ICT Report: Monthly Terrorist Activities
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Periodical Report: Summary of Terrorist Incidents and Counter-Terrorist Operations Worldwide, June 2013
By ICT
The following is a summary and analysis of the terrorist attacks and counter-terrorism operations that occurred during June 2013, researched and recorded by the ICT Database Team. The following are among the most important events occurring this month:
- On 1 June, authorities arrested five Al-Qaeda linked militants in Baghdad, Iraq suspected of plotting to carry out poison gas attacks in the Middle East, Europe and North America. Authorities seized remote-controlled toy planes that were intended to distribute the chemicals.
- On 10 June, 70 people were killed and 114 others injured, in a series of attacks in central and northern Iraq. The majority of attacks targeted security forces and police in Mosul where 36 people were killed and 122 wounded in car bombings, shootings and clashes.
- On 10-11 June, Taliban militants carried out two large scale attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan. In the first attack, militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns launched a rare assault on NATO’s operational headquarters at the military section of Kabul’s international airport. However there were no casualties except the attackers. The next day, a suicide car bomber killed 17 people and wounded 40 others outside the Supreme Court.
- On 21 June, eight suspected Al-Qaeda militants were arrested in the Spanish territory of Ceuta, Morocco on suspicion of recruiting militants to join the Jabhat al-Nusra front and the Islamic State in Iraq.
- On 23 June, ten armed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants, disguised as members of the local paramilitary police, ambushed the base camp at the foot of Nanga Parbat, Pakistan killing 10 climbers and a local guide. One person survived.
- On 30 June, a series of attacks in Pakistan killed 50 people and injured 119 others. Police said that the worst attack occurred in Quetta in a Shia Muslim mosque resulting in the deaths of 28 people and wounding 65 others.
- On 25 June, authorities dismantled a cell who was intending to use remote-controlled model airplanes filled with explosives to carry out attacks in Germany. Raids were carried out in Stuttgart, Saxony, Munich and at unspecified locations in Belgium. Two men of Tunisian origin were the target of raids. Four other men were arrested, and another man was charged with of money laundering.
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