If you're looking specifically for a "terror attack" that kills a large number of people, you're looking for the wrong thing. 9/11 was (among other things) a psychological operation designed to instill fear in the populous such that they would not only accept authoritarian legislation, but would demand it.
What you need to be looking for are other events that have that same result. This is how the authoritarians work, they either allow such events to occur, or if they aren't happening fast enough, they just manufacture them (real or simulated). The key result though is the same, to generate extreme fear in the population. This can be direct fear of losing your life, such as a terrorist attack, or less direct. The two big ones that have occurred concurrent with or after 9/11 are the "CliMaTE EmeRGenCy!!!" and COVID. Both of these are, at their core, fear based propaganda exercises designed to get the vast majority of the population to DEMAND that their government enact draconian legislation to keep them "Safe".
Their goal isn't the direct result of their actions, it is to use the direct result of their actions to justify implementing their real goal. This is why, basically any time something terrible happens, the result is more government control.. for your "safety". Won't somebody think of the children!!
One thing you can say for COVID, it did eradicate the flu...
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