The timing of the bombs was critical The Ulster Workers’ Council (UWC) had paralyzed Northern Ireland by striking in an attempt to derail the Sunningdale Agreement, which was a last-ditch effort to reconcile Ulster’s warring factions. The bombings resulted in a cynical insurance that nobody could trust anyone else. In Dublin, three car bombs exploded …
The King David is the most famous hotel in Jerusalem. Opened not far from the Jaffa Gate in 1931, its pink sandstone has always been a conspicuous landmark of opulence; and with a clientele of political, military and wealthy international elites, it has been a de facto government building for whoever is in power. In …
Terrorist attacks on America’s financial institutions are not new. Although the scale of the 1920 Wall Street bombing is dwarfed by 9/11, at the time it was a tragedy of similarly momentous proportions. America was shaken to its core: The Washington Post described the bombing as an ‘act of war’, there was an immediate security …
In an era when society has perforce become accustomed to the regular incidence of tragedies involving disturbed loners who run amok, indulging in apparently motiveless killing sprees, it is hard to imagine the unbelieving horror that the first such event recorded in modern times – the Tsuyama massacre – engendered in prewar Japan. The perpetrator …