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| x Guerrilla warfare |
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Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway | Aum Shinrikyo |
Guerrilla warfare is the irregular warfare and combat in which a small group of combatants use mobile military tactics in the form of ambushes and raids to combat a larger and less mobile formal army.
The guerrilla army uses ambush and mobility in...
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| South Thailand insurgency | Patani United Liberation Organization | ||||
| Darfur conflict | Jemaah Islamiyah | ||||
| Taliban insurgency | Janjaweed | ||||
| Insurgency in the Philippines | Al-Qaeda | ||||
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| x Drive-by shooting |
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Assassination of Waldemar Milewicz |
A drive-by shooting (or drive-by or "D.B." for short) is a form of hit-and-run tactic, a personal attack carried out by an individual or individuals from a moving or momentarily stopped vehicle. It often results in bystanders being shot instead of,...
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| Drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur | |||||
| x Car bomb |
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Oklahoma City bombing | Timothy McVeigh |
A car bomb is an improvised explosive device placed in a car or other vehicle and then detonated. It is commonly used as a weapon of assassination,killing spree terrorism, or guerrilla warfare, to kill the occupants of the vehicle, people near the...
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| 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks | |||||
| Bloody Friday | |||||
| Claudy Bombing | |||||
| Dublin and Monaghan Bombings | |||||
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| x Suprise | Haifa Oil Refinery massacre | Irgun | |||
| Cave of the Patriarchs massacre | |||||
| Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria | Improvised bombing | ||||
| Assassination | |||||
| x Firebombing |
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Bombing of Dresden in World War II |
Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to damage a target, generally an urban area, through the use of fire, caused by incendiary devices, rather than from the blast effect of large bombs.
The tactic originated during World War II with the use...
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| Bombing of Tokyo in World War II | |||||
| Belfast Blitz | |||||
| Bombing of Kassel in World War II | |||||
| Bombing of Dresden in World War II | |||||
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| x Airstrike |
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Bombing of Kobe in World War II |
An air strike is a military strike by air forces or other military aviation assets against either a suspected or a confirmed enemy ground position. Air strikes are commonly delivered from aircraft such as bombers, ground attack aircraft, strike...
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| Bombing of Hamburg in World War II | |||||
| 2006 Qana airstrike | |||||
| 2006 Shiyyah airstrike | |||||
| 2006 al-Qaa airstrike | |||||
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| x Terror bombing |
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Terror bombing is an emotive term used to describe aerial attacks made by a belligerent to demoralise an enemy. Use of the term to describe aerial attacks implies that the attacks are criminal attacks that fall outside the law of war, or if within...
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| x Strategic bombing |
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Strategic bombing during the Kosovo War |
Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in a total war with the goal of defeating an enemy nation-state by destroying its economic ability to wage war rather than destroying its land or naval forces. It is a systematically organized and...
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| Strategic bombing during World War II | |||||
| Bombing of Guernica | |||||
| x Area bombardment |
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Aerial area bombardment is the policy of indiscriminate bombing of an enemy's cities, for the purpose of destroying the enemy's means of producing military materiel, communications, government centres and civilian morale. It differs from the use of...
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| x Suicide attack |
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2002 Karachi bus bombing |
A suicide attack (also known as suicide bombing, homicide bombing, or "kamikaze") is an attack intended to kill others and inflict widespread damage, while the attacker intends to die as well in the process. This article is concerned with two...
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| Jerusalem bus 18 suicide bombings | |||||
| 2005 University of Oklahoma bombing | |||||
| Myyrmanni bombing | |||||
| Continental Airlines Flight 11 | |||||
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| x Airliner bombing | Avianca Flight 203 | ||||
| Cubana Flight 455 | |||||
| Korean Air Flight 858 | |||||
| Avianca Flight 203 | |||||
| Swissair Flight 330 | |||||
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| x Carpet bombing |
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Carpet bombing is the large scale bombing of large targets, usually by dropping many unguided gravity bombs. The tactic aims for complete destruction of a target region, either to destroy personnel and materiel, or as a means of demoralizing the...
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| x Improvised bombing |
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1983 United States Senate bombing | Resistance Conspiracy |
An improvised explosive device (IED; also known as a roadside bomb due to contemporary use) is a homemade bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. One may be constructed of conventional military explosives,...
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| Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria | Suprise | ||||
| July 20 Plot | Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg | Assassination | |||
| x Train bombing | Dehiwala train bombing | ||||
| 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings | |||||
| 2003 Stavropol train bombing | |||||
| 2005 Jaunpur train bombing | |||||
| 2004 Moscow metro bombing | |||||
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| x Airliner shootdown | EC-121 shootdown incident | ||||
| DHL shootdown incident in Baghdad | |||||
| Transair Georgian Airline Shootdowns | |||||
| Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 | |||||
| Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 | |||||
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| x Torture |
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Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is:
In addition to state-sponsored torture, individuals or groups may be motivated to inflict torture on others for similar reasons to those of a state; however, the motive for...
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| x Dental torture |
Dental torture is a form of torture involving the infliction of pain or damage to the mouth.
Dental Torture techniques typically include disembodying or damaging of any part of the mouth (i.e. gums, tongue, teeth, etc.) without anesthesia, and may...
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| x Waterboarding |
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Waterboarding is a form of torture that consists of immobilizing the victim on his or her back with the head inclined downwards, and then pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages, causing the captive to believe he or she is dying....
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| x Nuremberg Plate |
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The Nuremberg Plate (German: Nürnberger Teller also Nürnberger Scheibe) was an apparatus for the interrogation through torture. This instrument of torture was used during late Middle Ages and early modern times for enforcement of confessions.
The...
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| x Chinese water torture |
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Chinese water torture is the popular name for a method of water torture in which water is slowly dripped onto a person's forehead, allegedly driving the victim insane. This form of torture was first described under a different name by Hippolytus de...
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| x Sensory deprivation |
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Sensory deprivation or perceptual isolation is the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses. Simple devices such as blindfolds or hoods and earmuffs can cut off sight and hearing respectively, while more complex...
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| x Enhanced interrogation techniques |
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Enhanced interrogation techniques or alternative set of procedures were terms adopted by the George W. Bush administration in the United States for interrogation methods newly approved for use by US military intelligence and the Central Intelligence...
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| x Half-Hanging |
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Half-hanging is a method of torture, usually inflicted to force information from the victim, in which a rope is pulled tightly around the victim’s neck and then slackened when the victim becomes unconscious. The victim is often revived and the...
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| x Sleep deprivation |
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Sleep deprivation, a sleep disorder characterized by having too little sleep, can be either chronic or acute. Long-term sleep deprivation causes death in lab animals. A chronic sleep-restricted state can cause fatigue, daytime sleepiness, clumsiness...
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| x Pride-and-ego down |
Pride-and-ego down is a US army term that refers to techniques used by captors in interrogating prisoners to encourage cooperation, usually consisting of "attacking the source's sense of personal worth" and in an "attempt to redeem his pride, the...
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| x Shooting |
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Shooting is the act or process of firing rifles, shotguns or other projectile weapons such as bows or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets and missiles can be called shooting. A person who specializes in shooting is a marksman. Shooting...
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| x Prison massacre | Bulu prison massacre | ||||
| Berrouaghia prison massacre | |||||
| Welikada prison massacre | |||||
| Kalutara prison riots | |||||
| Peruvian prison massacres | |||||
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| x Massacre | Kebithigollewa massacre | ||||
| Dunblane massacre | |||||
| Massacre of Elphinstone's army | |||||
| Caracazo | |||||
| Massacres during the Greek Revolution | |||||
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| x School massacre |
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Red Lake High School massacre |
School shooting is an incident when gun violence occurs in educational institutions.
The term school shooting most commonly describes acts committed by either a student or intruders from outside the school campus. They are to be distinguished from...
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| Columbine High School massacre | |||||
| Avivim school bus massacre | |||||
| Osaka school massacre | |||||
| Sana'a school shooting | |||||
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| x Poisoning |
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Laurie Dann murders | Laurie Dann |
Death caused by a toxic substance either intentionally (suicide or murder) or unintentionally.
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| x Hostage crisis | Laurie Dann murders | Laurie Dann |
A hostage crisis develops when one or more terrorists or criminals hold people against their will and try to hold off the authorities by force, threatening to kill the hostages if provoked or attacked.
Typically, the party of the hostage-taker(s)...
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| x Pogrom |
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Kishinev pogrom |
A pogrom is a form of riot directed against a particular group, whether ethnic, religious, or other, and characterized by killings and destruction of their homes, businesses, and religious centers. The term was originally used to denote extensive...
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| Istanbul Pogrom | |||||
| 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt | |||||
| Alexandria pogroms | |||||
| Basel massacre | |||||
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| x Shock and awe |
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Shock and awe, technically known as rapid dominance, is a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming power, dominant battlefield awareness, dominant maneuvers, and spectacular displays of force to paralyze an adversary's perception of the...
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| x Mass murder |
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Mass murder (in military contexts, sometimes interchangeable with mass destruction) is the act of murdering a large number of people, typically over a relatively short period of time. Mass murder may be committed by individuals or organizations....
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| x Assassination |
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria | Suprise |
An Assassination is the targeted killing of a public figure.
Assassinations may be prompted by ideological, political, or military reasons. Additionally, assassins may be motivated by financial gain, revenge, personal public recognition, or mental...
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| x Kidnapping | October Crisis | Front de libération du Québec |
In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or asportation of a person against the person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority. This may be done for ransom or in furtherance of another...
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| x Terrorist Attack |
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September 11, 2001 attacks | Al-Qaeda |
A Terrorist Attack can refer to any attack lead by a small group of rebels whose objective is to fear the population to obtain something like the release of a country, the resignation of a governement, etc.
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