Examples of major incidents of terrorism

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Appendix

· The 1972 Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany

· The December 1975 hostage taking at the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria

· The October 1984 bombing in Brighton, England, by the PIRA in an unsuccessful but lethal attempt to kill then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

· The June 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182 originating from Canada

· The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988

· The killing of Nicaraguan civilians by the United States during the 1980s

· The 1993 World Trade Center bombing

· The 1993 Mumbai bombings

· The 1995 sarin gas attacks in Tokyo, Japan

· The Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh on April 19, 1995

· The Centennial Olympic Park bombing in 1996

· The U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7 1998

· The Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland (August 15, 1998)

· The August 31 – September 22: Russian Apartment Bombings kills about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War

· The September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, and Washington D.C.^[28][29]

· The 2001 Indian Parliament attack on December 13, 2001

· The Passover Massacre on March 27, 2002 in Netanya, Israel

· The Moscow theatre siege and the Beslan school siege in Russia

· The Bali bombing in October 2002

· The March 11, 2004 attacks in Madrid

· The July 7, 2005 bombings in London

· The second Bali bombing on October 1, 2005

· The Mumbai train bombings on July 11, 2006.