List of terrorist incidents, 2006

The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 2006.

*flagicon|Israel Israel, 2006: Qassam rockets fired by Hamas into Israel, especially the cities of Ashkelon and Sderot, injure many citizens.
*flagicon|Iraq|2004 Iraq, .
*flagicon|Philippines Philippines, February 2: 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. [AsiaNews.it: [http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=5288 Massacre of Christians in Jolo deals heavy blow to hopes for peace] , February 3, 2006]
*flagicon|Iraq|2004 Iraq, February 22: Al Askari Mosque bombing ignites sectarian strife in Iraq.
*flagicon|Serbia Kosovo, February 27: Some former members of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) detonated triple bomb at a Serbian church. 7 people were killed including 2 Danish.
*flagicon|Pakistan Pakistan, March 2: Bombing in Karachi kills four, including a U.S. diplomat. [CNN: [http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/02/thursday/index.html 4 dead, dozens wounded in ttack near U.S. Consulate in Karachi] , March 3, 2006]
*flagicon|Lebanon Lebanon, March 2: 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.
*flagicon|United States United States, March 3: 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.
*flagicon|India India, March 7: Bombings in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi kill 28 and injure more than 100.
*flagicon|Israel Israel, March 30: Palestinian suicide bomber kills himself and four others at Kedumim Junction in the West Bank. [CNN: [http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/30/mideast/index.html Suicide bomber kills 4 in West Bank] , March 31, 2006] [BBC News: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4863022.stm Bomber strikes Israeli settlement] , March 31, 2006]
*flagicon|Pakistan Pakistan, April 11: A suicide bomber explodes himself in Karachi, killing 57 Sunni worshippers. [BBC News: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4905476.stm Thousands attend Karachi funerals] , April 13, 2006]
*flagicon|Israel Israel, April 17: Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing eleven people and injuring 70.
*flagicon|Egypt Egypt, April 24: Bombings at three locations in Dahab kill 20 Egyptians and three foreigners, and injure 62 others.
*flagicon|Pakistan Pakistan, May 11: Six policemen die and twelve are injured when five bombs go off in a police academy in Quetta. [CNN: [http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/10/wednesday/index.html Bombings at Pakistani police school kill 6] , May 11, 2006]
*flagicon|Canada Canada, June 2-3: 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.
*flagicon|Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, June 15: 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. [ [http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/9205 Pro-LTTE Simon Hughes and Priyath Liyanage lament over the dead ceasefire agreement and discuss interference] ]
*flagicon|Israel Israel, June 25: Eliyahu Asheri, an Israeli citizen, was kidnapped and murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).
*flagicon|Iraq|2004 Iraq, July 9: 40 Sunni civilians are massacred by Shia militants in Baghdad.
*flagicon|India India, July 11: A series of explosions rock commuter trains in Mumbai, India, killing 209 and wounding another 714 civilians.
*flagicon|Pakistan Pakistan, July 14: Suicide bomber in Karachi kills a Shiite Islamic cleric Allama Hasan Turabi and his nephew.
*flagicon|Libya Libya, July 15: Suicide bomber in Tripoli kills a dozen Christian inside a church. According to the police, the target was the priest.
*flagicon|Iraq|2004 Iraq, July 17: Explosions and gunmen kill 48 people in a market in Mahmoudiya. [CNN: [http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/17/iraq.main/index.html Gunmen kill at least 40 in Iraq market attack] , July 17, 2006]
*flagicon|Iraq|2004 Iraq, July 18: Car bombing near a Shiite shrine in Kufa kills 53 and injures 103. [BBC News: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5189832.stm Car bombing kills dozens in Iraq] , July 18, 2006]
*flagicon|Germany Germany, July 31: 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. [Reuters: [http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L02136965 Lebanon arrests fourth suspect in German bomb case] , September 2, 2006] 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. [International Herald Tribune: [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/02/europe/EU_GEN_Germany_Terrorism_Investigation.php Prophet drawings motivated by suspects behind failed German train bombings, investigator says] , September 2, 2006] [Der Spiegel: [http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,434812,00.html Bahn-Anschläge schon zur Fußball-WM geplant] , September 2, 2006]
*flagicon|Colombia Colombia, July 31: 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. [M&G: [http://news.monstersandcritics.com/americas/news/article_1185724.php/At_least_16_dead_in_rebel_attacks_in_Colombia At least 16 dead in rebel attacks in Colombia] , July 31, 2006]
*flagicon|Afghanistan Afghanistan, August 4: A suicide car bomber struck a market in Kandahar, killing 21 people.
*flagicon|Colombia Colombia, August 4: A car bomb kills five outside a police station in Cali. The local government blames FARC. [BBC: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5245822.stm Car bomb kills five in Colombia] , August 4, 2006]
*flagicon|UK United Kingdom, flagicon|US United States, August 10: 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.
*flagicon|Moldova Moldova, August 13: Two grenades explode on a trolleybus in Tiraspol, killing two people and injuring ten. [RIA Novosti: [http://en.rian.ru/world/20060815/52675832.html Transdnestr security chief says trolleybus blast terror act] , August 15, 2006]
*flagicon|India India, August 16: A bomb exploded in a Hindu temple near Imphal, killing five and injuring nearly 50 other. [Hindu American Foundation: [http://hinduamericanfoundation.org/media_press_release_iskcon_imphal_blast.htm Hindu American Foundation Condemns Bomb Attack on ISKCON Temple in India] , August 16, 2006]
*flagicon|Iraq|2004 Iraq, August 20: Gunmen spray bullets on Shiites in Baghdad, killing 20 people and wounding more than 300. [CNN: [http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/20/iraq.main/index.html 20 pilgrims killed, hundreds wounded in Baghdad] , August 20, 2006]
*flagicon|United States United States, August 30: An Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV in the San Francisco Bay area.
*flagicon|India India, September 8: 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.
*flagicon|Syria Syria, September 12: 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. [cite news|title = Gunmen in Syria Hit U.S. Embassy; 3 Attackers Die|last = Smith | first = Craig | publisher = New York Times|date=September 13, 2006 | accessdate = 2006-09-13 | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/world/middleeast/13syria.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1] See Damascus terrorist attacks.
*flagicon|Yemen Yemen, September 15: 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.
*flagicon|Thailand Thailand, September 16: 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. [CNN: [http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/16/thai.bombs/index.html Six bombs explode in Thailand city, killing 4] , September 16, 2006]
*flagicon|Somalia Somalia, September 18: Eleven people, including the presidents brother and six attackers, are killed in an assassination attempt on the Somalian president. [Hassan Yare: [http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=284360&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/ Eleven killed in Somali assassination attempt] , "Mail&Guardian" (South Africa), September 18, 2006] See 2006 Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed assassination attempt.
*flagicon|Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, September 18: 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 [The Guardian: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1923636,00.html Sri Lanka condemns 'barbaric' suicide blast] , October 16, 2006]
*flagicon|Norway Norway, September 19: A person fire 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. Israeli embassies in Oslo. [VG Nett: [http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=130743 Gjerningsmann fortsatt på frifot - Skjøt mot synagoge] , September 19, 2006 no icon] [VG Nett: [http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=160915 Bhatti tiltalt for terrorplaner] , August 31, 2007 no icon] [Nettavisen [http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/innenriks/article1426222.ece Bhatti-saken avvist av retten] , November 11, 2007]
*flagicon|Afghanistan Afghanistan, September 30: A suicide bomber detonates his explosives outside the interior ministry in Kabul. The attack kills twelve and wounds over 40. [BBC News: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5394266.stm Suicide bomber strikes in Kabul] , September 30, 2006] 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.Human Rights Watch: [http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/04/16/afghan15688.htm Afghanistan: Civilians Bear Cost of Escalating Insurgent Attacks] , April 16, 2007]
*flagicon|Colombia Colombia, October 19: A car bomb explodes in a military college in northern Bogotá, injuring five. [BBC: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6067176.stm Car bomb explodes in Colombia] , October 19, 2006]
*flagicon|Colombia Colombia, October 28: A car bomb kills two and injures four outside a military base in Villavicencio, Meta. FARC is blamed. [Reuters: [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N29298462.htm Colombia blames FARC rebels for bomb attack] , October 29, 2006]
*flagicon|United Kingdom United Kingdom, November 1: 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. [BBC: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6104928.stm Firebomb attacks on three stores] , November 1, 2006]
*flagicon|India India, November 20: A suspected terrorist bomb explodes on a train in India. See 2006 West Bengal train disaster.
*flagicon|Lebanon Lebanon, November 21: 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. [MSNBC: [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15829846 Lebanese Christian minister is assassinated] , November 21, 2006]
*flagicon|Iraq|2004 Iraq. November 23: 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.
*flagicon|United Kingdom United Kingdom, November 24: Michael Stone, prevented from murdering members of the Sinn Féin political party. [The Guardian: [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,,1956433,00.html A thing of the past] , November 24, 2006] [BBC News: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6179792.stm Stormont attack devices defused] , November 24, 2006]
*flagicon|Spain Spain, December 30: A bomb explodes at Madrid Airport, killing two Ecuadorians and injuring 26 people. The ETA a Basque terrorist group has claimed responsibility.
*flagicon|Thailand Thailand, December 31: Eight bomb explosions in seven areas of Bangkok, Thailand's capital city, three people died, nearly 40 injured.

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