Terrorist Incidents since 1970

1998

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  January: Wandhama Massacre - 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by Kashmiri militants in the city of Wandhama in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
  
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  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. ^[97]
  
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  February 14: 1998 Coimbatore bombings - Bombings by suspected Islamic Jihadi groups on an election rally in Indian city of Coimbatore kill about 60 people.
  
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  January 25: LTTE bombs the sacred Buddhist shrine Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy, Sri Lanka killing 17.
  
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  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.
  
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  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.
  
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  May 13: A bomb blast destroys the outer wall of the Marina Roscha Synagogue in Moscow. The third time the building has been attacked.
  
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  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.^[98]
  
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  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
  
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  August 15: Omagh bombing by the Real IRA (an IRA splinter group) kills 29.
  
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  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.^[99]
  

1999

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  January 3: Gunmen open fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people injuring 25.
  
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  April: David Copeland's nail bomb attacks against ethnic minorities and gays in London kill three people and injure over 160.
  
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  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.)
  
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  April 26: An explosion inside an elevator at the Intourist hotel in Moscow injured eleven people.^[100]
  
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  June 18: The separatist Breton Revolutionary Army dynamites a tax office in Cintegabelle causing extensive damage. ^[101].
  
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  July 30: A car bomb kills nine and injures 38 at a military base in Medellín. Authorities blame leftist guerrillas for the attack.^[102]
  
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  August 31 – September 22: Russian Apartment Bombings kills about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War.
  
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  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
  
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  November 12: Seven die and dozens are injured when a bomb explodes in Bogotá. No claim for responsibility is made.^[103]
  
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  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
  
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  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.