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'11M' Brings Home the Human Cost of Terrorism

'11M' Brings Home the Human Cost of Terrorism

On the 20th anniversary of the Madrid bombings.

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Mark Tapson
Mar 11, 2024
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Twenty years ago on March 11, at the height of the morning rush hour, four commuter trains in Madrid, Spain were wracked by ten nearly simultaneous bomb explosions in the most devastating European terror attack since the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. The blasts wounded over 2,000 people and took a total of 193 lives (the last victim p…

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