On January 8, 1971 Uruguayan Marxist Tupamaros terrorists kidnaped the UK Ambassador in Montevideo and held him hostage for 8 months.
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There are national security and public safety threats: terrorism is most usually one of the latter, not the former.
On January 3, 2015 ‘militants’ captured and killed a Tunisian police officer, stabbing him and slashing his throat as he traveled home off-duty south of Tunis.
On January 2, 2014 a NZ/UK couple was brutally murdered by unknown terrorists in Sabratha, Libya while having a ‘romantic’ picnic on the coast.
On December 31, 1984 the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam killed four youths who had refused to join the group.
On December 30, 1980 MIR terrorists attacked three banks in Santiago, Chile killing two police officers and a bank security guard.
On December 21, 1975 six terrorists led by Carlos the Jackal took hostages at OPEC HQ in Vienna after killing three people.
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On December 12, 2016 Greek police destroyed a suspected bomb planted allegedly by the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire outside the Labor Ministry in central Athens.
On December 9, 1893 the French anarchist Auguste Vaillant threw a homemade bomb from the gallery of the French Chamber of Deputies injuring 20