Terrorisme: historiske angreb og definitioner

All people around the World know enough the word ’’Terrorism’’ to terrorism is in fact become part of our daily lives. On the day the World Trade Center get attacked. On the morning of September 11, 2001, four passenger airlines were hijacked in the eastern USA. Two of the airlines were forced by the hijackers to fly into the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Another was forced to fly into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. The fourth airliner crashed into a field after the passengers tried to regain control. It is believed that the plane should have flown into the White House. A total of about 3.000 people died. Nineteen people were involved in the hijacking of the airliners. They all had links to the al-Qaeda organization. Al-Qaeda’s aims include the removal of American soldiers from the Middle East and the changing of American foreign policy towards Israel.

But after a few years, London attacked by a terrorist attack. July 7, 2005, four bombs killed 52 people and injured more than 700 in the center of London. A group to al-Qaeda claimed responsibility. It was the first suicide bombing in Western Europe and. There was 3 bombs in the underground and one bombs on a bus