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| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSaenz
Sick. I don't think terrorism is anything new to many parts of Europe, but I presume you mean Islamic terrorism.
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Here are some of the worst terror attacks around the world since September 11, 2001:
2001
• September 11 - Three hijacked planes flown into major U.S. landmarks, destroying New York's World Trade Center towers and ploughing into the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane crashes in rural Pennsylvania. 2,976 people are killed.
2002
• 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.
• June 14 - Car bomb outside U.S. consulate in Karachi kills at least 11, injures 45.
• 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 U.S. consulate near Kuta but no one is hurt.
• 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
• May 12 - Suicide bombers in vehicles shoot their way into housing compounds for expatriates in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as residents sleep. Death toll 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 and 100 wounded.
• May 16 - Suicide bombers using cars and explosive belts set off at least five blasts in Casablanca, Morocco, killing 45 people including 12 bombers. About 60 others wounded.
• July 5 - Two Chechen women suicide bombers kill 15 others at a rock festival at Moscow's Tushino airfield. 60 are injured.
• August 1 - Truck bomb explodes at a Russian military hospital in North Ossetia near Chechnya, killing at least 50.
• August 5 - Huge bomb kills 10 and wounds 150 at Marriott Hotel in Indonesian capital Jakarta.
• August 19 - Truck bomb devastates U.N.'s Baghdad HQ, killing 22 people including top U.N. envoy to Iraq.
• August 25 - Twin car bombs in India's financial capital Bombay kill 52 and injure at least 150.
• 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.
• 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 Nassiriya, 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. |
Strange how not even one act of Palestinian terrorism against Israel is cited here.... ohh wait, - never mind! 
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