Terror Attack Catalogue

Date: April 24th, 2010
Method: IED
Location: Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Death Toll: N/A
Injury Toll: N/A
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

Kaleej Times reports:

A policeman on patrol found the homemade bomb in a suspicious-looking box early Saturday morning near the entrance to one of the city's police stations, the Interfax news agency reported, citing a police source.
The bomb was “a homemade explosive device consisting of a five-litre plastic canister, inside of which was a 1.5-litre bottle with an ammonia mix and aluminium powder... nails, an electric detonator, a power supply, a mobile phone and wires,” a police source told the RIA-Novosti news agency.
Police successfully defused the bomb, both news agencies reported.

Date: April 23rd, 2010
Method: Bombs
Location: Al Anbar, Iraq
Death Toll: 6
Injury Toll: 12
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

McClatchy reports:

Date: April 23rd, 2010
Method: Car Bomb, Roadside Bomb
Location: Al Amin Neighbourhood Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 8
Injury Toll: 23
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (Suspected Al-Quaeda)

McClatchy reports:

Baghdad All attacks took place around 12:30 p.m. during Friday prayers:
A car bomb and a roadside bomb exploded in Al Amin neighborhood near Muhsin Al Hakeem killing 8 civilians and injuring 23 others.

The Associated Press reports:

A series of bombings mainly targeting Shiite worshippers killed at least 60 people on Friday, officials said, just days after U.S. and Iraqi forces killed the top two al-Qaida leaders in Iraq in what was described as devastating blow to the insurgency.

The apparently coordinated attack, which occurred in a two-hour timespan, demonstrated insurgents remain a potent force despite U.S. and Iraqi claims that the terror network is on the run.

Officials have warned insurgents remain capable of staging high-profile bombings in a bid to reignite sectarian tensions that pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

Extremists are also seeking to exploit political deadlock after the inconclusive March 7 parliamentary election as U.S. forces prepare to go withdraw from the country by the end of 2011.

Read this New York Times article for more information on the wave of attacks that occured in Iraq on April 23rd.

Date: April 23rd, 2010
Method: Car Bomb
Location: Sadr City Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 39
Injury Toll: 56
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (Suspected Al-Quaeda)

McClatchy reports:

Baghdad All attacks took place around 12:30 p.m. during Friday prayers:
Two parking car bombs exploded in Sadr city killing 39 and injuring 56.

The Associated Press reports:

A series of bombings mainly targeting Shiite worshippers killed at least 60 people on Friday, officials said, just days after U.S. and Iraqi forces killed the top two al-Qaida leaders in Iraq in what was described as devastating blow to the insurgency.

The apparently coordinated attack, which occurred in a two-hour timespan, demonstrated insurgents remain a potent force despite U.S. and Iraqi claims that the terror network is on the run.

Officials have warned insurgents remain capable of staging high-profile bombings in a bid to reignite sectarian tensions that pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

Extremists are also seeking to exploit political deadlock after the inconclusive March 7 parliamentary election as U.S. forces prepare to go withdraw from the country by the end of 2011.

Read this New York Times article for more information on the wave of attacks that occured in Iraq on April 23rd.

Date: April 23rd, 2010
Method: Roadside Bomb
Location: Rahmaniyah Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 7
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (Suspected Al-Quaeda)

McClatchy reports:

Baghdad All attacks took place around 12:30 p.m. during Friday prayers:
A roadside exploded near a market area in Rahmaniyah injuring 7 civilians.

The Associated Press reports:

A series of bombings mainly targeting Shiite worshippers killed at least 60 people on Friday, officials said, just days after U.S. and Iraqi forces killed the top two al-Qaida leaders in Iraq in what was described as devastating blow to the insurgency.

The apparently coordinated attack, which occurred in a two-hour timespan, demonstrated insurgents remain a potent force despite U.S. and Iraqi claims that the terror network is on the run.

Officials have warned insurgents remain capable of staging high-profile bombings in a bid to reignite sectarian tensions that pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

Extremists are also seeking to exploit political deadlock after the inconclusive March 7 parliamentary election as U.S. forces prepare to go withdraw from the country by the end of 2011.

Read this New York Times article for more information on the wave of attacks that occured in Iraq on April 23rd.

Date: April 23rd, 2010
Method: Roadside Bomb
Location: Al Sadrain mosque in Zafaraniyah Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 6
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (Suspected Al-Quaeda)

McClatchy reports:

Baghdad All attacks took place around 12:30 p.m. during Friday prayers:
A roadside bomb exploded near Al Sadrain mosque in Zafaraniyah injuring 6 civilians.

The Associated Press reports:

A series of bombings mainly targeting Shiite worshippers killed at least 60 people on Friday, officials said, just days after U.S. and Iraqi forces killed the top two al-Qaida leaders in Iraq in what was described as devastating blow to the insurgency.

The apparently coordinated attack, which occurred in a two-hour timespan, demonstrated insurgents remain a potent force despite U.S. and Iraqi claims that the terror network is on the run.

Officials have warned insurgents remain capable of staging high-profile bombings in a bid to reignite sectarian tensions that pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

Extremists are also seeking to exploit political deadlock after the inconclusive March 7 parliamentary election as U.S. forces prepare to go withdraw from the country by the end of 2011.

Read this New York Times article for more information on the wave of attacks that occured in Iraq on April 23rd.

Date: April 23rd, 2010
Method: Car Bomb
Location: Mosque of Abdul Hadi Al Chalabi in Hurriyah Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 5
Injury Toll: 14
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (Suspected Al-Quaeda)

McClatchy reports:

A parking car bomb exploded near the mosque of Abdul Hadi Al Chalabi in Hurriyah neighborhood. Five civilians killed and 14 others were injured.

The Associated Press reports:

A series of bombings mainly targeting Shiite worshippers killed at least 60 people on Friday, officials said, just days after U.S. and Iraqi forces killed the top two al-Qaida leaders in Iraq in what was described as devastating blow to the insurgency.

The apparently coordinated attack, which occurred in a two-hour timespan, demonstrated insurgents remain a potent force despite U.S. and Iraqi claims that the terror network is on the run.

Officials have warned insurgents remain capable of staging high-profile bombings in a bid to reignite sectarian tensions that pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

Extremists are also seeking to exploit political deadlock after the inconclusive March 7 parliamentary election as U.S. forces prepare to go withdraw from the country by the end of 2011.

Read this New York Times article for more information on the wave of attacks that occured in Iraq on April 23rd.

Date: April 23rd, 2010
Method: Roadside Bomb
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 5
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (Suspected Al-Quaeda)

McClatchy reports:

Baghdad All attacks took place around 12:30 p.m. during Friday prayers: A roadside exploded inside a shop in Dora neighborhood injuring five civilians.

The Associated Press reports:

A series of bombings mainly targeting Shiite worshippers killed at least 60 people on Friday, officials said, just days after U.S. and Iraqi forces killed the top two al-Qaida leaders in Iraq in what was described as devastating blow to the insurgency.

The apparently coordinated attack, which occurred in a two-hour timespan, demonstrated insurgents remain a potent force despite U.S. and Iraqi claims that the terror network is on the run.

Officials have warned insurgents remain capable of staging high-profile bombings in a bid to reignite sectarian tensions that pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

Extremists are also seeking to exploit political deadlock after the inconclusive March 7 parliamentary election as U.S. forces prepare to go withdraw from the country by the end of 2011.

Read this New York Times article for more information on the wave of attacks that occured in Iraq on April 23rd.

Date: April 23rd, 2010
Method: Beheading
Location: North Waziristan, Pakistan
Death Toll: 5
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Taliban

CNN reports:

Residents Friday found four beheaded and bullet-riddled bodies with a handwritten note nearby accusing them of spying for the U.S. and the Pakistani military, said Muthar Zeb, the top government official in North Waziristan.

He said residents found the bodies dumped along a road. Zeb said the body of another man accused of spying was found near the town of Mir Ali.

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North Waziristan is believed to be the operating base of pro-Taliban militant commander Jalaluddin Haqqani and Pakistani Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadar, both of whom are suspected of fomenting the insurgency against U.S. troops across the border in Afghanistan.

The Pakistani army says many Taliban fighters who fled last year's military offensive in another tribal region, South Waziristan, have also taken refuge in North Waziristan.

The Pakistani military has yet to launch an offensive against militants in North Waziristan because it says its troops are spread too thin with at least ten other military offensives in the region.

Date: April 22nd, 2010
Method: 3-5 M-79 Grenades
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Death Toll: 1
Injury Toll: 75
Perpetrators: Suspected Red Shirts

Wire Update reports:

Confrontations between law enforcement and Red Shirt protestors peaked, as the protestors have been demanding the resignations of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who called an emergency meeting with security officials following the explosions.

The New York Times reports:

The explosions, several of which took place on the platform of an elevated train, scattered shrapnel through crowds that included foreign tourists, sending people fleeing in panic into shops and restaurants.
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It was the worst violence since April 10, when 25 people were killed in a clash between the military and the red shirts, and it raised fears that confrontations between rival groups of protesters could spread.

Tensions have increased in recent days, with the red shirts threatening to march on the financial district and the government warning of an imminent crackdown. “Your days are numbered,” an army spokesman, Col. Sansern Kaewkamnerd, said Thursday, addressing the red shirts.

The casualties came in an area patrolled by the military where pro-government demonstrators have gathered recently, shouting insults at the anti-government red shirts, who have massed behind a barricade of concrete blocks, stacked tires and sharpened bamboo poles.

Date: April 21st, 2010
Method: Mortar
Location: Village Albu Farraj near Ramadi, Iraq
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 16
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

People's Daily Online reports:

At least seven mortar rounds landed in the morning on six houses in the village of Albu Farraj, near Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, wounding 16 people, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The attack caused severe damages to the houses, three of which appeared to belong to police personnel, the source said.

Date: April 21, 2010
Method: Twin Bombing; 1st M-67 Grenade 2nd Car Bomb
Location: Police Station in Pattani, Thailand
Death Toll: 1
Injury Toll: 53
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Bangkok Post reports:

One of two men riding a motorcycle threw the hand grenade over the station fence, according to witnesses. It landed next to the flagpole, then exploded.
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About two hours after the attack, a bomb hidden inside a car parked about 20 metres from the police station exploded, injuring at least 10 people, police said.
The explosion occurred about 10am as the commissioner of the Southern Border Province Bureau, Pol Lt Gen Peera Poompichet, visited the station for a briefing on the attack.

Date: April 20th, 2010
Method: Motorcycle Bomb
Location: Khost, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The New York Times reports:

The explosives, which were strapped to a motorcycle, detonated as a convoy of police was passing, Mubarez Zadran, spokesman for the provincial governor said.

Khost, which is near the Pakistan border, has seen a number of bomb attacks and suicide strikes in recent months against Afghan government targets and foreign troops.

Date: April 20th, 2010
Method: Twin Bombing
Location: Makhachkala, Dagestan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 2
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (Suspected Chechen Militia)

Ria Novosti reports:

"Two people were injured as a result of the first explosion. One of them is the son of Federal Security Service [FSB] Colonel Kamil Etimbekov, who was killed in 2004 in the yard of the same house," a police spokesman said.

According to media reports, FSB Colonel Etimbekov investigated large-scale terrorist attacks before he was killed in June 2004.

The second man injured in Tuesday's explosion was also Etimbekov's relative. Both were hospitalized.

The second explosion occurred 50 meters (164 feet) from the first one. The explosive device had been placed in a garbage can. No one was injured.

Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus republics, especially Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, have seen an upsurge of militant violence lately, with frequent attacks on police and officials.

Date: April 19th, 2010
Method: Explosives loaded on donkey cart
Location: Kandahar, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 3 (children)
Injury Toll: 5
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (suspected Taliban)

"The explosives were loaded onto a donkey cart under a pile of fodder and was detonated remotely," tribal leader Fazluddin Agha told AFP.
"Three children were all my nephews... They were playing with the donkey cart, they had jumped on it (when it blew up outside his heavily-guarded home)."
Agha ran President Hamid Karzai's campaign during last year's presidential elections.
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The use of animals in insurgent attacks is rare but not unheard of.
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Taliban-led insurgents regularly deploy crude bombs to attack government, military and civilian targets in their insurgency, now well into its ninth year.

Kandahar is seen as the key battleground to reverse the escalating conflict, which is taking an increasing toll on foreign forces and Afghan civilians alike.

Date: April 19th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomber
Location: Peshawar, Pakistan
Death Toll: 24
Injury Toll: 30+
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated Press reports:

Police said the target was apparently officers watching over a rally by members of a political party against power cuts in the city. Police officers and protesters were among the 22 dead and more than 30 injured, said police chief Liaqat Ali Khan.

The rally was being held by the Jamat-e-Islami party, an Islamist grouping that is sympathetic to many of the goals of the Taliban and regularly criticizes army operations against them.

Police and two government officials blamed the Taliban for the attack. But Jamat-e-Islami spokesman Ameer-ul-Azeem declined to do so, and instead alleged that CIA or Indian intelligence were behind it — the conspiracy theory of choice for right-wing Islamists in Pakistan.

Date: April 19th, 2010
Method: Bomb
Location: Peshawar, Pakistan
Death Toll: 1
Injury Toll: 10
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated Press reports:

Earlier, a bomb exploded outside a school run by a police welfare foundation, killing a young boy and wounding 10 people. The school raises money to help families of police officers. The victim was a boy aged between 5 and 7. Five of the wounded were children.
Taliban and al-Qaida militants based in the Afghan border region — who are fighting Pakistani police and the army — have carried out hundreds of attacks over the last three years. They have frequently targeted security forces, government officials and their supporters or family members in mosques, schools and markets, showing no concern for civilian casualties.

Date: April 19th, 2010
Method: Car Bomb
Location: Nazran, Ingushetia
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 1
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated Press reports:

The bomb went off when the car of Beslan Shadiyev was parked in the local interior ministry car park in Ingushetia's largest city Nazran.

The official's driver was wounded but Shadiyev appeared not to be in the car at the time, the reports cited security officials as saying.

The pro-Kremlin authorities in Ingushetia, like other mainly Muslim regions of Russia's Northern Caucasus, has been seeking to quell an Islamist insurgency over the past years that has claimed scores of lives

Press TV reports that no one has taken responsibility for the attack.

Date: April 18th, 2010
Method: Landmine
Location: Near a police station in Mogadishu, Somalia
Death Toll: 5 civilians (&5 police officers)
Injury Toll: 20
Perpetrators: (Suspected) al-Shabaab

The Associated Press reports:

Ali Gab, a Somali police official said that five of his fellow police officers were killed in the attack. He blamed the militant group al-Shabab for the attack.
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The weak U.N.-backed Somali government is battling an Islamist insurgency. The impoverished Horn of Africa nation has not had a functioning government for nearly 20 years.

Date: April 18th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomber, Truck Bomb (Truck loaded w/ 250 kilograms of explosives)
Location: Saddar police station in Kohat, Pakistan
Death Toll: 7
Injury Toll: 26
Perpetrators: Taliban

The Washington Post explains:

Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility in a telephone call to police in Kohat, police said later.

A militant spokesman had said the attack on the police station was in response to police arrests and the killing of militants, said a police spokesman in Kohat town.

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After its offensives in Swat, South Waziristan and Bajaur, the military has been attacking militants in other areas, including the Orakzai region, where many of the Islamists who fled the earlier offensives are believed to have taken refuge.

The army says more than 300 militants had been killed in fighting in recent weeks in Orakzai and the Kurram region but there has been no independent confirmation of the deaths.

Date: April 17th, 2010
Method: Twin Suicide Bombers
Location: Refugee Camp Kachcha Pakka in Kohat, Pakistan (In the North West Frontier Province)
Death Toll: 41
Injury Toll: 62
Perpetrators: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

The Press Associated reports:

Two suicide bombers dressed in burqas have killed 41 people and wounded 62 others in an attack on a camp for refugees fleeing military offensives in north-western Pakistan.
The United Nations said it was temporarily suspending its programmes helping displaced people in Kohat and neighbouring Hangu as a result of the bombings.
The blasts occurred at a food distribution point, but there were conflicting reports whether the victims were lining up for food or being registered. The camp in the Kohat region is sometimes used by foreign humanitarian groups, including the World Food Programme, to deliver aid.
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The camp was for people who fled from the Orakzai district, where the army has been fighting militants since the end of last year.

The News reports:

A dreaded militant organisation of Punjabi Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al-Alami, has claimed responsibility for the two consecutive suicide attacks in Kohat.

“We claim responsibility for the two Fidayee (suicide) attacks in Kohat. The Shia community was in fact our target that our two Fidayeen (suicide bombers) achieved,” explained a caller, who introduced himself as Usman Haider, a spokesman for the outlawed outfit.

Date: April 17th, 2010
Method: Twin Bombing
Location: Chinnaswamy Stadium - Bangalore, India
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 8
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Telegraph reports:

The bomb was planted in a wall beside one of the entrances to the Chinnaswamy stadium, which is particularly vulnerable because it has a road running around its perimeter.
The bomb, along with another which exploded several hundred yards from the stadium, was described as "low-intensity" by the police. But it heightened the fears of the International Cricket Council about the next World Cup, which is due to be staged in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka starting in February 2011, Pakistan having already been ruled out on security grounds.

The Times of India reports that a third bomb was found 3 hours after the first two exploded and it was safely defused.

Date: April 16th, 2010
Method: IED
Location: Barangay Upper Maligue Isabela, Philippines
Death Toll: N/A
Injury Toll: N/A
Perpetrators: Abu Sayyaf

PhilStar reports:

The bomb was recovered after the intelligence unit of the Marine Battalion Landing Team 1 (MBLT) received information that an improvised explosive device (IED) was abandoned near a creek in Barangay Upper Maligue, Isabela City.

The MBLT1 under Col. Fernando Gomez, K9 unit and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team launched a search and recovered the bomb about 5 p.m. local time Friday, said Lt. Gen. Ben Dolorfino, commander of Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom).

Date: April 16th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomb
Location: Civil Hospital Quetta, Pakistan
Death Toll: 12 - 10 - 8
Injury Toll: 35
Perpetrators: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

CNN reports:

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a banned militant group in Pakistan, has claimed responsibility for the suicide blast, according to group spokesman Ali Sher Haideri.

Date: April 15th, 2010
Method: 3 Bombs
Location: Yangon, Union of Myanmar (AKA Burma)
Death Toll: 9
Injury Toll: 94
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Globe and Mail reports:

Three bombs ripped through traditional New Year festivities in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon Thursday, killing nine people and injuring 94 others, officials and state television said.

There was no indication who was behind the blasts, which occurred at about 3 p.m. near some 20 pavilions erected for the celebrations at the sprawling Kandawgyi Lake. Myanmar is celebrating the annual four-day water festival, when people drench each other with water to usher in the Myanmar New Year on Saturday.

Date: April 15th, 2010
Method: Suicide Car Bomb, IED
Location: Kandahar, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 3
Injury Toll: 26
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

Several News Agencies reported yesterday that as many as 7 British contract workers were feared dead. The most recent article on the attack, published by the Press Association, reports that Kandahar's provincial governor Tooryalai Wesa claims no foreigners were killed in the attack.

[A total of 26 people were injured, 10 of them foreigners, including three Americans and a South African] and three Afghans were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives in southern Afghanistan, authorities have said.

Date: April 15th, 2010
Method: Car Bomb
Location: Kandahar, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 8
Perpetrators: Suspected Taliban

The Associated Press reports:

Aghalala, a money changer working the street in front of the hotel, said two men pulled up in the car, parked it, and walked away. Five minutes later the white sedan exploded, said Aghalala, who uses only one name.
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Kandahar is the main city of Afghanistan's volatile south from which the hardline Taliban Islamic militant movement emerged as a political and military force in the early 1990s. NATO forces are expected to launch a major operation in and around the city this summer in a bid to root out insurgents and turn around the nearly nine-year war. The Taliban has reasserted its presence in large parts of the country from which it had faded following the 2001 U.S. invasion that toppled its regime.

Date: April 14th, 2010
Method: Car Bombing
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 2
Injury Toll: 7
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated French Press reports:

Earlier Wednesday, General Arkan Ali Mohammed, a counter-terrorism officer, was killed when a bomb attached to his car exploded in Nisur Square in west Baghdad around 8:00 am (0500 GMT). And a civilian motorist was also killed by a bomb attached to his car in the capital's Mansur district.
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Although the frequency of attacks across Iraq by insurgents has dropped significantly since peaking in 2006 and 2007, latest figures show that 367 Iraqis were killed in violence last month -- the highest number this year.

Date: April 14th, 2010
Method: Bomb
Location: Sports shop in Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 1
Injury Toll: 6
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated French Press reports:

One person was killed and six hurt when a bomb exploded in a sports shop in Baghdad's bustling Al-Rasheed street at about at 1:40 pm (1040 GMT) and caused extensive structural damage, said an interior ministry official.
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Although the frequency of attacks across Iraq by insurgents has dropped significantly since peaking in 2006 and 2007, latest figures show that 367 Iraqis were killed in violence last month -- the highest number this year.

Date: April 14th, 2010
Method: 9/11 style airplane hijack
Location: Iraq - Targets: Imam Ali's shrine in Najaf or the shrines in Karbala (holy cities for Shiite Muslims)
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Al-Quaeda

Xinhua explains:

The shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf and the shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala are the most-revered holy sites for Shiite Muslims.

The al-Qaida in the past years usually attacked religious sites to spark sectarian conflicts and even civil wars in Iraq.

In 2007, insurgents blew up two minarets of the Shiite shrine of Ali al-Hadi in Samarra, some 120 km north of Baghdad, which escalated the violence between Shiites and Sunnis in the war-torn country.

Date: April 13th, 2010
Method: Bombs, Guns
Location: Isabela, Philippines
Death Toll: 15 (5 militants, 6 civilians, 3 soldiers, 1 police officer)
Injury Toll: Unconfirmed
Perpetrators: approximately 25 Abu Sayyaf Group fighters, linked to Al-Quaeda

Agence France-Presse reports:

The gunmen detonated two home-made bombs near a church and a school sports grandstand in Isabela city on Basilan island, in the latest show of force by the Abu Sayyaf network, which is blamed for the nation's worst terrorist attacks.
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The militants sprayed bullets at terrified civilians scrambling for safety, and engaged in a gun battle with security forces on the outskirts of Isabela that lasted for at least three hours, according to military chiefs.

The first bomb went off about 10:30 am (0230 GMT) outside an education department building near a high school sports grandstand, provincial police chief Antonio Mendoza said in Isabela.

He said the second, rigged to a motorcycle left near a Roman Catholic cathedral, went off minutes later as security forces chased the suspects.

A third bomb placed near a judge's house and a bus terminal was safely detonated by soldiers.

Date: April 12th, 2010
Method: Mortar
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 3
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Taliban

The Associated Press reports:

Three women died when mortars fired by suspected insurgents fell on their homes in an increasingly volatile area just north of the capital Kabul, officials said Tuesday.

The entrenched Taliban insurgency is accused of targeting Afghan civilians to spread fear and undercut the authority of Afghanistan's central government, which remains weak, particularly outside Kabul. Formerly stable areas such as Kapisa have become virtual no-go zones for foreigners and non-governmental organizations.

Date: April 13th, 2010
Method: Car Bomb
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 6
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

New Straight Times reports:

Omer Ibrahim Rasheed, working for the al-Baghdadia television, was wounded when a bomb planted in his car detonated in the morning. He was driving the car with another person in Doura district in southern Baghdad, the source told China's Xinhua news agency on condition of anonymity.
The blast also wounded his companion and four passers-by, the source added.

Date: April 13th, 2010
Method: Bomb
Location: A liquor store in Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 3
Injury Toll: 7
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated Press reports:
The noontime liquor store bombing in an eastern Baghdad neighborhood took place after people posing as customers left behind a black plastic bag filled with explosives in the shop, an Iraqi police official said. The Christian owner of the store was among those killed, the police official said.

Date: April 12th, 2010
Method: Mortar
Location: Mogadishu, Somalia
Death Toll: 13
Injury Toll: 46
Perpetrators: Islamist fighters (Unconfirmed)

Global Times reports on the fighting between "Islamist fighters and Somali government forces backed by African Union (AU) peacekeepers":

The fighting broke out after insurgent fighters launched several rounds of mortar attack against targets of the Somali government and AU peacekeepers who responded with artillery fire on insurgent strongholds in the of the restive city.

Islamist insurgent wage almost daily fighting against Somali government forces and the nearly 5,000 AU peacekeeping troops based in Mogadishu. The latest flare-up of fighting comes days of relative calm in the Somali capital.

Date: April 12th, 2010
Method: Car Bomb
Location: Abu Ghraib, Iraq
Death Toll: Unconfirmed
Injury Toll: Unconfirmed
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated French Press reports:
Method: Car Bomb
Death Toll: 0 (2 troops)
Injury Toll: 12 civilians and 3 troops

In Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, a bomb in a parked car targeting an army patrol killed two soldiers and wounded 15 people, including three troops, around 3 pm (1200 GMT), an interior ministry official said.

Earth Times reports:
Method: Suicide Car Bomb
Death Toll: 1 civilian and 4 troops
Injury Toll: 3 civilians and 12 troops

A suicide bomber drove a small bus loaded with explosives into an Iraqi army convoy in the town of Abu Ghraib, just west of Baghdad.Witnesses told the German Press Agency dpa that a man drove a small Kia brand bus into an Iraqi army patrol in the center of Abu Ghraib, resulting in a "massive explosion."
Four soldiers and one civilian were reported dead, in addition to the suicide bomber. Thirteen soldiers and two civilians were left injured by the explosion.

Date: April 12th, 2010
Method: Suicide Car Bomber
Location: Mosul, Iraq
Death Toll: 2
Injury Toll: 22
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated French Press reports:

"Two people were killed, a policeman and a civilian, and 22 people wounded, including five police, when a suicide car bomber targeted their patrol," Mosul police Major Hussam Aldeen Mohammed told AFP.

Earth Times explains that Mosul is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in Iraq. The city has been the target of several attacks recently, despite heavy security.

Date: April 12th, 2010
Method: Car Bomb
Location: Palace Barracks in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 1
Perpetrators: Irish Republican Army

Wire Update reports:

A car bomb exploded near the security headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Monday, local media reports. Dissident Republicans are suspected.

The New York Times reports:

The Police Service of Northern Ireland said IRA dissidents held a Belfast taxi driver at gunpoint in his home and used his cab to carry the bomb to the security walls of Palace Barracks, a former British Army base that houses the Northern Ireland branch office of domestic spy agency MI5.

The Guardian reports the car bomb was:

timed to coincide with the transfer of power as the Stormont parliament took over judicial and policing powers at midnight. Northern Ireland now has its first justice minister in nearly four decades.

Later today David Ford, the leader of the centrist Alliance party, is expected to receive the backing of the two main parties in the assembly and become the head of the new justice ministry.
Ford's elevation is due to a deal hammered out earlier this year between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionists at Hillsborough that saved power sharing.

Date: April 11th, 2010
Method: Roadside Bomb
Location: Diyala, Iraq
Death Toll: 3
Injury Toll: 1
Perpetrators: Suspected Al-Quaeda

Xinhua reports:

Three children brothers were killed and their fourth brother was wounded on Sunday in a bomb explosion as they were heading to their school in a rural area in Iraq's volatile province of Diyala in northeast of Baghdad, a provincial police source said.

The father of the four children is a former leader of an Awakening Council group, a government-backed paramilitary group which fought the extremist Sunni militants of Qaida, he said.

According to the French Associated Press:

The Sahwa (Awakening) movement, known as the "Sons of Iraq" by the US army, joined American and Iraqi forces in 2006 and 2007 to fight Al-Qaeda and its supporters, leading to a dramatic fall in violence across the country.

Date: April 11th, 2010
Method: IED/Roadside Bom
Location: Daman District, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 4 civilians (1 soldier)
Injury Toll: 14
Perpetrators: Suspected Taliban

The Associated Press reports:

A home-made bomb tore through a bus carrying a mine clearance team in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing four people and injuring more than a dozen others, officials said.
The improvised explosive device -- the Taliban and other militants' weapon of choice against foreign forces and government targets -- detonated as they drove on a dirt road near Daman district.

Date: April 10th, 2010
Method: Bombing
Location: Chiragali Payeen in Dir District, Pakistan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Militants (Unconfirmed)

The News International is the only agency to report at this time:

Militants blew up a primary school for boys with explosive device in Chiragali, a remote mountainous area in the district, early on Saturday. The Gandigar police confirmed the incident and said the militants had blown up the Government Primary School in Chiragali Payeen, some 20 kilometres east of Dir town, at 1:30am.

Date: 4/10/10
Method: Guns
Location: Maycoba, Mexico
Death Toll: 4
Injury Toll: Unconfirmed
Perpetrators: Members of organized crime, details not disclosed

National Terror Alert reports:

Mexican police report that more than 80 gunmen have attacked a northern Mexican town, killing at least four people and setting police stations on fire.

The Associated Press reports:

Murrieta (sonora state attorney general) said Friday the assailants terrorized the town for at least five hours Thursday afternoon. He said the gunmen are members of organized crime but gave no other details.

Date: April 10th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomb, Guns, Grenades
Location: Emergency Hospital (Italian NGO) in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan
Death Toll: N/A Attack Foiled
Injury Toll: N/A Attack Foiled
Perpetrators: Operation was funded by the Afghan Taliban based in Pakistan - As per: Helmand Provincial Governor, Gulab Mangal

The New York Times reports:

Suicide vests and grenades hidden in boxes of medicine were found Saturday in a hospital run by an Italian charity in the capital of Helmand Province, Lashkar Gah, and three Italian citizens were detained along with six Afghans who worked at the hospital, according to the provincial governor and Interior Ministry officials in Kabul.
“Initially, the plan was to carry out two attacks in Lashkar Gah, either in a densely populated area or at a picnic site in the outskirts of the city which would of course inflict heavy casualties,” Mr. Mangal said.
The second attack was to have been carried out while he was visiting the injured who were being treated in the Emergency hospital. Mr. Mangal said he usually visited the wounded after attacks.

The Associated Press reports:

Emergency, which was set up in 1994 in Milan, has had a facility in Lashkar Gah since 2003 and has operated in Afghanistan since 1999, treating 2.5 million people, according to its website.

Date: April 9th, 2010
Method: IED
Location: American Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

WireUpdate Reports:

"At approximately 11 pm the night of April 9, an explosive device was thrown over the fence of the U.S. Consulate General in Nuevo Laredo. There were no injuries, but windows were damaged," the Consulate said in an statement.

Date: April 10th, 2010
Method: Triple Bombing
Location: Fallujah, Iraq
Death Toll: 3
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated Press reports:

In the city of Fallujah, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) west of the capital, three bombs went off at dawn at the house of Tariq Fawaz, a former police lieutenant colonel who is now a schoolteacher, a police officer said. The bomb injured Fawaz, his son and two neighbors and killed his wife, the officer said.

Date: April 10th, 2010
Method: Roadside Bomb
Location: Hamam al-Alil area, about 16 miles (25 kilometers) south of Mosul, Iraq
Death Toll: 2
Injury Toll: Unconfirmed
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated Press reports:

A second roadside bomb went off next to an Iraqi army patrol in the Hamam al-Alil area, about 16 miles (25 kilometers) south of Mosul, killing a soldier and a child, according to another police officer who said he had no other details.

Date: April 9th, 2010
Method: Bomb
Location: Makhachkala, Dagestan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0-1
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Voice of Russia reports:

A powerful bomb planted near a local power line went off in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala in the early hours of Friday... Police are investigating.

Date: 4/09/10
Method: Suicide Bomb, Gun
Location: Ekazhevo, Ingushetia
Death Toll: 1
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Chechen Militia

Reuters reports:

When police returned fire she blew herself up with the explosive device strapped to her body, officers at the scene told Reuters.
Police said that the woman, wearing a suicide belt, opened fire at them, wounding one policeman who later died.

Date: April 9th, 2010
Method: 2 Suicide Bombers
Location: Lakki Marwat, Pakistan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The News and Dawn.Com report that two suicide bombers had blown themselves up to avoid arrest.
Samaa and CriEnglish report that one bomber was shot dead by police, and the other bomber blew himself up to avoid arrest.

Date: April 8th, 2010
Method: IED
Location: Titay, Philippines
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

ABS-CBNNews reports:

At around 8 p.m., an improvised explosive device went off at the Freedom Park where the Lakas-Kampi-CMD, led by Mayoralty Candidate George Castillo, was having a political rally.
Another explosion hit a public telephone booth near a barangay hall in San Antonio. No one was hurt in both incidents.

Date: April 8th, 2010
Method: Grenade
Location: Titay, Philippines
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 3
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (No group or individual claimed responsibility for the spate of attacks)

Mindanao Examiner reports:

Officials said the grenade exploded late Thursday outside the house of a police officer in Kabasalan town, several kilometers from Titay where two improvised bombs were detonated earlier near the house of George Castillo, a mayoralty candidate of the ruling coalition; and at a village hall in nearby Titay town.

The grenade attack occurred 30 minutes after two improvised explosives went off, although there were no reports of casualties in the bombings.

See also: 4/08/10 - Double IED Explosions - Titay, Philippines for more information.

Date: April 7th, 2010
Method: Bomb
Location: Yala's Than To District, Thailand
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 7

Date: April 8th, 2010
Method: 5 Suicide Bombers
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Death Toll: N/A - Attack Foiled
Injury Toll: N/A - Attack Foiled
Perpetrators: Al-Qaeda

The Associated Press reports:

Afghan police, acting on an intelligence tip, have arrested five would-be suicide bombers as they were trying to enter Kabul — the largest suicide bomb team ever apprehended in the capital.

Date: April 6th, 2010
Method: Guns, Bombs
Location: Dantewada, India
Death Toll: 76 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
Injury Toll: 7 Survivors
Perpetrators: 700 Maoist Rebels (AKA Naxalites)

New York Times reports:

The authorities described a carefully executed surprise attack in which the Maoists opened fire as the patrol entered an area seeded with booby-trap bombs. When officers fell to the ground to take cover from gunfire, they detonated the explosives.

Date: April 7th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomber
Location: Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 1
Injury Toll: 15
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated Press reports:
The Afghan Ministry of Interior says the explosion early Wednesday appeared to have targeted a NATO convoy passing through the city's main intersection.

Date: April 7th, 2010
Method: Bomb
Location: Landi Kotal area of Khyber tribal Region, Pakistan
Death Toll: 1
Injury Toll: 4-8 (unconfirmed)
Perpetrators: Taliban

Associated Press reports a bomb had been planted on a NATO Oil tanker.

Date: April 5th, 2010
Method: Petrol bombs, Rockets
Location: Zakha Khel area of Khyber tribal Region, Pakistan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Taliban

The Times of India reports that 8 oil tankers were destroyed. The tankers
supply NATO forces with fuel.

Date: April 5th, 2010
Method: Truck Bomb, Machine Guns, Grenades,(at least) 5 Suicide Bombers - NYT
Location: American Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan
Death Toll: 6
Injury Toll: 20