Mussolini seized power by skillfully combining the roles of responsible conservative politician and revolutionary leader. He distanced himself from the violent actions of his supporters without losing their support. When his Blackshirts marched on Ferrara, Bologna and Ravenna, he remained in Milan. When they marched on Milan, he was in Rome, and when they marched on Rome, he was in Milan. But in the eyes of all the marching Blackshirts, he was their Duce, to whom they were endlessly devoted. For Anzhelika Balabanova, Mussolini's absence near the scenes of his followers' actions served as proof of his cowardice. Socialists and his other critics laughed that he had “marched” to Rome in a railway carriage. However, both his conservative allies and fascist comrades preferred precisely this behavior.

Sep 30, 2017

The terrorist attack on Dubrovka is a terrorist attack on Dubrovka in Moscow, which lasted from October 23 to October 26, 2002, during which a group of armed militants led by Movsar Barayev captured and held hostages from among the spectators of the musical “Nord-Ost”.

The militants were armed firearms, grenades and explosive devices. Total number The number of hostages taken was 916.

On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 21:05 Moscow time, three minibuses drove up to the building of the Theater Center on Dubrovka at 7 Melnikova Street (formerly the Palace of Culture of the State Bearing Plant), from which armed men in camouflage and ran into the building of the cultural center. Having neutralized 4-5 guards armed with stun guns and gas pistols, the main part of the group burst into concert hall, where at that time the first scene of the second act of the musical “Nord-Ost” was ending and there were more than 800 people. The remaining part of the terrorists began to check other premises of the theater center, driving into the main hall the employees and actors of the musical, and other citizens who were in the building of the House of Culture, including about 30 people - students of the Iridan School of Irish Dance, who were conducting rehearsal.

A man armed with a machine gun came onto the stage, where at that time there were eight actors dressed in military flight uniforms from the 1940s, and ordered the actors to go down from the stage into the hall. To confirm the seriousness of his words, he fired several shots upward. The terrorists declared all people - spectators and theater workers - hostages, but did not put forward their demands. They dispersed throughout the hall and began mining it. Some viewers were allowed to call mobile phones to their relatives, to report that they have been taken hostage and that for every militant killed or wounded, the terrorists will shoot 10 hostages. In the first minutes of the siege, some actors and employees of the Theater Center managed to lock themselves in the premises or leave the building through windows and emergency exits.

Hostages gathered in the hall long time were left without food and water (the terrorists brought them only what they found in the buffet mineral water and chewing gum.

The terrorist attack in Beslan is the taking of hostages at school No. 1 in the city of Beslan (North Ossetia), committed by terrorists on the morning of September 1, 2004 during a ceremonial ceremony dedicated to the beginning of school year. For two and a half days, the terrorists held 1,128 hostages (mostly children, their parents and school staff) in a mined building in the most difficult conditions, denying people even the minimum natural needs.

On the third day, around 1:05 p.m., explosions occurred in the school gymnasium and a fire later broke out, causing a partial collapse of the building. After the first explosions, the hostages began to run out of the school, and the Center’s forces special purpose Federal service security (TsSN FSB) an assault was launched. During a chaotic shootout, including civilians using personal weapons, 28 terrorists were killed (three, including one of the suicide bombers, died between September 1 and 2. The only terrorist taken alive, Nurpasha Kulaev, was arrested and subsequently sentenced by the court to life imprisonment.

Although most of the hostages were freed during the assault, the attack killed 314 hostages, 186 of them children. In total, including rescuers, 333 people died, and over 800 were injured of varying degrees of severity. Over 100 victims became disabled.

The economic damage from the terrorist attack exceeded 34 million rubles. Shamil Basayev publicly took responsibility for organizing the attack by publishing a statement on the Chechen separatist website Kavkaz Center on September 17, 2004.

As of 2016, the investigation into the terrorist attack launched Prosecutor General's Office September 1, 2004, remained open. The investigation into the circumstances of the terrorist attack was carried out by several independent commissions, expert groups and public organizations However, many circumstances, including the actual number of terrorists, the possible escape of many of them, the actions of the government during the negotiations and storming of the building, and the reasons for the limited and contradictory media coverage, are still disputed.

Dec 30, 2013

On December 29, at 12:45, an explosion occurred at the Volgograd railway station, as a result of which at least 16 people were killed and dozens of people were injured. An explosion occurred in the station building between entrance doors and a turnstile. Presumably, it was carried out by a suicide bomber. The incident is classified as a terrorist attack.
The next day, in the same city, at 8-23 in the morning, a new explosion occurred. A city trolleybus was blown up. At least 14 people were killed and 28 injured. Security measures have been strengthened. In the territory Volgograd region Mourning was declared for those killed in terrorist attacks.

Sep 30, 2013

On September 21, 2013, terrorists armed with machine guns and grenades stormed the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi (Kenya). The media write that there were from 9 to 15 terrorists. They captured everyone who was in this mall, taken hostage. True, then they released all the Muslims. The Islamist group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that the attack with executions and hostage-taking was revenge for the participation of Kenyan troops in military operations against Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Three days later, security forces killed the terrorists and freed the hostages. 69 people died. About 200 were injured.

The child runs to a representative of the security forces.

From this post you will learn about the most stupid terrorists in the world who have harmed themselves. Without them, the world only gets better.

Terrorists who filmed their training

When planning an attack on military base Fort Dix (New Jersey) A group of newly minted Islamic terrorists came up with the “brilliant” idea of ​​​​capturing their training sessions on video.
They bought a camera at Best Buy and went to a shooting range, where they filmed themselves making loud statements about what they were going to do on the territory of the United States of America. terrorist attack. The radicals then went to an electronics store to burn the footage onto DVD.
A store employee, having seen a video of evil guys waving guns and calling for jihad against Americans, did not hesitate to call the police and report potential terrorists.
The men were arrested after judicial trial thanks to obvious evidence, he was sent to jail for an impressive term.

Militants who died as a result of a car bomb explosion

At the beginning of 2014, two dozen potential terrorists in a car filled to the brim with explosives were heading to the city of Samarra (Iraq). On a lonely desert road, a bomb intended for the Taliban inexplicably detonated prematurely, killing all the militants in the car.

Terrorists, cause accidental death which became static electricity

Yemeni terrorists Salman al-Tezi and Walid Ashibi planned to commit large-scale terrorist attack- using rockets to blow up a foreign embassy, ​​but they failed. The reason for the failure was banal static electricity.
Salman and Walid settled in a store located across the street from the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba and began preparing for the rocket launch. Walid nervously paced back and forth, shuffling his feet on the carpet. The huge amount of static electricity that arose as a result of such a rash action provoked a self-launch of the missile, which hit Salman directly; he died instantly. Walid received serious injuries, from which he soon followed his accomplice.

Terrorists who exploded in a car with explosives

In June 2007, two Islamic terrorists tried to drive a car loaded with explosives into the airport terminal. International airport Glasgow, however, on their way they encountered an obstacle in the form of security pillars located at the very entrance to the building. As a result of the collision, the car exploded while the radicals were still in it!
One of the failed terrorists died on the spot, the second fell into the hands of the police and went to jail for life.

The bomb-making instructor who accidentally blew himself and his students up

While an instructor at a terrorist training camp north of Baghdad was explaining to his students how to make a suicide vest, something went wrong and an improvised explosive device exploded in his hands. The instructor died, and along with him two dozen of his students from Syria and Iraq.

The terrorist who surrendered to the police for a cash reward

Muhammad Ashan, a mid-level Taliban commander, decided to voluntarily surrender to authorities in exchange for a reward offered for his capture. In April 2012, he walked into the police station and, pointing to a poster with his photo and the words “Wanted,” said: “Yes, yes, it’s me! Can I now receive my reward? At first, the police did not believe the words of Muhamed Ashan, taking them for a joke, but a subsequent biometric examination confirmed his identity.

Terrorists who forgot to insure their car

A group of aspiring British terrorists decided to attack the English Defense League (ADL), an organization that spreads racist and nationalist slogans and advocates for an England without foreigners.
The radicals prepared an impressive amount of explosives in order to blow up all the participants of the English Defense League present at the meeting. They loaded the bombs into the car and went to the place where the meeting of LAO members was to take place. There they encountered a small problem: the training camp ended long before their arrival, and, naturally, none of the participants in the English Defense League were there.
The disappointed terrorists decided to return home. On the way back they were stopped by police and asked to show their insurance; the militants did not have it. Then the cops decided to search the car. It is clear that they could not help but notice the huge amount of explosives in it. The jihadists were sent to prison, accused of a crime they never managed to commit.

Terrorists who tried to light the fuse of a bomb with a lighter, causing an explosion

Two terrorists, residents of the Philippine Islands, planned to blow up Cultural Center Thomas Jefferson in Manila, but they were unable to do so due to own stupidity.
One of the radicals tried to set the bomb on fire with a lighter, thereby provoking powerful explosion, as a result of which he was simply blown to pieces. The second terrorist miraculously survived and was taken to the hospital. After all the circumstances were clarified, he was arrested.

The first days of September are mourning days for Beslan. Year after year, city residents remember their murdered children. Flowers, candles and water are brought to the school gym where the militants held hostages.
In 2004, these days, due to a terrorist attack, 334 people were killed or died from wounds, including 186 children, 10 employees of the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of the Russian Federation, two employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 15 police officers and a resident of Beslan who took part in rescuing the hostages.

“If you don’t shut your mouths now, I will kill him.” At approximately 9 a.m. on September 1, 2004, a group of armed people broke into the territory of School No. 1 in the city of Beslan. On holiday lineup at this time there were 895 children and 59 teachers. The number of parents and siblings of students gathered in the schoolyard is unknown. Those who failed to escape at first were driven into the gym by the bandits. “When they started pushing us, my classmate’s father<…>began to calm everyone down,” recalled Zarina Tsarikhova. “A terrorist came up to him, grabbed him by the neck and forced him to his knees... and said: “If you don’t shut your mouths now, I will kill him.” But we had never seen, they had never killed before us... We began to calm each other down. But this did not stop the terrorist; he shot him in the temple. His eyes immediately rolled back and he collapsed.” After this, the bandits shot 16 more men. The hall where the hostages were kept was mined. Bombs hung from basketball hoops, lay on chairs, and wires criss-crossed the room. September 1 . Secondary school No. 1 in Beslan Photo ITAR-TASS/Newspaper "North Ossetia"

September 1. Relatives of the taken hostages
Photo ITAR-TASS/Newspaper "North Ossetia"

The militants demanded that Roshal be summoned for negotiations

For some time, the militants refused to negotiate with the authorities and threatened to blow up the school in the event of an assault. At about 11:30, the terrorists handed over a note in which they demanded to call the presidents North Ossetia and Ingushetia, as well as pediatrician Leonid Roshal. The mufti of North Ossetia Ruslan Valgatov and Beslan prosecutor Alan Batagov tried to establish contact with the terrorists, but they were not allowed inside the building.

According to local authorities, about a thousand relatives of the hostages gathered near the school building.
Meanwhile, the Russian Air Force began delivering special forces units to Beslan.

The gym of the destroyed school No. 1 in Beslan
Photo by RIA Novosti/
Alexander Utkin

“We caught the rain in our mouths”

The hostages, who were kept in the gym, began to feel thirsty by the evening of September 1. “Time passed slowly. It was getting terribly hot. The hostages took off everything that could be taken off, maintaining decency,” Agunda Vataeva recalled. –<…>We sat under the broken windows and grabbed raindrops in our mouths just to get a little drink. People laid out rags and things on windowsills to get them wet. Then we wiped ourselves with them.”

After 20:00 Leonid Roshal joined the negotiations. However, his arguments did not influence the terrorists: they refused to accept water, food and medicine for the hostages.
The next day, September 2, the situation of the children and adults locked in the school became dire. Many became dehydrated. The girl who died first was sick. diabetes mellitus. “The thirst was killing. I didn't even want to move. I saw how some people collected urine in bottles and jars and drank it,” Agunda Vataeva said about the second day of the tragedy.

The terrorists rejected all proposals from the authorities

The militants rejected all proposals from the authorities. However, on September 2 at approximately 13:00, an FSB representative stated that there was no question of using force.

Bishop Feofan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz was at the headquarters responsible for negotiations with terrorists. He arrived at the scene of the tragedy 40 minutes after he learned about the seizure of the school by terrorists.

“I thought they would shoot me in the back” Around 16:30 (September 2), after negotiations with former president Ingushetia Ruslan Aushev, the terrorists released a group of 26 women with infants. “The terrorists began to tell us that it would soon come important person, - said Aneta Gadieva, who was captured along with her two daughters, infant Milena and fourth-grader Alana. “Then Aushev came in. We tell him: help.<…>The terrorists communicated with him, and then came to us and said: “The baby and his mother are on their way out.” I asked the terrorists to have my daughter Alana carry the baby. But he repeated very rudely: "Mother and one infant- on the way out." We didn’t even know where we were going.<…>They thought they would shoot in the back. And then, when we left the school yard, someone shouted to me: “Aneta, run!” I hugged my daughter to me and ran.” September 2. A special forces soldier (right) carries a 6-month-old baby. Photo ITAR-TASS/ Grigory Sysoev

The gym of the destroyed school No. 1 in Beslan

Photo RIA Novosti/Alexander Utkin

“I was one step away from the street”

On the morning of September 3, the terrorists agreed to evacuate the bodies of the dead. When the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived at the school (at about 13:00), two powerful explosions occurred near the building and shooting began. A group of hostages began to flee through broken windows.

“I didn’t know where to run, I just had to run,” recalled Rosita Tsirikhova. – I sat down where the garages were, there was such a descent, there were also people sitting on this descent, mostly children. I sat down and looked at them: some have no eyes, some are covered in blood, some have something completely incomprehensible.<…>Then I look down and look at my leg, there is a hole in my leg. But it doesn’t hurt me.”

“I crawled on all fours to the broken window,” said another girl. – There were some stoves near the window, I got to the windowsill. On one of these stoves lay two corpses of naked, emaciated boys.<…>I was one step away from the street when my foot fell through the gap. I almost couldn’t feel my leg anymore, I couldn’t find it, I kept pulling and pulling, and nothing worked. Our militia and military were already waiting for me below. They shouted to me: “Come on, honey, come on, honey!” But I couldn't.<…>But then I somehow pulled myself together and freed my leg. They picked me up and put me on a stretcher.”

“The special forces soldier jumped straight from the window and covered this object with himself.” According to eyewitnesses, at 13:50 special forces broke into the school building. They saved children at the cost of their lives. “A special forces soldier made his way into the room through the sawn bars,” said a former hostage. “One of the terrorists, seeing him, threw something into our crowd. I didn't understand what it was. And the special forces soldier jumped straight from the window and covered this object with himself. There was an explosion. It was Andrey Turkin. He saved us all." September 3. Wounded commando Photo ITAR-TASS/Uzakov Sergey

Corridor on the second floor in the former high school №1

Photo ITAR-TASS/Sergey Uzakov

1. The terrorists who filmed their training sessions

While planning an attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey, a group of newly minted Islamic terrorists came up with the “brilliant” idea of ​​filming their training sessions.

They bought a camera at Best Buy and drove to a shooting range, where they filmed themselves making loud statements that they were going to commit a large-scale terrorist attack on the territory of the United States of America. The radicals then went to an electronics store to burn the footage onto DVD.

A store employee, having seen a video of evil guys waving guns and calling for jihad against Americans, did not hesitate to call the police and report potential terrorists.

The men were arrested and after a trial, thanks to obvious evidence, they were sent to jail for an impressive period.

2. Militants who died as a result of a car bomb explosion

At the beginning of 2014, two dozen potential terrorists in a car filled to the brim with explosives were heading to the city of Samarra (Iraq). On a lonely desert road, a bomb intended for the Taliban inexplicably detonated prematurely, killing all the militants in the car.

3. Terrorists whose accidental death was caused by static electricity

Yemeni terrorists Salman al-Tezi and Walid Ashibi planned to carry out a large-scale terrorist attack on the territory of their native country - using rockets to blow up a foreign embassy, ​​but they failed. The reason for the failure was banal static electricity.

Salman and Walid settled in a store located across the street from the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba and began preparing for the rocket launch. Walid nervously paced back and forth, shuffling his feet on the carpet. The huge amount of static electricity that arose as a result of such a rash action provoked a self-launch of the missile, which hit Salman directly; he died instantly. Walid received serious injuries, from which he soon followed his accomplice.

4. Terrorists who exploded in a car with explosives

In June 2007, two Islamic terrorists tried to drive a car loaded with explosives into the terminal of Glasgow International Airport, but their path was blocked by security posts located at the very entrance to the building. As a result of the collision, the car exploded while the radicals were still in it!

One of the failed terrorists died on the spot, the second fell into the hands of the police and went to jail for life.

5The Bomb Making Instructor Who Accidentally Blowed Up Himself and His Students

While an instructor at a terrorist training camp north of Baghdad was explaining to his students how to make a suicide vest, something went wrong and an improvised explosive device exploded in his hands. The instructor died, and along with him two dozen of his students from Syria and Iraq.

6. The terrorist who surrendered to the police for a cash reward

Muhammad Ashan, a mid-level Taliban commander, decided to voluntarily surrender to authorities in exchange for a reward offered for his capture. In April 2012, he walked into the police station and, pointing to a poster with his photo and the words “Wanted,” said: “Yes, yes, it’s me! Can I now receive my reward? At first, the police did not believe the words of Muhamed Ashan, taking them for a joke, but a subsequent biometric examination confirmed his identity.

7. Terrorists who forgot to insure their car

A group of aspiring British terrorists decided to attack the English Defense League (ADL), an organization that spreads racist and nationalist slogans and advocates for an England without foreigners.

The radicals prepared an impressive amount of explosives in order to blow up all the participants of the English Defense League present at the meeting. They loaded the bombs into the car and went to the place where the meeting of LAO members was to take place. There they encountered a small problem: the training camp ended long before their arrival, and, naturally, none of the participants in the English Defense League were there.

The disappointed terrorists decided to return home. On the way back they were stopped by police and asked to show their insurance; the militants did not have it. Then the cops decided to search the car. It is clear that they could not help but notice the huge amount of explosives in it. The jihadists were sent to prison, accused of a crime they never managed to commit.

8. The terrorists who tried to light the fuse of a bomb with a lighter, causing an explosion

Two terrorists from the Philippine Islands planned to blow up the Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center in Manila, but they failed due to their own stupidity.

One of the radicals tried to set the bomb on fire with a lighter, thereby provoking a powerful explosion, as a result of which he was simply blown to pieces. The second terrorist miraculously survived and was taken to the hospital. After all the circumstances were clarified, he was arrested.

9The Troubled Young Brit Who Turned Inept Terrorist

Nick Reilly was not satisfied with the actual state of affairs in the world and in his home country of Great Britain in particular. A young man from a dysfunctional family with serious mental disabilities changed his name to Mohammed Abdel-Aziz Rashid Said-Ali and became a terrorist.

He decided to start his terrorist activities with an explosion in a cafe called “Giraffe”, located in the city of Exeter. He made a homemade explosive device filled with nails and went to a cafe to carry out a terrorist attack against its customers. Having arrived there, Nick went to the restroom in order to install a bomb in one of the stalls, but something went wrong and the device exploded right in his hands. He survived and is now in prison from which he will never leave.