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 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 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.

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: 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: 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.