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NYP2002040801- NEW YORK, April 08 (UPI)-- This photo by Kelly Guenther showing the second plane approaching the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, was awarded, as part of a entire package submitted by the New York Times, the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. The announcement was made on April 8, 2002 in New York City. rlw/ep/ Kelly Guenther-New York Times UPI.
Floodlights illuminate 21 April 1995 the Albert P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, two days after a fuel-and fertilizer truck bomb exploded in front of the building. The blast, the worst terror attack on US soil, killed 168 people and injured more than 500. Timothy McVeigh, convicted on first-degree murder charges for the 19 April bombing was sentenced to death in 1997..
(FILES) Picture dated March 1995, shows troops of the Self-Defense Force in protection uniforms cleaning-up a passenger car polluted by Sarin gas in an attacked by the Aum Supreme Truth. Doomsday has yet come for the Japanese cult that spread Nazi-invented Sarin gas in subway, killing 12 people and injuring thousands. Five years after the horror that stunned the world on 20 March 1995 it still strikes fear and loathing into its many surviving victims, the wider public and those living near its communes..
Indiens premierminister Rajiv Gandhi myrdet af personer med tilknytning til oprørsbevægelsen De Tamilske Tigre på Sri Lanka i 1991. Fra Polfoto
Library filer dated 21/12/1988 of houses alight behind wreckage from Pan Am 747 Flight 103 which crashed in Lockerbie December 1988. On the second day of the trial In Camp Zeist, Holland, of two Libyans accused of blowing up the plane, residents of the Scottish town have been telling the court of the immediate aftermath of the explosion. See Pa story LEGAL Lockerbie. PA photo..
India's ex-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is surrounded by policemen and supporters as she leaves her residence in New Delhi to be taken into custody 10 March 1977. Indira Gandhi has been arrested for "misusing her social position"..
Indira Gandhi blev myrdet af en sikkerhedsvagt med tilknytning til separatistgruppers kamp for et selvstændigt Punjab i 1984. Kilde er Polfoto
POLFOTO 05.09.1977 (dpa files) - , the President of the German federation of employers, pictured as a hostage by his kidnappers, 13 October 1977. Schleyer was kidnapped by German terrorist group RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion/Red Army Fraction) in Cologne on 5 September 1977. Three policemen and a driver were killed. On 14 October 1977 the Parisian evening newspaper 'France Soir' and the German daily newspaper 'Frankfurter Rundschau' received this picture of Schleyer as a sign of life. On 19 October 1977 Schleyer was found killed in a car boot in Moulhouse (Muehlhausen), Alsace..
FRANCE-CARLOS-FILES - kilde Polfoto
OPEC-gidseltagningen den 21. dec. 1975. Den venezuelanske terrorist Carlos kaldet Sjakalen tager sammen med PFLP 11 olieministre som gidsler under et møde i Wien i OPEC. De kræver løsepenge og får dem, hvorefter terroristerne flyver til Algeriet.
Indenrigsminister Hans-Dietrich Genscher forhandler med en af gidseltagerne under
OL i München 1972., hvor arabiske guerillaer tog en gruppe israelske sportsudøvere
som gidsler..
Mahatma Ghandi myrdet i 1948 af en hindu-nationalist
Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire and his wife shortly before their assassination
in Sarajevo 28 June 1914. Thirty days after Europe embarked for the
bloodiest war the World had ever known..
People hold candles and place flowers, paying respect in front of the theater, 27 October 2002, where more than 700 peaople were kept hostage by Chechen terrorists during three days, and 117 died. AFP PHOTO/ Alexander NEMENOV..
US and Philippine investigators search, early 03 October 2002, the area of a bomb blast that rocked late 02 October the southern city of Zamboanga which claimed the lives of one US soldier and two Filipinos and injured 23 others. The motive for the blast, when a bomb ripped through a karaoke bar just metres away from a military arms depot, still remains unknown. AFP PHOTO/JAY DIRECTO.
A relative of passengers travelling on the Rajdhani Express waits for a special train taking relatives to the crash site to leave from New Delhi station, 10 September 2002. At least 30 were killed and 182 others injured when the Rajdhani Express derailed in eastern India after sabotage on the tracks. AFP PHOTO/TEKEE TANWAR.
Ertzainas (Basque policemen), rush towards the area affected by a big explosion, early 28 February 2002, in the Spanish northern Basque village of Portugalete, where Basque Socialist Esther Cabezudo and her bodyguard were injured..