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Munich Olympics

Munich Olympics. This took place in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.

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Munich Olympics

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  1. Munich Olympics • This took place in southern West Germany, when members of the IsraeliOlympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. • Five of the eight members of Black September were killed by police officers during a failed rescue attempt. The three surviving terrorists were captured, but later released by West Germany following the hijacking by Black September of a Lufthansa airliner.

  2. April 1983 bombing in Beirut-April 18, 1983 is the day that these terrorist killed over 60 people -The attack came in the wake of the intervention of a Multinational Force , made up of Western countries, including the US, in the Lebanese Civil War ,to try and restore order and central government authority. It also followed the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese Christian militiamen, and four years after the anti-Western Islamic Revolution in Iran .

  3. July 1987 bombing in Karachi • Four explosions rocked central Karachi today; the official news agency said at least 20 people were killed and about 100 were injured. • Witnesses said the blasts, apparently caused by bombs, occurred in rapid succession. The explosions set a restaurant and possibly three other buildings ablaze and shattered vehicles and vending carts. An undetermined number of people were said to be trapped in the burning buildings.

  4. November 1987 bombing in Korean Airlines • Exploded in mid-air on 29 November 1987 after two North Korean agents planted a bomb in the passenger cabin. • Second stop-over in Bangkok, Thailand, the bomb activated and destroyed the Korean Air • The two bombers were traced to Bahrain, where they both attempted to smoke cigarettes laced with cyanide when they realised they were about to be taken into custody. The male of the pair died, but the female, Kim Hyon Hui, confessed to the bombing. She was sentenced to death after being put on trial for the attack, but was later pardoned by the President of South Korea,

  5. December 1988 bombing of Pan am flight • destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Eleven people in Lockerbie, in southern Scotland, were also killed as large sections of the plane fell in the town and destroyed several houses, bringing total fatalities to 270. As a result, the event has been named by the media as the Lockerbie bombing. • The plane was calledClipper Maid of the Seas

  6. August 1989 bombing on French passenger jet • killed 170 people • The Sept. 19, 1989, bombing of an UTA airlines jet flight over the Niger desert killed all 170 people aboard. Victims' families came from 17 countries, but France, with 54 dead, had the heaviest casualties

  7. 1989 terrorist attack • British World War Two veteran Jackie Mann seized by Iranian backed terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon, and held until 23 September 1991. Four days latter German aid workers Heinrich Struebig and Thomas Kemptner were also kidnapped in the Lebanon by Islamic terrorists and held until June 1992. They were the last of some 80 westerners held hostage in Lebanon to be released.

  8. September 11 attacks • On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centerin New York City, killing everyone on board and most of those working in the buildings. Both towers collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.c.The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington, D.C., to target either the Capitol Building or the White House There were no survivors from any of the flights.

  9. 12 October 2002, Bali bombings • The attack was the deadliest act of terrorism in the history of Indonesia, killing 202 people, (including 88 Australians, and 38 Indonesian citizens.A further 240 people were injured. • The attack involved the detonation of three bombs: a backpack-mounted device carried by a suicide bomber; a large car bomb, both of which were detonated in or near popular nightclubs in Kuta; and a third much smaller device detonated outside the United States consulate in Denpasar, causing only minor damage.

  10. May 31,2010 Suicide car bombing • Suicide car bombing • 19 died • 23 injured • A suicide car bomber struck an Afghan military building in Khost Province

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