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A SHORT OVERVIEW OF 36 YEARS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM ON NON-MUSLIMS
(this list is just a few from each year and does not include thousands of
attacks on Israeli's.
It is now much worse and will continue to be since Islamic War was declared
against us Feb. 23, 1998.)
SUMMARY FOLLOWS AT THE END
1968
June 5 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert Kennedy murdered by terrorist,
Sirhan Sirhan, in Los Angeles, which causes further terrorist attacks, as
Arab terrorist groups demanded his release.
1969
Feb. 18 - Boeing 707 attacked at Zurich, Switzerland, killing the pilot and
3 passengers.
Aug. 29 - TWA 707 hijacked from Rome to Damascus, released with only
wounded.
Nov. 27- El Al office in Athens, Greece attacked. Innocent bystanders
killed.
1970
Feb. 21 - Swiss airliner blown up over Switzerland, killing all 47 people on
board.
Feb. 23 - PLO terrorists open fire on a busload of Christian pilgrims
killing 1 and wounding 2 Americans.
April 21- Bomb explodes aboard a Philippines airliner. All 36 aboard are
killed.
Sept. 6 - "Skyjack Sunday" in Jordan. 3 planes (TWA, Swissair, Pan Am) en
route to the U.S. hijacked, 400+ hostages, planes blown up in Jordan,
Governments agreed to PFLP's demands, released terrorists from jails and
hostages released.
Sept. 14 - The PFLP hijacked TWA flight to Ammon, 4 Americans injured.
1971
May 17 - Terrorists assassinate consul general in Istanbul, Turkey.
Nov. 28 - Jordanian prime minister Tal killed by terrorists at the Sheraton
Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.
Dec. - Jordanian ambassador to London, England is shot by hit squad.
1972
Jan. 26 - Bomb explodes on a Yugoslav plane killing all but one passenger.
May 30 - Ben Gurion Airport, Israel attack killed 26, and wounded 78 U.S.
citizens from Puerto Rico.
Sept. 5 - Palestinian terrorists led by Yasir Arafat seize 11 athletes in
the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, 9 hostages and 5 terrorists killed,
plus David Berger from Cleveland.
1973
March 2 - Khartoum, Sudan. Cleo Noel, Jr., U.S. ambassador, and George C.
Moore, U.S. diplomat, were held hostage and then killed by terrorists at the
U.S. Embassy.
Aug. 5 - Suicide squad attacks Athens airport, Greece, killing 3 civilians
and injuring 55.
Dec. 17 - Bomb explodes at Pan Am office at Rome, Italy killing 32 and
injuring 50+. The terrorists take 7 Italian policemen hostage and hijack an
aircraft to Athens, Greece, killing one of them.
Dec. 20 - Terrorist group kills spanish Prime Minister Admiral Carrero
Blanco bombing his car in Madrid.
1974
March 1 - Diplomats taken hostage from Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum,
Sudan, 2 that are killed are American's.
April 11 - Kiryat Shmona Massacre at an apartment building killing 18
people, 9 were children.
Sept. 8 - Athens, Greece. TWA Flight 841 exploded from bomb in cargo hold,
all 88 passengers killed, including 32-year-old Steven Lowe, an American
citizen.
Nov. 23 - British DC-10 hijacked at Dubai, UAE, flown to Tunisia where a
German passenger was killed.
1975
Jan. 19 - Arab terrorists attack Orly airport, Paris, France, seizing 10
hostages from a bathroom. French provided the terrorists with a plane to fly
them to safety in Baghdad, Iraq.
Sept. 30 - Hungarian airplane explodes killing all 64 persons on board.
Nov. 17 - U.S. CIA's Athens, Greece station chief killed.
Dec. 21 - Carlos "The Jackal" holds 11 oil ministers and 59 civilians
hostage during the OPEC meeting in Vienna, Austria. Flew to Algeria, got
$300,000,000 in ransom money, Carlos and his Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine terrorists escape.
1976
Jan. 1 - 82 innocent travelers are killed aboard a Lebanese plane.
June 27 - Air France airliner hijacked, forced to fly to Uganda. Some 258
passengers and crew are held hostage. 3 passengers killed. July 4th, Israeli
commandos rescue the remaining hostages.
Aug. 11 - Terrorists attack Istanbul airport, Turkey, killing 4 civilians (1
from U.S.) and injuring 20.
Dec. 4 - Terrorists occupied the Indonesian Embassy in The Hague,
Netherlands, 1 official killed.
Dec. 14 - Passenger train hijacked and passengers were kept hostage, 3 were
killed.
1977
Jan. 1 - F.E. Melov U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, and Robert O.Waring, the
U.S. economic counselor, kidnapped and later killed in Beirut.
June 11 - Netherlands passenger train hijacked, 55 passengers hostage, 2
killed, many wounded.
Oct. 13 - Palestinian terrorists hijack a Lufthansa Flight 181 Boeing 737
and order it to fly around a number of Middle East destinations for four
days, pilot is killed by the terrorists, 90 hostages rescued.
1978
March 11 - Gail Rubin, niece of U.S. Senator Ribicoff, among 38 people shot
to death by terrorists on a beach near Tel Aviv.
March 16 - May 9 Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro kidnapped and assassinated
55 days later.
June 2 - A bomb kills 2 people at the CHOGM meeting in Sydney Australia.
1979
July 29 - Terrorist bombs two railway stations in Madrid, kills 7.
Nov. 4 - Terrorists seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 66 American
diplomats hostage. 13 freed, but the remaining 53 were held until their
release on January 20, 1981 - 444 days - at the inauguration of President
Ronald Reagan.
1980
April 30 - Terrorists took over the Iranian Embassy in London, holding 26
hostages, 2 of whom died on May 5th after being tortured. Much of the
embassy was destroyed by fire.
1981
April 19 - 13 people killed, 177 injured in a terrorist attack in Davao
Philippines.
May 13 - Pope John Paul II seriously wounded in assassination attempt in
Rome, Italy, by terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca.
Oct. 6 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat machine gunned dead by Islamic Jihad
in Cairo for working for peace. 7 others killed, 28 wounded. The assassins
are later executed.
1982
Beginning of the 8 years of terrorism in Lebanon.
July 19 - David Dodge, President of the American University in Beirut
kidnapped, one year in captivity.
Aug. 19 - Two American citizens, Anne Van Zanten and Grace Cutler, were
killed along with 6 others when the PLO bombed a Kosher restaurant in Paris,
France.
Sept. 14 - Lebanon's President Gemayel and 26 others assassinated by a
massive car bomb in Beirut.
1983
Mar. 16 - 5 Marines wounded in hand grenade attack on Beirut International
Airport.
April 18 - CIA's Middle East Director, and 83 others are killed, 120 injured
in truck bomb on the US Embassy in Lebanon.
Sept. 29 - Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, explodes killing all 166 aboard.
Oct. 23 - Simultaneous suicide truck bombs in Lebanon: 1st crashed into
lobby of US Marine Corps Headquarters, 241 Marines dead, 82 seriously
injured - and 2nd was French compounds killing 58 paratroopers.
Dec. 12 - US Embassy in Kuwait targeted to destroy the building with a truck
bomb, attack foiled by guards and the device killed 5 people and injured 80.
1984
Jan. 18 - Malcolm Kerr, President of the American University of Beirut, was
killed by two Hizballah.
Mar. 8 - Rev. Weir and wife kidnapped in Lebanon and held for 16 months.
Mar. 9 - Car bomb kills 80 (22 Americans) and wounds more than 200 civilians
when it drove past the checkpoint at the U.S. Embassy in Awkar.
Mar. 16 - Hizballah kidnapped, tortured and killed William Buckley, an
officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
Apr. 12 - Hizballah bombed restaurant adjacent to US Air Force base in
Torregon Spain, 18 servicemen killed and 83 Americans wounded.
Oct. 31 - 2 Sikh bodyguards assassinate India's Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi.
Sept. 20- US embassy in the Beirut is bombed - 2 servicemen and 23 employees
are killed, 21 Americans injured including the U.S. and British Ambassadors.
50+ Lebanese were injured.
Dec. 4 - Terrorists hijacked Kuwait Airlines Flight 221 and demanded the
release from Kuwaiti jails of some members, serving sentences for attacks on
French and American targets. 2 Americans murdered.
1985
March 16 - US journalist Terry Anderson kidnapped in Lebanon, finally
released in Dec. 1991 - 6 years later.
April 5 - Bomb explodes outside Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut killing 80
people.
April 12 - Bombing of U.S. soldier's favorite restaurant in Madrid, killing
18 and injuring 82.
June 14 - TWA Boeing 727 Flight 847 hijacked en route to Rome, 8 crew and
145 passengers were held for 17 days, U.S. Navy diver was murdered. After
being flown twice to Algiers, the hostages were released after the US
pressured to release 435 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.
June 22 - Air India 747, flight 182 is bombed, all 329 passengers are
killed. The single most deadly terrorist attack prior to September 11, 2001.
Sept. 30 - 4 Soviet diplomats kidnapped in Lebanon, 1 killed but other three
released unharmed after a relative of the terrorist leader's was kidnapped
and killed by the Soviet KGB.
Oct. 7 - Terrorists seize the Italian cruise liner, Achille Lauro, during a
cruise in the Mediterranean, taking more than 700 people hostage for 3 days.
Disabled U.S. citizen, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered in front of other
hostages by throwing him in the ocean, before the Egyptian Government
offered the terrorists safe haven in return for the hostages' freedom.
Nov. 23 - 98 passengers and crew of an Egyptair Flight 648 are held hostage
by Palestinian terrorists in Malta. 5 passengers shot, 2 died, later 57
additional passengers killed when the terrorists set off explosives in the
aircraft.
Dec. 27 - Suicide grenade and gun attacks in passenger terminals at Rome and
Vienna, Italy airports results in 16 people being killed plus 5 Americans
and more than 100 civilians injured.
1986
March 30-April 2nd - A bomb exploded on a TWA flight 840 from Rome as it
approached Athens airport. The attack killed 4 U.S. citizens who were sucked
through a hole made by the blast, 1 infant, and 9 injured, although the
plane safely landed.
April 6 - An explosion at the "La Belle" nightclub in Berlin, U.S. soldiers'
hang-out, was bombed, killing 3 and injuring 230 people, including 79 U.S.
soldiers.
Sept. 5 - Pan Am Boeing 747 Flight 73 en route to Frankfurt and on to New
York hijacked by Palestinian terrorists, with 379 passengers, including 89
Americans, 22 hostages killed, 127 wounded.
Sept. 9 - Hezballah kidnapped Frank Reed, President of American University
in Beirut, and held for 44 months, and Joseph Cicippio, and Edward Tracy who
were each held for 5 years.
Sept. 17 - A 10-month series of terrorist bomb attacks in France begins. One
bomb in Paris kills 5 and injures 52.
1987
A car bomb exploded outside the back gate of the U.S. Embassy in Rome and
rockets were fired at the compound from across the street. One passerby was
injured in the attacks.
1988
Feb. 5 - US Marine Corps Lt. Colonel Higgens, Chief of the U.N. Truce Force
kidnapped and murdered by Hezbollah.
March 16 - 4000+ Kurdish civilian bodies found after Saddam Hussein ordered
nerve gas attack (weapon of mass destruction) in northern Iraq, after they
revolted against his rule from Baghdad. 1.5 million relocated, 200,000
disappeared.
April 5 - 122 held hostage after a Kuwaiti Boeing 747 was hijacked and
diverted to Iran, then Cyprus. Kuwait refused requests by hijackers to
release 17 convicted terrorists. After 15 days the hijackers were granted
asylum in Algeria and released their hostages.
June 26 - US Naval Attache killed in Athens, Greece.
Dec. 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 - Boeing 747 from London to New York, blown up
over Lockerbie, Scotland, by a bomb. All 259 passengers and 11 on the ground
were killed, including 35 Syracuse University students and many U.S.
military personnel.
1989
June 12 - A bomb exploded aboard an unoccupied boat used by U.S. consular
staff.
Sept. 19 - 171 passengers killed when French UTA flight 772 explodes in
mid-air over Niger.
October 11 - Izmir, Turkey. A bomb went off outside a U.S. military PX.
1990
Feb. - Attack of tour bus in Egypt killing 11.
1991
Feb. 7 - Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, U.S. civilian contractor shot as he was
getting into his car.
Oct. 28 - Ankara, Turkey. Victor Marwick, an American soldier serving at the
Turkish-American base, Tuslog, was killed and his wife wounded in a car bomb
attack.
Oct. 28 - Two car bombings killed a U.S. Air Force Sergeant and severely
wounded an Egyptian diplomat in Istanbul.
Nov. 8 - Bomb destroyed part of the American University in Beirut, killing 1
and wounding 12.
1992
March 17 - Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, destroyed by bomb
killing 29, injuring 60.
Hotel in Yemen bombed and U.S. servicemen killed, Operation Restore Hope.
1993
Jan. 25, Virginia, U.S.A. A Pakistani terrorist opened fire with AK-47 on
CIA employees standing outside the building. Two agents, Frank Darling and
Bennett Lansing, were killed and 3 others wounded.
Feb. 26 - World Trade Center in New York badly damaged by a massive bomb by
Islamic terrorists. The van bomb was planted in an underground garage and
left 6 people dead and 1042 injured and almost ˝ billion dollars in damage.
Feb. 26 - A bomb exploded inside a café in downtown Cairo killing 3, 18
wounded, 2 U.S. citizens.
July 5 - In 8 separate incidents, 19 Western tourists traveling in
southeastern Turkey were kidnapped, including U.S. citizen Starger, after
weeks in captivity, they were released.
Oct - Killing of U. S. soldiers in Somalia.
1994
July 18 - 86 civilians killed and 300 wounded in bomb attack on Jewish
social centre in Buneos Aires, Argentina.
July 26 - Israeli Embassy in London is car-bombed, wounding 20.
Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked to crash the plane in Paris but didn't
succeed.
A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines flight 434, killing a
Japanese businessman.
1995
Jan. 22 - Islamic Jihad militants blow themselves up amid a group of
soldiers near Netanya, killing 21. Operation Bojinka is discovered on a
laptop in a Manila, Philippines apartment, in which Osama bin Laden was
planning to blow up 12 planes as they flew to the U.S., plus kill the Pope.
March 8 - Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan.
April 9 - Islamic Jihad suicide bomber attacks military convoy in Gaza,
killing 7 soldiers and an American tourist.
April 19 - A truck bomb collapsed the Murrah Federal Building in downtown
Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including children in the day care
center. Over 200 other buildings sustained damage. Timothy McVeigh and Terry
Nichols launched the attack to bring down the on US government with the 3rd
party, who financed it with terrorist funds.
May 5 - Five foreign oil workers murdered by Islamic GIA terrorists in
Algeria.
June 26 - Assassination attempt made against Egyptian President Honsi
Mubarak by Islamic radicals who ambushed his motorcade.
July 4 - 6 tourists, including two U.S. citizens taken hostage in Kashmir,
India. Terrorists demanded the release of Muslim militants held in Indian
prisons. On Aug. 13 the decapitated body of the Norwegian hostage was found
with a note stating that the other hostages also would be killed if the
group's demands were not met. They were not and all other hostages were
killed in 1996 by the terrorists.
July 25 - Islamic terrorists explode bomb in metro station in Paris, France,
killing 7 people and injuring 84.
Nov. 13 - Car bomb exploded at Riyadh headquarters of the National Guard,
killing 7, 5 of them U.S. citizens, and wounding 42.
Nov. 19 - Islamic radicals plant bomb in Egyptian embassy in Pakistan
killing 17.
Dec. 11 - 15 concurrent car bombings in Algiers kill 15 civilians and over
200 injured.
1996
Feb. 11 - Terrorists explode car bomb in Algiers killing 17. The following
month, 2 more killed in another bomb and 10 are killed in a train ambush in
western Algeria.
Feb. 25 - A suicide bomber blew up a commuter bus in Jerusalem, killing 26,
including 3 U.S. citizens, and injuring 80 others, among them another two
U.S. citizens.
Central Bank Bombing in Sri Lanka kills 90 and wounds 1,400.
April 19 - 18 Greek tourists were gunned down near the historic Pyramids in
Egypt by Islamic terrorists aiming to destroy the country's tourist
industry.
May - Osama bin Laden unites the Islamic Fundamentalists worldwide in their
Jihad against Jews and Western Gentiles, such as al-Qaeda, Palestinian
Authority, Hezbollah, Hamas, Mujahideen, using the Taliban's organization to
help fund the operations.
June 25 - Terrorists explode a truck bomb next to a USAF Khobar Towers
housing facility at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 American servicemen
and 515 injured including 240 U.S. personnel.
Islamic terrorists attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 71 people, most
of them vacationers.
Aug. 26 - Sudan Airways A310 Airbus airliner hijacked en route to Jordan and
diverted to England. British authorities negotiate with hijackers who
release all the 13 crew and 180 passengers unharmed.
Dec. 3 - A bomb exploded aboard a Paris subway train, killing four and
injuring 86 persons, including a U.S. citizen.
A terrorist opened fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire
State Building in New York City, killing a Danish national and wounding
visitors from the US, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the
gun on himself.
Dec. 23 - A car bomb in the Algerian capital, Algiers, kills three and
injures 70 people in cafe near the port. Again a week later, a car bomb
kills 28 people and injures 35 people. 3rd car bomb in the past two weeks,
killing additional 13 people and injuring more than 250.
1997
Jan. 2 - Major cities worldwide and U.S. get letter bombs with Egyptian
postmarks at newspaper bureaus in DC, New York, London, Riyadh, S.A., and
Leavenworth, KN. Experts defused all but the 1 in London, injuring 2.
Jan. 7 to 21st - Islamic terrorist rampage during these 14 days with car
bombs and beheadings in Algiers, total of 238 dead, 139 wounded.
Feb. 23 - Palestinian gunman opened fire on tourists at an observation deck
atop the Empire State building in New York, killing 1 and wounding over a
dozen visitors before turning the gun on himself.
March 7 - 2 killed in bus bomb attack in Beijing, China.
April - Terrorists behead innocent civilians this whole month with a total
of 272 murdered and over 100 injured. Knives, axes and chainsaws were used
and many of the bodies were burned while still alive.
Sept. 18- 9 German tourists killed when Muslims fire bombed bus in Cairo,
Egypt.
Nov. 12 - 2 Terrorists shot to death 4 U.S. auditors of a Texas petroleum
company and their driver at a Sheraton Hotel in Karachi, Pakistan.
Nov. 17 - 58 western tourists killed and 30 injured in gun attack at
historic monuments in southern Egypt. 6 of the Islamic terrorists are
killed in shoot out with police.
1998
Jan. 15 - U.S. Embassy bombing in Peru.
Published February 23, 1998 - Statement signed by many Islamic Jihad Leaders
from most Muslim countries, first by Sheikh Osamah Bin-Ladin: "...In
compliance with God's order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims:
The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies--civilians and
military--is an individual duty for every Muslim who can, in any country in
which it is possible... We -- with Allah's help -- call on every Muslim who
believes in God and wishes to be rewarded, to comply with Allah's order to
kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find
it. Unless you go forth, Allah will punish you with a grievous penalty, and
put others in your place."
Aug. 7 - Simultaneous bombs in US Embassies in Kenya, and Tanzania, heavily
damaged by massive attacks. In the Nairobi attack 292 people were killed,
including 12 Americans, and 5,000 injured. 10 people were killed and 86
injured in Tanzania incident for a total of 302 dead, 5086 injured within an
hour.
Aug. 25 - 3 people killed and 25 injured in bomb attack on Planet Hollywood
restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa.
Dec. 28 - 16 Western tourists kidnapped, 12 Britons, 2 U.S. citizens, and 2
Australians on the main road to Aden, Yemen. Four victims were killed during
a rescue attempt the next day.
1999
Aug. 31 to Sept. 22nd - Russian apartment bombings kill almost 300 and
injured 100.
Oct. 31 - EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed off the U.S. coast of Massachusetts,
killing all 217 people on board, including 100 Americans.
Nov. 12 - Six rockets were fired at the U.S. and U.N. offices in Islamabad,
Pakistan.
Dec. - Millennium terror plots foiled as customs agents arrest a man
smuggling in explosives. Plan to attack Los Angeles airport and other sites
intercepted by CIA. Also Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US
tourists in Jordan, pick up 28 suspects.
Indian Airlines Flight 814, en route to Delhi, India is hijacked, 1
passenger is killed. After negotiations with the Taliban, the hostages are
released.
2000
The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to
bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.
Oct. 12 - A suicide squad rammed the U.S.S. Cole (guided-missile destroyer),
with an explosives-laden boat blowing a hole 40' in diameter, killing 17
American sailors and injuring 39.
2001
Feb. 5 - A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya subway station injures 15
people.
March 28 - Bombing at bus stop in Yemin. U.S. citizens injured including a
15 year old boy from NY.
Aug. 9 - Bombing at Sbarro's pizzeria, killed 15 and wounded over 90, 2 of
which were U.S. citizens.
Sept. 11 - 4 U.S. jetliners hijacked and forced to crash into the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon like missiles, and 1 crashed in Pennsylvania
on the way to the Capital Building in D.C. In all, 266 people perished in
the four planes, 2602 people were killed on the ground, plus 343
firefighters, and 184 people at the Pentagon. Almost 5000 injured, 500
rescue workers now have respiratory ailments. 7 buildings collapsed in NY
and 23 damaged, plus 4 subway stations.
Paris embassy terrorist attack plot foiled
Oct. 27 - Darya Khanah bombed
Anthrax attacks on the offices the US Congress, New York State Government
offices, and employees of television networks and tabloid
Nov. 24 - SwissAir flight crashes, 3 more world-class microbiologists dead,
15 die mysteriously in 6 months, potentially as part of a future
germ-warfare attack.
Dec. 13 - Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
Dec. - Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63 from
Paris to Miami, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he
could detonate his shoe bomb.
2002
Jan. 27 - A Palestinian woman triggered a massive explosion in Jerusalem
killing 1 Israeli and injuring more than 150, including American Mark
Sokolow, his wife, and both teenage daughters. Sokolow had survived the 9-11
attack on the World Trade Center, escaping from his law office on the 38th
floor of the South Tower before it collapsed.
Feb. 16 - Bombing in Karnei Shomron, in a group of teenage girls from the
U.S. 2 killed, 4 wounded. Singapore embassies terrorist attack plot foiled
March 24 - 20 people die and 93 injured in 3 bomb attacks on Russian towns
near the border of Chechnya.
April - Explosion at most historic synagogue in Tunisia left 21 dead, most
are German tourists.
May 9 - A bomb exploded in Dagestan kills 42 people and injures 130 during
Victory Day festivities.
Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen
Kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl
Oct. 12 - Bali car bombing of holidaymakers in a nightclub kills 202
Australian citizens.
Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines
Oct. 19 - Car bomb explodes at McDonald's restaurant in Moscow, killing 1
person and wounding 5.
Oct. 23 - Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40
terrorists killed in rescue 3 days later.
Nov. - Kenyan hotel suicide bombing kills 16 safari tourists.
Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2003
May 12 - attack outside U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 12.
May - Suicide bombers killed 34 (8 U.S. citizens), at housing compounds for
westerneres in Riyadh, S.A.
May 14 - 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern
Chechnya.
May - 4 bombs killed 33 tourists (8 U.S. citizens) in Casablanca, Morocco.
July 5 - 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival
in Moscow.
Aug. 1 - An explosion at the Russian hospital in North Ossetia kills 50
people and injures 76.
Aug. - Suicide car bomb killed 12 and injured over 150 at Marriott Hotel in
Jakarta, Indonesia.
Sept. 3- A bomb on a passenger train in southern Russia kills 7 people and
injures 90.
Oct. 15 - Bombing of US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip: 3 U.S. citizens
killed.
Nov. - Explosions rocked a Riyadh, S.A. housing compound, killing 17.
Nov. - Truck bombs detonated at London bank and British consulate in
Istanbul kills 26, injures 22.
Dec. 5 - Suicide bombers kill 46 people in an attack on a train in southern
Russia.
Dec. 9 - A blast in the center of Moscow kills 6 people and wounds at least
11.
Bombings of United States expat housing compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
kill 26 and injure 160.
Attacks in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead. The attack involved 12
bombers and 5 targets. The targets were "Western and Jewish".
Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq kills 22 people including the top UN
representative, Sergio Vieira de Mello
Istanbul Bombings: Within five days, truck bombs go off at two synagogues,
the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey
2004
109 Kurds are killed in 2 suicide bombings in Arbil, Iraq
Feb. 6 - Bomb on Moscow subway kills 41.
Feb. 27 - Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing
116.
Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than
500.
March 11 - 10 Simultaneous bombings of busiest rush hour commuter trains in
Madrid, Spain kills 202 people and injures more than 1,400.
April 21 - Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 5
May 29 - Al-Khobar massacres--Islamic terrorists kill 22 people and one
American at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.
June 11 - Terrorists kidnap and execute Paul Johnson, Jr. in Riyadh.
Aug. 24 - Russian airplane bombings kill 90.
August 31 A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused
by a suicide bomber, kills 10 people and injures 33.
Sept. 1 - 3 Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia results in
over 330 dead.
Sept. 9 - Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing 9
people.
Sept. 20 - Eugene Armstrong was beheaded in Iraq
Sept. 21 - Jack Hensley was beheaded in Iraq
Oct. 7 - 3 car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula hotel, killing 32 and
wounding 114, most of them tourists.
Civilian Nicholas Berg kidnapped and ritually beheaded in Iraq
Paul Johnson, civilian working in Saudi Arabia, kidnapped and ritually
executed
This was NOT a complete list. Not counting the financial devastation to us
and others, and NOT counting the 9/11 attacks on our soil, over 4000
innocent Americans have been killed and over 10,000 wounded in terrorist
attacks since they began 36 years ago. This does not count the harm to
other country's citizens. In addition to the civilians and military, also
many leaders and ambassadors of several countries have been killed or
injured, including an attempt on Pope John Paul II.
F R E E D O M I S N O T F R E E
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