Attacks follow 26/11 pattern
Like Mumbai in 2008, Paris on Saturday faced a “high impact, low cost” terror attack where terrorists go for cold-blooded massacre of civilian targets, not a skyscraper or an airplane
NOVEMBER 2008 | MUMBAI: Ten members of Lashkar-e-Taiba targeted 12 locations in Mumbai, including Hotel Taj Palace, killing 166 people and wounding more than 300. The carnage, which drew worldwide condemnation, began on November 26 and lasted almost three days.
MARCH 3, 2009 | LAHORE The bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked by about a dozen terrorists near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. Six members of the Sri Lankan team were injured and 6 policemen and 2 civilians were killed. SEP 21, 2013 | NAIROBI At least four masked alShabaab members attacked Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 67 people and wounding more than 175. The attack was finally quelled by armed forces after a brutal seige that lasted 80-hour. JANUARY 7, 2015 | PARIS A gun attack on the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo killed 12 people. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility, saying it carried out the attack in revenge for cartoons considered blasphemous to Islam. APRIL 2, 2015 | GARISSA At least 147 people, mostly students, were killed in an assault by al-Shabaab militants on Garissa University in northeastern Kenya. The heavily armed attackers stormed the complex and killed two security guards before indiscriminately targeting the students. MAY 22, 2013 | LONDON A British soldier, Lee
Rigby, was killed by two British Muslim converts Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale in London. Rigby was off duty and walking along Wellington Street when he was attacked. DEC 16, 2014 | PESHAWAR Seven Tehrik-e-Taliban gunmen rampaged through the Army Public School in Pakistan’s Peshawar city, killing 141 people, including 132 children. The militants included a Chechen, three Arabs and two Afghans. MARCH 18, 2015| TUNIS Twenty-two people were killed when three terrorists attacked the Bardo National Museum in Tunis and took hostages. Twenty-one people were killed at the scene, while an additional victim died ten days later. JUNE 26, 2015 | SOUSSE Thirty-eight people, most of them Western tourists, were killed when a gunman opened fire at a Tunisian beachside hotel in the popular resort of Sousse. Thirty of those killed were British citizens. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State.