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March 8, 2004 | Ultra-orthodox Jewish attack in Jerusalem

On this day in 2004 dozens of ultra-orthodox Jews attacked Arab taxi drivers with rocks in Jerusalem, wounding two (one went to hospital).

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February 29, 2016 | 4-Year-Old Child Beheading in Moscow

On this day in 2016, nanny Gulchekhra Bobokulova decapitated a 4-year-old girl in her care and displayed the severed head at a Moscow metro station.

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The gnawing question of when to release terrorists from custody

There is no such thing as zero-risk: we need to have systems in place to measure danger as best we can.

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February 8, 2004 and 2016 | Attacks against police in Iraq

Whatever you think of policing it is a hard job: it is harder when they are targeted by terrorists. TODAY IN TERRORISM — What kind of experiences have you had with the police? Good ones? Bad ones? Neither good nor bad? Not surprisingly I have had almost universal good experiences. I used to brief local […]

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February 7, 2016 | Kabul Supreme Court Bombing

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.

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Sexual abuse in conservative Christian communities: This is religious terrorism too

If we want to be consistent with how we see and deal with terrorism, we need to look at the violence tolerated within fringe Christian sects.

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January 25, 1993 | Shootings at CIA HQ

Security strikes many as onerous but it is in place for a reason: terrorists do plan and execute attacks.

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January 21, 1985 | Bombing of world’s largest Buddhist temple in Indonesia

On this day in 1985, Islamist terrorists placed 11 bombs on the 8th century Borobudur Buddhist temple in Central Java, the oldest structure in the world.

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January 12, 2015 | Terrorist attack in Xinjiang, PRC

On this day in 2015, local police shot dead what they labelled as 6 “mobsters” who had attempted to detonate explosives in Xinjiang.

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January 4, 2004 | Bombing in southern Philippines kills 22

The Philippines has been the unwanted stage for many terrorist groups over the decades, including Islamist ones.