List of terrorist incidents in 1971
This is a timeline of incidents in 1971 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces.
Guidelines
- To be included, entries must be notable and described by a consensus of as "terrorism".
- List entries must comply with the guidelines outlined in the manual of style under.
- Casualties figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident including immediate casualties and later casualties.
- Casualties listed are the victims. Perpetrator casualties are listed separately.
- Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus sign indicates that at least that many people have died – the actual toll could be considerably higher. A figure with a plus sign may also indicate that over that number of people are victims.
- If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined.
- Incidents are limited to one per location per day. If multiple attacks occur in the same place on the same day, they will be merged into a single incident.
- In addition to the guidelines above, the table also includes the following categories:
List
| Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator | Part of |
| Shootings, bombings | 3 | 6 | United States | During this year, The Black Liberation Army is suspected of killing three policemen, shooting four others, opening fire on three patrol cars and rolling a grenade which heavily damaged a police car and injured two officers. An attempt is made to bomb a police station. These incidents happen in various cities around the country. In August the group runs a one-month-long guerrilla warfare school in Fayetteville, Georgia. Seven arrested in January 2007 in relation to the shooting of the policeman at his desk. | Black Liberation Army | ||
| January 2 | Grenade | 2 | 2 | Gaza Strip | Members of the Palestine Liberation Organization threw a grenade into a random car in the Gaza Strip, killing two children. | PLO | Israel-Palestine conflict |
| January 8 | Kidnapping | 0 | 1 | Montevideo, Uruguay | Kidnapping of the British ambassador Geoffrey Jackson. | Tupamaros | |
| February 6 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | A British soldier was killed in New Lodge district, this was the first British soldier who died in Northern Ireland since the 20s | Provisional IRA | The Troubles |
| February 15 | Arson,Vandalism | 0 | 1 | Tucumán, Argentina | Was an action of the Montoneros guerrilla that occurred on February 15, in which members of this organization assaulted the Casa de Tucumán where in 1816 was declared the Independence of Argentina. In its interiors they made several graffiti with aerosol. In the assault took part 4 guerrilleros who after the attack fled in a car. | Montoneros | |
| April 1 | Bombing | 0 | 0 | Saint-Malo, France | A bomb exploded In the customs offices of Saint-Malo, in the region of Brittany | ARB | |
| April 7 | Torture murder | 1 | 0 | Stockholm, Sweden | Miro Baresic and another Ustasa-supporter takes the Yugoslavian ambassador hostage at the embassy in Stockholm. They tie a rope to his neck around a chair, fire shots against his head and body until he bleeds and chokes to death. First terror act on Swedish soil by foreigners made this deed become very big in the media. | Miro Baresic Anđelko Brajković | |
| April 29 | Shooting | 1 | 1 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | A assault eld on National Route 8 near the location of Pilar, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, against a military truck that transported weapons and ammunition to the military garrison of Campo de Mayo by a group of about thirty people belonging to the organization Guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces that killed a lieutenant and seriously wounded a conscript soldier and stole the cargo, including 193.45 caliber pistols and 344 spare chargers, and those traveling in the truck, three pistols, two Halcon M-1943 submachine guns and three FN FAL rifles. | FAR | Dirty War |
| June 8 | Assassination | 1 | 0 | Santiago, Chile | The group Vanguardia Organizada del Pueblo, an ultra-left movement, whose members were formerly pardoned by President Allende, murdered former Interior Minister Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, in retaliation for the responsibility attributed to him by the so-called " Massacre of Port Mountt". | :e:Vanguardia Organizada del Pueblo|Vanguardia Organizada del Pueblo | |
| August 21 | Bombing | 9 | 95 | Manila, Philippines | Plaza Miranda bombing kills nine at a rally of the Liberal Party in Manilla. | Communist Party of the Philippines | |
| September 26 | Shooting | 10 | Unknown | Tolima, Colombia | At the site known as San Miguel in rural Gaitania members of the FARC attack a patrol of 23 soldiers assigned to the Caicedo Battalion. 10 uniformed men die in action. | FARC | Colombian Conflict |
| October 31 | Bombing | 0 | 0 | London, United Kingdom | A bomb explodes in the Post Office Tower in London, causing extensive damage but no injuries. The "Kilburn Battalion" of the IRA claimed responsibility for the explosion. The attack was later attributed to the Angry Brigade, it remains unclear who was responsible. | Unclear | |
| December 4 | Bombing | 15 | 17 | Belfast, United Kingdom | The Protestant Ulster Volunteer Force bomb McGurk's bar in Belfast, in a Catholic neighbourhood, killing 15 and injuring 17. | Ulster Volunteer Force | The Troubles |
| December 11 | Bombing | 4 | 19 | Belfast, United Kingdom | To retaliate for the McGurk's bar bombing, the Provisional IRA set off a bomb in front of a furniture showroom in the mainly Protestant Shankill Road area, killing 4 and injuring 19. | Provisional IRA | The Troubles |
| December 21 | Assassination | 1 | 0 | Uruguay | Killing of rural laborer Pascasio Báez by sodium pentothal injection. | Tupamaros |