Terror Attack Catalogue

Date: November 2nd, 2010
Method: String of 20 explosions: car bombings, roadside bombings and mortar fire
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 63+
Injury Toll: 285+
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (Suspected Al-Quaeda)

The Washington Post explains:

U.S. soldiers have become a rare sight in Baghdad since June 2009, the deadline the Iraqi government set for Americans' nominal departure from cities as part of a bilateral agreement signed the year before.
Coming two days after an attack on a Baghdad Catholic church during Mass in which 58 people were killed, the newest wave of violence infuriated Iraqis. Many blamed the worsening security situation on their elected officials, who have been unable to form a government since parliamentary elections March 7.

For a detailed report, please read this New York Times article.

Date: April 26th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomber
Location: Sanaa, Yemen
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 3
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (Suspected Al-Quaeda)

The Los Angeles Times reports:

The attempted assassination of the British ambassador to Yemen on Monday indicated that Al Qaeda remains capable of striking Western targets despite the arrests of some of its leaders and raids against its mountainous strongholds in the Arabian Peninsula.

A lone suicide bomber exploded alongside the armored car carrying Ambassador Timothy Torlot on his morning drive to the British Embassy in the capital, Sana. The ambassador and other British officials were unharmed. Police initially said the bomber, whose name was not released, was the only casualty.

Reuters reported that three people, including two policemen escorting the ambassador's motorcade, were injured. The neighborhood where the attack occurred is packed with tea shops and markets.

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 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 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 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 2nd, 2010
Method: Guns
Location: Sufiya (village), Iraq
Death Toll: 25
Injury Toll: Uncomfirmed (BBC and The Guardian report 7 survivors)
Perpetrators: Al-Quaeda

Iraqi gunmen, disguised as soldiers, killed 25 people assumed to have links with Sunni Militias opposing Al-Quaeda.
"In the past two years there have been many attacks aimed at punishing or intimidating Sunnis, but this is one of the bloodiest for some time," says the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad.
Reuters reports that 13 people have been arrested for the killings.