List of terrorist incidents, 1993

The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1993.

*flagicon|Colombia Colombia, January 7: A car bomb kills two and injures 39 in the parking lot of a building where several judges lived, in the city of Medellín. [San Jose Mercury News, January 8, 1993, Page 17A]
*flagicon|United States United States, January 25: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fires an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, killing two and injuring three others, see FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
*flagicon|Colombia Colombia, January 30: A bomb kills 20 in downtown Bogotá. The attack is blamed on drug leader Pablo Escobar. [
http://www.aparchive.com/user/GetOneUp.aspx?id=w092457&links=BOMB,COLOMBIA,USABL&media=Text&pu=h Untitled] February 1, 1993]
*flagicon|Colombia Colombia, February 11: A bomb kills 14 and injures 25 at an auto repair shop in Barrancabermeja. [NYT: [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0D71F3DF932A25751C0A965958260 14 killed and 25 wounded by a car bomb in Colombia] , February 11, 1993]
*flagicon|Colombia Colombia, February 22: Two powerful car bombs kill four and injure 100 in a commercial district and a shopping mall in Bogotá. The attacks are likely linked to drug traffickers waging war against the Colombian government. [
http://www.aparchive.com/user/GetOneUp.aspx?id=w092662&links=BOMB,COLOMBIA,USABL&media=Text&pu=h Untitled] , February 22, 1993]
*flagicon|United States United States, February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra'/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front, [http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6453/emerson.html Official prepared statement of Steven Emerson before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information, on February 24, 1998] , "Federal Information Systems Corporation, Federal News Service", as downloaded from the Library of Congress, 1998, Made available 4/5/98] see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ramzi Yousef.
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India, March 12: Mumbai car bombings leave 257 dead with 1,400 others injured.
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India, March 17: A bomb blast in Calcutta killed at least 50 people. Two apartment blocks came crashing down when the blast rocked central Calcutta's Bowbazar locality shortly after midnight.
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India, March 19: A bomb exploded in Calcutta's Sealdah rail terminus, killing one person and wounding a dozen others
*flagicon|Colombia Colombia, April 15: A bomb kills 15 and wounds over 100 at the Centro 93 shopping mall in Bogotá. Authorities blame Pablo Escobar. [AP, April 16, 1993]
*flagicon|Israel Israel, April 16: Hamas kill 2 in Mehola Junction bombing.
*flagicon|United Kingdom United Kingdom, March 20: IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children (See Warrington Bomb Attacks).
*flagicon|United Kingdom United Kingdom, April 24: IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing one person and causing approximately £1bn of damage. [BBC: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/24/newsid_2523000/2523345.stm IRA bomb devastates City of London] , "On this day", April 24, 1993] (See 1993 Bishopsgate bombing.)
*flagicon|Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, May 1: Suicide bomber in Colombo kills Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa. Attack carried out by LTTE.BBC News: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/51435.stm Timeline of the Tamil conflict] , September 4, 2000] [ [http://www.danieldrezner.com/research/guest/Pape1.pdf The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, ROBERT A. PAPE The University of Chicago, American Political Science Review Vol. 97, No. 3 August 2003, Page No 16] ]
*flagicon|Italy Italy, May 27: A car-bomb placed by mafia in the neighbourhood of the Uffizi museum in Florence kills five people and wounds 40.
*flagicon|United States United States June: Failed New York City landmark bomb plot, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
*flagicon|Spain Spain, June 21: ETA Basque terrorist group bombs a military truck in Madrid, kills seven, 36 injured.
*flagicon|United Kingdom United Kingdom, July 5: the IRA detonate a convert|1500|lb|abbr=on car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but severe property damage is caused to the town centre.
*flagicon|Italy Italy, July 27: Three car-bombs explode simultaneously and in a street in the center of Milan, killing five, and in front of two churches in Rome. The attack is attributed to mafia.
*flagicon|United Kingdom United Kingdom, October 23: the Shankill Road bombing at a fish and chip shop on the Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast, kills ten people, including two children.
*flagicon|United Kingdom United Kingdom, October 30: Seven people killed in the Rising Sun Bar massacre, when Loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters gunmen attack a bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry.

ee also

*List of terrorist incidents

References