List of terrorist incidents, 1992
Encyclopedia
This is a timeline of incidents in 1992 that have been labelled as "terrorism
" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism
and state-sponsored terrorism
).
Omagh: January 17: Eight Protestant British army contractors are killed by an IRA
bomb on their way to work at an Army base near Omagh
. Urumqi: February 5: Three civilians were killed and 29 injured by East Turkestan Islamic Movement
two bus bombs in Urumqi
(see: 5 February 1992 Urumqi Bombings
) London Bridge Station: February 28, 1992: A bomb explodes at London Bridge station
injuring 29 people. Nørrebro: March 16: A bomb goes off in the office of Internationale Socialister (International Socialists), Søllerødgade in Nørrebro
, Copenhagen
, killing party member Henrik Christensen. The case remains unsolved, but the act has been attributed to Neo-Nazi movements. Buenos Aires: March 17: Israeli Embassy bombing
by "Islamic Jihad
" in Buenos Aires
, Argentina; 29 killed, 242 injured. Ottawa: April 5, 1992: The Iranian embassy in Ottawa
is stormed by members of MEK
, an Iraq
-supported religious right
group. London: April 10, 1992: The IRA
detonate a massive bomb in St Mary Axe in the City of London
killing three people and injuring 91. Many buildings are heavily damaged and the Baltic Exchange
is completely destroyed. Palermo, May 23: A bomb explodes on the A29 highway
near Palermo
, Italy, killing the anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone
, his wife and magistrate Francesca Morvillo and three police escorts. One driver and other three police escorts are injured. The act has been attribuited on Italian Mafia group. Lima: July 16: A dynamite bomb blast in Miraflores District
, Peruvian capital of Lima
, where damaged in ten-story apartment building and many vehicles with kills 18, injures 140. Which blame on Maoist of Shining Path
guerrilla group. Palermo, July 19: A simulation time bomb blast in downtown Palermo
, Sicily
, Italy, which kills the anti-mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino
and five police escorts, injures 20, where blame on Italian Mafia group. Dar El Beida: August 27: A bomb exploded in Houari Boumediene Airport, Dar El Beida
, Algeria, where damaged widely, include Air France
and Air Algérie
counters, kills nine and injures 128. Some of Islamic Salvation Front
members arrested by suspiction of this case by few days ago. St. Louis: September 1: Nine die, including a six-month old baby, and seven are injured when a bomb explodes in a suburb of Medellín
. Covent Garden: October 12, 1992: A device explodes in the gents' toilet of the Sussex Arms public house in Covent Garden
killing one person and injuring four others. Colombia: November 11: Bombs explode in nine Colombian cities, leaving one person dead and 35 injured. The Medellín Cartel
is held responsible for the attacks. Medellín: December 3: Ten police officers and four civilians die when a bomb planted by drug traffickers explode in Medellín
. Medellín: December 29: Two police officers and 50 civilians wounded when a car bomb explodes at a party in a suburban area of Medellín
.
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism
State terrorism
State terrorism may refer to acts of terrorism conducted by a state against a foreign state or people. It can also refer to acts of violence by a state against its own people.-Definition:...
and state-sponsored terrorism
State-sponsored terrorism
State-sponsored terrorism is a term used to describe terrorism sponsored by nation-states. As with terrorism, the precise definition, and the identification of particular examples, are subjects of heated political dispute...
).
Omagh: January 17: Eight Protestant British army contractors are killed by an IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...
bomb on their way to work at an Army base near Omagh
Omagh
Omagh is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated where the rivers Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule. The town, which is the largest in the county, had a population of 19,910 at the 2001 Census. Omagh also contains the headquarters of Omagh District Council and...
. Urumqi: February 5: Three civilians were killed and 29 injured by East Turkestan Islamic Movement
East Turkestan Islamic Movement
The East Turkestan Islamic Movement The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) (also known as the Turkistan Islamic Movement (TIM), and other names; is a Waziri based mujahideen organization. Its stated goals are the independence of East Turkestan and the...
two bus bombs in Urumqi
Ürümqi
Ürümqi , formerly Tihwa , is the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, in the northwest of the country....
(see: 5 February 1992 Urumqi Bombings
5 February 1992 Urumqi Bombings
On 5 February 1992, among four bombs set in public buildings in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, two on the buses of line 2 and line 30 exploded. The incidents resulted in 3 deaths, and injuries to 23 people.-Background:...
) London Bridge Station: February 28, 1992: A bomb explodes at London Bridge station
London Bridge station
London Bridge railway station is a central London railway terminus and London Underground complex in the London Borough of Southwark, occupying a large area on two levels immediately south-east of London Bridge and 1.6 miles east of Charing Cross. It is one of the oldest railway stations in the...
injuring 29 people. Nørrebro: March 16: A bomb goes off in the office of Internationale Socialister (International Socialists), Søllerødgade in Nørrebro
Nørrebro
Nørrebro is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is northwest of the city centre, beyond the location of the old Northern Gate , which, until dismantled in 1856, was near the current Nørreport station.-Geography:...
, Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, killing party member Henrik Christensen. The case remains unsolved, but the act has been attributed to Neo-Nazi movements. Buenos Aires: March 17: Israeli Embassy bombing
Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires
The attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was a bomb attack on building of the Israeli embassy of Argentina located in Buenos Aires which was carried out on March 17, 1992. 29 civilians were killed in the attack and 242 additional civilians were injured.- The attack :On March 17, 1992...
by "Islamic Jihad
Islamic Jihad Organization
The Islamic Jihad Organization – IJO or Organisation du Jihad Islamique in French, but best known as ‘Islamic Jihad’ for short, was a fundamentalist Shia group known for its activities in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War...
" in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Argentina; 29 killed, 242 injured. Ottawa: April 5, 1992: The Iranian embassy in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
is stormed by members of MEK
People's Mujahedin of Iran
The People's Mujahedin of Iran is a terrorist militant organization that advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran....
, an Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
-supported religious right
Christian right
Christian right is a term used predominantly in the United States to describe "right-wing" Christian political groups that are characterized by their strong support of socially conservative policies...
group. London: April 10, 1992: The IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...
detonate a massive bomb in St Mary Axe in the City of London
City of London
The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...
killing three people and injuring 91. Many buildings are heavily damaged and the Baltic Exchange
Baltic Exchange
The Baltic Exchange is the world's only independent source of maritime market information for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative contracts...
is completely destroyed. Palermo, May 23: A bomb explodes on the A29 highway
Autostrada A29 (Italy)
The Autostrada A29 is a motorway on the island of Sicily that links Palermo to Mazara del Vallo. The motorway is also called Autostrada del Sale because one of its branches ends at the Salt Pans between Marsala and Trapani....
near Palermo
Palermo
Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
, Italy, killing the anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone
Giovanni Falcone
Giovanni Falcone was an Sicilian/Italian prosecuting magistrate born in Palermo, Sicily. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Mafia in Sicily...
, his wife and magistrate Francesca Morvillo and three police escorts. One driver and other three police escorts are injured. The act has been attribuited on Italian Mafia group. Lima: July 16: A dynamite bomb blast in Miraflores District
Miraflores District
Miraflores is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. Known for its shopping areas, gardens, flower-filled parks and beaches, it is one of the upscale districts that make up the city of Lima....
, Peruvian capital of Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
, where damaged in ten-story apartment building and many vehicles with kills 18, injures 140. Which blame on Maoist of Shining Path
Shining Path
Shining Path is a Maoist guerrilla terrorist organization in Peru. The group never refers to itself as "Shining Path", and as several other Peruvian groups, prefers to be called the "Communist Party of Peru" or "PCP-SL" in short...
guerrilla group. Palermo, July 19: A simulation time bomb blast in downtown Palermo
Palermo
Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
, Sicily
Sicily
Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...
, Italy, which kills the anti-mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino
Paolo Borsellino
Paolo Borsellino was an Italian anti-Mafia magistrate who was killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, less than two months after his fellow anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone had been assassinated....
and five police escorts, injures 20, where blame on Italian Mafia group. Dar El Beida: August 27: A bomb exploded in Houari Boumediene Airport, Dar El Beida
Dar El Beïda
Dar El Beïda is a suburb of Algiers, Algeria. It is the seat of the district with the same name. During French colonian times, it was officially called with its French name Maison Blanche , which meant the same thing as its current Arabic name: white house. It is pronounced in Classical Arabic...
, Algeria, where damaged widely, include Air France
Air France
Air France , stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France, , and is one of the world's largest airlines. It is a subsidiary of the Air France-KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance...
and Air Algérie
Air Algérie
Air Algérie SpA is the national flag carrier airline of Algeria, with its head office in the Immeuble El-Djazair in Algiers. With flights operating from Houari Boumedienne Airport, Air Algérie operates scheduled international services to 39 destinations in 28 countries in Europe, North America,...
counters, kills nine and injures 128. Some of Islamic Salvation Front
Islamic Salvation Front
The Islamic Salvation Front is an outlawed Islamist political party in Algeria.-Goals:...
members arrested by suspiction of this case by few days ago. St. Louis: September 1: Nine die, including a six-month old baby, and seven are injured when a bomb explodes in a suburb of Medellín
Medellín
Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...
. Covent Garden: October 12, 1992: A device explodes in the gents' toilet of the Sussex Arms public house in Covent Garden
Covent Garden
Covent Garden is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the Royal Opera House, which is also known as...
killing one person and injuring four others. Colombia: November 11: Bombs explode in nine Colombian cities, leaving one person dead and 35 injured. The Medellín Cartel
Medellín Cartel
The Medellín Cartel was an organized network of "drug suppliers and smugglers" originating in the city of Medellín, Colombia. The drug cartel operated in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Central America, the United States, as well as Canada and Europe throughout the 1970s and 1980s. It was founded and...
is held responsible for the attacks. Medellín: December 3: Ten police officers and four civilians die when a bomb planted by drug traffickers explode in Medellín
Medellín
Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...
. Medellín: December 29: Two police officers and 50 civilians wounded when a car bomb explodes at a party in a suburban area of Medellín
Medellín
Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...
.