March 2004 Madrid Attacks
The March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings was an Islamist terrorist attack in Madrid (Spain) that killed 191 people and wounded more than 2,000. The terror cell had links to Al Qaeda. It was the worst Islamist attack in European history.
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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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