| Preface |
| Introduction |
| The 1960s |
| The 1970s |
| March 31, 1970: Japan Airlines Flight 351 Hijacking to North Korea |
| September 6, 1970: Dawson's Field Multiple Aerial Hijackings |
| May 30, 1972: Machine Gun Attack in Lod Airport |
| September 5, 1972: Munich Olympics Attack |
| May 15, 1974: Ma'alot Massacre |
| December 21, 1975: Vienna OPEC Hostage-Taking |
| June 27, 1976: Entebbe |
| October 6, 1976: Cubana Flight 455 Bombing |
| October 13, 1977: Landshut Hijacking and GSG 9 Rescue in Mogadishu |
| March 16, 1978: Aldo Moro Kidnapping |
| August 27, 1979: Mountbatten Assassination |
| November 4, 1979: Iran Hostage Crisis |
| November 20, 1979: Mecca Grand Mosque Takeover |
| The 1980s |
| August 2, 1980: Bologna Train Bombing |
| October 6, 1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat Assassination |
| April 18, 1983: U.S. Embassy in Beirut Bombing |
| October 23, 1983: U.S. Marine and French Paratrooper Barracks in Lebanon Bombing |
| June 23, 1985: Air India Flight 182 Bombing |
| October 7, 1985: Achille Lauro Seajacking |
| April 5, 1986: Berlin La Belle Discotheque Bombing |
| September 5, 1986: Pan Am 73 Hijacking |
| December 21, 1988: Lockerbie Bombing |
| September 19, 1989: French Airline UTA 772 Bombing |
| The 1990s |
| March 17, 1992: Buenos Aires Israeli Embassy Bombing |
| February 26, 1993: World Trade Center Bombing |
| July 18, 1994: Buenos Aires AIMA Bombing |
| March 20, 1995: Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas Attack |
| April 19, 1995: Oklahoma City Bombing |
| June 14, 1995: Budennovsk, Russia, Hospital Hostage-Taking |
| November 23, 1996: Ethiopian Airlines ET961 Hijacking |
| December 17, 1996: Japan Embassy in Peru Takeover |
| November 17, 1997: Luxor Attack |
| August 7, 1998: Tanzania and Kenya U.S. Embassy Bombings |
| August 15, 1998: Omagh, Northern Ireland, Bombing |
| The 2000s |
| October 12, 2000: Yemen USS Cole Attack |
| September 11, 2001: Al Qaeda U.S. World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania Hijackings |
| October 12, 2002: Indonesia Bali Bombings |
| October 23, 2002: Moscow Theater Takeover |
| May 12, 2003: Riyadh Western Compound Bombings |
| February 27, 2004: Philippines Superferry 14 Bombing |
| March 11, 2004: Madrid Train Bombings |
| August 24, 2004: Two Russian Planes Bombing |
| September 1, 2004: Russia Beslan School Takeover |
| July 7, 2005: U.K. Subway Bombings |
| July 23, 2005: Sharm el-Sheikh Bombing |
| November 26, 2008: India Mumbai Attacks |
| The 2010s |
| March 29, 2010: Russia Moscow Subway Bombings |
| July 11, 2010: Uganda World Cup Bombings |
| January 16, 2013: Algerian Gas Plant Takeover |
| September 21-24, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya, Westgate Shopping Mall Attack |
| The Worst 51-68 |
| September 4, 1969: Brazil U.S. Ambassador Burke Elbrick Kidnapping |
| March 1, 1973: Sudan U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel Assassination |
| December 27, 1974: U.S. Ambassador Shelton Party Attack |
| December 23, 1975: CIA Chief of Station/Athens Richard Welch Assassination |
| March 9, 1977: Takeover of Washington, D.C., Buildings |
| September 5, 1977: Hans-Martin Schleyer Kidnapping and Assassination |
| 1978–1995: The Unabomber |
| 1985–1986: Lebanon Kidnappings of Westerners |
| January 25, 1993: CIA Headquarters Route 123 Entrance Attack |
| 2001: Anthrax Attacks |
| February 27, 2002: India Sabarmati Express Train Firebombing |
| March 2, 2004: Baghdad and Karbala Mosques Attack |
| October 7, 2004: Sinai Hilton Taba Hotel Suicide Bombing |
| July 11, 2006: India Mumbai Train Bombings |
| September 20, 2008: Islamabad Marriott Hotel Bombing |
| December 30, 2009: Afghanistan Bombing of CIA Khost Base |
| October 31, 2010: Iraq Our Lady of Salvation Church Takeover |
| July 22, 2011: Oslo Shooting and Bombing Spree |
| Unsuccessful Attempts |
| May 13, 1981: Attempted Papal Assassination |
| January 1995: Bojinka Planned Bombing of 10 U.S.-Bound Planes |
| December 15, 1999: Planned Millennium Bombing of Space Needle and Airport |
| December 22, 2001: The Shoe Bomber |
| 2003: Mubtakkar Chemical Weapons Attack on NYC Subway |
| August 10, 2006: Planned Liquid Bombings of U.K.-to-U.S. Planes |
| December 25, 2009: The Underwear Bomber |
| May 1, 2010: Would-Be Bombing of Times Square |
| October 29, 2010: Printer Toner Cartridge Bombs on Planes |
| February 17, 2012: Would-Be Suicide Bomber at U.S. Capitol |
| Bibliography |
| Country Index |
| Name and Group Index |