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 | |
we can include 9 / 11 in here too because of his lack of taking Osama. |
Saturday, January 24, 2009
yep, we enjoyed those Clinton years
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