What are the major international terrorist attacks since this century?

September 1 1 attack, also known as "September 1 1" and "September1/terrorist attack", is 2006544.

On the morning of 200 1 September 1 1 (EST), two civil airliners hijacked by terrorists crashed into World Trade Center1Building and World Trade Center Building 2 in New York, USA, respectively. After the attack, two buildings collapsed one after another, and five other buildings of the World Trade Center collapsed and were damaged in the earthquake.

At about 9 o'clock, another hijacked passenger plane crashed into the Pentagon of the US Department of Defense in Washington, USA, and the local structure of the Pentagon was damaged and collapsed.

After the incident, troops all over the United States entered the highest alert state. Although the Taliban issued a statement saying that the terrorist incident had nothing to do with bin Laden, the US government still identified bin Laden as the prime suspect in this terrorist attack.

In response to this attack, the United States launched the "war on terror", invaded Afghanistan, destroyed the Taliban hiding Al Qaeda terrorists, and passed the USA Patriot Act. 10 On 7 October, US President george walker bush announced that he would launch a military strike against Afghanistan.

The "9 1 1" incident was the most serious terrorist attack in the United States, with a total of 2,996 victims. There are different statistics about the property losses in this incident.

According to a report released by the United Nations, the economic losses caused by this terrorist attack amounted to 200 billion US dollars, equivalent to 2% of the GDP of that year. The loss caused by this incident to the global economy even reached about 1 trillion dollars.

This incident has had a profound psychological impact on the American people, and their sense of economic and political security has been seriously weakened.

2. Beslan hostage crisis

Beslan hostage crisis is also called "Beslan hostage incident" by many China media. This incident refers to a terrorist activity that took students, teachers and parents hostage by Chechen separatist militants in North Ossetia, southern Russia, and basically ended on September 3, 2004.

Russian Presidential Advisor ustinov reported the preliminary investigation results of the hostage incident to Russian President Putin on September 8, 2004. According to the known information, more than 1200 people were taken hostage in the incident, resulting in the death of 333 hostages.

Among them, minors were injured 186, and 958 were injured, including 639 minors, disabled 123, 26 children's parents died, 3 terrorists were killed, and 1 person was captured alive. The hostage incident included 59 teachers; At present, more than 60 experts continue to investigate the incident further.

It is worth noting that this is one of the most cruel and large-scale hostage-taking incidents in human history (* * * more than 65,438 people were hijacked+0,200 people). The school hijacking in Beslan set a precedent for killing children, the most vulnerable group in society, and caused a huge psychological blow to the international community.

3. Hostage incident in Moscow Theatre

On June 23, 2002, more than 40 Chechen kidnappers broke into a theater in the Cultural Palace building of Moscow Bearing Factory in the southeast of Moscow, holding more than 850 people in the Cultural Palace and demanding that Russian troops withdraw from Chechnya.

10 10 On October 27th, Russian military police and Alpha team used secret chemical gas to anesthetize everyone in the performance hall and annihilate the Chechen kidnappers. As a result, 39 terrorists were killed and at least 129 hostages died because of the anesthetic gas of the Russian army.

4. 12 16 Pakistani school attack.

A military children's school in Peshawar, a city in northwest Pakistan, was attacked by militants on February 6, 2004. 14 1 people died, including 132 students and 9 faculty members, and more than 120 people were injured. 16 On the same day, the Pakistani police said that the attack had ended and all six militants were killed.

The Pakistani Taliban organization has claimed responsibility for the attack, and its spokesman said that the attack was retaliation for the Pakistani military's previous clean-up actions. The Pakistani President and Prime Minister strongly condemned the attack and said that they would mourn for the victims for three days.

5,5,31Afghan capital explosion

The explosion in the Afghan capital on May 3/KLOC-0 refers to the explosion that occurred in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, at around 8: 25 am on May 3 1 July 20/7. Xinhua News Agency Kabul Branch was affected, and the first floor of the office glass was shattered.

Afghan President Ghani reported on June 6th that the death toll caused by this attack has exceeded 150. More than 300 people were injured. This attack is the deadliest attack in Kabul since 16.