When you hear someone say that terrorism has ‘changed’ and that we have to change with it be skeptical. Nothing really has changed over 150 years with the sole exception of technology.
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Terrorism means many things to many people and we may be heading down an unhelpful pathway.
We talk about Islamic State (ISIS) for a simple reason: it is a lethal terrorist group. IRAQ/SYRIA – If you have been following this series for a while you will have seen that I am trying to accomplish a few things. I want to highlight a particularly large or significant act of terrorism on a […]
Wherever you fall on the terrorist/freedom fighter scale you have to admit that the brutal 1978 killing of UK missionaries in Rhodesia is terrorism.
John Wilkes Booth assassinated US President Lincoln in an act of terrorism on April 14, 1865
On this day in 1978, the Brigade Rosse kidnapped former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro. Less than two months later, his bullet-riddled body was found in the back of a car in the centre in Rome.
On this day in 1905 Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich was targeted for assassination by Russian revolutionaries.
On this day in 1996, a truck loaded with explosives crashed into the central bank in the heart of Colombo’s financial district, killing at least 91.
Terrorism is now associated primarily with either Islamist extremism or far right nationalism: it was once a tool of Communists.
On this day in 1975, six armed men boarded a train at the Dutch town of Assen and seized the passengers as hostages.