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Terrorist Incidents > by Region Range: 01/01/1968 - 01/21/2008
Region Incidents Injuries Fatalities
Africa 1172 9757 3715
East & Central Asia 242 5584 253
Eastern Europe 1510 5151 2010
Latin America & the Caribbean 3683 4029 2369
Middle East / Persian Gulf 15121 59731 29554
North America 588 4344 3568
South Asia 5178 23556 8871
Southeast Asia & Oceania 1891 5810 2043
Western Europe 5558 5678 1441
TOTAL 34943 123640 53824
E quali siano le tattiche usate negli atti di terrorismo, con particolare riferimento alle minacce
non convenzionali 18 :
Terrorist Incidents > by Tactic Range: 01/01/1968 - 01/21/2008
Tactic Incidents Injuries Fatalities
Armed Attack 8156 14994 13660
Arson 1092 332 382
Assassination 2498 1447 3208
Barricade/Hostage 211 2221 903
Bombing 19683 100204 29704
Hijacking 233 377 482
Kidnapping 2355 210 1608
Other 180 447 167
Unconventional Attack 64 3024 3047
Unknown 471 384 663
TOTAL 34943 123640 53824
Per l’Italia riportiamo la scheda dell’attacco non convenzionale (agenti chimici) che nel 1988
colpì, senza vittime, la distribuzione alimentare e delle acque: “Other Group attacked Food or
Water Supply target (Apr. 25, 1988, Italy) - (…) - Description: ITALY. The Organization of
Metropolitan Proletariat and Oppressed Peoples, a group claiming support for the Palestinian
uprising in the West Bank, notified authorities that it had injected poison into grapefruits
18 Secondo la descrizione dei curatori del database: “(…) CBRN: Chemical, Biological, Radiological and
Nuclear. Chemical weapons are commonly divided into 4 major categories. Choking agents, blood agents,
blister agents and nerve agents. Many of these chemical agents are needed in mass quantities in order to kill
large groups, and for this reason they are generally not chosen by terrorists as a means of infecting en masse.
Biological weapons involve the purchase or theft of a biological agent, such as a virus, and the subsequent
transformation of the agent into an easily disseminated substance, such as a gas or a powder. While it is
generally believed to be fairly simple to acquire a biological agent, it is rather difficult to store many of these
toxins, and even more complex to convert them into a state which can readily infect a large group. Radiological
weapons are used to attack victims by exposure to a radioactive material (such as iridium-192). The victims
must come in rather close contact with the weapon (i.e., touch, inhalation or ingestion) in order for the radiation
to kill the body's cells. Nuclear weapons present the "easiest" way to ensure the death of large groups of people;
however, the problems in acquiring a nuclear weapon make it nearly impossible for terrorists to choose them as
an option.(…)”, RAND - MIPT Terrorism knowledge base,, http://www.tkb.org/RandSummary.jsp?page=about
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