List of terrorist incidents, 1993
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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1993.
Colombia, January 7: A car bomb kills two and injures 39 in the parking lot of a building where several judges lived, in the city of Medellín.[1]
United States, January 25: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fires an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, killing two and injuring three others, see FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.- Colombia, January 30: A bomb kills 20 in downtown Bogotá. The attack is blamed on drug leader Pablo Escobar.[2]
- Colombia, February 11: A bomb kills 14 and injures 25 at an auto repair shop in Barrancabermeja.[3]
- Colombia, February 22: Two powerful car bombs kill four and injure 100 in a commercial district and a shopping mall in Bogotá. The attacks are likely linked to drug traffickers waging war against the Colombian government.[4]
- United States, February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra'/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front,[5] see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ramzi Yousef.
India, March 12: Mumbai car bombings leave 257 dead with 1,400 others injured.- India, March 17: A bomb blast in Calcutta killed at least 50 people. Two apartment blocks came crashing down when the blast rocked central Calcutta's Bowbazar locality shortly after midnight.
- India, March 19: A bomb exploded in Calcutta's Sealdah rail terminus, killing one person and wounding a dozen others
- Colombia, April 15: A bomb kills 15 and wounds over 100 at the Centro 93 shopping mall in Bogotá. Authorities blame Pablo Escobar.[6]
Israel, April 16: Hamas kill 2 in Mehola Junction bombing.
United Kingdom, March 20: IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children (See Warrington Bomb Attacks).- United Kingdom, April 24: IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing one person and causing approximately £1bn of damage.[7] (See 1993 Bishopsgate bombing.)
Sri Lanka, May 1: Suicide bomber in Colombo kills Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa. Attack carried out by LTTE.[8][9]
Italy, May 27: A car-bomb placed by mafia in the neighbourhood of the Uffizi museum in Florence kills five people and wounds 40.- United States June: Failed New York City landmark bomb plot, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
Spain, June 21: ETA Basque terrorist group bombs a military truck in Madrid, kills seven, 36 injured.- United Kingdom, July 5: the IRA detonate a 1,500 lb (680 kg) car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but severe property damage is caused to the town centre.
- Italy, July 27: Three car-bombs explode simultaneously and in a street in the center of Milan, killing five, and in front of two churches in Rome. The attack is attributed to mafia.
- United Kingdom, October 23: the Shankill Road bombing at a fish and chip shop on the Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast, kills ten people, including two children.
- United Kingdom, October 30: Seven people killed in the Rising Sun Bar massacre, when Loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters gunmen attack a bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry.
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- ^ San Jose Mercury News, January 8, 1993, Page 17A
- ^ AP: Untitled February 1, 1993
- ^ NYT: 14 killed and 25 wounded by a car bomb in Colombia, February 11, 1993
- ^ AP: Untitled, February 22, 1993
- ^ Official prepared statement of Steven Emerson before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information, on February 24, 1998, Federal Information Systems Corporation, Federal News Service, as downloaded from the Library of Congress, 1998, Made available 4/5/98
- ^ AP, April 16, 1993
- ^ BBC: IRA bomb devastates City of London, On this day, April 24, 1993
- ^ BBC News: Timeline of the Tamil conflict, September 4, 2000
- ^ The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, ROBERT A. PAPE The University of Chicago, American Political Science Review Vol. 97, No. 3 August 2003, Page No 16
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