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: May 26th, 2010
Method: Car Bomb
Location: Kandahar, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The International News reports:

A car bomb exploded Wednesday near a US-run civilian-military base in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar but there were no casualties, police said as Afghan and US troops cordoned off the area.

Regional police chief General Mohammad Shafiq Afzali told foreign news agency the car had been in the parking lot of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), but it was unclear if it was detonated remotely or by a suicide bomber. "There have not been any casualties," he said.

Date: April 28th, 2010
Method: Suicide Car Bomb
Location: Check point - Baghdad, Iraq
Death Toll: 5
Injury Toll: 10
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

World Bulletin reports:

Five people were killed and 10 wounded, including several police officers, when two suspected suicide car bombers attacked police checkpoints in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
The attacks in the Abu Dsheer district came amid political tensions as a Sunni-backed alliance which came first in an inconclusive election in March.

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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 5th 2010
Method: Suicide Bomber, Car Bomb
Location: Police Headquarters in the town of Karabulak, Ingushetia
Death Toll: 2
Injury Toll: 3
Perpetrators: Suspected Chechen Militia

Associated Press:

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police station in a troubled Russian province Monday, killing two officers and wounding two others as Islamic insurgency continues to spread across the region.

The bomber's car exploded later, wounding an investigator.

Violence is increasingly being described as a civial war between kremlin-supported administrators and Islamic rebels. Widespread abuse of civilians by police, including abduction, torture and killing have swelled the militants ranks