Terror Attack Catalogue

Date: April 29th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomber
Location: 60 miles north of Makhachkala, Dagestan
Death Toll: 2
Injury Toll: 17
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

Reuters reports:

Dagestan borders Chechnya in the North Caucasus, where Russia is facing a persistent Islamist insurgency. The province is plagued by frequent attacks targeting law enforcement and government officials.

The blast came a month after twin bombings blamed on female suicide attackers from Dagestan killed 40 people on Moscow's metro on March 29, raising fears of a new wave of attacks in Russia's heartland by militants based in the Caucasus.

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 27th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomber, Explosives
Location: Kandahar, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 3
Injury Toll: 35
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated Press explains:

Since April 12, at least 20 civilians, including eight children, have been killed in Kandahar, according to an AP count. Local officials, aid workers and contractors for U.S. development projects have been targeted by Taliban fighters trying to disrupt the upcoming military operation, expected to accelerate this summer.

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 25th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomber
Location: A bazaar in the Sharjoy District - Zabul Province, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 3-4
Injury Toll: 7
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (Suspected Taliban)

BBC News reports:

The bomber was reportedly on foot and wearing an explosives-packed vest when he targeted a group of security guards, a provincial government spokesman said.

Zabul has witnessed increased insurgent activity in recent months.

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 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 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 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 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: 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: 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 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 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

Date: April 5th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bombing
Location: Timegara town of Dir District, Pakistan
Death Toll: 53
Injury Toll: 107
Perpetrators: Taliban

The attack occurred at a rally in Timergara. There was approximately 500 people attending the rally.

Al Jazeera reports:

Zahid Khan, a spokesman for the Awami National Party, said that members of his party had been celebrating plans to change the name of North West Frontier Province, where Lower Dir is located, when a suspected suicide bomber detonated his explosives.

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New York Times:

A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Azam Tariq, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in retaliation for Pakistani military operations in the western tribal areas that border Afghanistan, and for American missile strikes in the area that killed dozens of militants over the past several months.

The Lede quotes Taliban Spokesman Azam Tariq:

“We accept the attacks on the American consulate. This is revenge for drone attacks,” Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location. “We have already told you that we have 2,800 to 3,000 fedayeen (suicide bombers). We will carry out more such attacks. We will target any place where there are Americans,” he said.

Adnkronosinternational reports that senator Haji Adeel, senior vice president of the Awami National Party (ANP) suspects Al-Quaeda to be be behind the attack. Sources told Adnkronos International (AKI) that Al-Qaeda also worked with the Taliban in co-ordinating the attack.

Date: March 31st 2010
Method: Twin Suicide Bombing
Location:

• 8:40AM Bomber 1 Kizlyar, Dagestan
• 9:00AM Bomber 2 Kizlyar, Dagestan

Death Toll: 12
Injury Toll: 23
Perpetrators: Names undisclosed. Suspected Chechen Militia.

CNN reports both explosions happened 300 meters from the Interior Ministry
and Federal Security Service buildings.
The Montreal Gazzette reports:

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the latest attack in the North Caucasus region may be linked to the strikes on the Moscow metro by two female suicide bombers.

Date: March 29th, 2010
Method: Twin Subway Suicide Bombings
Location:

• 8:00AM at Lubyanka Station
• 8:40AM at Park Kultury-Koltsevaya

Death Toll: 40
Injury Toll: 121
Perpetrators:

• Doku K. Umarov claimed responsibility for the attacks over Youtube. The New York Times translates his message here. Umarov claims the subway bombings act as retaliation for the death of four civilians who were killed by Russian security forces, while picking wild garlic on Feb 11, 2010 around the village of Arshty.
  
• Maryam Sharipova, 28 year-old IT teacher from Dagestan. Suicide bomber who carried out attack at the Lubyanka Station.
  
• Dzhanet Adbullayeva, 17 year old widow from Dagestan. Suicide bomber who carried out attack at the Park Kultury-Koltsevaya Station.

In Russia, and the North Caucasus, women who become suicide bombers have been dubbed as Black Widows. The tendency appears to be that women from that region who pursue suicide bombing do it to avenge relatives and husbands that have been killed by Russian Security Forces. The New York Times as well as Time elaborate on this phenomenon.