Originally Posted by Mike33
June 5, 1968: Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordanian Arab-Palestinian.
June 17, 1969: An American tourist was killed when the PLO shelled the Israeli resort town of Kallia.
February 21, 1970: Islamist terrorists blew up an Israel-bound Swiss jet killing seven Americans.
February 23, 1970: Halhoul, West Bank. PLO terrorists open fire on a busload of pilgrims killing one and wounding two Americans.
March 28-29, 1970: Beirut, Lebanon. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) fired seven rockets at the U.S. Embassy, the American Insurance Company, Bank of America and the John F. Kennedy library.
May 30, 1972: Ben Gurion Airport, Israel. Three members of the Japanese Red Army, acting on the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's behalf, carried out a machine-gun and grenade attack at Israel's main airport, killing 26 and wounding 78 people. Many of the casualties were American citizens, mostly from Puerto Rico.
September 5, 1972: Munich, Germany. During the Olympic Games in Munich, Black September Islamists, Fatah killed nine hostages including one American.
March 2, 1973: Khartoum, Sudan U.S. ambassadors Noel and Moore were held hostage and then killed by Islamist Fatah terrorists at the U.S. Embassy.
September 9, 1974: Islamist Terrorists from the Palestinian Abu Nidal group (later went to Iraq) bombed a TWA jet in the air near Greece killing 12 Americans
November 14, 1975: Jerusalem, Israel. Lola Nunberg, 53, of New York, was injured during a bombing attack in downtown Jerusalem. Fatah claimed responsibility for the bombing, which killed six people and wounded 38.
November 21, 1975: An American student was killed by Islamist PLO terrorists from the Democrat Front for the Liberation of Palestine during an axe attack.
August 11, 1976: Istanbul, Turkey. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine launched an attack on the terminal of Israel's major airline, El Al, at the Istanbul airport. Four civilians, including Harold Rosenthal of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (and an aide to U.S. Senator Jacob Javits) were killed and 20 injured.
January 1, 1977: Beirut, Lebanon. Frances E. Meloy, U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, and Robert O.Waring, the U.S. economic counselor, were kidnapped by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members as they crossed a militia checkpoint separating the Christian from the Muslim sections of Beirut. They were later shot to death.
March 11, 1978: Tel Aviv, Israel. Gail Rubin, niece of U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff, was among 38 people shot to death by PLO terrorists on an Israeli beach.
June 2, 1978: Jerusalem, Israel. Richard Fishman, a medical student from Maryland, was among six killed in a PLO bus bombing in Jerusalem. Chava Sprecher, another American citizen from Seattle, Washington, was injured.
May 4, 1979: Tiberias, Israel. Haim Mark and his wife, Haya, of New Haven, Connecticut were injured in a PLO bombing attack in northern Israel.
November 1979: Islamist Revolutionaries seized the U.S. embassy in Iran holding 52 American hostages for 444 days
1982: Islamist extremists, Hezbollah, took Americans hostage, including Terry Anderson for six and a half years.
April 1983: Islamist, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 16 Americans.
October 1983: Hezbollah blew up the U.S. Marine barracks at the Beirut airport, killing 241 Marines.
December 1983: Islamist extremists, al-Dawa, blew up the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, killing five and injuring 80.
September 1984: Hezbollah exploded a truck bomb at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing two U.S. servicemen.
December 1984: Hezbollah hijacked a Kuwait Airways airplane and killed two Americans.
June 14, 1985: Hezbollah or other Islamist extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847 out of Athens shooting U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem and dumped his body on the tarmac.
October 1985: Palestine Liberation Front backed by Libya and lead by Abu Abbas who went on to live in Iraq until the invasion, seized an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, killing an American handicap
December 1985: Libyan Islamist extremists bombed airports in Rome and Vienna, killing five Americans.
April 1986: Islamist extremists (backed by Libya) bombed a Berlin discotheque killing a U.S. soldier.
December 1988: Libyan Islamist extremists bombed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 on board and 11 on the ground.
February 1993: Ramzi Yousef leads Islamist extremists al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya and al-Qaeda to bomb the World Trade Center, killing six and wounding more than 1,000.
Spring 1993: Islamist extremists al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, the Sudanese Islamic Front and at least one member of Hamas plot to blow up the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the U.N. complex and the FBI's lower Manhattan headquarters.
April 1993: Islamist extremists from Iraq fill a Landcruiser with explosives in an attempt to assassinate President Bush Senior during his visit to Kuwait.
November 1995: Hezbollah exploded a car bomb at U.S. military headquarters in Saudi Arabia, killing five U.S. military servicemen.
April 1995: Terry Nichols sought Ramzi Yousef in the Philippines for planning and supervision together with an Iraqi Republican Guard Soldier, Hussain Hashem Alhussaini, helping Timothy McVeigh to rent, prepare and truck bomb the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City killing 168.
June 1996: Islamist extremists, Saudis and Lebanese Hezbollah with al-Qaeda bombed the Khobar Towers military complex killing 19 American servicemen.
August 1998: Islamist extremists al-Qaeda truck bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224.
October 2000: Islamist extremists al-Qaeda blow up the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole, killing 17 U.S. sailors.
Sept. 11, 2001: Islamist extremists al-Qaeda hijack commercial aircraft and fly planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 Americans.
Sept. 2001: Islamist extremists send 911 anthrax letters, that the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology matched to weaponized anthrax previously found in Iraq, to leaders and media killing and maiming postal workers and others.
June 2002: Al Qaeda bombs American consulate in Pakistan killing 12.
October 2002: hahaha8211; John Mohammed and Lee Malvo arrested with sniper vehicle for several killings in jihad attacks.
May 2003: Al Qaeda suicide bombers kill 8 Americans in Riyadh Saudi Arabia
October 2003:
May, June, Dec, 2004: Islamist extremists kill 9 Americans in Riyadh and Jeddah Saudi Arabia
Nov. 2005: Al Qaeda suicide bombers bomb American hotels in Jordan killing 57 in Jordan
Terror attacks on Americans within the United States and abroad continue. Islamist extremists (al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Abu Saif, Islamist Jihad, Alasqa Martyrs Brigade and many others) employ hijacking, kidnapping, improvised bombs and suicide bombs to attack Afghanistan, Bali, Britain, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Russia, Spain, Sudan, Turkey, Thailand.
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