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Al-Qaeda attacks (also al-Qa'ida) began on December 29, 1992, when bombs at two hotels in Aden, Yemen, killed two Austrian tourists. The blasts were targeting United States servicemen going to Somalia.1
The following list is of acts alleged to have been executed by al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda does not take credit for most of them, resulting in ambiguity over how many attacks the group has actually conducted. After the United States declaration of the War on Terrorism in 2001, the U.S. government has striven to highlight any connections between other militant groups and al-Qaeda. Some prefer to attribute to al-Qaedaism actions that might not be directly planned by al-Qaeda as a military headquarters but that are inspired by its tenets and strategies.
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Operation Bojinka
Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheik Mohammed planned Operation Bojinka, a plot to destroy airplanes in mid-Pacific flight using explosives. An apartment fire in Manila, Philippines exposed the plan before it could be carried out. Yousef was arrested, but Mohammed evaded capture until 2003. They tested their attacks on the Philippine Airlines Flight 434.
1998 U.S.-embassy bombings
Al-Qaeda is believed to have conducted the bombings in August 1998 of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing more than 200 people and injuring more than 5,000 others.
1999 and 2000 attacks
In December 1999 and into 2000, al-Qaeda planned attacks against U.S. and Israeli tourists visiting Jordan for millennial celebrations; however, Jordanian authorities thwarted the planned attacks and put 28 suspects on trial. Part of this plot included the planned bombing of LAX, but this plot was foiled when bomber Ahmed Ressam was caught at the US-Canadian border with explosives in the trunk of his car. Al-Qaeda also planned to attack the USS The Sullivans on January 3, 2000, but the effort failed due to too much weight being put on the small boat meant to bomb the ship.
Despite the setback with the USS The Sullivans, al-Qaeda succeeded in bombing a U.S. warship in October 2000 with the USS Cole bombing. German police foiled a plot to destroy a cathedral in Strasbourg, France in December 2000.
- Rizal Day Bombings in the Philippines (2000)
September 11, 2001, attacks
The most destructive act ascribed to al-Qaeda was the series of attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. These attacks destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon in a series of suicide hijacking of airplanes. Bin Laden did take credit for the attacks days before the 2004 Presidential Election.
Other attacks, 2001–2003
Among other attacks ascribed to al-Qaeda and its affiliates are these:
- Paris embassy attack plot (2001)
- Singapore embassies attack plot (2001)
- Kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (2002)
- Ghriba synagogue bombing in Djerba, Tunisia (2002)
- Foiled bombings of Western warships in the Strait of Gibraltar (2002)
- Limburg tanker bombing (2002)
- Kenyan hotel bombing in Mombasa and the attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner (2002)
- Riyadh Compound Bombings (2003)
- 2003 Istanbul bombings
2005 Jordan attacks
Al-Qaeda in Iraq is suspected in the November 9, 2005 Amman, Jordan attacks in which three simultaneous bombings occurred at American franchise-owned hotels in Amman. The blasts killed 57 and injured 120 people. Most of the injured and killed were attending a wedding at the Radisson Hotel. The targeting of celebrating Muslim civilians cost al-Zarqawi (the man believed to have planned the attacks) greatly in Jordanian public opinion, and to a lesser extent in Arab public opinion as a whole.
2007 Algiers bombings
Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb claimed to have been responsible for the April 11, 2007 Algiers bombings. Two bombs exploded within a short time of each other, one at the prime ministers office and the other at a police station. The blasts killed 33 people. It was the first time a bombing had occurred in the capital in more than a decade.
2008 Danish-embassy bombing
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Danish embassy in Pakistan on 2 June 2008. A car bomb killed six persons and injuring several. Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a high-ranking member of Al-Qaeda, issued a statement on 5 June, claiming that the attack was a response to the 2005 publication of the Muhammed Cartoons.2
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