November 13, 1995 : A military complex in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia, housing U.S. troops is car-bombed, killing seven people, including five Americans, and wounding 42 others. Muslims seeking to overthrow the oppressive Saudi monarchy and expel the United States from Saudi Arabia carried out the bombings. Three groups, including the Islamic Movement for Change, claim responsibility, and U.S. officials suspect Osama bin Laden was involved.
November 15, 1995 : An explosive device is discovered on a power line to a U.S. military complex in Sagmihara , Japan .
February 15, 1996 : A rocket is fired at the U.S. embassy compound in Athens , Greece , causing minor damage to three diplomatic vehicles and surrounding buildings. The State Department says the circumstances of the attack suggest it was another attack by the group known as November 17.
June 25, 1996 : A U.S. military apartment complex, Khobar Towers , near Dhahran , Saudi Arabia , is truck-bombed, killing 19 U.S. airmen and wounding 515 people, including 240 U.S. citizens. U.S. officials have linked Osama bin Laden to the bombing, and some analysts also suspect Iran of complicity.
February 23, 1997 : A Palestinian, Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, opens fire on the observation deck of the Empire State Building , killing and wounding several tourists before committing suicide.
July 31, 1997 : Police in Brooklyn arrest two Palestinian men who allegedly are planning suicide bombings of the subway and a commuter bus.
November 12, 1997 : Four employees of Union Texas Petroleum are killed in an attack one mile from the U.S. consulate in Karachi , Pakistan . The Islamic Revolutionary Council and the Aimal Secret Committee claim the killings are revenge for the conviction of Mir Aimal Kansi, the Pakistani man who murdered CIA employees in their cars in January 1993.
December 23, 1997 : The teachers' residential compound of the Karachi American School is fired upon. This attack is also probably in retaliation for the conviction of Mir Aimal Kansi.
April 3, 1998 : November 17 claims responsibility for a rash of attacks against U.S. targets in Greece . Since 1975, its victims include a CIA station chief and three other Americans.
August 7, 1998 : Simultaneous car-bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, both linked to Osama bin Laden, kill more than 200 Africans--mostly Muslims. Before the bombings, bin Laden issues a Fatwa that he will kill Americans and will not discriminate between military personnel and civilians. In retaliation, on August 20, 1998 , the U.S. launches cruise missiles on bin Laden's al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and a factory in Sudan . The Clinton administration claims the Sudanese factory produced chemical weapons and was linked to bin Laden. This is later proven to be a lie, but it would not stop Clinton from declaring his own, although fragmentary, "War on Terrorism" in the midst of impeachment.
August 25, 1998 : A Planet Hollywood restaurant in South Africa is bombed. A local terrorist group called Muslims Against Global Oppression is said to be the likely culprit, seeking revenge on the United States for the cruise missile attacks on Afghanistan and Sudan .
August 26, 1998 : A U.S. government information center in Pristina, Kosovo, is fire-bombed, most likely in opposition to U.S. and NATO policy on Kosovo.
Early September 1998: The Ugandan government and the FBI uncover a plot by Osama bin Laden to attempt to bomb the U.S. embassy in Kampala , Uganda, for a second time. Ugandan officials say that the cruise missile strike on Sudan in retaliation for the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania might have prompted bin Laden to try a second time to attack the embassy in Kampala . Several arrests are made in connection with the bombing.
October 2000: The USS Cole is dinghy-bombed while in port in Yemen . Al-Qaeda is widely suspected, in bin Laden's ongoing personal war against U.S. policies in the Middle East .
September 11, 2001 : The World Trade Center is bombed a second time, killing nearly 3,000 and sparking a new "war on terrorism," a resurgence in statism throughout the Western world, and increased nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan .
September 11, 2001 : The World Trade Center is bombed a second time, killing nearly 3,000 and sparking a new "war on terrorism," a resurgence in statism throughout the Western world, and increased nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan .
Then the beheadings begin
