Timeline
of Terrorism
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| Date, Place | Type of Attack | Casualties | Who |
| January 1975: USA, NYC, Bar | Bomb | 4 killed | It is one of a series of 49 bombings between 1974 and 1977 attributed to the Puerto Rican National Liberation Army. |
| December 1975: USA, NYC, La Guardia Airport | Bomb planted in luggage department | 11 dead, 75 injured | |
| May 1981 : USA, NYC, JFK Airport, toilet of Pan Am terminal | Bomb | 1 dead | Puerto Rican Resistance Army. |
| August 1982: Honolulu, Hawaii. Pan Am airplane. | Bomb | 1 killed, several injured | Palestinian terrorist Mohammad Rashid |
| April 1983: Beirut, U.S. Embassy | Suicide car bomb | 63 killed | Radical Shiite Muslim group takes credit |
| October 1983: Beirut, U.S. Marine barracks | Bomb | 241 killed | Lebanese Party of God faction |
| December 1983: Kuwait City, U.S. Embassy | Suicide truck bomb | Six killed; dozens injured | 17 pro-Iranian terrorists convicted |
| September 1984: Beirut, U.S. embassy | Suicide car bomb | 16 killed | Islamic Jihad claims responsibility |
| April 1985: Spain, Restaurant near U.S. Air Base | Bomb | 17 Killed | |
| June 1985: TWA flight 847 | Hijacking to Beirut | One killed | Lebanese Party of God faction |
| June 1985: El Salvador | Machine gun | 13 killed | |
| August 1985, Germany, American base in Frankfurt | car bomb | Two killed, 20 injured | |
| October 1985: Egyptian coast, Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro | Hostage situation | One killed | Palestine Liberation Front |
| November 1985: Egypt Air flight 648 | Hijacking to Malta | 60 killed | Abu Nidal's Arab Revolutionary Command |
| December 1985: Rome and Vienna | Airport attacks at U.S. and Israeli airport check-in desks | 16 killed | |
| February 1986: Lisbon, U.S. embassy | Car bomb | No injuries | Leftist guerrillas take credit |
| April 1986: West Berlin night club | Bomb | Three killed, 150 injured | A Libyan diplomat, two Palestinians and two Germans |
| April 1986: Rome to Athens TWA flight | Bomb | Four killed | Mohammed Rashid, Palestinian terrorist, members of Iraqi backed May 15 organization |
| June 1987: Rome, U.S. Embassy | Rocket fired on embassy | Minor injuries | Japan-based Red Army terrorists |
| February 1988: Southern Lebanon | Kidnapping | One U.S. Marine executed | Lebanese Party of God |
| March 1988: Bogota, Colombia | Rocket- propelled grenade | Minor damage | Guerrilla group |
| December 1988: Lockerbie, Scotland, Pan Am flight 103 | Bomb | 270 killed | Libyan intelligence agents |
| Date, Place | Type of Attack | Casualties | Who |
| Feb 26 1993: USA, NYC, World Trade Center | A bomb planted in an underground car parked at the World Trade Center | 6 killed, 1000 injured | Four Muslim fundamentalists are convicted of conspiracy and other charges related to the bombing, thought to have been ordered by Saudi terror master Osama bin Laden. In 1998, the so-called mastermind, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, is convicted and sentenced to life plus 240 years in prison. |
| July 1993: Lima, Peru | Bomb explodes in bus outside embassy | One killed | Shining Path guerrillas suspected |
| March 1995: Karachi, Pakistan, U.S. Consulate | Murder | Two American diplomats killed | Possible retaliation for World Trade Center bombing conviction |
| April 19 1995: USA, Oklahoma City | Car bomb left outside a federal building | 168 killed, 600 injured | Timothy McVeigh, 33, a member of an anarchist group hostile to the federal government, is convicted of the attack in 1997 and is executed in June 2001. |
| September 1995: Moscow, U.S. Embassy | Rocket-propelled grenade | Minor damage | No suspects |
| Oct 1995: USA, train travelling between Miami and Los Angeles and derailed in Arizona | Derailed
by sabotage. Two of the bolts on one of the joints of the track were
removed. |
1 killed, 80 injured | Previously unknown group calling themselves "The Sons of the Gestapo". |
| November 1995: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, U.S. military headquarters | Bomb | Seven killed | Four anti-royal Saudi Arabian dissidents, possible connections to Party of God an Iran; beheaded in Saudi Arabia |
| February 1996: Athens, U.S. Embassy | Anti-tank missile attack | No injuries | National Struggle terrorist group |
| June 1996: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Khobar Towers | Truck bomb | 19 U.S. airmen killed | Unknown |
| July 1996: USA, Centenary Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Olympic Games. | Bomb | 2 killed, 110 injured | |
| November 1997: Karachi, Pakistan | Murder of American oil-company employees | Five killed | Possible revenge for U.S. conviction of Pakistani for murders of two CIA agents |
| May 1998: Unabomber sentenced to life | Parcel bombings | 3 killed, 28 injured | Theodore Kaczynski, alias the "Unabomber", is sentenced to life imprisonment for an 18-year campaign of parcel bombings as part of an "anti-modernist" crusade |
| June 1998: Lebanon, U.S. Embassy | Rocket-propelled grenades | No injuries | |
| August 1998: Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, U.S. embassies | Simultaneous bombings | 263 killed, 5000 injured | Possibly Osama bin Laden, Saudi financier |
| October 2000: The Destroyer USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden | Bomb blast | 17 killed | |
| September
11, 2001: USA, NYC, World Trade Center, Pentagon, Pensylvania |
Airplane crashes | Over 6000 killed, thousands injured | Possibly Osama Bin Laden with the help of the Taliban and international cells and states. |
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