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Terroist Attacks 1993-Present
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1993 WTC Bombing
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. -
Brooklyn Bridge Shooting
March 1: In the Brooklyn Bridge Shooting, Rashid Baz kills a Hasidic seminary student and wounds four on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City in response to the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people, 19 of them children; the most deadly act of domestic terrorism in the United States to date. -
Centennial Olympic Park Bombing
Centennial Olympic Park bombing, killing two and wounding 111. -
Empire State Building Attack
Ali Abu Kamal opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, 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 da -
Birmingham Abortion Clinic Attack
The anti-abortion Army of God bombs a health clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing a police officer and injuring a worker at the clinic. -
LAX Terror Attempt
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 -
ELF Attack
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility for causing over $500,000 in damages to construction equipment in Elettsville, Indiana. Fourteen pieces of logging and construction equipment were destroyed by the perpetrators, who filled gas tanks with sand, cut fuel and hydraulic lines and set a tractor-trailer filled with wood chips on fire. Graffiti found at the scene read, "Go develop in Hell", "ELF" and "This machine is evil." The equipment was being used for a state-run project to b -
USS Cole Bombing
On 12 October 2000, USS Cole, under the command of Commander Kirk Lippold, set in to Aden harbor for a routine fuel stop. Cole completed mooring at 09:30. Refueling started at 10:30. Around 11:18 local time (08:18 UTC), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, putting a 40-by-60-foot gash in the ship's port side according to the memorial plate to those who lost their lives. According to former CIA intelligence officer Robert Finke, the blast appeared to -
9/11 Attacks
Attacks kill 2,973 (and some later from exposure to toxic dust, bringing the toll to 2,977)[18] in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, and The Pentagon in Arlington County. A fourth plane, originally intended to hit the United States Capitol Building, crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers. -
Anthrax Attack
Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloids. -
Beltway Sniper Attacks
John Allen Muhammad 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. -
Indonesian Embassy Bombing
An explosive device detonated at the Indonesian Embassy in downtown Paris, injuring ten people. The explosion shattered the windows in nearby buildings and flying glass was the cause of most of the injuries. A group calling themselves the "French Armed Islamic Front" claimed responsibility for the attack, though authorities are unsure whether they claim is believable or not. The group called for the release of two guerrilla fighters believed to be members of the Algerian Islamic Army (GIA), -
University Of Oklahoma Bombing
Joel Henry Hinrichs III detonated a bomb near the packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma killing himself in the process -
UNC Attack
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. -
Salt Lake City Shooting
A teenage gunman kills six bystanders and wounds four more in a popular shopping center before being shot dead by police in the Trolley Square shooting in Salt Lake City, Utah. -
Times Square Bombing
A bomb goes off outside an empty military recruiting station in Times Square. -
Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting
Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting, Jim David Adkisson kills 2 people and injures 7 in Knoxville, Tennessee. -
NYC Starbucks Bombing
New York City A small explosive device exploded out front of a Starbucks in New York City destroying a bench it had been placed on. No injuries or deaths were reported in the blast -
Little Rock Shooting
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, an American Muslim opened fire on a U.S. military recruiting office. Private William Long was killed and Private Quinton Ezeagwula was wounded. -
Fort Hood Shooting
Nidal Malik Hasan, while serving as a Major in the United States Army, opened fire killing 13 and wounding 30 at Fort Hood. -
Austin Suicide Attack
Andrew Joseph Stack III crashes his plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas killing himself and a person inside the building and injuring 13 others. The crash caused a serious fire and significant damage to the building. -
Moscow Metro Suicide Bombing
Two female Shahidka suicide bombers detonated their explosive-belts on the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour. -
Times Square Car Bomb
New York's Times Square was evacuated after the discovery of a car bomb. US government believes radical Islamists in the Pakistani Taliban directed the plot, and may have financed it -
Jacksonville Mosque Bombing
A man used a pipe bomb to attack a mosque. The bomb exploded while about 60 Muslims were praying in the mosque. The attack caused no injuries.
