Terrorist Attacks in the U. S. 1. 6, New York City: TNT bomb planted in. Wall Street opposite House of. Morgan, killing 3. Bolshevist or anarchist terrorists believed. Jan. 2. 4, New York City: bomb set off in historic. Fraunces Tavern killed 4. Puerto Rican nationalist group (FALN). Nov. 4, Tehran, Iran: Iranian radical students. U. S. 1. 4 were later released. The. remaining 5. President Reagan's. Lebanon: Thirty US and other Western hostages. Lebanon by Hezbollah. Some were killed, some died in. Terry Anderson was held.
April 1. 8, Beirut, Lebanon: U. S. The Islamic. Jihad claimed responsibility. Oct. 2. 3, Beirut, Lebanon: Shiite suicide bombers. U. S. Minutes later a second bomb killed 5. It is high time to add Venezuela to the list. Far from being merely a populist showman and bully, Hugo Chavez is a. A verified Catalog of Websites controlled by confirmed Terrorist Groups along with hosting and content, information, an ACSA Public Safety Advocacy. French paratroopers. West Beirut. Dec. Kuwait City, Kuwait: Shiite truck bombers. U. S. 2. 0, east Beirut, Lebanon: truck bomb exploded. U. S. 3, Beirut, Lebanon: Kuwait Airways Flight 2. Kuwait to Pakistan, hijacked and diverted to Tehran. Americans. killed. April 1. 2, Madrid, Spain: Bombing at restaurant. U. S. Navy diver executed. Oct. 7, Mediterranean Sea: gunmen attack Italian. Achille Lauro. Hijacking. Libya. Dec. 1. 8, Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria: airports. Rome and Vienna were bombed, killing 2. Americans. Bombing linked to Libya. April 2, Athens, Greece: A bomb exploded aboard TWA. Rome to Athens, killing 4 Americans and. April 5, West Berlin, Germany: Libyans bombed a. U. S. 2. 1, Lockerbie, Scotland: N. Y.- bound Pan- Am. Boeing 7. 47 exploded in flight from a terrorist bomb and crashed into. Scottish village, killing all 2. Libya formally admitted responsibility 1. Aug. 2. 00. 3) and offered $2. Feb. 2. 6, New York City: bomb exploded in basement. World Trade Center. In 1. 99. 5, militant Islamist. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 9 others were convicted of conspiracy. Ramzi Yousef, believed to have been the. Al- Qaeda involvement is. April 1. 9, Oklahoma City: car bomb exploded outside. The Economist on the recently launched Vinfusion, a wine-blending machine that lets drinkers craft a glass of wine specifically to their personal palate.Timothy Mc. Veigh and. Terry Nichols later convicted in the antigovernment plot to avenge the. Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Tex., exactly 2 years earlier. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: car bomb exploded at. U. S. 1. 3 Saudis and a Lebanese, all alleged. Islamic militant group Hezbollah, were. June 2. 00. 1. 1. Aug. 7, Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam. Tanzania: truck bombs exploded almost simultaneously near 2. U. S. 4 men connected with al- Qaeda 2 of whom had. Qaeda camps. inside Afghanistan, were. May 2. 00. 1 and later sentenced to life in. A federal grand jury had indicted 2. Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden. Oct. Navy destroyer USS. Cole heavily damaged when a small boat loaded with explosives. Linked to Osama bin Laden. Qaeda terrorist network. Sept. 1. 1, New York City, Arlington, Va., and Shanksville. Pa.: hijackers crashed 2 commercial jets into twin. World Trade Center; 2 more hijacked jets were crashed into the. Pentagon and a field in rural Pa. Total dead and missing numbered. New York City, 1. Pentagon, 4. 0 in Pa., and 1. Islamic al- Qaeda terrorist group. Linked to. al- Qaeda. May 1. 2, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: suicide bombers kill. Americans, at housing compounds for Westerners. Al- Qaeda. suspected. May 2. 9–3. 1, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: terrorists. Saudi oil company in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, take. American. June 1. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: terrorists. Paul Johnson Jr., an American, in Riyadh, Saudi. Arabia. 2 other Americans and BBC cameraman killed by gun attacks. Dec. 6, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: terrorists storm the. U. S. 4 terrorists were killed. Saudi security. 2. Nov. 9, Amman, Jordan: suicide bombers hit 3. American hotels, Radisson, Grand Hyatt, and Days Inn, in Amman, Jordan. Al- Qaeda claimed responsibility. Sept. 1. 3, Damascus, Syria: an attack by four gunman. American embassy is foiled. Jan. 1. 2, Athens, Greece: the U. S. 1. 1, Algeria: more than 6. United Nations staff members, when Al Qaeda terrorists. Algeria's Constitutional Council and the. United Nations offices. May 2. 6, Iraq: a suicide bomber on a motorcycle. U. S. Marines, at a meeting between sheiks and. Americans in Karmah, a town west of Baghdad. June 1. 2, Afghanistan: four American servicemen are. U. S. It's the most. U. S. 1. 8 and 1. Afghanistan: as many as 1. U. S. 1. 6, Yemen: a car bomb and a rocket strike the. U. S. At least 2. Qaeda militants are. Nov. 2. 6, India: in a series of attacks on several. Mumbai's landmarks and commercial hubs that are popular with. Americans and other foreign tourists, including at least two five- star. About 3. 00 people are. Americans. 9, Iraq: a suicide bomber kills four American soldiers and their Iraqi translator near a police checkpoint. April 1. 0, Iraq: a suicide attack kills five American soldiers and two Iraqi policemen. June 1, Little Rock, Arkansas: Abdulhakim Muhammed, a Muslim convert from Memphis, Tennessee, is charged with shooting two soldiers outside a military recruiting center. One is killed and the other is wounded. In a January 2. 01. Muhammed asked to change his plea from not guilty to guilty, claimed ties to al- Qaeda, and called the shooting a jihadi attack . A Nigerian man on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit attempted to ignite an explosive device hidden in his underwear. The explosive device that failed to detonate was a mixture of powder and liquid that did not alert security personnel in the airport. The alleged bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, told officials later that he was directed by the terrorist group Al Qaeda. The suspect was already on the government's watch list when he attempted the bombing; his father, a respected Nigerian banker, had told the U. S. 3. 0, Iraq: a suicide bomber kills eight Americans civilians, seven of them CIA agents, at a base in Afghanistan. It's the deadliest attack on the agency since 9/1. The attacker is reportedly a double agent from Jordan who was acting on behalf of al- Qaeda. May 1, New York City: a car bomb is discovered in Times Square, New York City after smoke is seen coming from a vehicle. Times Square was evacuated as a safety precaution. May 1. 0, Jacksonville, Florida: a pipe bomb explodes while approximately 6. Muslims are praying in the mosque. The attack causes no injuries. Oct. 2. 9: two packages are found on separate cargo planes. Each package contains a bomb consisting of 3. The bombs are discovered as a result of intelligence received from Saudi Arabia's security chief. The packages, bound from Yemen to the United States, are discovered at en route stop- overs, one in England and one in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Jan. 1. 7, Spokane, Washington: a pipe bomb is discovered along the route of the Martin Luther King, Jr.
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