Recent decades have been witness to a wide range of terrorist acts in virtually every region of the world, from bombings, assassinations, and kidnappings to attacks on religious sites, population centers, and key infrastructure. To date, most targets have been land-based, although there have been notable exceptions, such as the hijacking of the passenger ship Achille Lauro in 1985, and the suicide bombings of the destroyer USS Cole in 2000 and the tanker MT Limburg in 2003.
