Terror Attack Catalogue

Date: October 25th, 2010
Method: Four Gunmen; High-Calibre Assault Rifles
Location: Drug rehabilitation center in Tijuana, Mexico
Death Toll: 13
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Juarez Cartel

Wire Update reports:

According to reports, several gunmen arrived in two dark-colored cars at the El Camino rehab center at around 8 p.m. local time. Four gunmen holding high-caliber assault rifles raided the center, controlled the personnel, and ordered the 13 individuals to enter one of the rooms, line up, and lie face down.
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Drug rehabilitation center have been the target of attacks, because according to locals and federal officials, they are used by individuals as a refuge from rival gang members.
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Some 25,000 people have died in drug-related violence after a military campaign against drug cartels was launched by President Felipe Calderon at the end of 2006.

Yet the massacre was obviously related to Mexico's formidable war against drug cartels, and added to the some 28,000 lives already claimed by drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon launched an anti-drug campaign in December 2006.
The rehabilitation center is located in the same neighborhood where law enforcement officials seized about 105 tons of marijuana last week, which marked the largest drug bust in the country's history, according to the reports.

Date: May 23rd, 2010
Method: Gun and Mortal Fire
Location: Mogadishu, Somalia
Death Toll: 26+
Injury Toll: 25+
Perpetrators: al-Shabaab

All Headline News reports:

At least 26 civilians have been killed in fighting between Somali government forces backed by African Union troops and the insurgent group, Al-Shabbab in the Somali capital early on Sunday morning.

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Both insurgent and Somali government officials claimed victory over each other in the latest clashes that started in the early on Saturday.
Al-Shabbab’s Spokesman,Sheikh Ali Mohaoud Raageh claimed responsibility for the attack.

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: 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.

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.

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 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 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.