PARIS, Sept 10 (AFP) - The following is a list of the main attacks attributed to Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda group, or claimed by them, since 1993:
February 26, 1993: An explosion in the basement of the World Trade Center towers in New York kills six people and injures about 1,000. The blast causes major damage to the buildings' foundations; some 55,000 people are working in the towers at the time.
November 13, 1995: A car bomb explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in front of a building of the Saudi National Guard where US military advisors work. Five US soldiers and two Indian nationals are killed and more than 60 people wounded.
June 25, 1996: A truck loaded with two tonnes of explosives destroys a building at the US military base of Khobar near the town of Dhahran in Saudi Arabia. Nineteen US nationals are killed and 386 are wounded.
August 7, 1998: US embassies in the east African cities of Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam are hit by near-simultaneous bomb attacks which kill 224 people, almost all of them Africans, and injure over 5,000. The toll in Nairobi is 213 dead and over 5,000 injured; in Dar-es-Salaam 11 dead and over 70 injured. Of the total dead, 12 are US nationals.
October 12, 2000: A suicide attack on the destroyer USS Cole kills 17 US sailors and injures 38 in the Yemeni port of Aden.
September 11, 2001: Hijacked US airliners crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, which collapse shortly afterwards. A third hijacked plane crashes into the Pentagon outside Washington, while a fourth comes down in open countryside in rural Pennsylvania. According to the latest toll, the attacks killed 2,978 people. On December 13 Washington releases a video tape showing bin Laden claiming responsibility for the attacks.
April 11, 2002: A truck bomb explodes outside a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, killing 21 people, 14 of them German visitors. The attack is claimed by al-Qaeda military leader Abdel Azim al-Mouhajar.
May 8, 2002: A suicide car bomb attack on a bus in Karachi, Pakistan, kills 14 people, 11 of them French expatriate workers, and injures 23.
October 6, 2002: A French oil tanker is damaged in an attack off the coast of Yemen. One crew member is killed.
October 12, 2002: A car packed with explosives slams into a nightclub on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, leaving 202 dead and 300 injured, mostly Australians. The attack is blamed on the Jemaah Islamiyah, suspected of links to al-Qaeda.
November 28, 2002: Eighteen people are killed in a suicide attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya. Shortly afterwards an Israeli airliner escapes unscathed when two missiles are fired at it as it takes off from Mombasa.
May 12, 2003: A three-pronged suicide attack on a residential complex in Saudi Arabia leaves 35 dead -- nine of them Americans -- and 194 injured. Washington and Riyadh blame al-Qaeda for the attack.
May 16, 2003: Near-simultaneous bombings at restaurants, hotels and Jewish institutions in Casablanca, Morocco, leave 45 people dead and around 100 injured. The attacks are blamed on a local affiliate of Al-Qaeda.
August 5, 2003: A car bomb kills 12 people and injures 150 at the US-run Marriott hotel in Jakarta. It is blamed on the Jemaah Islamiyah.
November 12 and 20, 2003: A series of suicide bomb attacks on Jewish synagogues and then on British institutions in Istanbul kill a total of 63 people, including Britain's consul-general, and injure hundreds.
February 1, 2004: Suicide attacks against the offices of two Iraqi Kurdish parties in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil kill 105 people. The US-led coalition blames the attacks on a local affiliate of Al-Qaeda.
March 11, 2004: Bombs placed on rush-hour suburban trains around Madrid kill a total of 191 people and injure nearly 2,000.
May 29-30, 2004: A series of attacks and a hostage taking in the Saudi city of Khobar kill 22 people and injure 25, many of them foreigners.
June 24, 2004: A series of bomb attacks on Iraqi police forces leave over 100 dead and 300 injured in Sunni Muslim towns north and west of Baghdad. The US-led coalition blames them on an Al-Qaeda offshoot.
July 28, 2004: A suicide attack on a police building at Baquba in northern Iraq kills 70 people and injures 56.
September 9, 2004: A bomb attack outside Australia's embassy in the Indonesian capital Jakarta kills nine people and injures over 180. Officials blame Jemaah Islamiyah, believed to be linked to Al-Qaeda.