The 2014 Sydney hostage crisis occurred when a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café.
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On December 14, 1973, the ‘Charles Martel Group’ carried out a bomb attack against the Algerian Consulate in Marseilles, killing four and wounding 23.
On this day in 2016, two explosions caused by a car bombing and suicide bombing in Istanbul killed 48 people and injured 166 others.
The conflict in Yemen is complicated: war and terrorism are killing thousands and no one seems to care.
Today is one of those days in history where I have an unfortunate richness in terrorist attacks to choose from.
On this day in 2005, a series of suicide bombing in Khanaqin, located northeast of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, killed at least 60 people.
The Battle of Mosul was an attempt by the Iraqi Army and its allies to wrest control of the city from ISIS terrorists: ISIS massacred hundreds in response. Iraq has been a suffering nation for many, many years. When I began by career in intelligence in the early 1980s it was under the iron fist […]
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Today in terrorism: 11 October 1993
On this day in 1993, a publisher linked to “The Satanic Verses”, a novel by Salman Rushdie, was shot in Oslo, Norway.
Iran gets a lot of bad press (somewhat deservedly!) for its international meddling and ‘theocracy’. But is it really as dangerous as another ‘theocratic’ state when it comes to terrorism?
What do you remember of the dictator Augusto Pinochet in Chile? Even if you are not well versed in Latin American history you are bound to know that his reign, from 1973 to 1990, was not good. Thousands of opponents, dismissed as ‘Communists’ or ‘leftists’, were killed, tens of thousands were probably tortured and close […]