Terroristic Security Incidents by Category |Timeline
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Wikipedia: The United States Office of Strategic Services, later renamed the CIA, noted specific value in committing simple sabotage against the enemy during wartime: "... slashing tires, draining fuel tanks, starting fires, starting arguments, acting stupidly, short-circuiting electric systems, abrading machine parts will waste materials, manpower, and time." To underline the importance of simple sabotage on a widespread scale, they wrote, "Widespread practice of simple sabotage will harass and demoralize enemy administrators and police."
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2 injured, non-terrorist suicide sabotage attack on FAA radar center September 26, 2014 FAA Radar Center Deliberately Set Fire By Suicidal Contractor At about 5:45 a.m., firefighters and police officers responded to reports of a fire in the basement of the FAA Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center. Brian Howard, a contractor for Harris was found in the basement, suffering from self-inflicted knife wounds appearing to try to kill himself. The man had the knowledge to cut every radar feed to FAA air controllers before setting the area on fire. All persons were evacuated and one injury was reported. The fire has been extinguished, but work had to be switched to other sites while traffic to Chicago was completely shut down, and flights were affected until the next week, and it will take weeks to completely repair the damage. Authorities immediately ruled out terrorism as it was just a local incident with a local contractor who may be been upset about being transferred to Hawaii.
possible: 2013 NYC Metro North Bronx Train Derailment On December 1, 2013, a Metro-North Railroad passenger train derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx, killing 4 people and injuring 63 others.A freight train had derailed on the other side of the same station four months earlier.The NTSB found the train was going 82 miles per hour as it entered a 30-mph curve. Driver William Rockefeller 20-year veteran of the MTA and has clean disciplinary record was first heard to have said that the brakes did not work.
November 24, 2013 50 Caravans Destroyed in fire at Croft Farms UK 50 RV motorhomes and trailers in UK are destroyed in a massive fire.There was a party in the site's clubhouse, and chinese style floating lanterns were set off into the sky. The cause of the blaze is unknown but the lanterns have not been ruled out. So far, no news source has speculated if this could be a terrorist sabotage attack.
Benton City Schools $100,000 in Computers Cables Vandalism Monday October 28, 2013 In Kiona Benton City schools in Washington, vandals tripped alarms at 4 p.m. but maintenance people went to the wrong building. Monday they found that vandals broke into the server closet and smashed the servers with sledgehammers in the district’s former administrative building, stabbed flat screen monitors, cut and pulled wires, leaving some schools without telephones, internet, computers or security. The damage was estimated at $100,000 as administrators scrambled to make repairs.
UC Berkeley Explosion After Power Failure September 20, 2013 Explosion at University of California Berkeley at 8:30 p.m. after a power outage at 4:30 p.m. It sent flames two stories high two lanes wide, and sent a manhole cover into the air. It was suspecte to be related to theft of copper wire thieves off camps. Campus evacuated, and one person hospitalized for minor burns. Officials believe it was a sophisticated attack that stole or sabotaged key parts of their system and classes would be cancelled until safety can be established. 20 students were stranded in elevators in dormitories. An engineer stated "Somebody attacked our system. Somebody stole key parts of our system." No one is asking if terrorism could be a motive.
U.S. disrupts al-Qaeda’s online magazine Washington Post By Ellen Nakashima June 11, 2013
U.S. intelligence operatives covertly sabotaged a prominent Inspire al-Qaeda online magazine last month in an apparent attempt to sow confusion among the group’s followers, according to officials.... When it appeared online, the text on the second page was garbled and the following 20 pages were blank. The sabotaged version was quickly removed from the online forum that hosted it, said independent analysts who track Islamist militant Web sites.
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