives – an attempt to terrorize).

  • April 18: A series of explosions kill 198 people and injure 251 in Baghdad, Iraq. See 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings.

  • April 18: In Malatya, Turkey, hometown of Mehmet Ali Agca, three Christian men, one of them 45-year-old German father of three children Tilman Geske, were brutally murdered by at least four young men who already have confessed to the slayings. The assassins tortured their victims for hours before cutting their throats. An autopsy of the German victim found 156 stab wounds. Hurriyet newspaper quoted a suspect: "Let this be a lesson to enemies of our religion."[191][192][193]

  • 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.[194]

  • 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.[195]

  • 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.[196]

  • April 28: A car bomb kills 63 people and injures 70 in Karbala, Iraq.

  • May 6: A car bomb kills 35 people and injures 80 in Baghdad, Iraq.

  • May 6: In a bomb attack on an UN-run elementary school in the southern Gaza refugee camp of Rafah by Muslim extremists, one person, a bodyguard of a local Fatah politician, was killed and eight others, including two children, were injured. The attack happened during a sports festival that earlier had been denounced as un-Islamic by the extremists.[197]

  • May 7: 2007 Fort Dix attack plot. Six men inspired by jihadist videos arrested in the US, in a failed homegrown terrorism plot to kill US soldiers.

  • May 9: A roadside bomb kills nine police officers engaged in anti-narcotics operations. Attacked is blamed on FARC.[198]

  • May 10: A second roadside bomb kills ten soldiers while on patrol. Attack is blamed on FARC.[199]

  • 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.[200]

  • May 13: A suicide truck bomb kills 50 people and injures 115 in Makhmur, Iraq.

  • May 15: A bomb explodes in a restaurant in Pakistan's north-west city of Peshawar. Up to 24 people are killed.

  • May 15, May 16: Hamas launches twenty eight rockets into an Israeli town injuring five. Despite Hamas claiming the motive was retaliation for Israeli violence, NBC News claims "likely it was an attempt to draw Israel into the fighting as a way of uniting the Palestinians against a common foe".[201]

  • 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.[202]

  • May 18: Attack on Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad. For details see 18 May 2007 Mecca Masjid bombing.

  • 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.[203]

  • May 21: A Qassam rocket fired by Hamas hits a car in Sderot, killing 35-year-old Shir-El Friedman in the blast.

  • May 22: A suicide bombing ripped through an Ankara shopping district Tuesday, killing at six people and wounding dozens more. See 2007 Ankara bombing.

  • 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.[205]

  • June 3: 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 causalities by blowing up the connecting pipeline system that runs through densely populated neighborhoods.

  • June 3: A car-bomb suicide attack on the Prime Minister's house in Mogadishu kills six guards and injures 20, while PM Ali Mohamed Gedi survives his third assassination attempt unhurt.

  • June 8: An explosion occurred outside of a tea shop in the city of Yala and killed one woman and wounded 28 other people.

  • 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.

  • June 8: An improvised bomb exploded aboard a bus in a remote area of Cotabato. Ten people were injured.

  • June 10: A bomb exploded outside of a clothing store in Istanbul and injured 14 people.[210]

  • 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.[211]

  • 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.[212]

  • June 14: A car bomb kills ten people in Beirut, Lebanon. Among the killed is the MP Walid Eido.[213]

  • 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.[214]

  • June 19: A truck bomb blast on a square near a mosque killed 75 and wounded 204 people.

  • June 24: A suicide car bomb targeted and killed six members of Unifil near the border with Israel. Two others were also injured. The casualties were Spanish and Colombian nationals.[215]

  • 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.[216]

  • 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. 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".[218][219] The two incidents have been linked, by police, to the same two people.

  • 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.[221]

  • 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[222]

  • 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.[223]

  • 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.[224] 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.

  • 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.[226]

  • August 14: The 2007 Qahtaniya bombings in northern Iraq kills at least 500 people.

  • August 25: Hyderabad bombings. Twin bombings kill at least 44 and injure 54 in Hyderabad. Two bombs are diffused and 19 others are found unexploded. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh state blamed Islamic militants with ties to Pakistan or Bangladesh saying the extremists want to foment tension between India's Hindu's and Muslims. Both Bangladesh and Pakistan have denied the accusations.

  • August 31: A car bomb kills four Russian policemen in Nazran.[227]

  • September 4: Two bomb blasts, one on a bus carrying government employees, killed at least 21 people and wounded 74 in Rawalpindi.[228]

  • 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. See Alleged 2007 bomb plot in Germany.[230]

  • 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.

  • September 6: bombing against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's motorcade.[232]

  • 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.

  • September 29: A bomb explodes in the Maldivian capital, Malé, injuring twelve foreign tourists.

  • 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.[235]

  • 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.[236]

  • October 2: Two Bosnians arrested in apparent plot to bomb the United States embassy in Vienna. One arrested after his bag packed with the 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.[237]

  • 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 then was 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.[238]

  • 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.[239][240][241][242][243]

  • October 14: A bomb exploded in the Shingar Cinema in Ludhiana killing at least six people and wounding 20, police said.[citation needed]

  • 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 killed and 387 wounded. Bhutto escaped unharmed. The Taliban or Al Qaeda are suspected.[244][245]

  • 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.[246]

  • 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.[247]

  • 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. [248]

  • Jokela school shooting: Pekka-Eric Auvinen a gunman killed 7 students,the principal and the school nurse at the school located in Tuusula and also injured 10 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."[249]

  • November 13: An explosion in the Philippine House of Representatives killed two people, including a congressman, and wounded nine others. [250]

  • November 19: IDF Soldiers shoot and kill three terrorists attempting to climb 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." [251]

  • November 23: Near-simultaneous blasts triggered by militants in court premises in Varanasi, Faizabad and the state capital killing 15 people, and injuring over 80.[252]

  • November 23: A bomb went 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. [253]

  • December 6: A parcel bomb exploded in Paris, France and killed one, seriously injured another, and injured several other people.[254]

  • December 11: Bombings in Algiers killing 37 or more people and injuring 177 people.[255]

  • December 12: A car bomb killed Brigadier General Francois Hajj a top candidate to head Lebenon's military, and his driver, and injured dozens more. The bombing occurred in front of the municipal building in Baabda a Christian suburb of Beirut..

  • December 12. Three car bombs detonated in rapid succession killed at least 40 and wounded 125 in the Shite city of Amara. Iraqi State television reported that many of the casualties involve women and children.







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