April Has Been A Particularly Violent Month
Twenty Years Ago: World Trade Center Bombing
In Times Like These, This Is Important To Remember
Read The Fareed Zakaria Classic
Newsweek October 15, 2001
40 Years Ago- Terror At The Munich Olympics
They slipped through the stillness of Munich’s Olympic Village an hour before dawn-eight shadowy figures, in a variety of disguises, with machine guns and hand grenades in athletic-equipment bags.
Newsweek September 18, 1972
This Was A Very Bad Day In 1995
ONE MINUTE, THEY WERE going about the usual business of bureaucracy. The next, their lives were blown apart. Capt. Bandy Norfleet, USMC, had gone to the Marine Recruiting Command Center on the fifth floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to talk about funding his station in Stillwater. Dana Bradley had gone to get a social-security card for her 4-month-old son. Across the street at the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, administrative assistant Irish Hall said the blast was instantaneous — a flash of blue lights and then her head was bleeding. For Henderson Baker II, it seemed like cons. The 34-year-old army captain had been chatting with his NCO in the fourth-floor office of the Army Recruiting Command. Suddenly, the floor blew out from under him and he was hurtling down. A hundred things flashed through his mind: “I thought about my wife and my son. I thought, ‘Was this an earthquake? Am I dying? Am I dreaming?’” Then he hit the ground and blacked out.
Newsweek May 1, 1995
‘Underwear Bomber’ Gets Life Sentence. Read Our Original Coverage.
As the Airbus 330 carrying 278 passengers and 11 crew members began its descent into Detroit on Christmas Day, witnesses say Abdulmutallab got up from his seat by the window in the economy section and went to the bathroom. He stayed there for 20 minutes. When he returned, he told his seatmate that his stomach had been bothering him. He put a blanket over his lap and tried to inject chemicals from a syringe into a packet containing three ounces of explosive powder that he had retrieved from his underpants. The bomb should have been powerful enough to blow a hole in the plane. But instead passengers heard a popping sound, like a firecracker, and saw flames.
Newsweek January 11, 2010
Carlos the Jackal returned to a Paris court today for bomb attacks in the early 1980s. Read our first coverage on Carlos here.
Newsweek January 5, 1976
