Apart from 9/11, which other attacks have been attributed to al-Qaeda?

1992: Hotel bombings in Aden, Yemen (2 killed, 7 injured)

1993: First World Trade Center bombing, New York, USA (6 killed, 1,042 injured)

1998: US Embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya (212 killed, around 4,000 injured) and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania (11 killed, 85 injured)

2000: Attack on the USS Cole, Aden harbour, Yemen (19 killed, 39 injured)

2003: Truck bombings in Istanbul, Turkey (57 killed, 700 injured)

2003-6: Attacks in Iraq on UN, US and Shi’ite targets by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s ‘al-Qaeda in Iraq’ (thousands killed and injured)

2007: Car bombings in Algiers, Algeria (roughly 90 killed, 350 injured)

2008: Danish Embassy bombings in Islamabad, Pakistan (6 killed, 24 injured)

advocated offensive jihad to rid the world of non-Muslim influences. He also declared that any Muslim not living under Sharia law is automatically an apostate (i.e. guilty of renouncing their faith), a crime punishable by death. This idea has been used by al-Qaeda to justify the killing of fellow Muslims. Bin Laden has been quoted as saying that Afghanistan under the Taleban regime of 1996-2001 was the ‘only Islamic country’ in the world.

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