The followings is a list of WBIED attacks:

• In August 2005, Turkish authorities arrested Louai Sakka, a senior al-Qaeda operative when a one-ton bomb he designed detonated prematurely. Sakka had intended to place the bomb on a yacht and ram a cruise ship carrying vacationing Israeli and S. soldiers on rest and recreation in Antalya, Turkey.

• In April 2004, terrorists using two fishing dhows packed with explosives attacked an Iraqi offshore oil terminal in the North Arabian Gulf, killing one U.S. Coast Guardsman and two U.S. Navy sailors protecting the terminal as they prepared to search one of the boats.

• In October 2002, Al-Qaeda directed an attack by an explosive-laden small boat against the French oil tanker M/V LIMBURG off the coast of Yemen. The attack resulted in fires on board the tanker, a large oil spill, and killed one and injured four crew members.

• In October 2000, Al-Qaeda attacked the USS COLE and killed 17 S. Navy sailors by navigating an explosive-laden small boat alongside the destroyer as it was refueling pier side in Aden, Yemen.

• The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have conducted numerous successful suicide attacks using small boats against the Sri Lankan Government and its Their attacks have destroyed or damaged several civilian and military vessels.

Source SMSS DHS April 2008