Garissa University Bombing

When the Oklahoma City bombing happened, it remained the largest terrorist attack to happen on American soil until the attack on 9/11. On April 19, 1995, a rental truck was loaded up with 4,800 pounds of explosives and detonated just after 9:00 am (Krung, Nixon, & Vincent, 1996). The attack was focused on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. This tragic event killed one hundred sixty-eight people and also injured hundreds more (Nacos, 2016). A dare care facility was also located within the building and nineteen children perished in the attack (Nacos, 2016). There were hundreds more victims which were treated by area hospitals and private doctor offices. This explosion was so large, a shockwave was sent across the city which damaged or destroyed an additional 300 buildings in the immediate area (History, 2009). Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas were the two men responsible for this devastating attack.

The terrorist responsible for this attack is Timothy McVeigh. Months before the bombing, McVeigh, along with his accomplice Terry Nichols, was believed to be involved in an “anti-government militia group” (Casey 3). McVeigh believed the government was devising a plan to deprive him and as well as the rest of his country of their rights as Americans to bear arms (Casey).

Since Sunday September 15, 1963, Birmingham received its nickname Bombingham. Many people would think that a church, a place of God, would be the last place to be blown to pieces. Four people lost their lives the day of the bombing. The enemy didn’t seem to care about the people inside but the color of their skin. The Birmingham church bombing also brought influential people, major details surrounding the crisis, a difference in society, and a change in history.

Many lives were taken by the known group Isis 3. 90 people were injured in all of the attacks and 63 people had died

The exact reason of why the committed this crime to this day is unclear. The personal journals of the two perpetrators referenced that they wanted the event to compete with those of the Oklahoma City bombing and other deadly events that happened in the United States around the 1900s. The attack is known as the deadliest High School shooting in the history of the United States.

There were also Somali American’s that were killed in the bombing. Mohamoud Elmi, a Somali American from ohio was confirmed killed. The Second Somalia American was Ahmed Eyow, 50, who lived in Minnesota.

Over the years there have been different attacks in the United States that have caused innocent people to be injured or killed. The Columbine High School massacre in 1999 and the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in 2012 are two examples that have involved an attack on a school, but the Ohio State University attack just happened recently. The Ohio State stabbing is one of the many attacks that have caused innocent people to be injured.

For the United States, a lot has happened with terrorism. The Pearl Harbor attack and the 9/11

The first news event that was chosen for this assignment is the Flint “Serial Stabbings”, a string of 18 stabbing attacks in the spring and summer of 2010, which resulted in five deaths.

RWANDA- Yesterday, during the brutal massacres of the Tutsi people a young man courageously protected countless bystanders and civilians against the Hutu. The young man risked his life for the civilians, and managed to save a majority of the town.

The attackers were Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and several other Arab nations. Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist organization were allegedly acting the U.S. in retaliation for their support of Israel, their involvement in the Persian Gulf War and their military presence in the Middle East. Some of the terrorists lived in the United States for more than a year and had taken flying lessons at American flight schools. The others had snuck into the country in the months before September 11th and were considered the “muscle” in the operation. They smuggled box-cutters and knives through the loose security at three East Coast airports and boarded four different airliners bound for California, they chose these flights because they were filled with jet fuel for the long flight across the country. After takeoff, they raided the cockpit of the planes and took control, doing this turned the normal passenger jets into huge missiles.

attacks - the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 killing of 19 US soldiers in

The Benghazi attack was an attack on the American diplomatic compound by members of the Islamic militant group Ansar al-Sharia. It happened on September 11, 2012. It was coordinated on U.S. government facilities in Benghazi, Libya. The Benghazi attack resulted in the deaths of the United States Ambassador, Christopher Stevens and the United States Foreign Service Information Management Officer, Sean Smith. They both died from asphyxiation after the Islamic group set fire to the compound. They were both in the safe room while the building was on fire. Christopher Stevens was the first United States Ambassador that died in the line of fire since 1979 (Benghazi). The attack started to happen around 9:40 pm when a gunman climbed the wall and set

For example, terrorists attacks were made in Paris, France in 2015. On Friday November 13, 2015 at 3:20 p.m, guns went off, bombs exploded, and many people killed and wounded. Gunmen and suicide bombers all had hit a concert hall, a major stadium, and restaurants and bars almost all at the same time. It had left 130 people dead, and hundreds wounded, with more than 100 in critical condition. The President of France described this attack as an “act of war” against the Islamic State. Three teams were believed to be behind these attacks. Instantly after the attacks, French police carried out hundreds of raids across the country in search of the suspects. This tragedy hurt, and touched every single heart in the world. The U.S. sent troops over for support, and to help Paris out. Carried throughout all social media, were messages and prayers going towards Paris (Paris Attacks;BBC News, 2015).

Kenya has been the battlefield of tragic terrorist attacks on western interests twice since 1998 – once in 1998 when the US embassy was attacked and a second time in 2002 when a Israeli-owned Paradise hotel was bombed. In 1980, Jewish-owned Norfolk hotel was attacked by the PLO. Every single attack shared a common thread of irony: the majority of the lives lost were Kenyan, even though the ideology behind the attacks suggests that Kenyan and Kenyans were not involved in the political dynamic that precipitated the attacks.