September
| Date | Dead | Injured | Location and description |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 4 | 21 | 74 | Two bomb blasts, one on a bus carrying government employees, kill at least 21 people and wound 74 in Rawalpindi. |
| September 4 | Three men are arrested and more are being sought on suspicion of planning attacks (potentially much larger than the London or Madrid bombings) on the Frankfurt International Airport, the U.S. military base in Ramstein, and pubs and schools frequented by Americans. The German Defense minister says, "There was an imminent threat." Two of the suspects are said to be connected to a German cell of Islamic Jihad with likely Al Qaeda ties. Two others are Muslim converts and have German citizenship, while the third is Pakistani. See 2007 bomb plot in Germany. | ||
| September 4 | Eight men with alleged links to leading senior Al Qaeda terrorists are arrested, the country's intelligence service said, claiming to have thwarted a bomb plot. The arrests occur without incident in raids on eleven locations in and around Copenhagen. The suspects are of Afghan, Pakistani, Somali, and Turkish origin. | ||
| September 6 | A bombing targets President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's motorcade. | ||
| September 29 | 12 | A bomb explodes in the Maldivian capital, Malé, injuring twelve foreign tourists. |
Read more about this topic: List Of Terrorist Incidents, 2007
Famous quotes containing the word september:
“April is in my mistress’ face,
And July in her eyes hath place,
Within her bosom is September,
But in her heart a cold December.”
—Unknown. Subject #4: July Subject #5: September Subject #6: December. All Seasons in One. . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932)
“On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“This seems a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek.... From this September afternoon, and from between these now cultivated shores, those times seemed more remote than the dark ages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)