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November 27, 2012: Car bombings in Iraq

On this day in 2012, car bombings targeting Shia religious rites in several parts of Iraq killed 33 and wounded 126.

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November 23, 2014: Attack on volleyball players in Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Haqqani terrorist network was behind a suicide bombing at a volleyball game in November 2014 in which 61 died, including many children

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November 17, 1997: Massacre at Egyptian temple

Terrorists from Egypt’s Al Gama’a Al Islamiyah massacred 62 people, including 58 tourists, at the Temple of Hatshepsut in November 1997.

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October 27, 2013: Bombings in India

Indian Islamist terrorists are believed to have been behind the 2013 bombings which targeted a BJP rally killing six and wounding dozens.

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October 19, 2010: Terrorist attack on Chechen parliament

Chechen terrorists killed as many as 20 people in an attack on that country’s parliament in October of 2010.

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October 18, 2009: Suicide bombing in Iran

A Pakistani suicide bomber killed 43 people and wounded 150 in southeastern Iran in 2009.

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September 6, 1986: Attack on synagogue during Sabbath services in Turkey

The Abu Nidal Organisation terrorist group is believed to be behind the 1986 massacre at a synagogue in Istanbul that killed 21.

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August 31, 2004: Suicide bombing at Moscow metro

On this day in 2004, a female Islambouli Brigades suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside a Moscow metro killing ten.

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2011 Norway attacks

On this day in 2001, Anders Behring Breivik set off bombs outside a government complex in Oslo then traveled to an island called Utoya, killing 77 in all.

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Terrorism is becoming complicated… again!

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.