On May 23, 2000 Hizbul Mujahideen took responsibility for a bomb that went off on a golf course where India’s Chief Minister for Kashmir had been playing.
Author: Phil Gurski
Phil Gurski is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. Phil is a 32-year veteran of CSE and CSIS and the author of six books on terrorism.
On May 22, 2018 an IED planted by a Mexican anarchist group exploded at an ATM in Oaxaca, causing little damage and no casualties.
On May 21, 2004 a bomb injured the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh while he was visiting the Shah Jalal shrine, killing two.
On May 20, 2010 two US police officers in Arkansas were shot and killed during a traffic stop by a father and son duo later identified as sovereign citizens.
On May 19, 2002 a suicide bomber disguised as a soldier killed himself and three others, and wounded another 59, in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya.
On May 18, 2016 ISIS executed 25 people it accused of spying by placing them in a large tub containing nitric acid.
Terrorism analysis and predictions often fall well short of their mark, making us wonder why all this work is done in the first place.
On May 17, 1998 the mayor of the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna was killed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
On May 16, 2009 an unknown person threw two bottles of acid into a crowd in a popular shopping district in downtown Hong Kong, injuring 30 people.
On May 15, 2000 the Colombian FARC put an explosive collar around the neck of a woman, killing her and a man who tried to neutralise the device.