| 498 terror attacks were carried out across Europe in 2006. One, which failed, was by an Islamist organization. But Islamist terror is still a major issue. Islamist groups aim at high civilian fatalities, whereas most of the cases listed here were nonlethal. |
| There were almost 500 acts of terrorism across the European Union in 2006 — but only one, the foiled suitcase bomb plot in Germany, was related to Islamist terror, a new EU report reveals. Meanwhile the trial of one of the main suspects in the German plot has been adjourned in Lebanon. |
According to a report released Tuesday by Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement organization, 498 attacks were carried out in the EU in 2006. Of them, only one –
the failed suitcase bomb attacks in Germany — was perpetrated by Islamist terrorists. |
| The vast majority of terrorist attacks were carried out by separatist terror groups targeting France and Spain. Almost all attacks “resulted only in material damage and were not intended to kill,” the report’s authors write. |
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