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192 <strong>How</strong> <strong>Terrorist</strong> <strong>Groups</strong> <strong>End</strong>: Lessons for Countering al Qa’ida<br />

Table B.1—Continued<br />

Date Location Description<br />

July 23, 2005 Sharm El-<br />

Sheikh,<br />

Egypt<br />

In one of three coordinated bombings on tourist<br />

infrastructure in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, a suitcase bomb<br />

was detonated near the Moeyenpick Hotel, killing at<br />

least six; in total, 88 were killed and approximately 200<br />

wounded in the three attacks.<br />

August 19,<br />

2005<br />

Eliat, Israel<br />

Aqaba,<br />

Jordan<br />

Aqaba,<br />

Jordan<br />

In one of three coordinated attacks, a Katyusha rocket<br />

was fired from a warehouse at an airport in a nearby<br />

Israeli port, wounding a taxicab driver.<br />

In one of three coordinated attacks, a Katyusha rocket<br />

was fired from a warehouse at two U.S. Navy ships—the<br />

USS Ashland and the USS Kearsarge—docked in the<br />

port of Aqaba; the rocket flew over the bow of the USS<br />

Ashland, landing in a U.S. military-depot warehouse,<br />

killing one Jordanian soldier.<br />

In one of three coordinated attacks, a Katyusha rocket<br />

was fired from a warehouse at a public hospital in<br />

Aqaba, though no injuries or fatalities were reported in<br />

this explosion.<br />

November 9,<br />

2005<br />

Amman,<br />

Jordan<br />

In one of three coordinated attacks, a suicide bomb was<br />

detonated at the Grand Hyatt in Amman; in total, 63<br />

people were killed and more than 100 wounded in the<br />

three attacks.<br />

December<br />

27, 2005<br />

January 10,<br />

2006<br />

February 3,<br />

2006<br />

Kiryat<br />

Shmona,<br />

Israel<br />

Algiers,<br />

Algeria<br />

Kushtia,<br />

Bangladesh<br />

In one of three coordinated attacks, a suicide bomb was<br />

detonated at the Days Inn in Amman; in total, 63 people<br />

were killed and more than 100 wounded in the three<br />

attacks.<br />

In one of three coordinated attacks, a suicide bomb was<br />

detonated at the Radisson SAS hotel in Amman; in total,<br />

63 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in<br />

the three attacks.<br />

In one of the first direct al Qa’ida–sponsored attacks<br />

on Israeli territory, at least three rockets landed in a<br />

residential area of Kiryat Shmona (Shemona) in northern<br />

Israel, causing property damage but no injuries.<br />

A roadside bomb exploded next to a bus carrying<br />

expatriate Western workers, killing one and wounding<br />

nine.<br />

Two bombs were targeted the Rashid Agrofood rice mill,<br />

owned by a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party<br />

(BNP), though no injuries or fatalities were reported.

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