List of terrorist incidents, 2001
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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. Colombia, January 10: A car bomb wounds at least 50 in a shopping center parking lot in Medellín
. 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. Serbia, February 18: Podujevo bus bombing, 13 Serbia
n 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. 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. (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. Israel, March 28: A suicide bomber detonated near a gas station outside Kfar Saba, killing two Israeli teenagers on their way to school. 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.
Israel, April 29: A suicide car bomber attempted to target a school bus near Nablus, but detonated prematurely. Colombia, May 4: A car bomb kills four and injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali
. No group claims the attack. United Kingdom, May 6: The Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured. Colombia, May 17: A car bomb kills 20 and injures at least 50 in a park in Medellín
. 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. 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. Israel, May 25: Two suicide car bombers targeted a bus station in Hadera, injuring 65. 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. Israel, June 22: A suicide bomber detonates in the city of Dugit, killing 2. Israel, July 9: A Arab suicide car bomber detonated near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties. 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. 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. (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. 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. Republic of Macedonia, August 22: An Orthodox monastery was destroyed by an explosion. Colombia, August 23: In a series of attacks near Medellín
, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims responsibility. Colombia, August 23: At least 15 members of terrorist group ELN
die when the explosives they were carrying detonate.
Republic of Macedonia, August 26: An explosion destroyed a hotel, killing two people. Israel, September 4: A Arab suicide bomber wounds 15 people when he blows himself up outside a Jerusalem hospital. 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. Israel, September 9: A suicide car bomber hit Beit Lid junction near Netanya, injuring 17. 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. United States, September 11: Attacks kill 2,973 (and some later from exposure to toxic dust, bringing the toll to 2,977) 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. 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 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. Russia, November 29: A female Chechen suicide bomber, Aiza Gazuyeva
, 18, blew up herself with a hand grenade, killing a Russian general 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. 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. 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. Israel, December 5: A Arab suicide bomber blows himself up outside a Jerusalem hotel wounding three people. Israel, December 9: A Arab suicide bomber detonates explosives at hitch-hiking post near Haifa wounding eight unarmed Israeli civilians. 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. India, December 13: 2001 Indian Parliament attack
. United States, December 22: 2001 shoe bomb plot.
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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
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
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...
).
Israel, January 1: A Hamas suicide car bomber detonates in the city of Netanya, wounding 50. Colombia, January 10: A car bomb wounds at least 50 in a shopping center parking lot 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...
. Russia, February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya metro station
Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro is a rapid transit system serving Moscow and the neighbouring town of Krasnogorsk. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. As of 2011, the Moscow Metro has 182 stations and its route length is . The system is...
injures 15 people. Israel, February 14: A Hamas suicide bomber plowed a bus into a crowd and detonated, killing 8 and wounding 21. Serbia, February 18: Podujevo bus bombing, 13 Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Kosovo
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
. 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
National Liberation Army (Colombia)
National Liberation Army is a revolutionary, avowed Marxist guerrilla group that has been operating in several regions of Colombia since 1964....
Israel, March 4: A Hamas suicide bomber detonated in the city of Netanya, killing 3 and wounding 65. United Kingdom, March 4: The Real IRA exploded a car bomb outside the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
'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. (See 4 March 2001 BBC bombing
4 March 2001 BBC bombing
At 12:30 AM on Sunday 4 March 2001, the Real IRA detonated a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre within BBC Television Centre, on Wood Lane in the White City area of West London....
) 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. Israel, March 28: A suicide bomber detonated near a gas station outside Kfar Saba, killing two Israeli teenagers on their way to school. 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.
Israel, April 29: A suicide car bomber attempted to target a school bus near Nablus, but detonated prematurely. Colombia, May 4: A car bomb kills four and injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali
Calì
Calì, also written in English as Cali, is an Italian surname, widespread mainly in the Ionian side of Sicily.For the surname Calì is assumed the origin of the Greek word kalos , or from its Sanskrit root kali, "time."The surname refers to:...
. No group claims the attack. United Kingdom, May 6: The Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured. Colombia, May 17: A car bomb kills 20 and injures at least 50 in a park 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...
. 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. Colombia, May 24: Two bombs kill four near the Universidad Nacional campus in Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
. One more bomb is defused before it could explode. Right-wing paramilitaries are suspected. Israel, May 25: Two suicide car bombers targeted a bus station in Hadera, injuring 65. 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
Dolphinarium massacre
The Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing was a terrorist attack by on June 1, 2001 in which a suicide bomber Saeed Hotari, a millitant linked to the Palestinian group Hamas, blew himself up outside a discotheque on a beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 Israeli teenagers and injuring 132...
in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
. Colombia, June 17: A car bomb injures 16 in the town of San Martin
San Martín
-People:*José de San Martín, national hero of Argentina, an 18th-century general and the main leader of the southern part of South America's struggle for independence from Spain...
, Meta
Meta
Meta- , is a prefix used in English to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter....
. No group claims responsibility, but both FARC
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army is a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization based in Colombia which is involved in the ongoing Colombian armed conflict, currently involved in drug dealing and crimes against the civilians..FARC-EP is a peasant army which...
and AUC
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia was created as an umbrella organization of regional far-right...
are suspected. Israel, June 22: A suicide bomber detonates in the city of Dugit, killing 2. Israel, July 9: A Arab suicide car bomber detonated near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties. 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. Sri Lanka, July 24: A suicide squad of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) staged an attack
Bandaranaike Airport attack
The Bandaranaike Airport attack was an assault by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Bandaranaike International Airport, on July 24, 2001...
on Bandaranaike International Airport
Bandaranaike International Airport
Bandaranaike International Airport is Sri Lanka's only international airport at the moment. Mattala International Airport, when it gets built will be the second International Airport of Sri Lanka. It is located in Katunayake, north of Colombo...
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
Ealing
Ealing is a suburban area of west London, England and the administrative centre of the London Borough of Ealing. It is located west of Charing Cross and around from the City of London. It is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. It was historically a rural village...
, West London, injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing
3 August 2001 Ealing bombing
On 3 August 2001 the Real IRA detonated a car bomb containing 45kg of explosives in Ealing Broadway, West London, England, injuring seven people. Debris caused by the bomb spread more than 200m...
) 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. 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
Dondo
Dondo is a city and seat of Dondo District of Sofala Province in Mozambique.According to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme following decentralization of political structure in Mozambique in the 1990s, a study in 1998 revealed that elected leaders in the city for Sofala Province lacked...
, Cuanza Norte Province, Angola. Which blamed on UNITA
UNITA
The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded in 1966, UNITA fought with the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the Angolan War for Independence and then against the MPLA in the ensuing civil war .The war was one...
(National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) rebel group, with kills 152 and injures 146. (see 2001 Angola train attack
2001 Angola train attack
The Angola train attack was an attack during the Angolan Civil War when on 10 August 2001 UNITA forces derailed a train travelling between towns of Zenza and Dondo with an anti-tank mine and then attacked the passengers with small arms fire.-The 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. Republic of Macedonia, August 22: An Orthodox monastery was destroyed by an explosion. Colombia, August 23: In a series of attacks near 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...
, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims responsibility. Colombia, August 23: At least 15 members of terrorist group ELN
National Liberation Army (Colombia)
National Liberation Army is a revolutionary, avowed Marxist guerrilla group that has been operating in several regions of Colombia since 1964....
die when the explosives they were carrying detonate.
World Trade Center
The original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with five new...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, and The Pentagon
The Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself.Designed by the American architect...
in Arlington County
Arlington County, Virginia
Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The land that became Arlington was originally donated by Virginia to the United States government to form part of the new federal capital district. On February 27, 1801, the United States Congress organized the area as a subdivision of...
. A fourth plane, originally intended to hit the United States Capitol Building, crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Somerset County is a county located in the state of Pennsylvania. As of 2010, the population was 77,742. Somerset County was created on April 17, 1795, from part of Bedford County and named for Somerset, United Kingdom. Its county seat is Somerset. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania,...
, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers. France, September 13: Paris embassy attack plot
Paris embassy attack plot
In 2001, a suspected terrorist plot from Al-Qaida to destroy the United States embassy in Paris, France, as well as a munitions depot in Belgium was uncovered and stopped. The NATO headquarters in Brussels was also possibly targeted....
foiled. India, October 1: A car bomb explodes near the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly
Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir is the northernmost state of India. It is situated mostly in the Himalayan mountains. Jammu and Kashmir shares a border with the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south and internationally with the People's Republic of China to the north and east and the...
in Srinagar
Srinagar
Srinagar is the summer seasonal capital of Jammu and Kashmir. It is situated in Kashmir Valley and lies on the banks of the Jhelum River, a tributary of the Indus. It is one of the largest cities in India not to have a Hindu majority. The city is famous for its gardens, lakes and houseboats...
, killing 35 people and injuring 40 more. Israel, October 7: A suicide bomber detonates at Beit She'an Valley, killing 1. United States: Anthrax attacks
2001 anthrax attacks
The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, also known as Amerithrax from its Federal Bureau of Investigation case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on Tuesday, September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to...
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
Rehavam Zeevi
' 20 June 1926 - 17 October 2001) was an Israeli general, politician, and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party, mainly advocating population transfer....
is assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist organisation founded in 1967. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization , the largest being Fatah...
. 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. Russia, November 29: A female Chechen suicide bomber, Aiza Gazuyeva
Aiza Gazuyeva
Aiza Gazuyeva was a young Chechen woman who become the first shahidka...
, 18, blew up herself with a hand grenade, killing a Russian general 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. 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. 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. Israel, December 5: A Arab suicide bomber blows himself up outside a Jerusalem hotel wounding three people. Israel, December 9: A Arab suicide bomber detonates explosives at hitch-hiking post near Haifa wounding eight unarmed Israeli civilians. United States, December 12: Jewish Defense League
Jewish Defense League
The Jewish Defense League is a Jewish organization whose stated goal is to "protect Jews from antisemitism by whatever means necessary"...
plot by Chairman Irv Rubin
Irv Rubin
Irving D. Rubin was chairman of the Jewish Defense League from 1985 to 2002. He allegedly committed suicide in jail when awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to bomb private and government property....
and follower Earl Krugel
Earl Krugel
Earl Leslie Krugel was the West Coast coordinator of the Jewish Defense League. In 2005, he was sentenced to prison on charges of terrorism after he confessed plotting, with the group's leader Irv Rubin, to blow up the office of Arab-American congressman Darrell Issa and the King Fahd mosque in...
to blow up the King Fahd Mosque
King Fahd Mosque
King Fahd Mosque may refer to:* King Fahd Mosque in Buenos Aires, aka Centro Cultural Islam King Fahd* King Fahd Mosque in Edinburgh, aka Edinburgh Central Mosque* King Fahd Mosque in Sarajevo...
in Culver City, California
Culver City, California
Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 38,883, up from 38,816 at the 2000 census. It is mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, but also shares a border with unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Culver...
, and the office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell Issa
Darrell Issa
Darrell Edward Issa is the U.S. Representative for , and previously the 48th, serving since 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was formerly a CEO of Directed Electronics, the Vista, California-based manufacturer of automobile security and convenience products...
, foiled. Israel, December 12: Two Arab suicide bombers blow themselves up in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least three people. India, December 13: 2001 Indian Parliament attack
2001 Indian Parliament attack
The 2001 Indian Parliament attack was a high-profile attack by Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists against the building housing the Parliament of India in New Delhi...
. United States, December 22: 2001 shoe bomb plot.
See also
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of Palestinian suicide attacks
- List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2001–2006
ITV- The War You Don't See by John Pilger (December 14, 2010)
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