As we remember the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I am posting my second article in this series on how widespread non-military bombing attacks are in today’s world.
See the first part in this series here, and below are some initial observations from the first ten days:

• There are bomb threats and scares across America everyday, although rarely any explosions that result in death or injury. (This may be widespread outside America, but if so, there is no reporting of it in English.)
• Iraq sees the most frequet and deadly bombings, followed by Afghanistan, but all of South Asia together matches the carnage in Iraq.
• The number of bombing attacks in Afghanistan is rising fast, although the UN reports that as many as 80% of the bombers are actually from Pakistan.
• Thailand sees regular bombings, both in the Muslim south and near the Burmese border, and Algeria has recently seen heavy casualties from several bombings.
• That sub-Saharan Africa is blank unfortunately doesn’t mean it is free of bombing. Many countries such as central Africa and the horn face regular bombings, but reports simply aren’t accurate enough to state locations and casualties. Also, there are other countries in the world where media freedom is non-existent and bombings may be covered up.
• Death counts and the number of those injured are typically inaccurate in the first few days.　　I have updated some numbers upwards as the body count is corrected.

Cumulative map of non-military bombings this month. Thanks to YH for the idea of using google maps to track the bombings, which readers can search and interact. View Larger Map

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• 9/5 – Badhdad, Iraq: 3 dead, 2 injured. Three American soldiers were killed and two wounded after a roadside bomb killed a routine patrol in Baghdad in the east of the city.

• 9/5 – North Caucasus, Russia, no dead or injured. The explosion of what was likely a homemade bomb ruptured a natural-gas pipeline in the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, cutting supplies to about 200 homes.

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• 9/6 – Helmand Province, Afghanistan: 2 dead, 2 injured. Two British soldiers were killed by an improvised bomb in southern Afghanistan. A third British soldier and a civilian interpreter serving with NATO forces were also wounded in the attack.

• 9/6 – Yula Province, Thailand: 5 dead, 5 injured. Two police officers were killed in seperate bombing incidents and three officers were wounded when insurgents detonated roadside bombs in Yala province. Another attack in Narathiwat killed 3 and injured 2.

• 9/6 – Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1 injured. An executive of the multinational food giant Nestle was seriously wounded when a letter bomb exploded in his hands at the firm’s base near Buenos Aires.

• 9/6 – Batna, Algeria: 14 dead, 60 wounded. A suicide bomber killed 14 and injured many more when he blew himself up in the Algerian town of Batna on Thursday shortly before a scheduled visit by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

• 9/6 – Leavenworth, Kansas, USA: no dead or injured. A bomb exploded at an alternative high school in Leavenworth while technicians were trying to defuse it by trying to use a water cannon to break the bomb apart. It exploded, causing minor damage inside the school and no deaths or injuries.

• 9/6 – Assam, India: no dead or injured. Militants exploded two bombs damaging some electric posts in two areas of this sub divisional headquarters bordering with Cachar district of Assam late last night, official reports said.

• 9/6 – Mogadishu, Somalia – no dead or injured. Armed groups attacked the madina hotel in south Mogadishu. The hotel was housing delegates attending a peace reconciliation congress.

• 9/6 – Karachi, Pakistan: 15 injured. Fifteen people were injured in an explosion said to be a bomb while they were waiting near the Karachi international airport.

• 9/6 – Southern Afghanistan: 2 dead, others injured.

• 9/6 – Al Zaafarania, Iraq: 2 dead, 3 wounded. Two civilians were dead and 3 others wounded when a bomb blasted.

• 9/6 – Tikrti, Iraq: 2 dead, 4 wounded. Two civilians at least were dead and 4 others wounded when a booby trapped car which aims a Police Patrol blasted at the middle of the city.

• 9/6 – Baghdad, Iraq: 4 injured. In eastern Baghdad, a roadside bomb aimed at a U.S. patrol exploded in a neighborhood just west of the Shiite slum Sadr City. The bomb wounded four civilians and damaged a civilian car, and U.S. troops sealed off the area.

• 9/6 – Mesa, Arizana, USA: no dead or injured.

• 9/6 – Bajeur, Pakistan: no dead or injured. A bomb destoys several shops, after five soldiers were killed in the same city 5 days before.

• 9/6 – Ninevah, Iraq: 3 dead. Three US soldiers died when a bomb exploded near their vehicle in Ninevah, a northern province that includes Iraq’s third-largest city Mosul.

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• 9/7 – Nellore, India: 3 dead, 4 injured. Three people were killed and four injured in a bomb blast in Nellore, near the convoy of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Janardhan Reddy.

• 9/7 – Andhra Pradesh, India: 3 dead. Maoist rebels killed three people in a landmine attack in India’s south on Friday but missed a regional politician they were targeting.

• 9/7 – Birgunj, Nepal: no dead or injured. A bomb exploded in Birgunj while two others were diffused by the security personnel. This was the second blast in a week after a 17 month lull in bombings in Nepal. The Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha, an ethnic Maoist splinter group, claimed responsibility.

• 9/7 – Bannu, Pakistan: no dead or injured. A powerful bomb blast Friday destroyed 48 unoccupied shops in a downtown market, 33 of them selling music and movie CDs.

• 9/7 – Mogadishu, Somalia: 1 dead. The governor of Hiran Region in central Somalia, Yusuf Ahmed Hagar narrowly escaped death after a grenade bomb was thrown to a car he was in. It is yet unclear the objective behind the plot of the governor which is the first of its kind.

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• 9/8 – Peshawar, Pakistan: 24 injured. A car bomb exploded in the parking lot of a military-owned bank in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, wounding 24 people.

• 9/8 – Dellys, Algeria: 28 killed, 60 injured. A booby-trapped car exploded at a barracks housing coast guard officials. Most victims were coast guard personnel. The suicide attacker rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the compound’s gate.

• 9/8 – Baghdad, Iraq: 15 dead, 30 injured. A car bomb in Baghdad has killed ten people and wounded at least 30 according to police.

• 9/8 – Kufa, Iraq: 4 dead, 7 injured. A bomb believed hidden in a bag killed four people, including two children, in a busy market place in the Iraqi Shiite holy town of Kufa.

• 9/8 – Vantaa, Finland: 1 injured. Three teenage boys detonated a small home-made bomb in the parking garage of Myyrmanni Shopping Centre in Vantaa on Saturday. One of the boys was mildly injured during the incident and the structure was undamaged.

• 9/8 – Helmand, Afghanistan: 1 dead, 2 injured. In another incident in Helmand, one security guard was killed and two others were wounded when a Taliban suicide bomber blow himself up near their parked vehicle on Saturday, the interior ministry in Kabul said.

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• 9/9 – Balad, Iraq: 4 dead, 15 inured. Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and 15 injured in a suicide bombing outside a military checkpoint in Balad, 70 kilometres north of Baghdad.

• 9/9 – Mahmudiya, Iraq: 2 dead, 7 injured. A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in Mahmudiya, 35 kilometres south of Baghdad.

• 9/9 – Veracruz, Mexico: no dead or injured. A natural gas pipeline in the Mexican state of Veracruz was attacked by multiple timed explosives set by saboteurs. Fires raged at the sites, and authorities evacuated some 24,000 people from the areas near the explosions.

• 9/9 – Bajur, Pakistan: Masked militants stormed a military post in Bajur, abducted two soldiers and bombed the building.

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• 9/10 – Logrono, Spain: no dead or injured. A car bomb parked with 60kg of explosives near a Defence Ministry building failed after only the detonator ignited.

• 9/10 – Gereshk, Afghanistan: at least 26 dead, at least 40 injured. In one of the deadliest suicide attacks in Afghanistan this year, at least one suicide bomber killed and maimed policemen and pedestrians.

• 9/10 – Mosul, Iraq: 10 dead, 60 injured. More civilians were killed in a suicide truck bomb attack in a village near Mosul in northern Iraq on Monday, a local police source said.

• 9/10 – Baghdad, Iraq: 15 killed, 45 injured. A parked car exploded near a police station in Baghdad’s Shi’ite area of Sadr City at dusk when people were shopping.

• 9/10 – Moscow, Russia: 3 injured. A homemade bomb placed in a car exploded in downtown Moscow is believed to have been a criminal attack, injuring two Russian businessman and a pedestrian.

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