List of terrorist incidents, 2005
Total Incidents:
This is a timeline of incidents in 2005 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).
January
| Date | Type | Deaths | Injuries | Location | Details |
| 07 | Explosion, Shooting | 1 | 0 |  Thailand | Explosion at a railroad crossing - no casualties. One Buddhist shot dead in southern Thailand.[1] |
| 16 | Bombing | 1 | 50+ | Southern Thailand | One person dead, over 50 others injured in an explosion in a commercial area in southern Thailand.[1] |
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February
- Thailand, February 17: Seven people dead, 40 injured by a car bomb outside a hotel in southern Thailand.[1]
Colombia, February 22: A car bomb explodes in front of the offices of RCN TV, injuring two.[2]
Israel, February 25: Stage Club bombing: A suicide bomber in Tel Aviv kills five Israelis and undermines a weeks-old truce between the two sides.[3]
March
- Thailand March 6: A Buddhist monk was killed by gunmen in southern Thailand.[1]
- Thailand, March 7: Two policemen and three unknown attackers were killed in a shootout with five gunmen disguised as veiled Muslim women at a police station in southern Thailand.[1]
- Thailand, March 15: One policeman was killed, three injured by bomb in southern Thailand.[1]
- Thailand, March 19: 15 people, ten of them policemen, injured in two explosions. One of the bombs was detonated via a cellphone.[1]
- Thailand, March 26: One Buddhist dead, two injured, in two attacks by gunmen in southern Thailand.[1]
- Thailand, March 27: Two bombs used to stop an armored train patrolling in southern Thailand, terrorists then fired on the policemen on the train. Approximately 20 policemen and some other passengers were wounded.[1]
April
United States, April 4: 192 people were killed, 54 injured, by three explosions in the Washington D.C.
- Thailand, April 3: 2005 Songkhla bombings: Two people killed (possibly five), 54 injured, by three explosions in Hat Yai -one at the airport, one at a hotel, and another at a department store.[1]
May
Afghanistan, May 7: A suicide bomber attacks an Internet cafe at a guesthouse in Kabul, killing a UN engineer and an Afghan national and injuring five others.[4]
June
Total Incidents: 0
| Date | Type | Deaths | Injuries | Location | Details |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
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July
Russia, July 1 - Blast in Makhachkala killed 10 soldier and wounded 7. [5]
United Kingdom, July 7: 7 July 2005 London bombings: Four suicide bombers detonated bombs that were hidden in back packs, killing 52 people and injuring 700 in London . Three were in tube trains and one on a number 30 bus, the incident happened a day after London was announced to be host of the 2012 Olympic Games.- Israel, July 12: Islamic Jihad takes responsibility for a suicide bombing in Netanya, which kills five people at a shopping mall.[6]
August
Sri Lanka, August 15: Lakshman Kadirgamar, the foreign minister of Sri Lanka and an ethnic Tamil was shot by an alleged LTTE sniper.[7]
September
| Date | Type | Deaths | Injuries | Location | Details |
| 0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
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October
- United States, October 1: Joel Henry Hinrichs III detonated a bomb near the packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma killing himself in the process.[8]
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Iraq, October 24: Multiple car bombs explode outside the Green Zone in Baghdad, killing at least 20. It is thought that the attacks were targeting journalists inside the Palestine Hotel and the Sheraton Ishtar.[9]- Israel, October 26: A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates a bomb near a falafel stand in Hadera that kills himself and six others. Twenty-six people were also wounded.[10]
Indonesia, October 29: In Poso, Central Sulawesi, four Christian schoolgirls aged 15 to 17 years on their way home from school were assaulted by six masked Muslim men who beheaded three of them, Theresia Morangke, Alfita Poliwo, and Yarni Sambue, with machetes and placed their severed heads in front of a church and a police station. The fourth girl, Noviana Malewa, survived but suffered serious machete wounds. The terrorists belong to the group Tanah Runtuh whose leader Hasanuddin confessed at his trial that the well-planned assault was inspired and financed by Guru Sanusi, a former Muslim rebel (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) from Mindanao.[11][12] Central Jakarta District Court sentenced two of the killers to 14 years in prison and mastermind Hasanuddin to 20 years.[13] See: 2005 Indonesian beheadings of Christian girls
November
- Afghanistan, November 14: Twin suicide attacks in Kabul target NATO-led peacekeepers, killing a German soldier and eight Afghans and marking the first attack in a wave of suicide bombings that will continue into 2006.[4]
December
- Israel, December 5: A suicide bomb attack kills at least five people in Netanya in north-western Israel.[14]
- Afghanistan, December 11: A suicide bomb attack injures three civilians in the southern Kandahar Province.[4]
- Afghanistan, December 14: A suicide attack rocks the famous blue mosque of Afghanistan's northern Balkh Province but did not cause serious injuries.[4]
- Afghanistan, December 20: A suicide bomber detonates in the western Herat Province, injuring three International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers.[4]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 B. Raman: Terrorism in Thailand: Tech & Tactics Savvy, Observer Research Foundation, May 4, 2005
- ↑ CPJ News: "CPJ News Alert 2005", February 22, 2005
- ↑ "USATODAY.com - Syria-based Islamic Jihad claims role for Tel Aviv bombing". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1064789.html
- ↑ http://en.ria.ru/russia/20050701/40828625.html
- ↑ Netanya bombing death toll rises to 5 - published in Ynet on July 14, 2005
- ↑ "EU 'actively considering' Tiger ban". BBC Sinhala. May 19, 2006.
- ↑ Wikipedia: 2005 University of Oklahoma Bombing, October 1, 2005
- ↑ Fox News: Journalists' Hotel Attacked in Iraq, October 24, 2005
- ↑ Reuters: Suicide bomber kills five in market attack, October 27, 2005
- ↑ AsiaNews: Men involved in the decapitation of three Christian schoolgirls go on trial in Jakarta, November 15, 2006
- ↑ The Guardian: Machete killings fuel Indonesia's religious hatred, November 20, 2005
- ↑ AsiaNews.it: Lenient sentence for those who beheaded three Christian girls, March 21, 2007
- ↑ Five Israelis killed in mall suicide bombing - published on The Daily Telegraph on December 6, 2005