| 2001 |
11th September |
United States Tragedy '9/11' - affecting four civilian aircraft, the
two main towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon
in Washington D.C., with a fourth hijacked aircraft crashing near Shanksville,
Pennsylvania (thought to have been destined to fly into either the White
House or the Capitol in Washington D.C.). In all almost 3,000 people perished.
They are not forgotten. |
| 2002 |
12th October |
Bali Terrorist Outrage (first) - against a tourist nightspot, in the
holiday island of Bali, Indonesia |
| 2004 |
11th March |
Madrid Terrorist Outrages - involving bomb attacks on four busy commuter
trains and on two stations in the Spanish capital, Madrid |
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3rd September |
North Ossetia (Russia) Terrorist Outrages - involving several hundred
children held hostage by Chechen terrorists, without food or water, for several
days in a school in Beslan |
| 2005 |
7th July |
London Terrorist Outrages - against innocent people in London, travelling
on the London Underground and on a London bus, killing several dozen and
injuring many hundreds |
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1st October |
Bali Terrorist Attacks (second) - on three restaurants, in the holiday
island of Bali, Indonesia |
| 2008 |
26th November |
Mumbai Terrorist Outrages - over three days against innocent people
in Mumbai (India), involving two major hotels and several other locations
in the city, killing in excess of 170 and injuring many more |
| 2011 |
24th January |
Moscow Terrorist Outrage - at Domodedovo airport in Moscow (Russia),
killing about 35 and injuring scores more, some very seriously |
| 2013 |
21st September |
Nairobi (Kenya) Terrorist Outrage - over a number of days at a shopping
centre in Nairobi; it resulted in the deaths of at least 67, with a further
175-plus injured |
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22nd September |
Peshawar (Pakistan) Terrorist Outrage (1) - outside All Saints Church
in the Pakistani city of Peshawar; this suicide bombing incident happened
just after Sunday Mass today, when worshippers were exiting the church and
it is reported that 75 have been killed and that in excess of 120 have been
injured |
| 2014 |
17th July |
Ukraine Terrorist Outrage - a civilian airliner with 298 passengers
and crew (Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, on a scheduled flight from Amsterdam
to Kuala Lumpur, using a Boeing 777 aircraft) has been shot out of the sky,
apparently by a surface-to-air missile, with debris and bodies landing over
a 10 mile area, in the Donetsk area of eastern Ukraine. At the time of writing
(18JUL14) there is no evidence publicly available about who may have launched
the missile, but according to the President of the United States (who presumably
has access to much classified satellite data) it probably originated in a
part of eastern Ukraine currently under the control of pro-Russian rebel
forces. |
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20th September approx. |
Reportedly 15 unnamed individuals (relatives of local police officers)
were beheaded by Islamic ('Taliban'/'ISIL') terrorists in the Ghazni province
of Afghanistan; over 100 people were reportedly killed. |
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1st October (date reported) |
Reportedly 10 unnamed individuals beheaded in eastern Syria/Iraq -
apparently included 2 male and 3 female Kurdish fighters, 4 Syrian arab rebels
and 1 male Kurdish civilian. |
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December (precise date unknown) |
ISIL reportedly beheaded 100 foreign fighters attempting to desert
in Raqqa (Syria). |
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15th - 16th December |
Sydney Terrorist Outrage - a lone gunman held 17 customers and staff
hostage in a coffee-shop in the Central Business District of Sydney
(Australia), at the conclusion of which, in an armed struggle, one customer
and the manager of the coffee-shop were shot, the first dying on the way
to hopsital and the second at the scene. Although treated as an Islamic-inspired
outrage, it appears the gunman may have been an individual involved in criminal
activities in Iran (where he came from) and in Australia and who was to have
been tried as an accessory in his wife's murder, as well as holding extremist
Islamic views which made the Australian Islamic community very wary of him;
the gunman was killed at the scene. |
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16th December |
Peshawar (Pakistan) Terrorist Outrage (2) - Pakistani Taliban militants
have attacked an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, 132 of
them children, according to military sources. There are said to be scores
of survivors being treated in hopsital, although injury levels are not clear
yet. It seems that seven Taliban militants were involved in the
attack. |
| 2015 |
7th-9th January |
Paris Terrorist Outrages - death toll in 4 separate locations; 17
victims and 3 of the terrorists. It began with an attack on well-known satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo in which 12 people were killed, including the
editor and 3 other cartoonists and 2 police officers, with a further 11 injured.
The attack was carried out by three (two?) Moslem extremist gunmen and after
a hide-and-seek operation across a wide area north-east of Paris, two were
cornered in a printing works in Dammartin-en-Göele (Seine-et-Marne)
and very close to the main Paris airport of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle two
days later; they were killed by police when they exited the building firing
weapons. On 8th January a police officer was shot dead in the Paris suburb
of Montrouge by one or two terrorists. On 9th January, two terrorists took
hostages in a Kosher (i.e. Jewish) grocery store, resulting in the
deaths of 4 of the hostages. One of these two terrorists was shot dead, the
other has escaped and is being searched for although various reports indicate
she may already have left France and perhaps have travelled to Syria. Free
speech must be defended and maintained and terrorists not permitted to prevail
by intimidating us into silence! |
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February |
10 alleged spies beheaded by ISIL members. ISIL believed they were
spies for Mossad and the Egyptian Army; this was in response to the buffer
zone the Egyptian government placed along the Gaza–Egypt
border. |
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February |
21 Coptic Egyptian masons beheaded by ISIL by the sea shore in Tripoli,
Libya, having been captured in Sirte in December 2014. The precise date of
the murders is not known, but a video of it was released by ISIL on 15th
February. |
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18th March |
Tunis (Tunisia) terrorist outrage - 3 gunmen launched an attack at
the Bardo National Museum (adjacent to the Tunisian Parliament building),
killing 21 people (mostly European tourists from two visiting cruise ships),
although a further wounded individual died 10 days later. Two of the gunmen,
both Tunisian nationals, were killed at the scen; the third gunment remains
at large. ISIL claimed responsibility, however, the Tunisian government blamed
a local splinter group of al-Qaeda and the Tunisian police killed nine members
in a raid on 28th March. |
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2nd April |
Garissa (Kenya) Terrorist Outrage - at least 147 students and others
have been killed in an al-shabab Islamic armed terrorist attack on Garissa
University in north-eastern Kenya; luckily more than 500 or so managed to
escape, of whom 79 were injured and of these, 9 critically injured were airlifted
to the capital Nairobi for treatment. It seems those killed were asked if
they were Christian or Moslem and were then shot if they were non-Moslem.
Four terrorists died when their suicide vests detonated and it is reported
that a fifth has been arrested. NB/ A BBC report on this attack is
here. It will be recalled that there was an
earlier al-shabab attack on a shopping centre in Nairobi in September 2013,
in which at least 67 were killed and a further 175+ injured. |
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April |
28 Ethiopian Christians were shot and/or beheaded in Libya, precise
date and location unknown, but ISIL released a video of the murders on 19th
April. |
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26th June |
Port el Kantaoui (Sousse, Tunisia). One or more armed gunmen killed
40 on the beach and nearby areas; the victims were mostly western tourists
holidaying in the resort. |
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