Last couple of decade world is exposed to numerous terrorist attacks. These attacks always come from nowhere and without any notification. Danger lurks almost everywhere: in movies, restaurants, sport events, public transportation…
All this additionally increases tension and fear with people. In the center of attention are famous people, rich people, most powerful men in the world and politicians. Sometimes the targets of such attacks are innocent citizens, whose only misfortune is that they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Consequences are mostly catastrophic, tens even hundreds of people dead… However there are cases where planned attack is discovered in time and catastrophe is avoided. This attachment talks about 10 most successful terrorist attacks.
10LOCATION: BOILBAO, SPAIN DATE: 1997
Basque separatists ETA target King Juan Carlos Using Grenades. The plot is uncovered one day before the king´s arrival for a museum opening.
09LOCATION: DETROIT, USA DATE: 2009
Umar Farouk attempts to blow up a passenger plane over Detroit. A bomb hidden in his underwear fails to go off and burns only him.
08LOCATION: LONDON, UK DATE: 1991
In 1991 IRA attempt to assassinate British Prime Minister John Major. Three mortar bombs are fired Downing Street. No one killed.
07LOCATION: BOSTON, USA DATE: 2001
Richard Reid tries to blow up an airliner carrying 197 people. The “shoe bomber” is overpowered by passengers and crew before he can ignite the bomb.
06LOCATION: NEW YORK CITY, USA DATE: 1973
Black September plant three car bombs outside Israeli targets that fail to detonate. Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary, the main suspect, evades capture for 18 years.
05LOCATION: LONDON, UK DATE: 2005
London´s transport system is targeted by bombers whose devices fail to explode. The attack comes two weeks after an almost identical attack left 52 dead.
04LOCATION: LONDON, UK DATE: 2006
Plan to blow up 10 transatlantic airlines using liquid explosives. MI5 foils the attack after conducting the UK´s largest surveillance operation.
03LOCATION: USA, JORDAN, YEMEN DATE: DECEMBER 1999/JANUARY 2000
Police foil bombings of lax and western targets in Jordan by Islamic militants. In Yemen, a bomb-laden boat sinks before hitting USS The sullivans.
0202. LOCATION: TYLER, TEXAS, USA DATE: 2003
White supremacists stockpile enough sodium cyanide a 30.000 square foot area. Ultimately apprehended, their target remains unknown.
01LOCATION: PHILIPPINES, USA, FRANCE, UK DATE: 1995
The Islamist “bojnika plot” is discovered after a chemical fire. The Pope, nuclear power plants and 12 US commercial aircraft are some of their targets.
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