On this day in 2011, three teenage suicide bombers attacked a Sufi shrine in Pakistan in quick succession. The first two were able to detonate their suicide vests, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 120.
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On this day in 1998, a bomb exploded outside the only synagogue in the Latvian capital of Riga causing an estimated $60,000 in damage but no injuries.
The Iranian regime may be despicable for several very good reasons but that does not mean it is not the victim of terrorism too.
On this day in 2018, a member of Quetta’s Shia Hazara community was killed and another was injured in what was suspected to be a targeted killing.
On this day in 2004 four members of Blackwater were ambushed and killed in the Iraqi city of Fallujah and subsequently hanged.
On March 30 2002 an attack on Jammu’s Raghunath temple killed a dozen people and wounded another 20.
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A terrorist by any other name…
Failing to label terrorists accurately can undermine both our understanding as well as our ability to combat it – enough with political correctness!
On this day in 2016 a terrorist group linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) ambushed a Tunisian Army convoy, killing 4 soldiers.
On this day in 1981 members of the Indonesian terrorist group Jihad Command hijacked a domestic flight but forced to fly to Malaysia and then to Bangkok.
On this day in 2004, 2005 and 2009 Islamist terrorists in southern Thailand carried out three separate attacks, wounding dozens.