ISIS Thread

Night Prowler said:
So I'm doing a presentation on terrorist attacks: so far I've got Oklahoma 1995 (including sections on Waco and Ruby Ridge sieges), WTC 1993, 9/11, Madrid 2004, London 2005, Moscow theater 2002 and Beslan 2004. Anyone have a suggestion for something big I forgot? (Someone else is doing more recent stuff, I mostly need older incidents.)

(Didn't know where else to ask and since ISIS are terrorists, I think this is kinda appropriate.)
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I'm not sure how you want to limit this, but here are some that were quite important in the last 20 years: Luxor 1997, Nairobi/Dar-es Salaam 1998, Aden 2000, Djerba 2002, Bali 2002

Are you going to include things like Lockerbie (1988), LaBelle (1986) and Bologna (1986), or is that too distant? Because once you dive into those, the 1970s were full of terrorism in Europe.
 
I'm supposed to do 90's and first half of 00's. Two other people are doing 80's and everything before, and the last 10ish years.

Obviously it's impossible to cover everything in the 20 minutes I have, so I picked Oklahoma as an example of domestic terrorism, WTC 1993 and 9/11 for attacks on American soil and Al-Qaeda (also London and Madrid for them) and the Russian stuff for Chechens.

Perun said:
Luxor 1997, Nairobi/Dar-es Salaam 1998, Aden 2000, Djerba 2002, Bali 2002
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Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. Didn't have anything from that part of the world. I'll definitely include Luxor, Djerba and Bali. I have a few sentences about USS Cole and the embassy bombings between WTC 1993 and 9/11, just not a separate section because I don't have time.

RTC said:
Is this exclusively Islamic terrorism?
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Nah, I didn't focus on the religious aspect since we already did Islamic terrorism in "Politicology of religion" and this is for a subject called "Phenomenology of violence".
 
Night Prowler said:
So I'm doing a presentation on terrorist attacks: so far I've got Oklahoma 1995 (including sections on Waco and Ruby Ridge sieges), WTC 1993, 9/11, Madrid 2004, London 2005, Moscow theater 2002 and Beslan 2004. Anyone have a suggestion for something big I forgot? (Someone else is doing more recent stuff, I mostly need older incidents.)

(Didn't know where else to ask and since ISIS are terrorists, I think this is kinda appropriate.)
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My apologies. I didn't read your post with enough attention. I think I WANTED to see french events mentionned. Sorry again.
 
Yeah, you have to set some criteria. For example, the 1993 bombings in Bombay, India (pun not even remotely intended) by Dawood Ibrahim killed 257 people and hurt 713, making it much more serious than 1993WTC. The 1998 US embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya killed over 200 poeople, injuring thousands.

EDIT: Too slow, but anyway

Some more from 06

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Mumbai_train_bombings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_January_2006_Iraq_bombings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_November_2006_Sadr_City_bombings
 
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And 07 was a very bad year in general for Iraq

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Yazidi_communities_bombings
- more than 500 dead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18_April_2007_Baghdad_bombings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_February_2007_Baghdad_market_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_January_2007_Baghdad_bombings
and in Pakistan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Karsaz_bombing

I remember talking about some of these because it was time when I was in high school and more prone to have presentations on news of the world. Not so much lately.


EDIT: Ah, found this. It might be useful. You can choose states, deaths, etc. etc. Good luck


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-state_terrorist_incidents
 
I'm on the train right now so it's not as easy to look up for me, but maybe you want to include the poison gas attack in the Tokyo underground in, what was it, 1995?

Maybe not the best thing to have on your mind while on a commuter train. :S
 
And as an addendum to Oklahoma and Waco, what about the attacks in the vicinity of the Olympic Games in Atlanta?
 
Do school shootings count? In general, I see no reason why they shouldn't. Incidentally, I've read somewhere there has been a school shooting each year since the 60's or so in the US alone. But most remembered are still Reb & Vodka, VT and Sandy Hook (unless you are a "truther").
 
It's up for debate whether school shootings are terrorism, but IMO they surely aren't political terrorism, so I'm not gonna write about them. I don't think we know the motives of the Sandy Hook shooter and Columbine shooters mostly just wanted to cause mayhem and kill a lot of people rather than make a political statement, at least in my opinion.
 
There's a lot to pick from Turkey in 2015 and 2016. Ankara train station and Istanbul airport attacks stand out.

Rest of the world didn't give a shit about Ankara so Istanbul might be a better pick even though the death toll was smaller.
 
The Flash said:
Rest of the world didn't give a shit about Ankara
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It's not just Turkey. Those two Congo wars? You know, probably the bloodiest conflict since the friggin' WW2? War rape spreading AIDS etc? What's that?

Perun said:
Don't forget Columbine.
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I didn't :)

Night Prowler said:
It's up for debate whether school shootings are terrorism, but IMO they surely aren't political terrorism, so I'm not gonna write about them. I don't think we know the motives of the Sandy Hook shooter and Columbine shooters mostly just wanted to cause mayhem and kill a lot of people rather than make a political statement, at least in my opinion.
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You're probably right in that regard, but I consider it to be terrorism all the same.
 
Night Prowler said:
It's up for debate whether school shootings are terrorism, but IMO they surely aren't political terrorism, so I'm not gonna write about them. I don't think we know the motives of the Sandy Hook shooter and Columbine shooters mostly just wanted to cause mayhem and kill a lot of people rather than make a political statement, at least in my opinion.
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I'd go with whatever definition your class uses. I always thought the definition of terrorism was murky at best, but I appreciate there is "terrorism" as a term of political sciences and "terror" as a subjective feeling. In the end, if you go by a subjective definition of effect, anything from a single murder to a full-scale war could be considered "terrorism".
 
Anders Behring Breivik and the 2011 attacks in Oslo and the island of Utøya. First he blew a car bomb outside the Osolo government buildings killing eight and then traveled by ferry (dressed as a cop) to the small island of Utøya and shot dead 69 kids at a left wing summer camp.

Also, for the US. The Unabomber Ted Kacynski is an interesting case in my opinion. He was active between 1978 to 1995 when he was eventually caught but between that time he was responsible for 16-17 bombings across the US. he was captured after a regular cat and mouse chase with he police and also sent the FBI cryptic messages etc and a manifesto that they publicized in national newspapers to stop the bombings.
 
Completely forgot about the Unabomber. Maybe that guy who sent out anthrax letters in the wake of 9/11 is worth mentioning.
 
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