October in History

This is a NEW category since Terrorism was not a factor before this last few decades. Now it is a serious factor and appears to be a part of the sign of the "last days" under the section: "War and reports of wars." War is nothing more than violence on a national scale. So to recognize violence on a smaller scale as part of this sign, should not be difficult to comprehend. It should be noted that only the terrorist activity that happened during the month of October is herein recorded.

Focus begins on Russia - Today, Mutual Assured Destruction is still with us, but not necessarily with nukes. Because the next big battle with an aspiring superpower is more likely to be fought with computers. Cyber warfare replacing nuclear warfare. Terrorists are no longer a small group of people hating and acting against another small group of people. Today, and since the mid 1970's terrorists have evolved into "Nation against Nation" There was WWI and then WWII, but since the close of the 1940's decade of war, the evolution of Terrorism has been introduced to the world scene. And it is MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction. Cyber warfare means hacking. Imagine the perturbing possibilities. An enemy might hack into our transportation systems, throwing air travel into turmoil. Or into our energy systems, disabling our electrical grids. Or into our satellite systems, incapacitating our indispensable cell phones. Or into our communications systems, cutting off our access to information. Or into our financial systems, creating catastrophic confusion with our money. Even into our military systems, crippling our capacity for combat. An enemy might do it to us. And because we have the same tools, we might do it to them. Back when we were talking about nuclear bombs, neither side sent even one weapon toward its enemy, because that would set off the Mutual Assured Destruction of both sides. But cyber warfare? We already know from U.S. intelligence reports that the Russians have tested the waters, for example inserting malware— software designed to disable computers— into U.S. electrical grids. Homeland Security revealed just a few months ago that Russia had “infiltrated” some power plant control rooms. One thing we learned was, the title “Russian Attacks on Democracy” doesn’t begin to capture the scope of the threat, because Russia isn’t the only country attacking us. What’s more, the threat doesn’t just come from other countries. It also comes from lone wolves. Another thing we learned was, retaliation isn’t as easy as it sounds. For one thing, we have constraints that our adversaries don’t have. If Mr. Putin, for instance, gives the word— or China's Xi or North Korea’s Kim or Iran’s Khamenei or any other authoritarian leader— those acting on his behalf can make any moves they like to throw the American infrastructure into disarray. But on February 26, 1990, the chairman of the Committee of Religious Affairs in Moscow received a delegation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. This discussion ended with allowing Jehovah's witnesses freedom of worship within the Russian boarders. In March 1991, a year after talks began, Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia received official recognition. At that time, Russia had a population of over 150 million and reported 15,987 Kingdom proclaimers. Now, more instruction from Jehovah was needed for the brothers and sisters in Russia. History of this event is found here: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/302008006#h=333

Jehovah’s Witnesses first registered as a religious group in Russia in 1991 and registered again in 1999, but have been targeted repeatedly by authorities in a wide-ranging crackdown on religious freedom. Russia changed its legal definition of extremism in 2006, removing requirements for violence or hatred but stating the “incitement of….religious discord” as criteria, leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses with the same legal status as Isis or Nazis. The group's international website was blocked in Russia two years ago over alleged extremism, with its Bibles banned the following year, while a local chairman was jailed for two years on charges of possessing “extremist literature” in 2010. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was among the international bodies condemning a “state sponsored campaign of harassment and mistreatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses” it said dated back to the 1990s in Russia. It listed police searches, assaults, arson attacks, vandalism, seizures and raids on worship, as well as the arrest of several members and criminal investigations. The Russian Orthodox Church, which enjoys close ties with the Kremlin and the patronage of Mr. Putin, is the country’s largest religion, with followers representing around 41% of the population. As of the end of 2018, things have escalated to identifying Russia as the Biblical "King of the North" since its actions mimic this Biblical identity. If this is correct, The King of the North will next move one way or another into battle with the "King of the South" which has been deemed to be The United States. My continued search will be what happens during the Month of October with regards to the Russians.

The Bible foretold at Matthew 24:6-14 & 2Timothy 3:1-5 that the last days would be marked by “critical times hard to deal with.” To help watchful observers to identify the last days, the Bible gives a number of details that together provide a clear description, or composite sign, of this unique time period. So I am focusing only on the Month of October for this report. Most, if not all the information in this report, is research gleaned from Wikipedia and local newspapers. Before 1990's there were only minimal reports about terrorism. After 1991, Reports were listed yearly and then monthly, now they are recorded daily.

1910 - October 1, Bombing 21 105+ United States Los Angeles, United States Los Angeles Times bombing kills 21 people and wounds over 100 others. Lone wolf (terrorism)

1969 - October 31 Republic of Ireland Ireland: The UVF bombed a monument in Bodenstown, Dublin, dedicated to the Irish Republican hero Wolfe Tone. There were no injuries

1970 - October Total Incidents - 4
October 5 – October 17 Kidapping, murder 1 1 (kidnapped) Quebec, Canada FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross. FLQ October Crisis
October 15 Hijacking 1 3 USSR Lithuanian father and son Pranas and Algirdas Brazinskas hijack Aeroflot Flight 244 in an attempt to defect to the west. They engage shootout with armed crew members and kill young flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko in the process. Pranas and Algirdas Brazinskas
October 22 Bombing 0 0 San Francisco, California, United States An antipersonnel time bomb explodes outside a San Francisco church, showering steel shrapnel on mourners of a patrolman slain in a bank holdup; no one is injured. The Black Liberation Army is suspected.[7] Black Liberation Army (suspected)
October 22 Assasination 1 0 Santiago, Chile The commander in chief of the chilean Rene Schneider army was shot dead in his car Right-wing extremist

1971 - October Total Incidents - 1
October 31 Bombing 0 0 London, United Kingdom A bomb explodes in the Post Office Tower in London, causing extensive damage but no injuries. The "Kilburn Battalion" of the IRA claimed responsibility for the explosion.[6] Provisional IRA The Troubles

1972 - October Total Incidents - 4
October 4 Bombing, false flag 0 2 Paris, France Bombing of a PLO bookstore in Paris. The bombers claimed to be Zionists extremists but were actually neo-Nazis hoping that the bombing would incite confrontations between French Arabs and Jews French neo-Nazis
October 23 Bombings 0 0 Asahikawa, Japan Bombings of a monument depicting Japanese soldiers surrounding an elderly Ainu and the Ainu research center at Hokkaido University East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front
October 27 Car bombing 0 0 Los Angeles, United States Police car bombing in Los Angeles claimed by Black Liberation Army. Black Liberation Army
October 31 Car bombing 2 12 Belfast, United Kingdom Car bombing of a Catholic-owned pub in Sailortown by the Ulster Defence Association. Two girls aged 6 and 4 are killed. Ulster Defence Association The Troubles

1973 - October Total Incidents - 1
October 13 Ambush, Shooting 11 Unknown Tolima, Colombia An ambush of the FARC left a balance of 8 soldiers and 3 civilians killed. FARC Colombian Conflict

1974 - October Total Incidents - 2
October 5 Bombings 5 65 Guildford, United Kingdom Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves four off-duty soldiers and a civilian dead and 44 injured. PIRA The Troubles
October 22 Bombing 0 3 London, United Kingdom A bomb planted by the Provisional IRA explodes in London, injuring three people. PIRA The Troubles

1975 - October Total Incidents - 3
October 5 Shooting, Attack 17 (+15) 30+ Formosa, Argentina A group of 50 guerrillas assaulted the Infantry Regiment of Monte 29, the Subofficers' Casino of that force and the Airport El Pucú, of the city of Formosa in the homonymous province of Argentina. In the event, whose key name given by the organizers was that of Operation Primicia. Montoneros Dirty War
October 6 Attempted assassination 0 2 Rome, Italy Attempted to assassinate Bernardo Leighton by the Chilean secret police and National Vanguard. Leighton and his wife were seriously injured. National Vanguard
DINA
October 6 Shooting, Clash 1 (+12) 1(+Unknown) Acheral, Tucuman, Argentina At least one soldier 12 ERP militants were shot dead in a confrontation of the so-called Operativo Independencia. ERP Operativo Independencia

1976 - October Total Incidents - 2
October 4 Mass shooting 5 10 San Sebastián, Spain Juan María de Araluce Villar, the government appointed president of the Gipuzkoa Province, is killed along with his driver and three bodyguards by ETA. ETA Basque conflict
October 6 Bombing 73 0 Bridgetown, Barbados Bombing of Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 by Anti-Castro exiles. The Cuban government has accused the American CIA and Venezuelan DISIP of organizing the bombing. Anti-Castro exiles Cuban dissident movement

1977 - October Total Incidents - 4
September 28 - October 3 Hijacking 0 0 Dhaka, Bangladesh Five members of the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 472 and demand $6 million USD as well as the release of nine imprisoned JRA members. The hijackers released all hostages without incident after their demands were met and after being given a safe passage to Algeria. Japanese Red Army
October 8 Assassination 3 0 Guernica, Spain Guernica mayor and President of the Provincial Deputation of Biscay Augusto Unceta Barrenechea is assassinated along with his two bodyguards by ETA. ETA Basque conflict
October 13 Hijacking 1 (+3 terrorists) 3 (+1 terrorist) Mogadishu, Somalia Lufthansa Flight 181 was hijacked by a group of four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and taken to Mogadishu, Somalia; it was later released after a rescue operation launched by a GSG 9 commando group. PFLP Israel-Palestine conflict. Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa airliner and demand the release of 11 imprisoned members of Germany’s Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, also known as the Red Army Faction. The Red Army Faction was a group of ultra-left revolutionaries who terrorized Germany for three decades, assassinating more than 30 corporate, military, and government leaders in an effort to topple capitalism in their homeland. The Palestinian hijackers took the plane on a six-country odyssey, eventually landing at Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 17, after shooting one of the plane’s pilots. Early the next morning, a German special forces team stormed the aircraft, releasing 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers. Only one of the German commandos was wounded. The Red Army Faction’s imprisoned leaders responded to the news later that day by committing suicide in their jail cell, in Stammheim, Germany.
October 18 Kidnapping, murder 1 0 West Germany/France Hanns Martin Schleyer is murdered by the Red Army Faction in France after three RAF members were found dead in prison. The RAF had kidnapped Schleyer six weeks earlier in Cologne. Red Army Faction German Autumn

1978 - October Total Incidents - 1
October 22 Shooting 3 1 Getxo, Spain Four Civil Guards are shot by ETA while returning from a football match. Three die. ETA Basque conflict

1980 - October Total Incidents - 1
3 October Bombing 4 46 Paris, France A motorcycle bomb kills four people and injures over forty at the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, France. Authorities blamed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. PFLP Israel-Palestine conflict

1981 - October Total Incidents - 5
6 October Assassination 11 (+1 attacker) 28 (+3 attackers) Cairo, Egypt A group of 4 Egyptian Islamic Jihad assassins led by Khalid Islambouli opened fire on a victory parade led by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, killing Sadat and 10 others and wounding 28. 1 gunman was killed and the three others were arrested and executed later. Egyptian Islamic Jihad
13 October Attack, Shooting 12 Unknown Colombia In a series of assaults perpetrated in Planeta Rica (Cordoba), Valparaíso (Caqueta) and Pavarando Grande (Antioquia), FARC guerrillas massacre 12 peasants. FARC Colombian conflict
20 October Hijacking 0 0 Medellin, Colombia Guerreros of the M-19 seize a plane of Aeropesca in Medellín, and load with arms in the Guajira. They finally do it in the jungles of the south. M-19 Colombian conflict
20 October Bombing 3 106 Antwerp, Belgium Truck bomb attack on a synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium. Three killed and 106 wounded in the 1981 Antwerp bombing. Unknown
20 October Robbery, murder 3 0 Nanuet, United States Members of the May 19th Communist Organization (made up of former Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground members) rob a Brink's armored car at Nanuet mall, killing the guard and two police officers who responded to the scene. May 19th Communist Organization

1982 - October Total Incidents - 2
9 October Shooting, grenade 1 10 Rome, Italy Attack with grenades and machine guns on the central synagogue in Rome, Italy. A child dies, ten people are injured. Abu Nidal Organization Israel-Palestine conflict
23 October Shooting 1 (+3) Unknown Cundinamarca Department, Colombia Militants of the M-19 are taken the population of Chia (Cundinamarca). 1 police and 3 subversives die. M-19 Colombian conflict

1983 - October Total Incidents - 2
9 October Bombing, attempted assassination 21 46 Rangoon, Burma A bomb targeting a visit by South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan explodes and kills 21 people, though Chun escaped injury as his car had been delayed. North Korea was found to have coordinated the attack. North Korea Division of Korea
23 October Suicide bombings 305 (+2 attackers) 75 Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks Bombing occurs. A suicide car bomber in a truck carrying 2500 pounds of explosives crashed through the gates of a US Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon killing 241 American servicemen and wounding 81. 58 French troops from the multinational force are also killed in a separate attack. Islamic Jihad Organization Lebanese civil war

1984 - October Total Incidents - 3
October 12 5 31 Brighton, United Kingdom: Brighton hotel bombing by the IRA: five are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet. PIRA The Troubles
October 27 0 5 Santiago, Chile: A car bomb exploded near a military base in the city of Santiago. The blast wounded five people. Unknown
October 31 1 (+1) 0 New Delhi, India: Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. The killing was in retaliation for the Indian army's entry into the Golden Temple at Amritsar the temple complex in 3 days. The incidents have not been covered well by western press as they were ejected from Amritsar before the events took place. Satwant Singh and Beant Singh.

1985 - October Total Incidents - 4
10 (+20) Unknown (+4 Kidnapped) Tolima and Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia Violent fighting between Army troops and M-19 guerrillas occurs in Monteloro, a rural area of Tulua (Valle), and La Virgen (Chaparral, Tolima). In the clashes, at least a dozen soldiers and 20 armed rebels die. Another 4 uniformed men are kidnapped. M-19 Colombian conflict
5 October Mass shooting 8 4 Ras Burqa, Egypt Egyptian soldier Suleiman Khater kills 7 Israeli tourists, including four children, and another Egyptian soldier in the beach resort town Ras Burqa Suleiman Khater Israel-Palestine conflict
7-10 October – 10 October Hijacking 1 Mediterranean Sea Achille Lauro hijacking: cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old wheelchair-using Jewish American citizen, is shot dead and thrown overboard.[14] PLF Israel-Palestine conflict
20 October Shooting 3 0 Armenia, Colombia M-19 guerrillas attack the facilities of the Cisneros Battalion in Armenia (Quindio). Three soldiers die. M-19 Colombian conflict

1987 - October Total Incidents - 2
October 30 Roadside Bombing 10 Unknown Tame, Arauca, Colombia Guerrillas of the ELN Domingo Lain Front, dynamite a vehicle of the National Police, in the area of Betoyes, jurisdiction of Tame (Arauca). Captain Jose Ignacio Ayala and 9 agents are killed. ELN Colombian conflict
October 31 Assassination,Shooting 8 0 Cundinamarca Department, Colombia In Bejucales Veracruz of Yacopi (Cundinamarca), guerrillas of the 22nd Front of the FARC, murdered 8 peasants accused of collaborating with the Public Force. FARC militants Colombian conflict

1988 - October Total Incidents - 3
October 4-5 Kidnapping 0 17 kidnapped Bolivar Department, Colombia The FARC front 24 takes the population of San Pablo in the south of Bolivar and kidnaps 17 uniformed members of the National Police. FARC militants Colombian conflict
October 6 Shooting 6 4 Kidnapped Colombia Insurgents of the ELN ambush troops of the V Brigade in the village Jurado of the municipality of Cerrito (Santander). 6 military killed and 4 more kidnapped. ELN Colombian conflict
October 25 Ambush 14 4 kidnapped Antioquia Department, Colombia A police counter-guerrilla patrol is ambushed in Uramita by elements of the PLA, when it transported electoral material from Peque to Cañas Gordas (Antioquia). 10 of the 18 uniformed men are killed, as well as 4 officials from the National Registry. Popular Liberation Army Colombian conflict

1989 - October Total Incidents - 4
October 8 Firebombing 5 7 Bogotá, Colombia A fire bomb kills seven and injures seven in a bus in Bogotá. The action is blamed on the Medellín Cartel. Medellín Cartel
October 16 Car bombing 4 0 Bucaramanga, Colombia A car bomb against the Vanguardia Liberal newspaper kills four in Bucaramanga. Unknown - Colombian conflict
October 18 Bombing 0 1 Bogotá, Colombia A bomb explodes prematurely outside the Colombian Congress, injuring one. Medellin cartel Colombian conflict
October 21 Bombing 0 6 Barranquilla, Colombia A car bomb in front of a hotel in Barranquilla leaves six injured. Unknown - Colombian conflict

1989 - October Total Incidents - 1
October 11 Ambush, Shooting 4 14 kidnapped Carchi Province, Ecuador ARC guerrillas ambush Ecuadorian troops in the region of the San Miguel river in the site known as El azul between Titizga and Tetete (Ecuador). The patrol of 24 soldiers assigned to the Brigade of Jungle N 56, is copada and annihilated. The salute is four soldiers killed and 14 kidnapped, including the major who commanded the unit. FARC Militants Colombian conflict

1991 - October - Total Incidents - 3
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
October Plot 0 0 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Five men of West Indian origin with links to Jamaat ul-Fuqra are arrested near the Canada–US border and later convicted of a plot to bomb a Hindu temple and an Indian theatre. Jamaat ul-Fuqra
October 15 Massacre 202 83 Palliyagodella, Sri Lanka LTTE cadres attacked a Muslim village and shot and hacked to death 182 civilians (171 of them were Muslims), twelve policemen and eight soldiers; 83 others were injured. LTTE Sri Lankan civil war
October 18 Bombings 41 140 Rudrapur, India Rudrapur bombings: Two time bomb blast, when people watching a Hindu pageant of Ramila, Rudrapur, Uttar Pradesh, India, which blame on Sikh separatist militant. Killing at least 41 and injuring 140 people. Sikh militants Insurgency in Punjab

1993 - October - Total Incidents - 3
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
October 5 Attempted Attack 0 (+13) 1 Riofrío, Valle del Cauca, Colombia In the village of El Bosque, Piedras Portugal, Riofrío jurisdiction (Valle del Cauca), 13 ELN guerrillas died in combat with troops from the Palacé Battalion of the III Brigade. They were surprised while they prepared a handstand. ELN Colombian conflict
October 11 Assassination attempt 0 1 Oslo, Norway The publisher of Aschehoug William Nygaard was shot and got critically injured outside his residence . Police never managed to find the perpetrator, but it is believed that the reason for the assassination was Aschehougs publication of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses, which triggered an Islamist fatwa against the author and the translators and publishers. Islamic republic of Iran
October 23 Bombing 9 (+1 attacker) 57 Belfast, Northern Ireland Two members of the Provisional IRA entered a shop on Shankill Road where they believed a UDA meeting was taking place. However, the meeting had been rescheduled and the bomb detonated prematurely, killing one of the bombers, an UDA member and eight civilians. PIRA The Troubles

1994 - October - Total Incidents - 3
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
October 9 Shooting 2 16 Jerusalem, Israel Two Palestinian policemen who defected to Hamas open fire on Israelis in the Nahalat Shiv'a neighborhood of Jerusalem Hamas
October 19 Suicide bombing 22 (+1) 56 Tel Aviv, Israel A Hamas suicide bomber detonates on a bus in Tel Aviv, killing 22 and injuring 56. Hamas
October 24 Suicide bombing, assassination 3+ (+1) Colombo, Sri Lanka Sri Lankan Leader of the Opposition Gamini Dissanayake and MPs Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi and G. M. Premachandra are assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber LTTE

1995 - October - Total Incidents - 6
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
October Massacres ~120 Eastern Province, Sri Lanka Throughout October 1995, the LTTE carried out several massacres of Sinhalese civilians in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. LTTE Sri Lankan civil war
October 6 Bombing 0 13 Paris, France Bombing at a Paris Métro station GIA Algerian civil war
October 9 Sabotage 1 78 Arizona, United States Amtrak's Sunset Limited train was intentionally derailed near Palo Verde, Arizona by unknown perpetrators. Four typed notes criticizing the FBI and ATF for their handling of the Waco siege were found near the scene and signed with "Sons of the Gestapo". However no group called the "Sons of the Gestapo" has ever been uncovered. Unknown
October 18 Bombing 0 29 Paris, France A bomb was thrown at an underground commuter train as it sped through central Paris. The train was derailed and damaged. No one was killed but 29 people were injured in the attack. GIA Algerian civil war
October 20 Suicide car bombing 1 (perpetrator) 29 Rijeka, Croatia A car bomb is detonated in front of a police station. The perpetrator driving the car was the sole fatality. Days later, the responsibility for the attack was claimed by al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya. al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya Bosnian war
October 31 Bombing 33 Salahuddin, Iraq A bomb exploding at the headquarters of the Iraqi National Congress kills at least 33, including the group's chief of security, Lt. Saif Rashid Sindi. PUK Iraqi Kurdish Civil War

1997 - October - Total Incidents - 4
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
15 October Shooting, Clashes 14 (+11) 3+ Antioquia Department, Colombia Guerrillas of the Farc take the population of Caicedo in Antioquia and assassinate 8 policemen. In the days that follow, the fighting with the Army leaves 6 soldiers and 11 subversives dead. FARC Colombian conflict
15 October Bombing 15 105 Colombo, Sri Lanka An LTTE bomb exploded at the Colombo World Trade Centre, killing 15 and injuring hundreds. LTTE Sri Lankan civil war
22 October Massacre 15 Unknown Ituango, Colombia The AUC assassinates 15 people in the El Aro Massacre and causes the forced displacement and the dispossession of lands of several families AUC Colombian conflict

1998 - October - Total Incidents - 4
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
3 October Kidnapping 4 dead Grozny, Russia About 20 Chechen separatists kidnapped four engineers, three British and one New Zealand. The bodies of the engineers were found on 8 December. Chechen separatists
18 October Bombing 84 30 Machuca, Segovia, Colombia The Machuca massacre is known as an attack by the National Liberation Army (ELN) in the town of Machuca, municipality of Segovia (department of Antioquia) after dynamiting a pipeline, which caused a fire and spread to the population of It hurts. 46 houses were burned, 84 people died burned and managed to survive 30 people. Half of the victims were minors. ELN Colombian Conflict
27 October Landmine 7 9 Norte de Santander Department, Colombia The Claudia Isabel Escobar Jerez front of the ELN attack the town of Hacari (Norte de Santader) killing seven policemen. Hours later when troops of the Army come as reinforcement, the subversives activate a minefield and assassinate 7 soldiers. ELN Colombian conflict
29 October Suicide car bombing 1 (+1 attacker) 3 Israel A Hamas suicide car bomber detonates by a school bus killing 1 and injuring 3. Hamas Israel-Palestine conflict

1999 - October - Total Incidents - 1
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
7 October Hostage-taking 0 0 Bangkok, Thailand A group of militants from the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors took 89 people hostage at the Burmese embassy in Bangkok. The attackers released all of the hostages and escaped without bloodshed.

NOTICE HOW AROUND THE YEAR 2000 THAT THE VIOLENCE HAS DRAMATICALLY INCREASED BOTH IN VOLUME & INTENSITY, and also that the former terrorists have pretty much disappeared and a whole new list of terrorists have arrived on the scene to reek havoc on the earth!

2000 - October Total Incidents - 23
Date Dead Injured Location and description
October;1 0 1 United Kingdom Larne: Loyalists are being blamed for detonating a device that seriously injured a young Protestant man in Larne. Police believe that the Protestant man was not the intended target: his two Catholic companions were to be the victims. One of the two Catholic men had been the victim of a pipe bomb attack in the past. This attack has been labeled sectarian.
October;1 9 15 Philippines Santo Ramos Nine people were killed and fifteen injured when members of the Communist New People's Army (NPA) ambushed a medical mission in Santo Ramos, Davao del Norte. The victims were on their way back to their mission when they were attacked, first by an explosive and then by gunfire.
October;1 3 6 Tajikistan Dushanbe: At least one bomb exploded at the Christian Korean Mission in Dushanbe while a Sunday service was in progress. Some news reports stated that two bombs exploded. The blast killed at least three people and injured six, however more casualties may have been caused. Approximately one month after the attack, Tajik officials arrested three men in conjunction with the explosion. All three are students of a Dushanbe Islamic institute. One of them stated that they carried out the attack because they were upset that Muslims had visited the Christian mission.
October;3 26 49 Sri Lanka Batticaloa District Over twenty people were killed with a bomb went off killing National Unity Alliance Batticaloa District candidate M. Baithullah. Authorities blame the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for the attack.
October;4 0 2 Colombia Cartagena de Indias: A low-powered bomb exploded in a neighborhood in Cartagena, injuring a woman and a child. Urban guerrillas are suspected of involvement in the attack.
October;6 10 25 Sri Lanka Medawachchiya: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is suspected in a suicide bombing that killed ten people and injured twenty-five. The bomber walked into a People's Alliance meeting at the Medawachchiya bus stand and blew themselves up. The meeting was being addressed by the Deputy Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine. The suicide bombing comes days after the bombing at Muttur which left twenty-six dead, including District Candidate M. Baithullah, and after two other bombings involving other political figures.
October;9 1 0 Spain Andalusia: The Basque Fatherland and Freedom (ETA) is being blamed for shooting Luis Portero in the head as he returned to his home in Granada after work. Portero, the chief prosecutor for the Supreme Court in Andalusia, is the first member of the judicial community that ETA has targeted since last December. The car that police suspect was used by the perpetrators was later found burned out.
October;9 9 60 Uganda Gulu: The local press reported that the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) targeted two discos in grenade attacks, killing nine and wounding sixty others. Both incidents were in Gulu, which is situated in Northern Uganda near the LRA's stronghold. The attack occurred on Uganda's independence day.
October;12 19 39 Yemen Aden: USS Cole bombing: On 12 October 2000, USS Cole, under the command of Commander Kirk Lippold, set in to Aden harbor for a routine fuel stop. Cole completed mooring at 09:30. Refueling started at 10:30. Around 11:18 local time (08:18 UTC), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, putting a 40-by-60-foot gash in the ship's port side according to the memorial plate to those who lost their lives. According to former CIA intelligence officer Robert Finke, the blast appeared to be caused by explosives molded into a shaped charge against the hull of the boat. It was speculated at the time that over 1,000 pounds of explosive were used. The blast hit the ship's galley, where crew were lining up for lunch. The crew fought flooding in the engineering spaces and had the damage under control by the evening. Divers inspected the hull and determined the keel was not damaged. Seventeen sailors were killed and thirty-nine others were injured in the blast. The injured sailors were taken to the United States Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center near Ramstein, Germany and later, back to the United States. The attack was the deadliest against a U.S. Naval vessel since the Iraqi attack on the USS Stark (FFG-31) on 17 May 1987.

The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack against the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) on 12 October 2000 while it was harbored in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen American sailors were and two attackers were killed.

October;13 0 4 Israel Haifa: Four people- three Jews and an Arab- were wounded in a shooting attack on Yafo Street in downtown Haifa. The assailant was an immigrant from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and state he carried out the attack in retaliation for a recent lynching in Ramallah.
October;13 0 4 Israel Bethlehem: Settlers from Efrat (south of Bethlehem) fired on Palestinian houses south of al-Khadir and Arta, injuring four people.
October;15 4 45 ColombiaCali: A bomb went off in Cali outside a rehabilitation center in the Obrero neighborhood. Two children were killed and thirty other injured. An explosive device went off in a Christian church in Cali, killing two and injuring fifteen. No further information is available.
October;17 1 5 Israel Beit Furik: Settlers from Elon Moreh opened fire on a Palestinian family working in their field in Beit Furik, near Nablus. One was killed and five others were injured.
October;20 3 21 Sri Lanka Colombo: Three people were killed when a suspected Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide bomber detonated a bomb near the Colombo town hall. Police believe the bomber had been waiting to target a VIP. Three American nationals were among the injured.
October;22 1 0 SpainVitoria: Prison officer Maximo Casado died when a bomb exploded in his car. The bomb was detonated when Casado started the ignition in his garage in Vitoria. EFE states that this attack was perpetrated by the Basque Fatherland and Freedom (ETA).
October;23 0 0 FranceCorse du Sud, Corsica: A bomb exploded at the electoral office of a Rally for the Republic (RPR) deputy in the Corse du Sud department. The office belonged to Roland Francisci, who is one of the main opponents of the Matignon Agreements which deal with devolution in Corsica.
October;23 0 0 Greece Thessaloniki: An explosive device detonated outside the Greek police pavilion at the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair. At the site, authorities found the initials "LEM" written on a piece of cardboard. Police blame this organization, the Popular Revolutionary Front (LEM), for the attack. The explosion caused only minor damage to the pavilion.
October;26 1 30 India Bangi A person was killed and thirty injured when a bomb ripped through a passenger train that was traveling from Bangi to Rampur.
October;26 1 1 Gaza Strip: A suicide bomber strikes near an IDF post in the Gaza Strip, wounding a soldier.
October;27 0 1 Israel Bethlehem: A Border Policeman was injured in a bomb explosion in the area of al-Ghadir near Bethlehem.
October;29 4 3 India Kashmir: Four police officers were killed when extremists began firing indiscriminately on a crowd during the distribution of a prize at a soccer match. Authorities believe that Saba Ahmad, the Bihar Education Minister, who was in attendance at the match, was the target of the attack.
October;30 1 1 Israel Jerusalem: The National Insurance Institute's East Jerusalem branch was attacked by Palestinian militants. The militants approached the reception desk at the Institute and fired at the guards. Eish-Kodesh Gilmor, a security guard at the Institute, was killed by gunmen and his fellow guard, Itai Suissa was critically wounded. In response to the attack, the National Insurance Institute decided to close the East Jerusalem branch. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
October;30 0 0 Philippines Labangan: A powerful bomb exploded under a major bridge in Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur, disrupting the flow of goods and traffic to and from Pagadian City and causing panic. The bomb was planted at the main structure of the foundation and was made of ammonium nitrate and a timing device. No one had claimed responsibility for the attack but it was suspected the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was involved.
October;30 3 66 Spain Madrid: A car bomb, consisting of more than sixty pounds of explosive, detonated in downtown Madrid, killing three people (including supreme court judge Jose Francisco Querol Lombardero) and injuring at least sixty-six others. The bomb was detonated by remote-control as a bus turned a corner at the site of the blast. Thirty-two of the injured were on board the bus. Authorities have blamed the attack on the Basque Fatherland and Freedom (ETA) group.

2001 - October Total Incidents - 2
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
1 Suicide car bombings 38 (+3) India Srinagar, India Three suicide car bombers ram their cars into the assembly of Jammu and Kashmir JeM Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
17 Assassination 1 0 Israel Jerusalem, Israel Israel's tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi is assassinated by three Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members at the Hyatt hotel in Jerusalem PFLP Second Intifada

2002 - October Total Incidents - 13
Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpetrators Part of
02-21 Bombings 11 180 Philippines Zamboanga City The Zamboanga bombings kills 11 and wounds about 180. Abu Sayyaf (suspected) Moro conflict
02-24 Shootings 17 10 United States Beltway, United States Beltway sniper attacks: John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct a series of sniper attacks in several locations throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area from October 2 until they were arrested on October 24. The attacks killed 17 and wounded 10 others. John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo
06 Bombing 1 12 Yemen Off of Aden Limburg tanker bombing: On October 6, 2002, one crew member, and 12 other crew members were injured in a bombing of a ship carrying 397,000 barrels of crude oil. Al-Qaeda
08 Shooting 1 (+2) 1 Kuwait Faylaka Island Faylaka Island attack: Two Kuwaitis opened fire on U.S. Marines conducting a training exercise on Faylaka Island. The two attackers and one marine were killed. Al-Qaeda Tal
10 Suicide bombing 1 30 Israel Israel One man was killed and about 30 people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up while trying to board a bus across from Bar-Ilan University on the Geha highway. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Hamas Second Intifada
11 Bombing 6 (+1) 166 Finland Vantaa, Finland Myyrmanni bombing: A bomb explosion kills 7 people including the perpetrator and wounds 166 people at Myyrmanni shopping mall. Petri Gerdt
12 Bombings 202 209 Indonesia Bali, Indonesia The 2002 Bali bombings kills 202 people, mostly western tourists and local Balinese hospitality staff. Jemaah Islamiyah (Story Below)
18 Bombing 3 22 Philippines The Philippines A bus bomb in Manila kills three people and wounds 22. Unknown
19 Car bomb 1 5 Russia Moscow, Russia A car bomb explodes outside a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in Moscow, killing one person and wounding five. Unknown
21 Car bomb 14 (+2) 50 Israel Wadi Ara to Hadera, Israel Karkur junction suicide bombing: 14 people were killed and some 50 wounded when a car bomb containing about 100 kilograms of explosives was detonated next to an intercity bus, while traveling along Wadi Ara toward Hadera. The bus had pulled over at a bus stop when the suicide bomber, driving a jeep, approached from behind and exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Islamic Jihad Second Intifada
22 Bombing 3 11 Colombia Bogotá, Colombia A bomb kills three and wounds at least eleven in Bogotá. No claims are made for the attack. FARC (suspected) Colombian conflict
23-26 Hostage crisis 133 (+40) 700+ Russia Moscow, Russia The Moscow theater hostage crisis kills 133 hostages and some 40 terrorists upon rescue. Riyad-us Saliheen
Islamic International Brigade
Special Purpose Islamic Regiment Second Chechen War
30 Bombings 1 3 South Africa Soweto 2002 Soweto bombings: Eight bombings across Soweto target a mosque, the Nan Hua Temple as well as railways and petrol stations across the city. One woman is killed and her husband and two other people were injured. A group calling itself "Warriors of the Boer Nation" claimed responsibility. Warriors of the Boer Nation

2002 - October 12 - In another event in Bali - 3 bombings shatter the peace in the town of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The blasts, the work of militant Islamist terrorists, left 202 people dead and more than 200 others injured, many with severe burns. The attacks shocked residents and those familiar with the mostly Hindu island, long known as a tranquil and friendly island paradise. The most deadly of the three blasts occurred when a large bomb, estimated to be about 1,200 kilograms, was detonated in a van outside the town s Sari Club nightclub. The explosion left a large crater in the ground and was said to have blown the windows out of buildings throughout the town. Many of those killed and injured in the blast were young visitors vacationing on the island, most from Australia. Thirty-eight Indonesians, mainly Balinese, were killed. Two other bombs were also detonated that day: one, packed in a backpack, was detonated in a bar and another was exploded in the street in front of the American consulate. All three were thought to be the work of the regional militant Islamist group Jemaah Islamiah, which is believed to have links to al-Qaida. Jemaah Islamiah is also alleged to be responsible for the bombing of a Marriott hotel in Jakarta in 2003 and the Australian embassy to Indonesia in 2004, as well as the suicide bombing of three restaurants in Bali on October 1, 2005. The second attack on Bali killed 22 people, including the bombers, and injured more than 100 others. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

2003 - October Total Incidents - 3
Date Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
October 4 21 (+1) 51 Israel Maxim restaurant suicide bombing: Female Islamic Jihad bomber blows herself up at a restaurant in Haifa. Islamic Jihad - Hanadi Jaradat Second Intifada
October 8 6 11 Colombia A car bomb kills six and injures eleven in downtown Bogotá. FARC is blamed. FARC Colombian conflict
October 27 35 (+4) 244 (+1) Iraq 2003 Baghdad bombings: Suicide bombings targeting a Red Cross compound and three police stations. A fourth police station was also targeted but the bomber's explosives failed to detonate and he was wounded and arrested by police. Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad Iraq War

2004 - October Total incidents - 29
Date Dead Injured Location Description Perpetrators Part of
October 1 30 50 Pakistan Islamabad A bomb exploded at a Shia mosque and killed thirty people and injured dozens of others. The explosion occurred during Friday prayers. Nearly 1,000 people were inside of the mosque at the time. Initial reports suggested that the bomb was set off by a suicide bomber. However, later investigations revealed that the bomb was set of by a remote device, that was passed on to an innocent bystander. The device later exploded. Angry Shia protesters riot in the aftermath of the attack, which came days after Pakistani security forces killed Amjad Hussain Farooq, an al-Qaeda operative. Al Qaeda Sectarianism in Pakistan
October 2 13 23 India Assam In Assam militants exploded a bomb that killed thirteen people and injured twenty-three. The National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) is believed to be responsible for the attack. The intended target of the attack is unclear. National Democratic Front of Bodoland (suspected) Assam conflict
October 2 10 40 India Assam A second bomb blast occurred at the busy Hong Kong market, almost simultaneously with the railway blast in Assam. The bomb killed ten people and injured at least forty others. The two blasts are thought to have been coordinated. National Democratic Front of Bodoland (suspected) Assam conflict
October 2 12 60 India Assam Twelve people were killed and at least sixty others injured in a bomb blasts targeting a rail line in Assam. The first occurred at the Dimapur railway station, and resulted in the deaths of all twelve people. The platform was packed with people waiting to board a train to Assam's Karbi district. National Democratic Front of Bodoland (suspected) Assam conflict
October 3 3 25 India Kashmir The National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) bombed a market in Dhubri District, killing three and wounding twenty-five people. No further information is provided. National Democratic Front of Bodoland Assam conflict
October 3 1 2 Afghanistan Afghanistan One person was killed when a motorcycle bomb placed on a road exploded. Officials were supposed to have passed along the road, but the device exploded too early, killing the bomber and injuring two others. Taliban War in Afghanistan
October 4 10 76 Iraq Baghdad A truck driven by a suicide bomber was detonated at the entrance to the Green Zone in Baghdad. The driver targeted an Iraq police forces compound at one of the Green Zone entrances, and appears to have targeted the police. Initial reports were ten dead and more than seventy wounded. Islamist insurgents Iraq War
October 4 2 17 Iraq Baghdad Two people were killed and at least seventeen others injured when a car bomb explod near a hotel complex frequented by Westerners in central Baghdad. The perpetrators were unknown. Islamist insurgents Iraq War
October 5 0 6 Nepal Kathmandu At least six people were wounded when a bomb went off at the Kathmandu Development Committee office. Four young men and two young women, suspected to be anti-government insurgents threw a bomb on the ground floor of the building. Several rooms were damaged. Communist Party of Nepal (suspected) Nepalese civil war
October 6 2 4 Afghanistan Badakhshan Province The governor of Badakhshan Province and three other people were injured in an explosion. Two other people died in the incident, in which a landmine was detonated by remote-control. Hamid Karzai's running mate, Ahmed Zia Masud, was 200 meters away from the explosion. He was not injured in the attack. Taliban War in Afghanistan
October 6 2 0 Thailand Thailand Suspected Muslim extremists killed two officials and injured seven others, hours after the government reshuffled the cabinet to create a new terrorism team. The attack took place in one of the troubled southern provinces. Pattani separatists (suspected) South Thailand insurgency
October 7 38 100 Pakistan Pakistan 2004 Multan bombing: A powerful car bomb explosion killed over thirty-eight people and injured at least a hundred others. The explosion occurred after people were going home following the end of a religious rally among members of the outlawed Sunni Muslim group Millat-e-Islamia, who were marking the anniversary of their slain leader Azam Tariq. The bomb was a remote-detonate device. The attacks may have been in response to a bombing of a Shia mosque days before. Shia extremists Sectarianism in Pakistan
October 7 34 (+2) 171 Egypt Ras al-Shitan 2004 Sinai bombings: In the final of three coordinated attacks in the Sinai, a car-bomb was detonated outside of al-Badiyah campground in Ras al-Shitan. The attacker, believed to be either Mohamed Ahmed Saleh Flayfil or Hammad Gaman Gomah (both Egyptians), drove a Nissan to the entrance to the camp and fled shortly before the bomb detonated. In the two attacks at Ras al-Shitan, it is believed that two people were killed and some twelve injured. The majority of the fatalities in the coordinated operations occurred in the Taba attack, in which 400 lbs of explosives were used to sheer off the front of the ten story Hilton hotel. On October 26, authorities arrested five Egyptians in connection with these attacks. The Battalions of the Martyr Abdullah Azzam, Al-Qaeda in the Levant and Egypt claimed responsibility for the attacks, but their claim was never verified. Palestinian group Arab-Israeli conflict
October 8 0 10 France Paris An explosive device detonated at the Indonesian Embassy in downtown Paris, injuring ten people. The explosion shattered the windows in nearby buildings and flying glass was the cause of most of the injuries. A group calling themselves the "French Armed Islamic Front" claimed responsibility for the attack, though authorities are unsure whether they claim is believable or not. The group called for the release of two guerrilla fighters believed to be members of the Algerian Islamic Army (GIA), who are serving life sentences for a bomb attack in Paris in 1990. Armed Islamic Group
October 10 4 16 Pakistan Islamabad Four people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a powerful bomb at a Jamia Kashmiryan Shia mosque. Roughly 200 Muslims had gathered at the Mosque for Maghrib prayers. The bomber attempted to enter the mosque at the main gate, but was stopped by a security guard who was killed when the bomber shot him. The bomber appeared to have had the bomb in a bag and detonated it at the entrance to the mosque. Sixteen people were also injured by the blast. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (suspected) Sectarianism in Pakistan
October 12 1 5 Thailand Pattani Province A paramilitary volunteer was killed and five policemen injured when gunmen opened fire on a government office and nearby police station at Kapho in Pattani province. Police are blaming Muslim insurgents. Pattani separatists South Thailand Insurgency
October 15 6 10 Iraq Al-Dawrah A car driven by a suicide bomber blew up in an Iraqi Police contingent in main street in Al-Dawrah, south Baghdad. One civilian and nine policemen were injured in the incident and five police were killed. Islamist insurgents Iraq War
October 15 6 18 Iraq Baghdad Two bombs were detonated by suicide bombers in the 'Green Zone' of Baghdad, killing at least ten people, including four Americans (all workers at Dyncorp), and wounding twenty others (including two US state department employees). The bombs were set off close together at a market and popular café. The group led by Abu Musab Al-Zarquawi, Tawhid and Jihad, claimed responsibility for the blasts. Two Jordanian men are suspected of perpetrating the café blast. Both entered the café, drank tea, and then one left. The other detonated his bomb following the exit of the first man. At least six were killed and about eighteen injured in the café blast. None of the killed in this incident were Americans. Al Qaeda Iraq War
October 17 1 6 Russia Chechnya A car bomb exploded outside of a hospital in Groznyy, killing gone police officer and wounding 2 other officers and four pedestrians. ChRI Second Chechen War
October 21 1 14 Iraq Baghdad Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying female employees of the Iraqi Airways at the Baghdad airport, killing one woman and injuring fourteen others. Sources indicate that two cars of armed men stopped the bus on the western outskirts of the capital. One assailant threw at least two hand grenades into the bus and then gunmen opened fire from the outside. Islamist insurgents Iraq War
October 23 3 8 Afghanistan Kabul The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide mission carried out on "Chicken Street," a narrow, busy shopping district with jewelry, rug, and antique shops in Kabul. There were reportedly two fatalities, one US woman civilian and an Afghani. There were at least seven others wounded, including three Icelandic ISAF soldiers. Afghan citizens comprise the rest of the wounded group. Taliban War in Afghanistan
October 23 17 30 Iraq Khan Al-Baghdadi A suicide car bomber attacked a police station in Khan al-Baghdadi killing sixteen Iraqi police and wounding at least thirty others. The car bomb targeted the police station where many Iraqis were lined up to surrender their weapons and/or join the police force. The station is also the site of a police training center. At the time of the attack, police were gathered at the station for a training course. Islamist insurgents Iraq War
October 24 0 7 India Kasmir Unknown perpetrators detonated a bomb, attempting to kill Omar Abdullah, the leader of pro-India National Conference Party. The attack was carried out as Abdullah was attending a prayer ceremony for the former National Conference minister Safdar Ali Baig (killed by militants). The rebels' bomb missed their target, but injured four others in the crowd. There were no fatalities. Islamic extremists Kashmir conflict
October 24 0 6 Turkey Trabzon Six people were injured when an explosive device detonated at a McDonald's fast food restaurant in Trabzon. The victims were taken to the hospital immediately after the blast. The perpetrators managed to escape. No further information is available. Unknown
October 25 8 9 Iraq Mosul Two suicide car bombs detonated in Mosul, killing at least three Iraqis and wounding at least nine government employees. Both suicide attackers were also killed. The first bomb caused most of the casualties and targeted a Nineveh governorate compound. Islamist insurgents Iraq War
October 28 0 9 Pakistan Islamabad There was an explosion in the lobby of a Marriott Hotel in the center of Islamabad. The government of Pakistan claims that there was an electrical short circuit, but there is evidence of foul play. The hotel is frequented by foreign journalists, diplomats, and business people and is located a few hundred meters from the president's house. There were US diplomats and military troops at the hotel. There was a purported "important personality" to arrive at the hotel on November 30. The explosion occurred while a bomb disposal squad team was doing an inspection. It was reported that despite the "short circuit," all of the lights were still on. A few days later, an al Qaeda activist and tribal leader wanted by Pakistan for the abduction of a Chinese Engineer, Cdr Abdullah Mahsud, claimed responsibility for the explosion. Interior Ministry recommended equipping law enforcement agencies with explosive detectors (despite the fact that the government still claimed the incident to be an electrical failure). Al Qaeda
October 28 2 20 Thailand Pattani Province A bomb exploded outside a bar frequented by tourists in Narathiwat province. Two tourists, Malaysian national Sawakiaat Hoe and Thai national Pissamai Daengdamdi, were killed in the blast. At least twenty-one were wounded. Reports indicate the blast may have been a revenge attack for the eighty-five Muslim protesters crushed to death on October 25 en route to a military detention center. It is not clear if the bar was the intended target. A police station was also nearby the blast. Pattani separatists South Thailand insurgency
October 29 2 2 Colombia Bogota A bomb exploded near a bus stop along Bogotá's Transmilenio bus system route. A taxi passing by was caught in the blast resulting in the death of the driver and a passenger. Two other passengers were also injured. The explosion damaged about 30 houses in the area. The chief of police believes the attack was aimed at the bus stop but did not comment on the motive of the attack or who was responsible for it. The Transmilenio system has been the target of at least three attacks.[1] FARC (suspected) Colombian conflict
October 30 7 19 Iraq Baghdad A car bomb exploded outside the office of the Al-Arabiya television station in Baghdad killing at least seven people and wounding nineteen. The incident was initially claimed by the National Islamic Resistance, 1920 Revolution Brigades. Later this group denied responsibility and the Jihadist Martyrs Brigades in Iraq, Saraya al-Shuhada al-jihadiyah Fi al-Iraq, claimed responsibility. The group claimed that Al-Arabiya was the "mouthpiece of the American occupation in Iraq" and threatened that similar attacks would be launched against any non-neutral media source. The network's staff was in a meeting at the time of the explosion. Islamist insurgents Iraq War

2005 - October Total incidents - 8
Date Type Deaths Injuries Location Details Perpetrators Part of
01 Bomb 0 (+1) 0 United States United States 2005 University of Oklahoma bombing: Joel Henry Hinrichs III detonated a bomb near the packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma killing himself in the process. Joel Henry Hinrichs III
01 Suicide car bombings 20 (+3) 100 Indonesia Bali 2005 Bali bombings: Three suicide car bombings target a resort and Kuta town square in Bali, places popular with western tourists. Jemaah Islamiyah
07 Shooting 8 20 Pakistan Mong 2005 Mong shootings: Three unknown men opened fire on a Ahmadiyya mosque. Unknown
13/14 Raid 49 (+89) 115+ Russia Nalchik 2005 Nalchik raid: Several hundred militants belonging to the Caucasian Front and Yarmuk Jamaat attack several targets across Nalchik, including several government buildings, several police stations and the city's airport. In total, 142 people were killed in the attacks including at least 35 members of Russian security forces, at least 14 civilians and at least 89 militants. Caucasian Front
Yarmuk Jamaat Second Chechen War
24 Car bomb 20+ Iraq Baghdad, Iraq Multiple car bombs explode outside the Green Zone in Baghdad, killing at least 20. It is thought that the attacks were targeting journalists inside the Palestine Hotel and the Sheraton Ishtar. Al-Qaeda Iraq War
26 Suicide bomber 7 (+1) 55 Israel Hadera, Israel Hadera Market bombing: A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates a bomb near a falafel stand in Hadera that kills himself and six others. Twenty-six people were also wounded. Islamic Jihad Second Intifada
29 Assault 3 1 Indonesia Poso, Indonesia 2005 Indonesian beheadings of Christian girls: In Poso, Central Sulawesi, four Christian schoolgirls aged 15 to 17 years on their way home from school were assaulted by six masked Muslim men who beheaded three of them, Theresia Morangke, Alfita Poliwo, and Yarni Sambue, with machetes and placed their severed heads in front of a church and a police station. The fourth girl, Noviana Malewa, survived but suffered serious machete wounds. The terrorists belong to the group Tanah Runtuh whose leader Hasanuddin confessed at his trial that the well-planned assault was inspired and financed by Guru Sanusi, a former Muslim rebel (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) from Mindanao. Central Jakarta District Court sentenced two of the killers to 14 years in prison and mastermind Hasanuddin to 20 years. Islamists
29 Bombings 62 210 India Delhi 2005 Delhi bombings: Two markets and a bus are bombed in a span of about 30 minutes in Delhi. Lashkar-e-Taiba

2006 - October Total incidents - 5
Date Dead Injured Location and description Perpetrator Part of
October 3 0 0 Albania/Turkey/Italy Brindisi: Turkish Airlines Flight 1476 is hijacked. Hakan Ekinci
October 10-11 8 30-45 Philippines Central Mindanao, 2006 Central Mindanao bombings: Three bombings targeting markets and a town hall in Tacurong, Makilala, and Cotabato City MILF, Abu Sayyaf, Jemaah Islamiyah (suspected) Moro conflict
October 16 100-111 (+1) 150+ Sri Lanka Habarana: An LTTE suicide bomber rams a truck packed with explosives into convoy of buses carrying unarmed Sri Lankan Navy personal going home, on leave, killing at least 92 Navy Personnel. The Government of Sri Lanka called this a terrorist attack LTTE Sri Lankan civil war
October 19 0 5 Colombia Bogotá: A car bomb explodes in a military college in northern Bogotá, injuring five. FARC Colombian conflict
October 28 2 4 Colombia Villavicencio: A car bomb kills two and injures four outside a military base in Villavicencio, Meta. FARC is blamed.

2007 - October Total incidents - 11
Date Dead Injured Location and description
October 1 15 22 Pakistan Bannu: In the town of Bannu, in northwestern Pakistan, a male suicide bomber disguised as a woman and wearing a burqa sets off a blast that kills at least 15 people and injures 22 others.
October 2 13 Afghanistan Kabul: A suicide bomber wearing a pakul and a chador blows up a police bus, killing 13 officers and civilians. This occurs on the same day that a U.N. report finds that while 76% of all suicide bombings during 2007 in the country have targeted international and Afghan security forces, 143 civilians were killed by those bombs through August.
October 3 0 1 Iraq Baghdad: The Polish ambassador to Iraq, General Edward Pietrzyk, is injured in an assassination attempt in Baghdad. His convoy is hit by three bombs and is then fired upon. The diplomat sustains a leg wound and suffers burns in the attack and is evacuated from the scene via a Blackwater helicopter. The attacks kill three in his entourage and two Iraqi civilians and wound eleven Iraqi civilians.
October 11 3 SomaliaBaidoa: A suicide bomber kills three Ethiopian soldiers near a base in Baidoa where the Prime Minister was visiting.
October 11 3 30 India Explosives kept in a tiffin box at a Sufi shrine 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.
October 14 1 2 Netherlands Amsterdam: In a suicide attack on a police station of the Amsterdam district Slotervaart, Bilal Bajaka, a 22-year-old Amsterdammer of Moroccan origin, severely injures two Dutch police officers by stabbing them eight times before he is shot dead by an injured policewoman. Bajaka was in contact with the Hofstad terrorist group and had been visited by Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of Theo van Gogh (film director). According to media reports, Bajaka's brother Abdullah was investigated in 2005 for planning a terrorist attack on an El-Al Boeing at Schiphol airport. On the day after Bajaka's death, a group of youths throw stones at a Slotervaart police station and set cars on fire.
October 14 6 20 India Ludhiana: A bomb explodes in the Shingar Cinema in Ludhiana, killing at least six people and wounding 20, police say.
October 18 136 387 Pakistan Karachi: Twin suicide bombings occur in Karachi 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.
October 21 12 16 Turkey Hakkâri Province: PKK stages an attack on the Turkish outpost in Hakkari. The attack wounds 16 and kills 12 Turkish soldiers carried out of northern Iraq. Also, eight soldiers are kidnapped.
October 26 2 United States New York City: A pair of improvised explosive devices are thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black powder and detonated by fuses, causing very minor damage. Police investigate the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005.
October 31 8 50 Russia Tolyatti: Eight people died and over 50 were injured on Wednesday morning in a suspected terrorist blast on a bus in central Tolyatti.

2008 - As posted in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_2008#October

2008 - October Total incidents - 58
Date Dead Injured Location and description
1 October ~4 100 India Agartala. Three bombs exploded in the insurgency-racked North-East India. Police said they suspected Muslim militant groups based in Bangladesh for the blasts in the Radhanagar and Gulbazar areas of Tripura's capital.
1 October 1 1 Turkey Diyarbakır. PKK militants attacked Turkish soldiers.
2 October 20+ 60 Iraq Baghdad. Suicide bombers targeting the Eid ul-Fitr celebrations killed at least 20 people in attacks on two Shiite mosques during early morning prayers.
2 October 4 7 Pakistan Peshawar. A suicide bomber targeted the home of Asfandyar Wali Khan, the chief of the Awami National Party, on the second day of Eid al-Fitr during a gathering at his house in the town of Charsada, near Peshawar.
3 October 7 8 Georgia (country) Tskhinvali. A car full of explosives blew up near a Russian military base.
3 October 0 0 Spain Tolosa. At about 1:15, 10 kg worth of explosives detonated in front of the Tolosa court house causing minimal damage.
6 October 27+ 80+ Sri Lanka Anuradhapura. A suicide bomb exploded in the office of the United National Party near a bus stand. A former senior general, Janaka Perera, who had been serving as a regional leader for the party was among the dead. The Tamil Tigers were quickly blamed.
6 October 17+ 2 Somalia Mogadishu. Mortar rounds slammed into a market after a failed insurgent attack on the presidential palace. A remote-controlled land mine also killed a Somali driver and wounded two aid workers – an Italian and a Somali.
6 October 25 60 Pakistan Bhakkar. A suicide bomber set off his explosives as he tried to force his way into an opposition politician's home during a celebration marking Eid al-Fitr. The target was Rashid Akbar Khan Nawani, a member of Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslim community, who was injured but survived the attack.
7 October 1+ 5 Iraq Baghdad. Two blasts went off near Baghdad's Green Zone outside the Foreign Ministry, as US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, was to hold a press conference about his visit to Iraq.
8 October 0 5+ India Guwahati. A bomb exploded near a crowd gathered for Durga Puja festivities. A police spokesman said the low-intensity blast took place near the Japorigog area at around 20:30.
8 October 4 22 Turkey Diyarbakir. Three police trainees and a civilian were killed, with 22 others also wounded, in an attack on a police bus. Unidentified assailants armed with guns and explosives attacked the vehicle on a busy street outside the city of Diyarbakir. Of the injured at least 11 of the wounded were trainee police officers and the others were civilians. Though there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, Kurdish separatist guerrillas frequently target Turkey's armed forces and police in the mainly Kurdish southeast; the attack also came shortly before the parliament in Ankara was scheduled to approve a government request to extend a mandate to launch military operations against PKK rebels based in northern Iraq.
8 October 7–10 ? Iraq Baquba. A female suicide bomber detonated explosives near the front of the Court of Appeals on a street that has a number of government buildings in the provincial capital. She was the 17th woman to detonate a suicide bomb in Diyala this year. The street has been attacked by suicide bombers at least 16 times in the last five years, including three times this year by women. The American military had a slightly lower toll than the Iraqi police, but some bodies may have been taken away before the Americans arrived at the scene.
9 October 8 8 Pakistan Islamabad. A suicide bomber attacked a main police headquarters. The targeted area is the main police complex in Islamabad, containing training and residential facilities for police officers. Thousands of police are based at the center.
9 October 11 0 Pakistan Dir District, NWFP. A bomb explosion occurred near a police van carrying prisoners. Four schoolchildren in a passing bus were also among the dead.
9 October 1+ 3 Sri Lanka Colombo. A suicide bomb attack targeted a convoy carrying the agriculture minister near a Buddhist temple in the Borelesgamuwa suburb.
10 October up to 4 81 Pakistan Bajaur. Taliban militants beheaded four tribal elders who had attended a pro-government meeting in the insurgency-hit region of Bajaur. The victims were abducted when heading home after a jirga, which the Charmang tribe had called to plan action against Taliban militants in their area.
10 October 113 100+ Pakistan Orakzai. A suicide bomber drove his car into a meeting of 600 people which was being held in open ground and blew himself up. The meeting was a council of local leaders discussing to raise a militia to evict Taliban from the region.
10 October 15 39 Iraq Baghdad. Three bombs detonated in Baghdad. The first was a bomb that exploded next to a mini bus, killing one and injuring 12.
The second occurred when a vehicle exploded at about 16:30 in the main market area of Abu Dshir leaving 13 dead and 27 others injured in the Bayaa district in Abu Dshir, south of Baghdad, a Shia enclave in the Sunni dominant district of Dora.
Another bomb killed an anti-American Shia MP, Saleh al-Ogayly, in Sadr City. The Sadrist MP became the first Iraqi legislator to be killed since the 12 April 2007 suicide bombing of the national parliament in which one politician and seven others died.
11 October 0 0 Mexico Monterrey. Unknown assailants shot at the U.S. consulate building and threw a grenade that failed to explode. Two men attacked the consulate around midnight when it was closed. Though nobody was hurt in the assault, the gate was pockmarked and six spent .45-caliber casings were found at the scene. It was not clear if the attack was related to a wave of violence by drug gangs; there was no evidence it was related to political terrorism.
12 October 13 20 Iraq Baghdad. Multiple attacks around the city killed and wounded several. A parked car bomb detonated in an outdoor market killing nine civilians and wounding 13 others. The attack happened in the Shiite neighborhood of Bayaa, in southwestern Baghdad, around 13:30. Sniper fire killed two Iraqi soldiers in the Mansour neighborhood. In the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Zaiyouna, a roadside bomb injured seven people, including five police officers. In southern Baghdad's Dora neighborhood, unknown armed men killed two members of the Sons of Iraq.
12 October 1 7 Colombia Neiva. Authorities blamed FARC for two attacks on hotels in the center of Neiva in the south west of Colombia.
13 October 1 6 Iraq Baghdad. Two attacks killed one and wounded more. A roadside bomb exploded as an Iraqi police patrol was in the area in northeastern Baghdad, wounding five people, including three police officers.
A Christian businessman was killed and his nephew was wounded in a drive-by shooting as they were standing near their house in the Kazraj neighborhood.
13 October 0 5 Pakistan North-West Frontier Province. A remote-controlled bomb detonated near the vehicle of a secular political leader, who was injured along with four others. This follows a string of attacks against lawmakers and government officials; and was also the second this month aimed at the Awami National Party. The attack apparently targeted Shamin Khan, a member of the ANP, at 18:30.
14 October 3 0 Nepal A woman and her two children died in a bomb explosion in the Terai, a region that has seen constant ethnic unrest for nearly two years. Shortly afterwards two separate militant groups both said they were responsible. Each claim to fight for the rights of the Madhesi ethnic group.
14 October 19 1 Afghanistan Kabul. A roadside blast in the east of the country where U.S. soldiers operate killed three NATO troops; while two separate roadside bombs in the southern Uruzgan province killed 16 Afghan civilians.
16 October 4 0 Pakistan Mingora, Swat Valley. A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police station. The attack was the latest addition to a string of bombings against security forces in the northwest of Pakistan, where the government is waging a military campaign against al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked fighters. The police chief said that the "huge blast" killed three security force personnel and one policeman and destroyed the police station.
17 October 3 7 Iraq Baghdad. Officials said a bomb planted near a mosque in north Baghdad killed three Shiite worshipers as they were leaving Friday prayers and damaged surrounding homes. The blast happened in the primarily Shiite neighborhood of Sha'ab.
17 October 1 4 United States Dalton, Georgia An explosion at a personal injury law firm in downtown Dalton, Ga., injured four people, including at least one lawyer, and resulted in the death of the apparent bomber in what a federal law enforcement spokesman described as a suicide attack.
19 October 4 6 Pakistan Balochistan. A separatist group, Baloch Republic Army, claimed responsibility for a bomb blast in northwestern Balochistan province. The blast occurred in a bazaar of the Dera Bugti district, and the remote-controlled bomb was planted in a motorcycle.
19 October 2 27 Iraq Baghdad. Two bombs went off in the city. The first injured 16, while the second, a roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol, went off in southeastern Baghdad, leaving two people dead and 11 more wounded. Police and medical officials said the blast occurred near a fuel station in the Zafaraniya neighborhood. The powerful blast damaged several nearby civilian cars. Sources also added that the dead were civilian, while three policemen were among the wounded.
12–19 October 40+ 0 Afghanistan Southern Afghanistan. Authorities in Kabul said that Taliban militants hijacked a bus in southern Afghanistan last week and killed as many as 40 passengers, although only six bodies were discovered.
20 October 13+ 12 India Chhattisgarh. Naxalites allegedly killed Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in the Bijapur District following the announcement of two-phase Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh. The attack also left 12 personnel of CRPF and the Border Roads Organisation, who were carrying out road construction work in the area, injured. The attack took place at about 13:30 between Modukpal and Kongupalli in the district. According to reports, one of the attackers was also killed in the exchange of fire that followed.
20 October 0 2 Pakistan Quetta. Two journalists were injured when a bomb planted in a gas geyser went off outside the offices of local newspapers in Universal Complex. An editor and photographer of Daily Awwam suffered minor injuries as a result of the blast, while windows of nearby buildings, shops and a medical complex were smashed as a result of the blast.
20 October 4 7 Iraq Baghdad. Civilians were killed and seven others were injured when a roadside bomb struck a bus in the Iraqi capital. The blast took place in the eastern, Shia-dominated neighborhood of al-Fadiliya, Mashtal when it was hit by a roadside bomb according to the news agency Voices of Iraq. Police said the bus was carrying employees from the country's Housing Ministry, and that the bomb blast damaged nearby vehicles and buildings.
20 October 7 2 Afghanistan Kunduz province. Five children and two foreign soldiers died in a suspected suicide bomb attack, according to the International Security Assistance Force. The German Defense Ministry said the attack had targeted a convoy of German soldiers. The explosion ripped apart one of the vehicles killing two German soldiers and injuring one more; a group of children were playing beside the road near the explosion. Five children were killed and one child was very seriously wounded. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility but denied that any children were casualties in the attack.
21 October 0 0 Finland Helsinki. Finnish police say an Embassy employee was injured in an arson attack on the Turkish embassy building in central Helsinki. Officers said the front door was burned in the attack and the fire spread indoors before it was extinguished by fire fighters. The early morning attack came hours after a peaceful anti-Turkey protest the day before outside the embassy by a few dozen Kurdish demonstrators. Police said four men had been detained on suspicion of the attack, and that the attack could have been politically motivated and that some of the men had a Turkish-Kurdish background.
21 October 0 1 Thailand Bangkok. A bomb blast hit the residence of the Supreme Administrative Court of Supreme Administrative Court president Akrathorn Chularat in Chatuchak district in the early hours of the morning. Akrathorn was not in his residence in Soi Lat Phrao 25, Phahonyothin Road, as he was on an overseas trip. Police were alerted to the bomb blast at about 1:00 where they found a 10-centimetre deep pit about four meters wide on the grounds within the compound. Witnesses said they heard the sound of motorcycles in front of the house shortly before the bomb exploded.
21 October 17+ 30+ India Imphal. A bomb was suspected to have been planted on a moped near the Manipur police commando complex at Minuthong in Imphal at 19:30. Police said none of the Manipur police commando personnel staying at the barrack complex were among the casualties. Unconfirmed reports, however, said a surrendered militant may be among the dead.
22 October 0 10+ Nepal Janakpur. A home-made bomb went off at a government office in the southeast of the country. The blast occurred at a land revenue office. The Terai National Liberation Army claimed responsibility.
22 October 3 3 India Belpahari, West Bengal. Three members of a mobile medical team were killed in a blast triggered by Maoists. The Maoists, however, issued an apology for the killing of the health staff and stated that they were not the intended target. Two people have been arrested in connection with the blast though locals claimed that the duo were innocent of the charges.
23 October 11 22 Iraq Baghdad. In the Bab al-Sharji area of central Baghdad, a suicide bomber rammed his car into Iraqi labor Minister Mahmoud Mohammed al-Radhi's convoy. Al-Radhi was not actually in the convoy.
23 October 1 1 Afghanistan Kandahar. The provincial police chief narrowly escaped a donkey-borne bomb attack which left one of his officers dead and one wounded. The attack took place shortly after noon on a road outside Kandahar City as the police chief, Matiullah Achakzai, was headed to the Zhari district in a two-truck police convoy. Achakzai was, however, not injured in the attack. A spokesman for the provincial governor, said the bomb had been attached to a donkey by the side of the road and was detonated by remote control. The first truck was destroyed in the blast, while the second truck drove into the crater created by the blast.
23 October 0 0 Indonesia Aceh. A grenade exploded outside the office of the former separatist rebels, Free Aceh Movement (GAM), in the once-restive Aceh province, although no one was reported injured. The blast damaged two cars and the office windows of the Aceh Transitional Commission (KPA) office. Police were questioning four witnesses in regard to the blast. The explosion occurred about two weeks after the GAM founder, Hasan di Tiro, returned home from more than 30 years' exile in Sweden.
23 October 0 16 Colombia Bogota. Police blame FARC for a series of blasts occurring throughout the capital. The explosives had been left in waste bins in six separate residential areas.[243] Witnesses described the blasts as "not high-powered," and the injuries were minor.
24 October 0 0 Greece Athens. At about 4:00 am police were able to defuse a homemade explosive that had been left outside the offices of Royal Dutch Shell. They had received an anonymous phone call warning of the device's location. Authorities usually attribute similar attacks to extreme leftists and anarchists.
25 October 3 0 Afghanistan Kabul. A security guard working for the international shipping company, DHL, opened fire and killed the company's country director and his deputy before turning the gun on himself. The shooting took place in front of the DHL office in downtown Kabul, with one Briton and one South African casualty, according to the British Foreign Office and South African governments. The preliminary investigation found one of the Afghan security guards protecting the DHL compound had opened fire on the car carrying the two foreigners when it pulled into the company headquarters. The guard then put a Kalishnikov rifle to his own head and killed himself. The guard had, apparently, been hired about a month ago from a Pashtun area just north of Kabul, where the Taliban draws many of its fighters from the Pashtun ethnic group, however, police had no conclusive evidence linking him to any insurgent organization. A Taliban spokesman denied involvement in the attack.
25 October 2 1 Georgia (country) Near Abkhazia. Giorgi Mebonia, governor of the Tsalenjikha district of Georgia, was killed in an explosion close to the border with Abkhazia. A citizen also died in the attack and a police officer was wounded in the village of Mujava. The Georgian interior ministry said Mebonia's car was hit by an explosive device and his convoy was fired at, but it was not known who had fired the shots.
28 October 4 5 India Gadchiroli. Four policemen, including a sub-inspector, were killed in an encounter with Naxalites in the Korepile forest in Aheri Taluka of Gadchiroli district. Five other policemen also received bullet injuries. The police party came under attack during routine patrolling.
28 October 11 0 Pakistan Mohmand Agency. A suicide bombing at a security checkpoint came just days after Pakistan's parliament condemned any incursion on Pakistani soil. A man drove a vehicle carrying explosives into a checkpoint in the village of Ghalani.
28 October 2+ 12 Pakistan Quetta. A car bomb exploded in the provincial capital of Quetta. The blast at a busy road in the government offices area of the gas-rich Baluchistan province, also destroyed several rickshaws, cars and a pick-up truck. The police chief said that the bomb exploded during rush hour.
29 October 56 80 Somalia Five suicide attacks on multiple facilities, three suicide car bombers struck the presidential palace, the United Nations Development Program compound, and the Ethiopian Consulate in the city of Hargeisa in Somaliland and two suicide bombers on foot targeted two intelligence facilities in the city of Bosasso in Puntland in coordinated suicide attacks.
30 October 84+ 470+ India Assam. A series of 13 blasts occurred in and around Guwahati.
30 October 0 21 Spain Pamplona. A car bomb exploded at the University of Navarra. The explosion occurred at a time when students would have been walking near the lot where the car had been parked. Most of the injuries were a result of flying glass shards, while rainy weather may have prevented more casualties. Authorities blamed ETA, who had yet to claim responsibility.
30 October 5 21 Afghanistan Kabul. A suicide bomber who stormed the Ministry of Information and Culture successfully detonated his explosives on the ground floor. Five of the wounded were described as being in critical condition. The Taliban claimed responsibility through a phone call within minutes of the blast.
31 October 0 4 India Srinagar. Four security personnel were injured when militants hurled a grenade at a police station in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir. The blast, at about 11:20, landed inside the compound of the Baramulla police station, injuring two CRPF personnel and two policemen in the explosion. No militant outfit had claimed responsibility for the attack so far. This was the first attack on security forces in the Kashmir valley since the announcement of election schedule legislative assembly elections by Election Commission on 19 October.
31 October 0 17+ India Bastar, Chhattisgarh. At least 17 policemen sustained minor injuries when Maoist guerrillas detonated a powerful land mine in front of their vehicle in the southern Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. The incident took place on a highway in Narayanpur district, some 250 km south of the capital Raipur.
31 October 9 21 Pakistan Mardan, NWFP. A senior police official's home was hit by a blast in Mardan. The suicide bomber blew himself up close to a security convoy escorting, Mardan's deputy inspector, Akhtar Ali Shah, near his home just after 13:30. At least three police guards including the driver were killed in the high-security zone, while the other casualties have not yet been identified.

2009 - As posted in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2009_Baghdad_bombings

2009 - October Total incidents - 15
Date Dead Injured Location and description
October 5 5 4 Pakistan Islamabad, Pakistan A suicide bomber dressed in para military uniform blew himself up inside the country office of the United Nations World Food Program.
October 9 41+ 100+ Pakistan Peshawar, Pakistan A minibus bomb is detonated in the crowded Khyber Bazaar, killing 41 and injuring more than 100.
October 10 20 Several Pakistan Rawalpindi, Pakistan October 10: 10 Militants attack the heart of the Pakistani military, holding hostages, nine gunman were killed and one captured.
October 11 0 2 Italy Milan, Italy A Libyan man, Mohamed Game, tried to bring a bomb into a Carabinieri barracks in Milan but let it off at the entrance when he saw guards pointing their weapons at him. Investigators stressed they had found nothing so far to connect Game to a plan foiled last year to bomb the barracks in southwest Milan.
October 11 14 50 Iraq Anbar, Iraq Two car bombs detonate at a hospital in Iraq's western Anbar province.
October 12 26 61 Iraq Ramadi, Iraq 3 truck bombs hit a reconciliation meeting in the city.
October 12 41 Dozens Pakistan Shangla district, Pakistan A suicide bomber strikes a security convoy in the district, which borders Swat, killing 41 people.
October 15 37 20+ Pakistan Pakistan More than 20 militants attack police facilities in Lahore and Kohat.
October 15 0 2 Paraguay Asunción department insurgents abducted Fidel Zavala, a rancher from the region of Concepción. Before leaving, the rebels booby-trapped Zavala's vehicle; two policemen were wounded while investigating his disappearance.
October 18 31 25 Iran Pishin, Iran 31 people have died in the attack, in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan, and dozens more injured.
October 20 6 29 Pakistan Islamabad, Pakistan 6 people die in an attack on the International Islamic University when two suicide bombers detonate their explosives.
October 22 2 0 Pakistan Islamabad, Pakistan Gunmen assassinate a Pakistani Brigadier and his driver.
October 23 8 28 Pakistan Pakistan A suicide bomber kills 8 people and wounds 13 at a checkpoint near the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra. Hours later, another suicide bomber strikes the city of Peshawar, wounding 15 people.
October 25 155 520+ Iraq Baghdad, Iraq Two vehicles detonate in the Green Zone, killing at least 155 and injuring 520.
October 28 117 200+ Pakistan Peshawar, Pakistan A car bomb is detonated in a woman exclusive shopping district, and over 110 die with 200 or more injured.

2010 - As posted in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_2010#October

2011 - As posted in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2011_Baghdad_bombings

2012 - As posted in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2012_Aleppo_bombings

2013 - As posted in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2013_Myanmar_bombings

2014 - As posted in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2014_Sinai_attacks

2015 - As posted in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_October_2015

2016 - As posted in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_October_2016

2017 - As posted in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_October_2017
Terrorist - Total incidents - 20 at the time of this writing Oct. 14, 2017
Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
1 - Stabbing 2 (+1) 0 Marseille, France Marseille stabbing: A man attacked commuters, at Saint Charles station, with a knife, killing two people before being shot dead by police officers. The incident is being treated as an 'act of terrorism'. The perpetrator is alleged to have yelled "Allahu Akbar" during the attack. Islamic State Islamic terrorism in Europe
1 - Bombing 0 0 Cairo, Egypt An explosion occurred at Myanmar's embassy in Cairo. The Hasm Movement claimed responsibility and stated that the act was perpetrated in retaliation for the country's crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya people. Hasm Movement Insurgency in Egypt
1 - Attack 2 4 Sirnak, Turkey One soldier and one security guard were killed in an attack by PKK terrorists near road construction in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak. PKK Kurdish-Turkish conflict
1 - Arson 0 0 Tacuatí, Paraguay Two tractors from a farm were incinerated in the city of Tacuatí, San Pedro Department. In addition, a pamphlet was found that would be of the self-denominated Paraguayan People's Army. Paraguayan People's Army Paraguayan People’s Army insurgency
2 - Suicide bombings 17 (+3) Several Damascus, Syria At least 17 people were killed and many more injured by suicide bombings that targeted a police station in the Midan neighborhood of Damascus. Islamic State (suspected) Syrian Civil War
2 - Bombing 0 5 Manama, Bahrain At least five policemen were wounded in a bomb blast in a terror blast while securing Ashoora procession on Budaiya Highway. Shia Militants (suspected) Terrorism in Bahrain
3 - Shooting 1 (+2) 3 Srinagar Airport, Kashmir, India At least one police officer was killed and three others injured in a shooting next to Srinagar Airport, in India. The two attackers were also killed. Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (suspected) Terrorism in India
4 - Car bombing 4 4 Yuksekova, Turkey An improvised explosive device was planted on a road near the town of Yuksekova, southeast Turkey. The attack killed four soldiers and four others were wounded. PKK Kurdish-Turkish conflict
4 - Suicide bombings, shooting 4 (+3) 39 Misurata, Libya Gunmen killed at least four people and wounded 39 in a suicide attack on a court complex in the Libyan city of Misurata. Islamic State Second Libyan Civil War
4 - Ambush 8 2 Tillabéri Region, Niger Three U.S. Green Berets and five Nigerien soldiers were killed and two more injured after being ambushed while assisting local forces in Southwest Niger. No group has claimed responsibility but officials have suspected that the Islamic State was behind the attack. Islamic State (suspected) Insurgency in the Maghreb
5 - Suicide bombing 24 (+1) 20 Balochistan province, Pakistan A suicide attacker today blew himself up at a Sufi shrine packed with devotees in Pakistan’s troubled Balochistan province, killing at least 24 people and injuring twenty others. Islamic State Insurgency in Balochistan
6 - Bombing 0 7 Janiuay, Iloilo, Philippines Six soldiers and a civilian were wounded when an alleged improvised explosive device blew up in Janiuay town, Iloilo. New People's Army (suspected) New People's Army rebellion
6 - Suicide car bombing 4 (+1) 7 Abyan Governorate, Yemen Four Yemeni soldiers were killed and seven others wounded a suicide car bombing in the southern province of Abyan.[19] Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Yemeni Civil War
7 Shooting 2 (+1) 3 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia A gunman opened fire on Saudi royal guards guarding the royal palace in Jeddah. The gunman and two guards were killed and three guards were injured. Lone wolf (terrorism) Terrorism in Saudi Arabia
7 - Bombing 2 1 Diyarbakır, Turkey At least two security guards were killed and one injured after a bomb explosion in Diyarbakir. PKK Kurdish-Turkish conflict
8 - Shooting 2 0 Baghlan province, Afghanistan At least two police were killed in a Taliban shooting attack on a check post in the village of Chashme Sher in Baghlan province. Taliban War in Afghanistan
9 - Shooting 5 2 Balochistan Province, Pakistan Gunmen killed five Shia muslims and two others were wounded in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan Province, Pakistan. Islamic State (suspected) Insurgency in Balochistan
9 - Ambush 7 13 Puntland, Somalia Islamic militants attacked a checkpoint in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region. Three Police officers and four civilians were killed, thirteen others were wounded. Al-Shabaab War in Somalia
9 - Shooting 2 12 Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo Two UN soldiers was killed in a shooting attack in DRC. Allied Democratic Forces Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
10 - Shooting 0 4 Donbass region, Ukraine Four Ukrainian servicemen were wounded in the Donbass region. Russian separatist forces are suspected behind the attack. Donetsk People's Republic (suspected) War in Donbass

2017 - October Total Incidents - 24 (only through Oct. 11)
Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting This was the worst shooting in America's history. 58 people (excluding the killer 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada) were killed as a result of the shooting, most by gunshot wounds. They included 36 women and 22 men. The oldest was 67, the youngest 20. Six were from Nevada, 35 from California, 13 from other states, and four from Canada. An additional 489 people were injured. In the aftermath, many victims were sent to area hospitals, which included University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center, and at least one of the six hospitals of Valley Health System. Sixteen patients died at Sunrise Hospital, and eight in at least one hospital of Valley Health System. The attack is the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in the United States, surpassing the death toll of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, where 50 died, including the gunman. 2 days later, by 3 Oct 2017
09:18 - What we know so far: At least 59 people have been killed and 527 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. The victims so far identified included an off-duty Las Vegas policeman, a San Diego lawyer, and three Canadians. Police have named Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old retired accountant from Mesquite, Nevada, as the gunman. Police found an arsenal of 42 firearms, explosives and thousands of ammunition rounds in both his Las Vegas hotel room and Mesquite home. Experts believe an accessory known as a bump-stock was probably used in the attack. It modifies a semi-automatic weapon to fire at an automatic rate.

There is still no known motive behind the attack, or any known links between Paddock and other organizations.
The suspect’s girlfriend was named as a person of interest, but police said he acted alone and that authorities would interview the woman after she returned from a trip to Tokyo. Survivors of previous mass shootings and late night chat show hosts have expressed outrage at the inability of US politicians to control guns and stand up to the powerful National Rifle Association. Theresa May said the UK could not understand US gun laws. Donald Trump has deferred questions about gun control saying “We’ll be talking about gun laws as time goes by.” Speaking to reporters he described Paddock as “very sick” and “demented”. Jason Aldean, the country music singer who was performing at the time of the attack, says it highlighted a “scary” change in the US and the world. In a new post on Instagram he said: “Something has changed in this country and in this world lately that is scary to see.” Hoaxes and fake news spread rapidly online, in some cases with boosts from Facebook and Google algorithms.

11 - Shooting 2 (+2) 2 Bandipora district, Jammu and Kashmir, India Two Garud Commandos were killed while another two injured during a shooting against insurgents in Kashmir, India. Lashkar-e-Taiba Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
11 Suicide bombings 1 (+3) 6 Damascus, Syria Three suicide bombings in a police station in the Syrian capital of Damascus killed at least one person and injured six others.

16 - MOGADISHU, Somalia. 276 killed in deadliest single attack in Somalia's history, with around 300 others injured, the country's information minister said early Monday, making it the deadliest single attack in this Horn of Africa nation. The toll was expected to rise. The Mogadishu bombing is one of the deadliest attacks in sub-Saharan Africa, larger than the Garissa University attack in Kenya in 2015 and the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Doctors at Mogadishu hospitals struggled to assist badly wounded victims, many burned beyond recognition. "This is really horrendous, unlike any other time in the past," said Dr. Mohamed Yusuf, the director of Medina hospital. Ambulance sirens echoed across the city as bewildered families wandered in the rubble of buildings, looking for missing relatives. "In our 10 year experience as the first responder in #Mogadishu, we haven't seen anything like this," the Aamin Ambulance service tweeted. Unlike other bombings, these terrorists kill anybody: "They don't care about the lives of Somali people, mothers, fathers and children," Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire said of the attackers. "They have targeted the most populated area in Mogadishu, killing only civilians." The United Nations special envoy to Somalia called the attack "revolting," saying an unprecedented number of civilians had been killed. Michael Keating said the U.N. and African Union were supporting the Somali government's response with "logistical support, medical supplies and expertise."

2018 - Pittsburgh (Squirrel Hill) Pennsylvania - The Pittsburgh Public Safety Department tweeted that an active shooter is in the vicinity of Shady Avenue and Wilkins Avenue. A suspect is now in custody and three officers were shot after reports of an active shooter at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Police said there are "multiple casualties." So far 8 confirmed dead.

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NEW - Terrorist Attacks in October. As of 2018 my focus includes Russia.