What country was the first to engaged in “terrorism” -?

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I was thinking of the first airplane hijacking.

The first attempted hijack of a commercial airliner reportedly happened on July 16, 1948, when a failed effort to gain control of the Miss Macao, a seaplane of a Cathay Pacific subsidiary company, caused it to crash into the sea off Macau. On June 30, 1948, a Bulgarian commercial Junkers plane was successfully hijacked to Istanbul by a discharged diplomat and his family, who had to shoot dead the co-pilot (who happened to be the head of Bulgaria's civil aviation) and the radio operator in order to escape to the West.

 
The first attempted hijack of a commercial airliner reportedly happened on July 16, 1948, when a failed effort to gain control of the Miss Macao, a seaplane of a Cathay Pacific subsidiary company, caused it to crash into the sea off Macau. On June 30, 1948, a Bulgarian commercial Junkers plane was successfully hijacked to Istanbul by a discharged diplomat and his family, who had to shoot dead the co-pilot (who happened to be the head of Bulgaria's civil aviation) and the radio operator in order to escape to the West.



The first hijacking was in 1931 in Peru, The first STATE hijacking of an airliner was Israel in 1954,
 
"The first state hijacking of a civilian airplane may have been Israel's hijacking of a Syrian Airways Dakota on December 12, 1954, by Israeli war planes shortly after its takeoff, forced to land at Lydda airport. Passengers and crew were detained and interrogated for two days, until international protests forced the Israelis to release them.

The hijacking was devised as a plan to force the Syrian government to release five Israeli soldiers apprehended the day before while installing wiretaps on the Syrian telephone network."




Good for the Israeli's they didn't have to pay ransom for the five captured soldiers. Good move. Yet you forget that the first air hijacking took place in 1948.
 
Anyone remember where the word "assassin" came from?



Yes, the Hashassin were a Muslim sect led by the old man of the mountains from his fortress Alamut.

The Mongols under Hulegu destroyed them
 
Surada's "first plane hijacking" in 1954 ----also described as an
act of Israeli "terrorism" was actually a violation of airspace by
a country TECHNICALLY at war with Israel---to wit Syria. The plane
was escorted to an airfield and released a few days later----no fatalities,
not even a hangnail. This major atrocity in the minds of the most
vacuous somehow USHERED IN THE AGE OF AIRPORT AND AIRFIELD
ATROCITIES that marked the second half of the 20th century
 
Surada's "first plane hijacking" in 1954 ----also described as an
act of Israeli "terrorism" was actually a violation of airspace by
a country TECHNICALLY at war with Israel---to wit Syria. The plane
was escorted to an airfield and released a few days later----no fatalities,
not even a hangnail. This major atrocity in the minds of the most
vacuous somehow USHERED IN THE AGE OF AIRPORT AND AIRFIELD
ATROCITIES that marked the second half of the 20th century
Surada is an idiot.
 

Not really.

The root word is "Hashshashin", which means "Pharmacist", and is the same root word for "Hashish". But the context there is wrong.

The "Assassins" were a cult in Iran and Syria during the crusades, that used assassination and terror for political purposes. Even though it is a common belief that they were fed hashish to drive them into a killing frenzy, that is actually not based on anything ever found historically. The actual term came about because they saw the region as being "sick", and thought they were for force that was going to "cure" it.

So it does not come from Hashish. But both Hashish and Assassin come from the same ultimate root.
 
Not really.

The root word is "Hashshashin", which means "Pharmacist", and is the same root word for "Hashish". But the context there is wrong.

The "Assassins" were a cult in Iran and Syria during the crusades, that used assassination and terror for political purposes. Even though it is a common belief that they were fed hashish to drive them into a killing frenzy, that is actually not based on anything ever found historically. The actual term came about because they saw the region as being "sick", and thought they were for force that was going to "cure" it.

So it does not come from Hashish. But both Hashish and Assassin come from the same ultimate root.

Interesting. I've only briefly come across it in my life when looking at the crusades.
 
Good for the Israeli's they didn't have to pay ransom for the five captured soldiers. Good move. Yet you forget that the first air hijacking took place in 1948.

Peru 1931.. first state hijacking was Israel.
 

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