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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Graft (talk | contribs) at 17:05, 30 November 2002 (not NPOV, since "terrorist" is not a NPOV adjective). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Missing here are deeds by Baader-Meinhof, Irish Republican Army (in various flavors), Palestine Liberation Organization, etc. It's not possible to list everything, of course, but are there any major incidents from these that should be present? --Pinkunicorn

Added some IRA incidents. Not sure if they are the most important ones. Any know about the Tamil Tigers or the Red Brigade? This site lists some groups that the U.S. considers terrorist groups: http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/terrorist_orgs_list.html Anyone know of their actions? ---rmhermen

My first idea on moving this list over to a less ambiguous title, was to call it list of major terrorist incidents. However, who gets to decide what is a "major" incident? "Major" is also a relative word - In Israel if a suicide bomber 'only' kills 2 people other than himself many would not regard that as a "major incident" becasue scores of people have been killed in single incidents in the past. But if that same number of people were killed in a terrorist attack in a country that was previously untouched by these acts then many people there would consider that to be a major incident. Also, how can we really define "major" after 3,000 were killed on 9/11? Maybe I am splitting hairs here.... Is list of major terrorist incidents still a better title in spite of this concern? --maveric149

Reading the definition of terrorism in the Wikipedia, the USS Cole bombing doesn't appear to belong in this list, since the ship was a military target. It could be that, as the article says, "some people call it terrorism", but this doesn't fit with the definition of terrorism here.

On the topic touched by maveric149, I'd say that this list is automatically about the major incidents, since the minor incidents will likely not get an encyclopedia entry. jheijmans

There's lot of lack about terrorist acts in Italy, Germany and France. I will try to find sources.

Who known something about Munich olympics ?

How come you are all focusing on the PIRA? There have been terrorist acts by loyalists, not just republicans.

Removed:

I didn't know duPont was a terrorist organization. Now if you had said Microsoft.... Were/Are these workers part of a terrorist group, perhaps one of the Puerto Rican independence groups? --rmhermen

2000-2002 Israel is subjected to a campaign of attacks on civilians that leave 400 dead

I find that this is not netural for four reasons.

1. by not naming the terrorists it clearly is a political statement. I know who they are. (well not personally) 2. by not listing similar state terrorist activities, by Israel in particular, it is also a political statement. 3. The PLO (implied) is the only Governmental (mostly) body listed in the list. It is singled out for special attention. There are a number of people who would argue quite vehemently that the USA is the worlds largest state terrorist orginization. 4. The list of terrorist incidents is highly relevent to specific countries.

Suggestion for limiting the listing of this increadibly incomplete list of terrorist incidents:

This list of terrorist incidents is meant to be representative of non-statitist terrorist incidents which receive international coverage. Countries, like Israel, and pseudo governments like the PLO are not included. See State Terrorism.

- Karl

What's the purpose of restricting ourselves to events which 'recieve international coverage'? If we're doing this, can we state it explicitly, i.e., "List of non-statist terrorist incidents which recieve international coverage"? Because, otherwise, the exclusion of, say, violence by the Contras (which could fill several pages worth of incidents) makes this article decidedly non-neutral. Furthermore having this page at all when our page on terrorism emphasizes that many people consider this to be a wholly political categorization devoid of substantive meaning is not NPOV. I see no good way to resolve this dilemna - furthermore including everything (i.e., Der Yassin as well as the Passover Massacre) does not make inclusions any more neutral. Graft
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