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List of terrorist incidents in 2007

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This is a timeline of incidents in 2007 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

Guidelines

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  • To be included, entries must be notable (have a stand-alone article) and described by a consensus of reliable sources as "terrorism".
  • List entries must comply with the guidelines outlined in the manual of style under MOS:TERRORIST.
  • Casualties figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident including immediate casualties and later casualties (such as people who succumbed to their wounds long after the attacks occurred).
  • Casualties listed are the victims. Perpetrator casualties are listed separately (e.g. x (+y) indicate that x victims and y perpetrators were killed/injured).
  • Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus (+) sign indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 10+ indicates that at least 10 people have died) – the actual toll could be considerably higher. A figure with a plus (+) sign may also indicate that over that number of people are victims.
  • If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined.
  • Incidents are limited to one per location per day. If multiple attacks occur in the same place on the same day, they will be merged into a single incident.
  • In addition to the guidelines above, the table also includes the following categories:
  0 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  1–19 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  20–49 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  50–99 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  100+ people were killed/injured by the incident.

January

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Total incidents: 3

Date Dead Injured Location Description
January

19

1 0 Istanbul, Turkey Assassination of Hrant Dink
January 22 131 186 Baghdad, Iraq See 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings.[1]
January 29 2 (+1) 7 Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan January 2007 Dera Ismail Khan suicide bombing - 2 people were killed while 7 wounded when suicide bomber blew himself up.[2]

February

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Total incidents: 3

Date Dead Injured Location Description
February 3  135 305 Baghdad, Iraq Al-Sadriya district market: Truck bombing. See 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing.[3]
February 3  23 20 Bagram, Afghanistan 2007 Bagram Air Base bombing
February 19 68 49 Near New Delhi, India Samjhauta Express, a train headed toward Lahore an hour after it leaves New Delhi; two bombs explode. See 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings.[4][5]

March

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Total incidents: 1

Date Dead Injured Location Description
March 27 152 347 Tal Afar, Iraq Two truck bombs kill 152 people and injure 347. See 2007 Tal Afar bombings.[6]

April

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Total incidents: 2

Date Dead Injured Location Description
April 18 200 251 Baghdad, Iraq A series of explosions kills 200 people and injures 251. See 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings.[7]
April 28 63 70 Karbala, Iraq A car bomb kills 63 people and injures 70.[8]

May

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Total incidents: 2

Date Dead Injured Location Description
May 18 16 100 Hyderabad, India Attack on Mecca Masjid. For details, see 18 May 2007 Mecca Masjid bombing.[9]
May 22 9 (+1) 121 Ankara, Turkey A suicide bombing rips through a shopping district, killing nine people and wounding dozens more. See 2007 Ankara bombing.[10]

June

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Total incidents: 1

Date Dead Injured Location Description
June 29, June 30 0 (+1) 5 United Kingdom 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, 2007 London car bombs, 2007 UK terrorist incidents. Car bomb plot, suspected Al-Qaeda. At Glasgow-International Airport, a car rams into terminal one, causing minor injuries to five people and setting off a blaze. An explosive device catches fire instead of detonating. In London's West End, an attempt to set off two car bombs by suspected cell-phone triggers fails. One car is towed before the device is discovered in an underground car park. Police link two the incidents and find suicide notes on two suspects in the London incident. [11] Eight men are arrested, one Glasgow suspect is critically burned. One of the five men could be an associate of Dhiren Bharot, a high-level Al-Qaeda operative. Authorities say the London bombs could have caused "significant loss of life."[12][13] Police link the two incidents to the same two people.[14]

July

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Total incidents: 1

Date Dead Injured Location Description
July 2 10 12 Marib, Yemen Eight Spanish tourists and two Yemenis are killed and another twelve are wounded in a suicide bombing attack at the Queen of Sheba temple.

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August

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Total incidents: 2

Date Dead Injured Location Description
August 14 796 (+4) 1,562 Iraq The Qahtaniyah bombings kills nearly 800; this was the Iraq War's most deadly car bomb attack during the period of major American combat operations. It was also the third deadliest act of terrorism in history, only being surpassed by the September 11 attacks in the United States and the Camp Speicher massacre in Iraq.
August 25 44 54 Hyderabad, India Hyderabad bombings: Twin bombings kill at least 44 and injure 54. Two bombs are defused and 19 others are found unexploded. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh state, blames Islamic militants with ties to Pakistan or Bangladesh, saying that the extremists want to foment tension between India's Hindus and Muslims. Both Bangladesh and Pakistan deny the accusations.[citation needed]

September

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Total incidents: 0

Date Dead Injured Location and description

October

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Total incidents: 3

Date Dead Injured Location Description
October 11 3 30 India Explosives kept in a tiffin box at a Sufi shrine by Terrorists resulted in the Ajmer sharif dargah blast while devotees were breaking fast during Ramadan. The site of the blasts was close to the Rajasthan state Chief Minister's Iftar Party.[16]
October 18 136 (+2) 387 Karachi, Pakistan Twin suicide bombings occur near a truck carrying former prime minister Benazir Bhutto through a crowded street of supporters eight hours after her return from exile, despite 20,000 security officers having been assigned to protect her. At least 136 are killed and 387 are wounded; Bhutto escapes unharmed. The Taliban or Al Qaeda are suspected.[17][18]
October 21 12 16 Hakkâri Province, Turkey PKK stages an attack on the Turkish outpost in Hakkari. The attack wounds 16 and kills 12 Turkish soldiers carried out of northern Iraq. Eight soldiers are kidnapped.[19][20]

November

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Total incidents: 1

Date Dead Injured Location Description
November 23 15 80 Uttar Pradesh, India Uttar Pradesh serial blasts. Near-simultaneous blasts triggered by militants in court premises in Varanasi, Faizabad, and Lucknow kill 15 people and injure more than 80.[21]

December

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Total incidents: 3

Date Dead Injured Location Description
December 11 37 177 Algiers, Algeria Bombings kill 37 or more and injure 177.[22]
December 24 4 1 Aleg, Mauritania Four French tourists are gunned down; the family's father survives, but with serious injuries. Mauritanian police say two of the three suspects are affiliated with a salafist group close to Al-Qaeda.[23][24]
December 27 24 (+1) 46 Rawalpindi, Pakistan Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by an attacker who shoots her after a campaign rally and then blows himself up; at least 20 others are dead. Islamist militant leader Baitullah Mehsud or elements within the Pervez Musharraf government are suspected.[25][26][27] See Benazir Bhutto assassination.

References

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  1. ^ "Scores killed in Iraq bloodshed". BBC News. 2007-01-22. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
  2. ^ "'Three killed' in Pakistan blast". BBC News. 2007-01-29. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  3. ^ "Baghdad market bomb 'kills 130'". BBC News. 2007-02-03. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
  4. ^ "Toll reaches to 68 in Samjhauta Express explosions". Islamic Republic news Agency. 2007-02-20. Archived from the original on 2007-02-24. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
  5. ^ Swami, Praveen (2007-02-20). "Samjhauta Express firebombed, 67 killed". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Archived from the original on 2007-02-21. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
  6. ^ "Tal Afar toll tops record for Iraq war's deadliest attack". CNN News. 2007-04-07. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
  7. ^ "Up to 200 killed in Baghdad bombs". BBC News. 2007-04-18. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
  8. ^ "Bomb kills many in Iraq holy city". BBC News. 2007-04-14. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
  9. ^ "Bomb hits historic Indian mosque". BBC News. 2007-05-18. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
  10. ^ "Bomb in Turkish capital kills 6, injures 80". Reuters. 2007-05-22. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
  11. ^ CNN: UK terror police find suicide note about terror plot, July 4, 2007
  12. ^ BBC: Two car bombs found in West End, June 29, 2007
  13. ^ NBC News and NBC News: U.K. police hunt for London car bomb plotters, June 30, 2007
  14. ^ "Investigators: Scotland and London Bomb Attempts Linked to Same Two Men". ABC News. 2007-07-03. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
  15. ^ "bomb kills Spanish tourists". BBC. 2007-07-02.
  16. ^ "Ajmer Blast – Hindu outfit responsible?". The Times of India. 2007-10-11. Archived from the original on 2011-08-11.
  17. ^ NBC News: 2 blasts strike crowd celebrating Bhutto's return, October 19, 2007
  18. ^ CNN: Death Toll Rises in Bhutto Attack, October 19, 2007
  19. ^ "Ankara prêt à traquer le PKK jusqu'en Irak" (in French). 24 Hours. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved 2007-10-22.
  20. ^ "Basın Açıklaması" (in Turkish). Turkish Armed Forces. Archived from the original on 2007-10-23. Retrieved 2007-10-22.
  21. ^ "Co-ordinated blasts in 3 UP cities kill 15". Rediff. 2007-11-23.
  22. ^ "Algeria halts search operations in devastated UN complex". BBC News. 2007-12-06. Archived from the original on 2010-09-16.
  23. ^ Hadémine Ould Sadi: Meurtre de touristes français: des salafistes impliqués, AFP, December 25, 2007
  24. ^ Ahmed Mohamed: Mauritania: Sleeper cell killed French, AP, December 26, 2007
  25. ^ "Bhutto's assassination rocks Pakistan". NBC News. December 28, 2007. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  26. ^ "Al Qaeda's Newest Triggerman". Newsweek.com. January 5, 2008. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  27. ^ Rohde, David (December 28, 2007). "Musharraf's Political Future Appears Troubled". NY Times. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
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