Archive for the ‘Terrorism’ Category
Sept. 5, 1972: Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli Olympic team at the summer games in Munich; 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, five terrorists and a police officer were killed.
Tuesday, September 5th, 2017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XYVzUU21WQ
A knife attack that killed two people and wounded eight others in southwestern Finland is being investigated as a terrorist attack apparently aimed at women
Sunday, August 20th, 2017-
The suspect, who was shot after the attack in Turku and hospitalized with a leg wound, is an 18-year-old Moroccan
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Four other suspects, also Moroccan citizens, have been arrested in Turku
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A search warrant was issued for a sixth.
Fatal Terror Attack in Barcelona
Friday, August 18th, 2017Barcelona: Police shoot dead 5 men in car also attacking pedestrians several hours after the Las Ramblas van attack
Friday, August 18th, 2017- The 5 suspects in the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils tried to mow down pedestrians in the early hours of the morning
- 1 a.m. on Friday, police responded to an attack near the boardwalk of the beach town of Cambrils, 60 miles southwest of Barcelona
- An Audi had plowed into a crowd.
- The police exchanged fire with the men in the car, killing four immediately while a fifth later died of his injuries. Six others were injured, including a police officer.
- More than a hundred people from at least 24 nationalities were hurt and the death toll could rise above 13.
A 23-year-old Oklahoma man has been arrested after he tried to blow up a bank in downtown Oklahoma City using a vehicle bomb similar to the one that destroyed the federal building there in 1995
Thursday, August 17th, 2017Suspected Islamic extremists opened fire at a Turkish restaurant in the capital of Burkina Faso late Sunday, killing at least 18
Monday, August 14th, 2017Australia: The group of two middle-aged men and their two adult sons were allegedly working on an “elaborate” plot to build an improvised explosive device that could take down a plane.
Monday, July 31st, 2017Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull this morning confirmed raids carried out in Sydney yesterday “disrupted” what appeared to be an “elaborate” conspiracy to bring down a plane.
Sunday, July 30th, 2017“…..police found items that could be used to make a homemade bomb when they raided the house at Surry Hills.
It is understood that authorities believe the group was intending to smuggle the device onto a plane in order to blow it up…..”