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This list does not include the “homicide” bombers, the scores injured or millions affected by these terrorists acts and the tens of billions of dollars in property damage around the world.

• 1992     Mar 17    Buenos Aires

A car bomb exploded in front of the Israeli Embassy. Most victims were Argentine civilians, including children. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. In 1998, a telephone call intercepted from the Iranian embassy in Argentina proved Iran had been involved in the attack.  29 dead

• 1993     Feb 26    New York          

First World Trade Center bombing, which was planned by Ramzi Youssef.  6 dead

• 1993     Jan 25    Langley, VA        

Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fired an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of CIA HQ. He was captured in Pakistan and executed in the United States Nov 14, 2002.  2 dead

• 1994     Dec 11    Japan                

Small bomb on Philippines Airlines plane kills one, injures six. Authorities learned that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb as a test run for “Operation Bojinka.”  1 dead

• 1994     Dec 24    Algeria              

Air France 8969 was hijacked by GIA (Armed Islamic Group). The terrorists planned to crash the plane into the Eiffel Tower in Paris.  7 dead

• 1994     July 18    Buenos Aires    

A powerful bomb made of ammonium nitrate was driven through the front gates of the seven-story Argentina-Israeli Mutual Association, leveling the building. The suicide bomber, Ibrahim Hussein Berro, a 29-year-old Shiite Muslim, has been honored with a plaque in southern Lebanon.  86 dead

• 1994     July 19    Panama            

A Panamanian commuter plane exploded killing all aboard. A group based in Lebanon claimed the attack, but it is believe Hezbollah was responsible, with backing from Iran.  29 dead 

• 1995     Jan 6–7   Philippines       

Plans for “Operation Bojinka” were discovered on a laptop computer in Manila after an apartment fire. It was to be a large-scale attack on airliners in 1995, and was a precursor to the Sept 11 attacks. The plot was developed by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed while they were in Manila in 1994 and early 1995.
Bombs were to be planted on 11 U.S.-bound airliners that had stopovers all around East Asia and Southeast Asia. The aircraft would have blown up over the Pacific and South China Sea almost simultaneously. If this plan worked, as many as 4000 would have perished and air travel would have been shut down worldwide.  No one died

• 1995     Nov 13    Saudi Arabia     

A car bomb exploded outside a joint HQ for U.S. and Saudi military. Three Islamic terror organizations claimed responsibility.  7 dead

• 1995     Nov 19    Pakistan           

Egyptian Embassy was bombed.  19 dead

• 1996     Dec 3      France              

A bomb exploded aboard a subway train killing four and injuring 86, including a U.S. citizen. No one claimed responsibility, but Algerian extremists were suspected.  4 dead

• 1996     June 25   Saudi Arabia    

Fuel truck carrying a bomb exploded outside the U.S. military’s Khobar Towers housing facility. The Saudi branch of Hezbollah was responsible. 19 dead

• 1997     Nov 17     Egypt              

Men emerged from desert cliffs into the Temple of Hatshepsut and opened fire with automatic weapons at dozens of tourists. The dead included Japanese, German, Swiss and Egyptian citizens.  71 dead

• 1997     Sept 18    Egypt              

Three men calmly walked up to a tourist bus outside the Egyptian Museum, pulled weapons from a plastic bag, and unleashed an attack that killed 10, at least seven of them German tourists. One gunman, Saber Mohammed Farhat Abu el-Ulla, had carried out a similar attack four years earlier, killing two Americans and a French citizen.  10 dead

• 1998     Aug 7       Africa               

Nairobi, Kenya, and Tanzania twin truck bomb attacks against U.S. embassies. At least 225 dead and more than 4000 wounded.  225 dead

• 1999     Jan 3        Pakistan          

Gunmen opened fire on Shi’a Muslims worshipping in a mosque.  16 dead

• 1999     Dec 24      Nepal               

Indian Airlines 814 was hijacked by Taliban agents.  1dead

• 1999     Aug 31     Russia             

Multiple Russian apartment bombings by Chechen terrorists, killing at least 300 dead.

• 2000     Oct 12      Yemen  

Boat bomb attack on the USS Cole.  17 dead

• 2001     Sep 11      United States

New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania Hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. A fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3000 dead, including 265 on the planes; 343 firemen; 60 New York City and Port Authority police officers; 125 at the Pentagon.  Total 2,985 dead

 

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