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September 3, 1978: Aircraft shootdown and massacre in Rhodesia

On September 3, 1978 members of the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army shot down an Air Rhodesia flight killing 38 passengers and crew.

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September 2, 2018: Suicide bomber wounds children in Somalia

On September 2, 2018 an Al Shabaab suicide bomber blew himself up at a government office in Mogadishu killing 3 and wounding 14

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September 1, 1973: Suicide bombing at Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow

On this day in 1973 a man blew himself up at the mausoleum which contains the body of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union.

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July 16, 2005: Suicide bombers create deadly inferno in Iraq

On July 16, 2005 a suicide bomber attacked a crowded market in a town south of Baghdad, killing 100 and wounding 150.

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July 13, 1963: FLQ bomb statue of Queen Victoria in Quebec City

On July 12, 1963 the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) bombed a statue of Queen Victoria in Quebec City, Canada

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July 12, 2016: ISIS executes four doctors in Iraq

On July 12, 2016 ISIS terrorists executed four Iraqi doctors in that country’s Nineveh province after they refused to join the group

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July 11, 2015: Disguised terrorist detonates suicide bomb in Chad

On July 11, 2015 a Boko Haram terrorist disguised as a woman detonated a suicide vest in Chad, killing 15 people and wounding another 80

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Repeat after me: thou shall not kill!

Why is it that so many so-called ‘religious’ terrorists seem to ignore the very tenets against murder that their religions explicitly espouse?

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July 8, 2004: LTTE female suicide bomber detonates in Sri Lanka

On this day in 2004, a female suicide bomber trained and tasked by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) set off explosives in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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July 6, 2006: Bomb destroys bus in Transnistria

On July 6, 2006 a powerful explosion killed at least seven people on a minibus in the Transnistrian capital city, Tiraspol