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Implications For Crisis Management In South Asia Two decades after India and Pakistan went nuclear, there is continuing fear that the unending troubles between the two countries will lead to another crisis, which could potentially escalate to the nuclear level.
September 11 attacks, series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the United States, the deadliest terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in U.S. history. Over 3,000 people died in the attacks and rescue efforts.
Seventeen years have passed since the 1993 Mumbai blasts. The trial in the 2006 Mumbai train blast is proceeding at snail’s pace in Mumbai. In March 2010, the Supreme Court (SC) stayed the trial of 64 Indian Mujahideen (IM) members allegedly involved for 2008 blasts in Ahmedabad, Delhi, and Jaipur etc.
In this visualization we show the annual death toll from terrorism in the US since 1970. The September 11 attacks in New York stand out as the most fatal terrorist event in the world in recent history. In fact, claiming the lives of nearly 3000 people, the death toll in 2001 was almost four times higher than the combined deaths from terrorism.
Loosely defined, terrorism is the use of violence to further a political or ideological goal at the expense of the general population. Terrorism can take multiple forms and have many causes, often more than one. An attack can be rooted in religious, social, or political conflicts such as when one community is oppressed by another.
Every weekday, nearly 5.7 million people move through New York City’s subway system, commuting through 472 subway stations and across 662 miles of track. Monday’s attempted bomb attack struck.
Every year since the Iraq War started I take a great interest in the State Department's annual report on global terrorism.Year after year the numbers in the report increase while it seems that the American population (and much of the media) tends to tread these reports as small potatoes. This year is about the same, but with a twist.