This is the 22nd in a series of chronologies of international and domestic terrorist attacks and global, regional, and individual government and private responses.
The author, Edward Mickolus, wrote the first doctoral dissertation on international terrorism while earning an M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. from Yale University. He then served in analytical, operational, management, and staff positions in the Central Intelligence Agency for 33 years, where he was CIA's first full-time analyst on international terrorism; analyzed African political, economic, social, military, and leadership issues; wrote political-psychological assessments of world leaders; and managed collection, counterintelligence, and covert action programs. He founded Vinyard Software, Inc., whose International Terrorism Data Center provides the best publicly-available data on terrorists and events around the world.