List of terrorist incidents

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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism. Massacres more generally are listed chronologically at List of massacres; assassinations are listed by location at List of assassinated people.

Note: there is no single accepted definition of non-state terrorism in common use. Incidents listed here are restricted to those that: (a) are not believed to have been state-sponsored; and (b) are commonly called terrorism or meet some of the commonly used criteria.

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The Wall Street Bombing
The Wall Street Bombing

  • Flag of the United States During this year, The Black Liberation Army is suspected of killing three policemen (one at his desk), shooting four others, opening fire on three patrol cars and rolling a grenade which heavily damaged a police car and injured two officers. An attempt is made to bomb a police station. These incidents happen in various cities around the country. In August the group runs a one month long guerrilla warfare school in Fayetteville, Georgia. Seven arrested in January 2007 in relation to the shooting of the policeman at his desk.[6][7]
  • Flag of the United Kingdom October 31: A bomb explodes in the Post Office Tower in London causing extensive damage but no injuries. The "Kilburn Battalion" of the IRA claimed responsibility for the explosion.[8]
  • Flag of the United Kingdom December 4: In the McGurk's Bar bombing, an Ulster Volunteer Force bomb in Belfast's North Queen Street kills 15 people.

Wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland.
Wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland.

  • Flag of Colombia January 6: A car bomb explodes outside private offices in Bogotá. While no casualties are reported, the office belonged to the son of the personal secretary of Colombian president, Virgilio Barco.[52]
  • Flag of the United Kingdom February: The IRA detonate a bomb at Leicester Army Recruiting Office. MP Keith Vaz suggests that the army may have planted the bomb.[53]
  • Flag of the United Kingdom February 12: The IRA shoot down a British army helicopter in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, near the border with the Irish Republic.[54]
  • Flag of Colombia April 6: Colombian police defuse a truck containing more than a half-ton of explosives in a wealthy residential area of Bogotá. The truck had been parked in front of a high school and was set to go off during the morning rush.[55]
  • Flag of Colombia April 11: A bomb kills 14 and injures 100 in Medellín. The bomb was directed at a group of Elite Police and it is blamed on the Medellín Cartel, which had offered $100,000 for every anti-terrorism police killed and $ 4,500 for every regular policeman assassinated.[56]
  • Flag of Colombia April 25: A car bomb kills nine in Medellín. Authorities believe the Medellín Cartel is responsible. The next day, presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro Leongómez is assassinated while onboard a commercial airliner.[57]
  • Flag of Colombia April 25: A bomb hidden in a dump truck kills six and injures at least 36 in Bogotá.[58]
  • Flag of Colombia May 4: A bomb exploded in front of a pharmacy in Cali, killing four and wounding 20. It is blamed on the ongoing war between the two rival drug cartels in Colombia.
  • Flag of Colombia May 7: A car bomb kills one and injures five, outside a government building in Pereira, capital of Risaralda State. No group claims responsibility but the government blames drug lords who declared war on the country nine months earlier.[59]
  • Flag of Colombia May 13: Two car bombs explode simultaneously in the Quirigua and Niza shopping malls during Mother's Day in Bogotá killing 19, including six children, and wounding 140, while another bomb exploded in a restaurant in Cali, killing six and injuring 20. Authorities say the Medellín Cartel is to blame for the attacks.[60]
  • Flag of the United Kingdom May 16 The IRA detonate a bomb under a military minibus in London, killing Sgt Charles Chapman, and injuring four other soldiers.[61]
  • Flag of Colombia May 17: A bomb inside a shopping mall in Cartagena wounds 22. The Medellín Cartel is blamed.[62]
  • Flag of Colombia May 25: A suicide bomber detonates a car bomb when stopped by police, killing himself and three others in Medellín.[63]
  • Flag of the United KingdomFlag of Germany June 1: A British Royal Artillery officer is assassinated by the IRA in Dortmund in West Germany.[64]
  • Flag of Colombia June 15: A car bomb kills four near a police station in Medellín. Authorities blame the Medellín Cartel which had previously pledged to murder police in retaliation to the government's anti-drug policies.[65]
  • Flag of Colombia June 29: A car bomb kills 14 and injures 30 in Medellín. The Medellín Cartel is blamed by authorities.[66]
  • Flag of Colombia July 15: A round of terrorist attacks leaves 40 dead in Medellín. Another bomb exploded in Puerto Asís, killing six and injuring five.[67]
  • Flag of the United Kingdom July 20: The IRA detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange causing damage to the building. Nobody was injured in the blast.[68]
  • Flag of the United Kingdom July 30: Ian Gow MP killed by a car bomb planted by the IRA while at his home in Sussex.
  • Flag of the Soviet Union August 10: A bus going from Tbilisi, Georgia to Agdam, Azerbaijan is blown up. Twenty people die and 33 are injured.
  • Flag of the United Kingdom October 24: A series of car bombings directed by the IRA in Northern Ireland leave six British soldiers and a civilian dead and 37 wounded.
  • Flag of Israel PLF attack in the beaches on Tel Aviv.
  • Flag of Israel PLO attack on the US embassy.
  • Flag of Colombia September: Rebels bomb two sections of Colombia's Caño Limón pipeline. It is the fourth attack against the pipeline in two weeks, and rebel group ELN claims responsibility.[69]
  • Flag of the United States November 5: Assassination of Meir Kahane head of Israel's Koch party and founder of the American vigilante group the Jewish Defense League in a Manhattan, New York hotel lobby by early elements of Al Queda.
  • Flag of Colombia December 13: A remote control bomb kills seven police officer and injures 23 more in Medellín. Authorities blame the Medellín Cartel for the attack.[70]

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

One of the compounds hit by the Riyadh Compound Bombings.
One of the compounds hit by the Riyadh Compound Bombings.

Date Dead Injured Location and description
January 5     6 30 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, Nittambuwa. A bus was bombed. The government blamed Tamil Tiger, who denied it.[171][172] See 2007 Sri Lankan bus bombs.
January 6 15 ~24 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, near the tourist resort of Hikkaduwa. A bus was bombed. The government blamed Tamil Tiger, who denied it.[172]
January 10 6 34 Flag of the Philippines Philippines, General Santos City, Kidapawan City, Cotabato City. Three bombs detonated, muslim militants trying to disrupt ASEAN Summit suspected.[173]
January 12 0 0 Flag of Greece Greece, Flag of the United States US Embassy in central Athens. Rocket causes minimal damage, police suspect spinoff of Greek left wing group November 17.[174]
January 22 ~131 ~186 Flag of Iraq Iraq, Haraj market in Baghdad, Khalis market near Baquba, west Baghdad, south Baghdad, Baghdad. See 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings.[175]
January 26 1 ~5 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan, the Marriott hotel in Islamabad. A suicide bomber kills himself and a security guard trying to enter.[176]
January 27 ~14 ~30 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan, Peshawar. A suicide bombing before a Shia religious procession started.[177]
January 29 3 Flag of Israel Israel, Eilat. Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility for a suicide bombing.[178]
February 3 ~135 305 Flag of Iraq Iraq, Baghdad, al-Sadriya district market. Truck bombing. See 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing.[179]
February 17 15 ~24 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan, Quetta. A suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a courtroom.[180]
February 18 ~4 Flag of Somalia Somalia, Mogadishu. A car bomb, the first such attack of the Islamist insurgency in Somalia (2007–present).[181]
February 19 68 ~49 Flag of India India, Samjhauta Express, a train headed toward Lahore an hour after it left New Delhi. Two bombs explode. See 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings.[182][183]
  • Flag of Afghanistan January – February: 52 civilians killed in insurgent attacks in Afghanistan according to Human Rights Watch.[164]
  • Flag of the United Kingdom January-February: 2007 United Kingdom letter bombs.
  • Flag of Iraq February: 2007 chlorine bombings in Iraq.
  • Flag of Colombia March 1: Ten injured in a car bomb blast in Neiva, capital of Huila. Rebel group FARC is believed to be responsible. The action is believed to be an assassination attempt on Neiva's mayor.[184]
  • Flag of Colombia March 3: A bomb kills four police officers and one civilian in the city of Neiva, as they attempted to deactivate it.[184]
  • Flag of the United States March 5: A Rikers Island inmate offered to pay an undercover police officer posing as a hit man to behead New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly and bomb police headquarters in retaliation for the controversial police shooting of Sean Bell. The suspect wanted the bombing to be considered a terrorist act.[185][186]
  • Flag of Afghanistan March 5: The Taliban kidnap Italian Journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo whilst beheading his driver. Mastrogiacomo was released March 19 after Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed to free five Taliban prisoners. His translator was left behind. On April 8, an Afghan government official confirmed the translator was killed.[187]
  • Flag of Iraq March 6: Two suicide bombers kill 114 Shiite pilgrims in Hilla, Iraq.
  • Flag of Colombia March 16: A bomb kills 16 and injures 16 in Buenaventura. Authorities blame FARC.[188]
  • Flag of Iraq March 22: A rocket or mortar lands within 100 yards of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in the Green Zone in Baghdad, in an apparent assassination attempt.
  • Flag of Iraq March 27: Two truck bombs kill 152 people and injure 347 in Tal Afar, Iraq. See 2007 Tal Afar bombings.
  • Flag of Colombia March 28: A bomb injures ten in a grocery store in Buenaventura. Authorities blame FARC.[188]
  • Flag of Iraq March 29: Two suicide bombers kill 79 people and injure 81 in a market in Baghdad.
  • Flag of Afghanistan In the two weeks prior to April 8, at least thirteen Afghans and two French aid workers have been kidnapped. Rebels have demanded further releases of their jailed associates in exchange for some of the hostages.[187]
  • Flag of Colombia April 9: A bomb used against a police headquarters in Cali kills one and injures 30. FARC are blamed.[189]
  • Flag of Morocco April 10: Three suicide bombers kill one police man and injure 23 people in Casablanca, Morocco.
  • Flag of Algeria April 11: Two suicide car bombs kill 33 people and injure 222 in Algiers, Algeria. Al-Qaeda takes responsibility. See 2007 Algiers bombings.
  • Flag of Iraq April 12: One suicide bomber kills eight people and injures 20 in the cafeteria of the Iraqi Parliament in the Green Zone in Baghdad.
  • Flag of Europe April 12: A U.S. federal grand jury indicted Christopher Paul, 43, a U.S. citizen and resident of Columbus, Ohio on charges of joining al-Qaeda and conspiring to bomb European tourist resorts and U.S. government facilities and military bases overseas.[190]
  • Flag of Iraq April 14: A suicide car bomb kills 65 people and injure 100 in Karbala, Iraq.
  • Flag of Morocco April 14: Two suicide bombers explode near the American Language Center in Casablanca, Morocco. One person was injured.
  • Flag of the United States April 16: Seung-Hui Cho kills 33 people including himself in the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst civilian shooting spree in United States history, and the worst case of mass murder in the United States since 9/11. (Note: this may be commonly considered a general massacre and thus included in the List of massacres, but there had been several hints of Cho's attempt to kill including a manifesto tape to NBC News descrbing his motives – an attempt to terrorize).
  • Flag of Iraq April 18: A series of explosions kill 198 people and injure 251 in Baghdad, Iraq. See 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings.
  • Flag of Turkey April 18: In Malatya, Turkey, hometown of Mehmet Ali Agca, three Christian men, one of them 45-year-old German father of three children Tilman Geske, were brutally murdered by at least four young men who already have confessed to the slayings. The assassins tortured their victims for hours before cutting their throats. An autopsy of the German victim found 156 stab wounds. Hurriyet newspaper quoted a suspect: "Let this be a lesson to enemies of our religion."[191][192][193]
  • Palestinian flag April 25: The American International School in the Gaza Strip is stormed by a dozen gunman claiming to be members of al-Qaeda of Palestine who stole eight computers, planted explosives in adjoining buildings, doused the school with gasoline and set it ablaze.[194]
  • Flag of Saudi Arabia April 28: Saudi Arabia announced it has arrested one hundred and seventy two people in an Al Qaeda plot to attack oil facilities, military bases and public figures using civilian aircraft as suicide missiles.[195]
  • Flag of Pakistan April 28: Interior minister Aftab Khan Sherpao of Pakistan suffers minor injuries, 28 are killed and 35 are injured, ten critically, in a suicide bombing after the minister had finished speaking.[196]
  • Flag of Iraq April 28: A car bomb kills 63 people and injures 70 in Karbala, Iraq.
  • Flag of Iraq May 6: A car bomb kills 35 people and injures 80 in Baghdad, Iraq.
  • Palestinian flag May 6: In a bomb attack on an UN-run elementary school in the southern Gaza refugee camp of Rafah by Muslim extremists, one person, a bodyguard of a local Fatah politician, was killed and eight others, including two children, were injured. The attack happened during a sports festival that earlier had been denounced as un-Islamic by the extremists.[197]
  • Flag of the United States May 7: 2007 Fort Dix attack plot. Six men inspired by jihadist videos arrested in the US, in a failed homegrown terrorism plot to kill US soldiers.
  • Flag of Colombia May 9: A roadside bomb kills nine police officers engaged in anti-narcotics operations. Attacked is blamed on FARC.[198]
  • Flag of Colombia May 10: A second roadside bomb kills ten soldiers while on patrol. Attack is blamed on FARC.[199]
  • Flag of Turkey May 12: In Izmir, Turkey, a bomb explosion on a market kills one person and injures 14 others, one day before a planned march of secular Turks to demonstrate against the Islamic-rooted government.[200]
  • Flag of Iraq May 13: A suicide truck bomb kills 50 people and injures 115 in Makhmur, Iraq.
  • Flag of Pakistan May 15: A bomb explodes in a restaurant in Pakistan's north-west city of Peshawar. Up to 24 people are killed.
  • Flag of Israel May 15, May 16: Hamas launches twenty eight rockets into an Israeli town injuring five. Despite Hamas claiming the motive was retaliation for Israeli violence, NBC News claims "likely it was an attempt to draw Israel into the fighting as a way of uniting the Palestinians against a common foe".[201]
  • Flag of the Philippines May 18: 5-year-old Adril Watangao was killed and 37 other people were injured when a bomb, probably laid by Islamic extremists, exploded in the Weena bus terminal in Cotabato city, in the Mindanao region of southern Philippines.[202]
  • Flag of India May 18: Attack on Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad. For details see