On May 4, 2005 a suicide bomber pretending to be a job seeker blew himself up outside a police recruiting center in Erbil killing at least 60 Kurds
Category: Perspectives
Reports that global Islamist terrorism is on the wane are inaccurate and dangerous: we have to keep our eye on this international security threat
Beginning on this day in 2002 a 21-year old college student planted a series of pipe bombs in rural mailboxes across five midwestern US states.
On May 2, 2002 a cylinder bomb fell on a church where civilians had taken refuge amid clashes between the FARC and the Colombian army
On May 1, 1981 Vienna city Councillor Heinz Nittel, co-founder of the Austrian Jewish Welcome Service, was assassinated
On April 30, 1980 six gunmen seized the Iranian Embassy in London, taking 21 hostages, two of whom they killed
On April 29, 1975 a South African Jew took 20 people hostage at the Israeli Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa
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Are we entering a new ‘threat wave’?
How many things go ‘bump in the night’ and how many can we keep an eye on?
On April 28, 1903 members of the Boatmen blew up the French vessel Guadalquivir as it lay in Thessaloniki harbour, killing absolutely no one
On April 27, 2011 a bomb targeted the head of engineering and nanotechnology at a Mexican university in an anti-technology’ attack.