In our lifetime, man has made millions of promises that states he would better our lives. But in a bid to solve one problem, we create three more. Moreover, as long as the world power is the father of the lie, humans are their doom. Dispute, disagreement and vengeance has made our heart bitter towards one another. Some come over it but the ones that don't come back to haunt us, here are the ten most fatal terrorist attack mankind has ever witnessed.

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10. The Bentalha massacre.
After the Rais massacre, (number 9 below), rumours spread that more massacres were coming soon. For ten days before the event, howling as of jackals (which are not found in the area) was heard every night, and helicopters circled overhead daily.

On September 22, at 11:30 pm, explosions rocked the Hai el-Djilali neighborhood in Bentalha and attackers began pouring in. They began methodically going from house to house and slaughtering every man, woman, and child they found within. Screams and alarms filled the air as a helicopter circled overhead. The attackers were armed with machine guns, hunting rifles, and machetes; some, were dressed in dark combats, some in the Islamists' trademark kachabia, with
balaclavas and beards. They recognized some of the locals, calling them by name. They proceeded, dashing babies into walls, cutting off limbs, cutting throats, raping and then killing women. The killers continued proceeding through Hai el-Djilali from house to house until about 5 am, when they departed unmolested.

Photo: A woman cries outside the Zmirli Hospital, where the dead and wounded had been taken after a massacre in Bentalha.

9.
The Rais Massacre
The Rais massacre , of August 29, 1997, was one of Algeria 's bloodiest massacres of the 1990s. It took place at the village of Rais. In 1997, Algeria was at the peak of a brutal civil conflict that had begun after the military's cancellation of 1992 elections set to be won by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). The poor farming village of Rais had mostly voted for FIS and had a history of supporting Islamist guerrillas in the region, but had recently stopped providing them with food and money.

The hooded attackers arrived about 1 am in trucks and cars, armed with shotguns, knives, axes, and bombs. They continued killing the village's men, women, children, and even animals until dawn (about 6 am), cutting throats and taking the time to burn corpses; young women, however, were abducted instead of being killed. In some cases, they left severed heads on doorsteps. They mutilated and stole from the dead, and committed atrocities against pregnant women. They burned and bombed some houses. The villagers tried to flee or hide. Army units stayed outside the village, shooting at fleeing villagers, but not attempting to enter the village until after the attackers, carrying away some 20 young women, left at dawn.

Responsibility was claimed for this by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) same perpetrators of the Bentalha massacre 1000 before the conflict began to 200 after the massacre; many of the remainder left following this massacre. Some of those who remained were given arms by the government for future self-defense,

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8.
2014 Gamboru Ngala attack
Gamboru and Ngala are twin towns in Borno state, and it accommodated the security permanent military post. But after the kidnap of the Chibok schoolgirls, the security was reported to have left in pursuit of the militants cause Book Haram spread rumours that the girls had been sighted elsewhere.

On 5 May 2014, Armed with AK-47s and RPGs, the militants attacked the town on two armored personnel carriers, stolen from the Nigerian military several months ago, motorcycles and pick-up trucks. They set houses ablaze and shot anyone who tried to escape. The attack occurred in the night when residents were still sleeping. At least 300 folks lost their lives.

7.
July 2013 Iraq attacks
During the first two weeks of July 2013, a series of coordinated bombings and shootings struck across several cities in Iraq , killing at least 389 people and injuring more than 800 others. This occurred just two months after the May 2013 bombings. Baghdad was the worst hit city and many musicians paid tribute with the phrase "Bombs over Baghdad" notably Andre from Outkast and Alicia Keys in We Are One.

picture: Locations of some of the attacks on 2 July

6.
Massacre of Trujillo
The Massacre of Trujillo was a series of murders perpetrated between 1988 and 1994 in the town of Trujillo Colombia by paramilitaries and the Cali Cartel with the involvement of active members of the Colombian military and police.
Some 245 to 342 people, including unionists and suspected guerrilla supporters, were tortured and dismembered. Among the more gruesome murders was the decapitation and castration of Father Tiberio Fernandez, the local Jesuit priest. The murders were seen as a warning to other pro-guerrilla elements. Most of the corpses were thrown into the waters of the
Cauca River.

5.
Cinema Rex Fire, Iran
On August 19, '78 Hundreds of people were watching The Deers, when four men barred the doors of the cinema and doused it with gasoline from a can. The attackers dropped a match, blocked the doors from the outside and fled. The police department was only 100 metres away but didn't respond in time, although three tankers arrived, they had no water. About 420 were burnt alive, with most burnt beyond recognition.


Photo 1: Cinema Rex building after the fire


Photo 2: Family members of a victim overlook a cemetery dotted with unmarked graves. Many of the dead were unidentifiable due to the extent of their burns.

4. May 2013 Iraq attacks.
From 15 to 21 May 2013, a series of deadly bombings and shootings struck the central and northern parts of Iraq, with a few incidents occurring in towns in the south and far west as well. The attacks killed at least 449 people and left 732 others injured in one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence in years.

Mosques were the major target, and new tactics like double bombings started to be used, whereby a bomb detonates and moments later, another goes off. One eyewitness said, "I was about 30 meters from the first explosion. When the first exploded, I ran to help them, and the second one went off. I saw bodies flying and I had shrapnel in my neck." Strategic bombings were employed with bombs going off just minutes after morning prayers, On May 20 at least 133 people were killed.

3. 2007 Yazidi communities bombings
For several months leading up the attack, tensions had been building up in the area, particularly between Yazidis and Sunni Muslims (Muslims including Arabs and Kurds). Some Yazidis living in the area received threatening letters calling them "infidels". Leaflets were also distributed denouncing Yazidis as "anti-Islamic" and warning them that an attack was imminent.

The attack might be connected to an incident wherein Du’a Khalil Aswad, a 17-year-old Yazidi girl, was stoned to death. Aswad was believed to have wanted to convert in order to marry a
Sunni . Two weeks later, after a video of the stoning appeared on the Internet, Sunni gunmen
stopped minibuses filled with Yazidis; 23 Yazidi men were forced from a bus and shot dead.

The blasts targeted the Yazidi , a religious minority in Iraq. The coordinated bombings involved a fuel tanker and three cars. An Iraqi interior ministry spokesman said that two tons of explosives were used in the blasts, which crumbled buildings, trapping entire families beneath mud bricks and other wreckage as entire neighborhoods were flattened. Rescuers dug underneath the destroyed buildings by hand to search for remaining survivors.
500 people were estimated dead.

2.1990 massacre of Sri Lankan Police officers
The Sri Lanka massacre was a mass murder that could have been prevented by the government. It all ensued due to the Indian Peace Keeping Force's arrival in the country in July '87, January of the next year, they elected a new President, Ranasinghe Premadasa whose main aim was to work out a peace plan with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who were engaged in a bloody separatist campaign for a division of the North and Southern province.

The IPKF's presence in the country caused tension and adverse public opinions, so the President asked them to leave. But before this, he entered into a ceasefire agreement with the LTTE. In an attempt to win over its leadership, Premadasa transferred a large quantity of weapons to the organization (at their request), to fight against the IPKF. But the IPKF left.

The country's Minister of Foreign Affairs was in talks with the LTTE, but conditions worsened when there was no agreement on critical issues like the dissolution of the Northeast Provincial Council and repealing of the Sixth Amendment to the constitution. LTTE chief political strategist and chief negotiator threatened the government "this is the last chance we give you. If you fail, we are prepared to wage war". more tension surfaced when the government asked them to drop their arms and hostilities began.

Few days to the massacre,a vehicle carrying Army personnel from Vavuniya to Mullaitivu was fired at by the LTTE. One soldier died and 9 injured. But Defense Ministry instructed to take no action. The main cause of the carnage occurred when Batticaloa police locked up a
Muslim youth, allegedly found in a compromising position with a Sinhala woman, by her husband. Police was not aware of that this youth was a tailor working for the LTTE.

LTTE abducted unarmed 899 police officers by surrounding stations and asking them to drop their weapons, about 125 were able to escape. ASP Ivan Boteju - who was the OIC of Kalmunai police station - refused to surrender and kept on fighting with the LTTE from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. He protested insisting that they "would be tortured if not killed [if they surrendered]". Within that period, he continuously requested for
air support and artillery support but was denied. At about 5:20 p.m. the IGP personally contacted Botheju, ordered to stop fire and surrender. When they had laid down their arms, LTTE took over and all communications with the Colombo Police headquarters were lost. All of them were taken to the Tirukovil jungles by the LTTE, blindfolded, tied their hands behind, made to lie down on the ground and shot.

The death toll falls between 600-774 police officers. Although the President condemned the attacks and stated, "From now on, it is all out war and no half ways", the deed had been done. This was the start of the Eelam War II.

this is really educative, the mode should take this to front page, the heart of men is desperately wicked indeed!.

1. The September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks also called 9/11 is a sequence of organised terrorist attacks against the World Trade Centre and The Pentagon by Islamic Extremists, al-Qaeda.

The attack was carried out aerially by 19 terror members hijacking 4 Passenger airliners and crashing it into the North Tower of the WTC, the South Tower and the Pentagon. The fourth aircraft was intended to be crashed into The Capitol but failed when passengers wrestled to regain control. The Passengers on hearing reports via their phones that two planes had been crashed into the WTC tried to take control but on suspecting their ambition the hijackers intentionally crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The death toll is two times that of the Sri Lanka's above and Fatalities include:
2606 at the WTC,
343 Firefighters,
265 passengers on the four planes,
125 at The Pentagon,
72 law enforcement officers
55 military personnel,
And the 19 terrorists, totalling 2606. Over 6000 people were injured.

After the attack people where stuck above the point of impact cause the explosion and severely damaged all three stairways and elevators, so they were for off from escape and were seriously inhaling smoke. Due to this over 200 people jumped out of the windows of the 110-storey building.

Immediately after the attacks, the FBI requested evidence to be able to arrest Saddam Hussein, but days letter they had enough evidence linking Al-Qaeda to the attacks. Osama Bin Laden publicly denied responsibility but in 2014 he embraced it Stating that the U.S. support of Israel , the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia , and
sanctions against Iraq as motives now ascertaining his name in the FBI Most wanted List. Bin Laden was killed by the US military in May 2011, 7 years after admission.

Picture 1: A collage showing sequence of the attack
Picture 2: A man and woman covered in rubbles.
Picture 3: The Falling Man, a picture showing a man falling headfirst after falling or jumping through the windows of the skyscraper, the photo was taking by Associated Press photographer, Richard Drew.
Picture 4: What remained of the World Trade Centre.

@ op you didnt include the iranian flight 655 that was shot down by the US in 1988.290 innocent souls perished in the terrorist act.

kayyusuf:
@ op you didnt include the iranian flight 655 that was shot down by the US in 1988.290 innocent souls perished in the terrorist act.

War is not terrorism, if the Nigerian government should decide to slaughter all Americans on it's soil, it can't be dubbed terrorism.

TheLoneCitizen:


War is not terrorism, if the Nigerian government should decide to slaughter all Americans on it's soil, it can't be dubbed terrorism.

war? Who told you iran was at war with the US when the United states illegally shot the plane down? http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_4678000/4678707.stm

#CHRISTIANITY IS PEACEFUL.....most of our problems in the society have always be religion and some government laws and policies which favour some group of pple in the society

ISLAM accounts for 8/10, that's 80%.
Wow... what a peaceful religion.

The Association of Muslim brothers condemned all I attacks by Islamic extremism. But after 9/11, Muslims were subjected to prejudice and mauled as depicted in the movie "My Name Is Khan".

kayyusuf
millerz

Yes we Muslim condemned the 9/11 attack till the truth later resurface. Saddam Hussein may your soul continue to rest in Peace.

TheLoneCitizen:
The Association of Muslim brothers condemned all I attacks by Islamic extremism. But after 9/11, Muslims were subjected to prejudice and mauled as depicted in the movie "My Name Is Khan".

kayyusuf
millerz

madridguy:
Yes we Muslim condemned the 9/11 attack till the truth later resurface. Saddam Hussein may your soul continue to rest in Peace.

Saddam Hussein might have been ignorant of the attack, but he was also guilty of some thing. Wonder why the US had to execute him so disrespectfully.

And today we have thousands of Saddam everywhere.

TheLoneCitizen:


Saddam Hussein might have been ignorant of the attack, but he was also guilty of some thing. Wonder why the US had to execute him so disrespectfully.

madridguy:
And today we have thousands of Saddam everywhere.

How?

The 2004 Iraq invasion is the birth of global terrorism we are seeing today.

TheLoneCitizen:


How?

madridguy:
The 2004 Iraq invasion is the birth of global terrorism we are seeing today.

Iraqis are the brains of terrorism. You heard when the young man who murdered a cop and his wife said "the Euros is going to be a graveyard"?

And you think it's just a mere threat? Wait and see more coordinated attacks in Europe. You see what France government has caused themselves now because of greed. Watch and see how those boys will turn Europe to graveyard.

TheLoneCitizen:


Iraqis are the brains of terrorism. You heard when the young man who murdered a cop and his wife said "the Euros is going to be a graveyard"?

madridguy:
And you think it's just a mere threat? Wait and see more coordinated attacks in Europe. You see what France government has caused themselves now because of greed. Watch and see how those boys will turn Europe to graveyard.

Yeah we'll wait and see, cause I am expecting something big, a trigger for genocide.

A lot of anti-peace agendas, I suspect football supporters have been hijacked.

May God keep us safe.

TheLoneCitizen:


Yeah we'll wait and see, cause I am expecting something big, a trigger for genocide.

A lot of anti-peace agendas, I suspect football supporters have been hijacked.

madridguy:
May God keep us safe.

No, too late for redemption, may God euthanize us.

Don't flatter yourself. Videos are out there of Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks in their various countries.

TheLoneCitizen

madridguy:
Yes we Muslim condemned the 9/11 attack till the truth later resurface. Saddam Hussein may your soul continue to rest in Peace.

What do you know about 9/11?

Millerz:
Don't flatter yourself. Videos are out there of Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks in their various countries.

TheLoneCitizen