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On August 5, 2012, Wade Michael Page fatally shot six people (including himself) and wounded four others in a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Page was an American white supremacist and a United States Army veteran from Cudahy, Wisconsin, who was a member of the neo-Nazi skinhead Hammerskin Nation.
Clint Watts is a senior fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University and a Foreign Policy Research Institute fellow. [4] He previously was an infantry officer in the United States Army, [5] [6] and was the Executive Officer of the Combating Terrorism Center at United States Military Academy at West Point (CTC).
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the September 11 attacks and their consequences: . September 11 attacks – four coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C., area on September 11, 2001.
In 1961 the U.S. government, through the military and the CIA, engaged in a far more extensive campaign of state-sponsored terrorism against civilian and military targets in Cuba. The terrorist attacks killed significant numbers of civilians. The U.S. armed, trained, funded and directed the terrorists, most of whom were Cuban expatriates. [15]
Map of 2,872 terrorist incidents in the contiguous United States from 1970 to 2017. KEY: Orange: 2001–2017; Green: 1970–2000 Terrorism deaths in the United States In the United States, a common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a general climate of fear to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious ...
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A wave of hate-related terrorist attacks occurred in Florida. African-Americans were dragged and beaten to death, with 11 race-related bombings, the dynamiting of synagogues, and a Jewish School in Miami and explosives found outside of Catholic Churches in Miami. [21] [22] 48 March 1, 1954 Shooting 0 5 Washington, D.C.
The Milwaukee Police Department bombing was a November 24, 1917, bomb attack that killed nine members of local law enforcement and a civilian in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.The perpetrators were never caught but are suspected to be an anarchist terrorist cell operating in the United States in the early 20th century.