In 2010, the Babylon and the Sheraton were hit in a coordinated bombing attack.
The next day, terrorism shattered the festive mood as a coordinated bombing attack in the London Underground and on a double-decker bus left 52 people dead and hundreds wounded.
Perhaps the most surprising about-turn came in Britain, a country that has long considered itself among the most immigrant-friendly in Europe until a series of coordinated bomb attacks in London six years ago.
– At least 25 people died during a series of coordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad.
Top Muslim clerics and political leaders united Monday behind Iraq's Christians, condemning the coordinated bomb attacks on five churches the day before as a dangerous escalation of the war and an assault on centuries of coexistence between Christians and Muslims here.
PAGE B7 Bombs Kill 2 in Uzbekistan At least two people were killed in coordinated bomb attacks outside the American and Israeli Embassies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Just three weeks later, there were four more coordinated bomb attacks on the London subway system.
The coordinated bombing attack was the first in several years after Indonesian government coordinated with Australian and other Western authorities to tackle terrorist threats from militant Islamic groups.
Aside from the physical damage it wrought, the coordinated bombing attack by suspected al-Qaida operatives revived fears among the Yezidi community, one of the region's oldest ethno-religious groups, of annihilation at the hands of their religious enemies - in this case, Sunni extremists.
They have argued instead that the coordinated bombing attacks that killed at least 56 people are part of a continuing worldwide campaign of anti-Western violence by Al Qaeda and Qaeda-influenced groups that predates the American-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
The Taliban threat is very real: only last week, the frontrunner, presidential candidate Dr Abdullah Abdullah narrowly survived a coordinated suicide bomb attack which killed three of his staff and a number of bystanders, reducing his armored car to a shrapnel-peppered hunk of charred steel.
