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Acts of terrorism
- For the concept, see Terrorism.
- For co-incident drills and attacks, see Drills#Co-incident_drills_and_attacks.
- States may carry out False flag attacks disguised as acts of terrorism, or series of such attacks as in the strategy of tension.
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Preparations
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Preparations are made to tackle acts of terrorism.
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| "Cyberterrorism" | The use of computers by "terrorists" to cause disruption. This is an arena in which the determination of responsibility is particularly difficult, and therefore false flag attacks are that much more easy. |
| "Islamic terrorism" | A trenchant enemy image, reinforced by the clandestine arming and training of groups under Operation Gladio/B |
| 2004 Madrid train bombings | A Spanish equivalent of 7/7, targetting civilians and blamed on Al Qaeda |
| 2005 London bombings | A series of coordinated attacks on London's public transport system during the morning rush hour, allegedly carried out by four Muslim suicide bombers. |
| 2011 Norway attacks | A car bomb in Oslo and subsequent mass shooting at a summer camp in Norway on 22 July 2011, claiming a total of 77 lives. |
| 2014 Kunming Attack | A possible deep event in where assailants pulled out knifes at a train station and stabbed random passengers. Although no group claimed responsibility, Muslim Xinjiang "terrorists" were blamed. As official reaction, the Chinese government ramped up their efforts to mass incarcerate at least 1 million Muslims in Xinjiang. |
| 2016 Istanbul airport attack | Shootings and suicide bombings at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, |
| 2021 Kabul Airport attacks | Suicide bombings in the middle of the Afghanistan/2021 withdraw |
| 2021 Washington D.C. Riots | One of the most fortified positions in the US gets violently overrun by a group of Trump Supporters after a demonstration... without a single shot fired by the mob. Official narrative soon blamed Trump and extremists. Official opposition narrative soon blamed the democratic party trying to fraud Joe Biden into the White House. Several other governments were briefed by intelligence services that the incident seemingly "was being allowed" to happen. |
| 2024 Crocus City Hall attack | A mass shooting and multiple explosions on the edge of Moscow |
| 2024 Lebanon pager explosions | Indiscriminate mass murder |
| 9-11 | A complex and spectacular set of events in New York and Washington. The US government was quick to blame Al Qaeda, though no evidence of guilt was presented and there is much suspicion about what Al Qaeda really is. In the USA 9-11 assisted the Patriot Act's roll back of civil liberties, the stepping up of domestic surveillance and the financial advancement of the military industrial complex. Abroad 9-11 helped launched wars on Iraq and Afghanistan that had been planned long before. |
| Al-Qassam Brigades | |
| Ansarallah | Islamist political and military organisation from Yemen. |
| Canadian church attacks | A coordinated string of vandalism and arson attacks on churches across Canada. The Canadian version of the George Floyd protests? (Ongoing) |
| Car bomb | Bombs in cars, called the deadliest weapon in the 20th century. |
| Charlie Hebdo shooting | January prelude to the November 2015 mass murder in Paris when 139 were killed and 352 injured |
| Gretchen Whitmer/Kidnapping plot | The "unsuccessful plot" in 2020 to overthrow the Michigan government arranged by the FBI. |
| Harrods bombing | A car bomb by the IRA outside Harrods that killed 6 people in 1983 |
| Hindawi affair | Failed attempt to smuggle a time bomb onto a plane |
| Irgun | |
| Islamic Jihad | |
| July 2021 Gulf of Oman incident | Incident in July 2021 |
| La Belle discotheque bombing | A bombing in West Berlin, blamed by the US on Libya. |
| Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing | Mysterious suicide bombing in Liverpool. |
| Nashville explosion | A mysterious explosion that has been memory holed since the US Capitol riots. |
| San Bernardino shooting | US mass shooting in 2015, soon after the similar spree of mass murder in Paris |
| State terrorism | |
| Unite the Right rally | An deep event in 2017 |
| Wakefield standoff | A standoff between an anti-government militia and the police, in July 2021 in Wakefield, Massachusetts. |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Islamophobia" | “"terrorism" in the post-9/11 American vernacular has become shorthand for "Islamic terrorism."” | Gregory Krieg | 2 April 2017 |
| "Terrorism" | “Terrorism is not really an '-ism'. There's no connection between the Sandinistas who fought the Contras and Al Qaida or Colombia's FARC and fisherman turned pirates in Africa and Asia, yet they are all called "terrorists". That's just a convenient way for your government to convince the world that there is another enemy '-ism' out there, like communism used to be. It diverts attention from the very real problems.
Our narrow-minded attitudes and the resultant policies foment violence, rebellion and wars. In the long run, almost noone benefits from attacking the people we label as "terrorists", with one, glaring exception:- the corporatocracy. Those who own and run the companies that build the ships, missiles and armoured vehicles, make guns, uniforms and bulletproof vests, distribute food, soft drinks and ammunition, provide insurance, medicines and toilet paper, constructions ports, airstrips and housing and reconstruct devastated villages, schools, factories and hospitals. They, and only they, are the big winners. The rest of us are hoodwinked by that one, loaded word "terrorist". The current economic collapse has awakened us to the importance of regulating and reining in the people who control the businesses that benefit from the misuse of words like "terrorism" and who perpetrate other scams. We recognize today that white collar executives are not a special, incorruptible breed.” | Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann | |
| "Terrorism/Response" | “It is critical to understand that the threat from groups historically seen as direct sponsors of terrorism such as ISIS/Daesh and the coordinated state efforts from Russia in recent years are linked.” | Anonymous | 6 August 2018 |
| "War on Terror" | “The surest defense against terrorism is to refuse to be terrorized.” | Bruce Schneier | August 2006 |
| 9-11/Official narrative | “It turns out, 45 years later, that those who truly hate us for our freedoms are not the array of dehumanised enemies cooked up by the war machine — the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Afghans, Iraqis, Iranians, even the Taliban, Al-Qaeda or ISIS. They are the financiers, bankers, politicians, public intellectuals and pundits, lawyers, journalists and business people, cultivated in the elite universities and business schools who sold us the Utopian dream of neoliberalism. We are entering the twilight phase of capitalism. Capitalists unable to generate profits by expanding markets have, as Karl Marx predicted, begun to cannibalise the state like ravenous parasites.” | Chris Hedges | 2017 |
| Arms for Libya | “Libya is the principal sponsor of terrorism. It finances terrorist acts, it trains terrorist groups, it supplies arms, ammunition, passports and other documents to terrorists, and it uses its embassies, so-called peoples' bureaus, as weapons store-houses and sanctuaries for terrorists. Recently, Libya has been escalating its involvement in terrorism.” | 1986 | |
| George Carlin | “Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It's as simple as that. The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore, they neutralize people, or they depopulate the area. The government doesn't lie, it engages in disinformation. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. Contra killers are called freedom fighters. Well, if crime fighters fight crime, and firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?” | George Carlin | |
| Robin Cook | “So long as the struggle against terrorism is perceived as a war that can be won by military means, it is doomed to fail. The more the West emphasises confrontation, the more it silences moderate voices in the Muslim world who want to speak up for cooperation.” | Robin Cook | 8 July 2005 |
| Tom Cotton | “Waterboarding isn’t torture. We do waterboarding on our own soldiers in the military.” | Tom Cotton | |
| Tom Cotton | ““It has come to our attention while observing your nuclear negotiations with our government that you may not fully understand our constitutional system. Thus, we are writing to bring to your attention two features of our Constitution—the power to make binding international agreements and the different character of federal offices—which you should seriously consider as negotiations progress.
First, under our Constitution, while the president negotiates international agreements, Congress plays the significant role of ratifying them. In the case of a treaty, the Senate must ratify it by a two-thirds vote. A so-called congressional-executive agreement requires a majority vote in both the House and the Senate (which, because of procedural rules, effectively means a three-fifths vote in the Senate). Anything not approved by Congress is a mere executive agreement. Second, the offices of our Constitution have different characteristics. For example, the president may serve only two 4-year terms, whereas senators may serve an unlimited number of 6-year terms. As applied today, for instance, President Obama will leave office in January 2017, while most of us will remain in office well beyond then—perhaps decades. What these two constitutional provisions mean is that we will consider any agreement regarding your nuclear-weapons program that is not approved by Congress as nothing more than an executive agreement between President Obama and Ayatollah Khamenei. The next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time."” | Tom Cotton | |
| Meir Dagan | “In my opinion, no terrorist should feel immune, anywhere. I think that a person's life is forfeit the moment he decides to adopt terrorist tactics.” | Meir Dagan | 1998 |
| Peter Daszak | “We don’t think twice about the cost of protecting against terrorism... We need to start thinking about pandemics the same way.” | Peter Daszak | 21 April 2020 |
| Peter Daszak | “Pandemics are like terrorist attacks: We know roughly where they originate and what’s responsible for them, but we don’t know exactly when the next one will happen. They need to be handled the same way — by identifying all possible sources and dismantling those before the next pandemic strikes.” | Peter Daszak | 27 February 2020 |
| Document:Sins of Statecraft - The War on Terror Exposed | “a group of powerful elites from various countries gathered at an international conference in Jerusalem to promote and exploit the idea of ‘international terrorism.’ The (Jerusalem) conference (on International Terrorism, or JCIT) established the ideological foundations for the ‘war on terror.’ JCIT’s defining theme was that international terrorism constituted an organized political movement whose ultimate origin was in the Soviet Union. All terrorist groups were ultimately products of, and could be traced back to, this single source, which - according to the JCIT - provided financial, military, and logistical assistance to disparate terrorist movements around the globe. The mortal danger to Western security and democracy posed by the worldwide scope of this international terrorist movement required an appropriate worldwide anti-terrorism offensive, consisting of the mutual coordination of Western military intelligence services.” | Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed | 2005 |
| Document:The First 9-11 Sceptic | “We are going to see a great number of articles in the future from so-called experts and public officials. They will warn about more violence, more kidnappings, and more terrorists. Mass media, the armed forces, and intelligence agencies will saturate our lives with fascist scare tactics and 'predictions' that have already been planned to come true.” | Mae Brussell | 1974 |
| Earthquake | “Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.” | William Cohen | 28 April 1997 |
| Harry Ferguson | “Sadly, my advice today to any aspiring recruit who values the defence of human rights would be to stay away and do something better with their lives. The intelligence services are not what they were. Above all, they have forgotten the lessons that we learned during the struggle against Irish terrorism: that brutality and injustice are not the answer, they simply fuel the next generation of terrorists.” | Harry Ferguson | |
| Hypocrisy | “let me formulate a thesis. The thesis is that we are all total hypocrites on any issue relating to terrorism. Now, let me clarify the notion "we." By "we," I mean people like us — people who have enough high degree of privilege, of training, resources, access to information — for whom it is pretty easy to find out the truth about things if we want to. If we decide that that is our vocation, and in the case in question, you don't really have to dig very deep, it's all right on the surface. So when I say "we," I mean that category. And I definitely mean to include myself in "we" because I have never proposed that our leaders be subjected to the kinds of punishment that I have recommended for enemies. So that is hypocrisy. So if there are people who escape it I really don't know them and have not come across them. It's a very powerful culture. It's hard to escape its grasp. So that's thesis number one, we are all total hypocrites, in the sense of the gospels, on the matter of terrorism. The second thesis is stronger, namely, that the first thesis is so obvious that it takes real effort to miss it. In fact, I should go home right now because it is obvious [...] Well, from all of this an obvious conclusion follows: there is an operational definition of terrorism, the one that is actually used — it means terror that they carry out against us — that's terrorism, and nothing else passes through the filter.” | Noam Chomsky | 2002 |
| Fred C. Iklé | “Approximate military parity between the superpowers enhances the importance of PSYOP and POLWAR [Political Warfare]. Major adversaries equally armed and equally capable of destroying each other must turn away from shooting wars to settle their genuine conflicts. POLWAR and PSYOP pose a lower risk of escalation. Our era has become the age of terrorism, insurgency, and limited war because each of these is an essentially political method of struggle. In this era of superpower confrontation, it is no longer facetious to set Clausewitz' dictum, "War is the continuation of politics by other means," on its head. In our modern world, international politics is the continuation of war by other means.” | Fred C. Iklé | 1986 |
| McCarthyism | “Just as the Palmer Raids turned up no actual bombers and the McCarthy era tactics identified few spies or saboteurs, so also the government's yield of actual terrorists from its current preventive detention program has been staggeringly small. According to Ashcroft, all of the detainees were "suspected terrorists." Yet of the approximately two thousand persons, only four have been charged with any crime relating to terrorism. None has been charged with involvement in the September 11 crimes, and the vast majority have been affirmatively cleared of any criminal charges by the FBI. As noted above, the government's policy has been to release and/or deport detainees only after the FBI has cleared them. Yet as of October 2002, Attorney General Ashcroft announced that the INS had deported 431 detainees, and in July 2002, the Justice Department reported that only eighty-one individuals remained in immigration detention. Thus, by the government's own account, virtually none of those detained as "suspected terrorists" turned out to be terrorists.” | David Cole | 2003 |
| William Odom | “By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.” | William Odom | April 2006 |
| Polarising perspective | “Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.” | George W. Bush | 20 September 2001 |
| Colin Powell | “[Terrorism] is the cost of doing business and it's not just something that can happen overseas but, as this community knows better than anyone, it can happen here... I think there are limits to what you can do in a free society.” | Colin Powell | 11 August 1998 |
| RAND/Terrorism Chronology Database | “Since the RAND-St Andrews chronology only records those incidents that are ‘international’, the database is orientated towards the recording of attacks on foreign visitors to, and military occupiers of, relatively poor countries. By definition those victims are normally business representatives and military personnel from economically strong, normally Western, nations. The second observation, which reinforces this latter point, is that the Chronology explicitly excludes acts of state terror committed by any government against its own citizens, and acts of violence occurring in war or in war-like situations. Incidents involving Western armies of occupation and businesses are included in the Chronology only where they are victims rather than the perpetrators of violence. Third, some of the methodological inconsistencies in the use of data in the Chronology database are reminiscent of the counter-insurgency position. It is possible to find non-violent activities and protests against state violence recorded in the database as "terrorism."” | Jonny Burnett Dave Whyte | |
| Michael Rivero | “Once a government resorts to terror against its own population to get what it wants, it must keep using terror against its own population to get what it wants. A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop. If such a government ever lets the fear subside and rational thought return to the populace, that government is finished.” | Michael Rivero | |
| Saudi Arabia | “Saudi Arabia is the Arab world’s leading state sponsor of terror. It backs ISIS, al-Qaeda, its al-Nusra offshoot and other terrorist groups – supplying them with weapons (including CWs), munitions, funding and other material support.” | Stephen Lendman | 27 November 2017 |
| Strategy of tension | “It is probably fair to say that of the roughly seven billion people who live on our planet today, far less than one percent has ever heard of the "strategy of tension." And only a very few of these could illustrate the strategy with specific historical examples. It is indeed a strategy of a shadow world, known only to a few military and intelligence officers (and some criminals) who have carried it out, a few police officers and judges who fought against it, and a handful of journalists and academics who have written about it.
In its essence, the strategy of tension targets the emotions of human beings and aims to spread maximum fear among the target group. “Tension” refers to emotional distress and psychological fear, whereas “strategy” refers to the technique of bringing about such distress and fear. A terrorist attack in a public place, such as a railway station, a market place, or a school bus, is the typical technique through which the strategy of tension is implemented. After the attack — and this is a crucial element — the secret agents who carried out the crime blame it on a political opponent by removing and planting evidence. It must be noted that the targets of the strategy of tension are not the dead and the wounded of the terrorist attacks, as many might assume. The targets are the political opponents, who are discredited through the attack, and those who remain unharmed but learn of the attack, thereby coming to fear for their lives and those of their loved ones. Since the aims of the strategy are to discredit opponents and to create fear, the real targets are not the people who were killed, whether they number in the dozens or even thousands, but the millions of people who survive physically unharmed but emotionally distressed.” | Daniele Ganser | May 2014 |
| Donald Trump | “Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East. They've become rich. I'm in competition with them. They just built a hotel in Syria. Can you believe this? They built a hotel. When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. They don't have to pay interest, because they took the oil that, when we left Iraq, I said we should've taken” | Donald Trump | June 2015 |
| Washington Conference on International Terrorism | “Given terrorism's unique dependence on publicity and amplification, the media have a crucial role in either facilitating or obstructing the spread of terrorism against the West... manipulation of public opinion is in fact, central to the terrorist strategy. For this purpose, access to the media, indeed their domination, is indispensable.” | ||
| Whitney Webb | “Bitcoiners should pay close attention to these developments as the DOJ in particular has attempted to paint bitcoin as the payment of choice for well-known terror groups like ISIS and al-Qaida, signaling that the working group proposed by this bill will likely seek to specifically target bitcoin. Adding to this concern is the fact that a slew of recent mainstream media reports — which cite Treasury and FinCEN officials, DOJ officials and CIA analysts — have claimed specifically that “terrorists are turning to bitcoin, and they’re learning fast”, that bitcoin is the “new frontier in terror financing”, and that “bitcoin is helping terrorists secretly fund their deadly attacks”. Even the prominent military think tank RAND Corporation has argued that “bitcoin and the dark web” are the newest terrorist threat.” | Whitney Webb | September 2023 |
Event Planned
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing | 14 November 2021 | 14 November 2021 | Liverpool United Kingdom | Mysterious suicide bombing in Liverpool. |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:A Long History of America's Dark Side | article | 7 October 2010 | Peter Dale Scott Robert Parry | Americans are encouraged to unquestioningly view their country and its soldiers as the "good guys" spreading “democracy” and “liberty” around the world. When the US inflicts death and destruction, it’s viewed as a mistake or an aberration. This article reviews the long history of these acts of brutality, a record that suggests they are neither a “mistake” nor an “aberration” but a conscious counterinsurgency doctrine on the "dark side". |
| Document:A lesson from Brussels we refuse to learn | article | 24 March 2016 | Jonathan Cook | Commentary on the shortcomings of a Simon Jenkins article on the Mass murder in Brussels |
| Document:Bangkok Blast - Who the Liars Say Did It, Says it All | article | 18 August 2015 | 'Tony Cartalucci' | Analysis of the 18 August terrorist bombing in Bangkok illustrating western media (especially the BBC) bias by omission of major salient points |
| Document:Jewish terrorism in UN-mandate Palestine 1945-48 | report | 1 October 1948 | Various contributors | Timeline-type list of Jewish violence in 'UN-Mandate Palestine' from 1945 to 1948 inclusive. |
| Document:Mrs. May & MI5 In Disarray | webpage | 11 June 2017 | Matthew Jamison | |
| Document:Paul Wilkinson, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry | book extract | 12 May 1990 | Edward Herman | |
| Document:Radicalisation - UK.gov gets itself in cluster-muddle over 'terrorism' | article | 25 August 2016 | Alexander J Martin | |
| Document:Sins of Statecraft - The War on Terror Exposed | paper | 29 July 2006 | Brian Bogart | |
| Document:Someone said they wanted to see me trapped in a burning car and watch flames melt my flesh | Article | 22 October 2021 | Nadine Dorries | After the murder of MP David Amess, a crackdown on "internet trolls" is being demanded by most politicians. The UK's new Culture Minister Nadine Dorries is pursuing new overreaching legislation regulating Big Tech. The "Online Safety Bill" will abolish online anonymity and empower internet censorship. There are fears that it will be the end for freedom of expression in the UK. |
| Document:Starmer’s purges of Labour have mutated into the arrest of Palestine supporters | blog post | 30 August 2024 | Jonathan Cook | Britain’s authoritarian new prime minister is expanding the scope of already draconian laws to redefine his critics as ‘supporters’ of terrorism. Starmer wants to be judge, jury and executioner. We must not let him get away with it. |
| Document:Terrorism as Seen From Washington | article | 5 May 2014 | Thierry Meyssan | A brief expose of the US Annual Report on Terrorism in the world as the propaganda. |
| Document:Terrorism, Transit and Public Safety - Evaluating the Risks | paper | 16 January 2012 | Todd Litman | "It is important for individuals and public officials to take all risks into account and avoid overreacting to transit terrorism risks in ways that increase overall danger." An investigation into the real rather than the perceived risks of public and private transport. Contains some basic points that reveal the purported "terrorist threat" to be vastly exaggerated. |
| Document:The Experts extract from The "Terrorism" Industry | book extract | 1989 | Gerry O'Sullivan Edward Herman | |
| Document:The Politics of Terror | article | 31 August 2010 | Douglas Valentine | |
| Document:The new alliance between anti-vaxxers and the far right is a deadly threat | Article | 1 August 2021 | Paul Mason | "Though they claim to be “peaceful”......by setting themselves up as the victims of genocide, the anti-vaxxers give themselves permission to threaten violence.....Those behind the “crime” are said to include governments and the World Economic Forum (WEF)" because the real fascists are the ones that oppose oppressive government mandates and forced injections. |
| Document:The scariest thing about Brussels is our reaction to it | article | 24 March 2016 | Simon Jenkins | Absurd over-reaction to terrorist attacks in the west in general and the Mass murder in Brussels in particular, is EXACTLY what the those responsible for the attacks want and expect. |
| Document:Weekend Clashes Emblematic of Political Violence Around the Country | Article | 16 October 2018 | Anti-Defamation League | This ADL blog post from 2018 outlines instances of "terrorism", blamed mainly on the Proud Boys during first two years of the Presidency of Donald Trump. Since then, they were revealed to have links to FBI informants. |
| Document:Who is Bombing European Civilians? | article | 22 March 2016 | Sott.net | Sharp questioning of precisely who is responsible for attacks on civilians in Europe |
| File:A Global Chronology of Incidents of Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear Attacks 1950-2005.pdf | report | 7 July 2006 | Hamid Mohtadi Antu Murshid | A summary of Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear Attacks, from 1950 - 2005, giving the number of injuries and fatalities, and other information (if known) on the perpetrators and motives. |
| File:FBI Report - Terrorism 1980-2005.pdf | report | 2005 | FBI | Non-Muslims responsible for over 90% of all terrorist attacks in America |
| File:Jewish Terrorism under the British Mandate.pdf | factsheet | 2006 | CJPME | Information about specifically Jewish acts of terrorism against British military, police and civilian personnel in the years between the end of World War II and the establishment of the state of Israel |
| File:Report on Terrorism 2014.pdf | report | 30 April 2014 | US State Department | A summary of global "terrorism" in 2014. |
| File:Security Terrorism and the UK.pdf | briefing paper | 1 July 2005 | Chatham House Lloyds of London | A quintessentially UK Establishment view on Security and Terrorism in the UK. |
| File:Targetedandentrapped.pdf | report | May 2011 | Various faculty members | |
| File:Terrorism & Relative Justice.pdf | paper | 2007 | Mark Findlay | |
| The "Terrorism" Industry | book | 12 May 1990 | Gerry O'Sullivan Edward Herman | A look at the reality of terrorism, and how the institutional forces shape it to their ends. |
Official examples
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