List of terrorist incidents, 1990

List of terrorist incidents, 1990

The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1990.

*flagicon|Colombia January 6: A car bomb explodes outside private offices in Bogotá. While no casualties are reported, the office belonged to the son of the personal secretary of Colombian president, Virgilio Barco. [
http://www.aparchive.com/user/GetOneUp.aspx?id=w042533&links=BOMB,COLOMBIA,USABL&media=Text&pu=h Untitled] , January 8, 1990
]
*flagicon|United Kingdom February: The IRA detonate a bomb at Leicester Army Recruiting Office. MP Keith Vaz suggests that the army may have planted the bomb. [BBC: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1137824.stm Keith Vaz: Minister and networker] , "Profile of Keith Vaz", January 26, 2001]
*flagicon|United Kingdom February 12: The IRA shoot down a British army helicopter in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, near the border with the Republic of Ireland. [
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2D8143DF931A25751C0A966958260 Copter Forced Down in Ulster] , "The New York Times",February 12, 1990
]
*flagicon|Colombia April 6: Colombian police defuse a truck containing more than a half-ton of explosives in a wealthy residential area of Bogotá. The truck had been parked in front of a high school and was set to go off during the morning rush. [AP, April 6, 1990]
*flagicon|Colombia April 11: A bomb kills 14 and injures 100 in Medellín. The bomb was directed at a group of Elite Police and it is blamed on the Medellín Cartel, which had offered $100,000 for every anti-terrorism police killed and $ 4,500 for every regular policeman assassinated. [
http://www.aparchive.com/user/GetOneUp.aspx?id=w043556&links=BOMB,COLOMBIA,USABL&media=Text&pu=h Untitled] , April 16, 1990
]
*flagicon|Colombia April 25: A car bomb kills nine in Medellín. Authorities believe the Medellín Cartel is responsible. The next day, presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro Leongómez is assassinated while onboard a commercial airliner. [
http://www.aparchive.com/user/GetOneUp.aspx?id=w043703&links=BOMB,COLOMBIA,USABL&media=Text&pu=h Untitled] , April 30, 1990
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*flagicon|Colombia April 25: A bomb hidden in a dump truck kills six and injures at least 36 in Bogotá. [AP, April 26, 1990]
*flagicon|Colombia May 4: A bomb exploded in front of a pharmacy in Cali, killing four and wounding 20. It is blamed on the ongoing war between the two rival drug cartels in Colombia.
*flagicon|Colombia May 7: A car bomb kills one and injures five, outside a government building in Pereira, capital of Risaralda State. No group claims responsibility but the government blames drug lords who declared war on the country nine months earlier. [San Jose Mercuary News, May 8, 1990]
*flagicon|Colombia May 13: Two car bombs explode simultaneously in the Quirigua and Niza shopping malls during Mother's Day in Bogotá killing 19, including six children, and wounding 140, while another bomb exploded in a restaurant in Cali, killing six and injuring 20. Authorities say the Medellín Cartel is to blame for the attacks. [The Washington Post, May 13, 1990, Douglas Farah]
*flagicon|United Kingdom May 16 The IRA detonate a bomb under a military minibus in London, killing Sgt Charles Chapman, and injuring four other soldiers. [House of Commons (UK): [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199596/cmhansrd/vo960304/text/60304w13.htm Terrorist Incidents] , Hansard for Session 1995-96, Vol 273, March 4, 1996]
*flagicon|Colombia May 17: A bomb inside a shopping mall in Cartagena wounds 22. The Medellín Cartel is blamed. [AP, May 18, 1990]
*flagicon|Colombia May 25: A suicide bomber detonates a car bomb when stopped by police, killing himself and three others in Medellín. [Reuters, May 25, 1990]
*flagicon|United Kingdomflagicon|Germany June 1: A British Royal Artillery officer is assassinated by the IRA in Dortmund in West Germany. [Malcolm Sutton: [http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1990.html An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland] , Conflict Archive on the INternet (CAIN)]
*flagicon|Colombia June 15: A car bomb kills four near a police station in Medellín. Authorities blame the Medellín Cartel which had previously pledged to murder police in retaliation to the government's anti-drug policies. [
http://www.aparchive.com/user/GetOneUp.aspx?id=w044226&links=BOMB,COLOMBIA,USABL&media=Text&pu=h Untitled] , June 18, 1990
]
*flagicon|Colombia June 29: A car bomb kills 14 and injures 30 in Medellín. The Medellín Cartel is blamed by authorities. [
http://www.aparchive.com/user/GetOneUp.aspx?id=w044356&links=BOMB,COLOMBIA,USABL&media=Text&pu=h Untitled] , July 2, 1990
]
*flagicon|Colombia July 15: A round of terrorist attacks leaves 40 dead in Medellín. Another bomb exploded in Puerto Asís, killing six and injuring five. [AP, July 16, 1990]
*flagicon|United Kingdom July 20: The IRA detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange causing damage to the building. Nobody was injured in the blast. [BBC: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20/newsid_2515000/2515667.stm 1990: IRA bombs Stock Exchange] , "On this day", July 20, 1990]
*flagicon|United Kingdom July 30: Ian Gow MP killed by a car bomb planted by the IRA while at his home in Sussex.
*flagicon|USSR August 10: A bus going from Tbilisi, Georgia to Agdam, Azerbaijan is blown up. Twenty people die and 33 are injured.
*flagicon|United Kingdom October 24: A series of car bombings directed by the IRA in Northern Ireland leave six British soldiers and a civilian dead and 37 wounded.
*flagicon|Israel PLF attack in the beaches on Tel Aviv.
*flagicon|Israel PLO attack on the US embassy.
*flagicon|Colombia September: Rebels bomb two sections of Colombia's Caño Limón pipeline. It is the fourth attack against the pipeline in two weeks, and rebel group ELN claims responsibility. [The Miami Herald, September 16, 1990]
*flagicon|United States November 5: Assassination of Meir Kahane head of Israel's Koch party and founder of the American vigilante group the Jewish Defense League in a Manhattan, New York hotel lobby by early elements of Al Queda.
*flagicon|Colombia December 13: A remote control bomb kills seven police officer and injures 23 more in Medellín. Authorities blame the Medellín Cartel for the attack. [St. Louis Post Dispatch, December 14, 1990, Page 15A]

ee also

*List of terrorist incidents

References


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