How Terrorist Groups End - RAND Corporation
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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.