List of terrorist incidents, 1990
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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1990.
January 6: A car bomb explodes outside private offices in Bogotá. While no casualties are reported, the office belonged to the son of the personal secretary of Colombian president, Virgilio Barco.[1]
February: The IRA detonate a bomb at Leicester Army Recruiting Office. MP Keith Vaz suggests that the army may have planted the bomb.[2]- February 12: The IRA shoot down a British army helicopter in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, near the border with the Irish Republic.[3]
- April 6: Colombian police defuse a truck containing more than a half-ton of explosives in a wealthy residential area of Bogotá. The truck had been parked in front of a high school and was set to go off during the morning rush.[4]
- April 11: A bomb kills 14 and injures 100 in Medellín. The bomb was directed at a group of Elite Police and it is blamed on the Medellín Cartel, which had offered $100,000 for every anti-terrorism police killed and $ 4,500 for every regular policeman assassinated.[5]
- April 25: A car bomb kills nine in Medellín. Authorities believe the Medellín Cartel is responsible. The next day, presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro Leongómez is assassinated while onboard a commercial airliner.[6]
- April 25: A bomb hidden in a dump truck kills six and injures at least 36 in Bogotá.[7]
- May 4: A bomb exploded in front of a pharmacy in Cali, killing four and wounding 20. It is blamed on the ongoing war between the two rival drug cartels in Colombia.
- May 7: A car bomb kills one and injures five, outside a government building in Pereira, capital of Risaralda State. No group claims responsibility but the government blames drug lords who declared war on the country nine months earlier.[8]
- May 13: Two car bombs explode simultaneously in the Quirigua and Niza shopping malls during Mother's Day in Bogotá killing 19, including six children, and wounding 140, while another bomb exploded in a restaurant in Cali, killing six and injuring 20. Authorities say the Medellín Cartel is to blame for the attacks.[9]
- May 16 The IRA detonate a bomb under a military minibus in London, killing Sgt Charles Chapman, and injuring four other soldiers.[10]
- May 17: A bomb inside a shopping mall in Cartagena wounds 22. The Medellín Cartel is blamed.[11]
- May 25: A suicide bomber detonates a car bomb when stopped by police, killing himself and three others in Medellín.[12]
June 1: A British Royal Artillery officer is assassinated by the IRA in Dortmund in West Germany.[13]- June 15: A car bomb kills four near a police station in Medellín. Authorities blame the Medellín Cartel which had previously pledged to murder police in retaliation to the government's anti-drug policies.[14]
- June 29: A car bomb kills 14 and injures 30 in Medellín. The Medellín Cartel is blamed by authorities.[15]
- July 15: A round of terrorist attacks leaves 40 dead in Medellín. Another bomb exploded in Puerto Asís, killing six and injuring five.[16]
- July 20: The IRA detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange causing damage to the building. Nobody was injured in the blast.[17]
- July 30: Ian Gow MP killed by a car bomb planted by the IRA while at his home in Sussex.
August 10: A bus going from Tbilisi, Georgia to Agdam, Azerbaijan is blown up. Twenty people die and 33 are injured.- October 24: A series of car bombings directed by the IRA in Northern Ireland leave six British soldiers and a civilian dead and 37 wounded.
PLF attack in the beaches on Tel Aviv.- PLO attack on the US embassy.
- September: Rebels bomb two sections of Colombia's Caño Limón pipeline. It is the fourth attack against the pipeline in two weeks, and rebel group ELN claims responsibility.[18]
November 5: Assassination of Meir Kahane head of Israel's Koch party and founder of the American vigilante group the Jewish Defense League in a Manhattan, New York hotel lobby by early elements of Al Queda.- December 13: A remote control bomb kills seven police officer and injures 23 more in Medellín. Authorities blame the Medellín Cartel for the attack.[19]
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[edit] References
- ^ AP: Untitled, January 8, 1990
- ^ BBC: Keith Vaz: Minister and networker, Profile of Keith Vaz, January 26, 2001
- ^ AP: Copter Forced Down in Ulster, The New York Times,February 12, 1990
- ^ AP, April 6, 1990
- ^ AP: Untitled, April 16, 1990
- ^ AP: Untitled, April 30, 1990
- ^ AP, April 26, 1990
- ^ San Jose Mercuary News, May 8, 1990
- ^ The Washington Post, May 13, 1990, Douglas Farah
- ^ House of Commons (UK): Terrorist Incidents, Hansard for Session 1995-96, Vol 273, March 4, 1996
- ^ AP, May 18, 1990
- ^ Reuters, May 25, 1990
- ^ Malcolm Sutton: An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland, Conflict Archive on the INternet (CAIN)
- ^ AP: Untitled, June 18, 1990
- ^ AP: Untitled, July 2, 1990
- ^ AP, July 16, 1990
- ^ BBC: 1990: IRA bombs Stock Exchange, On this day, July 20, 1990
- ^ The Miami Herald, September 16, 1990
- ^ St. Louis Post Dispatch, December 14, 1990, Page 15A
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