The Lockerbie Tragedy – Flight 103
In 1988 many horrific events occurred but our focus in this article will be on just one of these – a Pan American airlines flight en route from London to New York suddenly broke up in the air at just after 7pm on December 21st while at an altitude of 31,000 feet above Western Scotland. While the vast majority of you may not remember the actual event, one tends to believe that the second the name ‘Lockerbie’ is thrown into the mix the severity and heinous nature of the event may jog a few memories.
There's Been HOW MANY Terrorist Attacks Since 1961?!?!
Terrorism in one form or another has been around for many generations but one tends to think most people do not have a real idea of the magnitude of the problem. In the years 1961 until 2003 there were, according to the US Department of State (Office of the Historian), 247 significant terrorist attacks of differing magnitudes.