Contents- 26/11, 9/11, Peshawar school massacre and different designated terrorist groups .......... and also snapshots of different terrorist attacks !!!!
Opportunities, challenges, and power of media and information
World under TERRORISm !!!
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3. Terrorism is commonly defined as
violent acts intended to create fear ,
perpetrated for an economic, religious,
political, or ideological goal, and which
deliberately target or disregard the safety
of non-combatants.
Another common definition sees
terrorism as political, ideological or
religious violence by non-state actors.
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12. In November 2008, 10 Pakistani members of
Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic militant
organization, carried out a series of twelve
coordinated shooting and bombing attacks
lasting four days across Mumbai.
Ajmal Kasab, the only attacker who was
captured alive, later confessed upon
interrogation that the attacks were conducted
with the support of Pakistan Government's
intelligence agency ISI.
The attacks, which drew widespread global
condemnation, began on Wednesday, 26
November and lasted until Saturday, 29
November 2008, killing 164 people and
wounding at least 308.
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18. The September 11 attacks were a
series of four coordinated terrorist
attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-
Qaeda on the United States in New York
City, New York, and Arlington County,
Virginia, on the morning of Tuesday,
September 11, 2001.
Four passenger airliners which all
departed from the U.S. East Coast to
California were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda
terrorists to be flown into buildings in
suicide attacks.
19. Two of the planes, American Airlines
Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175,
were crashed into the North and South
towers, respectively, of the World
Trade Center complex in New York City.
Within two hours, both 110-story
towers collapsed with debris and the
resulting fires causing partial or
complete collapse of all other
buildings in the WTC complex,
including the 47-story 7 World Trade
Center tower, as well as significant
damage to ten other large surrounding
structures.