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Attacks Sep 11 2001-2005.Pdf " The List " of Islamic Terror Attacks from September 11th, 2001 to the end of 2003 y r d t e e n d r t u y le u a o it il j D C C K In Description 12/31/03 Iraq Baghdad 8 35 A car bomb rips through a restaurant, killing eight people and injuring at least thirty-five. 12/30/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 3 One Iraqi is killed, and three others injured in a roadside bomb attack. Thirty-four personnel are injured when Hizbul Mujahideen militants bomb a military 12/30/03 India Lawaypora 0 34 patrol. 12/29/03 India Jammu 0 10 Muslim terrorists injure ten people waiting for a bus with a grenade. 12/29/03 India Bamkote 1 0 A man is pulled from his house and killed just outside his village. Five Afghan soldiers are killed when their post is attacked by Taliban terrorists. Three are 12/29/03 Afghanistan Spin Boldak 5 3 injured. Two Iraqi children and one American are killed by a roadside bomb on a crowded street. 12/28/03 Iraq Baghdad 3 5 Five others are injured. 12/28/03 India Surigam 1 0 A man is lynched by Islamists. Six Afghan policemen are killed by two suicide bombers being transported for 12/28/03 Afghanistan Kabul 6 0 investigation. An irrigation department employee is killed by the Mujahideen and eight others suffer 12/27/03 India Tral 1 8 injuries in a Shopian grenade attack. Islamic Fedayeen terrorists kill twelve, including four Bulgarians, two Thai engineers and 12/27/03 Iraq Karbala 12 37 six civilians in three separate suicide attacks. At least thirty-seven others are injured. A 13-year-old girl is killed, and eleven other people are injured when Muslim terrorists 12/26/03 India Singhpora 1 11 trigger a roadside bomb against a transport vehicle. Suicide bomber kills four Israeli civilians, including a teenage girl and injures at least 12/25/03 Israel Tel Aviv 4 18 eighteen more at a bus stop. Assassination attempt on Pakistani President by Muslim extremists, involving several car 12/25/03 Pakistan Rawalpindi 17 46 bombs, leaves seventeen dead and at least forty injured. Government-sponsored militias in this Islamic Republic, kill another two dozen villagers 12/24/03 Sudan Darfur 24 25 - adding to a toll of more than two million over 20 years. 12/24/03 Iraq Irbil 3 12 A suicide car bomber kills three other people and injures at least a dozen innocents. Civilian bus is bombed by Sunni terrorists. The driver is killed and two passengers are 12/24/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 2 injured. Ten people are injured when Muslim militants lob a grenade at a security patrol near a 12/23/03 India Bandipore 0 10 hospital. Two Israelis are killed when members of the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade open up on a 12/22/03 Israel Kfar Darom 2 2 security patrol with grenades and automatic weapons. 12/22/03 Iraq Mosul 1 0 Top level judge shot six times in the back by Fedayeen loyalists. Roadside bomb in the Sunni Triangle kills two Americans and an Iraqi translator. Two 12/22/03 Iraq Baghdad 3 2 others are wounded. Fourteen people are injured in a grenade attack against a police station by militant 12/21/03 India Kulgam 0 14 Muslims. Taliban terrorists attack a remote security post with machine guns and kill five Afghan 12/20/03 Afghanistan Khaima 5 2 soldiers as they are eating their evening meal. Terrorist blast kills one woman working for the main Shiite party in their office building. 12/19/03 Iraq Baghdad 1 5 At least five others are injured. 12/18/03 India Rajouri 2 3 Fedayeen attack on a police station kills two officers and leaves three more injured. 12/17/03 Iraq Baghdad 2 1 A Shiite leader is gunned down near his home by Sunni loyalists. 12/17/03 India Gagarsula 1 4 Terrorists shoot dead one civilian and abduct four others from a remote village. Government troops seeking refuge in a mosque are attacked by Moro Islamic Front 12/16/03 Philippines Datu Piang 4 12 terrorists. Four are killed and twelve are missing. 12/16/03 Algeria Medea 2 0 Islamic extremists shoot and kill two policemen. Fedayeen suicide bomber drives car bomb to gates of a police station. Eight Iraqis are 12/15/03 Iraq Baghdad 8 10 killed in the explosion and at least ten injured. 12/15/03 Iraq Ameriyah 0 7 Another Fedayeen suicide bomber kills himself and injures seven Iraqi policemen. Shauri & At least nine border guards are murdered by Muslim rebels who crossed over from 12/15/03 Dagestan Mokok 9 0 Chechnya to attack a hospital. Seventeen city workers, policemen, and civilian bystanders are killed, and another thirty- 12/14/03 Iraq Khaldiya 17 33 three injured by Fedayeen suicide blast. Page 1 North 12/14/03 Philippines Cotabato 4 3 Ambushes by the Moro Islamic Front leave four villagers dead and two wounded. Young boy is killed by a bomb while sifting through garbage outside a house owned by 12/12/03 Pakistan Quetta 1 0 President Karzai of Afghanistan. Palestinian gunmen ambush a van carrying Israeli worshippers on their way home from a 12/12/03 Israel Nablus 0 7 prayer service. Seven are injured. Three Fedayeen suicide bombers in a furniture truck blow themselves up at the gates of a 12/11/03 Iraq Ramadi 1 14 U.S. military base. One guard is killed and fourteen others wounded. Militant Sunnis kill two U.S. soldiers on guard duty at two gas stations in drive-by 12/10/03 Iraq Mosul 2 4 shootings. Four others are injured. Muslim terrorists lob a grenade into a bus station and then fire indiscriminately into the 12/10/03 India Poonch 3 15 crowd, killing three and injuring at least fifteen. Female Fedayeen suicide bomber kills six people near the Kremlin and injures at least 12/09/03 Russia Moscow 6 14 fourteen, including several college students. 12/09/03 Iraq Mosul 1 2 Drive-by shooting attack leaves one American hospital guard dead and two others injured. Fifty-nine U.S. soldiers and at least three Iraqis sustain mostly light injuries when an 12/09/03 Iraq Mosul 0 62 Islamic suicide car bomber attempts an attack. 12/09/03 Iraq Baghdad 3 2 Bombers target a mosque, killing two and injuring three. 12/08/03 Afghanistan Muqur 2 0 Taliban ambush kills two Pakistani engineers working to restore country's infrastructure. Ten people, including civilians and policemen are injured in Mujahideen grenade and 12/08/03 India Anantnag 0 10 shooting attacks in Kashmir. Four Russian soldiers are killed while investigating an explosion at a school. Another is 12/08/03 Chechnya Itum Kale 4 1 taken hostage. 12/06/03 Algeria Bouira 1 0 24-year old police officer is gunned down in a store by Islamic extremists. Eighteen Afghan civilians, including three children are injured by a bomb detonated from 12/06/03 Afghanistan Kandahar 0 18 a parked bicycle. The Taliban takes credit for the attack. Mujahideen suicide bomber detonates explosive on a Russian commuter train carrying civilians to work. At forty-four people, including children eventually die and about one- 12/05/03 Russia Yessentuki 44 150 hundred and fifty others are injured. At least three Iraqis and one U.S. soldier are killed by a roadside bomb on a crowded 12/05/03 Iraq Baghdad 4 13 street. Thirteen others, including eleven Iraqis are injured. Regional governor survives assassination attempt by Islamic extremists, with injuries. His 12/04/03 Yemen al-Baidah 1 1 brother is murdered. A UN worker was killed by a Taliban attack while conducting a census. Eleven others 12/04/03 Afghanistan Bukwakay 1 11 were injured. 12/03/03 Philippines Muti 4 0 Abu Sayyaf terrorists round up four villagers, line them up on a road and shoot them. A Muslim doctor deliberately allows a Jewish patient to die from an easily treatable 12/02/03 USA Chicago, IL 1 0 condition. Nineteen policeman and two civilians are injured when militant Muslims attack their 12/02/03 India Srinagar 0 21 station with grenades. At least four people are killed, and eight injured when Muslim militants defy a brokered 11/30/03 India Jammu 4 8 cease-fire and hijack two civilian vehicles. Two South Korean engineers are killed, and two others seriously wounded by Fedayeen 11/30/03 Iraq Tikrit 2 2 terrorists while traveling in their vehicle. 11/30/03 Indonesia Poso 2 0 Two Hindu migrants are gunned down as they sat outside their house. 11/29/03 India Wadna 1 4 Militant Muslims fire at a passenger vehicle, killing one and injuring four. 11/29/03 Iraq Tikrit 3 0 Two Japanese diplomats, and their Iraqi driver are shot and killed by Fedayeen terrorists. Fedayeen ambush kills seven Spanish intelligence agents, riding in two cars, with 11/29/03 Iraq Suwayrah 7 1 grenades and automatic weapons. 11/28/03 India Shaashi 1 0 A man is gunned down inside his home by Islamic terrorists. Nine people, including a Saudi prince, are ambushed and killed by Islamic extremists 11/28/03 Algeria Djelfa 9 3 while on a hunting trip in the desert. Five people in the middle of planning a wedding were killed, and four others injured 11/27/03 Philippines Barira 5 4 when Moro Islamic Front terrorists strafe their house with gunfire.
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