List of terrorist incidents in 2001 explained

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).

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January

DatesTypeDeadInjuredLocationDetailsPerpetratorPart of

February

DatesTypeDeadInjuredLocationDetailsPerpetratorPart of
February 9Massacre15Rajouri district, India2001 Chalwalkote massacre

A group of Muslim militants massacred 15 Muslim villagers.

Kashmiri Islamic Terrorists [1] Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
February 14Vehicular Assault8 (+1)26Near Azor, Israel2001 Azor attack

A Hamas terrorist plowed a bus into a crowd, killing 8 and wounding 26.[2]

HamasSecond Intifada
February 16Bus bombing1243Podujevo, Federal Republic of YugoslaviaPodujevo 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

DatesTypeDeadInjuredLocationDetailsPerpetratorPart of
March 4Suicide bombing3 (+1)65Netanya, Israel2001 Netanya bombing

A Hamas suicide bomber killed 3 and wounded 65.

HamasSecond Intifada
March 4Car bombing01White City, London, England, United Kingdom2001 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 IRADissident Irish Republican campaign
March 16Bombing10838Shijiazhuang, HebeiShijiazhuang 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 Ruchaolone-wolf terrorist
March 26Sniper attack11Hebron, West BankMurder 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.

TanzimSecond Intifada

April

Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
April 14 10 ≈50 2001 Ramna Batamul bombings

Two bombs explode at a Pohela Boishakh parade.

Internal conflict in Bangladesh
April 28 15 Vejce massacre

15 Macedonian special forces members are massacred by UÇK militants

2001 insurgency in Macedonia

May

Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
May 8 Kidnapping and murder 2 0 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+ 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.

Second Intifada

August

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]

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.

Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
August 9 Suicide bombing 15 (+1) 130 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.

Second Intifada
August 10 Land mine, shooting 252 165 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.

Angolan Civil War

September

Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpetrator Part of
September 9 Suicide bombing 3 (+1) 94 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.

Islamists
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]

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 27Bombing00Santiago de Chile, ChileCase 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

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 AssemblyInsurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
October 17 Assassination 1 0 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

Second Intifada

December

Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpetrator Part of
December 1 Suicide bombings, car bombing 11 (+2) 188 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.

Second Intifada
December 2 Suicide bombing 15 (+1) 40 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.

Second Intifada
December 12 Bombing, shooting 11 (+3) 30 2001 Immanuel bus attack

Three Palestinian militants from Hamas detonate two roadside bombs before opening fire on a bus

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.

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Militants massacre 15 villagers in Rajouri | India News - Times of India. .
  2. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/TerrorAttacks.html Major Arab Terror Attacks Since Oslo
  3. News: Bomb blast outside BBC. BBC News online. March 4, 2001. September 22, 2006.
  4. Web site: Chronology of Arab Suicide Bombings . 2011-07-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100529165855/http://www.factsofisrael.com/en/palestine-suicidebombs.shtml . 2010-05-29 . dead .
  5. News: Car bombers rock west London. BBC News online. August 3, 2001. September 22, 2006.
  6. Web site: Lost lives remembered during 9/11 ceremony - News - the Rocket - Slippery Rock University . April 4, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110829142954/http://www.theonlinerocket.com/news/lost-lives-remembered-during-9-11-ceremony-1.2333384 . August 29, 2011 .
  7. "'We Have Some Planes'". 9/11 Commission Report. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. 2004. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  8. Web site: Security Council Condemns, 'In Strongest Terms', Terrorist Attacks On United States . Un.org . 2013-12-05.
  9. Web site: La Semana Juridíca - noticia 23 mayo. Carta bomba . 2017-06-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930100020/http://www.lasemanajuridica.cl/LaSemanaJuridica/1049/article-10614.html . 2007-09-30 . dead .