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A truck bomb explodes in the World Trade Center parking garage killing six people and injuring many others. Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and an accomplice will be convicted for the crime in November of 1997. |
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241 U.S. troops are killed in Beirut by a terrorist suicide bomb attack on the U.S. Marine Headquarters. |
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Terrorists in Kenya attack Israelis on board an aircraft using mobile missle launchers. |
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12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut |
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French commando's terminate the Air France hijacking in Marseille. |
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The U.S. National terror threat level is lowered from 'high' to 'elevated.' |
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Ramzi Binalshibh, believed to be a planner of Sept. 11 attacks and alleged "20th hijacker" is captured in Pakistan |
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An 80-mile section of Florida's I-75 is closed and a no-fly zone is established in the area. Suspects are held following a terror alert. |
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U.S. hostage Martin Burnham killed in a rescue attempt in the Phillipines. His wife Gracia is wounded, but freed. |
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Arab terrorists hijack 4 airplanes. Two crash into the Twin Towers of the NYC World Trade Center and topple them. The third crashes into the Pentagon. The fourth is taken down when passengers resist and crashes in a field in Pennsylvania. |
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U.S. ships in Persian Gulf are pulled out of ports because of "credible" terrorist threat. |
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In Nairobi Kenya a jewish owned hotel is bombed and 18 people are killed.
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Osama Bin Laden, operating with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, is named as the leading suspect in terror attacks on New York and Washington. |
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The Bush administration reveals that it had information warning of an October 2001 nuclear terrorist attack on New York . |
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The new U.S. Director of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, unveils a new system of color-coded terrorist threat warnings. At that time, the U.S. was at threat condition yellow, or a "significant" threat of attack. |
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Two gunmen in Kabul assassinate Haji Abdul Qadir, a Pashtun and a new vice president of Afghanistan in the government of President Hamid Karzai. |
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A car bomb destroys a disco in Bali Indonesia and kills nearly 200 people. |
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A team of congressional investigators reveal that the U.S. intelligence community was told in 1998 that Arab terrorists intended to fly a plane into the World Trade Center. |
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Ten men in Serbia formed the Black Hand Secret Society. The main objective of the Black Hand was the creation, by means of violence, of a Greater Serbia. Its stated aim was: "To realize the national ideal, the unification of all Serbs. This organisation prefers terrorist action to cultural activitie ... |
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IRA detonates a bomb at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, England where the UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and her cabinet were staying during a Conservative Party conference. |
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Without warning, the IRA detonates 26 car bombs within 40 minutes in Belfast resulting in 11 fatalities and 130 injured in an event now know as Bloody Friday. |
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In the deadliest insurgent attack of Operation Iraqi Freedom, a suicide bomber exploded a car bomb in Hilla where police recruits were waiting to get physicals. The attack kills 125 and wounds over 150. Consistent with current practice, FOX News reports the incident as a "homicide" bombing with 10 ... |
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A terror attack is launched on a pedestrian mall in Tel Aviv, injuring at least 15 people, 3 severly. |
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Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul rejects the demands of militants threatening to behead three Turks held hostage in Iraq during President Bush's visit to Turkey. |
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At least 10 people are killed following a palestinian suicide bomber attack on a Jerusalem bus. |
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"Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana. |
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The Al-Rashid hotel housing Paul Wolfowitz is attacked with rocket fire. |
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Bomb defused near the U.S. Consulate in Pakistan. |
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A powerful car bomb destroys Mount Lebanon Hotel in Baghdad, killing at least 27 people |
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Ammonium Nitrate Bomb Plot Foiled in Southern England. |
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Terrorism