Wednesday, May 2, 2007

25 Years of Islamic Attacks

November 1979
Iranian students attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East.

April 1983
US Embassy compound in Beirut hit by truck bomb. 63 people killed.

September 1983
US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut attacked with huge truck bomb. 241 US servicemen are killed.

December 1983US Embassy in Kuwait attacked with truck bomb

September 1984US Embassy in Beirut attacked again with a truck bomb

April 1985
A bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.

August 1985
A Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed

October 1985
A cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked. An American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed.

April of 1986The terrorists bomb TWA Flight 840. Kill 4 1988

December 1988
The terrorists bomb Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 259.

January 1993
Two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

February 1993World Trade Center in New York City attacked with bomb in a van. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured.

November 1995A car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing 7 service men and women.

June 1996
A truck bomb explodes 35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over 500.

August 1998Simultaneous attacks on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.. They kill 224.

October 2000
The USS Cole was attaked in the port of Aden, Yemen. 17 US Navy Sailors killed

September 11, 2001
Both World Trade Towers are brought down and the Pentagon is attaked! Over 3000 Dead!

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