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But, until the terrorist bombings on the London transport system in 2005, this power was rarely exercised.
Suppose, however, that the 19 people correctly suspected of involvement in terrorism were able to return to Britain, and one carried out a terrorist attack similar to the London transport bombings, which killed 52 innocent people (the four bombers also died).
So far, the death toll stands at 22, many of them children, making the attack on the Manchester Arena Britain’s worst encounter with terrorism since the London Underground bombings in July 2005, which killed 52.
Radical Islamic groups have engaged in indiscriminate bombings, while groups with strong authoritarian tendencies have made inroads into President Megawati's inner circle.
In Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger, the extremist group Boko Haram – famous for its kidnapping of 276 school girls in 2014 – has inflicted thousands of casualties with suicide bombings and assaults on civilians.
Britain, which will soon mark the anniversary of last year’s bombings in London, provides a test case for seeking answers to these questions.
Cross-border attacks, hijackings, Arab and international diplomacy, secret talks, non-violent resistance, suicide bombings, rockets, regional Arab initiatives, international peace envoys: nothing has succeeded in ending the occupation.
To be sure, more incidents of global terrorism associated with Pakistan, such as July’s London bombings, will bring new pressures.
Non-violent protest has also been on the rise, whereas violent acts and suicide bombings have been drastically decreased.
They have even linked a player for India’s national team to the fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, widely suspected of being the architect of the 1993 Bombay bombings, who has been hiding in Pakistan.
Consider the proliferation of jihadist groups, such as the Islamic State, which continues to seize territory in Iraq and Syria, and Boko Haram, which has been engaged in a brutal campaign of abductions, bombings, and murder in Nigeria.
Whereas the Bolsheviks had the 1917 Revolution, the Putinists had the second Chechen war of 1999 and the bombings of apartment buildings in Buynaksk, Moscow, and Volgodonsk that year.
It cast a dark shadow over humanity, one unseen since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
By far the bloodiest attacks against Sufi places of worship have occurred in Pakistan, where the Taliban has desecrated Sufi holy places in more than a dozen bombings since 2005.
The same applies to the Islamic Group, a movement implicated in violent acts in almost a dozen countries throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, including armed insurgency in Egypt, bombings in the United States and Croatia, assassination attempts in Ethiopia, and training camps in Afghanistan.
The respite from the horrendous spate of suicide bombings since the new government assumed power is similarly heartening.
Recent months have seen dozens of suicide bombings and other terrorist activities – the price of Pakistan’s own past blunders, as well as those of the West.
Following the September 2001 attacks in New York, and again after the bombings in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005, law-enforcement authorities across Europe launched mass-arrest operations, undertook widespread surveillance of mosques, carried out stops and searches of people who appeared to be Muslim, and used other intrusive measures that disrupted the lives of – and in many cases humiliated – law-abiding European citizens.
The Best and Brightest FanaticsIn Britain and Australia, several Muslim medical doctors and engineers have been arrested following a series of failed car bombings.
The footprints of many terrorist attacks in the West have been traced to Pakistan, including the 2005 London bombings and the 2015 San Bernardino killings.
In the recent Manhattan and New Jersey bombings, the arrested suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was radicalized in a Pakistan seminary located near the Pakistani military’s hideout for the Afghan Taliban leadership.
In the aftermath of the Madrid bombings, the EU focused on internal aspects of the fight against terrorism.
Suicide bombings of public buildings and attacks on oil and other government installations have alienated many Saudis.
But violence elsewhere in Europe, such as the London bombings of July and the brutal murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam in November 2004, had already made Europe’s failure to integrate its minorities painfully clear.
The perpetrators of the Madrid and London bombings were prosecuted in ordinary criminal trials.
Suicide bombings make Israelis feel vulnerable, and comprise, Palestinians hope, a powerful incentive to end the occupation.
But are today's bombings and UN sanctionsmuch more considerate of human life than 19 th -century conquests?
To date, 19 “sectorial” conventions on terrorism have been signed, covering terrorist bombings, nuclear terrorism, the financing of terrorism, acts against air and maritime security, and acts against internationally protected persons.
A Wiser AmericaNEW YORK – When America absorbed the bombings at the Boston Marathon, what was striking was what did not happen.
Immediately, the bombings began to be cited by some leaders as a call to limit constitutional rights.
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