Members of the IRA.
Circa 1970s.
An IRA poster from the 1980s.
A still frame captured from video of a suicide bomber in Sri Lanka blowing himself up. The bomber was a member of the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist organization which waged war against the Sri Lankan government for 26 years.
This picture, taken a split second after the bomb exploded, shows the innocent bystanders just before they were either injured or killed.
14 people died and 35 more were wounded in this attack.
Matara, Sri Lanka - March 10, 2009.
Breaking News:
Alfonso Cano, leader of the Colombian terrorist organization FARC, has been confirmed dead following a military raid on Friday.
Update: Above is a picture circulating in Colombian media of Cano after being killed, it has apparently not yet reached American or European news sources.
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Breaking news:
Alfonso Cano, leader of the Colombian terrorist organization FARC, has been confirmed dead following a military raid on Friday.
Moscow theater hostage crisis, part 2:
After learning that terrorists had taken hostages inside the theater, Olga Romanova crossed through the police barriers surrounding the scene and managed to make her way into the building.
Once inside, her goal was to negotiate with the terrorists inside, hoping that they would release at some (if not all) of the 850 people being held hostage.
The terrorists were immediately suspicious of her and deemed her Russian spy. Soon after her entrance, she was executed.
Thus, Olga Romanova became the first victim of the theater hostage crisis.
October 23, 2002 - 9 years ago today.
Anwar al-Awlaki, an American born Al-Qaeda figure, has been killed today along with several companions near the town of Khashef in Yemen.
He is known for preaching to three of the 9/11 hijackers and was in contact with the Ford Hood shooter, an attack in which 13 were killed and 30 were wounded. He was also implicated in other failed terrorist attacks within the United States such as a plot to blow up a plane on Christmas Day as well as a plot to detonate a car bomb in Times Square.
He was 40 years old.
Beslan school hostage crisis:
On September 1, 2004 Islamic militants took more than 1,000 people hostage (many of them children) inside a school in the Russian town of Beslan.
During the siege terrorists rigged the building with explosives and put many of the hostages in the school’s gym. Uncompliant hostages were shot on the spot without warning, and crying children were threatened with death.
Hostage takers used drugs such as heroin and morphine in order to stay awake.
Three days into the siege the school the roof collapsed in an explosion. A fire ensued and the building was stormed by Russian troops soon after.
Almost 400 people would die, nearly half of them children.
September 3, 2004 - 7 years ago today
At least eight people have been killed so far today in the Afghan capital of Kabul amid two (possibly three) suicide bombings as well as gunfire from gunmen. Police are still battling with the armed gunmen in the city.
Today is Independence Day in Afghanistan, which it obtained from Britain in 1919.
Current time in Kabul: 11:00 AM
In April of 1998 the Good Friday Agreement was signed, marking a new way forward for peace in Northern Ireland between those loyal to the UK and Ireland.
Despite the Agreement, some ex-members of the IRA formed a new splinter-group called the “Real IRA”, planned a bombing to show their opposition.
Months later they planted a 500 pound (230 kg) bomb within the trunk of a car in a busy section of Omagh. The picture above is that of a man and his daughter standing unknowingly next to the explosive-laden vechicle minutes before it exploded.
The man and his daughter survived. However 29 people would die and more than 300 were wounded.
Nobody has ever been found guilty in relation to a crime regarding the bombing.
Omagh, Northern Ireland - August 15, 1998.
