List of terrorist incidents, 1993
This is a timeline of incidents in 1993 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).
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Colombia, January 7: A car bomb kills two and injures 39 in the parking lot of a building where several judges lived, in the city of Medellín.[1]- Colombia, February 11: A bomb kills 14 and injures 25 at an auto repair shop in Barrancabermeja.[2]
United States, February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra'/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front,[3] see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ramzi Yousef.
Germany, March, 27: Red Army Fraction was behind the bomb attacks on the new prison building at Weiterstadt (near Frankfurt airport).
Israel, April 16: Hamas kill 2 in Mehola Junction bombing.[4]
United Kingdom, April 24: IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing one person and causing approximately £1bn of damage.[5] (See 1993 Bishopsgate bombing.)
Sri Lanka, May 1: Suicide bomber in Colombo kills Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa. Attack carried out by LTTE.[6][7]-
South Africa, July 25: Members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army, in what has been described as a terrorist attack,[8] open fire on a congregation inside St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, killing eleven and injuring fifty.[9] -
Norway, October 11: The publisher of Aschehoug William Nygaard was shot and got critically injured outside his residence . Police never managed to find the perpetrator, but it is believed that the reason for the assassination was Aschehougs publication of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses, which triggered an Islamist fatwa against the author and the translators and publishers. - South Africa, December 30: Six members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress, open fire on patrons of the Heidelberg Tavern in Observatory, Cape Town, killing four people (Jose Cerqueira, Lindy-Anne Fourie, Bernadette Langford, and Rolande Palm) and injuring several others.[9]
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References
- ↑ San Jose Mercury News, January 8, 1993, Page 17A
- ↑ NYT: 14 killed and 25 wounded by a car bomb in Colombia, February 11, 1993
- ↑ Official prepared statement of Steven Emerson before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information, on February 24, 1998, Federal Information Systems Corporation, Federal News Service, as downloaded from the Library of Congress, 1998, Made available 4/5/98
- ↑ Levitt, Matthew (2008). Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad. Yale University Press. p. 11.
- ↑ BBC: IRA bomb devastates City of London, On this day, April 24, 1993
- ↑ BBC News: Timeline of the Tamil conflict, September 4, 2000
- ↑ The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, ROBERT A. PAPE The University of Chicago, American Political Science Review Vol. 97, No. 3 August 2003, Page No 16
- ↑ "TRC Reports on St James Church Massacre". South African History Online. Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
A terrorist attack on St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 wounded.
- 1 2 Jeffery, Anthea (2009). People's War - New Light on the Struggle for South Africa (1st ed.). Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. ISBN 978-1-86842-357-6.
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