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*{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''', [[August 29]]: A young Spanish politician dies after being riddled with more than 15 bullets in [[Zumárraga]]. |
*{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''', [[August 29]]: A young Spanish politician dies after being riddled with more than 15 bullets in [[Zumárraga]]. |
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*{{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 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. |
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*{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''', [[September 21]]: ETA kills a Catalan Popular Party councilior while Spanish PM was visiting Barcelona. |
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*{{flagicon|Colombia}} '''Colombia''', [[October 8]]: A car bomb injures four near a military base in [[Cali]]. Rebel group [[ELN]] is blamed.<ref>BBC: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/962170.stm Carbomb explodes near Cali army base], October 8, 2000</ref> |
*{{flagicon|Colombia}} '''Colombia''', [[October 8]]: A car bomb injures four near a military base in [[Cali]]. Rebel group [[ELN]] is blamed.<ref>BBC: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/962170.stm Carbomb explodes near Cali army base], October 8, 2000</ref> |
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*{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''', [[October 10]]: Andalucía's chief prosecutor, Luis Portero, is gunned down by ETA members in the doorway of his Granada home. |
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*{{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, Yemen|Aden]], by [[al-Qaeda]]; see [[FBI Most Wanted Terrorists]], the [[Buffalo Six]] Lackawanna Cell.<ref name="release">[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]]</ref> |
*{{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, Yemen|Aden]], by [[al-Qaeda]]; see [[FBI Most Wanted Terrorists]], the [[Buffalo Six]] Lackawanna Cell.<ref name="release">[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]]</ref> |
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*{{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. |
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*{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''', [[October 22]]: A prison officer is killed in ETA-style bombing in the northen city of Vitoria. |
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*{{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. |
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*{{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. |
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*{{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. |
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*{{flagicon|Spain}} '''Spain''', [[December 21]]: ETA kills [[Ernest Lluch]]. |
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*{{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|Indonesia}} '''Indonesia''', [[December 24]]: [[Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings]], terrorists blow up churches in Indonesia killing 17 and injuring more than 150 people. |
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*{{flagicon|Philippines}} '''Philippines''', [[December 30]]: [[Rizal Day Bombings]], terrorists blow up LRts<!--what does that mean?--> in Manila, killing 22 and injuring more than 100 people. |
*{{flagicon|Philippines}} '''Philippines''', [[December 30]]: [[Rizal Day Bombings]], terrorists blow up LRts<!--what does that mean?--> in Manila, killing 22 and injuring more than 100 people. |
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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 2000.
Spain, January 22: Pedro Antonio Blanco García, is killed in a southern neighborhood in Madrid when a car bomb explodes.- Spain, February 22: Basque separatist group ETA, kills the leader of the opposition Basque Socialist Party and his bodyguard.
United States. The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.
Germany. Police foil the Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot.- 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.
Pakistan, May: The Balochistan Liberation Army begins its attacks against government and military targets in Balochistan.
Colombia, March 15: A botched rocket attack by rebels against an army base left two dead and 14 injured near Medellín.[1]- Spain, March 27: ETA tries to kill Spanish reporter Carlos Herrera at his home of Sevilla.
France, April 19:The Breton Revolutionary Army bombs a McDonalds in Dinan, killing a waitress. [2]- Spain, ETA kills El Mundo columnist López de Lacall, age 62.
- 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.
- Spain, June 5: Popular Party councilior Jesús María Pedrosa is killed by ETA.
Greece, June 8: Stephen Saunders, a British Defense Attaché, was assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November in Athens.- Spain, July 7: A Popular Party member is killed by ETA in Málaga
Russia, August 8: A bomb exploded at an underpass in Pushkin Square in Moscow, killing eleven people and wounding more than 90.[3]- Spain, August 8: A powerful bomb car explodes in Madrid injuring 11.
- Spain, August 8: Business executive dies in car bomb attack in Bilbao.
- 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.
Latvia, August 17: Two bombs exploded in a shopping center in Riga, injuring 35 people.[4]- Spain, August 20: A powerful car bomb kills two policemen in the city of Huesca.
- Spain, August 29: A young Spanish politician dies after being riddled with more than 15 bullets in Zumárraga.
- 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.
- Spain, September 21: ETA kills a Catalan Popular Party councilior while Spanish PM was visiting Barcelona.
- Colombia, October 8: A car bomb injures four near a military base in Cali. Rebel group ELN is blamed.[5]
- Spain, October 10: Andalucía's chief prosecutor, Luis Portero, is gunned down by ETA members in the doorway of his Granada home.
Yemen, 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.[6]- Spain, October 17: Two gunmen burst into Dr. Antonio Munoz Cariñanos private clinic and shot him twice in the head, killing him instantly.
- Spain, October 22: A prison officer is killed in ETA-style bombing in the northen city of Vitoria.
- Spain, October 31: A powerful car bomb explodes in Madrid killing Judge Jose Francisco Querol, his driver and his boyguard. 65 people were wounded.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spain, December 21: ETA kills Ernest Lluch.
Indonesia, December 24: Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings, terrorists blow up churches in Indonesia killing 17 and injuring more than 150 people.
Philippines, December 30: Rizal Day Bombings, terrorists blow up LRts in Manila, killing 22 and injuring more than 100 people.
See also
References
- ^ CNN: Botched rocket attacks kills 2, wounds 14 in Colombia, March 15, 2000
- ^ MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
- ^ CNN: Nation mourns as Russia bomb toll rises, August 12, 2000
- ^ CNN: Latvian police search for bomb suspects, August 18, 2000
- ^ BBC: Carbomb explodes near Cali army base, October 8, 2000
- ^ Recent escapees from Yemen prison added to most wanted terrorists and seeking information - war on terrorism lists, FBI national Press Release, February 23, 2006