Car bomb: Timeline

1981   A car bomb destroys the Iraq Iraq

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i Embassy in Beirut Beirut

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, Lebanon Lebanon

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, killing 61 people. This is the first modern suicide bombing. Syria Syria

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n intelligence is blamed.

1986   A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne Melbourne

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, killing a police officer.

1990   An IRA Provisional Irish Republican Army

he Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish Republican [i] paramilitary [i] organisation which, un ... 

 car bomb kills British M.P. Ian Gow, a staunch unionist.

2002   In Karachi, Pakistan Pakistan

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, a car bomb in front of the U.S. Consulate kills 12 Pakistanis and injures 50.

2002   A car bomb kills at least 30 people in Afghanistan Afghanistan

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, and an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai

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 fails the same day.

2003   Two car bombs explode simultaneously in Istanbul Istanbul

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, Turkey, targeting 2 synagogues, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 300; Al-Qaida claims responsibility.

2004   At least 50 people are killed in a car bomb attack on a police recruitment centre south of Baghdad Baghdad

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2004   Two car bombs kill at least 16 people and injure dozens more in Baghdad Baghdad

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2005   An ETA ETA

or ETA is a paramilitary Basque nationalist [i] organization listed as a terrorist [i] organization bo ... 

 car bomb injures 31 people at a conference centre in Madrid Madrid

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