List of terrorist incidents, 2001

This is a timeline of incidents in 2001 that have been labelled terrorism and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

January

Dates Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator State Non-state
1 Suicide car bombing 0 50 Israel Netanya, Israel A Hamas suicide car bomber detonates in the city of Netanya, wounding 50.[1] Hamas
10 Car bombing 0 50 Colombia Medellín, Colombia A car bomb wounds at least 50 in a shopping center parking lot in Medellín.[2]

February

Dates Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator State Non-state
14 Suicide bombing 8 21 Israel Israel A Hamas suicide bomber plowed a bus into a crowd and detonated, killing 8 and wounding 21.[1] Hamas

March

Dates Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator State Non-state
4 Suicide bombing 3 65 Israel Netanya, Israel A Hamas suicide bomber detonated in the city of Netanya, killing 3 and wounding 65.[1] Hamas
4 Car bombing 0 1 United Kingdom White City, London, England, United Kingdom The Real IRA exploded a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre in London. One London Underground worker suffered deep cuts to his eye from flying glass and some damage was caused to the front of the building.[3] Real IRA
27 Suicide bombing 0 30 Israel French Hill, Jerusalem, Israel A suicide bomber blows himself up next to a bus in Jerusalem's French Hill area, injuring 30 Israelis.[4]
28 Suicide bombing 2 0 Israel Kfar Saba, Israel A suicide bomber detonated near a gas station outside Kfar Saba, killing two Israeli teenagers on their way to school.[4]
28 Suicide bombing 0 4 Israel Israel A suicide bomber, from the Arab Hamas organization, blew himself up amidst a gathering of students waiting at a bus stop, four teenagers were wounded, one of them in critical condition.[4] Hamas

April

Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrators
29 Suicide Bombing 0 (+1) 0 Israel Israel A suicide car bomber attempted to target a school bus near Nablus, but detonated prematurely.[5] Unknown

May

Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator State Non-State
4 Car Bomb 4 32 Colombia Colombia A car bomb kills four and injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali. No group claims the attack.[6] Unknown
6 Bombing 0 1 United Kingdom United Kingdom The Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.[7] Real IRA
17 car bomb 20 50 Colombia Colombia A car bomb kills 20 and injures at least 50 in a park in Medellín.[8]
18 Suicide Bombing 5 (+1) 100 Israel Israel An Arab suicide bomber from the Hamas blew himself up at the entrance of a shopping mall in the city of Netanya, near Tel-Aviv, 5 people were killed in the blast and over 100 men, women and children were injured.[9]
24 Bombing 4 Colombia Colombia Two bombs kill four near the Universidad Nacional campus in Bogotá. One more bomb is defused before it could explode. Right-wing paramilitaries are suspected.[10]
25 Suicide bombing, Car bombing 0 65 Israel Israel Two suicide car bombers targeted a bus station in Hadera, injuring 65.[5]
25 Bombing 12 Israel Israel Two separate bombs detonate at Netzarim Junction, killing 12[11]

June

Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpatrators State Non-State
17 Car bomb 0 16 Colombia Colombia A car bomb injures 16 in the town of San Martín, Meta. No group claims responsibility, but both FARC and AUC are suspected.[12]
22 Suicide bombing 2 (+1) Israel Israel A suicide bomber detonates in the city of Dugit, killing 2.[1]

July

Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpatrators State Non-State
9 Suicide bombing, car bombing 0 (+1) Israel Israel An Arab suicide car bomber detonated near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties.[13]
16 Suicide Bombing 2 Israel Israel An Arab suicide bomber detonated at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa. The Arab terrorist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack which killed two people.[4] Islamic Jihad
24 Suicide attack 21 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka An LTTE 14-man suicide squad attacked a Sri Lanka Air Force base and the adjoining Bandaranaike International Airport. 21 people were killed.[14] LTTE
31 Detonation 5 8 India India A remote control landmine was detonated damaging the forestry department's Eicher truck, which carried 13 Bhutanese passengers in Devadangi, Assam which left five killed and eight injured. The National Democratic Front of Bodoland is suspected to be behind the attacks.[15] National Democratic Front of Bodoland (suspected)

August

Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpetrators State Non-State
03 Bombing 0 7 United Kingdom United Kingdom The last (at time of writing) IRA bomb on mainland Britain explodes in Ealing, West London, injuring seven people.[16] (See 2001 Ealing bombing) IRA
08 Suicide Bombing 0 (+1) 1 Israel Israel A suicide car bomber detonated, lightly wounding one soldier, at a roadblock near the B'kaot moshav in the northern Jordan Valley shortly after 9:00am.[13]
12 Suicide Bombing 0 (+1) 15 Israel Israel An Arab suicide bomber wounds 15 people when he blows himself up in a restaurant in Kiryat Motzkin in northern Israel.[4]
22 Bombing Republic of Macedonia Republic of Macedonia August 22: An Orthodox monastery was destroyed by an explosion.[17]
23 Attack 1 39 Colombia Colombia In a series of attacks near Medellín, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims responsibility.[18]
23 Attempted Attack 0 (+15) Colombia Colombia At least 15 members of terrorist group ELN die when the explosives they were carrying detonate.[19] ELN
26 Explosion 2 Republic of Macedonia Republic of Macedonia An explosion destroyed a hotel, killing two people.[20]

September

Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpetrators State Non-State
04 Suicide bombing 0 (+1) 15 Israel Israel An Arab suicide bomber wounds 15 people when he blows himself up outside a Jerusalem hospital.[4]
09 Suicide bombing 3 90+ Israel Israel A suicide bomber detonated at a train station in Nahariya, an Israeli city, killing three people and wounding over 90 unarmed civilians. The Palestinian militant group Hamas took responsibility for the murders.[4] Hamas
09 Suicide Bombing; Car bombing 0 (+1) 17 Israel Israel A suicide car bomber hit Beit Lid junction near Netanya, injuring 17.[5]
09 Suicide bombing 1 0 Afghanistan Afghanistan Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, who spent years fighting Soviet occupation and then leading the anti-Taliban United Front (aka Northern Alliance), is killed by Algerian suicide bombers disguised as a camera crew.[21] Algerian Suicide Bombers
11 Suicide hijacking; Attack 2,977 (+19) United States United States Attacks kill 2,977 victims and 19 terrorists[22] in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, and the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. A fourth plane, suspected by many to have been originally intended to hit the White House or the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.,[23] crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers.[24]
The World Trade Center after being hit by the hijacked airliners.
 Al-Qaeda

November

Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrators State Non-State
26 Suicide bombing 0 2 Israel Israel A Hamas suicide bomber detonates at Erez Checkpoint, injuring 2.[1] Hamas
29 Suicide bombing 3 Israel Israel An Arab suicide bomber detonated on a bus traveling on a major highway between the Israeli coastal cities of Hadera and Afula, killing 3.[4]

December

Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpetrators State Non-State
01 Suicide bombing, car bombing 10+ 188 Israel Israel Arab suicide bombers detonated on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, a pedestrian mall frequented by many young people on Saturday night. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Ten people were killed, including many children, and 188 were injured in the terrorist attacks.[4]
02 Suicide bombing 1+ Israel Israel A Hamas suicide bomber boarded an Israeli bus traveling from the Neveh Sha'anan district in Haifa, paying the driver with a large bill. He then blew himself up as the driver asked him to collect his change.[4] Hamas
05 Suicide bombing 0 (+1) 3 Israel Israel An Arab suicide bomber blows himself up outside a Jerusalem hotel wounding three people.[4]
09 Suicide bombing 0 8 Israel Israel An Arab suicide bomber detonates explosives at hitch-hiking post near Haifa wounding eight unarmed Israeli civilians.[4]
12 Suicide bombing 0 (+2) 3+ Israel Israel Two Arab suicide bombers blow themselves up in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least three people.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Major Arab Terror Attacks Since Oslo
  2. ↑ People's Daily: Bomb blast in Colombia injures at least 50, January 11, 2001
  3. ↑ "Bomb blast outside BBC". BBC News online. March 4, 2001. Retrieved September 22, 2006.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Chronology of Arab Suicide Bombings
  5. 1 2 3 Chronology of Terrorist Attacks in Israel Part V: 2001
  6. ↑ CNN: Columbia car bomb injures at least 32, May 5, 2001 Archived June 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ "Second blast at Lonon post office". BBC, On this day. May 6, 2001. Retrieved December 12, 2006.
  8. ↑ CNN: Car bomb blast kills 7 in Medellín Archived April 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., May 18, 2001
  9. ↑
  10. ↑ CNN: Bomb blasts kill at least 4 in Colombia Archived April 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., May 25, 2001
  11. ↑ "MIDDLE EAST | Suicide blasts shake Israel". BBC News. 2001-05-25. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  12. ↑ People's Daily: At least 16 injured in car bomb blast in Colombia, June 17, 2001
  13. 1 2 Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (Sept 1993)
  14. ↑ "Timeline: Sri Lanka". BBC News. 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2015-08-16.
  15. ↑ "Assembly members condemn attack on Bhutanese citizens in Assam". KuenselOnline. 2001-08-03. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  16. ↑ "Car bombers rock west London". BBC News online. August 3, 2001. Retrieved September 22, 2006.
  17. ↑ Fisher, Ian (August 22, 2001). "Explosion Wrecks a 14th-Century Monastery". The New York Times. Retrieved May 8, 2010.
  18. ↑ CNN: Powerful bomb explodes in Medellín Archived April 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., August 24, 2001
  19. ↑ The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Bomb blasts kill 16 in Colombia, August 24, 2001
  20. ↑
  21. ↑ Afghanistan: A Chronology Of Suicide Attacks Since 2001
  22. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 29, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  23. ↑ "'We Have Some Planes'". 9/11 Commission Report. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. 2004. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  24. ↑ "Security Council Condemns, ‘In Strongest Terms’, Terrorist Attacks On United States". Un.org. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
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