List of terrorist incidents, 2001
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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 2001.
Colombia, January 10: A car bomb wounds at least 50 in a shopping center parking lot in Medellín.[1]
Russia, February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people.
Serbia, February 18: Podujevo bus bombing, 13 Serbian civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Kosovo by Albanian terrorists..- 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
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.[2] (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 26: 10-months-old Israeli infant Shalhevet Pass is intentionally and fatally shot in the head by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron.- Colombia, May 4: A car bomb kills four and injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali. No group claims the attack.[3]
- United Kingdom, May 6: The Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.[4]
- Colombia, May 17: A car bomb kills seven and injures at least 50 in a park in Medellín.[5]
- 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.[6]
Philippines, May 28: 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: 21 civilians, mostly teenagers from the former Soviet Union, are killed by a Hamas suicide bomber 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.[7]
Sri Lanka, July 24: A suicide squad of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) staged an attack on Bandaranaike International Airport and the adjoining 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.[8] (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing)
- Israel, August 9: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
- Colombia, August 23: In a series of attacks near Medellín, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims responsibility.[9]
- Colombia, August 23: At least 15 members of terrorist group ELN die when they explosives they were carrying detonate.[10]
United States, September 11: Attacks kill 2,997 immediately, and many more later from exposure to toxic dust in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. 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; by Al-Qaeda, being the most catastrophic terrorist event ever known.
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 17: Tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
- 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.
- 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.
- India, December 13: Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
- United States, December 22: Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.
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[edit] References
- ^ People's Daily: Bomb blast in Colombia injures at least 50, January 11, 2001
- ^ Bomb blast outside BBC. BBC News online (March 4, 2001). Retrieved on September 22, 2006.
- ^ CNN: Colombia car bomb injures at least 32, May 5, 2001
- ^ Second blast at London post office. BBC, On this day (May 6, 2001). Retrieved on 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
- ^ Car bombers rock west London. BBC News online (August 3, 2001). Retrieved on September 22, 2006.
- ^ CNN: Powerful bomb explodes in Medellín, August 24, 2001
- ^ The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Bomb blasts kill 16 in Colombia, August 24, 2001
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