terrorism: Media

Videos

Rise and fall of the Red Army Faction in West Germany
Learn about the rise and fall of the Red Army Faction, the West German radical group...
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September 11 terrorist attacks: Perpetrators and victims
Discussion of Mohammed Atta, lead hijacker in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,...
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Learn about the Munich massacre of 1972
Overview of the Munich massacre, in which members of the militant Palestinian group...
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Learn about the deadly terrorist attack by Black September at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, which resulted in the death of 11 Israelis
Overview of the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz

Images

Madrid train bombings of 2004
Rescue workers evacuating the bodies of victims of a terrorist train bombing near...
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Louis XVI: execution by guillotine
The execution of Louis XVI in 1793.
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Persian Gulf War: burning oil wells
Oil wells near Kuwait city, Kuwait, that were set on fire by retreating Iraqi forces...
Tech. Sgt. David McLeod/U.S. Department of Defense
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan burning a cross in Tennessee, 1948.
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Omagh bombing
Aftermath of the terrorist attack in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, August...
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Oklahoma City bombing
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the wake of the...
David Glass/AP Images
World Trade Center: jetliner flying into tower
The second of two commercial jetliners hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists and crashed...
Carmen Taylor/AP Images
Palmer Raids
Front page of the Chicago Federation of Labor's newspaper, The New Majority,...
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Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games
A Palestinian terrorist appearing on a balcony in the Munich Olympic Village, where...
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November 2015 Paris attacks
Investigators examining the bodies of victims of a terrorist attack on a Paris restaurant,...
Thibault Camus/AP Images
September 11 attacks
Aerial photograph of the destruction following the crash of a hijacked plane into...
Tech. Sgt. Cedric H. Rudisill/U.S. Department of Defense
September 11 attacks
Smoke and flames erupting from the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center...
Chao Soi Cheong/AP
flight paths on September 11, 2001
The routes of the four U.S. planes hijacked during the terrorist attacks of September...
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