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Where is the COVID-19 terrorism spike?

There has not been an appreciable increase in terrorism activity in most nations across the world (there are exceptions). Here is what we know so far.

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May 5, 2014 | Boko Haram massacre in Nigeria

Boko Haram terrorists massacred upwards of 300 civilians in a Nigerian town near that country’s border with Cameroon which had been left unguarded.

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May 2, 2011 | Killing of AQ leader Usama bin Laden

Justice was served to some extent when US Navy Seals located and killed Al Qaeda terrorist leader and 9/11 mastermind Usama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011

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April 30, 2005 | Suicide bombings in Cairo

A man and two women detonated suicide bombs near a bus station in Cairo, Egypt, wounding ten people in total.

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April 24, 1975 | Hostage Crisis in Sweden

Members of the German Baader Meinhof terrorist group stormed the German Embassy in Sweden in an attempt to get Germany to free incarcerated members.

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The perils of ‘terrorism prediction’

No one can predict the future and that includes terrorism ‘experts’.

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April 9, 2017 | ISIS church bombings in Egypt

The Sinai branch of ISIS carried out two suicide attacks on Christian worshipers on Palm Sunday killing 37 people and wounding 136

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April 1, 2018 | Al Shabaab attack in Somalia

On this day in 2018, the Somalia-based terrorist group Al Shabaab claimed it attacked an African Union (AMISOM) base with two car bombs, killing 59 Ugandan soldiers.

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March 25, 2009 | Attack on girls’ school in Iraq

On this day in 2009, four female school children were killed and seven others injured in a bomb explosion in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul.

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The Jihadi view of the world in a nutshell

We talk a lot about ideology when it comes to terrorism: sometimes it is a good idea to remind ourselves of the basics.