TERROR WATCH
EUROPE
Bosnia & Herzegovina 27 June: A police officer was killed and five officers injured after a car bomb exploded
inside a police headquarters in Bugojno.
United Kingdom 3 August: A car bomb exploded outside a police station in Derry, Northern Ireland.
The blast occurred in a taxi which had been parked outside Strand Road police station. Nobody was injured in the incident. The taxi driver was approached by two men, one of whom had a gun, and he was ordered to drive to the police station with the bomb in his vehicle.
ASIA
Pakistan 2 July: Two suicide bombers carried out a deadly attack on a Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of
Lahore. At least 42 people died and at least 175 were injured in the blasts at the popular Data Darbar shrine.
Pakistan 4 August: Sifwat Ghayur, a Pakistani paramilitary commander, was killed in a suicide
bomb attack in the north west Pakistan city of Peshawar. Three other people were also killed in the attack and 10 were injured. A suicide bomber driving a taxi rammed into Ghayur’s car when he was on his way home.
Afghanistan 6 August: Ten medical workers with the International Assistance Mission were executed by the Taliban
in Badakhshan province in the remote north. The Taliban accused them of trying to convert Muslims to Christianity and of spying for the U.S
MIDDLE EAST
Iran 15 July: Two successive explosions in front of the Grand Mosque of Zahedan, capital of Iran's south eastern Sistan-Baluchestan province, killed at least 27 people and injured more than 270 others. Iranian Sunni Muslim separatist group Jundallah claimed responsibility.
Jordan 29 July: One man was killed and three people were injured when a Grad missile believed to have been fired from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula landed in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba. Officials believe the five rockets fired were aimed at the nearby Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat, just across the border from Aqaba. Two rockets landed in the Red Sea and two on open ground near Eilat. There were no casualties in Israel.
Iran 4 August: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly survived an attack on his convoy in the Western Iran city of Hamedan. News reports said an attacker had thrown a bomb at his convoy before being detained, and that people had been injured. However, a spokesperson for the President later said that no such attack occurred and that a firecracker had gone off in the crowd.
UAE 28 July: A Japanese oil tanker, the
M.Star, was attacked by an explosive-laden dinghy off the UAE coast in the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. A crew member was injured and the tanker sustained damage. The al-Qaeda linked Abdullah Azzam group claimed responsibility but there are conflicting intelligence reports over who is responsible and whether or not it was a suicide mission.
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