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Terrorist attack took place in U.S.A on September 11, 2001, were a series of four attacks done simultaneously launched by terrorist group Al-Qaeda against United States of America in Washington and New York city. Commercial passenger airlines were hijacked by 19-20 terrorists so they could conduct suicide attacks by blowing into buildings. Two of these passenger planes crashed into World Trade Center. World Trade Center completely collapsed into wreckage killing around 3000 people in this attack including the hijackers. One plane crashed into the western side of Pentagon were no deadly incident report and the other plane crash on plain area that was likely to crash into Washington D.C. but it missed its target. This attack not only killed the people who were in the plane but also in the World Trade Center and the firefighters and rescue workers who were inside the towers when they collapsed after two hours of series of blasts inside them. (Hanes, pp.247-267)
Attack took place at Karachi airport Pakistan on June 8, 2014 where 11 militants armed with latest technology automatic weapons attacked Jinnah International airport Karachi. Attacks were initially claimed by militant organization known as Tehrik-e-Taliban and the militants who attacked were Uzbeks belonging to Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan that has its close ties with Al-Qaeda. Hence, this was considered as a joint operation by terrorist groups within and outside the country. The attackers attacked different checkpoints and cargo terminals of the airport. It is said that their main target was the secret military operation aircraft handed over to the Pakistani government by U.S.A. to conduct the operation in Pakistan against terrorist. This attack killed 36 people including ten militants. (Dawn, p.2)
Work Cited
Dawn.com “TTP claims attack on Karachi airport” (June, 09, 2014), p.2
http://www.dawn.com/news/1111397
Hanes, Emma, Machin, Stephen “Hate Crime in the Wake of Terror Attacks: Evidence From 7/7 and 9/11.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (Aug2014), Vol. 30 Issue 3, p247-267.
Letschert, Rianne, Ines Staiger, and Antony Pemberton, ends. Assisting Victims of Terrorism: Towards a European Standard of Justice. London: Springer, (2009) p. 22
