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It was the UK's worst terrorist incident since the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and the first Islamist suicide attack in the country. January–February 2007: Miles Cooper letter bomb campaign . Miles Cooper said he was motivated by anti-authoritarianism and opposition to surveillance .
Tariq Al-Daour, sentenced to 6 1 ⁄ 2 years' imprisonment for "inciting another person to commit an act of terrorism wholly or partly outside the UK which would, if committed in England and Wales, constitute murder" and conspiracy to defraud banks and credit companies.
Terrorist incidents map of the United Kingdom 1970–2015, with a total of 4,972 incidents plotted. Northern Ireland and London are major hotspots for incidents. Terrorism in the United Kingdom, according to the Home Office, poses a significant threat to the state. [1] There have been various causes of terrorism in the UK.
The following list of designated terrorist groups lists groups designated as terrorist by current and former national governments, and inter-governmental organizations. Such designations have often had a significant effect on the groups' activities.
The following is a list of terrorist incidents that were not carried out by a state or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).Assassinations are presented in List of assassinations and unsuccessful attempts at List of people who survived assassination attempts and List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts.
The U.K. National Crime Agency said that San Diego was arrested in Conwy, a town near Wales' northern coast. He was arrested by officers from the agency's Joint International Crime Center at a ...
Both some Suffragettes and the authorities talked of arson and bomb attacks as terrorism. [122] [123] Contemporary newspaper reports in the UK [124] and in the US [125] likewise spoke of "Suffragette Terrorism" in the UK. Modern scholarship has a range of views as to the applicability of the term "terrorism" to these events. [123] [126] [127]
The former head of counter-terrorism policing in the UK has branded the government’s proposal to extend the definition of terrorism to encompass atrocities carried out by lone attackers like the ...