Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s <http://dbpedia.org/property/motive> ?o. }
- 13_September_2008_Delhi_bombings motive "Retaliation against perceived persecution of Muslims".
- 16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing motive "Racist hate crime".
- 1929_Hebron_massacre motive "False rumors that Jews were slaughtering Muslims in Jerusalem and were planning to attack al-Aqsa Mosque.".
- 1975_Dutch_train_hostage_crisis motive "A free South Moluccan Republic".
- 1975_LaGuardia_Airport_bombing motive "Unknown".
- 1977_Dutch_train_hostage_crisis motive "A free South Moluccan Republic".
- 1983_United_States_Senate_bombing motive "United States military involvement in Grenada and Lebanon".
- 1984_Sydney_bank_robbery motive Robbery.
- 1986_Damascus_bombings motive "Regime distabilization".
- 1992_Tatarstan_shooting motive "Robbery".
- 1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing motive "US support of Israel".
- 1995_Palo_Verde,_Arizona_derailment motive "avenge the Waco Siege".
- 1998_Temple_of_the_Tooth_attack motive "To undermine preparations for the 50th independence day anniversary of Sri Lanka".
- 2004_Ashura_bombings_in_Iraq motive "anti-Shi'a sectarian hatred".
- 2004_Sinai_bombings motive "presumably the Israeli-Palestinian conflict".
- 2006_Digampathana_bombing motive "part of the Sri Lankan civil war".
- 2008_attack_on_the_American_Embassy_in_Yemen motive "Terrorism, to provoke the release of imprisoned extremist members".
- 2009_Fort_Hood_shooting motive Jihad.
- 2009_Plymouth_child_abuse_case motive "Sexual".
- 2010_Bratislava_shooting motive "Probably neighbor disputes".
- 2010_Lakki_Marwat_suicide_bombing motive Terrorism.
- 2010_Lörrach_hospital_shooting motive "Presumably neighbor disputes".
- 2011_Florence_shootings motive "Race hate crime".
- 2011_IHOP_shooting motive "Unknown".
- 2011_Manhattan_terrorism_plot motive "Politics and anti-Semitism".
- 2011_Waltham_triple_murder motive "Unknown".
- 2012_Azana_Spa_shootings motive Domestic_violence.
- 2012_Minneapolis_workplace_shooting motive "Employment termination".
- 2012_Pune_bombings motive "To avenge the murder of Qatil Siddiqui at Pune's Yerwada Jail, who was an accused in German Bakery blast case".
- 2012_Rush_to_Pingo_Doce motive "Rush to the stores after drastic discount campaign".
- 2013_Bangladesh_anti-Hindu_violence motive "ICT sentenced Sayeedi".
- 2013_Beersheba_shootings motive "Unknown".
- 2013_Cotabato_City_bombing motive "unknown".
- 2013_Hialeah_shooting motive "Unknown".
- 2013_Mardan_funeral_bombing motive "unknown".
- 2013_Nanga_Parbat_tourist_shooting motive "U.S. drone strikes on Pakistani territory".
- 2013_Peshawar_mosque_attack motive "unknown".
- 2013_Valdresekspressen_hijacking motive "Unknown".
- 2013_Wichita_bomb_plot motive Jihadist_extremism_in_the_United_States.
- 2014_Fort_Hood_shooting motive "Depression, anxiety, anger over being denied leave".
- 2014_Kunming_attack motive "unclear".
- 2014_Moscow_school_shooting motive "Revenge against his teacher, possible mental illness".
- Aarhus_University_shooting motive "Depression".
- Ablabius_(assassin) motive "money".
- Afshar_Operation motive "stop the bombardment campaign of Hezb-i Wahdat based in Afshar, capture the political and military headquarters of Hezb-i Wahdat and capture Abdul Ali Mazari, the leader of Hezb-i Wahdat".
- Ahmed_Ressam motive "Fulfill a fatwā issued by Osama bin Laden".
- Ahvaz_bombings motive "Alleged retaliation for suppression of 2005 Ahvaz unrest".
- Ajmal_Kasab motive "Terrorism".
- Akinwale_Arobieke motive "Sexually motivated".
- Altamira_prison_brawl motive "Gang rivalry".
- Ambrose_Rookwood motive "Gunpowder plot, a conspiracy to assassinate King James VI & I and members of the Houses of Parliament".
- Amelia_Dyer motive "Financial gain".
- Amy_Archer-Gilligan motive "Life insurance money".
- Anders_Eklund_(murderer) motive "Sexual".
- Andre_Thomas motive "Responding to hallucinations caused by mental illness and drug abuse.".
- Andrea_Yates motive Postpartum_psychosis.
- Angora_Fire motive "Unknown".
- Assassination_of_William_McKinley motive "To advance anarchism".
- Attacks_on_shipping_in_Lough_Foyle_(1981–82) motive "To hinder British shipping around Derry".
- August_2012_Sinai_attack motive "Unknown".
- August_Becker motive "Nazism".
- August_Eigruber motive "Nazism".
- August_Frank motive Nazism.
- Azad_Maidan_riots motive "Photograps and Pamphlets circulated during protest against 2012 Assam violence & 2012 Rakhine State riots".
- Barbara_Graham motive Robbery.
- Bath_School_disaster motive "* Revenge for defeat in local election * Personal and financial stress".
- Battle_of_Broken_Hill motive "Support Ottoman Empire in World War One".
- Belle_Gunness motive "Life insurance money".
- Ben_Hall_(bushranger) motive Bushranger.
- Benjamin_Nathaniel_Smith motive "Racial hatred".
- Bijeljina_massacre motive "Creation of Greater Serbia".
- Black_Saturday_(Lebanon) motive "Retaliation for the Muslim militia attack".
- Blackville-Hilda_High_School_shooting motive "Suspension".
- Bloody_Gulch_massacre motive "Retribution".
- Bloody_Island_Massacre motive "The deaths of settlers Andrew Kelsey and Charles Stone".
- Bodo_League_massacre motive "Fear of a North Korean Fifth column".
- Bombing_of_Katyr-Yurt motive "Attack on the retreating rebel forces in area.".
- Borozdinovskaya_operation motive "Murder of a Chechen resident of the village".
- Boston_Marathon_bombings motive "Extremist Islamic beliefs, including reactions to U.S. foreign policy towards Muslim countries".
- Brampton_Centennial_Secondary_School_shooting motive "Revenge".
- Bremen_school_shooting motive "Mental illness".
- Brian_Douglas_Wells motive "Bank robbery".
- Bruce_Reynolds motive "Financial gain/enjoyment".
- Budyonnovsk_hospital_hostage_crisis motive "Forcing ceasefire in the war, securing safe return to Chechnya".
- Buster_Edwards motive "Financial gain".
- Caltavuturo_massacre motive "Prevent the peasants to take hold of the land".
- Carl_Oberg motive Nazism.
- Cassie_Chadwick motive "Money".
- Castel_Volturno_massacre motive "Control of the drug market and real estate.".
- Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing motive Christian_terrorism.
- Chaplain–Medic_massacre motive "Retribution".
- Chardon_High_School_shooting motive "Unknown".
- Charles_Andrew_Williams motive School_bullying.
- Charles_Carl_Roberts motive "Unknown".
- Christa_Pike motive Jealousy.
- Christine_Paolilla motive "Robbery".
- Clackamas_Town_Center_shooting motive "Unknown".
- Colleen_LaRose motive Jihad.
- Cologne_school_massacre motive "Feelings of persecution".
- Columbine_High_School_massacre motive "Various".