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Bombay Bombings
A total of 13 explosions erupted in Bombay, India within a matter of only 2 hours. The main conspirators were members of the Memon family who were born and raised in India and the mastermind of the attack was Dawood Ibrahim, leader of the D-Company. 257 deaths and more than 1,000 injured. The entire city was in shambles, including the Bombay Stock Exchange which was completely destroyed. Their motive for this attack was revenge against the religious riots in that vicinity. -
AMIA Bombing
The AMIA bombing was a bombing on a Jewish Community Center in Argentina which killed 85 people and injured hundreds more. The Argentinian government believes that Hezbollah and Iran are completely responsible for the attack, who are foreign to the land. It has been said that the whole reason for the attack was to target the Jewish community and put an end to Zionism. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
The Federal building was bombed and behind the domestic attack was a former U.S soldier, Tim McVeigh who had despised American government after being Clinton was elected president in 1992 because of his gun control campaign. He had parked a truck full of explosives in front of the building which resulted in the deaths of 168 people, 19 of which were children who attended day care in the building. On top of that number were hundreds more who were injured. -
U.S Embassy Bombings
The American embassies of Nairobi Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were bombed. This attack was carried out by Osama bin Laden and his organization known as Al Qaeda who took responsibility of this foreign attack. 213 people were killed at the bombing at the embassy in Kenya while there were 11 deaths in Tanzania. The motive for the attack was the 8th anniversary of American soldiers occupying Saudi Arabia. -
2002 Nord-Ost Siege
The Dubrovka Theatre in Moscow was taken under hostage by about 40 Chechen militants who devoted themselves and their cause to the unrecognized secessionist government of The Chechen Republic. They took 850 civilians hostage and requested that Russian forces in Chechnya must leave immediately because they believed that Russia was oppressing them. These foreign terrorists and their attack resulted in 133 deaths of hostages and 40 deaths the hostage takers with # of injuries in the 700s. -
Madrid Train Bombings
10 bombs detonated in parts of the commuter train transportation system in Madrid. They came in forms of backpacks which caused 191 fatalities and more than 2,000 injured. Behind the attack was Al-Qaeda, whom Abu Dujana al-Afghani claimed responsibility of the entire destruction who is home grown and operates in Spain as part of Al-Qaeda. Their motive was to change up the public opinions of the elections that were going to happen in a few days. -
London Bombings
Several suicide bomb attacks occurred in London during the morning of rush hour to target civilians. Four Islamist extremists foreigners were behind 4 suicide bombings in the underground transportation system and on a double decker bus. There were a total of 52 deaths and over 700 injured. They claimed to have done all of this in the name of Allah, it’s what he wanted them to do. -
Sydney Hostage Crisis
Man Monis, a man who was born in Iran but lived in Australia took several hostages at a Lindt Chocolate Cafe. He took 18 people hostage and the end result was that 3 people were dead and 4 had non-fatal injuries. His reason for taking these people hostage was unsatisfied with how people treated his beliefs on Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. He was believed to be mentally unstable and just a plain old criminal.
