Terrorism In Europe is Less Common and Less Deadly Than in the Recent Past -- And Doesn't Justify Ex

[JokerzWyld]

I remember reading about some of this in a few books I have. Many acts of terrorism happened during the cold war era. For example, in Italy the U.S. instituted a CIA program called operation gladio that targeted "communist" groups and sympathizers. These things happened all throughout Europe, but Italy is best known because there were so many formal inquiries on the matter. Agents and contacts blew up cars, communist headquarters, etc. This went on for decades.

I also read about East/West Germany's conflicts. There many assassinations and acts of corporate and industrial sabotage. It was absolute madness.

 

[janklow]

mainly posted this up because do forget about all the international terrorism from the 1960s-1980s; obviously we're always focused on The Most Recent Things, but for some reason, people act like terrorism we had to give a shit about started on 9/11.