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Terrorist Attacks in The U.S. or Americans Terrorist Attacks in the bombed, killing 20 people, 5 of whom were Oct. 12, Aden, Yemen: U.S. Navy U.S. or Against Americans Americans. Bombing linked to Libya. destroyer USS Cole heavily damaged when a small boat loaded with explosives blew up 1986 alongside it. 17 sailors killed. Linked to Osama The following timeline lists terrorist attacks April 2, Athens, Greece:A bomb bin Laden, or members of al-Qaeda terrorist against the United States and Americans living exploded aboard TWA flight 840 en route from network. either in the U.S. or abroad. Rome to Athens, killing 4 Americans and injuring 9. 2001 1920 April 5, West Berlin, Germany: Libyans Sept. 11, New York City, Arlington, Va., Sept. 16, New York City: TNT bomb bombed a disco frequented by U.S. servicemen, and Shanksville, Pa.: hijackers crashed 2 planted in unattended horse-drawn wagon killing 2 and injuring hundreds. commercial jets into twin towers of World Trade exploded on Wall Street opposite House of Center; 2 more hijacked jets were crashed into Morgan, killing 35 people and injuring 1988 the Pentagon and a field in rural Pa. Total dead hundreds more. Bolshevist or anarchist Dec. 21, Lockerbie, Scotland: N.Y.- and missing numbered 2,9921: 2,749 in New terrorists believed responsible, but crime never bound Pan-Am Boeing 747 exploded in flight York City, 184 at the Pentagon, 40 in Pa., and 19 solved. from a terrorist bomb and crashed into Scottish hijackers. Islamic al-Qaeda terrorist group village, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on the blamed. 1975 ground. Passengers included 35 Syracuse Jan. 24, New York City: bomb set off in University students and many U.S. military 2002 historic Fraunces Tavern killed 4 and injured personnel. Libya formally admitted June 14, Karachi, Pakistan: bomb more than 50 people. Puerto Rican nationalist responsibility 15 years later (Aug. 2003) and explodes outside American consulate in group (FALN) claimed responsibility, and offered $2.7 billion compensation to victims' Karachi, Pakistan, killing 12. Linked to al- police tied 13 other bombings to the group. families. Qaeda. 1979 1993 2003 Nov. 4, Tehran, Iran: Iranian radical Feb. 26, New York City: bomb exploded May 12, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: suicide students seized the U.S. embassy, taking 66 in basement garage of World Trade Center, bombers kill 34, including 8 Americans, at hostages. 14 were later released. The remaining killing 6 and injuring at least 1,040 others. In housing compounds for Westerners. Al-Qaeda 52 were freed after 444 days on the day of 1995, militant Islamist Sheik Omar Abdel suspected. President Reagan's inauguration. Rahman and 9 others were convicted of conspiracy charges, and in 1998, Ramzi Yousef, 2004 1982–1991 Lebanon: believed to have been the mastermind, was May 29–31, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Thirty US and other Western hostages convicted of the bombing. Al-Qaeda terrorists attack the offices of a Saudi oil kidnapped in Lebanon by Hezbollah. Some involvement is suspected. company in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, take foreign were killed, some died in captivity, and some oil workers hostage in a nearby residential were eventually released. Terry Anderson was 1995 compound, leaving 22 people dead including held for 2,454 days. April 19, Oklahoma City: car bomb one American. exploded outside federal office building, June 11–19, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: 1983 collapsing wall and floors. 168 people were terrorists kidnap and execute Paul Johnson Jr., April 18, Beirut, Lebanon: U.S. killed, including 19 children and 1 person who an American, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2 other embassy destroyed in suicide car-bomb attack; died in rescue effort. Over 220 buildings Americans and BBC cameraman killed by gun 63 dead, including 17 Americans. The Islamic sustained damage. Timothy McVeigh and Terry attacks. Jihad claimed responsibility. Nichols later convicted in the antigovernment Dec. 6, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: terrorists Oct. 23, Beirut, Lebanon: Shiite suicide plot to avenge the Branch Davidian standoff in storm the U.S. consulate, killing 5 consulate bombers exploded truck near U.S. military Waco, Tex., exactly 2 years earlier. (See employees. 4 terrorists were killed by Saudi barracks at Beirut airport, killing 241 marines. Miscellaneous Disasters.) security. Minutes later a second bomb killed 58 French Nov. 13, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: car paratroopers in their barracks in West Beirut. bomb exploded at U.S. military headquarters, 2005 Dec. 12, Kuwait City, Kuwait: Shiite killing 5 U.S. military servicemen. Nov. 9, Amman, Jordan: suicide truck bombers attacked the U.S. embassy and bombers hit 3 American hotels, Radisson, other targets, killing 5 and injuring 80. 1996 Grand Hyatt, and Days Inn, in Amman, Jordan, June 25, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: truck killing 57. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility. 1984 bomb exploded outside Khobar Towers military Sept. 20, east Beirut, Lebanon: truck complex, killing 19 American servicemen and 2006 bomb exploded outside the U.S. embassy injuring hundreds of others. 13 Saudis and a Sept. 13, Damascus, Syria: an attack by annex, killing 24, including 2 U.S. military. Lebanese, all alleged members of Islamic four gunman on the American embassy is Dec. 3, Beirut, Lebanon: Kuwait militant group Hezbollah, were indicted on foiled. Airways Flight 221, from Kuwait to Pakistan, charges relating to the attack in June 2001. hijacked and diverted to Tehran. 2 Americans 2007 killed. 1998 Jan. 12, Athens, Greece: the U.S. Aug. 7, Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es embassy is fired on by an anti-tank missile 1985 Salaam, Tanzania: truck bombs exploded almost causing damage but no injuries. April 12, Madrid, Spain: Bombing at simultaneously near 2 U.S. embassies, killing Dec. 11, Algeria: more than 60 people restaurant frequented by U.S. soldiers, killed 18 224 (213 in Kenya and 11 in Tanzania) and are killed, including 11 United Nations staff Spaniards and injured 82. injuring about 4,500. 4 men connected with al- members, when Al Qaeda terrorists detonate June 14, Beirut, Lebanon: TWA Flight Qaeda 2 of whom had received training at al- two car bombs near Algeria's Constitutional 847 en route from Athens to Rome hijacked to Qaeda camps inside Afghanistan, were Council and the United Nations offices. Beirut by Hezbollah terrorists and held for 17 convicted of the killings in May 2001 and later days. A U.S. Navy diver executed. sentenced to life in prison. A federal grand jury Continued on Page 16 Oct. 7, Mediterranean Sea: gunmen had indicted 22 men in connection with the attack Italian cruise ship, Achille Lauro. 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