Mickolus, Edward F.
Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, 2014.
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Part of the series Praeger security international;Praeger security international (Series)
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- Includes indexes.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index.
- Preface — Introduction — 1960s — 1970s: — March 31, 1970: Japan Airlines flight 351 hijacking to North Korea — September 6, 1970: Dawson’s Field multiple aerial hijackings — May 30, 1972: Machine gun attack in Lod Airport — September 5, 1972: Munich Olympics attack — May 15, 1974: Ma’ alot massacre — December 21, 1975: Vienna OPEC hostage-taking — June 27, 1976: Entebbe — October 6, 1976: Cubana flight 455 bombing — October 13, 1977: Landshut hijacking and GSG 9 rescue in Mogadishu — March 16, 1978: Aldo Moro kidnapping — August 27, 1979: Mountbatten assassination — November 4, 1979: Iran hostage crisis — November 20, 1979: Mecca Grand Mosque takeover — 1980s: — August 2, 1980: Bologna train bombing — October 6, 1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat assassination — April 18, 1983: U S Embassy in Beirut bombing — October 23, 1983: U S marine and French paratrooper barracks in Lebanon bombing — June 23, 1985: Air India flight 182 bombing — October 7, 1985: Achille Lauro seajacking — April 5, 1986: Berlin La Belle discotheque bombing — September 5, 1986: Pan Am 73 hijacking — December 21, 1988: Lockerbie bombing — September 19, 1989: French airline UTA 772 bombing — 1990s: — March 17, 1992: Buenos Aires Israeli Embassy bombing — February 26, 1993: World Trade Center bombing — July 18, 1994: Buenos Aires AIMA bombing — March 20, 1995: Tokyo subway sarin gas attack — April 19, 1995: Oklahoma City bombing — June 14, 1995: Budennovsk, Russia, hospital hostage-taking — November 23, 1996: Ethiopian airlines ET961 hijacking — December 17, 1996: Japan Embassy in Peru takeover — November 17, 1997: Luxor attack — August 7, 1998: Tanzania and Kenya U S Embassy bombings — August 15, 1998: Omagh, Northern Ireland, bombing — 2000s: — October 12, 2000: Yemen USS Cole attack — September 11, 2001: Al Qaeda U S World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania hijackings — October 12, 2002: Indonesia Bali bombings — October 23, 2002: Moscow theater takeove
- Overview: Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, terrorism has remained the chief threat to international stability and security. The 50 Worst Terrorist Attacks draws on all forms of terrorism-international, transnational, and domestic-anywhere in the world, covering all types of acts (e.g., bombings, assassinations, armed attacks, skyjackings) by any organization and ideology. The work goes beyond documenting the key events that occurred in or involved the United States it also covers important terrorist attacks by left- and right-wing organizations, religiously motivated groups, and separatists that are largely unknown among Western audiences. Each entry supplies the details of the attack-the perpetrators, victims, and eventual resolution-as well as the political, social, and international contexts in which the event occurred. Readers will grasp the evolution of terrorist activities and methodologies in the 20th and 21st centuries, understand the importance of each event in the development of the terrorist repertoire, and gauge the responses intended to counter these new kinds of attacks.
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