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May 11, 2011: Police foil anarchist bombing in Chile

On May 11, 2011 Chilean police deactivated a bomb outside a bank placed by anarchists from the Núcleo Antagónico Nueva Guerrilla Urbana.

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May 7, 2018: Girls’ school bombing in Pakistan

On May 7, 2018 the Ittehadul Mujahideen North Waziristan bombed two girls’ schools in Pakistan and left pamphlets urging families not to send their children.

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How woke and cancel culture undermine CT understanding

Hey Canada! Resorting to generic, meaningless terminology to describe terrorism is inaccurate, unhelpful and deters from broader understanding.

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May 4, 2016: Jihadi attack kills children in Syria

On May 4, 2016 Jabhat Al-Nusra attacked a village of in Syria, killing 15 civilians, including 4 children.

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Do ‘Prevent’ type CT programmes really work?

We have been ‘doing’ preventative work in the terrorism sphere for a few decades: is it time for a rethink?

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April 20, 2016: ISIS throws people off building in Iraq

On April 20, 2016 ISIS threw five people from the top of a high building to their deaths after accusing them of practicing sodomy in the city of Mosul

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April 16, 2016: Bombing at Sikh temple in Germany

On April 16, 2016 two teenaged Islamist terrorists carried out an explosion in a Sikh temple in the German city of Essen that wounded three people.

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April 8, 2011: Terrorists bomb Nigerian elections office

On April 8, 2011 a possible Boko Haram bomb blast killed at least six people at the office of Nigeria’s election commission in the central town of Suleja.

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April 3, 2013: Taliban suicide attack on Afghan courthouse

On April 3, 2013 Taliban suicide bombers killed themselves and 44 others in an attack on a courtroom to free 10 of their comrades on trial.

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March 25, 2017: Mass-decapitation in the DRC

On this day in 2017, individuals belonging to the Kamwina Nsapu decapitated 40 police officers in an ambush in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).