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NOTEWORTHY RECENT TERRORIST ATTACKS | OTHER OTEWORTHY TERRORIST ATTACKS | LAW AND ORDER | INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS, RECENT ACTIVITY
NOTEWORTHY RECENT TERRORIST ATTACKS
QUETTA HOSPITAL ATTACK - Quetta, Pakistan, August 9, 2016: Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for 1) detonating a bomb in a crowd of lawyers outside a hospital in the city of Quetta that killed at least 70 people and injured over 100 others; and 2) a subsequent suicide bombing at the hospital.
Jihadists Kill Dozens in Pakistan Hospital Attack. Lawyers had gathered in the hospital to mourn a colleague whom militants had shot dead earlier in the day, suggesting they had been lured there. By Qasim Nauman and Saeed Sham, The Wall Street Journal, August 9,. 2016: TEXT | VIDEO | MAP
Understanding the context of Quetta attack in Pakistan.
Every significant attack it stages in the region is a blow to Pakistan's development and a disincentive for China, despite its deep-set desire to extend its infrastructure directly to the Indian Ocean.
By Tom Hussain, AlJazeera, August 10, 2016: TEXT | PICTURE | VIDEO
China promises support to Pakistan after Quetta blast. “The Chinese side will continue to firmly support Pakistan’s efforts to fight against terrorism, safeguard national stability and protect the people’s lives and safety,” Xi Jinping said. Daily Times, August 10. 2016: TEXT | PICTURE
DHAKA CAFE ATTACK - Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2-3, 2016. After the 12-hour siege that ended when security forces stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery, twenty people including hostages were dead. - The number of terrorist attacks in Yemen over the last few months is so high that we would need a whole section to catalogue fully the implosion of this country.
Dhaka cafe attack ends with 20 hostages among dead. Thirteen people were rescued after more than 100 Bangladeshi commandos stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery early on Saturday after the 12-hour siege. By Saad Hammadi, Rosie Scammell, and Alan Yuhas, The Guardian, July 3, 2016: MULTIMEDIA
What we know: The Bangladesh bakery attackers. The attackers were all Bangladeshis from rich families and allegedly belonged to banned group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB), despite Daesh claiming the attack. BBC News, July 4, 2016: TEXT | PICTURE
PAKISTAN: LAHORE EASTER BOMBING- LAHORE, PAKISTAN, March 27, 2016: Bombing by the Pakistani Taliban's Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction at a public park as the Christian minority gathered to celebrate Easter killed over 70 and injured over 300 people.
Pakistan plans new paramilitary crackdown after Easter bombing. The Bombing, targeting Christians, was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban's Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction, which once declared loyalty to Islamic State. By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Mubasher Bukhari, Reuters, March 28, 2016: TEXT | PICTURES
Pakistan PM Sharif demands swift action on terror. Christians were among the victims but many of the casualties were Muslims. BBC News, March 28, 2016: MULTIMEDIA
Mostly women and children killed in Lahore Easter bombing. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar has claimed responsibility for several big attacks after it split with the main Pakistani Taliban in 2014. eNews Channel Africa, March 28, 2016: TEXT | SOCIAL MEDIA
OTHER OTEWORTHY TERRORIST ATTACKS
PAKISTAN: PESHAWAR SCHOOL SIEGE AND MASSACRE - PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN, December 16, 2014. Up to nine Taliban insurgents wearing military uniforms and strapped with explosives broke into a school compound in the northwestern city of Peshawar and killed over 141, including 132 children.
Pakistan responds to Peshawar school massacre with strikes on Taliban. The Pakistan Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in revenge for a ferocious army offensive – named Zarb-e-Azb - that has been underway in tribal areas since June. By Jon Boone and Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian, December 16, 2014: MULTIMEDIA
How Pakistan school massacre unfolded. An attack by the Taliban on a school in Peshawar is being seen as one of the worst-ever in Pakistan. Militants stormed the building and scores of children and staff were killed. BBC News, December 16, 2014: MULTIMEDIA
Taliban go on killing spree at Pakistan school, 132 students dead. More than eight hours after militants slipped into the heavily guarded compound through a back entrance, the army declared the operation to flush them out over, and said that all nine insurgents had been killed. By Jibran Ahmad and Mehreen Zahra-Malik, Reuters, December 16, 2014: MULTIMEDIA
SYDNEY CAFE SIEGE - LINDT CAFE, MARTIN PLACE, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, December 15-16, 2014. - Gunman Man Haron held cafe crowd under siege for over 24 hours, two hostages died during the attack.
PM Tony Abbott: Australians right to ask how Sydney siege gunman Man Haron Monis was 'at large in the community.' The Prime Minister said that even if Monis had been "front and centre on our watch lists, even if this individual had been monitored 24 hours a day, it's quite likely, certainly possible, that this incident could have taken place". By James Massola and David Wroe, The Age, December 17, 2014: MULTIMEDIA
Sydney siege is over, say police, as hostages flee the scene – as it happened. Police confirmed at 2.44am DST that the siege was over. Authorities will hold a press conference at 5am (6pm GMT). By Bridie Jabour, Katharine Murphy, and Claire Phipps, The Guardian, December 15-16, 2014: MULTIMEDIA
PAKISTAN: KARACHI'S JINNAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ATTACK - KARACHI, PAKISTAN, June 8, 2014. Heavily armed gunmen armed penetrated the airport's security cordon, exchanged gunfire with security guards and hurled grenades. 39 people were killed, including security guards and the 10 attackers.
Karachi airport under attack by militants – live updates. It was been reported that a suicide bomber has blown himself up amid the fighting. All passengers in planes were apparently evacuated to safer places. The Guardian, June 8, 2014: MULTIMEDIA
Gunmen attack Karachi's Jinnah International Airport. Pakistani media reported between four and 10 gunmen had attacked Jinnah International Airport's old terminal. The security guards killed were said to be part of the Airport Security Force (ASF). BBC News, June 8, 2014: TEXT | MAP
Karachi airport: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan claims attack. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) is a highly trained militant group, with bases in the North Waziristan tribal region. It works closely with al-Qaeda and Taliban militants and has previously carried out large-scale co-ordinated attacks in Pakistan, including one on Peshawar airport in 2012. BBC News, June 12, 2014: TEXT | PICTURE
LAW AND ORDER Key Abu Sayyaf Leader Arrested in the Philippines. Police say they arrested Khair Mundos in a Manila suburb early on June 11. He was first arrested in May 2004 and confessed to arranging the transfer of funds from al-Qaida to Abu Sayyaf, but escaped from jail in 2007. Voice of America, June 11, 2014: TEXT
INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS, RECENT ACTIVITY
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Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) |
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PHILLIPINES |
Key Abu Sayyaf Leader Arrested in the Philippines. Police say they arrested Khair Mundos in a Manila suburb early on June 11. He was first arrested in May 2004 and confessed to arranging the transfer of funds from al-Qaida to Abu Sayyaf, but escaped from jail in 2007. Voice of America, June 11, 2014: TEXT
Physician’s son, 3 others seized in Jolo.
Suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) kidnapped the 11-year-old son of prominent physician
Dra. Faranash Jajurie Naimin the province together with three others while on their way to the Notre Dame Elementary School. By Nonoy E Lacson, Tempo, March 4, 2014: TEXT
Renewed violence erupts between security forces, rebel groups in Philippines.
Dutchman Ewold Horn and Swiss national Lorenzo Vinciguerra were seized in the Tawi-Tawi island group near Jolo in February 2012, while Amer Mamaito Katayama was abducted on the nearby island of Pangutaran in July 2010.
Australian Network News, February 12, 2014: TEXT | PICTURE |
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UNKNOWN |
JAPAN |
Prosecutors seek 12 years for Aum ex-fugitive Hirata over kidnapping.
Prosecutors asked for 12-year prison term for ex-Aum Shinrikyo fugitive Makoto Hirata for his part in the 1995 kidnapping of Tokyo notary Kiyoshi Kariyaand other crimes including
the 1995 bombing of a university professor's condominium. By Tomohiro Osaki, Japanese Times, February 27, 2014: TEXT |
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Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA) |
ACTIVE |
PHILLIPINES |
CPP-NPA leaders nabbed in Quezon, Naga.
Joint troops from the Armed Forces of the Philippines' Southern Luzon Command (AFP-Solcom) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) arrested George Geluz at a checkpoint in Gumaca, Quezon on Saturday;
and the following day Sylvestre Layones.
By ABS-CBN, February 10, 2014: TEXT |
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East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) |
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CHINA |
The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM).
The first mention of ETIM surfaced around 2000, when a Russian newspaper reported that Osama bin Laden had pledged funds to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and ETIM during a 1999 meeting in Afghanistan.
By Beina Xu, Holly Fletcher, and Jayshree Bajoria, Council on Foreign Relations, December 3, 2013: TEXT | FLAG PICTURE
Q&A: East Turkestan Islamic Movement. China's top security official has linked Monday's deadly crash in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. ETIM was designated as a terrorist group by the US under Executive Order 13224,. BBC News, November 1, 2013: TEXT | MAP
China blames East Turkestan Islamic Movement for Beijing attack.
An four-wheel-drive ploughed through bystanders, crashed and burst into flames near the Tiananmen Gate on Monday, killing three in the car and two tourists, including a Filipino woman, and injuring dozens.
By AP, The Guardian, November 1, 2013: TEXT | PICTURE
East Turkestan Islamic Movement declares Jihad against China. YouTube, April 10, 2012: VIDEO |
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Harakat-ul Jihad Islami (HUJI) |
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INDIA / PAKISTAN |
Indian Court acquits alleged HuJI operative for lack of evidence. Alleged HuJI operative Nasir Hussain was acquited in two cases — waging war against the country and Explosives Act — for lack of evidence, confirmed the Lucknow’s district government counsel, Munna Singh Yadav. By Manish Sahu, The Indian Express, March 21, 2014: TEXT
India bomb: Delhi High Court explosion kills 11. Investigators said they were taking seriously an email claim by the extremist group Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (Huji) that it planted the bomb. BBC News, 7 September 2011: TEXT | VIDEO |
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Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B) |
ACTIVE |
BANGLADESH |
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Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) |
ACTIVE |
INDIA / PAKISTAN |
Asia Overview. Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000.
The Government of Pakistan increased its support to the Taliban and continued its support to militant groups active in Indian-held Kashmir, such as the Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM), some of which engaged in terrorism.
By the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State. April 30, 2001: TEXT
Trio cleared over 7/7 attacks. In 2001, Waheed Ali, one of the three acquitted men, travelled with
Sidique Khan to a camp in Kashmir run by Harakat ul-Mujahidin, a militant group operating in Kashmir, northern Pakistan and Afghanistan.
By Dominic Casciani, BBC News, April 28, 2009: TEXT | PICTURES |
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Indian Mujahideen (IM) |
ACTIVE |
INDIA |
Rajasthan: 4 IM terrorists nabbed, explosives seized.
Special commissioner (Special Cell) SN Shrivastava said Rehman, arrested on Saturday morning from Ajmer Railway Station, provided inputs that led to the arrest of suspected IM operatives Mohammad Mahruf, Mohammad Waqar Azhar, both Jaipur residents, and Mohammad Saqib Ansari and Mohammad Adil of Jodhpur.
By Rashpal Singh and Suresh Vyas, Hindustan Times, March 23, 2014: TEXT | PICTURES
Afzal Usmani: India terror suspect re-arrested.
Mr Usmani was arrested in September 2008 with four other alleged IM members; on 20 September police said he disappeared after being taken to the court for a hearing;
he was re-captured by the anti-terrorism squad of the Mumbai police. October 28, 2013: TEXT | PICTURE
Yasin Bhatkal: India Mujahideen 'top militant' arrested. "Yasin Bhatkal was arrested last [Wednesday] night in [the northern state of] Bihar," Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde told reporters on Thursday morning. BBC News, August 29, 2013: TEXT | PICTURES
Bomb hits India market shoppers.
The market, in the Mehrauli area, was packed with shoppers when two men drove up in a motorcycle and dropped a package.
Mohammed Arif Sheikh, described as the founder of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), was arrested along with four others, Mumbai police said on Thursday.
BBC News, September 28, 2008: TEXT | TIMELINE |
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Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) |
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UZBEKISTAN / EUROPE |
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Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) |
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ASIA |
PAKISTAN: KARACHI'S JINNAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ATTACK - KARACHI, PAKISTAN, June 8, 2014. Heavily armed gunmen armed penetrated the airport's security cordon, exchanged gunfire with security guards and hurled grenades. 39 people were killed, including security guards and the 10 attackers.
Karachi airport under attack by militants – live updates. It was been reported that a suicide bomber has blown himself up amid the fighting. All passengers in planes were apparently evacuated to safer places. The Guardian, June 8, 2014: MULTIMEDIA
Gunmen attack Karachi's Jinnah International Airport. Pakistani media reported between four and 10 gunmen had attacked Jinnah International Airport's old terminal. The security guards killed were said to be part of the Airport Security Force (ASF). BBC News, June 8, 2014: TEXT | MAP
Karachi airport: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan claims attack. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) is a highly trained militant group, with bases in the North Waziristan tribal region. It works closely with al-Qaeda and Taliban militants and has previously carried out large-scale co-ordinated attacks in Pakistan, including one on Peshawar airport in 2012. BBC News, June 12, 2014: TEXT | PICTURES | MAP
Peshawar airport rocket fire kills four in Pakistan. Taliban militants launched a rocket attack on Peshawar airport in north-west Pakistan, killing at least four civilians, and injuring over 30 people officials say. BBC News, December 16, 2012: TEXT | PICTURE
Four dead in Pakistan after Peshawar airport shoot-out. Three suspected Taliban insurgents and a policeman have been killed in a shoot-out near the north-western city of Peshawar, officials say. The clash came a day after an attack on the city's airport, in which four civilians and five militants died. December 16, 2012: TEXT | PICTURE
Pakistan Peshawar airport blast kills one. One person has been killed in an explosion outside the airport in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP). BBC News, December 26, 2006: TEXT | PICTURE |
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Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed) |
ACTIVE |
INDIA / PAKISTAN |
Delhi parliament attack plotter hanged.
Afzal Guru was one of two men sentenced to death for helping to plan
a 2001 plot to attack India's parliament, although the sentence of Shaukat Hussain was later reduced on appeal to 10 years in jail. BBC News, February 9, 2013: TEXT | PICTURE
India condemns Pakistani 'interference' over Afzal Guru.
India blamed the attack on the Jaish-e-Mohammed militant group, which it said was backed by Pakistan. BBC News, March 15, 2013: TEXT | PICTURE
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Jemaah Islamiya (JI) |
ACTIVE |
SOUTH-EAST ASIA |
TERROR ATTACK ON NIGHTCLUBS (Sari club, Paddy's Bar) IN BALI, KUTA DISTRICT - October 12, 2002
Bali blast families welcome arrest.
Hambali, an Indonesian whose real name is Riduan Isamuddin and
is alleged to have links to al-Qaeda, was captured in a joint US and Thai operation in South East Asia earlier this week.
BBC News, August 16, 2003: TEXT | PICTURE
Bali death toll set at 202.
Imam Samudra, 35, will be charged with organising and planning the attacks, which killed mostly foreign tourists.
BBC News, February 19, 2003: TEXT | PICTURES
Full report: Bali terror attack,
March 5, 2009: MULTIMEDIA
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Jemmah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT) |
ACTIVE |
INDONESIA |
Five suspects killed in Bali anti-terror raids. Indonesian anti-terror police shot dead five men suspected of planning robberies to fund terror attacks;
previous bank robberies in Medan have been blamed on JAT.
BBC News, March 19, 2012: TEXT | VIDEO
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) |
ACTIVE |
SRI LANKA |
LTTE nurtures an idea of North-Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. While seeking to extend the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government told a tribunal that the banned outfit nurtures an idea of “greater Tamil Nadu, which includes the state of Tamil Nadu, part of Kerala, part of Karnataka, part of Andhra Pradesh and northeastern provinces of Sri Lanka.” LK.news (Sri Lanka Department of Government Information), December 16, 2014: TEXT | MAP (Pinned)
.History of the war in Sri Lanka. The Tamil Tigers, or Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), battled the government in Colombo for quarter of a century. By Mike Wooldridge, BBC News, June 13, 2014: VIDEO
Sri Lanka's rebel leader 'killed.' The government's information department sent news of the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran by text message to mobile phones across the country. BBC News, May 19, 2009: MULTIMEDIA
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Biggest attack in years kills 31 in China's troubled Xinjiang. Two cross-country vehicles rammed into shoppers in an open market and explosives were flung out of the windows. By Michael Martina, Reuters, May 22, 2014: TEXT | PICTURE | VIDEOS
Chinese state media says five suicide bombers carried out Xinjiang attack.
"Five suspects who participated in the violent terrorist attack blew themselves up," the Global Times, a tabloid run by the People's Daily reported on Friday. By Michael Martina, Reuters, May 23, 2014: TEXT | PICTURE | VIDEOS
Terrorism in China: Seeing the Threat Clearly.
A video released on 19 March by the leader of the rebel Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), Abdullah Mansour, praised the Kunming attack and described it as an ‘expensive offer' to China to reconsider its Xinjiang policy. By Edward Schwarck, RUSI Analysis, March 28, 2014: TEXT | PICTURE
Xinjiang separatists blamed for 'Chinese 9/11.' President Xi Jinping urges severe punishment for perpetrators of violence at crowded train station that left 29 people dead and 130 injured. By Jonathan Kaiman and Tania Branigan, The Guardian, March 2, 2014: TEXT | VIDEO
China state media blames Syria rebels for Xinjiang violence.
Chinese state media on Monday blamed Syrian opposition forces for training Muslim extremists responsible for the deadliest unrest in four years in China's far-western region of Xinjiang.
By Reuters, July 1, 2013: TEXT | PICTURES
Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region.
Some Uighurs call China's presence in Xinjiang a form of imperialism, and there have been movements for independence since the1990s through separatist groups like the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), inflamed in part by large migrations of Han Chinese to the region. By Preeti Bhattacharji, Council on Foreign Relations, May 29, 2012: TEXT |
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