The 50 worst terrorist attacks
By: Edward F. Mickolus and Susan L. Simmons
Contributors: Simmons, Susan L.
Series: Praeger security international; Praeger security international (Series)
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781440828270
Subjects: Terrorism; History
Other titles: Fifty worst terrorist attacks
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: The 1960s; title: The 1970s:; title: March 31, 1970: Japan Airlines Flight 351 hijacking to North Korea; title: September 6, 1970: Dawson's Field multiple aerial hijackings; title: May 30, 1972: Machine gun attack in Lod Airport; title: September 5, 1972: Munich Olympics attack; title: May 15, 1974: Ma'alot massacre; title: December 21, 1975: Vienna OPEC hostage-taking; title: June 27, 1976: Entebbe; title: October 6, 1976: Cubana Flight 455 bombing; title: October 13, 1977: Landshut hijacking and GSG 9 rescue in Mogadishu; title: March 16, 1978: Aldo Moro kidnapping; title: August 27, 1979: Mountbatten assassination; title: November 4, 1979: Iran hostage crisis; title: November 20, 1979: Mecca Grand Mosque takeover; title: The 1980s:; title: August 2, 1980: Bologna train bombing; title: October 6, 1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat assassination; title: April 18, 1983: U.S. Embassy in Beirut bombing; title: October 23, 1983: U.S. Marine and French paratrooper barracks in Lebanon bombing; title: June 23, 1985: Air India Flight 182 bombing; title: October 7, 1985: Achille Lauro seajacking; title: April 5, 1986: Berlin La Belle discotheque bombing; title: September 5, 1986: Pan Am 73 hijacking; title: December 21, 1988: Lockerbie bombing; title: September 19, 1989: French airline UTA 772 bombing; title: The 1990s:; title: March 17, 1992: Buenos Aires Israeli Embassy bombing; title: February 26, 1993: World Trade Center bombing; title: July 18, 1994: Buenos Aires AIMA bombing; title: March 20, 1995: Tokyo subway sarin gas attack; title: April 19, 1995: Oklahoma City bombing; title: June 14, 1995: Budennovsk, Russia, hospital hostage-taking; title: November 23, 1996: Ethiopian Airlines ET961 hijacking; title: December 17, 1996: Japan Embassy in Peru takeover; title: November 17, 1997: Luxor attack; title: August 7, 1998: Tanzania and Kenya U.S. Embassy bombings; title: August 15, 1998: Omagh, Northern Ireland, bombing; title: The 2000s:; title: October 12, 2000: Yemen USS Cole attack; title: September 11, 2001: Al Qaeda U.S. World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania hijackings; title: October 12, 2002: Indonesia Bali bombings; title: October 23, 2002: Moscow theater takeover; title: May 12, 2003: Riyadh western compound bombings; title: February 27, 2004: Philippines Superferry 14 bombing; title: March 11, 2004: Madrid train bombings; title: August 24, 2004: Two Russian planes bombing; title: September 1, 2004: Russia Beslan school takeover; title: July 7, 2005: U.K. subway bombings; title: July 23, 2005: Sharm el-Sheikh bombing; title: November 26, 2008: India Mumbai attacks; title: The 2010s:; title: March 29, 2010: Russia Moscow subway bombings; title: July 11, 2010: Uganda World Cup bombings; title: January 16, 2013: Algerian gas plant takeover; title: September 21-24, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya, Westgate Shopping Mall attack; title: The worst 51-68:; title: September 4, 1969: Brazil U.S. Ambassador Burke Elbrick kidnapping; title: March 1, 1973: Sudan U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel assassination; title: December 27, 1974: U.S. Ambassador Shelton party attack; title: December 23, 1975: CIA Chief of Station/Athens Richard Welch assassination; title: March 9, 1977: Takeover of Washington, D.C., buildings; title: September 5, 1977: Hans-Martin Schleyer kidnapping and assassination; title: 1978-1995: Unabomber; title: 1985-1986: Lebanon kidnapping of Westerners; title: January 25, 1993: CIA headquarters Route 123 entrance attack; title: 2001: Anthrax attacks; title: February 27, 2002: India Sabarmati express train firebombing; title: March 2, 2004: Baghdad and Karbala Mosques attack; title: October 7, 2004: Sinai Hilton Taba Hotel suicide bombing; title: July 11, 2006: India Mumbai train bombings; title: September 20, 2008: Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing; title: December 30, 2009: Afghanistan bombing of CIA Khost base; title: October 31, 2010: Iraq Our Lady of Salvation Church takeover; title: July 22, 2011: Oslo shooting and bombing spree; title: Unsuccessful attempts:; title: May 13, 1981: Attempted papal assassination; title: January 1995: Bojinka planned bombing of 10 U.S.-bound planes; title: December 15, 1999: Planned millennium bombing of Space Needle and airport; title: December 22, 2001: Shoe bomber; title: 2003: Mubtakkar chemical weapons attack on NYC subway; title: August 10, 2006: Planned liquid bombings of U.K. to U.S. planes; title: December 25, 2009: Underwear bomber; title: May 1, 2010: Would-be bombing of Times Square; title: October 29, 2010: Printer toner cartridge bombs on planes; title: February 17, 2012: Would-be suicide bomber at U.S. Capitol; title: Bibliography; title: Country index; title: Name and group index.