List of terrorist incidents, 2007

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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 2007.

Contents 1 January 2 February 3 March 4 April 5 May 6 June 7 July 8 August 9 September 10 October 11 November 12 December 13 See also 14 References

[edit] January

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
January 5	6	30	Sri Lanka, Nittambuwa: A bus is bombed. The government blames Tamil Tiger, who denies it.[1][2] See 2007 Sri Lankan bus bombs.
January 6	15	~24	Sri Lanka, near the tourist resort of Hikkaduwa: A bus is bombed. The government blames Tamil Tiger, who denies it.[2]
January 10	6	34	Philippines, General Santos City, Kidapawan City, Cotabato City: Three bombs are detonated; Muslim militants trying to disrupt ASEAN Summit are suspected.[3]
January 22	~131	~186	Iraq, Haraj market in Baghdad, Khalis market near Baquba, west Baghdad, south Baghdad, Baghdad: See 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings.[4]
January 26	1	~5	Pakistan, Marriott Hotel in Islamabad: A suicide bomber kills himself and a security guard, who is trying to enter.[5]
January 27	~14	~30	Pakistan, Peshawar: A suicide bombing occurs before a Shia religious procession is started.[6]
January 29	3		Israel, Eilat: Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim joint responsibility for a suicide bombing.[7]

[edit] February

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
February 3	~135	305	Iraq, Baghdad, al-Sadriya district market: Truck bombing. See 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing.[8]
February 3	23	20	Pakistan, 2007 Bagram Air Base bombing
February 17	15	~24	Pakistan, Quetta. A suicide bomber detonates a bomb in a courtroom.[9]
February 18	~4		Somalia, Mogadishu: A car bomb, the first such attack of the Islamist insurgency in Somalia (2007–present).[10]
February 19	68	~49	India: Samjhauta Express, a train headed toward Lahore an hour after it leaves New Delhi; two bombs explode. See 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings.[11][12]

• January–February: 52 civilians killed in insurgent attacks in Afghanistan, according to Human Rights Watch.^[13]
• January–February: 2007 United Kingdom letter bombs.
• February: 2007 chlorine bombings in Iraq.

[edit] March

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
March 1		10	Ten injured in a car bomb blast in Neiva, capital of Huila; rebel group FARC is believed responsible. The action is suspected to be an assassination attempt on Neiva's mayor.[14]
March 3	5		A bomb kills four police officers and one civilian in the city of Neiva, as they attempt to deactivate it.[15]
March 5	2		The Taliban kidnap Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo whilst beheading his driver. Mastrogiacomo was released March 19 after Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed to free five Taliban prisoners. His translator was left behind. On April 8, an Afghan government official confirmed that the translator was killed.[16]
March 6	114		Two suicide bombers kill 114 Shiite pilgrims in Hilla, Iraq. [17]
March 16	16	16	A bomb kills 16 and injures 16 in Buenaventura. Authorities blame FARC. [18]
March 27	152	347	Two truck bombs kill 152 people and injure 347 in Tal Afar, Iraq. See 2007 Tal Afar bombings. [19]
March 28		10	A bomb injures ten in a grocery store in Buenaventura. [20]
March 29	79	81	Two suicide bombers kill 79 people and injure 81 in a market in Baghdad. [21]

[edit] April

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
April 8	1		In the two weeks prior to April 8, at least thirteen Afghans and two French aid workers are kidnapped. Rebels demand further releases of their jailed associates in exchange for some of the hostages. [22]
April 9	1	30	A bomb used against a police headquarters in Cali kills one and injures 30. FARC are blamed. [23]
April 10	1	23	Three suicide bombers kill one policeman and injure 23 people in Casablanca, Morocco. [24]
April 11	33	222	Two suicide car bombs kill 33 people and injure 222 in Algiers, Algeria; Al-Qaeda takes responsibility. See 2007 Algiers bombings. [25]
April 12	8	20	One suicide bomber kills eight people and injures 20 in the cafeteria of the Iraqi Parliament, in the Green Zone in Baghdad. [26]
April 14	65	100	Suicide car bomb kills 65 people and injure 100 in Karbala, Iraq. [27]
April 14		1	Two suicide bombers explode near the American Language Center in Casablanca, Morocco; one person is injured. [28]
April 16	33		Seung-Hui Cho kills 33 people, including himself, in the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst civilian shooting spree in United States history and the worst case of mass murder in the United States since 9/11. (Note: this may be commonly considered a general massacre and thus included in the List of massacres, but there had been several hints of Cho's attempt to kill, including a manifesto tape to NBC News describing his motives — an attempt to terrorize). [29]
April 18	198	251	A series of explosions kills 198 people and injures 251 in Baghdad, Iraq. See 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings. [30]
April 18	3		In Malatya, Turkey, hometown of Mehmet Ali Agca, three Christian men—one of them a 45-year-old German father of three children, Tilman Geske—are brutally murdered by at least four young men who confess to the slayings. The assassins torture their victims for hours before cutting their throats; an autopsy of the German victim finds 156 stab wounds. Hurriyet newspaper quotes a suspect: "Let this be a lesson to enemies of our religion."[31][32][33]
April 28	28	35	Interior minister Aftab Khan Sherpao of Pakistan suffers minor injuries, 28 are killed, and 35 are injured (ten critically) in a suicide bombing after the minister finishes speaking. [34]
April 28	28	35	A car bomb kills 63 people and injures 70 in Karbala, Iraq. [35]

[edit] May

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
May 6	35	80	A car bomb kills 35 people and injures 80 in Baghdad, Iraq. [36]
May 6	1	8	In a bomb attack by Muslim extremists on an UN-run elementary school in the southern Gaza refugee camp of Rafah, one person, a bodyguard of a local Fatah politician, is killed; eight others, including two children, are injured. The attack happens during a sports festival that earlier had been denounced as un-Islamic by the extremists. [37]
May 9	9		A roadside bomb kills nine police officers engaged in antinarcotics operations; attack is blamed on FARC. [38]
May 10	10		A second roadside bomb kills ten soldiers while on patrol; attack is blamed on FARC. [39]
May 12	1	14	In Izmir, Turkey, a bomb explosion on a market kills one person and injures 14 others, one day before a planned march of secular Turks to demonstrate against the Islamic-rooted government. [40]
May 13	50	115	A suicide truck bomb kills 50 people and injures 115 in Makhmur, Iraq. [41]
May 15	24		A bomb explodes in a restaurant in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar; up to 24 people are killed. [42]
May 15		5	Hamas launches 28 rockets into an Israeli town, injuring five. Despite Hamas' claim that the motive was retaliation for Israeli violence, NBC News claims, "...likely, it was an attempt to draw Israel into the fighting as a way of uniting the Palestinians against a common foe." [43]
May 18	1	37	Five-year-old Adril Watangao is killed and 37 other people are injured when a bomb, probably laid by Islamic extremists, explodes in the Weena bus terminal in Cotabato city, in the Mindanao region of southern Philippines. [44]
May 18	14		Attack on Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad. For details, see 18 May 2007 Mecca Masjid bombing. [45]
May 21	1		A Qassam rocket fired by Hamas hits a car in Sderot, killing 35-year-old Shir-El Friedman in the blast. [46]
May 22	6		A suicide bombing rips through an Ankara shopping district Tuesday, killing at six people and wounding dozens more. See 2007 Ankara bombing. [47]

[edit] June

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
June 3	6	20	A car bomb suicide attack on the Prime Minister's house in Mogadishu kills six guards and injures 20, while PM Ali Mohamed Gedi survives his third assassination attempt unhurt. [48]
June 8	1	28	An explosion occurs outside a tea shop in the city of Yala and kills one woman and wounds 28 other people. [49]
June 8	2	5	A bomb explodes on a bus as it is traveling through the town of Hub, in Balochistan province. Two passengers die and five suffer injuries. [50]
June 8		10	An improvised bomb explodes aboard a bus in a remote area of Cotabato; ten people are injured. [51]
June 10		14	A bomb explodes outside a clothing store in Istanbul and injures 14 people. [52]
June 11	1	37	A bomb explodes in a business district of Nairobi. The blast occurs outside the Ambassador Hotel, just a few blocks from the U.S. Embassy—scene of a devastating bomb attack in 1998—killing one person and injuring 37 others. [53]
June 14			A car bomb kills ten people in Beirut, Lebanon. Among the dead is the MP Walid Eido. [54]
June 14			Motihar police are able to defuse a bomb planted at the main gate of the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET). The bomb is the latest in a series targeting the area and is claimed by Jadid al Qaeda. [55]
June 19	75	204	A truck bomb blast on a square near a mosque kills 75 and wounds 204. [56]
June 24	6	2	A suicide car bomb targets and kills six members of Unifil, near the border with Israel; two others are also injured. The casualties are Spanish and Colombian nationals. [57]
June 29	4	10	Four people are dead and ten are injured by three launched rockets and fired AK-47s in an assassination attempt on prime minister Guillaume Soro. [58]
June 29, June 30		5	2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, 2007 London car bombs, 2007 UK terrorist incidents. Car bomb plot, suspected Al-Qaeda. At Glasgow Airport, a car rams into the main terminal, causing minor injuries to five people and setting off a blaze. An explosive device catches fire instead of detonating. In London's West End, an attempt to set off two car bombs by suspected cell-phone triggers fails. One car is towed before the device is discovered in an underground car park. Police link two the incidents and find suicide notes on two suspects in the London incident. [59] Eight men are arrested, one Glasgow suspect is critically burned. One of the five men could be an associate of Dhiren Bharot, a high-level Al-Qaeda operative. Authorities say the London bombs could have caused "significant loss of life."[60][61] Police link the two incidents to the same two people.[62]
June 29			Sri Lanka Navy personnel find a truck packed with over 1000 kg (2200 lbs.) of high explosives in the eastern port city of Trincomalee. It is suspected that Tamil Tiger (LTTE) rebels were planning to use it to blow up a major civilian target in the area. Two weeks earlier, a similar explosive-laden Tamil Tigers truck was detected close to Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka. [63]

[edit] July

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
July 2	10	12	Eight Spanish tourists and two Yemenis are killed and another twelve are wounded in a suicide bombing attack at the Queen of Sheba temple in Marib. [64]
July 19	2		The Taliban kidnap 23 South Korean church workers, killing two execution-style and dumping their bloodied bodies by the roadside. Two of the female hostages report being repeatedly raped. On August 30, after negotiations between the parties, all the hostages are released. An Afghan official involved in the negotiations tells ABC News that South Korea paid the Taliban $950,000 (or $50,000 a head) to secure their release, a charge that was denied by South Korea.[65] However, Seoul has confirmed that it negotiated the withdrawal of its 200 noncombatant troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2007 in exchange for the release of the hostages. The South Korean government also agreed to prevent future missionaries from entering the country.[66]

• Week ending July 21: More than one hundred and fifty are killed in various incidents in retaliation for a Pakistani Army assault on the Red Mosque. The attacks are organized by Ayman Al-Zawahiri, according to Pakistani and Taliban officials interviewed by Newsweek magazine.^[67]

[edit] August

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
August 14		60	A Moscow-St. Petersburg train is derailed by an explosion halfway between the two cities on the country's busiest rail route, leaving 60 injured, 30 of them hospitalized. [68]
August 14	500		The 2007 Qahtaniya bombings in northern Iraq kill at least 500 people. [69]
August 25	44	54	Hyderabad bombings. Twin bombings kill at least 44 and injure 54 in Hyderabad. Two bombs are diffused and 19 others are found unexploded. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh state, blames Islamic militants with ties to Pakistan or Bangladesh, saying that the extremists want to foment tension between India's Hindus and Muslims. Both Bangladesh and Pakistan deny the accusations.[70]

[edit] September

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
September 4	21	74	Two bomb blasts, one on a bus carrying government employees, kill at least 21 people and wound 74 in Rawalpindi. [71]
September 4			Three men are arrested and more are being sought on suspicion of planning attacks (potentially much larger than the London or Madrid bombings) on the Frankfurt International Airport, the U.S. military base in Ramstein, and pubs and schools frequented by Americans. The German Defense minister says, "There was an imminent threat." Two of the suspects are said to be connected to a German cell of Islamic Jihad with likely Al Qaeda ties. Two others are Muslim converts and have German citizenship, while the third is Pakistani. [72] See Alleged 2007 bomb plot in Germany.[73]
September 4			Eight men with alleged links to leading senior Al Qaeda terrorists are arrested, the country's intelligence service said, claiming to have thwarted a bomb plot. The arrests occur without incident in raids on eleven locations in and around Copenhagen. The suspects are of Afghan, Pakistani, Somali, and Turkish origin. [74]
September 6			A bombing targets President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's motorcade. [75]
September 29			A bomb explodes in the Maldivian capital, Malé, injuring twelve foreign tourists. [76]

• July, September 10: Mexican gas and oil pipelines are attacked in six places, causing explosions, fires, and gas leaks that force the evacuation of thousands of people and close hundreds of factories in ten states for up to a week. Two women in their 70s who live nearby die of heart attacks afterward. The bombers had filled fire extinguishers with a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, then detonated them with plastic explosives wired to digital watches and batteries. The Popular Revolutionary Army, a Marxist guerrilla group, is blamed for these attacks and at least 88 kidnappings that forced the payment of millions of dollars in ransom.^[77][78]

[edit] October

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
October 1	15	22	In the town of Bannu, in northwestern Pakistan, a male suicide bomber disguised as a woman and wearing a burqa sets off a blast that kills at least 15 people and injures 22 others. [79]
October 2	13		In Kabul, a suicide bomber wearing a pakul and a chador blows up a police bus, killing 13 officers and civilians. This occurs on the same day that a U.N. report finds that while 76% of all suicide bombings during 2007 in the country have targeted international and Afghan security forces, 143 civilians were killed by those bombs through August. [80]
October 2			Two Bosnians are arrested in an apparent plot to bomb the United States embassy in Vienna. One is arrested after his bag packed with explosives and several handfuls of nails and screws set off a metal detector at the entrance to the embassy. He was also carrying a Muslim prayer manual. He fled on foot, but was captured a short distance away after tossing the backpack into the street. It did not explode, and no one was injured. [81]
October 3			The Polish ambassador to Iraq, General Edward Pietrzyk, is injured in an assassination attempt in Baghdad. His convoy is hit by three bombs and is then fired upon. The diplomat sustains a leg wound and suffers burns in the attack and is evacuated from the scene via a Blackwater helicopter. The attacks kill three in his entourage and two Iraqi civilians and wound eleven Iraqi civilians. [82]
October 14	1	2	In a suicide attack on a police station of the Amsterdam district Slotervaart, Bilal Bajaka, a 22-year-old Amsterdammer of Moroccan origin, severely injures two Dutch police officers by stabbing them eight times before he is shot dead by an injured policewoman. Bajaka was in contact with the Hofstad terrorist group and had been visited by Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of Theo van Gogh (film director). According to media reports, Bajaka's brother Abdullah was investigated in 2005 for planning a terrorist attack on an El-Al Boeing at Schiphol airport. On the day after Bajaka's death, a group of youths throw stones at a Slotervaart police station and set cars on fire.[83][84][85][86][87] [88]
October 14	6	20	A bomb explodes in the Shingar Cinema in Ludhiana, killing at least six people and wounding 20, police say.[citation needed] [89]
October 18	136	387	2007 Karachi bombings. Twin suicide bombings occur in Karachi near a truck carrying former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto through a crowded street of supporters eight hours after her return from exile, despite 20,000 security officers having been assigned to protect her. At least 136 are killed and 387 are wounded; Bhutto escapes unharmed. The Taliban or Al Qaeda are suspected. [90][91]
October 21	12	16	PKK stages an attack on the Turkish outpost in Hakkari. The attack wounds 16 and kills 12 Turkish soldiers carried out of northern Iraq. Also, eight soldiers are kidnapped. [92]
October 24		2	An off-duty Israeli Defense Force soldier is badly injured and a civilian is slightly injured in a shooting attack on the Trans-Samaria road, near the entrance to Ariel. Responsibility for the shooting is claimed by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. [93]
October 26		2	A pair of improvised explosive devices are thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black powder and detonated by fuses, causing very minor damage. Police investigate the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005. [94]

[edit] November

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
November 6	80		A bomb explodes outside a sugar factory in the northern part of the country, killing at least 80 people, including members of the Afghan parliament, according to officials. [95]
November 7	9	10	Jokela school shooting. Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a gunman, kills seven students, the principal, and the school nurse at the school located in Tuusula; he also injures ten before committing suicide. Auvinen, on various web postings and videos, said he was a Social Darwinist and a believer in natural selection. Auvinen wrote, "This is my war: one man's war against humanity, governments, and weak-minded masses of the world." [96]
November 13	2	9	An explosion in the Philippine House of Representatives kills two people, including a congressman, and wounds nine others. [97]
November 19	3		IDF Soldiers shoot and kill three terrorists attempting to climb the Gaza security fence near the Israeli community of Netiv Ha'asara; the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim responsibility for the infiltration attempt. An organization spokesman says, "It was planned to be a suicide attack." [98]
November 23	15	80	Uttar Pradesh serial blasts. Near-simultaneous blasts triggered by militants in court premises in Varanasi, Faizabad, and the state capital kill 15 people and injure more than 80. [99]
November 23	5	13	A bomb goes off on a bus that is traveling from Vladikavkaz, in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia, to the neighboring city of Pyatigorsk; five people are killed and another 13 are injured. [100]

[edit] December

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
December 6	1		A parcel bomb explodes in Paris, France and kills one, seriously injures another, and injures several other people. [101]
December 11	37	177	Bombings in Algiers kill 37 or more and injure 177. [102]
December 12	2		A car bomb kills Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj (a top candidate to head Lebanon's military) and his driver, and injures dozens more. The bombing occurs in front of the municipal building in Baabda, a Christian suburb of Beirut. [103]
December 12	40	125	Three car bombs detonate in rapid succession, killing at least 40 and wounding 125 in the Shi'ite city of Amarah. Iraqi State television reports that many of the casualties involve women and children. [104]
December 21	50		A mosque suicide bombing kills at least 50, targeting Aftab Khan Sherpao, the Interior Minister of Pakistan. [105]
December 23	9	23	Suicide bombing kills nine, wounds 23. [106]
December 24			Police stop a would-be bomber with 3.5 kg of plastic explosives in Istanbul, outside a subway station. [107]
December 24			Four French tourists are gunned down in Aleg, Mauritania; the family's father survives, but with serious injuries. Mauritanian police say two of the three suspects are affiliated with a salafist group close to Al-Qaeda. [108][109]
December 27			Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by an attacker who shoots her after a campaign rally in Rawalpindi and then blows himself up; at least 20 are known dead. A Baitullah Mehsud Islamic Terrorism leader or elements within the Pervez Musharraf government are suspected. [110],[111][112] See Benazir Bhutto assassination.
December 28			Palestinian militants kill two Israeli hikers—Israeli soldiers on leave—near the West Bank city of Hebron. The shooters belong to Mahmoud Abass' Fatah movement and are directly linked to the PA security forces.[113][114]

[edit] See also

• List of terrorist incidents

[edit] References

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