Recent terror attacks around the world

  • Aug. 7, 1998: Nearly simultaneous car bombings hit the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 231 people, including 12 Americans.
  • Oct. 12, 2000: Suicide attackers on an explosives-laden boat ram the destroyer USS Cole off Yemen, killing 17 American sailors.
  • Dec. 30, 2000: Explosions in Manila strike a train, a bus, the airport, a park near the U.S. Embassy and a gas station, killing 22 people. Philippine and U.S. investigators link the attack to Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian militant group tied to al-Qaida.
  • Sept. 11, 2001: Hijackers slam jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and a fourth hijacked jet crashes in a Pennsylvania field, killing more than 3,000.
  • April 11, 2002: A suicide bombing with a gas truck at an historic Tunisian synagogue on the resort island of Djerba kills 21 people, mostly German tourists.
  • June 14, 2002: A suicide bomber blows up a truck at the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 14 Pakistanis. Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen, linked to al-Qaida, is blamed.
  • Oct. 2, 2002: Suspected Abu Sayyaf guerrillas detonate a nail-laden bomb in a market in Zamboanga, Philippines, killing four people, including an American Green Beret. Four more bomb attacks in October blamed on Abu Sayyaf, a group linked to al-Qaida, kill 16 people.
  • Oct. 6, 2002: A small boat crashes into a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen and explodes, killing one crewman.
  • Oct. 12, 2002: Nearly 200 people, including two Americans, are killed in a pair of bombings in a nightclub district of the Indonesian island of Bali. Suspicion falls on Jemaah Islamiyah.
  • Nov. 28, 2002: Suicide bombers kill 12 people at an Israeli-owned beach hotel in Kenya and two missiles narrowly miss an airliner carrying Israeli holidaymakers.
  • Dec. 30, 2002: A gunman kills three American missionaries at a Southern Baptist hospital in Yemen. Yemeni security officials say the gunman, sentenced to death in May, belonged to an al-Qaida cell.
  • May 11, 2003: A bomb explodes at a crowded market in a southern Philippine city, killing at least nine people and wounding 41. The military blames the blast on the Muslim separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
  • May 12, 2003: Four explosions rock Riyadh, the Saudi capital, in an attack on compounds housing Americans, other Westerners and Saudis. Eight Americans are among the 34 people killed. Officials have linked suspects in the attacks to al-Qaida and said the 14 attackers were Saudis.
  • May 16, 2003: Bomb attacks in Morocco kill at least 28 people and injure more than 100.