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| Where it happened? | Number on timeline. | When it happened? | What happened? |
| Tehran, Iran | 1 | November 1979 | During Jimmy Carter's administration, Iranian students broke into the US Embassy, and held 53 Americans hostage for over a year. Carter's rescue mission |
| Beirut, Lebanon | 2 | April of 1983 | A vehicle packed with explosives was driven into the US Embassy in Beirut. It killed 63 people. A short time after a group called the Islamic Jihad claimed reponsibility. |
| Beirut, Lebanon | 3 | October 1983 | I large truck packed with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the Main Gate of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut. It killed 241 service man were killed. |
| Kuwait | 4 | December 1983 | Another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassey. The bomb injuers 62 people. A group called the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) organization claims they did it. Kuwaiti officails say they caught 10 Shiite people they were linked to Iran. |
| Beirut, Lebanon | 5 | September 1984 | The following year, another van was driven into the gates of the US Embassy in Beirt. The van swervs around barricades. Also they dodge US soldiers and blow up 30 feet away from there destination. That kills 13 people just like the attack a year ago the Islamic Jihad claims responsibility. |
| Madrid, Spain | 6 | April 1985 | A bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid. |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 7 | August 1985 | In August a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Force Base at Frankfurt, Germany |
| Port Said, Egypt | 8 | October 7, 1985 | A cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked and we watch as a American in a (scroll down and read the artical that has the name of the ship.)wheelchair is singled out and executed. |
| Athns, Greece | 9 | April 1986 | They bombed a TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986. It killed 4 people. The plastic explosive was blown up under seat 10F. They thought that a lesbian terrorist named May Elias Mansur. |
| Lockerbie, Scotland | 10 | 1988 | Pan Am Flight 103 is bombed over Scotland. That kills 259. The bomb was packed into a Toshiba cassett recorder and exploded over Scotland. The plain crashed into the town. It killed 11 people that were in town. |
| Languey, Virginia | 11 | January 1993 | Two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Languey, Virginia. They were shot when they had stopped at a red light. The man was armed with an AK-47. He waited for the car to stop then he shot the two men. There was still a women in there, but he did not kill her. After the shooting the terrorist left to had back to Pakistan. He was put on the most wanted list. He wasn't caught until 4 years later. |
| New york City, New York | 12 | Febuary 1993 | A rental van, Ford Econoline, packed with explosives is driven into the garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. When it explodes it kills 4 and injures 1000. Dozens of groups from Serbian militants to radical Islamic groups claim responsibility. After six days they caught a man named Mohammed Salameh. A big clue in the catch was the own man who did it. He tried to give the van back for a refund. Mohammed Salameh said that it was stolen. |
| Riyadh, Saud Arabia | 13 | November 13 1995 | Once again a car is driven into a building. This building was a training place for american soldiers. It killed 7 people and wounded 60. In a few days three groups said they did it. Here are the three groups: the Islamic Movement for Change, the previously unheard-of Tigers of the Gulf, and the Combatant Partisans of God. In April of 1996 Saudi officals announced the arrest of four Saudi nationals. |
| Dhahran, Saudi Arabia | 14 | June 25 1996 | The bomb blows up the Khobar Towers a U.S. Air Force barracks killing 19 and injures 500. It was a fuel truck that blew up next to the towers. The explostion makes a crater 85 feet wide and 35 feet deep. No groups claim the bombing that day. Ameican and Saudi officails think it was somebody tied to the 4 people's group that bombed a few years ago in Saudi Arabia. Which were beheaded just prior to this bombing. In March of 1997 2 Saudi dissidents confessed to the bombing. |
| Nairobi, Kenya | 15 | August 1998 | The small pick-up truck packed with explosives blows up next to the US embassy. These two blast happened within minutes of each other. The bomb kills 224 and injures 5,000. Four men were convited two or them recieved training from the Al-Qaeda. The blast kills the US ambassador Prudence Bushnell. The grand jury indicted twenty-two other men. Some of them were once again Saudi dissidents. Also they believed that Osama Binladen was involved. All we did to fight back was some cruise missles. |
| Tanzania | 16 | August 1998 | The story above goes with this one too |
| Aden, Yemen | 17 | October 12 200 | Two terrorist drive up next to the USS Cole. The USS Cole was at Port Aden. One of the terrorist explodes the bomb. The bomb blows a hole 20 feet tall and 40 feet wide. When the bomb blow up, it killed 17 sailers and injures 39. |
| New York City, New York | 18 | September 11 2001 | Two planes are flown into the Twin Towers in New York City. The terrorist hijacked the plane and flew it into the towers. Killing themselves and the tower. The terrorist planned it so that when they hit the tower in the middle that they would fall untop of there selves. That is just what they did. The attack on the towers killed 3,000. Some people were calling there houses from cell-phones from inside the tower. Telling there loved ones that they would not be comeing home today. Reminder there wives to be strong and tell there kids i love them. Just think how sad that day was for many people. |
