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Revision as of 11:57, 13 June 2008

The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 2008.

January

Date Dead Injured Location and description
January 3  ≈7 ≈66 Turkey Diyarbakir. PKK militants were suspected by Turkish authorities to be behind a car bomb explosion.[1][2]
January 7 ≈19 ≈50 Iraq Baghdad. Six bombings.[3]
January 10 ≈23 ≈58 Pakistan Lahore. One suicide bomber blew himself up in a police crowd.[4][citation needed]
January 13 2 ≈5 Myanmar Yangon. A bomb exploded in a public toilet in a railway station, injuring one woman. This was the third bombing incident in three days. One other took place on Friday, in a railway station toilet in Nay Pyi Taw, killing one woman. Another man died, and four people were injured, when a bomb exploded in Pyu, north of Rangoon.[5]
January 14 11 ≈55 Pakistan Karachi. A bomb exploded in Karachi during President Pervez Musharraf's visit.[6]
January 14 ≈6 ≈6 Afghanistan Kabul. A suicide bomber kills six at the Kabul Serena Hotel.[7]
January 15 3 ≈22 Lebanon Beirut. A bomb targeting a US Embassy vehicle detonates, killing bystanders and injuring the occupants.[8]
January 15 0 ≈39 Thailand South Thailand. Suspected Islamist separatist bombed a market.[9]
January 16 30 65 Sri Lanka Buttala: A civilian bus was bombed, and the fleeing passengers were gunned down and the feeing gunmen also attacked farmers, killing at least 30 people.[10][11] The Sri Lankan government claimed that the gunman belonged to LTTE.
January 16 9 6 Iraq Khan Bani Saad: A woman wearing a vest lined with explosives blew herself up near Shiite worshippers in turbulent Diyala province north of the capital Wednesday, killing nine of them.[12]
January 18 0 8 Israel Sderot ;Western Negev. In 72 hours, more than 120 Qassam rockets and 65 mortars were fired towards the Western Negev, an exceptionally high number. More than 8 Israelis are injured by the rocketattacks. Two rockets nearly missed a kindergarten, full with children. See List of Qassam rocket attacks[13]
January 18 4 4 Yemen Hadhramaut Governorate. Gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists, killing two Belgian women, their Yemeni driver and a Yemeni man believed to be a tourist guide. Belgian tourist and a Yemeni were wounded in the incident. Al-Qaida suspected.[14]
January 20 0 0 Greece Athens. A Chilean diplomatic car was destroyed by an IED. An organization calling itself “Radical Solidarity” claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had been in support of Chile’s indigenous population.[15]
January 21 18 22 Iraq Al-Hajaj. Suicide bomber kills 18 in a funeral tent .[16]
January 24 1 4 Israel West Bank. Two Palestinians infiltrated a religious seminary and stabbed 3 students in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion before being shot dead. The same day, Palestinian gunmen opened fire at Israelis outside the Shuafat refugee camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem, killing a border police officer and seriously wounding a female officer.[17]
January 26 4 ≈36 Lebanon Beirut. A powerful car bomb killed one of Lebanon’s top terrorism investigators and three other people in eastern Beirut.[18]
January 29 4 20 Algeria Thenia. Four people killed and 20 wounded in an attack by a suicide bomber on a police station at Thenia, 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Algiers.[19]
January 30 ≈6 ≈18 Afghanistan Lashkar Gah. Taliban insurgents were blamed for a suicide bomb attack in a mosque, killing at least six including a provincial deputy governor, Per Mohammad.[20][21]

February

Date Dead Injured Location and description
February 1  6 0 Pakistan North Waziristan. A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into a Pakistani security force checkpost in the North Waziristan tribal region on Friday, killing six men. [22]
February 1 0 3 Mauritania Nouakchott. Gunmen opened fire on Israel's embassy in Mauritania, wounding three French nationals [23]
February 1 98 ≈200 Iraq Baghdad. Two mentally disabled women were strapped with explosives and sent into busy Baghdad markets, where they were blown up by remote control. The bombs killed at least 98 people and wounded more than 200 at two popular pet markets [24]
February 2 20 50 Sri Lanka Dambulla. A bus carrying civilians bombed.[25]
February 3 12 ≈100 Sri Lanka Colombo. Suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew herself up outside a train at the main railway station in Colombo.[26]
February 3 ≈8 ≈9 Somalia Mogadishu. A landmine destroyed a mini-bus.[27][28][29][citation needed]
February 4 1 9 Israel Dimona. A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosion belt in a shopping centre and kills one woman and injures nine other people. A second suicide bomber is hurt in the blast and shot to death by Israeli police before he could detonate his own belt.[30][31] See Dimona attack.
February 4 13 20 Sri Lanka Weli-Oya and Colombo.Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed 13 people with two roadside bombs on Monday, just hours after the government celebrated the island's 60th anniversary of independence with a parade of military might in the capital. [32]
February 5 25 ≈90 Somalia Bossaso. Two separate bombs went off in northern Somalia, killing at least 25 civilians and wounding more than 90 others [33]
February 7 7 (including the perpetrator) 2 United States Kirkwood, Missouri. A gunman storms into city hall, killing six people before being shot and killed by police.
February 9 27 50 Pakistan Charsada, Peshawar province. The bombing of a political gathering killed 27 and wounded more than 50 people.[34]
February 11 ≈25 ≈40 Iraq Balad, Iraq is struck by a car bomb. See 2008 Balad bombing.[35]
February 11 10 13 Pakistan North Waziristan. A suicide bomber killed at least ten people, including an election candidate, and wounded 13 others [36]
February 14 6 (including the perpetrator) 18 United States DeKalb, Illinois. A gunman shoots 23 people in a specific sector of an Oceanography class, killing 5, at Northern Illinois University, before killing himself.
February 16 39 ≈100 Pakistan Parachinar. A suicide bomber attacked supporters of assassinated Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.[37]
February 17 65 ≈50 Afghanistan Kandahar. Taleban suspected of a suicide bomb attack at a dog-fighting competition.[38][39][40][21]
February 18 37 30 Afghanistan Near Pakistan border. A suicide bomber targeted a foreign military convoy.[41]
February 19 1 3 Afghanistan Kandahar car bomb kills 1. [42]
February 26 5 Afghanistan Roadside bomb kills 5 policemen [43]
February 29 27 40 Pakistan Suicide bomb at Pakistan funeral kills 27 [44]

March

Date Dead Injured Location and description
March 6  8 10 Israel Jerusalem. A Palestinian gunmen opened fire in the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, one of the most prominent Jewish educational centres in Jerusalem killing 8 and injuring 10. Hamas praised the attack. See Mercaz HaRav shooting.[45]
54 ≈130 Iraq Baghdad. In a popular market in the Karada shopping area, a roadside bomb detonates. As a crowd gathered around the site of the blast, a few minutes later a suicide bomber blew himself up which killed dozens and wounded scores.[46]
March 10  4 (including the perpetrator) 0 Iraq Kanaan. A female suicide bomber entered the home of Sheik Thaeir Ghadhban al-Karkhi, a prominent Sunni who had turned against al-Qaeda, and blew herself up, killing al-Karkhi, his 5-year-old niece, and a security guard.[47]

April

Date Dead Injured Location and description
April 12  13 ~200 Iran Shiraz. An bomb exploded inside of the Shohada Hosseiniyeh mosque at around 9 p.m. during a sermon by a cleric well-known for criticism of Wahhabism and Bahaii. Tehran blamed Western-backed monarchists for the attack.[48][49] On its website, a group called Anjoman-e Padeshahi-e Iran (API), or Soldiers of the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, claimed responsibility.[50]
April 15  ~53 ~90 Iraq Baquba. At least 53 died and another 90 were injured when explosives packed in a bus detonated outside a restaurant near a court in Baquba, north of Bagdad.[51]
April 15  13 Iraq Ramadi. 13 were killed in a suicide bombing at a kebab restaurant where policemen were eating in Ramadi[51]

May

Date Dead Injured Location and description
May  2  ~15 ~55 Yemen Yemen, Sa'dah Governorate. 15 are killed and 55 are injured in a bombing at the Ben Salman mosque.[51]
May  10  11 29 Sri Lanka Ampara. A bomb attributed to Tamil Tiger rebels ripped through a cafe, 11 killed, 29 injured.
May  13  63 213 India Jaipur. A simultaneous bomb blast at eight different sites, including a crowded shopping site and a Hanuman temple, no one has claimed responsibility.
May  14  1 4 Spain Legutiano, Alava. A powerful bombing outside a civil guard, blamed on Basque separatist ETA group, killing one guard.
May  16  9 93 Sri Lanka Downtown Colombo. A suicide bomb exploded near the Sri Lankan president residence, blamed on LTTE.
May  18  13 20 Pakistan Mardan. A bomb exploded a bakery shop near Pakistani Army site, which blamed on Taliban militants.
May  21  6 0 Ethiopia Addis Ababa. a bomb went off on minibus near Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, where blamed on Oromo Liberation Front.
May  26  8 72+ Sri Lanka Colombo. A packed commuter train carrying 200 passenger onboard which time bombing exploded at Dehiwela railroad station, that blamed on LTTE.[52]
May  28  3 5 Ethiopia Negele Boran. A bomb blast at Kidane Mihret and Shuferoch hotel, Islamic militants suspected.
May  29  2 17 Philippines Zamboanga. a cell-phone time bomb exploded outside Edwin Andrews Air Base, where blamed on Abu Sayyaf militants.

June

Date Dead Injured Location and description
June  2  ~8 ~30 Pakistan Islamabad. A suicide car bombing blast occurred at around 1 p.m. local time outside of the Danish embassy. Nearby buildings also suffered damage. The attack is thought to be the work of fundamentalist terrorists.[53]
June  4  0 ~18 Sri Lanka Colombo. A bomb blast targeted a commuter train as it sped towards the capital. The explosive had been left along the track and detonated at around 7:10 a.m. as the last car passed. Government sources implicated the LTTE.[54]
June  6  21 47 Sri Lanka Moratuwa suburb of Colombo. A roadside bomb blast targeted a crowded state-run commuter bus at about 7:35 a.m. The government quickly placed blame upon LTTE, who had yet to claim responsibility.[55]
June  6  2 20 Sri Lanka Kandy district. The Sri Lankan government blamed LTTE militants for a bomb explosion that occurred aboard a commuter bus only a few hours after a similar attack near the capital.[56]
June  9  12 Algeria Boumerdès Province. Two explosions kill 13 in the town of Beni Amrane, Algeria. Islamic militants suspected. [57]


See also

References

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