List of non-state terrorist incidents, 2001
The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 2001.
Colombia, January 10: A car bomb wounds at least 50
in a shopping center parking lot in Medellín.[1]
Russia, February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's
Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people. 
Serbia, February 18: Podujevo bus bombing, 13 Serbian
civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Kosovo by
Albanian terrorists.. - Colombia, March 1: A bomb destroys a high-voltage
pylon leaving vast areas of the country without power for five hours.
Attack is blamed on ELN
United Kingdom, March 4: The Real IRA
exploded a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre in London. One
London Underground worker suffered deep cuts to his eye from flying glass
and some damage was caused to the front of the building.[2]
(See 4 March 2001 BBC bombing) - Russia, March 24: Twenty people die and 93
are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.
- Colombia, May 4: A car bomb kills four and
injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali. No group claims the attack.[3]
- United Kingdom, May 6: The Real IRA
detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.[4]
- Colombia, May 17: A car bomb kills 20 and injures at
least 50 in a park in Medellín.[5]
- Colombia, May 24: Two bombs kill four near the Universidad Nacional campus in Bogotá.
One more bomb is defused before it could explode. Right-wing
paramilitaries are suspected.[6]
Philippines, May 27: Militants of Abu Sayyaf
kidnapped 20 tourists from the Dos Palmas resort on the Island of Palawan.
5 of the hostages were killed later. 
Israel, June 1: 21 civilians, from the
former Soviet Union, are killed by a Hamas suicide
bomber in the Dolphinarium massacre in Tel Aviv.
- Colombia, June 17: A car bomb injures 16 in
the town of San Martin, Meta. No group
claims responsibility, but both FARC and AUC are suspected.[7]
Sri Lanka, July 24: A suicide squad of the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) staged an attack on Bandaranaike International
Airport and the adjoining air force base at Katunayake. The 14
man-squad destroyed or damaged about 20 aircraft and killed seven Sri
Lankan workers and soldiers.
- United Kingdom, August 3: The last (at time of
writing) IRA bomb on mainland Britain
explodes in Ealing,
West London, injuring seven people.[8]
(See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing)
- Israel, August 9: A suicide
bomber in Jerusalem kills fifteen and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide
bombing; Hamas
and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
- Angola, August 12: A passenger train,
carrying 500 refugee struck a landmine, following to explosion and
derailed, between Zenza do Itombe and Dondo, Cuanza Norte Province, Angola. Which blamed on UNITA (National Union
for the Total Independence of Angola) rebel group, with kills 152 and
injures 146.[citation needed]
- Republic of Macedonia, August 22: An explosion ripped
apart a 14th-century Orthodox monastery.[9]
- Colombia, August 23: In a series of attacks near Medellín,
10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others. No group claims responsibility.[10]
- Colombia, August 23: At least 15 members of terrorist
group ELN die
when the explosives they were carrying detonate.[11]
The World Trade Center after being hit by the hijacked airliners.
- Republic of Macedonia, August 26: Two people died in an
explosion that flattened a Macedonian-owned hotel.[12]
- United States, September 11: Attacks kill 2,997 , and many more
later from exposure to toxic dust in a series of hijacked airliner crashes
into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New
York City, New York, and The
Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
A fourth plane, originally intended to hit the United
States Capitol Building, crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania,
after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers.
France, September 13: Paris embassy attack plot foiled. 
India, October 1: A car bomb explodes near
the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly in Srinagar,
killing 35 people and injuring 40 more. - Israel, October 17: Tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
- United States: Anthrax attacks on the offices the United
States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of
television networks and tabloids.
- United States, December 12: Jewish Defense League plot by Chairman Irv Rubin
and follower Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, and the
office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell
Issa, foiled.
- Republic of Macedonia11 November 66 Macedonians killed in fight with
Albanian terrorists who begin a revolt in Macedonian city of Tetovo.
- United States, December 22: 2001 shoe bomb plot.
