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The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the end to the Waco siege. The bombing remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
2018 As-Suwayda attacks: Islamic state militants carried out suicide bombings and gun attacks in the city of As-Suwayda and a number of villages in the southern Syrian governorate of As-Suwayda, killing 255 people, including 142 civilians, and injuring 180 others. At least 63 terrorists were also killed, including the suicide bombers.
Urban terrorism is the targeted use of terrorism in urban populations in order to cause the most harm, injury, death, or property damage. Since urban areas have significantly higher population densities than rural areas, targeting those areas can maximize the effect of the terrorist attack.
Jabbar, a US-born military veteran, lived in a squalid trailer park on the outskirts of Houston that is home to mostly Muslim immigrants — with a mosque within walking distance.
The terrorist was killed in the attack. FBI/AFP via Getty Images Bashir saw the new white Ford F-150 Lightning pickup Jabbar used in his rampage and assumed he’d rented or bought it for the move.
“Newark is no longer on the ‘top 10 most violent city list,’ where it had a coveted ... of the top 100 most dangerous U.S. cities — evidence ... the needs of the ever-changing community
The FBI considered it one of the most dangerous terrorist organizations in the United States at the time, given that it was the same organization that claimed responsibility for an attack on a Navy bus in Puerto Rico on December 3, 1979, in which two Navy men were killed and 10 people injured, and the attack on a U.S. National Guard base on ...
Islamic extremist terrorism, which animated American foreign policy and defense strategy for a decade and a half after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has receded as a top-tier concern.