Contents

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Introduction

The Origins of Terrorism

 

PART ONE: EARLY TERRORISM

Jing Ke, the Master Assassin

The Assassination of Pompey

The Assassination of Julius Caesar

The Zealots

Ali ibn Abi Talib

The Assassin Movement

 

PART TWO: 1600–1899

The Gunpowder Plot

The Boston Tea Party

John Brown’s Fight Against Slavery

Pogroms in Odessa

Assassination of Tsar Alexander II

Haymarket Square Riot

 

PART THREE: 1900–1969

The Los Angeles Times bombing

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Wall Street Bombing

The Hebron Massacre

Bombing of King David Hotel

The Qibya Massacre

Bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church

The Black Panthers

El Salvador Death Squads

 

PART FOUR: 1970–1989

Avivim School Bus Massacre

Black September

Lod Airport Massacre

Bloody Friday

Munich Massacre

Diplomatic Assassinations in Khartoum

Dublin–Monaghan Bombs

Guildford & Woolwich Pub Bombings

The Laju Incident

IRA Coach Bomb

Cambodia Genocide

The OPEC Hostages

Assassination of Aldo Moro

Airey Neave Bombing

Iranian Embassy Siege

The Bologna Massacre

Hyde Park and Regent’s Park Bombing

Rangoon Bombing

The Sabra and Shatila Massacre

Gulf Air Flight 771

Harrods Bomb Blast

The Brighton Bomb

TWA Flight 847

Air India Flight 182

Egypt Air Flight 648

Enniskillen Massacre

Pan Am Flight 103

Atack on the Royal Marine School of Music

 

PART FIVE: 1990–2006

The Murder of Ian Gow

World Trade Center Bombing

Warrington Bomb Attacks

Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901

Genocide in Rwanda

Kizlyar Hospital Siege

Docklands Devastation

Acteal Massacre

September 11

Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis

The Bali Bombing

Gulf War Number Three

Chechnya Black Widows

Beslan School Hostage Crisis

Madrid Bombings

The July 2005 London Bombings

Bombs Rock Egypt

Mumbai Massacre

Israel–Lebanon Terror

Britain on ‘Red Alert’

Rebel Attack on Turkey