Evolution of Terrorism

By Hedwards0906

  • Munich Masacre

    Munich Masacre
    Eight members of the Black September Palestinian terrorist organization broke into the Olympic Village and took nine Israeli athletes and coaches hostage in apartments. Two hostages were killed and the standoff lasted 18 hours. We start to see terrorism as symbolic and politically motivated.

  • U.S. Embassy Bombings

    U.S. Embassy Bombings
    Over 200 people were killed in truck bomb explosions in two East African cities, one at the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the other at the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. The attacks were made by Al-Queda. This introduced the public to global terrorism.

  • 9/11

    9/11
    Militants associated with Al-Queda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the U.S. They were flown into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. It had a political effect that shaped the geopolitical ideology of America.

  • Beheading of Daniel Pearl

    Beheading of Daniel Pearl
    South Asia chief at the Wall Street Journal was beheaded in Pakistan after he was kidnapped in Karachi. The attack changed the world because it recognized that there were far more complex battlefields concerning the war on terror.

  • Madrid Train Bombings

    Madrid Train Bombings
    Nearly 200 people were killed and 1, 800 injured after al-Queda militants bombed four trains in coordinated attacks. This was a new al-Queda tactic used to pick off U.S. allies.

  • London Attacks

    London Attacks
    Fifty-two people were killed after Islamist extremists set off three explosions on London underground trains. The four suicide bombers died and left many dead and 200 injured. This affected how the world perceives security threats. It signaled tighter security to fight extremism.

  • Public School Attack in Peshawar, Pakistan

    Public School Attack in Peshawar, Pakistan
    Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar killing at least 141 people, mostly children. It was Pakistan's bloodiest ever terrorist attack. It became a reminder that terrorists can penetrate even the most secure institutions.

  • Charleston Church Shooting

    Charleston Church Shooting
    A white supremacist, Dylan Roof, shot and killed nine African Americans at Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The racially and politically motivated murders exposed the Western tendency to define terrorism along racial and religious lines.