Fred Quimby

March 31, 1990 : Four terrorists attack a U.S. Air Force bus in Honduras . Eight people are injured. The Moranzanist Patriotic Front claims responsibility, to protest U.S. military presence in Honduras .
May 13, 1990 : New People's Army assassins kill two U.S. airmen near Clark Air Base in the Philippines .
May 1990: A group led by Ramzi Yousef assassinates, in the United States , Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the Jewish Defense League. The murder would later be discovered to be a part of a larger revenge campaign against U.S. foreign policy--a campaign that included the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
January 2, 1991 : A U.S. military helicopter is shot down by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front militants (a Marxist guerrilla group) in San Miguel , El Salvador . The two crewmen are then executed, most likely because the U.S. provided military aid and advisers to the government of El Salvador .
Mid-January to late February 1991 (during the Persian Gulf War): The number of terrorist attacks on American targets all over the world sharply increases: 120, compared with 17 over the same period in 1990. Terrorism analysts label these incidents "freelance" Iraqi-inspired terrorism.
March 12, 1991 : A U.S. Air Force sergeant is blown up at the entrance to his residence in Athens , Greece . The deadliest terrorist group in Greece , known as November 17, claims responsibility and says the attacks are in response to "American imperialism-nationalism."
March 28, 1991 : Three U.S. Marines driving near Jubial , Saudi Arabia, are shot by an Arab.
October 28, 1991 : Turkish Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for a car bomb that kills a U.S. Air Force sergeant.
June 10, 1992 : A U.S. Army vehicle traveling between Panama City and Colón , Panama , is sprayed with gunfire, killing the driver and a passenger and wounding a civilian bystander. The incident is likely related to the U.S. presence in Panama and control of the Panama Canal .
January 23, 1993 : Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, opens fire on CIA employees on the street outside the agency's headquarters in Virginia . Kansi allegedly is angry about the treatment of Muslims in Bosnia; in retaliation, he had planned to get even by shooting up the CIA, the White House, and the Israeli embassy.
February 26, 1993 : Islamic terrorists truck-bomb the World Trade Center . The perpetrators had wanted to kill up to a quarter million people by toppling the twin towers like two dominos. Ramzi Yousef, the leader of the bombers, said they intended to inflict Hiroshima-level casualties as punishment for U.S. policies in the Middle East .
March 3, 1993 : A bomb explodes in front of the U.S. embassy in Belgrade , most likely in response to U.S. policy toward Serbia and Bosnia .
April 15, 1993 : Seventeen Iraqis are arrested in Kuwait smuggling in a large car bomb and weapons as part of an Iraqi plot to assassinate former president George Bush on his visit to Kuwait . President Clinton would later retaliate against Iraq for the plot with cruise missiles strikes against the headquarters of Iraqi intelligence, killing several Iraqi civilians.
June 1993: Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman and other Muslims conspire to attack several New York landmarks all on the same day to inflict maximum casualties. As a sequel to the bombing of the World Trade Center , the group planned to blow up, on July 4, the headquarters of the U.N., the Lincoln and Holland tunnels under the Hudson River , the George Washington Bridge , and the federal government's main office building in New York . The group also planned to assassinate Senator Alfonse D'Amato and others. At the time they were arrested, the conspirators were mixing fertilizer and diesel fuel to create a bomb like the one used on the World Trade Center . Rahman and nine others were convicted in a public trial October 1, 1995 .
July 1, 1993 : Terrorists fire two rockets at the U.S. Air Force base at Yokota , Japan . The incident happens a few days before President Clinton is due to visit the base. The attacks are most likely from opponents of the U.S. military occupation of Japan .
July 7, 1993 : Just six days later, four rockets are fired at the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force in Japan at Camp Zama , Japan .
October 3, 1993 : After U.S. armed forces kill thousands of Somalians--an attack about which the commander of the operation, Marine Lt. Gen. Anthony Zinni, told the press, "I'm not counting bodies . . . I'm not interested"--al-Qaeda-trained Somalian tribesmen conduct ambushes of U.S. "peacekeeping" forces in Somalia . The attacks down two helicopters and kill 18 American Army Rangers, resulting in the infamous dragging of dead American soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu . An indictment alleges that al-Qaeda believes the United States has plans to occupy Islamic countries, as demonstrated by its involvement in Somalia and Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf War. U.S. forces would be withdrawn from Somalia, and bin Laden would later call the Somalia operation his group's greatest victory.

October 21, 1994 : Members of Abu Nidal's organization are convicted of plotting to kill Jews in the United States , to blow up the Israeli embassy in Washington , and to kill anyone who exposed their plans.
February 7, 1995 : Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, is finally arrested in Pakistan . The arrest foils a plan already set in motion to bomb 12 U.S. jumbo jets in flight over the Atlantic and kill 4,000 passengers.
March 20, 1995 : The Japanese apocalyptic cult Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) releases sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway. According to the group's beliefs, the last years of the millennium would give rise to an Armageddon between Japan and the United States, and the cult believed that attacking the Tokyo subway would hasten this Armageddon. The group was hoping to kill tens of thousands of people.
April 1995: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult plan a nerve-gas attack on Disneyland in Anaheim , California . The group plans to attack during a fireworks celebration at which attendance at the park would reach maximum capacity. Tipped off by Japanese police, U.S. authorities apprehend members of the group at the Los Angeles airport before they can launch the attack. The plan also called for an attack on petrochemical facilities in Los Angeles .The Aum Shinrikyo cult has assets of at least $1.2 billion and the capability to produce sarin and VX gas--agents that cause anthrax and botulism--and radiological weapons. This cult is still active.
August 18, 1995 : The Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front bombs an office building of the American company Fluor Daniel in Santiago , Chile , citing as its reason solidarity with Cuba and opposition to the U.S. economic blockade.
September 13, 1995 : A rocket-propelled grenade is fired at the U.S. embassy in Russia . The attack is suspected to have been retaliation for U.S. involvement in the NATO air strikes on Bosnian Serb targets.

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