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Pan Am Flight 103 bombing – December 21, 1988

On December 21, 1998 Pan Am flight 103 came down on Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and 11 residents on the ground.

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Assassination of Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco – December 20, 1973

On this day in 1973, a massive bomb buried under a Madrid street exploded as a car carrying Prime Minister Carrero Blanco detonated.

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Deaths from terrorism are down, but…

Terrorists killed less than half as many people in 2018 than they did in 2014: some trends are still worrisome however.

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Al-Karak Attack – December 18, 2016

In 2016 on this day, Islamist extremists attacked the Jordanian city of Karak killing ten people, including a Canadian tourist.

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Attack in Grozny, Russia – December 17, 2016

Counter terrorism takes all kinds of forms. Sometimes the only recourse is to use lethal force.

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Suicide bombing in Nigeria – December 16, 2015

On this day in 2015, four female suicide bombers were killed at a checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state after one of them detonated her explosives.

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Sydney hostage crisis – December 15, 2014

The 2014 Sydney hostage crisis occurred when a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café.

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Far right shootings in Florence – December 12, 2011

With all the focus on jihadis it is important to monitor far right anti-immigrant violence.

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When real terrorism leads to retaliatory genocide

Every state has a right and a duty to protect its citizens from terrorism: that right does not extend to genocide. What is a government to do when it comes to acts of political or ideological violence on its soil? The answer is not complicated. Every state has the authority, and I would add the […]

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Too many bomb plots… – December 11 1994, 2010 and 2017

Most terrorists are not very competent and often succeed in killing only themselves.