An edition of The 50 worst terrorist attacks
(2014)
The 50 worst terrorist attacks
by Edward F. Mickolus
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"In the last 50 years, terrorists have committed hundreds of horrific acts of violence to further their causes. This accessible, single-volume text covers the most significant terrorist acts across contemporary history worldwide"--
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
The 1960s
The 1970s:
March 31, 1970: Japan Airlines Flight 351 hijacking to North Korea
September 6, 1970: Dawson's Field multiple aerial hijackings
May 30, 1972: Machine gun attack in Lod Airport
September 5, 1972: Munich Olympics attack
May 15, 1974: Ma'alot massacre
December 21, 1975: Vienna OPEC hostage-taking
June 27, 1976: Entebbe
October 6, 1976: Cubana Flight 455 bombing
October 13, 1977: Landshut hijacking and GSG 9 rescue in Mogadishu
March 16, 1978: Aldo Moro kidnapping
August 27, 1979: Mountbatten assassination
November 4, 1979: Iran hostage crisis
November 20, 1979: Mecca Grand Mosque takeover
The 1980s:
August 2, 1980: Bologna train bombing
October 6, 1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat assassination
April 18, 1983: U.S. Embassy in Beirut bombing
October 23, 1983: U.S. Marine and French paratrooper barracks in Lebanon bombing
June 23, 1985: Air India Flight 182 bombing
October 7, 1985: Achille Lauro seajacking
April 5, 1986: Berlin La Belle discotheque bombing
September 5, 1986: Pan Am 73 hijacking
December 21, 1988: Lockerbie bombing
September 19, 1989: French airline UTA 772 bombing
The 1990s:
March 17, 1992: Buenos Aires Israeli Embassy bombing
February 26, 1993: World Trade Center bombing
July 18, 1994: Buenos Aires AIMA bombing
March 20, 1995: Tokyo subway sarin gas attack
April 19, 1995: Oklahoma City bombing
June 14, 1995: Budennovsk, Russia, hospital hostage-taking
November 23, 1996: Ethiopian Airlines ET961 hijacking
December 17, 1996: Japan Embassy in Peru takeover
November 17, 1997: Luxor attack
August 7, 1998: Tanzania and Kenya U.S. Embassy bombings
August 15, 1998: Omagh, Northern Ireland, bombing
The 2000s:
October 12, 2000: Yemen USS Cole attack
September 11, 2001: Al Qaeda U.S. World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania hijackings
October 12, 2002: Indonesia Bali bombings
October 23, 2002: Moscow theater takeover
May 12, 2003: Riyadh western compound bombings
February 27, 2004: Philippines Superferry 14 bombing
March 11, 2004: Madrid train bombings
August 24, 2004: Two Russian planes bombing
September 1, 2004: Russia Beslan school takeover
July 7, 2005: U.K. subway bombings
July 23, 2005: Sharm el-Sheikh bombing
November 26, 2008: India Mumbai attacks
The 2010s:
March 29, 2010: Russia Moscow subway bombings
July 11, 2010: Uganda World Cup bombings
January 16, 2013: Algerian gas plant takeover
September 21-24, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya, Westgate Shopping Mall attack
The worst 51-68:
September 4, 1969: Brazil U.S. Ambassador Burke Elbrick kidnapping
March 1, 1973: Sudan U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel assassination
December 27, 1974: U.S. Ambassador Shelton party attack
December 23, 1975: CIA Chief of Station/Athens Richard Welch assassination
March 9, 1977: Takeover of Washington, D.C., buildings
September 5, 1977: Hans-Martin Schleyer kidnapping and assassination
1978-1995: Unabomber
1985-1986: Lebanon kidnapping of Westerners
January 25, 1993: CIA headquarters Route 123 entrance attack
2001: Anthrax attacks
February 27, 2002: India Sabarmati express train firebombing
March 2, 2004: Baghdad and Karbala Mosques attack
October 7, 2004: Sinai Hilton Taba Hotel suicide bombing
July 11, 2006: India Mumbai train bombings
September 20, 2008: Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing
December 30, 2009: Afghanistan bombing of CIA Khost base
October 31, 2010: Iraq Our Lady of Salvation Church takeover
July 22, 2011: Oslo shooting and bombing spree
Unsuccessful attempts:
May 13, 1981: Attempted papal assassination
January 1995: Bojinka planned bombing of 10 U.S.-bound planes
December 15, 1999: Planned millennium bombing of Space Needle and airport
December 22, 2001: Shoe bomber
2003: Mubtakkar chemical weapons attack on NYC subway
August 10, 2006: Planned liquid bombings of U.K. to U.S. planes
December 25, 2009: Underwear bomber
May 1, 2010: Would-be bombing of Times Square
October 29, 2010: Printer toner cartridge bombs on planes
February 17, 2012: Would-be suicide bomber at U.S. Capitol
Bibliography
Country index
Name and group index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and indexes.
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