On this day in 2007, two car bombs manufactured by Al Qaeda terrorists at the Glasgow International Airport and in London’s West End failed to detonate.
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On this day in 1914, the terrorist assassination of Austro Hungarian Empire Archduke Ferdinand led to the outbreak of WWI and the deaths of 9,000,000.
They say practice makes perfect: this applies to terrorists too. MATSUMOTO, JAPAN — Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist and author. He is the creator of such books as The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. In the latter he famously stated that 10,000 hours of practice really can make you an expert at anything. Anything? […]
The Viet Cong is believed to have been behind a 1965 twin bombing at the My Canh restaurant in Saigon that killed 31, including five US servicemen.
The US has always blamed a terrorist group called Saudi Hizballah for the 1995 Al Khobar Towers attack but it could very well have been Al Qaeda.
On this day in 2018, a young Tunisian shepherd who was tortured by AQIM terrorists survived his ordeal but later died from his injuries.
On this day in 1985, Sikh extremists perpetrated the single greatest terrorist act in history when they placed a bomb on an Air India flight, killing 329.
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‘Peace in our time’, Afghan style?
Why military interventions are hard to evaluate, especially ones in really broken lands like Afghanistan.
On this day in 1995, the GIA set off a car bomb in the northeastern Algerian city of Constantine, wounding 16 including 5 children.
On this day in 2014, 13 terrorists ran an explosive-laden car into a police station in China’s Xinjiang province injuring three officers; all 13 assailants were killed.