Posted on 11/21/2003 5:31:45 AM PST by knighthawk
September 11 - Hijacked aircraft flown into major US landmarks, destroying New York's World Trade Centre and ploughing into the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked flight crashes in rural Pennsylvania. 2,976 people are killed.
December 2 - Palestinian terrorists attack three times in 24 hours - at a pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem, in a car in downtown Jerusalem and on a Haifa bus, killing 25.
2002
March 9 - Palestinian terrorists bomb Jerusalem’s popular Moment Café, around the corner from the Prime Minister’s residence, killing 11.
March 27 - A Hamas suicide bomber strikes at Netanya’s Park Hotel during a Passover seder, killing 29.
March 31 - A Palestinian suicide bomber strikes a restaurant in Haifa frequented by both Arabs and Jews, killing 15 murdered.
April 11 - Truck explodes near El Ghriba synagogue on Tunisian island of Djerba. Kills 20, including 14 Germans.
May 8 - Suspected suicide bomber in a car kills 11 French navy experts and three Pakistanis outside Sheraton hotel in southern Pakistani city of Karachi.
May 8 - A Palestinian suicide bomber strikes at a crowded billiard hall in the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon le-Zion, killing 15 murdered.
June 5 - A car packed with a large quantity of explosives struck a bus traveling from Tel Aviv to Tiberias, killing 17 murdered.
June 14 - Car bomb outside US consulate in Karachi kills at least 11.
June 18 - A Palestinian suicide bomber strikes on a rush-hour bus in Jerusalem, carrying many children on their way to school. 19 killed.
October 6 - Explosion rips through French supertanker Limburg, off Yemen. One crew member killed. Yemen suspects remote control device was used to ram an explosives-laden boat into the tanker.
October 12 - Bombs explode in Kuta Beach nightclub strip on Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 people and injuring hundreds. A third bomb explodes near the US consulate near Kuta but no one is hurt.
October 22 - An explosives-laden sport utility vehicle driven by a Palestinian suicide bomber rams into a bus near Hadera in northern Israel, killing 14 and injuring 45 others.
November 21 - A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates on a commuter bus during morning rush hour in Jerusalem, killing 11, many of them schoolchildren.
November 28 - At least 15 killed in car bomb attack on hotel frequented by Israeli tourists in Kenyan port of Mombasa, and two missiles miss Israeli airliner taking off from the city.
2003
January 5 - Two Palestinian suicide bombers strike in crowded Tel Aviv shopping district: 23 killed, including eight foreign nationals.
March 5 - A Palestinian suicide bomber strikes on a bus going to Haifa University, killing 17 murdered, most of them teenagers.
May 12 - Suicide bombers in vehicles shoot their way into housing compounds for expatriates in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as residents sleep. Death toll is 35, including nine Americans, other foreigners and Saudis.
May 12 - Two suicide bombers drive a truck full of explosives into a government complex in Znamenskoye in northern Chechnya. At least 60 killed.
May 16 - Suicide bombers using cars and explosive belts set off at least five blasts in Casablanca, Morocco, killing 45 people including 12 bombers.
June 11 - A Palestinian suicide bomber, dressed as an Orthodox Jew, blows himself up on a bus, killing 17.
July 5 - Two Chechen women suicide bombers kill 15 others at a rock festival at Moscow’s Tushino airfield.
August 1 - Truck bomb explodes at a Russian military hospital in North Ossetia near Chechnya, killing at least 50.
August 5 - Huge bomb kills ten and wounds 150 at Marriott Hotel in Indonesian capital Jakarta.
August 19 - Truck bomb devastates UN’s Baghdad HQ, killing 22 people including top UN envoy to Iraq.
August 19 - A Palestinian suicide bomber, dressed as an Orthodox Jew, strikes on a Jerusalem bus, killing 23.
August 25 - Twin car bombs in India’s financial capital Bombay kill 52.
August 29 - Car bomb kills at least 83 Iraqis, including top Shi’ite Muslim leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, in an apparent assassination at the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf.
September 9 - Twin bomb attacks take place near the Zerifin Military Base and at a Jerusalem cafe, killing 15.
October 4 - A 29-year-old female suicide bomber from Jenin explodes in a Haifa restaurant, co-owned by Israeli Arabs, killing 19, including several children.
October 27 - Bombers strike four times in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing 35 people and wounding 230 in attacks aimed at Red Cross offices and three police stations.
November 9 - At least 18 people are killed and 120 wounded when suspected al-Qaeda suicide bombers devastate the guarded 200-villa Muhaya complex in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh.
November 12 - Suicide car bombers devastate an Italian military police base in the southern Iraq city of al-Nassiriyah, killing 18 Italians and nine Iraqis and wounding at least 20 Italians and more than 80 Iraqis.
November 15 - Two car bombs explode outside synagogues in central Istanbul, killing at least 23 people and wounding 100.
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