2000 - 2004
More than 1,000 people are killed through Palestinian terrorism and violence; the majority are killed by suicide bombings.
January 3, 2000
A plot to bomb a hotel in Amman, Jordan, an attack on Mount Nebo, and an attack at a site on the Jordan River are all thwarted. A plan to bomb Los Angeles International Airport is thwarted. A plan to bomb The USS Sullivans with a boat laden with explosives is thwarted. All plots were formed by al Qaeda.
January 12, 2000
Turkey: Execution of PPK leader Abdullah Ocalan stayed.
February 2000
Al Qaeda defector Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl testifies that Osama bin Laden had tried to buy uranium on the black market for $1.5 million in a presumed attempt to develop nuclear weapons.
February 2, 2000
France: ETA's lglesias Chauvas and Conchita Alvarez arrested; both suspects in 1995 plot to assassinate King of Spain.
February 3, 2000
Syria, Sudan sign agreement on fighting terrorism in compliance with Arab Antiterrorism Convention.
February 6, 2000
United Kingdom: Ariana Afghan flight hijacked; 20 hostages released unharmed; hijackers surrender on 10 February.
February 9, 2000
Turkey: PKK announces formal halt to war; adopts new name, Kongra-Gel, but reelects Abdullah Ocalan as leader.
February 13, 2000
Colombia: FARC, ELN stage attacks, kill 12, kidnap 16.
March 10, 2000
Sri Lanka: LTTE conducts suicide motorcade ambush; 29 killed, 70 wounded.
April 23, 2000
Philippines: Abu Sayyat Group kidnaps 21, including 10 foreign tourists.
April 30, 2000
Colombia: FARC launches Movement for New Colombia.
Summer 2000
Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes rise past 3,000. Israel has been demolishing the homes of suicide bombers and their families in efforts to deter and punish attackers.
June 7, 2000
Sri Lanka: LTTE suicide bomber kills 22 and wounds 60 during War Heroes procession.
June 8, 2000
Greece: British Attache, Brigadier Saunders, killed in ambush, "17 November" claims responsibility.
June 10, 2000
Syria: President Hafiz al-Asad dies after 30-year rule; country designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1979.
June 24, 2000
Colombia: Army captures FARC leader Rey Palacios.
July 2, 2000
The Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and other national monuments in Washington D.C., are identified as possible terrorist targets.
July 12, 2000
Spain: ETA car bomb wounds 10 in Madrid's Callao Plaza.
July 16, 2000
Japan: Two Aum Shinrikyo Members sentenced to death for Sarin gas attack.
August 2, 2000
India: Suspected Islamic militants in Kashmir kill Hindu Pilgrims on way to shrine and attack villages; 102 killed and dozens wounded.
August 12, 2000
Four U.S. citizens are taken hostage in Kara-Su Valley by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan; the hostages later escape.
September 2, 2000
West Bank: Palestinians sentence HAMAS Bomb-maker Mahumud Abu Hanud.
September 12, 2000
Libya agrees to cooperate in the Berlin Disco bombing investigation.
September 28, 2000
The new "Intifada," a Palestinian rebellion against Israeli occupation, begins.
September 28, 2000
ASG Leader killed, two others wounded in military bid to rescue hostages.
October 2, 2000
Sri Lanka: LTTE suicide bombing kills 23 and wounds 54 in attack contesting elections.
October 4, 2000
Peru: Shining Path leader Carlos Fernandez captured.
October 5, 2000
Sri Lanka: LTTE suicide bomber kills 10 and wounds more than 35 at election rally.
October 12, 2000
A U.S. Navy Destroyer, the USS Cole, is rammed by a small boat loaded with explosives in Aden, Yemen, killing 17 Sailors and injuring 39. Osama bin Laden is thought responsible for the attack, and later it is proved that he and his group al-Qaeda is responsible.
October 16, 2000
Saudi Arabia: Two Saudis commandeer flight to Baghdad, then surrender; 104 hostages released unharmed.
October 19, 2000
Sri Lanka: LTTE suicide bomber wounds 23, including three U.S. tourists, in an attack against town hall near Colombo.
October 22, 2000
Spain: ETA car bomb kills Prison Officer in Basque Capital, Vitoria.
October 30, 2000
Spain: Judge and two aides killed and more than 30 wounded in ETA car bomb attack in Madrid.
November 2, 2000
Colombia: ELN releases remaining 21 hostages kidnapped from Cali on 17 September 1990.
November 10, 2000
Spain: Five suspected ETA members of Vizcaya Commando arrested in Bilbao.
November 11, 2000
Kuwait: Seven arrested in crackdown on groups planning to bomb U.S. Military targets.
November 18, 2000
Philippines: Bomb explodes in Carmen killing one and wounding two; grenade wounds three more in Isulan; MILF suspected.
November 20, 2000
Gaza: Roadside bomb targeting Israeli school bus kills two and wounds 10; HAMAS responsible.
November 21, 2000
Sri Lanka: LTTE starts "Heroes Week" with grenade attack on Army Patrol, killing two civilians and wounding two.
November 24, 2000
India: Gunman kills six Hindu, four Sikh bus passengers; LT blamed.
November 26, 2000
Israel: Hizballah bomb attack kills one soldier and wounds tow others near Shab'a Farms area.
November 28, 2000
India: Sixteen killed, 25 wounded in widespread Terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir; Hizb-ul-Mujahedin clams responsibility.
December 4, 2000
Israel: Swad Selmi, Senior HAMAS Leader on wanted list, killed during terrorist mission.
December 5, 2000
Jordan: Ra'id Hijazi sentenced to death for planning Millennium attacks against U.S. and Israeli targets.
December 6, 2000
Sri Lanka: Suspected LTTE landmine attack kills four bus passengers and wounds 21.
December 8, 2000
Yemen: Muhammad al-Harazi and Jamal al-Badawi named prime suspects in USS Cole bombing.
December 22, 2000
West Bank: HAMAS Suicide Bombing at restaurant near Mehola kills one and wounds three Israeli soldiers.
December 25, 2000
India: Suicide car bomb kills 11 and wounds more than 20 near Army Zone in Srinagar; Jamiat-ul-Mujahedin claims responsibility; blast coincides with bomb attack in Pakistan that injured 37.
December 29, 2000
Colombia: Peace advocate Diego Turbay and six others killed in FARC Ambush.
December 30, 2000
A plaza across the street from The U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines, is bombed by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front; nine are injured.
December 30, 2000
Philippines: Series of bombs in Manila kill 16 and injure at least 30, Abu Sayyaf Group suspected.
December 31, 2000
West Bank: Right-wing extremist Binyamin Kahane and wife killed in ambush by Intifada Martyrs.
2001
An estimated $30 Million per year is spent to sustain Al-Qaeda.
January 1, 2001
Israel: HAMAS suicide car bomb wounds 54 in Netanya.
January 9, 2001
Columbia: Army rescues 56 hostages from ELN; group captures 15 more and kills one.
January 23, 2001
Yemen: Hijacking of Yemeni flight with 91 passengers, including U.S. Ambassador; hijacker captured and passengers safely released.
January 31, 2001
Netherlands: Scottish court finds Libyan "Abd al-Baset al-Megrahi guilty in Pan Am 103 Bombing.
February 1, 2001
Ecuador: U.S. hostage Ron Sanders found shot to death.
February 1, 2001
United Kingdom: 21 groups banned under new Terrorism Law; LTTEE Office first to be closed.
February 5, 2001
Algeria: France signs accord to cooperate in fighting Terrorism.
February 19, 2001
United Kingdom: Terrorism Act 2000 enacted.
March 15, 2001
Turkey: Russian plane hijacked; 45 of 174 hostages freed or escaped. Two hostages and one hijacker killed; remaining hostages released.
March 19, 2001
Venezuela: ELN guerrilla Jose Ballestas arrested for Avianca hijacking.
March 22, 2001
Russia: Aleksandr Suslikov sentenced to six years for U.S. Embassy bombing attempt in Moscow.
March 27, 2001
Algeria: Abdelmajid Dahoumane arrested for role in plot to attack Los Angeles International Airport on 31 December 1999.
April 2, 2001
Gaza: PU official Muhammad 'Abd al-Il'a killed in Israeli rocket attack.
April 6, 2001
U.S.: Algerian Ahmed Ressam convicted for role in plot to attack Los Angeles International Airport on 31 December 1999.
April 24, 2001
Turkey: PKK member jailed 12 years for planning suicide bombing.
April 25, 2001
Colombia: FAC kills more than 12 suspected AUC members.
April 26, 2001
Colombia: Government withdraws troops and allows ELN to claim territory.
May 6, 2001
Spain: Politician Manuel Jimenez killed in attack in Zaragoza; ETA blamed.
May 9, 2001
Afghanistan: Taliban closes four UN offices in retaliation for the imposition of UN sanctions.
May 12, 2001
Colombia: Labor organizer Sanchez Diaz killed; paramilitaries suspected.
May 12, 2001
Spain: ETA car bomb in central Madrid wounds 14 on eve of Basque vote.
May 22, 2001
Philippines: Abu Sayyaf Group rebels raid beach resort on Samal Island, killing two and wounding three.
May 25, 2001
Israel: HAMAS and PIJ detonate two bombs at bus station on anniversary of Israeli pullout from Lebanon in 2000, killing the three suicide attackers and injuring 45 Israelis.
May 26, 2001
United Nations Security Council states that the Taliban is selling opium and heroin to finance terrorist training.
May 27, 2001
Philippines: Abu Sayyaf Group kidnaps 20, including three Americans, in raid on Dos Palms Resort off Palawan Island.
May 30, 2001
Japan: Japanese Red Army funder, Fusako Shigenobu, announces JRA dissolution, regrouping as legal organization.
June 1, 2001
A disco in Tel Aviv, Israel, is bombed; 21 are killed and 120, mostly teenagers, are wounded. HAMAS leader Ayman Halaweh is blamed for the attack.
June 5, 2001
Sri Lanka: LTTE attack on Army Camp kills 10.
June 6, 2001
Canada: Bomb maker Singh Reyat charged in 1985 India bombing and jailed in Japan.
June 8, 2001
India: Four killed and 50 wounded in grenade attack on Kashmir mosque by unknown attacker.
June 12, 2001
Jordan: Abu Nidal, three others stand trial in absentia for 1994 murder of Jordanian diplomat in Lebanon.
June 12, 2001
Philippines: Abu Sayyaf Group claims beheading of U.S. hostage Guillermo Sobero; confirmed in October 2001.
June 15, 2001
India: Sudanese citizen Abdul Rauf Hawash and Indian national Shameem Sarvar arrested for plotting to blow up U.S. Embassy in New Delhi on Bin Ladin's orders.
June 20, 2001
Kashmir: LT leader Omar Abdullah Makki and associate killed; five others wounded near Srinagar.
June 21, 2001
U.S.: Court indicts 13 members of Saudi Hizballah and one Lebanese Hizballah member for 1998 bombing of Khobar Towers that kills 19 U.S. Arimen.
June 22, 2001
Colombia: ELN member Gerardo Herrera and others arrested in foreign oil worker's kidnapping and murder.
July 5, 2001
Sir Lanka: Government invokes tough terrorism laws to combat LTTE.
July 10, 2001
Israel: Palestinian Mahmud Nadi, driver for the Tel Aviv disco bomber, charged with murder.
July 10, 2001
Spain: ETA car bomb attack kills one and wounds 12 in Madrid.
July 23, 2001
India: Bicycle bomb kills five soldiers and two civilians; Kashmir militants suspected.
July 24, 2001
Sir Lanka: LTTE attack International Airport and adjoining Air Force Base; kills 18 wounds 12, and damages 24 aircraft.
July 26, 2001
US: President George W. Bush signs five-year sanctions extension against Iran and Libya.
July 27, 2001
Spain: Bomb outside of Barcelona bank wounds three: GRAPO suspected.
July 30, 2001
Spain: Former ETA leader Francisco Garmendia and Lt. Jose Erostrabe sentenced to 1,000 years each.
August 3, 2001
The Taliban arrests 24 humanitarian Aid Workers in Kabul, Afghanistan, including several people who were attempting to propagate Christianity, an act punishable by long prison terms or execution.
August 3, 2001
United Kingdom: RIRA car bomb wounds six near London railway station.
August 5, 2001
Philippines: Soldiers rescue 13 hostages after Abu Sayyat Group beheads 10 of 23 kidnapped on 2 August.
August 11, 2001
Philippines: Troops rescue three Filipinos from Abu Sayyat Group; one U.S. hostage killed.
August 12, 2001
Israel: Suicide bomb attack in restaurant near Haifa kills the bomber and wounds 20; Palestinian Islamic Jihad suspected.
August 15, 2001
India: Bomb attack wounds 18 in Handwara, Kashmir; LT claims responsibility.
August 18, 2001
Spain: Car bomb explodes in tourist area near Barcelona after warning call; ETA responsible.
August 19, 2001
Russia: Bomb attack at market in Astrakhan kills seven and wounds more than 50; Chechens suspected.
August 23, 2001
Columbia: Car bomb outside police station in Marintilla kills one and wounds 25; ELN blamed.
August 29, 2001
Canada: Mahmud Haballah arrested for involvement in al-Qa'ida bombing of U.S. Embassies.
August 30, 2001
Sir Lanka: LTTE bomb outside municipal building in Kalunai kills three and wounds seven.
August 31, 2001
Algeria: Islamic militants blamed for two attacks that kill 13.
September 9, 2001
A suicide bomber blows up a pizzeria in Jerusalem, Israel; 15 are killed, and 130 injured.
September 9, 2001
General Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of Afghan Northern Alliance anti-Taliban Opposition, is assassinated in a suicide bomb attack in Khvajeh be Odin, Afghanistan. Al Qaeda is thought responsible.
September 9, 2001
A suicide bomb is detonated by an Israeli Arab working for HAMAS in Nahariya, Israel; three are killed.
September 10, 2001
Colombia: FARC leader German Briceno sentenced in absentia to 40 years for murder of three U.S. activists.
September 11, 2001
American Airlines flight 11, en-route from Boston to Los Angeles, is hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center (North Tower); United Airlines flight 175, from Boston to Los Angeles, is hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center (South Tower); United Airlines flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco is hijacked and crashes in southwestern Pennsylvania; American Airlines flight 77 en-route from Washington to Los Angeles, is hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon. More than 2,700 are killed, and thousands more are injured. Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda mastermind Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, and 19 hijackers planned and carry out the attacks. The fiscal damage to the United States resulting from the 9/11 attacks exceeds $16.5 billion; 200,000 jobs lost. The travel industry makes $13 billion less annually. It is estimated that only $400,000.00 to $500,000.00 was spent to plan and carry out the 9/11 attacks. Deaths related to the 9/11 attacks continue to mount - many rescue workers report contracting lung disease from working at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the attacks, and some have died from related lung ailments.
September 13, 2001
An al Qaeda plot to attack U.S. embassies and the Eagle Base airfield in Paris, France, and Brussels, Belgium, is thwarted by NATO officials. In a separate incident, Israeli authorities prevent a radioactive backpack-bomb from entering Israel; the smugglers have ties to al Qaeda.
September 18, 2001
Letters containing anthrax are mailed from Trenton, N.J., to five U.S. media outlets, along with notes, one of which read "09-11-01, this is next, take penicillin [sic] now, death to America, death to Israel, Allah is great." One recipient dies.
September, 20, 2001
U.S. and E.U pledge partnership against terrorism.
October 7, 2001 - March 2002
Operation Enduring Freedom: After repeated warnings to surrender terrorists, U.S. and British forces begin bombing Taliban and al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan in response to 9/11 attacks.
October 8, 2001
Plots to bomb the U.S. embassy in Paris, France, and possibly NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, are uncovered.
October 8, 2001
The Department of Homeland Security is formed in response to the acts of terrorism perpetrated against the United States, and in order to coordinate the work of America?s security and intelligence agencies. It is the largest governmental reorganization since 1947.
October 9, 2001
A second batch of letters containing a new, weaponized form of anthrax (previously unseen by bioweapons experts) are mailed to two Democratic senators in Washington, D.C., along with notes that read "09-11-01. You can not stop us. We have this anthrax. You die now. Are you afraid? Death to America. Death to Israel. Allah is great." Twenty-two people develop infections, and four die. Both these letters and the September 18th set of letters contain the same strain of anthrax. Some suspect that the attacks are linked to the 9/11 hijackers, but the FBI claims the anthrax attacks are a result of domestic terrorism.
October 11, 2001
Two nuclear suitcases reportedly reach al Qaeda operatives in the United States.
October 17, 2001
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine assassinates the Israeli Minister of Tourism, Rehavam Zeevi, to avenge the death of Mustafa Zubari.
October 28, 2001
A Christian church in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, is attacked by gunmen; 15 in the congregation are killed.
October 28, 2001
Philippines: Abu Sayyaf Group bomb in Zamboanga kills 11 and wounds 50.
November 2001
According to Osama bin Laden, nuclear weapons are available for $10 Million and $20 Million in Russia.
November 4, 2001
Israel: U.S. Citizen killed in shooting attack on bus in Jerusalem; assailant kill and 35 wounded; PU claims responsibility.
November 6, 2001
Spain: ETA car bomb during rush hour in Madrid injures 100.
November 17, 2001
Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani resumes his Presidency in Kabul, Afghanistan, after being removed from power by the Taliban in 1996.
November 25, 2001
Mullah Mohammed Omar reports that the nuclear destruction of the United States is under way.
December 1, 2001
Two Hamas suicide bombers attack a mall in Jerusalem, Israel; 11 are killed, and 188 wounded.
December 2, 2001
A Hamas suicide bomber blows up a bus in Haifa, Israel, to avenge the death of a Hamas member; 15 are killed, and approximately 40 wounded.
December 13, 2001
India: Parliament bombed, killing 13; Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed responsible.
2002
Saddam Hussein and his regime support terrorism by offering $25,000 to the families of all suicide bombers.
2002
Operation Defensive Shield is enacted by Israel to respond to massive Palestinian attacks.
January 15, 2002
West Bank: Palestinian militia leader Ra’id al-Karmi killed by bomb outside his home; Israel implicated.
January 23, 2002
Pakistan: Extremists kidnap and later kill U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl.
January 23, 2002
Armed militants kidnap Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi, Pakistan. Pearl is later beheaded, and a video of his murder is shown around the world. Hundreds more will be kidnapped and beheaded by Muslim militants in the years to come.
January 27, 2002
Israel: Fatah female suicide bomber kills one and wounds more than 150 in Jerusalem.
February 14, 2002
Abdul Rahman, Afghanistan's minister of civilian aviation and tourism, is beaten to death at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan by al Qaeda operatives. The attack was ordered by Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar.
February 18, 2002
According to Associated Press figures, 941 Palestinians and 273 Israelis had died in the current intifada (Palestinian uprising).
February 18, 2002
Israel: Policeman killed by suicide bomber; al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claims responsibility.
March 3, 2002
West Bank: Sniper kills seven Israeli solders and three others.
March 5, 2002
Jerusalem: Bomb explodes inside Arab schoolyard, injuring eight; "Avengers of the Infants" claims responsibility.
March 9, 2002
Israel: Suicide bomb kills 11 and injures 25 inside crowded Jerusalem cafe; HAMAS claims responsibility.
March 12, 2002
The U.N. Security Council passes a U.S. resolution calling for a Palestinian state to exist side-by-side with Israel. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urges Palestinians to halt "morally repugnant" acts of terror against Israelis, and he calls upon Israel to end its "illegal occupation" of Palestinian land.
March 17, 2002
A Protestant International Church in Islamabad, Pakistan, is attacked with grenades; 5 are killed, and 40 injured. Islamic militants are suspected to have carried out the attack.
March 20, 2002
Israel: Suicide Bomber detonates bomb on bus, killing seven and injuring 30 in Tel Aviv; Islamic Jihad responsible.
March 21, 2002
Israel: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Suicide Bomber detonates bomb in crowd of shoppers in Jerusalem; three killed, 86 injured.
March 27, 2002
Israel: 29 people killed and 140 injured by suicide bomb detonated at hotel during Passover Seder; HAMMAS claims responsibility.
March 29, 2002
The U.N. Security Council passes Resolution 1402 calling upon Israel to withdraw its forces from all Palestinian cities, but also expressing "grave concern" over the practice of Palestinian suicide bombings against Israelis.
March 31, 2002
Israel: Suicide Bomber strikes restaurant, killing 15 people and injuring more that 40; HAMAS claims responsibility.
April 7, 2002
Israel: Suicide Bomber strikes restaurant, killing 15 people and injuring more than 40: HAMMAS claims responsibility.
April 10, 2002
Israel: HAMMAS Suicide Bomber kills eight, wounds 22 in bus attack.
April 11, 2002
A truck loaded with propane gas is blown up near the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia; 16 killed, 26 injured. Attack carried out by al Qaeda operatives and the Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Sites.
April 12, 2002
Israel: Suicide Bomber kills six, injures 104 in Jerusalem; al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade responsible.
May 7, 2002
Israel: Suicide bomber at club kills 15 and injures 55 in Tel Aviv; HAMAS responsible.
May 10, 2002
Russia: Remote-control mine rips through Victory Day parade in Dagestan leaving 41 dead; Chechen separatists suspected.
May 21, 2002
Peru: Car bomb detonates outside U.S. Embassy, killing nine Peruvians; Shining Path suspected.
June 5, 2002
Israel: Car packed with explosives rams bus, killing 17 and injuring 38, Islamic Jihad responsible.
June 7, 2002
Philippines: Missionary Martin Burnham killed during gun battle between Philippine Government troops and Abu Sayyaf Groups captors.
June 18, 2002
Israel: Suicide bomber detonates explosives on bus; 19 killed and 74 wounded; Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.
June 19, 2002
Israel: Seven killed, 37 injured by a suicide bomber at bus stop; al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claims responsibility.
July 6, 2002
Afghanistan: Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir assassinated by unknown gunman.
July 9, 2002
Philippines: One soldier killed and six wounded in clash with Abu Sayyaf Group guerrillas.
July 16, 2002
Ireland: IRA issues unprecedented apology for all previous causalities.
July 17, 2002
Greece: Police arrest Alexandros Giotopoulos, leader and founder of "17 November."
July 22, 2002
Gaza (East Bank): HAMAS leader and 14 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike.
July 31, 2002
Israel: Seven students, including five U.S. citizens, killed by bomb at Hebrew University; HAMAS responsible, apologizes for American deaths.
August 4, 2002
Israel: Suicide bomber kills nine and wounds more than 50 passengers aboard bus, HAMAS Claims responsibility.
August 6, 2002
India: Militants attack Hindu pilgrims in New Delhi, killing eight and wounding 32.
August 9, 2002
Pakistan: Grenade blast kills four and injures 25 at Christian Missionary Hospital in Islamabad.
September, 5, 2002
Bombing in Kabul and Kandahar, Afghanistan, kill 32 and injure 150. Later that day, Afghan President Hamid Karzai survives an unsuccessful assassination attempt. The Attacks are blamed on Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Hezb-e-Islami.
September 11, 2002
Kashmir's Law Minister Mushtaq Ahmed Lone and six security guards are murdered in Tikipora, Kashmir, by Lashdar-e-Tayyiga, Jamiat ul-Mujahedin, and Hizb ul-Mujahedin.
September 24, 2002
India: Militants attack Hindu Temple, killing 31; LT suspected.
September 25, 2002
Pakistan: Militants kill seven at Christian Charity in Karachi.
October 2-24, 2002
The "Beltway Sniper" attacks occur over a period of three weeks, a total of 13 are shot. Ten die and three are wounded in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore-Washington Metro Area, in random sniper attacks. John Allen Muhammad (former U.S. Army Sergeant and a member of The Nations of Islam) and Lee Boyd Malvo (a minor at the time of the shootings) are convicted of the attacks. While their motive is unknown, a friend reports that John Muhammad had stated that the September 11th 2001 Terrorist attacks "... should have happened a long time ago ..."
October 6, 2002
A barge loaded with explosives rams into French oil tanker Limburg in Al Mukalla, Yemen. Attack kills one crew member, wounds four, and spills 90,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Aden; al-Qa'ida responsible.
October 8, 2002
A U.S. Marine is murdered and another wounded at a training center in Kuwait while participating in a Training Exercise. The Kuwaiti Government calls the incident a "Terrorist Attack." Al-Qa'ida associates responsible.
October 12, 2002
Al Qaeda plants bombs that explode outside two nightclubs in Kuna Beach, Bali; 202 are killed, 300 injured.
October 12, 2002
Indonesia: Multiple car bombs explode outside nightclubs in Bali, killing 202; JI responsible.
October 18, 2002
An al Qaeda bombing in Manila, Philippines, kills two and injures 20.
October 21, 2002
Israel: Car bomb explodes next to bus in Karkur, killing 19; PU suspected.
October 23, 2002
Russia: Fifty Chechens seize Podshipnikov Zavod Theater in Moscow, taking over 800 hostages. All Chechens and 124 hostages, including one American , killed during rescue.
October 23-25, 2002
Chechen Terrorists storm a Moscow Theater during production of the play "Nord-Ost." The siege lasts two days and ends when Russian Special Forces Troops pump an unidentified gas into the theater, knocking out everyone inside. All of the 40 to 50 suspected terrorists are killed, along with at least 129 hostages.
October 28, 2002
Laurence Foley, Executive Officer of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Jordan, is assassinated in Amman, Jordan, by the Honest People of Jordan terrorist group.
November 14, 2002
U.S.: Mir Amal Kansi executed for 1993 murder of two CIA employees.
November 21, 2002
Lebanon: Female U.S. citizen shot as she enters church-run facility in Sidon; 'Asbat al-Ansar suspected.
November 24, 2002
Reghunath and Shiv temples in Jammu, Kashmir, are attacked by armed Lashkare-e-Tayyiba militants; 13 are killed, and 50 injured.
November 28, 2002
Three suicide bombers attack a hotel frequented by Israeli tourists in Mombasa, Kenya; 15 killed, 40 wounded. In a separate incident, two SA-7 shoulder-fired missiles are fired at an Arkia Airlines Boeing 757 near Mombasa?s airport. The attacks are carried out by al Qaeda, the Government of Universal Palestine in Exile, and the Army of Palestine.
December 27, 2002
Chechnya: Suicide Bombers detonate two explosive-filled trucks at Chechnya's pro-Moscow Government Building, killing 72 and wounding 210.
2003
The cost of the United States war on terror exceeds $4.5 billion per month.
January 5, 2003
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade's simultaneous suicide attacks kill 23, wound 107.
January 21, 2003
Kuwait: Gunman ambushes vehicle near Camp Doha, Killing one U.S. contractor and wounding another.
January 27, 2003
Afghanistan: Armed militants attack UN convoy, kill two security officers escorts.
February 1, 2003
Pakistan: Khalid Shaykh Muhammad arrested; planned 9/11 attacks in U.S.
February 8, 2003
Kurdish legislator Shawkat Haji Mushir is murdered and two other Kurdish officials are kidnapped in Qamash Tapa, Iraq, by Ansar al-Islam.
February 20, 2003
Saudi Arabia: Gunman ambushes car at stoplight, killing UK citizen; Yemen-born naturalized Saudi later arrested.
February 22, 2003
Al Qaeda operatives open fire at a World Cup cricket match in Karachi, Pakistan, killing nine.
March 2003
The American College of Forensic Examiners (the world's largest forensic membership association) and The American board for Certification in Homeland Security in Springfield, Missouri, spearhead the private sector efforts to prepare for, prevent, and respond to terrorist attacks by forming the groundbreaking Certified in Homeland Security, CHS(SM), program. Thousands of professionals sign up in the first year.
March 2, 2003
Osama bin Laden's plan to create a "nuclear hellstorm" by constructing and detonating dirty nukes on United States soil is uncovered when Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda?s military operations chief, is arrested in Karachi, Pakistan. Osama bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, and "Dr. X" are behind the plot.
March 3, 2003
Philippines: MILF explodes bomb hidden in backpack in a crowded terminal, killing 21 including one U.S. Citizen, and injuring 146 others.
March 5, 2003
Israel: HAMAS suicide bomber explodes bomb aboard bus, killing 15, including one U.S. Citizen, and injuring 40 others.
March 20, 2003
The Iraq War begins.
March 24, 2003
India: Armed militants dressed in military uniforms kill 24.
April 2, 2003
Philippines: JI explodes bomb on crowed passenger wharf, killing 16 and injuring 55.
April 3, 2003
Davao Airport in Davao City, Philippines, is attacked by the Islamic Liberation Front.
April 24, 2003
Colombia: Landmine kills one U.S. Marine and wounds five others; FARC believed responsible.
April 25, 2003
India: Bomb explodes at courthouse, killing three and injuring 34 others.
April 30, 2003
Israel: Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bomber attacks Tel Aviiv pub, killing 3 Israelis and injuring 64 others, including one U.S. Citizen.
May 6, 2003
Afghanistan: Taxi rigged with explosives rams into a bus carrying German peacekeepers in Kabul, killing five and injuring 29; al-Qa'ida probably responsible.
May 13, 2003
Saudi Arabia: Al-Qa'ida bombs the Vinnell, al-Hamra, and Ishbilyah housing compounds, killing seven U.S. and 13 non-U.S. citizens and injuring 194 others.
May 16, 2003
Morocco: Al-Sirat al-Mustaqim members conduct near-simultaneous explosive attacks at five locations in Casablanca, killing 42 and injuring 100.
July 22, 2003
Iraq: Uday and Qusay Husayn killed in raid on residence in Mosul.
August 2, 2003
Iraq: Car bomb explodes in front of Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad, killing 19 and injuring 50.
August 5, 2003
Indonesia: Car bomb explodes in front of Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, killing 13 and injuring 149; JI responsible.
August 7, 2003
A car bomb is detonated outside the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq; 19 are killed, 65 injured.
August 14, 2003
A massive power outage causes total blackouts at 21 power plants throughout the Eastern United States and part of Canada within 3 minutes. A communiqué attributed to al Qaeda claims responsibility, but lightning is blamed as the official cause.
August 14, 2003
Thailand: JI key figure, Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, arrested in Bangkok.
August 18, 2003
The massive power outage is estimated to cost Canada and the United States more than $10 billion (U.S. dollars). A communiqué attributed to al Qaeda claiming responsibility states, "It is a message to all the investors that the United States is no longer a safe country for their money, knowing that the U.S. economy greatly relies on the trust of the investor."
August 19, 2003
A truck loaded with surplus Iraqi ordnance explodes outside the United Nations Headquarters; 23 killed including U.N Official General Sergio Viera DeMello, more than 100 injured. Al Qaeda branch Brigades of the Martyr Abu Hafz al-Masri is believed responsible.
August 19, 2003
Israel: HAMAS suicide bomber detonates bomb aboard bus in Jerusalem, killing 20, including five U.S. Citizens, and injuring 140.
August 29, 2003
Iraq: Shia Muslim cleric Ayatollah al-Hakim assassinated in Basra.
September 9, 2003
Israel: Suicide bomber kills eight persons, including two U.S. Citizens, near the Asaf Harolfe Hospital; no responsible group identified.
September 14, 2003
Colombia: ELN militants kidnap four Israelis, two Britons, one German, and one Spaniard.
September 15, 2003
Russia: Truck bomb attack on government security building in Moscow kills three.
September 20, 2003
Iraq: Governing Council Member Akila al-Hashimi killed in Baghdad.
September 23, 2003
Algeria: GSPC explodes two bombs near police vehicle, killing three.
September 29, 2003
Colombia: FARC motorcycle bomb explodes, killing 10 and injuring 54.
October 15, 2003
Gaza Strip: Palestinian Terrorists bomb a U.S. Embassy motorcade, killing three diplomatic security contractors.
October 18, 2003
Indonesia: Imam Samudra, Bali bombing suspect, sentenced to death.
November 9, 2003
Saudi Arabia: Eighteen killed, 122 injured in bomb attack on residential compound in Riyadh; no claim of responsibility but al-Qa'ida suspected.
November 12, 2003
Iraq: Italian Carabinieri Barracks bombed, killing four Iraqi Citizens; no claim of responsibility.
November 20, 2003
Turkey: Vehicle explodes in front of British Consulate General, killing 30 and wounding 450; al-Qa'ida claims responsibility.
December 14 and 25, 2003
Pakistani President Musharraf survives two assassination attempts in Islamabad, Pakistan.
December 19, 2003
The Baghdad office of The Supreme Council of The Islamic Revolution is bombed; one killed, 7 inured.
December 24, 2003
A suicide car bomb is detonated outside the Kurdish Interior Ministry in Irbil, Iraq; 5 killed, 101 injured.
December 25, 2003
Two suicide truck bombings in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, kill 14. Members of Jaish-e-Muhammad are suspected to have carried out the attacks.
2003–2004
More than 177 contract workers from over 25 nations are killed or missing in Iraq; many taken hostage and beheaded by terrorists.
2004
In Darfur, Sudan, Sudanese government forces and Janjaweed Arab militias launch a self-declared jihad on the mostly Christian and animist south through massacres; civilian executions; rapes; town, village, mosque, and church burnings, and forcible depopulations of lands by Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups. More than 70,000 people are killed and more than 1.6 million displaced in the conflict.
2004
Osama bin Laden pays an estimated $60 to $100 million to obtain the expertise of Pakistan?s nuclear engineers and other specialists. Former Soviet and Chinese nuclear scientists and technicians are also employed by bin Laden. One purchase of 12 kilos of uranium reportedly cost bin Laden more than $75 million.
2004
Some 200 international terrorist acts were carried out in 2004 by groups and organizations linked to al Qaeda, killing about 1,500 and wounding about 4,000. Almost half of the attacks involved explosives; about a fourth used firearms. Nearly 20% involved suicide missions. About 12% of the acts were directed solely against U.S. targets, around a third of the attacks involved non-Western targets. The main victims of international terrorism were the people of Central Asia and the Persian Gulf region ... overwhelmingly Muslim societies.
January 14, 2004
First female HAMAS suicide bomber kills 4, wounds 10 at Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip.
January 29, 2004
Israel: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade bus bomb in Jerusalem kills 11, wounds 50.
February 1, 2004
Iraq: Ansar al-Sunna attacks Kurdistan Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Facilities, kills 117 and wounds 221.
February 6, 2004
Russia: Unknown group detonates explosives in Moscow Metro, killing 40 and wounding 122.
February 10, 2004
Iraq: Unknown group bombs job applicants at police station, killing 55 and wounding 67.
February 21, 2004
Uganda: Lord's Resistance Army attacks refugee camp in northern region, killing 239 and wounding 60.
February 25, 2004
Explosions occur at Camp Crame Philippine National Police Force headquarters in Quezon City, Philippines; the explosions are officially reported to have been caused by an electrical short.
February 28, 2004
Pakistani police guarding the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, fall under gunfire; three are killed, six injured.
February 22, 2004
Israel: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade bus bombing in Jerusalem kills eight, wounds 72.
March 1, 2004
A bomb planted by Abu Sayyaf explodes on a ferry in Manila Bay, Philippines; 27 killed, dozens injured, and 100 missing. The incident is originally called an accident, but Sayyaf's involvement is later uncovered.
March 3, 2004
Pakistan: Unknown group bombs Shia Muslim parade in Quetta, killing 47 and wounding 120.
March 11, 2004
Four bombs explode on 3 commuter trains in Madrid, Spain; 201 are killed, 1,400 injured. Al Qaeda thought responsible, with Rabie Osman Ahmed as the key suspect, but Abu Hafs al-masri Brigade claims responsibility. Soon after the attack, Spanish voters elected a new government that pledges to withdraw troops from Iraq.
March 9, 2004
Turkey: Two suicide bombers in Istanbul kill two, wound six; Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigade claims responsibility.
April 21, 2004
Iraq: Suicide attackers detonate five car bombs in Basra, killing 73 and wounding 20.
April 21, 2004
Saudi Arabia: Unknown terrorist car-bombs Riyadh police headquarters, killing 10 and wounding 125.
May 7, 2004
Pakistan: Unknown suicide bomber attacks historic mosque, killing 15 and wounding 96.
May 8, 2004
Russia: Chechen Republic President Kadyrov killed at stadium in Groznyy when remotely detonated explosive kills 10, wounds 56.
May 21, 2004
Bangladesh: Newly appointed British High Commissioner critically injured in blast by unknown group; three killed, 100 wounded.
May 22, 2004
Colombia: Bomb explodes in crowded disco in Apartado, killing six, wounding 82; FARC suspected.
June 1, 2004
Iraq: Unknown group explodes car bomb in front of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's office, killing 25 wounding many more.
June 17, 2004
Iraq: Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi extremists bomb Iraqi Army Recruitment Center, killing 35 and wounding 138.
June 27, 2004
Iraq: Car bombs explode in Al Hillah, killing 40 and wounding 22.
July 6, 2004
Iraq: Ansar al-Sunna suicide car bombs in Khalis kill 14, wound 37.
July 14, 2004
Iraq: Car bomb attack near Iraqi Interim Government Headquarters and British Embassy in Baghdad kills 10, wounds 40.
July 19, 2004
Iraq: Fuel tanker driven into Baghdad police station, killing nine and wounding 60.
July 28, 2004
Iraq: Al-Zarqawi group bombings in Baquba kill 70, wound 56.
August 1, 2004
The United States comes under threat of attack by suicide bombings on financial buildings in
In New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. (The New York Stock Exchaange, Citigroup, Prudential, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank are targets.).
August 31, 2004
Israel: Two HAMAS bus bombings kill 16 in Beersheba.
September 1 - 3, 2004
A team of 49 Chechen Terrorists storm a middle school in the Russian town of Beslan, taking more than 1,100 people hostage. The terrorists quickly execute men and older boys, and they string a series of explosives in strategic locations in the school, including they gymnasium where the largest group of hostages are kept. The terrorists refuse to let the hostages have food or water, or even to use the restroom, leading to deplorable conditions in the heat of summer. On the third day, a poorly wired bomb is suspected of detonating on its own, provoking Russian Security Forces to storm the school and the terrorists to start shooting their hostages. More than 330 hostages die from the fire in the gymnasium after the explosion or from being shot, and 776 are wounded. Most of the terrorists die in the battle for the school, along with 11 members of the Russian Special Forces.
September 7, 2004
The 1,000th U.S. troop is killed in Iraq.
September 9, 2004
Indonesia: A car bomb packed into a small Daihatsu delivery van explodes outside the Australian embassy at Kuningan District, South Jakarta, killing 10 people including the suicide bomber and wounding over 180 others. The attack is claimed by Jemaah Islamiah, an Al-Qa'ida sponsored organization.
September 22, 2004
Israel: Female al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Bomber kills two in Jersualem.
September 26, 2004
Syria: Car Bomb kills HAMAS Leader Izz al-Din Shaykh Khalil in Damascus.
October 7, 2004
Egypt: Terroists car-bomb Hilton resort in Taba, and two other tourists areas; 34 killed, more than 100 wounded.
October 12, 2004
Gaza Strip: Israelis kill senior HAMAS Leader and explosives expert Adnan Ghul.
October 24, 2004
Iraq: Islamic Army in Baghdad kills one U.S. State Department Officer, wounds one.
November 11, 2004
Palestinian Leader, Founder and President of the PLO Yasir Arafat dies at age 75 in a military hospital in Paris, France. He was responsible for hundreds of terrorist attacks.
December 7, 2004
Armed gunmen linked to al Qaeda attack on the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Five employees and four attackers are killed.
February 14, 2005
The Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf sets off three bombs in Manila, Davao, and General Santos city in the Philippines, killing at least 9 people and wounding more than 100 others.
February 14, 2005
The previously unknown terror group Victory and Jihad claims responsibility for a massive bomb in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri and 16 other people and wounded 137. UN investigation in October finds Syria responsible.
February 28, 2005
Saajid Mohammed Badat of Gloucester, west England, becomes the first British citizen convicted of a terrorist offense since the 9/11 attacks in the United States. He pleaded guilty to conspiring with convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to blow up an aircraft in 2001.
February 25, 2005
A suicide bombing outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel, kills five and injures up to 65 people. Islamic Jihad and Syria are suspected in the attack.
February 28, 2005
Iraq: Two vehicle-bomb attacks kill more than 160 Iraqis; al-Zarqawi group claims responsibility.
April 7, 2005
A suspected suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Cairo, Egypt, market popular with tourists, killing four (an American man, a French woman and man, and an Egyptian man thought to be the bomber) and wounding 17. The Islamic Brigades of Pride in Egypt claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming it was retaliation against the United States and other "colonial powers" oppressing its Iraqi and Palestinian Islamic brothers.
April 13, 2005
In London, England, Kamel Bourgass, an Algerian, was found guilty of plotting to spread ricin, murdering a policeman, attempting to murder two other officers, and wounding another officer in January, 2003. Police think Bourgass was handpicked for training in poison-making in one of Osama bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan, and that he was part of a network of hundreds of mainly Algerian terrorists stretched across Europe and North America.
April 22, 2005
Saajid Mohammed Badat, 25, of Gloucester, west England, is sentenced to 13 years in jail for conspiring with convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 on December 22, 2001.
June 27, 2005
A military court in Astina Military Base, Israel, convicts former Israeli soldier Wahid Taysir of manslaughter in the April 2003 shooting death of Tom Hurndall, a young pro-Palestinian British activist who was helping Palestinian children avoid Israeli tanks in the Rafah refugee camp.
July 1, 2005
Police in Ankara, Turkey, kill suspected suicide bomber Eyup Beyaz as he runs toward a crowded street. Beyaz was identified as a member of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C.
July 7, 2005
In London, three near-simultaneous, bombs explode on two Underground Trains and a double-decker bus during the morning rush hour, killing 52 people and the four bombers, and injuring more than 700. Scotland Yard officials immediately suspect al Qaeda in the attacks, and they later identify 4 suspects in the bombing: British citizen Shahzad Tanweer, age 22, British citizen Mohammed Sidique Khan, age 30, and Germaine Lindsay, age 19, and Hasib Hussain, age 18; al'Qaeda later claims responsibility.
July 11, 2006
India: Synchronized blasts on the Mumbai Rail System kill nearly 200 and injure 900; LT believed responsible.
July 12, 2005
A soon-to-be-operational electrical power plant in Amorebieta, Spain, is rocked by four explosions. The Basque separatist group ETA claims responsibility for the bombing.
July 12, 2005
A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up at a mall in the coastal city of Netanya, Israel, killing three Israelis. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the blast. In response to the bombing, an Israeli force moves in to Tulkarem in an attempt to arrest Islamic Jihad militants thought responsible. At least one Palestinian is killed and two Israelis wounded after armed Palestinians open fire and the Israelis fire back.
July 12, 2005
A car bomb detonates in a Christian neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon, killing at least two and wounding 12, including Lebanon's outgoing deputy prime minister and acting defense minister Elias Murr. Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists are suspected in the bombing.
July 13, 2005
Pakistan's interior minister Aftab Khan Sherpao announces that a planned terror attack in Britain, set to take place before the country's May general elections, was thwarted and arrests were made in several countries as a result of help from Pakistan's government.
July 14, 2005
Palestinian militants fire a rocket into Israel, killing an Israeli woman.
July 15, 2005
Palestinian militants launch at least six rockets into Israel from northern Gaza, inciting violence between the militants and Palestinian security forces, bringing a state of emergency to the territories.
July 21, 2005
In London, England, four minor coordinated explosions occur at three underground stations and one London bus. One person is injured. The group, Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, claiming links to al Qaeda, takes responsibility for the attack.
August 2, 2005
In Tehran, Iran, an explosive device detonates in a building housing offices for British Airways and oil company BP, breaking windows and causing damage. No deaths or injuries were reported.
August 17, 2005
More than 100 bombs detonate in more than 36 districts, mainly in and around government facilities, press clubs, and the courts across Bangladesh, inuring at least 125 people and killing at least two. Jamayetul Mujahedin, an Islamic militant group that wants to establish an Islamic state in Bangladesh, distributed leaflets at the bomb sites but did not officially claim responsibility for the attacks.
August 19, 2005
Three rockets narrowly miss two U.S. military ships in Aqaba, Jordan. They strike a warehouse and hospital, killing one Jordanian solider and severely wounding another. An al'Qaeda-linked group claims responsibility for the attacks.
October 1, 2005
Three suicide bombers attack crowded tourist restaurants in Bali, killing 26 and wounding more than 100. Officials initially blamed unnamed terrorists, who are suspected to have been schooled by the Philippines-based terror group Abu Sayyaf, for the attack. Later it was determined that Azahari bin Husin, JI bomb maker is responsible.
October 6, 2005
Suspected Islamic insurgents shoot and kill five soldiers and wound two others as they eat dinner at a military outpost in southern Thailand. The beheaded body of a villager who is suspected to be have been killed by insurgents is also discovered in a southern province. The beheading is the 11th reported in Thailand since Islamic separatists revived a violent insurgency in January 2004. The violence has claimed more than 1,000 lives.
October 15, 2005
The new constitution of Iraq is approved.
October 25, 2005
The 2,000th U.S. soldier is killed in Iraq.
October 26, 2005
Hadera, Israel - A suicide bombing in a crowded marketplace kills five and wounds 28 others. Palestinian sources identify the bomber as Hassan Abu Zeid; Islamic Jihad claim responsibility for the attack.
October 27, 2005
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly states that Israel "must be wiped out from the map of the world."He then also states, "And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism." Several world capitals immediately condemn Iran's leader and call for Tehran to be expelled from the United Nations.
October 29, 2005
India: Bombings in New Delhi kill 55, wounds close to 200, Islamic Inquilab Mahaz group claims responsibility.
November 9, 2005
Jordan: Three near-simultaneous bomb attacks against Western hotels in Amman kill more than 50, injure 110; al-Qa'ida in Iraq claims responsibility.
December 5, 2005
A suicide bomber kills five people and injures 35 others in an attack outside a shopping mall in Netanya. The radical Palestinian group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
December 2005
President Bush estimates that 30,000 Iraqis have been killed in fighting and terrorist events in Iraq.
December 15, 2005
Democratic parliamentary elections are held in Iraq.
January 19, 2006
Twelve people are wounded when a suicide bomber detonates his backpack bomb outside a sandwich shop in Tel Aviv, Israel.
January 26, 2006
Hamas wins a majority in the Palestinian elections, giving the group control over the Palestinian government. Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel, is recognized as a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union.
February 22, 2006
Iraq: Destruction of al-Askari (Golden Dome) Mosque in Samarra' triggers retaliatory attacks that kill nearly 400 in subsequent week; al-Qa'ida in Iraq claims responsibility of attack.
March 3, 2006
University of North Carolina graduate Mohammed Taheri-azar drives his SUV into a crowd on the U.N.C. Chapel Hill campus, injuring nine. He stated that the act was to avenge the treatment of Muslims.
March 16, 2006
Since February 22, 2006, waves of violence between Sunni and Shiite factions in Iraq kill hundreds of Iraqis.
March 16, 2006
The new Iraqi parliament convenes for the first time.
March 21, 2006
32 Islamic extremists are indicted in Madrid, Spain, for a failed plot to bomb the National Court in Madrid with the goal of destroying evidence in other terror investigations and killing the more than 1000 people who worked in the building. The suspects are also charged with belonging to a terrorist group.
March 26, 2006
Rival radical-Islamic militia groups clash on the outskirts of Mogadishu, killing 144 and injuring hundreds. The Associated Press reports that the battles pitted hard-line Islamic clerics on one side against fighters loyal to Somali warlords.
April 13, 2006
The Human Rights Watch organization reports that in eastern Chad 188 villagers were massacred by Sudanese rebels crossing the border. The Sudanese Janjaweed militia committed massacres in Djawara, Gimeze, Singtao and Korkosanyo. The Janjaweed are Arabic-speaking nomadic warriors from Darfur and Sudan.
May 3, 2006
U.S.: Zacarias Moussaoui sentenced to life in prison for aiding the 9/11 attacks.
June 2, 2006
Canada: Police arrest 17 alleged terrorists in Ontario; group believed to be planning attacks using truck bombs, and small-arms fire.
June 7, 2006
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is killed by a U.S. airstrike on a safe house north of Baghdad. al Zarqawi was the Al-Qa'eda leader in Iraq and he was behind many kidnappings and beheadings there.
July 1, 2006
Iraq: Car bomb attack kills more than 60 in Baghdad market.
July 11, 2006
At least 140 people, including many civilians die in battle between hard-line Islamic militants and Somalia's last secular warlord. Warlord Abdi Hassan Awale Qeydiid surrendered and fled the country.
July 11, 2006
Seven explosions rip through a commuter train packed with passengers, killing 211. Lashkar-e-Toiba "Army of the Pure" - one of the most militant and violent radical Islamic groups in southeast Asia - is suspected of carrying out the terrorist attack.
July 13, 2006
Israel bombs Hizballah in Lebanon in response to the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers. Air strikes from Israel destroy air strips and roads in Lebanon. Israel blockades ports. Thousands of people leave Lebanon in fear of the bombings.
August 10, 2006
British police arrest 21 suspects in an apparent al Qaeda plot to detonate liquid explosives on planes flying from the U.K. to the U.S. The plot was to blow up 10 airliners heading to the U.S.
August 12, 2006
Three men are arrested in Caro, Michigan, when they were found to be with 1,000 untraceable cell phones. It is believed that the men were using the phones in order to make money for terrorism or use them as explosives. A possible target was the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan.
August 31, 2006
Thailand: One killed as more than 20 bombs explode almost simultaneously inside banks in south.
September 4, 2006
Philippines: ASG Commander Khadafi Janjalani dies in shootout on Jolo Island.
September 5, 2006
Denmark: Police arrest nine on charges of platting terrorist attack; chemicals, materials for explosives seized.
September 12, 2006
Syrian security forces thwart an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Damascus. Syrians killed three attackers and apprehended a suspect outside the embassy after a car exploded near the walls of the American compound.
September 18, 2006
An LTTE suicide bomber crashes a truck filled with explosives into convoy carrying unarmed Sri Lankan Navy personal going on leave, killing at least 92 sailors.
October 31, 2006
Arab fighters battle against ethnic Africans along Chad's border with Darfur, killing 128 Africans. The Associated Press reported that the fight erupted on Oct. 30, when a member of one group insulted a member of the other. Only five Arabs died in the conflict.
November 23, 2006
Several car bombs and mortar attacks kill at least 215 people and wounds another 257 in Sadr City, Iraq.
February 3, 2007
A truck bomb in Baghdad kills at least 135 people and injures at least 339.
February 27, 2007
Afghanistan: Suicide attack on Bagram Air Base during visit by Vice President Cheney, killing 23 and injuring 20
March 3, 2007
Algeria: AQIM bombs convoy carrying Russian workers, killing seven and wounding five.
March 6, 2007
Two suicide bombers detonate themselves in a crowd of Shia Pilgrims in Hilla, Iraq, killing 120 Shiite pilgrims and injuring 190.
March 19, 2007
Afghanistan: Suicide Bomber attacks U.S. Embassy convoy, wounding two officials and one Afghan child; Taliban claims responsibility.
March 27, 2007
Two truck bombs kill 153 people and injure 347 in Tal Afar, Iraq.
March 29, 2007
Two suicide bombers kill 79 people and injure 81 in Baghdad.
March 31, 2007
A well-planned and brutal early-morning Janjaweed attack on relatively prosperous Chad villages kills at least 200 people, many of them women and children.
April 11, 2007
Two al-Qa'eda suicide bombers use car bombs to kill 33 people and injure 222 in Algiers, Algeria.
April 14, 2007
A car bomb kills 65 people and injures 100 in Karbala, Iraq.
April 18, 2007
A wave of attacks, including five car bombs kill 198 people, mostly Sunnis, and injure 251 in Baghdad, Iraq.
May 7, 2007
Six men are arrested in Fort Dix after planning to kill U.S. soldiers.
June 3, 2007
Authorities disrupt plot to blow up a system of jet fuel supply tanks and pipelines at JFK International Airport in New York.
June 13, 2007
Iraq: Second bombing of al-Askari (Golden Dome) Mosque in Samarra'. No casualties, but mosque's two 10-story minarets destroyed. First bombing, on 22 June 2006, destroyed mosque's golden dome.
June 29, 2007
United Kingdom: Two car bombs safely dismantled in London.
June 30, 2007
United Kingdom: urning vehicle driven into Glasgow Airport; Iraqi doctors, others , arrested in this and 29 June 2007 attempted car bombings.
July 7, 2007
A truck hauling two tons of explosives detonates in a crowded Shiite open-air market, killing 156 people.
August 14, 2007
Al Qaeda uses five separate suicide bombings to target Yazidis, a small Kurdish sect that hard-line Islamics consider blasphemous. Up to 500 people died in the attacks, which were the deadliest since the start of the Iraq war.
August 15, 2007
Iraq: At least 400 killed, hundreds injured in four truck-bomb explosions in remote Northern Desert.
October 17, 2007
Two bombs detonate near a truck transporting former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in a motorcade celebrating her return to Pakistan after she had spent 8 years in exile. Earlier in the week, militants loyal to al Qaeda had threatened to assassinate Bhutto.
November 6, 2007
A bomb explodes outside a sugar factory in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 80, including members of the Afghan parliament.
December 27, 2007
Pakistan 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.
February 1, 2008
Two mentally disabled women strapped with explosives are blown up by remote control in busy Baghdad markets. The bombs kill at least 98 people and wounded more than 200.
June 18, 2008
A car bomb timed to detonate at the peak of the day killed at least 51 people and wounded 75 on the evening of June 18, 2008 in a Baghdad Shiite neighborhood. The death toll was reported as the highest from a Baghdad attack in more than three months. The explosion struck a busy bus terminal in Huriya, near a market. The New York Times reported that one man lost 11 relatives in the explosion, including five female cousins. It was the worst attack since early March, when a two-stage bomb attack in the Karada shopping district killed at least 54 people and wounded 123.
November 26 - 29, 2008
India: Ten members of a Pakistani Terrorist Group attack a Jewish Center and several hotels frequented by Westerners, in Mumbai, India (formally Bombay), the capital of the Indian State Maharashtara and the Financial Capital of India. In a three-day ordeal 173 individuals are killed (including 9 of the Terrorists) and 308 are wounded. Only one Terrorist, Ajmal Amir Kasab survives and is captured by Indian authorities. He later admits that he belongs to the Pakistani Militant Group Lashkar-e-Taiba, and confesses that the group is responsible for the attacks,.
