Terrorism

List of terrorist incidents, 2006

January

Date

Dead

Injured

Location and description

Israel, 2006: Qassam rockets fired by Hamas into Israel, especially the cities of Ashkelon and Sderot, injure many citizens.
Iraq, suicide attacks in 2006.

February

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
February 2	5	1	Philippines: In a deliberate anti-Christian massacre Muslim extremists killed at least five people on a farm in Patikul, a small town on Sulu Island near Jolo (Mindanao). After asking the residents if they were Christian, Abu Sayyaf gunmen opened fire on 9-month old Melanie Patinga who was killed and a three-year old boy who was seriously wounded. Also killed were Emma (16) and Pedro Casipong, Itting Pontilla (45) and Selma Patinga.^[1]
February 22	0	0	Iraq: Al Askari Mosque bombing ignites sectarian strife in Iraq.
February 27	7		Kosovo: Some former members of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) detonated triple bomb at a Serbian church. 7 people were killed including 2 Danish.

March

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
March 2	4		Pakistan: Bombing in Karachi kills four, including a U.S. diplomat.^[2]
March 2	6		Lebanon: The battle escalated between Lebanese security guard and several gunmen when the attackers attempt to attack the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. One Lebanese guard, one bystanders, and four attackers were killed. According to the captives, they were Christians that angry on the Muslim protesters tourched a church in the retaliation to the Danish cartoon controversy.
March 3	0	9	United States: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
March 7	28	100+	India: Bombings in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi kill 28 and injure more than 100.
March 30	5		Israel: Palestinian suicide bomber kills himself and four others at Kedumim Junction in the West Bank.^[3][4]

April

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
April 11	57		Pakistan: A suicide bomber explodes himself in Karachi, killing 57 Sunni worshippers.^[5]
April 12	31	70	Iraq: A suicide car bomber detonated his car outside a Shiite mosque in Howaider as worshippers left evening prayers, killing 31 people and wounding at least 70 others. Security forces at the mosque opened fire at the car as it sped through the checkpoint, but were unable to prevent it from detonating. Attacks on mosques are frequent in Iraq and often have sectarian motivations.
April 17	11	70	Israel: Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing eleven people and injuring 70.
April 24	23	62	Egypt: Bombings at three locations in Dahab kill 20 Egyptians and three foreigners, and injure 62 others.

May

Date

Dead

Injured

Location and description

May 11

Pakistan: Six policemen die and twelve are injured when five bombs go off in a police academy in Quetta.^[6]

June

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
June 2-3	-	-	Canada: Police carry out an investigation and arrests 17 alleged terrorists plotting to attack areas in Downtown Toronto, Mississauga, Fort Erie, the Township of Ramara, among others.
June 15	68	60	Sri Lanka: The LTTE detonate two claymore mines targeting a bus carrying 140 civilians. 68 civilians, including ten children, three pregnant women and their unborns, are killed. Approximately 60 civilians are injured.^[7]
June 25	1	0	Israel: Eliyahu Asheri, an Israeli citizen, was kidnapped and murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).

July

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
July 9	40		Iraq: 40 Sunni civilians are massacred by Shia militants in Baghdad.
July 11	209	714	India: A series of explosions rock commuter trains in Mumbai, India, killing 209 and wounding another 714 civilians.
July 14	2		Pakistan: Suicide bomber in Karachi kills a Shiite Islamic cleric Allama Hasan Turabi and his nephew.
July 15	12		Libya: Suicide bomber in Tripoli kills a dozen Christian inside a church. According to the police, the target was the priest.
July 17	48		Iraq: Explosions and gunmen kill 48 people in a market in Mahmoudiya.^[8]
July 18	53	103	Iraq: Car bombing near a Shiite shrine in Kufa kills 53 and injures 103.^[9]
July 28	1	5	USA:A woman was dead and five others were hospitalized this afternoon after a shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building in downtown Seattle by a man who declared he was "angry with Israel."^[10]
July 31	-	-	Germany: Two suitcase bombs are discovered in trains near the German towns of Dortmund and Koblenz, undetonated due to an assembly error. Video footage from Cologne train station, where the bombs were put on the trains, led to the arrest of two Lebanese students in Germany, Youssef al-Hajdib and Jihad Hamad, and subsequently of three suspected co-conspirators in Lebanon.^[11] On 1 September 2006, Jörg Ziercke, head of the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Police), reports that the suspects saw the Muhammad cartoons as an "assault by the West on Islam" and the "initial spark" for the attack, originally planned to coincide with the 2006 Football World Cup in Germany.^[12][13]
July 31	17	22	Colombia: 16 soldiers die in an ambush in Tibu and a car bomb kills one and injures 22 in Bogotá. Both attacks are blamed on FARC.^[14]

August

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
August 4	21		Afghanistan: A suicide car bomber struck a market in Kandahar, killing 21 people.
August 4	5		Colombia: A car bomb kills five outside a police station in Cali. The local government blames FARC.^[15]
August 10	-	-	United Kingdom, United States: A major anti-terrorist operation by British Police disrupts an alleged bomb plot targeting multiple airplanes bound for the United States flying through Heathrow Airport, near London.
August 13	2	10	Moldova: Two grenades explode on a trolleybus in Tiraspol, killing two people and injuring ten.^[16]
August 16	5	50	India: A bomb exploded in a temple near Imphal in Manipur, killing five and injuring nearly 50 other.^[17]
August 20	20	300+	Iraq: Gunmen spray bullets on Shiites in Baghdad, killing 20 people and wounding more than 300.^[18]
August 30	1	16	United States: An Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV in the San Francisco Bay area.

September

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
September 8	37	125	India: At least two bomb blasts target a Muslim cemetery in the western town of Malegaon. The blasts kill 37 people and leave 125 others wounded.
September 12	4	11	Syria: Four attackers armed with grenades and machine guns attempt to storm the U.S. embassy in Damascus. Three of the gunmen and one Syrian guard are killed during a battle between the attackers and Syrian security forces. One Syrian employee of the embassy and at least ten bystanders are wounded, among them, seven Syrian telephone company workers and a senior Chinese diplomat. Police recover a car laden with explosives and other IEDs. Syrian Ambassador to the United States Imad Moustapha announces that his government suspects a group called Jund al-Sham is responsible.^[19] See Damascus terrorist attacks.
September 15	5		Yemen: Four suicide bombers and a security guard are killed in early-morning attacks on the Safer refinery in Marib and the al-Dhabba terminal in Hadramout. Although no group has claimed responsibility Islamic extremists are suspected.
September 16	4	82	Thailand: 2006 Hat Yai bombings: four people killed, 82 injured, by six bombs along the main commercial street of Hat Yai. The devices were placed approximately 500 meters apart, and were remotely set off every five minutes.^[20]
September 18	11		Somalia: Eleven people, including the presidents brother and six attackers, are killed in an assassination attempt on the Somalian president.^[21] See 2006 Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed assassination attempt.
September 18	92		Sri Lanka: An LTTE suicide bomber rams a truck packed with explosives into convoy of buses carrying unarmed Sri Lankan Navy personal going home, on leave, killing at least 92 Navy Personnel. The Government of Sri Lanka called this a terrorist attack^[22]
September 19	0	0	Norway: A person fires with an automatic weapon on a synagoge in Oslo at night. On March 25, 2008, the trial against Arfan Bhatti (29), of Pakistani origin, and two others (one Norwegian and one of Turkish origin) will begin, accused for the responsibility for the attack and for plots to attack the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Oslo.^[23][24][25]
September 30	12	40	Afghanistan: A suicide bomber detonates his explosives outside the interior ministry in Kabul. The attack kills twelve and wounds over 40.^[26] This is one of three hundred and fifty attacks mostly suicide bombings that killed six hundred and sixty nine civilians in 2006 according to Human Rights Watch.^[27]

October

Date

Dead

Injured

Location and description

October 19

Colombia: A car bomb explodes in a military college in northern Bogotá, injuring five.^[28]

October 28

Colombia: A car bomb kills two and injures four outside a military base in Villavicencio, Meta. FARC is blamed.^[29]

November

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
November 1	0	0	United Kingdom: The Real IRA detonates a series of firebombs in a large hardware retailers, a sports store and toy shop all in Belfast, Northern Ireland; the hardware retailers and sports store were completely destroyed. No fatalities.^[30]
November 20	5	25+	India: A suspected terrorist bomb explodes on a train in India. See 2006 West Bengal train disaster.
November 21	1	0	Lebanon: Assassination of Pierre Amine Gemayel, an anti-Syrian politician and scion of Lebanon’s most prominent Christian family blamed on Syria, Iran and Hezbollah despite their denials.^[31]
November 23	215	257	Iraq: A series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City kills at least 215 people and wounds a further 257. See Sadr City bombings for details.
November 24	-	-	United Kingdom: Michael Stone, prevented from murdering members of the Sinn Féin political party.^[32][33]
November 30	8		Somalia: A suicide bomber kills 8 in an attack in Baidoa.^[34]

December

Date	Dead	Injured	Location and description
December 22	-	-	United States: Federal Agents disrupt Derrick Shareef’s attack on an Illinois shopping mall planned for December 22nd. His intent was to commit “violent jihad” just before Christmas.^[35]
December 30	2	26	Spain: A bomb explodes at Madrid Airport, killing two Ecuadorians and injuring 26 people. The ETA a Basque terrorist group has claimed responsibility.
December 31	3	40	Thailand: Eight bomb explosions in seven areas of Bangkok, Thailand's capital city, three people died, nearly 40 injured