Terrorist Incidents since 1970

2002

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  Singapore embassies attack plot foiled.
  
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  January: Kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl by Pakistani terrorists.
  
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  January 22: Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on guards at the American Center in Kolkata, killing five people.
  
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  January 25: A bomb kills a child and four police officers and injures 28 people in Bogotá. Rebel group FARC is blamed.
  
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  January 30: A car bomb kills five and injures 40 in the city of Florencia in the state of Caquetá. No group claims responsibility.
  
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  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.
  
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  March 27: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 and injures 140 during Passover festivities in a hotel in Netanya, Israel in the Passover massacre.
  
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  March 31: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 15 and injures over 40 in Haifa, Israel, in the Matza restaurant massacre.
  
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  April 7: Two bombs explode in the restaurant district of Villavicencio, killing twelve and injuring 70. FARC is the prime suspect for the attack.^[120]
  
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  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.
  
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  April 12: A rocket explodes near the studios of RCN TV in Bogotá.^[121]
  
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  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.
  
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  April 19: Two bombs, allegedly placed by FARC kill three and injure ten near Cartagena
  
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  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
  
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  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.
  
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  May 8: May 8 Bus Attack in Karachi kills eleven Frenchmen and two Pakistanis.
  
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  May 9: A bomb explosion in Kaspiisk in Dagestan kills at least 42 people and injures 130 or more during Victory Day festivities.
  
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  May 13: Twelve people are killed in the Jaunpur train crash in India, caused when Islamic extremists cut the rails.
  
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  June 14: Car bomb at US Consulate in Karachi kills twelve.
  
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  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.
  
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  June 20: Car bomb in Riyadh kills Simon Veness, a British National
  
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  June 24: A grenade, allegedly thrown by FARC members, injures six police officers in Bogotá.
  
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  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.
  
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  July 28: A carbomb partially destroys government buildings in Cali. FARC is blamed for the attack. No casualties.
  
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  August 7: Three round of mortars are fired against an Army base in Bogotá injuring six. FARC is blamed for the attack.^[122]
  
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  August 7: Four rounds of mortars are fired against the Presidential Palace in Bogotá during the inauguration ceremony of President Alvaro Uribe Velez. 13 people, mostly homeless, die and 50 are wounded when some of the rounds hit slums in downtown Bogotá. FARC is blamed.^[122]
  
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  September 10: A train derailment in India kills 130 people in the Rafiganj rail disaster. Naxalite terrorism is suspected.
  
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  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.
  
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  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.
  
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  October 6: Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen.
  
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  October 11: Myyrmanni bombing in shopping mall at Vantaa, Finland. Killing seven and injuring 80.
  
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  October 12: Bali bombing of holidaymakers kills 202 people, mostly Western tourists and local Balinese hospitality staff.
  
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  October 17: Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines kill six and wounds about 150.
  
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  October 18: A bus bomb in Manila kills three people and wounds 22.
  
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  October 19: A car bomb explodes outside a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in Moscow, killing one person and wounding five.
  
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  October 22: A bomb kills three and wounds at least eleven in Bogotá. No claims are made for the attack.^[123]
  
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  October 23: Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue three days later.
  
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  November 19: Colombian police deactivate a bomb left by ELN members in front of newspaper La Opinion in Cúcuta.^[124]
  
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  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.
  
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  November 28: Kenyan hotel bombing.
  
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  December 9: A car bomb injures 50 in western Bogotá. Authorities blame FARC.
  
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  December 13: A package bomb injures 32 on the 30th floor of the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Bogotá. No groups claim responsibility.^[125]
  
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  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.^[125]
  
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  December 21: Kurnool train crash, Islamic extremists derail a train and kill 20 people in India.
  
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  December 27: The truck bombing of the Chechen parliament in Grozny kills 83 people.