You talk of decades of terrorist attacks as a fact. Care to list them ?

I am not going to list every terrorist attack for the last 50 years, because it would take hours to find them all. I will settle for just a few incidents during a short period in time from 1993 to 1998:

Well you answer my question by not answering it.

I queried your estimate of 4 or 5 decades of terrorist attacks because I doubted it.

You cite incidents post US/Iraq war over Kuwait. In case you don't realise it you have

not substantiated your claim.

Of course I have.

Plugging your ears and covering your eyes doesn't change the facts.

OK we'll do the "Recent History for Dummies" thing.

August 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait

January 1990 - US led coalition launch "Desert Storm" and evict Iraqis

Desert Storm naturally involved lerge numbers of US forces in Saudi Arabia.

This p*ssed off a certain bin Laden big time.

It still took him a few years to get organised , so it was 1996 before he

declared "war" on the US.

I found a site on bin Laden/al Qaeda.

Seems to offer a fairly objective history but maybe it's not to your political taste.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/al-qaeda-terrorism.html

I also found this report of the final withdrawal of "most" US troops from Saudi

Arabia.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20...udiarabia_x.htm

Now funnily enough your lists of attacks on the US fall well within the time frame

of 1991 - 2003.

It does not cover "decades" does it?

Of course a very nasty genie had been let out of the bottle meantimes , something

the whole world now has to deal with.

Now if some crazy wanted to kill me , apart from killing him first if I could , I would

spend a little effort to find out WHY he wanted to kill me.

Who do you think I think is plugging his ears and covering his eyes ?

Hope this helps,.

OK we'll do the "Recent History for Dummies" thing.

August 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait

January 1990 - US led coalition launch "Desert Storm" and evict Iraqis

Desert Storm naturally involved lerge numbers of US forces in Saudi Arabia.

This p*ssed off a certain bin Laden big time.

Boo hoo

Regardless of your opinion of whether or not the whole war was over oil or not, the people of Kuwait living under the boot of Iraq didn't much care. Going in and dislodging the Iraqi army from there was the right thing to do, and if bin laden didn't like it then that's just too bad because the world isn't going to revolve around his wishes.

OK we'll do the "Recent History for Dummies" thing.

August 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait

January 1990 - US led coalition launch "Desert Storm" and evict Iraqis

Desert Storm naturally involved lerge numbers of US forces in Saudi Arabia.

This p*ssed off a certain bin Laden big time.

Boo hoo

Regardless of your opinion of whether or not the whole war was over oil or not, the people of Kuwait living under the boot of Iraq didn't much care. Going in and dislodging the Iraqi army from there was the right thing to do, and if bin laden didn't like it then that's just too bad because the world isn't going to revolve around his wishes.

If by "the whole war" you mean the 2003 invasion of Iraq I would confess I am still

unclear about the logic for it. I did not mention "oil" because I do not parrot the opinion

of others. Oil seems an unlikely motive IMO.

On the invasion/liberation of Kuwait I only mentioned it as a historical fact and did not

criticise the latter. In fact it was a sterling example of the US acting in harmony with

the world. Have you read "Stormin' Norman's" autobio. It was , I found , an interesting

book by an interesting human being and his account of Desert Storm had a lot of

credibility for cynical old me.

The bin Laden references were only in response to Ulysses G's fiction about the "war"

between Islamic fundamentalists and the US which he traces back "4 or 5 decades".

The time-line I offered happened to match the attacks on US citizens he was able

to report. Actually I came across refernces to American mercheant ships being

attacked by pirates out of Libya in the 1800's. I would have thought he could have

done a bit more research and come up with something pre 1993.

Instead he chose to come back with a Boon Mee / Spee response.

You may note that I read the words of your post.

I find it helps in giving an intelligible response.

So, how did you miss the single biggest success in the history of Islamic fundamentalism? The Iranian revolution which in 78/79 turned the US's closest ally in the middle east into a major adversary.

Was the storming of the US embassy and taking hostages not a very blatant act of aggression?

This did not just happen over night with a gang of people saying "let's be fundamentalists and wage war on America". These were people who had been in the game since the mid 1960s when groups like Mujaheddin-e-Khalq became active. Their goal was to dislodge Iran from the Shah's rule and American interference in Iranian affairs.

Before you accuse others of covering their eyes and ears it may help to expand your field of vision a bit.

So, how did you miss the single biggest success in the history of Islamic fundamentalism? The Iranian revolution which in 78/79 turned the US's closest ally in the middle east into a major adversary.

Was the storming of the US embassy and taking hostages not a very blatant act of aggression?

This did not just happen over night with a gang of people saying "let's be fundamentalists and wage war on America". These were people who had been in the game since the mid 1960s when groups like Mujaheddin-e-Khalq became active. Their goal was to dislodge Iran from the Shah's rule and American interference in Iranian affairs.

Before you accuse others of covering their eyes and ears it may help to expand your field of vision a bit.

I don't know if you ever heard the French expression which translates as a "dialogue of the

deaf" because I find myself in one.

I took issue with Ulysses G over his "fact" of muslim attacks on US citizens over 4 or 5

decades. I ask him to expand and he comes back with incidents restricted to the 90's.

I remark that he hadn't tried very hard and cited "incidents" in the 19th century and

you insinuate I was never aware of the fall of the Shah. <deleted> honestly has this got to

do with the ponts I made in my posts?

I totally disagree that the current very serious problem the world finds itself

confronted with dates from the ousting of the Shah but I am not so arrogant as

to offer my opinion as fact.

BTW : re:

"Before you accuse others of covering their eyes and ears it may help to expand your field of vision a bit.:

The following are Ulysses G's words , not mine.

"Plugging your ears and covering your eyes doesn't change the facts"

Also BTW I am really getting tired of goalposts on rollerskates and being misquoted and

misrepresented and the points I make remaining unanswered so I am going to bid for a

much needed "vacation" from this crap by offering a personal insult :

You argue like my f*cking wife.

If you could please do me the courtesy of reporting this post I would be grateful.

BTW : re:

"Before you accuse others of covering their eyes and ears it may help to expand your field of vision a bit.:

The following are Ulysses G's words , not mine.

"Plugging your ears and covering your eyes doesn't change the facts"

Also BTW I am really getting tired of goalposts on rollerskates and being misquoted and

misrepresented and the points I make remaining unanswered so I am going to bid for a

much needed "vacation" from this crap by offering a personal insult :

You argue like my f*cking wife.

If you could please do me the courtesy of reporting this post I would be grateful.

Seems I did mis-attribute that quote. Sorry for that. But The struggle between the fundamentalists and the US is still a fact going back at least four decades to when bin laden was in his nappies.

As for reporting the post, I'm not sinking to that level.

So now that I've been informed of her superb debating skills, I offer my compliments to your wife.

Now just relax, it's only bedlam.

You argue like my f*cking wife.

So now that I've been informed of her superb debating skills, I offer my compliments to your wife.

Guys, guys... You've got to admit... Thats bleeding funny...

You talk of decades of terrorist attacks as a fact. Care to list them ?

I am not going to list every terrorist attack for the last 50 years, because it would take hours to find them all. I will settle for just a few incidents during a short period in time from 1993 to 1998:

Well you answer my question by not answering it.

I queried your estimate of 4 or 5 decades of terrorist attacks because I doubted it.

You cite incidents post US/Iraq war over Kuwait. In case you don't realise it you have

not substantiated your claim.

OK, you asked for it (I can go back further if you insist). :

[edit] 1960s

1960 March 4: Bombing of the Belgian ammunition carrier La Coubre in the port of Habana, killing over 30 people

1961 April 8: Omani terrorists blow up the passenger liner MV Dara, killing 238 people

1963: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. A member of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls

1963 November 22: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while at a rally in Texas.

1965: The Ku Klux Klan murders Viola Liuzzo, a Southern-raised white mother of five who was visiting the South from her home in Detroit to attend a civil rights march. At the time of her murder Liuzzo was transporting Civil Rights Marchers.

1965: The Monumental Plot - New York Police thwart an attempt to dynamite the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell, and the Washington Monument by three members of the pro Castro Black Liberation Front and a Quebec Separatist.[3]

1966 March 8: A group of former IRA men planted a bomb that destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin

1966: Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the IRA; on June 26 they commit three sectarian murders.

1966: NAACP leader Vernon Dahme assassinated by firebomb exploded by The Ku Klux Klan.

1966 September 22: A bazooka attack on the Cuban embassy in Ottawa is made.

1966 October 5: Anti-Castro forces bomb the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa.

1967: May - December: In the Hong Kong 1967 riots, evolved from civil disobedience to terrorism. Leftists killed at least 51 people including eleven policemen, a bomb expert of the British forces and a fireman, through murders or bombs.

1968: Spring During a student rebellion at Columbia University members of the Students for a Democratic Society and Student Afro-American Society held a Dean hostage demanding an end to both military research on campus and construction of a gymnasium in nearby Harlem.[4]

1968 June 6: Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.

1968, August: Prior to Democratic Convention that year in Chicago Yippie party cofounder Abbie Hoffman threatened to spike the water of that city with LSD.[5]

1968 December 26: Two Palestinian gunmen travel from Beirut to Athens, and attack an El Al jet there, killing one person

1969 February 13: the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) set off a powerful bomb that ripped through the Montreal Stock Exchange causing massive destruction and seriously injuring twenty-seven people.

1969 December 12: Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, killing 16 people.

[edit] 1970s

[edit] 1970

February 21: A bomb explodes in the rear of Swissair Flight 330, causing it to crash near Zürich, Switzerland, killing 38 passengers and all nine crew members. The attack was carried out by Palestinian terror group PFLP

May 8: Avivim school bus massacre by Palestinian PLO members, killing nine children and three adults and crippling 19 children.

August 24: the Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was blown up resulting in one death

September 6: Coordinated hijacking of four airliners. One hijacking is foiled in midair and two planes are diverted to Jordan’s Dawson Field. Nicaraguan hijacker Sandinista Patrick Arguello was killed and all passengers were freed after negotiated release of captured hijacker Leila Khaled and three PFLP prisoners. The following day a fifth aircraft was also hijacked. See Dawson's Field hijackings, Black September in Jordan.

October 5 – 17: October Crisis (Quebec): FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross.

October 22: An antipersonnel time bomb explodes outside a San Francisco church, showering steel shrapnel on mourners of a patrolman slain in a bank holdup; no one is injured. The Black Liberation Army is suspected.[6]

1970-1972: The Jewish Defense League was linked with a bomb explosion outside of Aeroflot's New York City office, and a detonation outside of Soviet cultural offices in Washington. Also a JDL member allegedly fired a rifle into the Soviet Union's mission office at the United Nations. Two JDL members were convicted of bomb possession and burglary in a conspiracy to blow up the Long Island residence of the Soviet Mission to the UN.

[edit] 1971

During this year, The Black Liberation Army is suspected of killing three policemen (one at his desk), shooting four others, opening fire on three patrol cars and rolling a grenade which heavily damaged a police car and injured two officers. An attempt is made to bomb a police station. These incidents happen in various cities around the country. In August the group runs a one month long guerrilla warfare school in Fayetteville, Georgia. Seven arrested in January 2007 in relation to the shooting of the policeman at his desk.[6],[7]

October 31: A bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes in the Post Office tower in London causing extensive damage but no injuries.[8]

December 4: In the McGurk's Bar bombing, an Ulster Volunteer Force bomb in Belfast's North Queen Street kills 15 people.

[edit] 1972

January 26: Yugoslavian Airlines Flight 364 is brought down by an explosive device planted by Ustasa agents. The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airplane is destroyed and 27 of 28 passengers die. One stewardess survives a 10,160 meter (33,330 feet) drop.

January 27: Two policemen, Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie, are shot in the back by at least three persons; four suspects in the case are members of the Black Liberation Army; one suspect is later killed in a street battle with St. Louis police; the recovered pistol matches Laurie's.[6]

February 22: The Official Irish Republican Army kills seven civilians in the Aldershot bombing.

April 4: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal.

May 30: Lod Airport Massacre by the Japanese Red Army terrorists, killing 26 and injuring 78.

July 21: Bloody Friday nine are killed and 130 injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) sets off 22 bombs.

Four PLO terrorists hijacked a Sabena airliner carrying 99 passengers and ten crew members on route from Brussels to Tel Aviv. In a mission titled "Operation Isotope", 16 members of Sayeret Matkal posed as refueling and technical personnel and stormed the plane, killing the terrorists and releasing the passengers.

July 31: Claudy bombings; the Provisional Irish Republican Army sets off three car bombs in Claudy killing nine.

September 5: Black September kidnaps and kills eleven Israeli Olympic athletes and one German policeman in the Munich Massacre.

September 19: The group Black September post a letter bomb to the Israeli embassy in London killing an Israeli diplomat.[9]

October 27: Police car bombing in Los Angeles claimed by Afro American Liberation Army.[6]

1972 December : A travel agency in Queens, New York is bombed; the incident is attributed to FIN, a Cuban exile groups opposed to the government of Fidel Castro. [10]

1972 December 11 : New York City. The VA-Cuba Forwarding Company is bombed. Cuban exile groups opposed to the government of Fidel Castro suspected. [10]

December 28: A Brooklyn, New York bartender is held for $12000 ransom by the Black Liberation Army.[6]

[edit] 1973

January 7 After shooting a police officer a week earlier, Mark Essex, a former Black Panther party member shot nineteen people (ten of them police officers) in retaliation for police killings at a Howard Johnsons hotel in New Orleans. In addition, he also set fires in the hotel before being killed by police.

A New York City transit detective is killed and ten law enforcement personnel are shot, four by machine gun, during the year mostly in and around New York City by the Black Liberation Army. Also two members of that organization are arrested with a car full of explosives. In the next few years there are a number of violent incidents involving this organization but they are more criminal in nature.[6]

March 1: Black September takes ten hostages (five of them diplomats) at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. Three western diplomats are killed.

September 1: A man blows himself up inside Lenin Mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square. Two women standing next to him also died.[11]

September 10: The IRA set off bombs at Londons King's Cross Station and Euston Station injuring 21 people.[12]

September 28: Chopin-Express: Two Arab terrorists hijack the Chopin-Express from Moscow to Vienna at the East-West border in Marchegg. The train is often used by Jewish exilants from the USSR. The terrorists demand the closure of an Austrian transit camp for Jews on their way to Israel. Chancellor Kreisky (Jewish himself) complies and allows the terrorists to evade to Libya.

December 17: Pan Am Flight 110: 30 passengers were killed when phosphorus bombs are thrown aboard the aircraft as it prepares for departure.

December 30: Prime Minister Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by ETA.

[edit] 1974

January 31: Laju incident: JRA–PFLP attack on a Shell facility in Singapore and the simultaneous seizure of the Japanese embassy in Kuwait.

February 4: Twelve people are killed by the IRA in the M62 Coach Bombing.

April 11: Kiryat Shmona massacre at an apartment building by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members, killing 18 people, nine of whom were children.

May 15: Ma'alot massacre at the Ma'alot High School in Northern Israel by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members: 26 of the hostages were killed, 66 wounded.

May 17: Ulster Volunteer Force detonate three car bombs in Dublin and one in Monaghan; 35 dead – killing 35 civilians, the deadliest toll of any one day in Ireland's 'Troubles'.

May 28: Eight people are killed and at least 90 wounded when a bomb placed in a rubbish bin explodes in the Piazza della Loggia bombing.

June 17: The IRA plant a bomb which explodes at the Houses of Parliament, London, causing extensive damage and injuring eleven people.[13]

August 4: Italicus Express train between Roma and Brennero explodes, killing twelve and injuring 44. Attributed to fascist group Ordine nero.

September 8: TWA Flight 841: Bomb kills 88 on jetliner. Attributed to Abu Nidal and his terror organization.

September 13: Basque ETA group bombs the "Rolando" cafeteria in Madrid and kills twelve people.

October 5: Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves five dead and 44 injured.

October 22: A bomb planted by the Provisional IRA explodes in London injuring three people.[14]

November 21: Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA kills 21, 182 people are injured.

December 11: A bomb set off by the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in East Harlem, New York permanently disables a police officer. The officer lost an eye as a result of this act.

[edit] 1975

January 24: FALN bomb the Fraunces Tavern, killing four and injuring more than 50.

February 26: London police officer Stephen Tibble, 22, is shot dead as he chases an IRA gunman escaping from a bomb factory.

March 5: In the Savoy Operation PLO gunmen from Lebanon take dozens of hostages at the Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel eventually killing eight hostages and three IDF soldiers, and wounding eleven hostages.

April 19: FALN sets off four bombs within a forty minute period in Manhattan, New York injuring at least five people.

April 24: RAF occupies West Germany's embassy in Stockolm, Sweden, and blows up the building before surrendering to the Swedish police.

July 31: Three members of Ireland's popular Miami Showband killed in UVF gun attack in Co. Down.

December 1975: Carlos the Jackal and his rebels attack OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria and take over 60 hostages - mostly they were OPEC countries' leaders. On December 22 the hostages and rebels are transported in a DC-9 to Algiers where 30 hostages were freed; the plane was then flown to Tripoli, Libya where more hostages were freed before flying back to Algiers where the remaining hostages were freed and the rebels were granted asylum.

December 14: In the Netherlands, near Beilen, a passenger train was hijacked by members of the RMS movement, passengers were kept hostage. Three passengers were killed by the hijackers.

December 29: Bomb explodes at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing eleven and injuring 75. No arrests ever made in this case and the reason for this attack remains unknown.

[edit] 1976

February 3: Somali Coast Liberation Front hijack a school bus in Djibouti, killing one girl.

February 16: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia assassinate Turkish diplomat Oktay Cerit in Paris.

May 9: Far right gunmens (including Stefano Delle Chiaie) kill two left-wing Carlists in Montejurra.

: June 26–July 4: Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Paris) by Palestinian PFLP and German Revolutionäre Zellen; see Operation Entebbe: four hostages, one Sayeret Matkal soldier and 45 Ugandian soldiers killed.

, September 10,September 11 Croatian Freedom Fighters hijack a TWA airliner diverting it to Gander, Newfoundland, and then Paris demanding a manifesto be printed. One police officer was killed and three injured during an attempt to defuse a bomb that contained their communiques in a New York City train station locker.[15]

September 21: Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington by Chilean government.

October 6: Cubana Flight 455 was bombed while flying from Barbados to Havana, killing 73 passengers plus crew members. Anti-Castro exiles with suspected ties to the CIA are involved, among them Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles. Victims included six Guyanese medical students and the entire Cuban youth fencing team.[16]

December 4: In the Netherlands, members of the RMS movement occupy the Indonesian diplomatic consulate in The Hague. One Indonesian official is killed.

[edit] 1977

January 8: A bomb goes off on a Moscow subway train as it rolls into Kurskaya station. Seven die and 33 are seriously injured in the incident, attributed to Armenian terrorists.[11]

January 27: Atocha massacre in Spain. Far-right members kill five in a shooting.

March 9: Three buildings in Washington, DC are seized by members of the militant African-American Muslim Hanafi sect and over 100 hostages taken. One bystander is shot and killed, and Washington city councilman Marion Barry is shot in the chest. After a two-day standoff all hostages are released from the District Building (city hall), B'nai B'rith headquarters, and the Islamic Center.

April 7: Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver were shot by two Red Army Faction members.

May 23: In the Netherlands, RMS activists kept 105 children and five teachers hostage in a school in Smilde.

June 11: In the Netherlands, near Groningen, a passenger train was hijacked by members of the RMS, 55 passengers were kept hostage. In an army attack six hijackers and two passengers were killed.

July 30: Jürgen Ponto, then head of the Dresdner Bank, was shot and killed by the Red Army Faction in a failed kidnapping.

August 3: Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in Manhattan, New York bombs the offices of Mobil and a building containing Defense Department security personal killing one and injuring eight in the Mobil offices. In addition the group warned that bombs were located in thirteen other buildings, including the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center resulting in the evacuation of one hundred thousand. Five days later a bomb attributed to the group was found in the AMEX building.[17]

September 5: Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction. He was executed by the Red Army Faction on October 19, 1977.

October 13: Lufthansa flight LH 181 was kidnapped by a group of four PFLP to Mogadishu it was freed by GSG-9 commando group.

[edit] 1978

Members of the Arab Revolutionary Council poison Israeli oranges with mercury, injuring at least twelve people and reducing exports by 40 percent.[18]

1978–1995: The Unabomber kills three and injures 29 in a string of anti-technology bombings.

February 13: Hilton bombing: A bomb is detonated outside the CHOGM meeting in Sydney, Australia, killing two people. Three Ananda Marga members are later arrested and jailed for the attack, but later released due to lack of proof.

February 17: The IRA kill twelve people in the La Mon Restaurant Bombing.

March: In the Netherlands members of the RMS movement occupy a provincial office in Assen. 67 persons were held hostage, one official was killed on the spot, another died of injuries a month later.

March 11: Coastal Road massacre: Fatah gunmen killed several tourists and hijack a bus near Haifa; 37 Israelis on the bus are killed.

March 16 – May 9: The Red Brigade kidnap Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and assassinate him 55 days later.

[edit] 1979

March 30: A car bomb explodes in the Palace of Westminster car park killing the driver. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility for the killing. (see Airey Neave)

June 9: Puerto Rican nationalist organization FALN exploded a bomb outside of the Shubert Theatre in Chicago, injuring five people.

July 29: Basque ETA members bomb two railway stations in Madrid, killing seven.

August 27: Lord Mountbatten and three others are killed by IRA bomb on board his boat off Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo. The same day two IRA bombs kill 18 British soldiers near Warrenpoint. After the explosions a heavy gun battle ensued between the soldiers and the attackers firing from their position inside the border with the Republic of Ireland. One British civilian was accidentally fired upon by British forces and killed.

2 November: Sunni militant group of 1,300 to 1,500 men seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca Saudi Arabia.

November 4: Iran hostage crisis, a 444-day standoff during which student proxies of the new Iranian regime held hostage 66 diplomats and citizens of the United States inside the U.S. embassy in Tehran.

November 15: American Airlines Flight 444 is attacked by the Unabomber - his bomb gives off large quantities of smoke but fails to detonate.

[edit] 1980s

[edit] 1980

January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.

February 27: Dominican embassy siege: Guerrillas from M-19 take diplomats hostage at the Dominican embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. After 61 days, all are released on April 27.

March 15: armed members of FALN raided the campaign headquarters of President Jimmy Carter in Chicago and the campaign headquarters of George H. W. Bush in New York City. Seven people in Chicago and ten people in New York were tied up as the offices were vandalized before the FALN members fled. A few days later, Carter delegates in Chicago received threatening letters from FALN.

March 24: Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated by death squads in El Salvador.

April 30: Iranian Embassy siege: Iraqi agents take over the Iranian Embassy in London, gaining hostages. After a number of days, one hostage was killed by the Iraqis, and the Special Air Service assaulted the building to rescue the remaining hostages. One hostage died during the assault.

June 3 A bomb destroys most of the exhibits in the Statue of Liberty story room. No one is arrested, but Croatian separatists are suspected.

July 27: A member of the Abu Nidal Organization carried out a grenade attack on a group of Jews waiting for a bus in Antwerp, Belgium, killing a child and wounding twenty others. Said Al Nasr will be convicted for this act.

August 2: Strage di Bologna: A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.

October 3: Four congregants were killed and twelve others injured in a bomb attack on the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, France. Responsibility was claimed by the National European Fascists (FNE), but the police investigation concluded that Palestinian terrorists were involved.

[edit] 1981

August 29: Machine gun and grenade attack on the Stadttempel synagogue in Vienna, killing two people and wounding 23. Marwan Hasan and Hesham Mohammed Rajeh were convicted.

October 6: Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad.

October 20: Attack on a synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium, killing three and wounding sixty.

[edit] 1982

March 29: A bomb on board the Paris-Toulouse train kills five and injures 27 people. Carlos assumed to be responsible.

July 20: The Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings in London by the IRA kill eleven members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets.

August 7: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia set off a bomb in Ankara airport, killing nine people and wounding 70.

August 9: Rue des Rosiers, Paris gunning and bombing of Goldenberg restaurant : six killed and 22 wounded - Fatah - the Revolutionary Council

August 11: A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, enroute from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.

September 14: Assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel and twenty-five others in a car explosion at the Kataeb headquarters.

September 18: Four people are wounded when a synagogue in Brussels is attacked in a "shoot and run" incident. Guards were taken by surprise and the gunman, believed to be from the Abu Nidal Organization, escaped.

October 9: Attack with grenades and machine guns on the central synagogue in Rome, Italy. A child dies, ten people are injured.

October 14: Direct Action bombs a Litton Industries factory.

November 30: A group called the Animal Rights Militia send a letter bomb to Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street, London the device exploded injuring one person.[19]

December 6: Ballykelly disco bombing in which Irish National Liberation Army kills seventeen civilians and soldiers in Northern Ireland.

[edit] 1983

April 18: U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon kills 63.

July 15: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia bombed a Turkish airline counter in the Orly Airport, killing eight people and wounding over 50.

September 23: Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.

October 9: Rangoon bombing by North Koreans targets South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, killing 21 persons and injuring 48.

October 23: Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut kills 241 U.S. Marines. 58 French troops from the multinational force are also killed in a separate attack.

November 9: U.S. Senate bombing. A time bomb consisting of several sticks of dynamite explodes at the United States Senate in response to the U.S. invasion of Grenada. No one was injured, a group known as the Armed Resistance Unit claims responsibility.

December 17: Harrods was bombed by the IRA. Six were killed (including three police officers) and 90 wounded during Christmas shopping at the West London department store. (See 17 December 1983 Harrods bombing)

December 31: On the way to New Year's Eve seven persons are killed and 70 wounded by bombs on the Marseille to Paris TGV and at the St-Charles station in Marseille. The attack is attributed to Carlos on behalf of the O.L.A.

[edit] 1984

The Rajneeshee cult spreads salmonella in salad bars at ten restaurants in The Dalles,Oregon to influence a local election. Health officials say that 751 people were sickened and more than 40 hospitalized.[18]

March 7: three killed and nine injured in the bombing of a civilian bus in Ashdod.

April 2: 48 people are wounded by a machine gun attack on a crowded shopping mall in Jerusalem.

October 12: Brighton hotel bombing by the IRA: five are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.

October 31: Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. The killing was in retaliation for the Indian army's entry into the Golden Temple at Amritsar to flush out Sikh extremists who were using the temple as a base for their operations.

December 23: A bomb placed on the Naples-Milan Express train 904 explodes in the same tunnel as the Italicus Expressen massacre, killing 17 and wounding 250. The attack is attributed to mafia.

[edit] 1985

February 23: Paris Marks & Spencer shop, one bomb, one dead, 18 wounded, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah.

February 28: Provisional Irish Republican Army mortar attack kills nine police officers in Newry.

March 8: Car bomb explodes in Beirut, killing 80, injuring 175; reportedly planned and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.[20]

March 9: Paris, Cinema Rivoli, 18 injured, pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah

June 14: TWA Flight 847 skyjacking, Hezbollah, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists. Terrorists take passengers of an Athens-Rome flight hostage and fly all over the Mediterranian for two weeks.

May 14: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam massacre 146 Sinhalese civilians in the Anuradhapura massacre.[21] This remains one of the largest massacres of civilians carried out by any terrorist group to-date. This was also the deadliest terrorist attack in Sri Lankan history.

June 19: Zona Rosa Attacks Four United States Marines, two United States businessmen, a Guatemalan, a Chilean, and four Salvadorans were killed in a machine gun attack in the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador, El Salvador. The groups responsible for carrying out the attack were the Central American Revolutionary Workers' Party (PRTC) and its terrorist arm, the Mardoqueo Cruz Urban Commando (CMC)

June 22: Air India Flight 182 is blown up by a bomb put onboard the flight from Canada to India by unknown terrorists. All 329 people on board are killed. At the time, the deadliest terrorist attack ever, and still the deadliest act of terrorism in Canadian history. A second Air India flight from Canada was targeted on the same day, but the bomb exploded at the Tokyo airport, in the luggage outside the aircraft, killing two baggage handlers, bringing the total death toll of the act to 331.

July 10: Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior bombed in Auckland harbour by operatives from the French foreign intelligence agency (DGSE), killing one person.

and October 7 – October 10: Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer is shot dead.

October 11: Arab anti-discrimination group leader Alex Odeh is killed when a bomb explodes in his Santa Ana, California office.

November 6: Palace of Justice siege: M-19 guerrillas seize the Supreme Court building in Bogotá, Colombia. The next day, an operation to free the hostages leaves some 100 people dead.

November 23: EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacked by Abu Nidal group, flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.

December 7: Paris, Galeries Lafayette and Printemps shops, two bombs, 51 injured, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hizbollah

December 27: Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks.

Investigators associated with the WHO reported that U.S.-funded Contras repeatedly destroyed health-care facilities and murdered health-care workers in Nicaraqua.

[edit] 1986

A bomb place on a bus in the West Bank kills one and severely injures three. A Jordanian Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta is arrested, extradited to Israel, convicted, sentenced to life in prison and freed by the Israeli Supreme Court. After the September 11 attacks, he was confused with ringleader Egyptian Mohammed Atta.[22]

February 3: Paris, Claridge passage (Champs Élysées) seven injured, another bomb failed to explode in the Eiffel tower, pro-Iranian (Fouad Ali Saleh group)

February 4: Paris, Gibert book shop, seven injured, Fouad Ali Saleh

February 5: Paris, FNAC-sports, 15 injured

March 17: TGV Paris, nine injured

March 20: Paris, Galerie Point-Show bombed, two dead, 21 injured

April 2: TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; four passengers (all of them American), including an infant, are killed.

April 6: the La Belle discotheque in Berlin, a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing three and injuring 230 people, for which Libya is held responsible. In retaliation, the US bombs Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon, hitting civilian targets and killing at least 100 people,[23] while trying to kill Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, who survived the attack.

May 3: A bomb explodes aboard a Sri Lankan airliner in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 21 and injuring 40

June 14: ANC bombs Why Not Restaurant and Magoo's Bar in Durban, South Africa, three people killed, 73 wounded.

July 15: ETA Basque militant group bombs a Guardia Civil police truck, killing twelve.

September 5: Pan Am Flight 73, an American civilian airliner, is hijacked; 22 people die when plane is stormed in Karachi, Pakistan.

September 8: Paris town hall's post office bombed, one dead, 16 injured

September 12: Paris La Défense, Casino Supermarket's restaurant bombed, 43 injured

September 14: Paris, Pub Renault bombed, two dead, one injured

September 15: Paris, police headquarters bombed, one dead, 45 injured

September 17: Paris, Rue de Rennes a bomb explodes in the street, seven dead, 54 injured.

December 25: Iraqi Airways Flight 163 is hijacked. The pro-Iranian group "Islamic Jihad" claimed responsibility.

December 31: New Year's Eve fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, claimed 97 lives, mainly in the casino area. Fire set by three hotel workers, trying to make tourists stay away from Puerto Rico as a protest to their working wages.

[edit] 1987

April 21: Car bomb at bus terminal in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 110 people.[24] This attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.

Bodies of young monks massacred by the LTTE in Aranthalawa, Sri Lanka on June 6, 1987 April 25: Bombing of Greek Air Force bus carrying American military personnel. A group called November 17 claims responsibility.[25]

May 8: An assault by an IRA team on Loughgall RUC base is stopped by SAS commandos, who kill eight attackers. See Loughgall Ambush.

June 6: The LTTE massacres 33 monks and their mentor, Chief Priest Ven. Hegoda Indrasara, at Aranthalawa in Eastern Sri Lanka.[26]

June 19: ETA Basque militant group bomb in Hipercor Mall's parking in Barcelona, kills 21, 45 injured.

November 8: Remembrance Day Bombing parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh by the IRA. Eleven are killed and 63 injured.

November 29: KAL Flight 858 bombed by North Korea.

December 11: ETA Basque militant group bomb a Guardia Civil police bedrooms in Zaragoza, kills eleven, 40 injured.

[edit] 1988

April 12: Japanese Red Army terrorist Yu Kikumura was arrested at a rest stop on the New Jersey turnpike in possession of pipe bombs on his way to New York.[27]

Wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland. December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. At the time, it was the worst act of terrorism perpetrated against the United States, and involved the greatest number of peacetime fatalities (270) in the United Kingdom. Just over 12 years after the event, at the conclusion of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, a Libyan agent, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, was convicted on 270 counts of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Libya subsequently agreed to pay relatives of the Lockerbie bombing victims $2.7 billion ($10 million each) in compensation.

March 16: Michael Stone killed three mourners in an attack on an Irish Republican Army funeral in Belfast in as Sinn Fein leaders, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness stood by the grave.[28]

[edit] 1989

July 9: Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.

September 16: A bomb explodes on a bus bound from Tbilisi to Baku, USSR when it passes near Yevlakh, Azerbaijan, killing five people and wounding 27.[29]

September 19: Suitcase-bomb destroys UTA Flight UT-772 en route to Paris, killing all 171 passengers and crew. Libyan intelligence involved.

September 22: Deal barracks bombing: Eleven Royal Marines bandsmen are killed and 22 injured when base in Deal, Kent, is bombed by the IRA.

November 27: Avianca Flight 203 bombed over Colombia; 110 victims. Medellín drug cartel claimed responsibility.

December 6: Truck bomb kills 52 and injures 1,000 outside a security building in Bogotá, Colombia; blast is blamed on drug lord Pablo Escobar.

December 6: Anti-feminist Marc Lépine shoots 26 people, killing 14 women, at the École Polytechnique de Montréal - The event is dubbed the Montreal massacre.

[edit] 1990s

[edit] 1990

February: The IRA detonate a bomb at Leicester Army Recruiting Office. MP Keith Vaz suggests that the army may have planted the bomb.[30]

July 20: The IRA detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange causing damage to the building. Nobody was injured in the blast.[31]

July 30: Ian Gow MP killed by a car bomb planted by the IRA while at his home in Sussex.

August 10: A bus going from Tbilisi, Georgia to Agdam, Azerbaijan is blown up, allegedly at the hands of Armenian terrorists. Twenty people die and 33 are injured.[32]

October 24: A series of car bombings directed by the IRA in Northern Ireland leave seven people dead and 37 wounded.

PLF attack in the beaches on Tel Aviv

PLO attack on the US embassy

November 5: Assassination of Meir Kahane head of Israel's Koch party and founder of the American vigilante group the Jewish Defense League in a Manhattan, New York hotel lobby by early elements of Al Queda.

[edit] 1991

February 7: The IRA launched a mortar shell into the back garden of 10 Downing Street, London. (See 10 Downing Street#Security)

May 21: Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi assassinated in a bomb blast believed to be the work of Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.[24] This is also the first time that the suicide vest is used by any terrorist group.

May 29: Basque ETA terror group bombs the Guardia Civil police barracks in Vic (Barcelona), killing ten people.

May 30: A train traveling from Moscow to Baku explodes near Karvin-Yurt station between Gudermes and Makhachkala in Dagestan, Russia. Eleven people die and eight are injured.[33]

[edit] 1992

January 17: Eight Protestant builders killed by an IRA bomb on their way to work at an Army base near Omagh.

February 28, 1992: A bomb explodes at London Bridge station injuring 29 people.

March 17: Israeli Embassy bombing by "Islamic Jihad" in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 killed, 242 injured.

April 5, 1992: The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq-supported religious right group.

April 10, 1992: A large bomb explodes in St Mary Axe in the City of London killing three people and injuring 91. Many buildings are heavily damaged and the Baltic Exchange is completely destroyed.

October 12, 1992: A device explodes in the gents' toilet of the Sussex Arms public house in Covent Garden killing one person and injuring four others.

[edit] 1993

January 25: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fires an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, killing two and injuring three others, see FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra'/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front,[34] see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ramzi Yousef.

March 12: Mumbai car bombings in India leave 257 dead with 1,400 others injured.

March 20: IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children (See Warrington Bomb Attacks).

April 24: IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £1bn of damage.[35]

May 1: Suicide bomber in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills Sri Lankan President Ranasingha Premadasa. This is one of the few occasions in modern history in which an existing head of state has been assassinated by a terrorist group. Attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.[24]

May 27: A car-bomb placed by mafia in the neighbourhood of the Uffizi museum in Florence kills five people and wounds 40.

June: Failed New York City landmark bomb plot, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

June 21: ETA Basque terrorist group bombs a military truck in Madrid, kills seven, 36 injured.

July 5: the IRA detonate a 1500lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but severe property damage is caused to the town centre.

July 27: Three car-bombs explode simultaneously and in a street in the center of Milan, killing five, and in front of two churches in Rome. The attack is attributed to mafia.

August: Dr. George Tiller was shot outside of an abortion facility in Wichita, Kansas. Rachelle Shannon was charged with the crime and received an 11-year prison sentence.

October 23: the Shankill Road bombing at a fish and chip shop on the Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast kills ten people, including two children.

October 30: Seven people killed in the Rising Sun Bar massacre, when Loyalist Ulster Freedom Fighters gunmen attack a bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry.

[edit] 1994

February 25: In the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, Baruch Goldstein kills 29 Palestinian civilians in an attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

March 1: In the Brooklyn Bridge Shooting, Rashid Baz kills a Hasidic seminary student and wounds 4 on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City in response to the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.[36]

June 18: Six Catholic men shot dead by Loyalists in a pub in Loughinisland, Co Down.

July 18: Bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 86 and wounds 300. Generally attributed to Hezbollah acting on behalf of Iran.

July 19: Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is bombed, killing 21. Generally attributed to Hezbollah.

July 26: Israeli Embassy Attack in London and a Jewish charity are car-bombed, wounding 20. Attributed by Britain, Argentina, and Israel to Hezbollah.

December 11: A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. Authorities found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for his planned terrorist attack, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

December 24: Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by GIA members who planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn't succeed.

[edit] 1995

Wreckage of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City following the April 19 bombing. January 6: Oplan Bojinka plot to bomb eleven U.S. airliners is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after an apartment fire occurred in the apartment, by Jemaah Islamiyah/Konsojaya/Abu Sayyaf Group/Ramzi Yousef/Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

March 8: Terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan, armed with automatic rifles, murdered two American consulate employees and wounded a third as they traveled in the consulate shuttle bus. See Rewards for Justice.

March 20: Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway by AUM Shinrikyo cultists kills twelve people and injures 6000.

April 19: ETA Basque militant group tries to kill José María Aznar (then leader of the Popular Party, later a Spanish Prime Minister) bombing his car, kills a woman.

April 19: Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people, 19 of them children; the most deadly act of domestic terrorism in the United States to date.

May 6: A synagogue is bombed by terrorists in Riga.

June 14—June 19: Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis, 105 civilians and 25 Russian troops were killed.

July—October: Bombings in France by a GIA unit led by Khaled Kelkal kill eight and injure more than 100.

August 27: Suicide bomber in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 24 civilians, injures 40. Attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.

October 9: An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by anti-government saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona. One person is killed and 78 are injured.

November 11: Suicide bombing of army headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 15.Attack carried out by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.

November 13: Bombing of OPM-SANG building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills seven

November 19: Bombing of Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan kills 19.

December 11: ETA Basque militant group bombs a military truck in Madrid, killing six civilians.

[edit] 1996

January: In Kizlyar, 350 Chechen militants took 3,000 hostages in a hospital. The attempt to free them kills 65 civilians and soldiers.

January: Provisional Irish Republican Army plants a bomb that police defuse at the Canary Wharf towers in London.

January 31: LTTE carries out Central Bank Bombing in Sri Lanka kills 90 and wounds 1,400.

February 9: IRA bombs the South Quay station, killing two people. (see 9 February 1996 South Quay bombing)

February 25 - March 4: A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within ten days.

June 11: A bomb explodes on a train traveling on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, killing four people and seriously injuring at least twelve.[37]

June 15: A bomb containing 1500 kg of explosives was detonated by the IRA in Manchester city centre. Due to a warning being given the area was evacuated and nobody was killed. (see Manchester bombing by IRA).

June 25: Khobar Towers bombing -- In all, 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi were killed and 372 wounded, by Hizballah Al-Hijaz (Saudi Hizballah) with Iranian support, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

July 24: LTTE plants bomb on commuter train in Sri Lanka kills 57.

July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing, killing one and wounding 111.

August: Marina Roscha Synagogue in Moscow is bombed shortly after being rebuilt after a fire in 1993.

December 17: Japanese embassy hostage crisis begins in Lima, Peru; it ends April 22, 1997 with the deaths of 14 rebels, two soldiers and a hostage.

[edit] 1997

Israeli settlers spray pesticides on grapevines in two Palestinian villages, destroying up to 17,000 metric tons of grapes.[18]

February 24: Ali Abu Kamal opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, United States, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine". His widow claimed he became suicidal after losing $300,000 in a business venture. In a 2007 interview with the New York Daily News his daughter said her mothers story was a cover crafted by the Palestinian Authority and that her father wanted to punish the United States for its support of Israel.[38]

June 28: A bomb explodes on a train traveling from Moscow to Saint Petersburg, Russia, killing three and injuring seven.[39]

February 25: Three bus bombs in Urumqi destroy the No. 2, 10, and 44 buses, killing nine people.

November 17: Luxor Massacre – Islamist gunmen attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 and injuring 24 people, most of them European and Japanese vacationers.

December 22: Acteal massacre – 46 killed while praying in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico. A paramilitary group associated with ex-president Salinas is held responsible.

Luis Posada Carriles organized a string of bombings at luxury hotels in Cuba in 1997 in order to discourage the growth of the tourism industry. One Italian tourist died.

[edit] 1998

January: Wandhama Massacre - 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by Pakistan-backed insurgents in the city of Wandhama in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Aftermath of the LTTE suicide bombing of the Sacred Buddhist Shrine Sri Dalada Maligawa on January 25, 1998 February 14: 1998 Coimbatore bombings - Bombings by suspected Islamic Jihadi groups on an election rally in Indian city of Coimbatore kill about 60 people.

January 25: LTTE bombs the sacred Buddhist shrine Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy, Sri Lanka killing 17.

April 2/April 6: Two bombs explode in Riga targeting a Synagogue and the Russian Embassy building for Latvia, linked to Fascist extremist movements. See also Riga Bombing 1998.

May 13: A bomb blast destroys the outer wall of the Marina Roscha Synagogue in Moscow. The third time the building has been attacked.

August 7: U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000, by al-Qaeda, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

August 15: Omagh bombing by the Real IRA kills 29.

[edit] 1999

January 3: Gunmen open fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people injuring 25.

April: David Copeland's nail bomb attacks against ethnic minorities and gays in London kill three people and injure over 160.

April 20: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill twelve students and a teacher and wound 24 others in the Columbine High School massacre. (Note: this may be commonly considered a general massacre and thus included in the List of massacres, but it also followed death threats on the website of Harris – an attempt to terrorize.)

April 26: An explosion inside an elevator at the Intourist hotel in Moscow injured eleven people.[40]

August 31 – September 22: Russian Apartment Bombings kills about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War.

December: Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US and Israeli tourists in Jordan and pick up 28 suspects as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots

December 14: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States–Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots

December 24: Indian Airlines Flight 814 from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi, India is hijacked. One passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released in exchange for release of four terrorists.

[edit] 2000s

[edit] 2000

The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.

German police foil Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot.

May: The Balochistan Liberation Army begins its attacks against government and military targets in Balochistan.

June 8: Stephen Saunders, a British Defense Attaché, was assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November in Athens.

August 8: A bomb exploded at an underpass in Pushkin Square in Moscow, killing eleven people and wounding more than 90.[41]

August 17: Two bombs exploded in a shopping center in Riga, Latvia, injuring 35 people.[42]

October 12: USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors and wounds 40 off the port coast of Aden, Yemen, by al-Qaeda, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, the Buffalo Six Lackawanna Cell.[43]

December 30: Rizal Day Bombings, terrorists blow up LRts in Manila killing 22 and injuring more than 100 people.

[edit] 2001

February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people.

February 18: Podujevo bus bombing, 13 Serbian civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Northern Kosovo.

March 4: A car bomb exploded outside the BBC's main news centre in London. One London Underground worker suffered deep cuts to his eye from flying glass and some damage was caused to the front of the building.[44] (See 4 March 2001 BBC bombing)

March 24: Twenty people die and 93 are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.

March 26: 10 months old Israeli infant Shalhevet Pass is intentionally and fatally shot in the head by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron.

May 6: The Real IRA detonate a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.[45]

June 1: 21 civilians, mostly teenagers from the former Soviet Union, are killed by a Hamas suicide bomber in the Dolphinarium massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel

July 24 A suicide squad of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) staged an attack on Sri Lanka's Bandaranaike International Airport and the adjoining air force base at Katunayake. The 14 man-squad destroyed or damaged about 20 aircraft and killed seven Sri Lankan workers and soldiers.

August 3: The last (at time of writing) IRA bomb on mainland Britain explodes in Ealing, West London, injuring seven people.[46] (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing)

August 9: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.

September 11: Attacks killed 2,997 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane, originally intended to hit an unknown, but likely prominent, Washington, D.C. target, crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers; by Al-Qaeda.

Paris embassy attack plot foiled.

October 1: A car bomb explodes near the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly in Srinagar, India killing 35 people and injuring 40 more.

October 17: Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloid.

December 12: Jewish Defense League plot by Chairman Irv Rubin and follower Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California and the office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell Issa, foiled.

December 13: Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.

December 22: Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.

[edit] 2002

Singapore embassies attack plot foiled.

January: Kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl by Pakistani terrorists.

March 27: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 and injures 140 during Passover festivities in a hotel in Netanya, Israel in the Passover massacre.

March 31: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 15 and injures over 40 in Haifa, Israel, in the Matza restaurant massacre.

April 11: A natural gas truck fitted with explosives is driven into a synagogue in Tunisia by an al-Qaeda member, killing 21 and wounding more than 30 in the Ghriba Synagogue Attack.

May 8: May 8 Bus Attack in Karachi kills eleven Frenchmen and two Pakistanis.

May 9: A bomb explosion in Kaspiisk in Dagestan kills at least 42 people and injures 130 or more during Victory Day festivities.

May 13: Twelve people are killed in the Jaunpur train crash in India, caused when Islamic extremists cut the rails.

June 14: Car bomb at US Consulate in Karachi kills twelve.

June 18: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates himself on a bus in Jerusalem in the Patt junction massacre. The attack kills 19 people and wounds over 74.

June 20: Car bomb in Riyadh kills Simon Veness, a British National

July 4: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being killed himself.

September 10: A train derailment in India kills 130 people in the Rafiganj rail disaster. Naxalite terrorism is suspected.

September 25: Two terrorists belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammed group raid the Akshardham temple complex in Ahmedabad, India killing 30 people and injuring many more.

October: John Allen Muhammed and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct the Beltway Sniper Attacks, killing ten people in various locations throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area from October 2 until they are arrested on October 24.

October 6: Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen.

October 12: Bali bombing of holidaymakers kills 202 people, mostly Western tourists and local Balinese hospitality staff.

October 17: Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines kill six and wounds about 150.

October 18: A bus bomb in Manila kills three people and wounds 22.

October 19: A car bomb explodes outside a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in Moscow, killing one person and wounding five.

October 23: Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue three days later.

November 21: Hamas orchestrates the Jerusalem bus 20 massacre. Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated on a crowded bus in central Jerusalem.

November 28: Kenyan hotel bombing.

December 21: Kurnool train crash, Islamic extremists derail a train and kill 20 people in India.

December 27: The truck bombing of the Chechen parliament in Grozny kills 83 people.

[edit] 2003

One of the compounds hit by the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2003.

February 7: Car bomb kills 36 and injures 150 at the El Nogal social club in Bogotá, Colombia; FARC rebels are blamed.

March 4: Bomb attack in an airport in Davao kills 21.

March 5: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 17 people and wounds 53 when he detonates a bomb hidden under his clothing in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.

March 23: SGT Hasan Akbar, USA, murdered two officers and wounded 14 soldiers in a grenade attack at an Army base in Iraq.

May 12: Bombings of United States expatriate housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Al-Qaeda blamed.

May 12: A truck bomb attack on a government building in the Chechen town of Znamenskoye kills 59.

May 14: As many as 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern Chechnya.

May 16: Casablanca Attacks by twelve bombers on five "Western and Jewish" targets in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead and over 100 injured. Attack attributed to a Moroccan al-Qaeda-linked group.

July 5: 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow.

August 1: An explosion at the Russian hospital in Mozdok in North Ossetia kills at least 50 people and injures 76.

August 19: Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 22 people (including the top UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello) and wounds over 100.

August 19: Jerusalem bus 2 massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates himself on a crowded bus carrying mostly Orthodox Jewish Israelis, including many children returning from the Western Wall. 23 people are killed and over 130 wounded.

August 25: At least 48 people were killed and 150 injured in two blasts in south Mumbai - one near the Gateway of India at the other at the Zaveri Bazaar.

September 3: A bomb blast on a passenger train near Kislovodsk in southern Russia kills seven people and injures 90.

October 4: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 21 and wounds 51 in a Haifa restaurant in the Maxim restaurant massacre.

October 15: A bomb is detonated by Palestinians against a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip, killing three Americans.

November 15 and November 20: Truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 57 and wounding 700 in the 2003 Istanbul Bombings.

December 5: Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia

December 9: A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds at least eleven. (See Red Square Bombing)

[edit] 2004

The scene of one of the Madrid bombings. Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2004.

January 29: Jerusalem bus 19 massacre: Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades orchestrate a suicide bombing on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel killing eleven people and wounding more than 50.

February 6: Bomb on Moscow Metro kills 41.

February 27: Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116, the world's deadliest terrorist attack at sea to date.

March 2: Ashoura Massacre: Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500 during the Ashura.

March 2: Attack on procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan kills 43 and wounds 160. (See also: Ashoura Massacre in Iraq.)

March 9: Attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey.

March 11: Coordinated bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500. Suspected Al-Qaeda authorship.

March 24: Israeli soldiers arrest Hussam Abdo, a 15 year-old Palestinian boy with explosives strapped to his chest at the Hawara Checkpoint. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades sent Abdo on a suicide mission to bomb the checkpoint.

April 21: Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills five.

May 1: 2004 Yanbu attack kills six Westerners and a Saudi in Saudi Arabia.

May 2: Pregnant Israeli commuter Tali Hatuel and her four young children are gunned down at close range by militants from the Popular Resistance Committees and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

May 29: Al-Khobar massacres, in which Islamic militants kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.

August 24: Russian aircraft bombings kill 90.

August 28: Shahawar Matin Siraj and James Elshafay are arrested for planning to bomb the 34th Street–Herald Square subway station in New York City during the 2004 Republican National Convention.

August 31: A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills ten people and injures 33.

September 1 – 3: Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia, results in 344 dead, mostly children.

September 9: Jakarta embassy bombing, in which the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing eight people.

October 7: Sinai bombings: Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 34 and wounding 171, many of them Israeli and other foreign tourists.

October 28: Two people killed, 38 injured by two explosions in southern Thailand.[47]

December 6: Suspected al Qaeda-linked group attacks U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing five local employees.

December 12: A bombing at the Christmas market in General Santos, Philippines, kills 15.

[edit] 2005

Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2005.

January 7: Explosion at a railroad crossing - no casualties. One Buddhist shot dead in southern Thailand.[47]

January 16: One person dead, over 50 others injured in an explosion in a commercial area in southern Thailand.[47]

February 14: A car bomb kills former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 20 others in Beirut. See also: 2005 Lebanon bombings.

February 17: Seven people dead, 40 injured by a car bomb outside a hotel in southern Thailand.[47]

February 25: A suicide bomber in Tel Aviv kills five Israelis and undermines a weeks-old truce between the two sides.

March 6: A Buddhist monk was killed by gunmen in southern Thailand.[47]

March 7: Two policemen and three unknown attackers were killed in a shootout with five gunmen disguised as veiled Muslim women at a police station in southern Thailand.[47]

March 15: One policeman was killed, three injured by bomb in southern Thailand.[47]

March 19: Car bomb attack on theatre in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and wounds twelve others.

March 19: 15 people, ten of them policemen, injured in two explosions. One of the bombs was detonated via a cellphone.[47]

March 26: One Buddhist dead, two injured, in two attacks by gunmen in southern Thailand.[47]

March 27: Two bombs used to stop an armoured train patrolling in southern Thailand, terrorists then fired on the policemen on the train. Approximately 20 policemen and some other passengers were wounded.[47]

April 3: 2005 Songkhla bombings: Two people killed (possibly five), 54 injured, by three explosions in Hat Yai -one at the airport, one at a hotel, and another at a department store.[47]

April: April 2005 terrorist attacks in Cairo – On April 7 a suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing three foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. In two further attacks on April 30, suspected accomplices detonate a bomb and spray a tourist coach with gunfire.

May 7: Multiple bomb explosions across Myanmar's capital Yangon kill 19 and injures 160.

June 1: A suicide bomber blows up in a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing 20 people.

June 12: Bombs explode in the Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Tehran, leaving ten dead and 80 wounded days before the Iranian presidential election.

July 5: 2005 Terrorist attack on Ayodhya – Six terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba storm the Ayodhya Ram Janmbhomi complex in India. Before the terrorists could reach the main disputed site, they were shot down by Indian security forces. One devotee and two policemen were injured.

July 7: London bombings – Bombs explode on one double-decker bus and three London Underground trains, killing 56 people and injuring over 700, occurring on the first day of the 31st G8 Conference. The attacks are the first suicide bombings in Western Europe.

July 12: Islamic Jihad takes responsibility for a suicide bombing in Netanya, Israel, which kills five people at a shopping mall.

July 21: Attempted London bombings - Small explosions in three London Underground stations and one double-decker bus. This was pronounced as a "major incident" rather than an attack, and only minor injuries were reported. These four bombs were designed to cause as much damage as the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but the explosives had deteriorated and failed to detonate.

July 23: Sharm el-Sheikh bombings – Car bombs explode at tourist sites in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing at least 88 and wounding more than 100.

July 28: Jaunpur train bombing: 13 are killed when militants detonate a bomb on a commuter train in India.

August 4: Jewish settler in an IDF uniform opens fire on a bus in Shfaram, Israel, killing four Israeli Arabs and wounding five.

August 17: 17 August 2005 Bangladesh bombings: Around 100 homemade bombs explode in 58 different locations in Bangladesh, killing two and wounding 100.

October 1: A series of explosions occurs in resort areas of Jimabaran Beach and Kuta in Bali, Indonesia.

October 13: A large group of Chechen rebels launched coordinated attacks on Russian federal buildings, local police stations, and the airport in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria. At least 137 people, including 92 rebels, were killed.

October 15: Two bombs exploded at a shopping mall in Ahvaz, Khuzestan in Iran. Six people died and over 100 were injured.

October 24: Multiple car bombs explode outside the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 20. It is thought that the attacks were targeting journalists inside the Palestine Hotel and the Sheraton Ishtar.[48]

October 26: A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates a bomb near a falafel stand in Hadera, Israel that kills himself and six others. Twenty-six people were also wounded.[49]

October 29: Multiple bomb blasts hit markets in Delhi, India, leaving at least 61 dead and more than 200 injured.

October 29: In Poso, Central Sulawesi, four Christian schoolgirls aged 15 to 17 years on their way home from school were assaulted by six masked muslim men who beheaded three of them, Theresia Morangke, Alfita Poliwo, and Yarni Sambue, with machetes and placed their severed heads in front of a church and a police station. The fourth girl, Noviana Malewa, survived but suffered serious machete wounds. The terrorists belong to the group Tanah Runtuh whose leader Hasanuddin confessed at his trial that the well-planned assault was inspired and financed by Guru Sanusi, a former Muslim rebel (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) from Mindanao.[50][51]

November 9: Three explosions at hotels in Amman, Jordan, leave at least 60 dead and 120 wounded.

December 5: A suicide bomb attack kills at least five people in Netanya in north-western Israel.

December 28: Two or more unidentified gunmen open fire at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, killing a retired professor of mathematics and wounding four others.

[edit] 2006

2006: Qassam rockets fired by Hamas into Israel, especially the cities of Ashkelon and Sderot, injures many citizens.

Suicide attacks in Iraq in 2006.

February 22: Al Askari Mosque bombing ignites sectarian strife in Iraq.

March 2: Bombing in Karachi, Pakistan kills four, including a U.S. diplomat.[52]

March 3: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.

March 7: Bombings in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, India kill 28 and injures more than 100.

March 30: Palestinian suicide bomber kills himself and four others at Kedumim Junction in the West Bank.[53][54]

April 11: A suicide bomber explodes himself in Karachi, Pakistan, and kills 57 Sunni worshippers.[55]

April 17: Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing eleven people and injuring 70.

April 24: Bombings at three locations in Dahab, Egypt kill 20 Egyptians and three foreigners, and injure 62 others.

May 11: Six policemen die and twelve are injured when five bombs go off in a police academy in Quetta, Pakistan.[56]

June 15: The LTTE detonate two claymore mines targeting a bus carrying 140 civilians in Sri Lanka. 68 civilians, including ten children, three pregnant women and their unborns, are killed. Approximately 60 civilians are injured.

The 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings June 25: Eliyahu Asheri, an Israeli citizen, was kidnapped and murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).

July 9: 40 Sunni civilians are massacred by Shia militants in Baghdad, Iraq.

July 11: A series of explosions rock commuter trains in Mumbai, India, killing 209 and wounding another 714 civilians.

July 14: Suicide bomber in Karachi, Pakistan kills a Shiite Islamic cleric Allama Hasan Turabi and his nephew.

July 17: Explosions and gunmen kill 48 people in a market in Mahmoudiya, Iraq.[57]

July 18: Car bombing near a Shiite shrine in Kufa, Iraq kills 53 and injures 103.[58]

July 31: Two suitcase bombs are discovered in trains near the German towns of Dortmund and Koblenz, undetonated due to an assembly error. Video footage from Cologne train station, where the bombs were put on the trains, led to the arrest of two Lebanese students in Germany, Youssef al-Hajdib and Jihad Hamad, and subsequently of three suspected co-conspirators in Lebanon.[59] On 1 September 2006, Jörg Ziercke, head of the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Police), reports that the suspects saw the Muhammad cartoons as an "assault by the West on Islam" and the "initial spark" for the attack, originally planned to coincide with the 2006 Football World Cup in Germany.[60][61]

August 4: A suicide car bomber struck a market in Kandahar, Afghanistan killing 21 people.

August 10: A major anti-terrorist operation disrupts an alleged bomb plot targeting multiple airplanes bound for the United States flying through Heathrow Airport, near London, UK.

August 13: Two grenades explode on a trolleybus in Tiraspol, Moldova, killing two people and injuring ten.[62]

August 16: A bomb exploded in a Hindu temple near Imphal, India, killing five and injuring nearly 50 other.[63]

August 20: Gunmen spray bullets on Shiites in Baghdad, killing 20 people and wounding more than 300.[64]

August 30: An Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV in the San Francisco Bay area.

September 8: At least two bomb blasts target a Muslim cemetery in the western town of Malegaon. The blasts kill 37 people and leave 125 others wounded.

September 12: Four attackers armed with grenades and machine guns attempt to storm the U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria. Three of the gunmen and one Syrian guard are killed during a battle between the attackers and Syrian security forces. One Syrian employee of the embassy and at least ten bystanders are wounded, among them, seven Syrian telephone company workers and a senior Chinese diplomat. Police recover a car laden with explosives and other IEDs. Syrian Ambassador to the United States Imad Moustapha announces that his government suspects a group called Jund al-Sham is responsible.[65] See Damascus terrorist attacks.

September 15: Four suicide bombers and a security guard are killed in early-morning attacks on the Safer refinery in Marib and the al-Dhabba terminal in Hadramout, Yemen. Although no group has claimed responsibility Islamic extremists are suspected. See the September 15 Yemen attacks page.

September 16: 2006 Hat Yai bombings: four people killed, 82 injured, by six bombs along the main commercial street of Hat Yai. The devices were placed approximately 500 meters apart, and were remotely set off every five minutes.[66]

September 18: Eleven people, including the presidents brother and six attackers, are killed in an assassination attempt on the Somalian president.[67] See 2006 Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed assassination attempt.

September 30: A suicide bomber detonates his explosives outside the interior ministry in Kabul. The attack kills twelve and wounds over 40.[68]

September 18: An LTTE suicide bomber rams a truck packed with explosives into convoy carrying unarmed Sri Lankan Navy personal going on leave, killing at least 92 sailors.[69]

November 1: The Real IRA detonates a series of firebombs in a large hardware retailers, a sports store and toy shop all in Belfast, the hardware retailers and sports store were completely destroyed. No fatalities.[70]

November 20: A suspected terrorist bomb explodes on a train in India. See 2006 West Bengal train disaster.

November 21: Assassination of Pierre Amine Gemayel, an anti-Syrian politician and scion of Lebanon’s most prominent Christian family blamed on Syria, Iran and Hezbollah despite their denials.[71]

November 23: A series of car bombs and motar attacks in Sadr City, Iraq kills at least 215 people and wounds a further 257. See Sadr City bombings for details.

November 24: Michael Stone, prevented from murdering members of the Sinn Fein political party.[72][73]

December 30: A bomb explodes at the Madrid airport, killing two Ecuadorians and injuring 26 people. The ETA a Basque terrorist group has claimed responsibility.

December 31: Eight bomb explosions in seven areas of Bangkok, Thailand's capital city, three people died, nearly 40 injured.

[edit] 2007

January 05, 2007 & January 06, 2007: Suspected LTTE suicide bombers blow themselves up aboard two buses during rush hour in Nittambuwa and Peraliya killing 6 and 16 civilians respectively. A further 100 are injured in the incidents.[74][75][76] See 2007 Sri Lankan bus bombs.

January 10: Three bombs kill six and injure twenty seven in the southern part of the Philippines. Muslim militants trying to disrupt Asian Summit suspected.[77]

January 12: Rocket causes minimal damage at the US Embassy in central Athens; police suspect spinoff of Greek left wing group November 17.[78]

January-February: 2007 United Kingdom letter bombs

January 22: A bombing in a market in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 88 people and wounds 160 others.

January 26: A suicide bomber kills himself and a security guard trying to enter the Marriott hotel in Islamabad.[79]

January 27: A suicide bombing Pakistan's north-west city of Peshawar kills at least 14 people, mostly policemen, and injures at least 30. Security forces had been on high alert ahead of the annual Shia festival of Ashoura.[80]

January 29: A suicide bombing in the Israeli resort city of Eilat kills three people. Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility. [81]

February 3: A truck bombing in a crowed Baghdad market kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339 others.[82] See 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing.

February 17: A suicide bomber kills 15 people, including a judge, inside a courtroom in Pakistan. The Taliban is suspected.

February 18: A car bomb in Mogadishu killed four people, the first such attack of the Islamist insurgency in Somalia (2007–present).[83]

February 19: Two bombs explode aboard the Samjhauta Express, a train headed toward Lahore, Pakistan, hour after it left New Delhi. 68 people died in the incident.[84]

February: 2007 chlorine bombings in Iraq

March 5, 2007 March 5 A Rikers Island inmate offered to pay an undercover police officer posing as a hit man to behead New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly and bomb police headquarters in retaliation for the the controversial police shooting of Sean Bell. The suspect wanted the bombing to be considered a terrorist act[85] [86]

March 6: Two suicide bombers kill 114 Shiite pilgrims in Hilla, Iraq.

You talk of decades of terrorist attacks as a fact. Care to list them ?

I am not going to list every terrorist attack for the last 50 years, because it would take hours to find them all. I will settle for just a few incidents during a short period in time from 1993 to 1998:

Well you answer my question by not answering it.

I queried your estimate of 4 or 5 decades of terrorist attacks because I doubted it.

You cite incidents post US/Iraq war over Kuwait. In case you don't realise it you have

not substantiated your claim.

OK, you asked for it (I can go back further if you insist). :

[edit] 1960s

1960 March 4: Bombing of the Belgian ammunition carrier La Coubre in the port of Habana, killing over 30 people

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March 6: Two suicide bombers kill 114 Shiite pilgrims in Hilla, Iraq.

Well , seeings as my exit strategy failed miserably (at least I had one)

I suppose I shall have to respond to your monumental effort.

Hope you won't take it bad if I point out the odd discrepancy which

understandably slipped by you.

The la Coubre was a French freighter not Belgian. When it , and its

cargo , went kaboom the Cubans blamed the US government and the US

government blamed Cuban dockworkers. Better to err on the side of

safety so both groups have been added to our terrorist watch list

(see below).

Hold on , hold the presses lads , we've exposed a lazy little

cheater. I've just found the site you cut and pasted verbatim.

I was checking around to see if anyone had ever been blamed or

claimed responsibility for the bomb on the mv Dara when I happened

upon : http://www.answers.com/topic/london-explosions.

So I won't bother checking your list any more as you just copied

it indiscriminately and as it contains an error in the first line

it is probably riddled with innacuracies.

Anyway , lets cut to the chase.

If I understand your answer correctly , and presuming you understood

the question in the first place (which is a bit of a reach but whatever)

the following groups and organisations are charter members of al Qaeda

and their principal goal is the destruction of the United States of

America (all other activities being just cover).

Listed in order of appearance.

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Government of the United States

Cuban dock workers

Omani "terrorists"

The Ku Klux Klan

Lee Harvey Oswald (and others?)

The Black Liberation Front

Quebec separatists

The Official IRA

The Ulster Volunteer Force

Anti-Castro Cubans

Hong Kong "leftists"

The student body of Columbia University

Sirhan Sirhan

Abbie Hoffman

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Palestinian Liberation Organisation

The Sandinistas

The Black Liberation Army

The Jewish Defence League

The Provisional IRA

USTASA (?sic)

Japanese Red Army

Black September

Afro American Liberation Army

The Black Panthers

ETA

Ordine Nero

FALN

RAF (presumably Red Army Faction not Royal Air Force?)

Carlos the jackal (aka Ilich Ramírez Sánchez)

Somali Coast Liberation Front

Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia

Revolutionäre Zellen

Croatian Freedom Fighters

Chilean government

African-American Muslim Hanafi sect

Arab Revolutionary Council

The Unabomber

Ananda Marga

Fatah

Irish National Liberation Army

Islamic Jihad

Abu Nidal Organization

Direct Action

Animal Rights Militia

North Korea

Armed Resistance Unit

The Rajneeshee cult

Sikhs

The Italian Mafia

Hezbollah

United States Central Intelligence Agency

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Mardoqueo Cruz Urban Commando

DGSE

M-19 guerrillas

U.S.-funded Contras

Fouad Ali Saleh group

Libya

The ANC of South Africa (now they're the government I suppose that's a "rogue state")

Medellín drug cartel

Anti-feminist Marc Lépine

Al Queda. (wow , they finally get a mention)

MEK (an Iraq-supported religious right group)

Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani

Jamaat Al-Fuqra

Gamaat Islamiya

Hamas

National Islamic Front

Ulster Freedom Fighters

AUM Shinrikyo cultists

Israeli settlers

Ali Abu Kamal

Ah we'll stop the credits rolling there. Most of the audience is asleep and

it's time for the next program.

I spoke to my people about your offer of more info but they said they get

better and more interesting stuff from the National Enquirer so thanks but

no thanks.

The US sure has got a lot of enemies, I wonder why.

As Chomsky says (yes we know he's a Lefty, or rather not a Neo-Con) anyway as he says in 'Hegemony or Survival'

There are two superpowers in the world today, on one side the U.S wanting to dominate the world and on the other global public opinion.

Hold on , hold the presses lads , we've exposed a lazy little

cheater. I've just found the site you cut and pasted verbatim.

Of course I copied a list of terrorist attacks from an informative site on the internet. It would take months to go to the library and find all of those incidents and it wouldn't change the content a bit.

You asked for a record of terrorist attacks and you got them. I never claimed that ONLY Muslims were terrorists. I said MOSTLY.

Still got your hands over your eyes and bananas in your ears I see.

I think you guys are stressed. A friend sent me this pic and said if you can spot the differences between the two identical dolphins soaring out of the water, then you need a rest away from it all.

dolphin.bmp

Moooo! Book me some time in solitary, Jettie, please!

How bout a week in the rain forest, NR?

Hold on , hold the presses lads , we've exposed a lazy little

cheater. I've just found the site you cut and pasted verbatim.

Of course I copied a list of terrorist attacks from an informative site on the internet. It would take months to go to the library and find all of those incidents and it wouldn't change the content a bit.

You asked for a record of terrorist attacks and you got them. I never claimed that ONLY Muslims were terrorists. I said MOSTLY.

Still got your hands over your eyes and bananas in your ears I see.

I'll try and keep this simple :

You said :

As far as the USA "needing" to make up enemies. They don't need to make up anything. The facts are that there have been countless terrorist attacks against innocent people who are US citizens over the last 4 or 5 decades by chickenshit sc*mbags - who are mostly Muslims - and 9/11 was the straw that broke the camels back.

I said :

You talk of decades of terrorist attacks as a fact. Care to list them ? Apart from "collateral

damage" from the Israeli/Palestinian conflict I would welcome details.

Your first response (Post #57) listed events between 1993 and 1998.

I pointed out that this didn't cover your "4 of 5 decades".

So your next reponse does , but you seem to have forgotten the "people who are

American citizens" bit. Plus you list things like the JFK assassination as a "terrrorist"

act. It is no excuse that you just cut and pasted from a site without probably more

than a cursory reading because you posted it as "facts" not an "I found this on the

web" thing therefore you take ownership.

The site itself seemed less than reliable to me. The very first incident you quote

could well have been a Cuban dock worker having a quiet smoke that went

terribly wrong and not a US terrorist act at all.

Anyway that sums it up , so I'll take my hands off my eyes and pop across the

road because I'm out of bananas.

Hold on , hold the presses lads , we've exposed a lazy little

cheater. I've just found the site you cut and pasted verbatim.

Of course I copied a list of terrorist attacks from an informative site on the internet. It would take months to go to the library and find all of those incidents and it wouldn't change the content a bit.

You asked for a record of terrorist attacks and you got them. I never claimed that ONLY Muslims were terrorists. I said MOSTLY.

Still got your hands over your eyes and bananas in your ears I see.

I'll try and keep this simple :

You said :

As far as the USA "needing" to make up enemies. They don't need to make up anything. The facts are that there have been countless terrorist attacks against innocent people who are US citizens over the last 4 or 5 decades by chickenshit sc*mbags - who are mostly Muslims - and 9/11 was the straw that broke the camels back.

I said :

You talk of decades of terrorist attacks as a fact. Care to list them ? Apart from "collateral

damage" from the Israeli/Palestinian conflict I would welcome details.

Your first response (Post #57) listed events between 1993 and 1998.

I pointed out that this didn't cover your "4 of 5 decades".

So your next reponse does

Why don't you leave it at this and drop all the silly, unrelated nonsense? THAT is "simple"!