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.
On this day in 2016, both the Taliban and ISIS claimed a suicide bomber who killed 16 locally-engaged security guards at the Canadian embassy in Kabul.
On this day in 1985, the Abu Nidal Organisation was believed to have been behind the bombing at Frankfurt Airport in which 3 people, including 2 children, were killed.
On this day in 2018, members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army brutally dismembered a camp leader in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh.
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CSIS and accusations of Islamophobia
Accusations that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is Islamophobic do not take into account facts that Canadians have become jihadis.
Terrorism means many things to many people and we may be heading down an unhelpful pathway.
On this day in 1974, the leftist Weather Underground bombed the HQ of the Gulf Oil Company in Pittsburgh to protest the firm’s actions in Angola.