Terror
attacks in
Western Europe are up, but **t
close to the 1970s
Extremist
attacks like the blasts in Brussels on Tuesday that left at least 34 dead and 270 injured are increasing in
Western Europe, but they're still **t nearly as common as they were from the mid
1970s to the mid-1990s.
Anti-government groups such as the Irish Republican Army in **rthern Ireland, Basque separatists in Spain, and Anni di Piombo in Italy helped turn such
attacks into more than a daily occurrence*between 1970 and
1996.
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More than 400
Terror attacks occurred in
Western Europe in nearly every year from 1975 to 1996, whereas the vast majority of the years since have seen fewer than 200.
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