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Soviet Union invade Afghanistan
The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. The Soviets send thousands of troops in and after a few days they had secured Kabul. -
US Embassy in Beirut is bombed
U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, is almost completely destroyed by a car-bomb explosion that kills 63 people, including the suicide bomber and 17 Americans, this attack was orchestrated by Al Qaeda. -
Formation of Al Qaeda
Osama Bin Laden created a new group called al-Qaida that would focus on symbolic acts of terrorism instead of military campaigns. After the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia. He took over many places and killed many people. -
Passenger jet Pam Am Flight 103 is blown up
In 1988, a passenger jet (flight 103) was blown up while flying over Lockerbie, we assume this was dome by Al Qaeda but it was very hard to prove. 270 people we killed -
Operation Desert Storm
Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, ordered his army across the border into tiny Kuwait. Iraq's army was well equipped. The United States had provided massive military aid to Iraq during their eight-year war with Iran, giving them the fourth largest army in the world. -
Gulf War 1.
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. Iraq had begun amassing troops on Kuwait’s border earlier that year preparing to invade -
The World Trades center bombed for the first time.
A terrorist bomb explodes in a parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, leaving a crater 60 feet wide and causing the collapse of several steel-reinforced concrete floors in the vicinity of the blast. Although the terrorist bomb failed to critically damage the main structure of the skyscrapers, six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured. -
US warship USS Cole attacked by Muslim extremists
At 12:15 p.m, a motorized rubber dinghy loaded with explosives blows a 40-by-40-foot hole in the port side of the USS Cole, a U.S. Navy destroyer that was refueling at Aden, Yemen. Seventeen sailors were killed and 38 wounded in the attack, which was carried out by two suicide terrorists who were with Osama Bin Ladin -
9/11
On 9/11, Islamic extremists working with Al Qaeda used 4 separate American planes to kill as many people as possible and try ans ruin the American spirit. They flew two planes into the twin towers which led to their fall, killing thousands of people, they also flew a plane into the pentagon which killed hundreds more.
