List of terrorist incidents, 2000

The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 2000.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, January 22: Pedro Antonio Blanco García, is killed in a southern neighborhood in Madrid when a car bomb explodes.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, February 22: Basque separatist group ETA, kills the leader of the opposition Basque Socialist Party and his bodyguard.
*flagicon|United States United States. The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS "The Sullivans" sinks.
*flagicon|Germany Germany. Police foil the Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, March 7: A powerful car bomb explodes in San Sebastían and 17 people were injuried. The terrorist's target was two Guardia Civil policemen.
*flagicon|Pakistan Pakistan, May: The Balochistan Liberation Army begins its attacks against government and military targets in Balochistan.
*flagicon|Colombia Colombia, March 15: A botched rocket attack by rebels against an army base left two dead and 14 injured near Medellín. [CNN: [http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/03/14/colombia.bomb.02/index.html Botched rocket attacks kills 2, wounds 14 in Colombia] , March 15, 2000]
*flagicon|Spain Spain, March 27: ETA tries to kill Spanish reporter Carlos Herrera at his home of Sevilla.
*flagicon|France France, April 19:The Breton Revolutionary Army bombs a McDonalds in Dinan, killing a waitress. [ [http://www.tkb.org/Incident.jsp?incID=12636 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base ] ]
*flagicon|Spain Spain, ETA kills El Mundo columnist López de Lacall, age 62.
*flagicon|Colombia Colombia, May 16: Suspected FARC guerrillas detonated a collar bomb they attached to dairy farmer Elvia Cortes, age 55, after she refused to pay a $7,500 extorsion. This event is the theme of the movie "PVC-1", winner of the Director's Fortnight Selection Award at the Cannes Film Festival 2007.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, June 5: Popular Party councilior Jesús María Pedrosa is killed by ETA.
*flagicon|Greece Greece, June 8: Stephen Saunders, a British Defense Attaché, was assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November in Athens.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, July 7: A Popular Party member is killed by ETA in Málaga
*flagicon|Russia Russia, August 8: A bomb exploded at an underpass in Pushkin Square in Moscow, killing eleven people and wounding more than 90. [CNN: [http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/11/russia.funerals/index.html Nation mourns as Russia bomb toll rises] , August 12, 2000]
*flagicon|Spain Spain, August 8: A powerful bomb car explodes in Madrid injuring 11.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, August 8: Business executive dies in car bomb attack in Bilbao.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, August 9: Francisco Casanova Vicente, age 46, an army officer is shot dead in the northern city of Pamplona. ETA claimed responsability for the 3 attacks.
*flagicon|Latvia Latvia, August 17: Two bombs exploded in a shopping center in Riga, injuring 35 people. [CNN: [http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/18/latvia.explosion/index.html Latvian police search for bomb suspects] , August 18, 2000]
*flagicon|Spain Spain, August 20: A powerful car bomb kills two policemen in the city of Huesca.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, August 29: A young Spanish politician dies after being riddled with more than 15 bullets in Zumárraga.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, September 17: Police discoveres eight grenades 500 yards from an open-air museum hours before Spanish King Juan Carlos, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder were to visit.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, September 21: ETA kills a Catalan Popular Party councilior while Spanish PM was visiting Barcelona.
*flagicon|Colombia Colombia, October 8: A car bomb injures four near a military base in Cali. Rebel group ELN is blamed. [BBC: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/962170.stm Carbomb explodes near Cali army base] , October 8, 2000]
*flagicon|Spain Spain, October 10: Andalucía's chief prosecutor, Luis Portero, is gunned down by ETA members in the doorway of his Granada home.
*flagicon|Yemen Yemen, flagicon|United States United States, October 12: USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors and wounds 40 off the port of Aden, by al-Qaeda; see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, the Buffalo Six Lackawanna Cell. [http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel06/mwtl_yemen022306.htm Recent escapees from Yemen prison added to most wanted terrorists and seeking information - war on terrorism lists] , "FBI national Press Release", February 23, 2006]
*flagicon|Spain Spain, October 17: Two gunmen burst into Dr. Antonio Munoz Cariñanos private clinic and shot him twice in the head, killing him instantly.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, October 22: A prison officer is killed in ETA-style bombing in the northen city of Vitoria.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, October 31: A powerful car bomb explodes in Madrid killing Judge Jose Francisco Querol, his driver and his boyguard. 65 people were wounded.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, November 12: ETA tries to kill 10 policemen in a Police Station in the north of Spain. The bomb exploded, but only wounded five people.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, November 22: One person is injuried when ETA tries to kill 30 kids in a grenade attack near a school and a police station.
*flagicon|Spain Spain, December 21: ETA kills Ernest Lluch.
*flagicon|Indonesia Indonesia, December 24: Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings, terrorists blow up churches in Indonesia killing 17 and injuring more than 150 people.
*flagicon|Philippines Philippines, December 30: Rizal Day Bombings, terrorists blow up LRts in Manila, killing 22 and injuring more than 100 people.

ee also

*List of terrorist incidents

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