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Timeline of Terrorism

By mollydouma26

  • Hussein becomes President

  • US embassy in Iran was seized by Ayatolla supporters

    62 Americans were held hostage until January 20, 1981

  • 8 year war between Iran and Iraq over waterway began

  • Pan am Flight 103

    Bomb destroyed plane over Scotland, killing 270 people

  • Soviet Union withdrew from Afganistan

  • US led Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm

    Drove Iraq out of Kuwait

  • Car bombing at world trade centers

    A car bomb went of in the parking garage underneath the World Trade Center in New York, killing 6 amd injuring 1,000.

  • Bin Laden declared war against US

  • Truck Bomb

    19 US soldiers were killed in Saudi Arabia

  • Embassies

    Kenyan and Tanzanian embassies were bombed, killing 190 and wounding 5,000

  • USS Cole

    While in the port of Aden, Yemen, it was bombed, killing 17 US service personel.

  • US invasion ends Taliban Rule

  • 9/11

    9/11

    Al-Qaeda
    Flew two planes into the twin towers and one in the Pentagon

  • US led attack to depose Sadam Hussein

  • Al-Qaeda car bombs kill 35 in Saudi Arabia

  • Al-Qaeda Truck bombs in Turkey kill 29 at two synagogues

  • Al-Qaeda attacks oil companies in Saudi Arabia

    Killed 22

  • London subway train Bombing

    56 deaths

  • Egypt resort hotels

    88 deaths, done by Al-Qaeda

  • Al-Qaeda Bombing of three American owned Hotels in Amman Jordan

    60 deaths