Incident Date:
April 15, 2012 13:45
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Kabul Afghanistan
Perpetrators: Haqqani Network
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Suicide)
Organization Type: Religious,
Suicide Attack: Yes
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Diplomatic(Embassies/Consulates)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 31 injuries
Perpetrators: 17 fatalities
Description: "04/15/2012: At 1:45 p.m., the Taliban conducted coordinated attacks against several Western Embassies in Kabul's diplomatic quarter. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid credited a ""spring offensive"" that it had planned for months. Local police captured two terrorists with suicide bomb vests and destroyed a car bomb near the Parliament building. Two rockets hit a British Embassy guard tower and a rocket-propelled grenade landed outside the front gate of a house used by British diplomats. Rockets were also fired at the Russian, U.K., German, and Canadian Embassies and the Parliament building. Fighting was reported at seven locations. Three rockets hit a supermarket that is popular with foreigners near the German Embassy. The Taliban attacked the Star Hotel complex near the Presidential palace and the Iranian Embassy. Gun battles went on for at least 14 hours. The Interior Ministry said 17 terrorists were killed, and 17 police officers and 14 civilians were injured in the attacks in Kabul and several outlying areas. There was a total of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day. (According to Jane's Database, 51 people, including 36 perpetrators, were killed and 74 others were wounded.) The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the attacks."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F. (2013). Terrorism, 2008-2012: A Worldwide Chronology. North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers. p. 234-235"
2) ITERATE
3) GTD 1970-2012 data file
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