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March 3, 2006 | SUV attack in North Carolina

On this day in 2006 Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove a rented Jeep through a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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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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February 28, 1989 | Firebombing of Riverdale Press in New York

On this day in 1989 the offices of The Riverdale Press were heavily damaged by two firebombs thrown by a ‘man with a mustache’.

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February 27, 2011 | 14 Dead at Kandahar Dog Fight

Terrorists want to undo everything we believe in and more: sometimes their targets are just inane. AFGHANISTAN — Do you remember Michael Vicks? He was a very talented football quarterback for the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons before his career came to a screeching halt in 2007 after he pleaded guilty to charges that he was part […]

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February 26, 1993 | World Trade Center Bombing

Sometimes terrorist attacks are merely a harbinger of something worse, much worse, to happen. NEW YORK, USA — Do you remember the feelings you had on 9/11? Do you remember the shock you felt on seeing the planes strike the World Trade Center towers, the buildings collapsing, the people fleeing the scene? Do you recall […]

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February 25 ,1997 | Bus bombs in China’s Xinjiang Province

On this day in 1997 a series of bombs that exploded in buses in Urumqi, coincided with the day of Deng Xiaoping’s funeral in Beijing. Nine people died.

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February 22, 2015 | Bombing in Ukraine

The 2015 Kharkiv bombing occurred on 22 February 2015, when a bomb hit a Ukrainian national unity rally in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast.

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February 21, 1970 | Bombing of SwissAir Flight 330

Today it is really hard to get a bomb on an airplane: this was not always the case.

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Germany shisha lounge shootings: What can we learn from terrorist ‘manifestos’?

Motive can be difficult to discern in acts that seem ‘terrorist’ in nature: can we trust what the terrorists themselves tell us?

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February 20, 2015 | Killing of Japanese teenager

On this day in 2015 a 13-year old youth in Kawasaki, Japan, Ryota Uemura, was found stabbed to death by a riverbank.