TERRORISM

by Kamala Imanova

Terrorism

is the use of violence and threat 

against persons or property

to intimidate.

Worldwide Terrorism Statistics

Worldwide attacks

People killed People in-jured

People kid-napped

2009 10968 15311 32660 10749

2010 11641 13193 30684 6051

2011 10283 12533 25903 5554

Terrorist attack at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy

Location: Azerbaijan, Baki

Date:  April 30, 2009

Deaths:12 people

Injured:13 people

Perpetrator: Farid Gadirov

Attack type: Shooting spree,

mass murder

Name: Farda Gadirov

Age: 29

Weapon: Shootin spree, mass

murder

Death: Self-inflicted gunshot

wound to the head

Described: an unsociable child

2012 Aurora shooting

Location: Aurora, Colorado, U.S.

Date: July 20, 2012

Attack type: Mass shooting

Deaths:12 people

Injured: 59 people

Suspected perpetrator: James

Eagan Holmes

Name: James Eagan

Holmes 

Age: December 13, 1987

(age 25)

Weapon: Smith&Wesson

M&P15, shotgun

2 Glock 22 handguns

Criminal status:Jailed, pending trial

Described:student, mentally

ill, uncommunicative

2011 Norway attacks

Location: Norway, OsloDate:  July 22, 2011Deaths: 77Injured: 319Perpetrator: Anders Behring BreivikAttack type: Car bomb, Shooting spree, mass murder

Name: Anders Behring

Breivik

Age: 13 February

1979 (age 33)

Weapon: car bomb,

Ruger Mini-14, pistol, glock,

carbine

Criminal status: sentenced

to 21 years in prison

Described: paranoid

schizophrenia

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

Location: Newtown,Connecticut, U.S.Date:  December 14, 2012Deaths: 27Injured: 2Perpetrator: Adam Peter LanzaAttack type: murder-suicide, spree shooting, matricide

Name: Adam Peter Lanza

Age: April 22, 1992

Weapon: Bushmaster XM

15, handgun

Death: committed suicide

Described: intelligent, but

nervous and fidgety, socially

uncomfortable, personaly

disorder

Dedicated to all those who lost their family, friends etc. in terror attack.

It is so hard to forget pain, it is even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happines. We learn so little from peace.

Chuck Palakniuk