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Much of the world has been shocked at the sheer brutality of attacks in the most recent wave of terrorism affecting several countries.
On the evening of Aug. 25, midair explosions rocked two Russian passenger jets minutes apart. Two female suicide bombers had smuggled explosives onto the planes; 89 passengers and crew died in the blasts and resulting crashes.
Less than a week later, on Aug. 31, two suicide bombers blew themselves up on buses in the Israeli desert city of Beersheba, killing 16 others and maiming or injuring 102. The death toll would've been much higher if the quick-thinking driver of the second bus hadn't witnessed the first explosion and immediately opened the doors of his bus—allowing some passengers to scramble out before the second bomber turned it into an inferno.
That same day in Iraq, a terrorist group murdered 12 Nepalese men working as cooks and cleaners for a Jordanian company. The terrorists beheaded one man, then lined up the others and shot them in the back.
The next day, Sept. 1, some 40 to 50 heavily armed terrorists, some of whom were women wearing explosive belts, seized hundreds of teachers, parents and children at festivities marking the first day of the new school year in Beslan, Russia. Some of the attackers shouted "Allah Akbar"—"Allah is the greatest"—as they invaded the school.
Two days later, Sept. 3, an apparently unplanned explosion—thought to be the accidental detonation of one of the women's explosive belts—triggered an assault on the school by Russian troops. In the bloody gunfight, explosions and firestorm that followed, more than 330 hostages—more than half of them children—were killed and hundreds more injured. Many were shot in the back as they fled the school, running for their lives.
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