Incident Date:
October 29, 2011 11:20
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Kabul Afghanistan
Perpetrators: Taliban
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Vehicle)
Organization Type: Religious,
Suicide Attack: Yes
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: Yes
Target Information
1- Military(Military Transportation/Vehicles (excluding specific mentions of convoys))
2- Police(Government employees (excluding police/military))
3- Private Citizens & Property(Unnamed Civilians/Unspecified)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: Yes
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 20 fatalities, 8 injuries
Perpetrators: 1 involved, 1 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "10/20/2011: At about 11:20 a.m. in Kabul, Afghanistan, a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device after ramming a United States (U.S.) military transport bus. The attack killed four U.S. soldiers, one Canadian soldier, eight contractors (five United States; two United Kingdom; one Kosovan), three civilians, three children, and one police officer, wounding eight civilians. The attack also damaged one bus and at least one building used by Afghan Members of Parliament. Among the dead was Canadian Master Cpl. Byron Greff. The Taliban claimed responsibility and claimed that 1,500 pounds of explosives were used."
References: 1) WITS
2) "Mickolus, Edward F. (2013). Terrorism, 2008-2012: A Worldwide Chronology. North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers. p. 209"
3) ITERATE
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