List of terrorist incidents, 2001
This is a timeline of incidents in 2001 that have been labelled terrorism and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).
- Israel, January 1: A Hamas suicide car bomber detonates in the city of Netanya, wounding 50.[1]
- Colombia, January 10: A car bomb wounds at least 50 in a shopping center parking lot in Medellín.[2]
- Russia, February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people.
- Israel, February 14: A Hamas suicide bomber plowed a bus into a crowd and detonated, killing 8 and wounding 21.[1]
- Serbia, February 18: Podujevo bus bombing, 13 Serbian civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Kosovo.
- Colombia, March 1: A bomb destroys a high-voltage pylon leaving vast areas of the country without power for five hours. Attack is blamed on ELN
- Israel, March 4: A Hamas suicide bomber detonated in the city of Netanya, killing 3 and wounding 65.[1]
- United Kingdom, March 4: The Real IRA exploded a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre in London. One London Underground worker suffered deep cuts to his eye from flying glass and some damage was caused to the front of the building.[3] (See 4 March 2001 BBC bombing)
- Russia, March 24: Twenty people die and 93 are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.
- Israel, March 27: A suicide bomber blows himself up next to a bus in Jerusalem's French Hill area, injuring 30 Israelis.[4]
- Israel, March 28: A suicide bomber detonated near a gas station outside Kfar Saba, killing two Israeli teenagers on their way to school.[4]
- Israel, March 28: A suicide bomber, from the Arab Hamas organization, blew himself up amidst a gathering of students waiting at a bus stop, four teenagers were wounded, one of them in critical condition.[4]
- Israel, April 29: A suicide car bomber attempted to target a school bus near Nablus, but detonated prematurely.[5]
- Colombia, May 4: A car bomb kills four and injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali. No group claims the attack.[6]
- United Kingdom, May 6: The Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.[7]
- Colombia, May 17: A car bomb kills 20 and injures at least 50 in a park in Medellín.[8]
- Israel, May 18: A Arab suicide bomber from the Hamas blew himself up at the entrance of a shopping mall in the city of Netanya, near Tel-Aviv, 5 people were killed in the blast and over 100 men, women and children were injured.[4]
- Colombia, May 24: Two bombs kill four near the Universidad Nacional campus in Bogotá. One more bomb is defused before it could explode. Right-wing paramilitaries are suspected.[9]
- Israel, May 25: Two suicide car bombers targeted a bus station in Hadera, injuring 65.[5]
- Philippines, May 27: Militants of Abu Sayyaf kidnapped 20 tourists from the Dos Palmas resort on the Island of Palawan. 5 of the hostages were killed later.
- Israel, June 1: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 civilians, 16 of them teenagers, in the Dolphinarium massacre in Tel Aviv.
- Colombia, June 17: A car bomb injures 16 in the town of San Martin, Meta. No group claims responsibility, but both FARC and AUC are suspected.[10]
- Israel, June 22: A suicide bomber detonates in the city of Dugit, killing 2.[1]
- Israel, July 9: A Arab suicide car bomber detonated near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties.[11]
- Israel, July 16: A Arab suicide bomber detoneated at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa. The Arab terrorist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack which killed two people.[4]
- Sri Lanka, July 24: A suicide squad of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) staged an attack on Bandaranaike International Airport and the air force base at Katunayake. The 14 man-squad destroyed or damaged about 20 aircraft and killed seven Sri Lankan workers and soldiers.
- United Kingdom, August 3: The last (at time of writing) IRA bomb on mainland Britain explodes in Ealing, West London, injuring seven people.[12] (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing)
- Israel, August 8: A suicide car bomber detonated, lightly wounding one soldier, at a roadblock near the B'kaot moshav in the northern Jordan Valley shortly after 9:00am.[11]
- Israel, August 9: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates in Jerusalem killing fifteen and wounding 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing.
- Angola, August 10: A passenger train, carrying 500 refugee struck a landmine, following to explosion and derailed, between Zenza do Itombe and Dondo, Cuanza Norte Province, Angola. Which blamed on UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) rebel group, with kills 152 and injures 146. (see 2001 Angola train attack)
- Israel, August 12: A Arab suicide bomber wounds 15 people when he blows himself up in a restaurant in Kiryat Motzkin in northern Israel.[4]
- Republic of Macedonia, August 22: An Orthodox monastery was destroyed by an explosion.[13]
- Colombia, August 23: In a series of attacks near Medellín, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims responsibility.[14]
- Colombia, August 23: At least 15 members of terrorist group ELN die when the explosives they were carrying detonate.[15]
- Republic of Macedonia, August 26: An explosion destroyed a hotel, killing two people.[16]
- Israel, September 4: A Arab suicide bomber wounds 15 people when he blows himself up outside a Jerusalem hospital.[4]
- Israel, September 9: A suicide bomber detonated at a train station in Nahariya, an Israeli city, killing three people and wounding over 90 unarmed civilians. The Islamic Arab terrorist group Hamas took responsibility for the murders.[4]
- Israel, September 9: A suicide car bomber hit Beit Lid junction near Netanya, injuring 17.[5]
- Afghanistan, September 9: Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, who spent years fighting Soviet occupation and then leading the anti-Taliban United Front (aka Northern Alliance), is killed by Algerian suicide bombers disguised as a camera crew.[17]
- United States, September 11: Attacks kill 2,973 (and some later from exposure to toxic dust, bringing the toll to 2,977)[18] in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, and The Pentagon in Arlington County. A fourth plane, originally intended to hit the United States Capitol Building, crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers.[19]
- France, September 13: Paris embassy attack plot foiled.
- India, October 1: A car bomb explodes near the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly in Srinagar, killing 35 people and injuring 40 more.
- Israel, October 7: A suicide bomber detonates at Beit She'an Valley, killing one person.[1]
- United States: Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloids.
- Israel, October 17: Tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
- Republic of Macedonia, November 11: 66 Macedonians killed in a fight with Albanian terrorists who begin a revolt in Macedonian city of Tetovo.
- Israel, November 26: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates at Erez Checkpoint, injuring 2.[1]
- Russia, November 29: A female Chechen suicide bomber, Aiza Gazuyeva, 18, blew up herself with a hand grenade, killing a Russian general named Gaidar Gadzhiyev whom she blamed on the death of her detained husband. Two other soldiers were also killed and two injured.
- Israel, November 29: A Arab suicide bomber detonated on a bus traveling on a major highway between the Israeli coastal cities of Hadera and Afula, killing 3.[4]
- Israel, December 1: Arab suicide bombers detonated on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, a pedestrian mall frequented by many young people on Saturday night. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Ten people were killed, including many children, and 188 were injured in the terrorist attacks.[4]
- Israel, December 2: A Hamas suicide bomber boarded an Israeli bus traveling from the Neveh Sha'anan district in Haifa, paying the driver with a large bill. He then blew himself up as the driver asked him to collect his change.[4]
- Israel, December 5: A Arab suicide bomber blows himself up outside a Jerusalem hotel wounding three people.[4]
- Israel, December 9: A Arab suicide bomber detonates explosives at hitch-hiking post near Haifa wounding eight unarmed Israeli civilians.[4]
- United States, December 12: Jewish Defense League plot by Chairman Irv Rubin and follower Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, and the office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell Issa, foiled.
- Israel, December 12: Two Arab suicide bombers blow themselves up in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least three people.[4]
- India, December 13: 2001 Indian Parliament attack.
- United States, December 22: 2001 shoe bomb plot.
See also
ITV- The War You Don't See by John Pilger (December 14, 2010) Wikileaks
References
- ^ a b c d e f Major Arab Terror Attacks Since Oslo
- ^ People's Daily: Bomb blast in Colombia injures at least 50, January 11, 2001
- ^ "Bomb blast outside BBC". BBC News online. March 4, 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1201273.stm. Retrieved September 22, 2006.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Chronology of Arab Suicide Bombings
- ^ a b c Chronology of Terrorist Attacks in Israel Part V: 2001
- ^ CNN: Colombia car bomb injures at least 32, May 5, 2001
- ^ "Second blast at London post office". BBC, On this day. May 6, 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/6/newsid_2511000/2511873.stm. Retrieved December 12, 2006.
- ^ CNN: Car bomb blast kills 7 in Medellín, May 18, 2001
- ^ CNN: Bomb blasts kill at least 4 in Colombia, May 25, 2001
- ^ People's Daily: At least 16 injured in car bomb blast in Colombia, June 17, 2001
- ^ a b Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (Sept 1993)
- ^ "Car bombers rock west London". BBC News online. August 3, 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1471284.stm. Retrieved September 22, 2006.
- ^ Fisher, Ian (August 22, 2001). "Explosion Wrecks a 14th-Century Monastery". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/22/world/explosion-wrecks-a-14th-century-monastery.html. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
- ^ CNN: Powerful bomb explodes in Medellín, August 24, 2001
- ^ The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Bomb blasts kill 16 in Colombia, August 24, 2001
- ^ http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2001/08/26/story21839.asp
- ^ Afghanistan: A Chronology Of Suicide Attacks Since 2001
- ^ http://www.theonlinerocket.com/news/lost-lives-remembered-during-9-11-ceremony-1.2333384
- ^ http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/SC7143.doc.htm