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A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder. Tower of London Terror by Night Corridors of Blood Boris Karloff, Betta St. Power of the Press Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Sherlock Holmes Donald Houston Doctor Watson John Fraser Lord Carfax Anthony Quayle Doctor Murray Barbara Windsor Annie Chapman Adrienne Corri Inspector Lestrade Judi Dench Joseph Beck Cecil Parker Prime Minister Georgia Brown Duke of Shires Robert Morley Mycroft Holmes Dudley Foster Home Secretary Peter Carsten Edit Storyline When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail.
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Yes No Report this. MK's first leader was Nelson Mandela , who was tried and imprisoned for the group's acts. In the s and s, Islamic militancy in pursuit of religious and political goals increased, [ citation needed ] many militants drawing inspiration from Iran's Islamic Revolution. This period also saw the rise of what is sometimes categorized as Single issue terrorism. If terrorism is the extension of domestic politics by other means, just as war is for diplomacy, then this represents the extension of pressure groups into violent action.
Notable examples that grow in this period are Anti-abortion terrorism and Environmental terrorism. The Contras were a counter-revolutionary militia formed in to oppose Nicaragua's Sandinista government. The Catholic Institute for International Relations asserted the following about contra operating procedures in The April 19, , Oklahoma City bombing was directed at the U. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City claimed lives and left over people injured.
Inspired by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranian revolution , the group originally sought an Islamic revolution in Lebanon [ citation needed ] and has long fought for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. Led by Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah since , the group has captured Israeli soldiers and carried out missile attacks and suicide bombings against Israeli targets. Egyptian Islamic Jihad a. The group was formed in as an umbrella organization for militant student groups which were formed after the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood renounced violence.
In , the group assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. On November 17, , in what became known as the Luxor massacre , it attacked tourists at the Temple of Hatshepsut Deir el-Bahri ; six men dressed as police officers machine-gunned 58 Japanese and European vacationers and four Egyptians.
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Kennedy International Airport , was destroyed mid flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie , killing people, including 11 on the ground. On January 31, , Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted by a panel of three Scottish judges of bombing the flight, and was sentenced to 27 years imprisonment. In , Libya offered financial compensation to victims' families in exchange for lifting of UN and U. In Megrahi was granted leave to appeal against his conviction, and in August was released on compassionate grounds by the Scottish executive due to his terminal cancer.
The first Palestinian suicide attack took place in when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad ignited a bomb onboard Tel Aviv bus , killing 16 people. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin , Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi and Mohammad Taha of the Palestinian wing of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood had created Hamas in , at the beginning of the First Intifada , an uprising against Israeli rule in the Palestinian Territories which mostly consisted of civil disobedience but sometimes escalated into violence. Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by the European Union , [] [] Canada, [] Israel, Japan, [] [] [] [] [] and the United States.
On February 25, , Baruch Goldstein , an American-born Israeli physician, perpetrated the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron , Goldstein shot and killed between 30 and 54 Muslim worshippers inside the Ibrahimi Mosque within the Cave of the Patriarchs , and wounded another to Aum Shinrikyo , now known as Aleph, was a Japanese religious group founded by Shoko Asahara in as a yogic meditation group. None were voted in, and the group began to militarize. Between and , the group attempted several apparently unsuccessful violent attacks using the methods of biological warfare , using botulin toxin and anthrax spores.
In May , Asahara and other senior leaders were arrested and the group's membership rapidly decreased. In , Air India Flight flying from Canada was blown up by a bomb while in Irish airspace, killing people, including Canadian citizens, mostly of Indian birth or descent, and 22 Indians. The crash occurred within an hour of the fatal Narita Airport Bombing which also originated from Canada without the passenger for the bag that exploded on the ground. Evidence from the explosions, witnesses and wiretaps of militants pointed to an attempt to actually blow up two airliners simultaneously by members of the Babbar Khalsa Khalistan movement militant group based in Canada to punish India for attacking the Golden Temple.
The Iranian Embassy siege took place in , after a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy in South Kensington , London. This response set the tone for how Western governments would respond to terrorism. Replacing an era of negotiation with one of military intervention. Chechen separatists, led by Shamil Basayev , carried out several attacks on Russian targets between and When Russian special forces attempted to free the hostages, civilians and 25 Russian troops were killed.
Major events after the September 11 attacks in include the Moscow Theatre Siege , the Istanbul bombings , the Madrid train bombings , the Beslan school hostage crisis , the London bombings , the October New Delhi bombings , the Mumbai Hotel Siege , and the Norway attacks. The Moscow theatre hostage crisis was the seizure of a crowded Moscow theatre on 23 October by some 40 to 50 armed Chechens who claimed allegiance to the Islamist militant separatist movement in Chechnya. They took hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and an end to the Second Chechen War. The siege was officially led by Movsar Barayev.
After a two-and-a-half-day siege, Russian Spetsnaz forces pumped an unknown chemical agent thought to be fentanyl, 3-methylfentanyl , into the building's ventilation system and raided it. All but a few of the hostages who died were killed by the gas pumped into the theatre, [] [] [] and many condemned the use of the gas as heavy handed. On September 1, , in what became known as the Beslan school hostage crisis , 32 Chechen separatists took 1, children and adults hostage at Beslan 's School Number One.
When Russian authorities did not comply with the rebel demands that Russian forces withdraw from Chechnya, 20 adult male hostages were shot. After two days of stalled negotiations, Russian special forces stormed the building. In the ensuing melee, over hostages died, along with 19 Russian servicemen and all but perhaps one of the rebels. Basayev is believed to have participated in organizing the attack.
The explosions killed people and wounded 1, It was concluded that the bombs were carried on the trains hidden in backpacks, While many went off three were found later that did not detonate. ETA and al Qaeda were the original suspects cited by the Spanish government. On the morning of Thursday, 7 July , four Islamist extremists separately detonated three bombs in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square.
Fifty-two civilians were killed and over more were injured in the attacks. Later a dozen unexploded bombs were found in a car located in North London. In Norway in two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks by right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik were carried out against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League AUF -run summer camp in Norway on 22 July The attacks claimed a total of 77 lives. The first part of the attack was a van bomb in Oslo.
The van was placed in front of the office block housing the office of Prime Minister and other government buildings. The explosion killed eight people and injured at least people, twelve of them seriously. He followed this attack by impersonating a police officer to access the island on which the AUF summer camp was being held and proceeded to go on a shooting spree that killed 69 people.
In the British government branded the killing of a serviceman in a Woolwich street, a terrorist attack. One of his attackers made political statements which were later broadcast with blood still on his hands from the attack. They were later tried and found guilty of murder. A fifth shooting attack did not result in any fatalities. Numerous other smaller incidents of attacks on mosques have been reported, but have not yet been directly linked to the attacks.
The group that claims responsibility for the attacks, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula , claimed that the attack had been planned for years ahead. On 7 January , two Islamist gunmen [] forced their way into and opened fire in the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo shooting , killing twelve: During the attack, the gunmen shouted " Allahu akbar " "God is great" in Arabic and also "the Prophet is avenged".
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Another gunman also shot a police officer on 8 January and took hostages the next day, at a kosher supermarket near the Porte de Vincennes. Three terrorists were killed, along with four hostages who died in the Vincennes supermarket before the intervention; some other hostages were injured. They killed a total of more than citizens. Hostages were taken in the concert hall "Le Bataclan" for three hours, and ninety were killed before the special police entered.
On March 22, yet another terrorist attack happened within the confines of Europe. Three nail bombs went off at the same time in Belgium, two happened at Brussels Airport in Zaventem approximately 40 seconds apart. The other nail bomb was at Maalbeck metro station also in Brussels about an hour after the airport attacks The act was carried out by 3 suicide bombers, killing 31 people and injuring people in the process.
The third nail bomb at the metro station failed to explode during the terrorist act that Tuesday and was safely deactivated. The two men who hit the Brussels Airport were brothers Ibrahim El Bakraoui and Khalid El Bakraoui while a third person was with them Najim Laachraoui who was believed to be the bomb maker also died, the suspect who had the bomb at the metro station has not yet been identified. The Brothers were both killed during the explosions along with the bomb maker, while the unidentified terrorist fled for he had the bomb that did not explode in the metro station.
Brussels responded to this attack with a level 4 alert the highest it had had since the Paris attacks mentioned above. World leaders responded by unifying and offering their aid along with sorrows for the tragedy that happened there on March 22, The attacks on Brussels had no forewarning nor did officials think an attack on that scale could ever be perpetuated. The bombing killed seventeen U. On September 11, , nineteen men affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jets all bound for California, crashing two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City , the third into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia , and the fourth originally intended to target Washington, D.
Capitol into an open field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania , after a revolt by the plane's passengers. The United States responded to the attacks by launching the War on Terror.
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Specifically, on October 7, , it invaded Afghanistan to depose the Taliban , which had harbored al-Qaeda terrorists. On October 26, , the U. Many countries followed with similar legislation. Under the Obama administration, the U. This campaign eliminated much of al-Qaeda's most senior members, including a strike by Seal Team Six that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden in On Israel's northern border, after its unilateral withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May , Hezbollah launched numerous Katyusha rocket attacks against non-civilian and civilian areas within northern Israel.
It has committed numerous attacks within Iran, stating that it is fighting for the rights of the Sunni minority there. In the group attempted to assassinate Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran and other sources accuse the group of being a front for or supported by other nations, in particular the U. As the Islamic state of Syria and Iraq increases in size and power their attacks are affecting all parts of the world even in their own back yard of Turkey.
Taking place in Istanbul a suicide bomber once again detonated a car bomb killing 4 people and injuring No extremist group took responsibility for the attack but the attacker Mehmet Ozturk was linked to have ties with ISIS. This was just days after the car bomb attack in Turkeys capital of Ankara killing 37 people. Since the attacks Israel has requested that its citizens not travel to Turkey unless its necessary. On December 27, two time elected Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated during a gathering she was having with her supporters.
A suicide bomber detonated a bomb along with other extremists against her shooting off guns killing the prime minister and 14 other people. She was immediately rushed to the hospital and was pronounced dead. The responsibility of her death falls on the president of the time Pervez Musharraf who also was the ex- military chief, She had several conversations with Musharraf about upping her security due to the increase of death threats she was receiving and he denied her request. Although AL-Qaeda took responsibility for her death it is seen in the eye of the people as former President's Pervez Musharraf's fault for not taking her concerns seriously.
However, during his trial he denies that no conversation happened between him and Benzair Bhutto about the security of her life. The Mumbai attacks were more than ten coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai , India's largest city, by Lashkar-e-Taiba , a Pakistani Islamic terrorist organization with ties to ISI , Pakistan's secret service. The six main targets were. On January 14, a series of terrorist attacks took place in Jakarta, Indonesia resulting in 8 dead. The responsibility of these attacks were claimed by ISIS Counter terrorism has named this type of attack 'Marauding Terrorist Firearms Attack' because of the fast reaction needed by local policemen to stop the gunfire attack from the terrorists.
Indonesia is home of the "largest regional terror groups" housing seven Islamist extremist groups. Leaving the thoughts that ISIS is trying to establish a satellite city in Indonesia, due to the fact that it has the largest Muslim population. Although ISIS branches have not yet reached the land of Southeast Asia in big masses, there is the fear that it is only a matter of time until Indonesias small extremist groups grow in masses once direct contact with ISIS is made.
Once contact is established local terror groups will quickly mobilize to carry out the tasks that ISIS asks of them. ISIS will turn to Southeast Asia because it is only evident that they will lose control of the middle east. This resulted in several of the first fatalities attributed to a bioterror attack. The more recent terrorist attack in the United States have included the San Bernardino attack , [] the Bombing of Boston Marathon by Islamic terrorists, the shooting of police officers in sniper ambushes by members of Black Lives Matter movement, and the shooting of multiple black parishioners at church and car attack on anti-fascist protesters in Charlottesville by right-wing extremists and white supremacists.
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