Australian terror attacks
Terror attacks in Australia used to be extremely rare. Around one every five to ten years. You had one in 1986, 1995, 2001 and 2009.
But here is the record of the last few years:
- Sep 2014 – 18-year-old Numan Haider stabbed two counter-terrorism officers in Endeavour Hills
- Dec 2014 – Man Haron Monis, a lone gunman, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café
- Oct 2015 – 15 year old Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, an Iraqi-Kurd, shot dead Curtis Cheng
- Sep 2016 – A 22-year-old man, Ihsas Khan, inspired by Islamic State stabbed a man before being arrested and charged with attempted murder.
- Apr 2017 – a pair of 15 and 16 year old boys entered a service station in the small town of Queanbeyan in NSW and stabbed a 29-year old Zeeshan Akbar of Pakistani decent and Zeeshan soon died at the scene
- Jun 2017 – Yacqub Khayre shot dead a Chinese-Australian receptionist in a serviced apartment complex
- Dec 2017 – Saeed Noori charged with attempted murder of 18 people he ran over. Not yet known if motive was terrorism or not.
Also we have some of the foiled plots:
- plans to kidnap members of the public in Sydney and Brisbane then behead them on camera and release the footage
- detonate bombs at a Mother’s Day running event
- stab and shoot police and members of the public at Anzac Day ceremonies
- target government buildings including the Garden Island Navy base and Parramatta Court House