A 1999 hostage taking by a Burmese terrorist group demanding the release of political prisoners ended peacefully when all 38 hostages were freed.
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Venezuelan and Cuban American anti-Castro forces bombed a Cuban airline on October 6, 1976 killing all 73 civilians aboard.
On this day in 1970 the Quebec separatist terrorist group FLQ kidnapped UK trade commissioner James Cross in a bid to gain independence.
It is ironic when a terrorist group is itself hit by a terrorist attack. PARIS, FRANCE — Like a lot of people I enjoy a really well written (or dramatised) whodunit. The twists and turns of the plot, the false leads, the paths that lead nowhere and, of course, the ultimate discovery of the real […]
A 1980 motorcycle bomb planted by the PFLP outside a synagogue in Paris killed four and wounded more than 40,
Ten people died and three were critically wounded in a series of sniper attacks that began on October 2, 2002 and went on for three weeks.
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October 1, 2005: Bali bombing plot
In a repeat of an attack less than three years earlierteh AQ-linked Jemaah Islamiyah planted another series of bombs in Bali, Indonesia in 2005
Terrorists linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq targeted US soldiers handing out candy to children in Baghdad, killing 30 and wounding 130.
The Sri Lankan terrorist group LTTE was behind the shootdown of a flight from Jaffna in 1998 in which more than 50 were killed.
Argentinian nationalists hijacked an airliner and took hostages in an effort to force the UK to recognise Argentine sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.