List of terrorist incidents in 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), of which the most notable were the September 11 attacks.

List guidelines

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  • To be included, entries must be notable (have a stand-alone article) and described by a consensus of reliable sources as "terrorism".
  • List entries must comply with the guidelines outlined in the manual of style under MOS:TERRORIST.
  • Casualty figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident, including immediate casualties and later casualties (such as people who succumbed to their wounds long after the attacks occurred).
  • Casualties listed are the victims. Perpetrator casualties are listed separately (e.g. x (+y) indicate that x victims and y perpetrators were killed/injured).
  • Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus (+) sign indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 10+ indicates that at least 10 people have died) – the actual toll could be considerably higher. A figure with a plus (+) sign may also indicate that over that number of people are victims.
  • If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined.
  • Incidents are limited to one per location per day. If multiple attacks occur in the same place on the same day, they will be merged into a single incident.

January

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Dates Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of

February

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Dates Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
February 9 Massacre 15 Rajouri district, India 2001 Chalwalkote massacre: A group of Muslim militants massacred 15 Muslim villagers. Kashmiri Islamic Terrorists [1] Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
February 14 Vehicular Assault 8 (+1) 26 Near Azor, Israel 2001 Azor attack: A Hamas terrorist plowed a bus into a crowd, killing 8 and wounding 26.[2] Hamas Second Intifada
February 16 Bus bombing 12 43 Podujevo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Podujevo bus bombing: A bus carrying Kosovo Serb pilgrims was bombed, killing 12. Kosovo Albanian extremists were suspected of being behind the attack. Kosovo Albanian extremists (suspected) Aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars

March

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Dates Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
March 4 Suicide bombing 3 (+1) 65 Netanya, Israel 2001 Netanya bombing: A Hamas suicide bomber killed 3 and wounded 65.[2] Hamas Second Intifada
March 4 Car bombing 0 1 White City, London, England, United Kingdom 2001 BBC bombing: The Real IRA exploded a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre. 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 Dissident Irish Republican campaign
March 16 Bombing 108 38 Shijiazhuang, Hebei Shijiazhuang bombings: A total of 108 people were killed, and 38 others injured when within a short period of time several bombs exploded near four apartment buildings. Jin Ruchao lone-wolf terrorist
March 26 Sniper attack 1 1 Hebron, West Bank Murder of Shalhevet Pass: A 10-month-old Israeli baby named Shalhevet Pass is murdered in a sniper attack by Tanzim militant Mahmud Amru. Shalhevet's father was also wounded. Tanzim Second Intifada

April

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Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
April 14 Bombings 10 ≈50 Dhaka, Bangladesh 2001 Ramna Batamul bombings: Two bombs explode at a Pohela Boishakh parade. Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Internal conflict in Bangladesh
April 28 Massacre 15 Vejce, Macedonia Vejce massacre: 15 Macedonian special forces members are massacred by UÇK militants UÇK 2001 insurgency in Macedonia

May

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Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
May 8 Kidnapping and murder 2 0 Tekoa, West Bank Murders of Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran: Two Israeli teenagers are kidnapped and murdered from an Israeli settlement. The killers are never found. Unknown Second Intifada
May 18 Suicide Bombing 5 (+1) 100+ Netanya, Israel 2001 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing: A Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of a shopping mall, 5 people were killed in the blast and over 100 men, women and children were injured. Hamas Second Intifada

June

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Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpetrators Part of
June 1 Suicide bombing 21 (+1) 100+ Tel Aviv, Israel Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Palestinian named Saeed Hotari blew himself up while waiting in line to enter the Dolphinarium nightclub, killing 21 people, mostly teenage girls. Both Islamic Jihad and Hamas claimed responsibility. Hamas
Islamic Jihad		 Israeli–Palestinian conflict

July

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Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpetrator Part of
July 16 Suicide bombing 2 (+1) 6 Israel Binyamina train station suicide bombing: An Arab suicide bomber detonated at a bus stop near a train station. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack which killed two people.[4] Islamic Jihad Israeli–Palestinian conflict

August

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Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpetrator Part of
August 3 Bombing 0 7 Ealing, United Kingdom 2001 Ealing bombing: The last (at time of writing) IRA bomb on mainland Britain explodes in West London, injuring seven people.[5] Real IRA Dissident Irish Republican campaign
August 3 Massacre 17 5 Doda district, India 2001 Kishtwar massacre: 17 Hindu villagers are kidnapped and murdered by Lashkar-e-Taiba militants. LeT Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
August 9 Suicide bombing 15 (+1) 130 Jerusalem, Israel Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing: Hamas militant Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri blows himself up in a Sbarro restaurant, killing 15 civilians, including 7 children and a pregnant woman. Hamas Second Intifada
August 10 Land mine, shooting 252 165 Angola 2001 Angola train attack: UNITA militants derail a train en route from Zenza do Itombe to Dondo and open fire on the passengers after they came out the train. UNITA Angolan Civil War

September

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Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpetrator Part of
September 9 Suicide bombing 3 (+1) 94 Nahariya, Israel Nahariya train station suicide bombing: A suicide bomber detonated at a train station, killing three people and wounding over 90 unarmed civilians. The Palestinian militant group Hamas took responsibility for the murders.[4] Islamists Second Intifada
September 11 Suicide hijackings 2,977 (+19) 6,000+ United States September 11 attacks: 2,977 victims and 19 terrorists were killed[6] 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.,[7] crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers.[8] Al-Qaeda
September 18 Bioterrorism 5 17 United States 2001 anthrax attacks: A number of letters containing high-grade Anthrax are sent to U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle and a number of news organizations across the U.S. in September and October 2001, killing five people and infecting seventeen others. The prime suspect, Bruce Edwards Ivins, a microbiologist for the USAMRIID, committed suicide in 2008 after learning that charges against him were likely, but he has never been confirmed to have committed the attacks. Unknown
September 27 Bombing 0 0 Santiago de Chile, Chile Case Letter-bombs: The so-called "letter-bomb" case was a terrorist attack on the United States Embassy, perpetuated by Lenin Guardia, a sociologist and intelligence analyst, who was known to have contributed to the disarticulation of a guerrilla group during the transition to democracy, that its end was the indictment of the FPMR (Chilean extreme left group).[9] Lenin Guardia

October

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Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
October 1 Suicide car bombings 38 (+3) Srinagar, India 2001 Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly car bombing: Three suicide car bombers ram their cars into the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly JeM Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
October 17 Assassination 1 0 Jerusalem, Israel Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi: Israel's tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi is assassinated by three Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members at the Hyatt hotel PFLP Second Intifada

November

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Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
November 29 Suicide bombing 3 (+1) 7 Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel Pardes Hanna bus bombing: An Arab suicide bomber detonated on a bus traveling on a major highway between Hadera and Afula, killing 3.[4] Islamic Jihad Second Intifada

December

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Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpetrator Part of
December 1 Suicide bombings, car bombing 11 (+2) 188 Jerusalem, Israel Ben Yehuda Street bombings#2001: Arab suicide bombers detonated on Ben Yehuda Street, 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] Hamas Second Intifada
December 2 Suicide bombing 15 (+1) 40 Haifa, Israel Haifa bus 16 suicide bombing: A Hamas suicide bomber boarded a bus traveling from the Neveh Sha'anan district, paying the driver with a large bill. He then blew himself up as the driver asked him to collect his change.[4] Hamas Second Intifada
December 12 Bombing, shooting 11 (+3) 30 Immanuel, West Bank 2001 Immanuel bus attack: Three Palestinian militants from Hamas detonate two roadside bombs before opening fire on a bus Hamas Second Intifada
December 13 Shooting 9 (+5) 18 New Delhi, India 2001 Indian Parliament attack: A group of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists open fire on the Indian Parliament, killing 8 security personnel and a gardener. LeT
JeM
December 22 Attempted bombing 0 0 France/United States Over Atlantic Ocean 2001 failed shoe bomb attempt: Al-Qaeda operative Richard Reid attempts detonate plastic explosives hidden in his shoes on American Airlines Flight 63 en route from Paris to Miami, but is subdued by other passengers. Richard Reid
(Al-Qaeda)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Militants massacre 15 villagers in Rajouri | India News - Times of India". The Times of India.
  2. ^ a b Major Arab Terror Attacks Since Oslo
  3. ^ "Bomb blast outside BBC". BBC News online. March 4, 2001. Retrieved September 22, 2006.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Chronology of Arab Suicide Bombings". Archived from the original on 2010-05-29. Retrieved 2011-07-25.
  5. ^ "Car bombers rock west London". BBC News online. August 3, 2001. Retrieved September 22, 2006.
  6. ^ "Lost lives remembered during 9/11 ceremony - News - the Rocket - Slippery Rock University". Archived from the original on August 29, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  7. ^ "'We Have Some Planes'". 9/11 Commission Report. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. 2004. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  8. ^ "Security Council Condemns, 'In Strongest Terms', Terrorist Attacks On United States". Un.org. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  9. ^ "La Semana Juridíca - noticia 23 mayo. Carta bomba". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
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