On the morning of 30th December 2006, a huge explosion took place in the car park building attached to Terminal 4 of Madrid Barajas International Airport in Spain. The explosion, from a VBIED (car bomb) containing…
Continue ReadingOn 17th December 1973, terrorists attacked a Pan Am office at Fiumicino airport, Rome, Italy. 32 people were killed and 50 injured. The assailants then made their way to an American Airlines 707 preparing to…
Continue ReadingThe Bandaranaike Airport attack was an assault by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Bandaranaike International Airport, Sri Lanka, on 24th July 2001. 14 members of the LTTE Black Tiger suicide squad initially…
Continue ReadingOn 4th July 2002 a man attacked the El Al ticket counter atLos Angeles Airport at the Tom Bradley International Terminal. He was armed with a .45-calibre handgun which he used in the shooting, as well as…
Continue ReadingFlight 253, carrying 289 passengers on board, was reaching the last stage of its routine flight from Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands to the Metropolitan airport in Romulus, Michigan when suddenly passengers noticed fire,…
Continue ReadingKorean Airlines Flight 858 flying from Abu Dhabi to Seoul, exploded over the sea near Burma, killing all 115 passengers and crew members on board on 29th November 1987. It later emerged that two North…
Continue ReadingWhen Pan Am 103, a Boeing 747-121 named ‘Clipper Maid of the Seas’ fell out of the sky on 21st December 1988, few people had even heard of the Scottish town of Lockerbie. But it…
Continue ReadingOn 24th August 2004, two female Chechen suicide terrorists exploded IEDs on two separate domestic Russian passenger aircraft that had flown out of Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow. The first to crash was Volga-AviaExpress Flight…
Continue ReadingOn September 11, 2001, four U.S. passenger planes hijacked by terrorists were used as missiles to kill almost 3,000 people. The first two planes crashed into the World Trade Centre’s twin towers in New York,…
Continue ReadingShoe bomber Richard Reid was arrested on 22nd December 2001 for attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63 – a flight from Paris, Charles De Gaulle International Airport to Miami International Airport, USA – by…
Continue ReadingOn 22nd June 1985 Airline agent Jeanne Bakermans checked in two pieces of luggage at Vancouver International Airport. Hours later, the first suitcase exploded inside the baggage terminal at Tokyo’s Narita Airport while being transferred…
Continue ReadingThe Mombasa attacks occurred on 28th November 2002 in Mombasa, Kenya. In the first of the two co-ordinated attacks, terrorists crashed a VBIED through a guard gate and onto the lobby steps of the Paradise…
Continue ReadingA major terrorist plot to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale by destroying passenger jets in mid-air was foiled by British police in August 2006. The British terrorist cell planned to detonate suicide bombs…
Continue ReadingOn 14th June 1985, a Trans-World Airlines flight, with eight crew members and 145 passengers, was hijacked en route to Rome from Athens. It was seized shortly after takeoff by two terrorists who had smuggled pistols and grenades…
Continue ReadingOn 6th September 1970, three airliners (TWA, Swissair and BOAC), along with more than four hundred hostages, were hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Two of the planes were taken to a…
Continue ReadingOn 27th June 1976 an Air France aircraft was hijacked by two terrorists and forced to fly to Entebbe airport in Uganda. The hijackers were joined by three more gunmen at Entebbe and demanded the release of 53 militants held in…
Continue ReadingIn the early hours of Friday, 29th June 2007 a paramedic attending an incident at a central London nightclub reported a suspicious vehicle to the police. The police discovered that the car contained tins of fuel, gas canisters and…
Continue ReadingFour suicide bombers struck in central London on Thursday, 7th July 2005, killing 52 people and injuring more than 770. The co-ordinated attacks hit the transport system as the morning rush hour drew to a close. Three…
Continue ReadingOn 19th April 1995 at just after 9a.m, when parents had dropped their children off at the day care centre at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in the USA, the inconceivable…
Continue ReadingIn the morning rush hour of 11th March 2004, 10 bombs packed with dynamite and nails simultaneously ripped through four rush-hour trains packed with office workers, schoolchildren and others heading for the centre of Madrid,…
Continue ReadingOn September 11, 2001, four U.S. passenger planes hijacked by terrorists were used as missiles to kill almost 3,000 people. The first two planes crashed into the World Trade Centre’s twin towers in New York,…
Continue ReadingThe Beslan school siege began when a group of armed terrorists took more than 1100 schoolchildren and adults hostage on 1st September 2004, at a school in the town of Beslan in the Russian Federation….
Continue ReadingOn 12th October 2002, terrorists launched devastating bomb attacks in Bali, Indonesia, resulting in the death of 202 people, and generating large numbers of injured people, many with severe burns, and blast and shrapnel injuries. The attacks involved…
Continue ReadingThe 2005 Amman bombings were a series of coordinated bomb attacks on three hotels in Amman, Jordan, on 9th November 2005. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks, which killed 60 people and injured 115 others….
Continue ReadingOn 20th March 1995 terrorists from the Japanese Aum cult launched a co-ordinated attack using sarin nerve gas against commuters on the Tokyo subway system. Five two-man teams carried out the attacks. Each team consisted of a…
Continue ReadingThe Mombasa attacks occurred on 28th November 2002 in Mombasa, Kenya. In the first of the two co-ordinated attacks, terrorists crashed a VBIED through a guard gate and onto the lobby steps of the Paradise…
Continue ReadingThe Moscow theatre siege, also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege, was the seizure of a crowded Moscow theatre on 23rd October 2002 by over 40 armed Chechen terrorists. The terrorists had automatic weapons, suicide belts, grenades and constructed further…
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