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March 19, 1988: British corporals executed in Northern Ireland

On March 19, 1988 the IRA killed two British corporals in Belfast whom they mistook for Irish Loyalists.

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March 18, 2004: Attack on media workers in Iraq

On March 18, 2004 three Iraqi journalists working for the occupying US forces were killed in a drive-by shooting near Baghdad.

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March 8, 2016: Man survives terrorist stabbing in Israel

On March 8, 2016 an Israeli man was moderately wounded in a terror stabbing attack in the central city of Petah Tikva

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February 28, 2016: Suicide bombing in Baghdad cellphone market

On February 28, 2016 ISIS claimed a double suicide attack at a Baghdad cellphone market in which 70 were killed and 100 injured.

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February 17, 2018: Racist terrorist stabs migrants in Germany

On February 17, 2018 a 70-year old German man stabbed three migrants to protest the German government’s refugee policy.

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February 14, 2015: Jihadi attacks freedom of expression event in Denmark

On February 14, 2015 a Danish-born ISIS jihadi killed two and wounded five over the Muhammad cartoons in Copenhagen.

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January 28, 2018: Former terrorist found murdered in the Philippines

On this day in 2018, a former member of the terrorist group New People’s Army was found headless in the Philippines.

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January 20, 1973: Warning fails to stop fatal bombing in Dublin

On January 20, 1973 a UVF bomb went off in Dublin, Ireland killing a bus conductor and wounding 14 others.

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Terrorism is a matter of public safety, not national security

There are national security and public safety threats: terrorism is most usually one of the latter, not the former.

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December 31, 1984: LTTE slaughters civilians in Sri Lanka

On December 31, 1984 the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam killed four youths who had refused to join the group.