On this day in 2011 four people from Moscow were killed by Islamist terrorists in Russia’s North Caucasus region on their way to a ski resort.
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A probable Chechen suicide bomber killed 46 people and wounded more than 170 in an attack on a Russian train in December 2003
Chechen terrorists killed as many as 20 people in an attack on that country’s parliament in October of 2010.
On this day in 2012 two suicide bombers detonated explosive-filled cars near a traffic police checkpoint in Dagestan’s capital, killing at least 13 people.
On this day in 2017 a suicide bombing near the Afghan Supreme Court in central Kabul killed more than a dozen people and wounded many more.
Russian actions in the Caucasus have led to many terrorist attacks and hostage taking incidents, but none bigger than the one that took place in early 1996.
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War as a catalyst for terrorism
Historical revisionism is inevitable I suppose. There are those who look back at events, both recent and less so, re-interpret them through a new paradigm, lens or self-interested agenda, re-package them, and present them to us in a way that goes against the previous collected wisdom. Sometimes this re-interpretation is necessary in the light of […]
A little less than a month ago we marked (‘celebrated’ is definitely the wrong word) the centenary of the end of the First World War. This was a solemn occasion on which we recalled the deaths, injuries and destruction in not only the ‘Great War’ but also in WWII, the Korean War and others. It […]
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