Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

CHRONOLOGY • xlviiArabia, killing five non-American consular staff and four Saudi securityguards. The attackers, believed to be affiliated with al Qa’eda, are killedby Saudi security forces. 22 December: Armed robbers believed to bemembers of the Irish Republican Army steal over £22 million from theheadquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, leading to recriminations byUnionist politicians, so stalling the peace process.2005 9 February: Basque Fatherland and Liberty car bombing injures31 people at conference center in Madrid. 14 February: FormerLebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 15 other people are killed bymassive car bomb in Beirut and 135 others are injured. Protests overassassination of Hariri lead to “Cedar Revolution,” forcing Syria towithdraw its troops and security forces from Lebanon by 26 April. 7July: London hit by four suicide bombings by British Islamic militants,three on the London Underground and one on a public bus, killing 56and injuring more than 700. 23 July: Three bombings within five minutesof each other kill as many as 88 people and injure more than 200at Egypt’s Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, an action claimedby pro–al Qa’eda militants but attributed to local Bedouin tribes by theEgyptian government. 28 July: The Irish Republican Army formallyorders an end to its armed campaign, directing all of its units to dumptheir arms, which has been a major obstacle to implementing restoredHome Rule under the 1998 Belfast Agreement. 23 August: Israel completesits unilateral dismantling and evacuation of 25 Jewish settlementsin the Gaza Strip and West Bank. 23 September: Long-term fugitiveMacheteros leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos is killed in Hormigueros, PuertoRico, when the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation attempts to arresthim. 1 October: Three suicide bombings in Bali believed to bethe work of Jemaah Islamiya kill 26 people and injure 129 others. 29October: Lashkar-e Tayyaba carries out three bombings in New Delhiwithin one half-hour, killing 62 people and injuring 210 others. 9 November:Coordinated suicide bombings by followers of Abu Musab alZarqawi strike three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 peopleand injuring 115 others.2006 22 February: Bombing by al Qa’eda in Iraq of al AskariMosque, a major Shi’ite shrine in Samarra, leads to major Sunni-Shi’itecommunal clashes in Iraq. 22 March: Basque Fatherland and Libertydeclares a permanent cease-fire with Spanish government. 2–3 June:Canadian police arrest 17 in the greater Toronto area in alleged Mus-