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).

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January

Dates	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	State	Non-state
1	Suicide car bombing	0	50	Netanya, Israel	A Hamas suicide car bomber detonates in the city of Netanya, wounding 50.[1]	Hamas
10	Car bombing	0	50	Medellín, Colombia	A car bomb wounds at least 50 in a shopping center parking lot in Medellín.[2]

February

Dates	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	State	Non-state
14	Suicide bombing	8	21	Israel	A Hamas suicide bomber plowed a bus into a crowd and detonated, killing 8 and wounding 21.[1]	Hamas

March

Dates	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	State	Non-state
4	Suicide bombing	3	65	Netanya, Israel	A Hamas suicide bomber detonated in the city of Netanya, killing 3 and wounding 65.[1]	Hamas
4	Car bombing	0	1	White City, London, England, United Kingdom	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]	Real IRA
27	Suicide bombing	0	30	French Hill, Jerusalem, Israel	A suicide bomber blows himself up next to a bus in Jerusalem's French Hill area, injuring 30 Israelis.[4]
28	Suicide bombing	2	0	Kfar Saba, Israel	A suicide bomber detonated near a gas station outside Kfar Saba, killing two Israeli teenagers on their way to school.[4]
28	Suicide bombing	0	4	Israel	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]	Hamas

April

• Israel, April 29: A suicide car bomber attempted to target a school bus near Nablus, but detonated prematurely.^[5]

May

• 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: An 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]
• Israel, May 25: Two separate bombs detonate at Netzarim Junction, killing 12^[10]

June

• Colombia, June 17: A car bomb injures 16 in the town of San Martín, Meta. No group claims responsibility, but both FARC and AUC are suspected.^[11]
• Israel, June 22: A suicide bomber detonates in the city of Dugit, killing 2.^[1]

July

• Israel, July 9: An Arab suicide car bomber detonated near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties.^[12]
• Israel, July 16: An Arab suicide bomber detonated 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: An LTTE 14-man suicide squad attacked a Sri Lanka Air Force base and the adjoining Bandaranaike International Airport. 21 people were killed.^[13]
• India, July 31: A remote control landmine was detonated damaging the forestry department's Eicher truck, which carried 13 Bhutanese passengers in Devadangi, Assam which left five killed and eight injured. The National Democratic Front of Bodoland is suspected to be behind the attacks.^[14]

August

• United Kingdom, August 3: The last (at time of writing) IRA bomb on mainland Britain explodes in Ealing, West London, injuring seven people.^[15] (See 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.^[12]
• Israel, August 12: An 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.^[16]
• Colombia, August 23: In a series of attacks near Medellín, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims responsibility.^[17]
• Colombia, August 23: At least 15 members of terrorist group ELN die when the explosives they were carrying detonate.^[18]

The World Trade Center after being hit by the hijacked airliners.

• Republic of Macedonia, August 26: An explosion destroyed a hotel, killing two people.^[19]

September

• Israel, September 4: An 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 Palestinian militant 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.^[20]
• United States, September 11: Attacks kill 2,977 victims and 19 terrorists^[21] 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, Virginia. A fourth plane, suspected by many to have been originally intended to hit the White House or the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.,^[22] crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers.^[23]

November

• Israel, November 26: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates at Erez Checkpoint, injuring 2.^[1]
• Israel, November 29: An Arab suicide bomber detonated on a bus traveling on a major highway between the Israeli coastal cities of Hadera and Afula, killing 3.^[4]

December

• 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: An Arab suicide bomber blows himself up outside a Jerusalem hotel wounding three people.^[4]
• Israel, December 9: An Arab suicide bomber detonates explosives at hitch-hiking post near Haifa wounding eight unarmed Israeli civilians.^[4]
• Israel, December 12: Two Arab suicide bombers blow themselves up in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least three people.^[4]

See also

• List of terrorist incidents
• List of Palestinian suicide attacks
• List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2001–2006

References