On this day in 1978 a garbage truck compactor set off a bomb that had been placed in a bin immediately outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney
Tag: terrorism
On this day in 2011 a suicide bomber in Iraq killed at least 27 people and wounded a further 20 in an attack on a bus carrying Shia pilgrims.
Terrorism is really hard to defeat. Governments often announce ‘victory’ over terrorist entities to sound positive, but these pronouncements are usually hollow.
On this day in 2014 a grenade attack on a movie theatre killed 11 people and injured 25 in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar
On this day in 2011 32 soldiers were killed and more than 40 injured in a suicide attack on a military base in the northwestern part of Pakistan
On this day in 2009 a bomb inside a van exploded in northeastern Madrid, after a warning call by ETA
Listing all acts of terrorism that occurred in the world last week from the 1st to the 7th of February, 2021.
If we fail to look at what was clearly terrorism fifty years ago and call it what it really and truly was, what good is hindsight?
On this day in 2012 at least 15 people were killed and more than 20 people injured when a car bomb exploded near a cafe in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu
On this day in 1991 the IRA launched mortars at the offices of UK Prime Minister John Major in 10 Downing Street