Carla Mooney - Terrorism: Violence, Intimidation, and Solutions for Peace

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Terrorism

66 to 73 CE

A Jewish sect called the Zealots fight against the Roman Empires occupation of the land that is now known as Israel.

1000s and 1100s

In Iran and Syria, a group known as the Assassins sends members on suicide missions to murder enemy leaders in its struggle to overthrow Sunni leaders in Islam.

1789

The French Revolution overthrows the monarchy and establishes a new government. The new French state orders enemies of the state killed, an early example of state-sanctioned terror.

1964

The Palestine Liberation Organization begins fighting to establish a Palestinian state.

1968

The Provisional Irish Republican Army is formed with a goal to end British rule in Northern Ireland and to reunify Ireland as a Catholic country.

19781995

American Unabomber Ted Kaczynski anonymously delivers 16 mail bombs that kill three people and injure 23 others.

1983

Suicide bombers attack the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people. The attack marks the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups.

1987

Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, better known as Hamas, is founded in the West Bank and Gaza in the Middle East in the struggle for an Islamic fundamentalist Palestinian state.

1988

A terrorist bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 103 flying from Frankfurt, Germany, to Detroit, Michigan, killing all on board. Terrorists from Libya are blamed for the bombing, known as the Lockerbie bombing.

1995

Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult movement release sarin, a powerful nerve gas, on several subway lines in Tokyo, Japan, killing 12 people and injuring hundreds more.

1995

Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols detonate a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more. To date, it is the deadliest domestic terrorism attack in U.S. history.

1996

The U.S. Congress passes the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the countrys first comprehensive counterterrorism legislation.

1998

Osama bin Laden forms the Al-Qaeda terrorist group.

2001

Nineteen terrorists from Al-Qaeda hijack four commercial airplanes on September 11, deliberately crashing two of the planes into the World Trade Center towers in New York City and a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashes in Pennsylvania.

2001

The United Nations passes Security Council Resolution 1373, an international response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It also creates the UN Counterterrorism Committee.

2002

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is created and the USA Patriot Act is signed into law. Both are designed to improve the ability of the United States to fight terrorism.

2005

Islamic extremists detonate three bombs on London, England, subway trains and a fourth on a double-decker bus, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700 others.

2011

American Special Forces kill Osama bin Laden.

2013

Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev detonate two homemade bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring several hundred.

2015

Three suicide bombers strike near the Stade de France outside Paris, France, followed by suicide bombings and mass shootings at cafs, restaurants, and a music venue in central Paris, killing 130 people and injuring more than 350 others. The attacks are the deadliest in France since World War II.

2015

A white supremacist named Dylann Roof enters an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, and opens fire on parishioners who had gathered for Bible study. Roof kills nine people, all African Americans.

2016

Omar Mateen enters a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, shooting and killing 49 people and injuring 53 others.

2016

A cargo truck drives into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring 434 more. The attack is linked to the Islamic State/ISIS.

2017

A suicide bombing occurs at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, following a concert by singer Ariana Grande, killing 22 people and injuring more than 100 others. The attacker, Salman Ramadan Abedi, is a 22-year-old British citizen suspected of being connected to Islamic State/ISIS.