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Munich Massacre
One September 5th of 1972 Palestinian terrorists took 11 athletes hostage during the Olympic Games in Monich, Cermany. They demanded the release of 234 prisoners held in Israeli jails. Ending results consisted in the deaths of 6 Israeli coaches, 5 Israeli athletes, 5 members of Black September, 1 west German police officer -
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Sydney Hilton Hotel Bombing
Till this day there has been no one that was caught or claimed to the acts of bombing the sydney hotel. We dont know why they did this but we believe it had to do something with the government. We do know that in 1978 they were making sweeping changes to United States copyright law, so the bombing probably had to do something with that. Two garbage collectors and one police officer were killed, with several other people injured. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
Starting at the Alfred P. Murrah biulding in dowtown oklahoma city the domestic terrorist bomb attack spread more than a 16 block radius. Over 324 buidings withing that area got destroyed. Along with that took 168 lives and over 600 people were injured. McVeigh and Terry Nicholas were behind the aatacks. Motivated by his hatred of the federal government and angered by what he perceived as its mishandling of the 1993 Waco siege and the Ruby Ridge incident in 1992. -
Twin Towers
Four aircrafts were hijacked ending in the results of the world trade center being crashed into, also the pentagon was crashed into and the fourth plane was targeted to washington D.C., but landed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, and sanctions against Iraq as motives for the attacks. Al-Qaeda claimed resposibility for the attacks. In total, almost 3,000 people died in the attacks, including the 227 civilians and 19 hijackers in the planes. -
Bali Bombing
Suicide, car, and other bombing occured in the Bali Bombing. 202 people died and injuries included about 247 people. Three individulas who were sentenced to death by a fireing squad were Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Huda bin Abdul Haq because they were in realation to the bombing. Bali bombings were in direct retaliation for support of the United States war on terror and Australia's role in the liberation of East Timor. 3 other men were involved and killed. -
London Bombings
In London July 7th, 2005 there were a bunch of sucide attacks that targeted civilians using the public transport system during the morning rush hour. Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, Germaine Lindsay, and Hasib Hussain were the four suicide bombers that created this havock. In total 55 people dies. In the link below under videotape statements has there motive of why they did this:
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Kenya Church Attacks
2 gunned men threw grenades in a church killing nine at the moment; 6 died later on in the hospital hanging on for their life. Total amount of deaths came to 15. the group behind it all was al-Shabab. This took place in Garissa town near the boarder of Samalia. -
Boston Bombing
During the 2013 Boston Marathon two pressure cooker bombs exploded at 2:49 killing 3 people and injuring an estimate of 264 others. Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnev were the two people behing the bombing. They were motivated by extremists islamist beliefs and the wars in iraqu and afghanistan. -
Bomb Kills 2 Outside School in China
17 were injured and 2 died in the suicide bombing outside a school in the southern city of Guilin, many of them children. The man who died appeared to have been the bomber. In several of the cases, the people had signs of mental illness, which is really poorly addressed in China’s public health system. It is unclear what motivated the bombing but this could be a lead to why he did a suicide bombing.
