The following is a synopsis of forty-one terrorist incidents that have resulted in US fatalities. The list begins with the event that initiated my own awakening to this problem, the bombing of the US Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983. This is when I believe we should have begun the Global war on Terror. I’ve advocated it ever since.
This list only includes fatal attacks and only those with US victims. Not listed here are those that did not result in loss of life. Kidnappings and property damage incidents are also not listed.
October 23, 1983 -- Simultaneous suicide truck bombs on U.S. and French compounds in Beirut, Lebanon. A 12,000 lb bomb destroys a US Marine Corps base killing two hundred and forty one U.S. citizens; another fifty eight Frenchmen are killed when a 400 lb device destroys one of their bases. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility. U.S. and French aircraft strike suspected terrorist bases in the Beka'a valley in retaliation.
November 15, 1983 -- US Naval officer, CAPT George Tsantes, shot by November 17 terrorist group in Athens, Greece, when his car stopped at traffic lights.
March 16, 1984 -- CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, William Buckley, kidnapped by the Iranian backed Islamic Jihad. He was tortured and then executed by his captors.
April 12, 1984 -- Eighteen US servicemen killed and eighty three people injured in bomb attack on restaurant near USAF base in Torrejon, Spain. Responsibility claimed by Hezbollah as revenge for March bombing in Beirut.
September 20, 1984 -- Suicide bomb attack on US Embassy in East Beirut kills twenty three people, 8 of them US citizens, and injures twenty one others. The US and British ambassadors were slightly injured in the explosion which was attributed to the Iranian backed Hezbollah group.
December 4, 1984 -- Kuwaiti airliner hijacked en-route to Pakistan from Dubai by Iranian backed Iraqi Shia terrorists. The aircraft was forced to land in the Iranian capital, Tehran, after two U.S. citizens had been killed. The terrorists surrendered to the Iranian authorities and are later released.
February 7, 1985 -- Under the orders of narcotrafficker Rafael Cero Quintero, Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and his pilot were kidnapped, tortured, and executed.
June 6, 1985 -- Red Army Faction bomb explodes at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, killing three people. A TWA Boeing 727 was hijacked en route to Rome, Italy, from Athens, Greece, by two Lebanese Hezbollah terrorists and forced to fly to Beirut, Lebanon. The eight crews and one hundred and forty five passengers were then held for seventeen days, during which one U.S. hostage was murdered. After being flown twice to Algiers, on the aircraft's return to Beirut the hostages were released after the US Government pressured the Israelis to release four hundred and thirty five Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.
June 14, 1985 -- A Trans-World Airlines flight was hijacked en route to Rome from Athens by two Lebanese Hezbollah terrorists and forced to fly to Beirut. The eight crew members and 145 passengers were held for 17 days, during which one U.S. hostage, a U.S. Navy sailor, was murdered. After being flown twice to Algiers, the aircraft was returned to Beirut after Israel released 435 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.
August 8, 1985 -- Three US servicemen are killed and seventeen injured in Red Army Faction bomb and gun attack on Rhine-Main airbase, Germany.
October 7 1985 -- Four Palestinian Liberation Front terrorists seize the Italian cruise liner, Achille Lauro, during a cruise in the eastern Mediterranean, taking more than seven hundred people hostage. One US passenger, Leon Klinghofer, was murdered before the Egyptian Government offered the terrorists safe haven in return for the hostages' freedom. US Navy fighters incepted the Egyptian aircraft flying the terrorists to safety in Tunis and forced it to land at the NATO airbase in Italy, where the terrorists were arrested. The Italian authorities however let two of the terrorists leaders escape on diplomatic passports.
March 30, 1986 -- A Palestinian splinter group detonated a bomb as TWA Flight 840 approached Athens Airport, killing four U.S. citizens.
April 2, 1986 -- Two US citizens are killed by the explosion of a bomb aboard a TWA Boeing 727 bound from Rome to Athens. Nine others are injured.
April 5, 1986 -- Two US soldiers are killed and seventy nine U.S. servicemen are wounded in Libyan bomb attack on a night club in West Berlin, Germany.
April 14, 1987 -- US Navy club in Naples, Italy, bombed by Japanese Red Army killing five.
April 24, 1987 -- Sixteen U.S. servicemen riding in a Greek Air Force bus near Athens were injured in an apparent bombing attack, carried out by the revolutionary organization known as 17 November.
November 14, 1987 -- Seven people are killed and 37 injured by the explosion of a booby-trapped chocolate box in a wing of the American University in Beirut.
December 26, 1987 -- Catalan separatists bombed a Barcelona bar frequented by U.S. servicemen, resulting in the death of one U.S. citizen.
April 14, 1988 -- The Organization of Jihad Brigades exploded a car bomb outside a USO Club in Naples, Italy, killing one U.S. sailor.
June 28, 1989 -- Greek terrorists attacked and killed US Naval Attaché, CAPT William Nordeen, in Athens. Nordeen used an armored car due to the persistent threat of small arms attack. Terrorists of the November 17th Organization (N-17) placed 50 pounds of explosives in a stolen car 100 yards from his apartment and command detonated it as he drove by. The attack followed several weeks of surveillance by the terrorists
August 8, 1988 -- Pakistan president Zia Al Haq and US ambassador are killed, along with thirty seven other people, when a bomb explodes on a C-130 Hercules aircraft just after take off from Bahawalpu, Pakistan.
December 21, 1988 -- Pan Am Boeing 747 blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, by a bomb believed to have been placed on the aircraft at Frankfurt Airport, Germany. All 259 people (189 US citizens) on the aircraft were killed by the blast which has been attributed to a number of Middle Eastern terrorist groups. Two Libyan intelligence operatives are being tried in connection with this attack.
February 26. 1993 -- World Trade Centre in New York, USA, badly damaged by a massive bomb planted by Islamic terrorists. The car bomb was planted in an underground garage and left six people dead and more than one thousand people injured.
July 19, 1994 -- A commuter plane exploded in flight over the Santa Rita Mountains. Among the 21 victims were Israeli nationals, dual Israeli-Panamanian citizens, and three US citizens.
January 15, 1995 -- A US tourist was killed and her husband was seriously wounded when Khmer Rouge rebels attacked their sightseeing convoy. A tour guide also was killed when the assailants fired a rocket at the van.
March 8, 1995 -- Two unidentified gunmen armed with AK-47 assault rifles opened fire on a US Consulate van in Karachi, killing two US diplomats and wounding a third. The Pakistani driver was not hurt.
November 13, 1995 -- A car bomb explosion in the parking lot of the Office of the Program Manager/Saudi Arabian National Guard (OPM/SANG) in Riyadh, killed seven persons and wounded 42 others. The deceased include four US federal civilian employees, one US military person, and two Indian Government employees. The blast severely damaged the three-story building, which houses a US military advisory group, and several neighboring office buildings. Three groups, including the Islamic Movement for Change, claimed responsibility for the attack.
January 31, 1996 -- Suspected members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eel am (LTTE) rammed an explosives-laden truck into the Central Bank in the heart of downtown Colombo, killing 90 civilians and injuring more than 1,400 others. Among the wounded were two US citizens, six Japanese, and one Dutch national. The explosion caused major damage to the Central Bank building, an American Express office, the Intercontinental Hotel, and several other buildings.
February 26, 1996 -- A suicide bomber blew up a bus, killing 26 persons, including three US citizens, and injuring some 80 persons, including three other US citizens. HAMAS's Izz al-Din al-Qassem Battalion claimed responsibility for the bombing in retaliation for the Hebron massacre two years before, but later denied involvement. HAMAS also issued a leaflet assuming responsibility for the bombing signed by the Squads of the New Disciples of Martyr Yahya Ayyash, the Engineer, claiming the bombing was in retaliation for Ayyash's death on 5 January 1996.
March 4, 1996 -- A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device outside the Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv's largest shopping mall, killing 20 persons and injuring 75 others, including two US citizens. HAMAS and the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) both claimed responsibility for the bombing.
June 25, 1996 -- A fuel truck carrying a bomb exploded outside the US military's Khobar Towers housing facility in Dhahran, killing 19 US military personnel and wounding 515 persons, including 240 US personnel. Several groups claimed responsibility for the attack, which remains under investigation.
December 11, 1996 -- Five armed men claiming to be members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) kidnapped a US geologist at a methane gas exploration site in La Guajira Department. (The geologist was killed, and his body was retrieved by Colombian authorities in February 1997.)
September 4, 1997 -- Three suicide bombers detonated bombs in the Ben Yehuda shopping mall in Jerusalem, killing eight persons, including the bombers, and wounding nearly 200 others. A dual US-Israeli citizen was among the dead, and seven US citizens were wounded. The Izz-el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), claimed responsibility for the attack.
November 12, 1997 -- One day, after the conviction of Mir Aimal Kansi, two unidentified gunmen shot to death four US auditors from Union Texas Petroleum and their Pakistani driver after they drove away from the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi. The Islami Inqilabi Council, or Islamic Revolutionary Council, claimed responsibility in a call to the US Consulate in Karachi. The Aimal Secret Committee, or Aimal Khufia Action Committee, also claimed responsibility in a letter to Pakistani newspapers.
August 7, 1998 -- A bomb exploded at the rear entrance of the US Embassy in Nairobi, killing 12 US citizens, 32 Foreign Service Nationals (FSNs), and 247 Kenyan citizens. Approximately 5,000 Kenyans, six US citizens, and 13 FSNs were injured. The US Embassy building sustained extensive structural damage. The US Government is holding terrorist financier Osama bin Laden responsible. Almost simultaneously, a bomb detonated outside the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, killing seven FSNs and three Tanzanian citizens, and injuring one US citizen and 76 Tanzanians. The explosion caused major structural damage to the US Embassy facility. The US Government holds Osama bin Laden responsible.
February 25, 1999 -- The FARC kidnapped three US citizens, according to media reports. The victims worked for the Hawaii-based Pacific Cultural Conservancy International. On 4 March the bodies of the three victims were found in Venezuela. FARC leaders claimed rogue elements within the organization were responsible.
March 1, 1999 -- According to French diplomatic reports, 150 armed Hutu rebels attacked three tourist camps, killed four Ugandans, and abducted three US citizens, six Britons, three New Zealanders, two Danish citizens, one Australian, and one Canadian national. On 2 March, US Embassy officials reported the Hutu rebels killed two US citizens, four Britons, and two New Zealanders. The rebels released the remaining hostages.
September 6, 2000 -- Thousands of armed militiamen and their supporters rampaged through a U.N. office in West Timor, killing at least three workers - including one from Puerto Rico - and burning their bodies.
October 12, 2000 -- In Aden, a small dingy carrying explosives rammed the US destroyer, USS Cole, killing 17 sailors and injuring 39 others. Supporters of Osama bin Laden are suspected.
That’s 573 US lives lost. The next incident on this list would be the September 11, 2001 attacks. Terrorists hijack four US commercial airliners taking off from various locations in the US in a coordinated suicide attack….
Well im quite surprised there has been no replies posted by the usual whiney anti millitary types. Oh, just maybe they dont have a snappy retort for the real facts. Conspiracy and suspition against our government from snooty shits has always irritataed the crap out of me. These facts of terrorism previously stated are well known facts to american millitary personell. Only since the 911 situation has the general public taken interest in these "other goings on" if you will! I am not a fair weather patriot like many americans i was a soldier before 911 and will be a soldier till i die or retire!! Yes to all whom may read this and get all pissy im talking about YOU!! Chew on this, If it were not for people like myself and my brothers in arms your lazy fat asses wouldnt be here writing your daily brain farts down for the world to see how dumb you are!!!!!
Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:42 pm
stOneskull
Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 819 Location: Australia
no they'd have more of their money that is given for taxes used to fund the military.
joining the military is giving your life away to be a servant, a chess piece on a global board game.
the only ones who like war are the ones who profit from it.
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The list begins with the event that initiated my own awakening to this problem,
the bombing of the US Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983.
This is when I believe we should have begun the Global war on Terror. I’ve advocated it ever since.
war IS terror
you should defend your nation,
not attack other nations.
the base in lebanon may be seen as terror by some,
it's just in your eyes that you are the 'good guys'
and of course, you're trained that way.
you've lost your eyes.
Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:14 am
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Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 519 Location: Louisville KY
dragonsoldier...
wow...
thanks...
I guess...
...
cheers
Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:34 pm
alexclaton VIP
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 640 Location: Hell on earth
dragonsoldier wrote:
Well im quite surprised there has been no replies posted by the usual whiney anti millitary types. Oh, just maybe they dont have a snappy retort for the real facts. Conspiracy and suspition against our government from snooty shits has always irritataed the crap out of me. These facts of terrorism previously stated are well known facts to american millitary personell. Only since the 911 situation has the general public taken interest in these "other goings on" if you will! I am not a fair weather patriot like many americans i was a soldier before 911 and will be a soldier till i die or retire!! Yes to all whom may read this and get all pissy im talking about YOU!! Chew on this, If it were not for people like myself and my brothers in arms your lazy fat asses wouldnt be here writing your daily brain farts down for the world to see how dumb you are!!!!!
lol
first of all i can type this because the internet is NOT a fvckin country/continent and has NO ruler....
not because u went to a stone age fvckin country in the middle of a famine to shoot ppl who at best have sticks and stones...
we use the internet they made out of convenience, they can shut it down, guess what, well build a better one right on fvckin top of it.... so take ur arrogant tuff guy attitude and shuv it up ur ass, u know, where u keep all ur "mates" dicks...
im anti war... pro annihilation
and its idiots like u who should be annihilated... terrorists are just like u, they think what theyre doing is good and just, fact is ur all wrong, other idiots that need to be annihilated are the whiney sissies who refuse to lift a finger to help/save their own families... the chicken shits that would rather run and hide then stand and fight...
like stoneskull said, war IS terror...
there are no good or bad guys... theres only idiots fighting eachother because they were TOLD to... and dragging the rest of us into it along the way....
ANYONE who supports war deserves to die and should be annihilated.... left/right, good/bad, lib/con ,and every other duality bullshit u can think of...
theres only one person who tells me who/when to fight... and that person is ME!
assholes who give up their choice to someone else is nolonger human and is not deserving of my sympathy/mercy...
assholes who kill unarmed ppl because they were "told" to...
im not against fighting, im not against violence.. but i am against stupidity... if ur gonna fight , for fvcks sake make sure u have a damn good reason to do so... and if u and ur "enemy" share the same reason, then perhaps u can use that common reason to work out ur problems, and if violence is the only thing u can come up with, then buy all means kill each other and get the fvck off our planet...
and btw , im not a soldier, im a fighter, and ill die a fighter, and hopefully ill get to kill lots of u worthless fvckin robots/soldiers....
Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:57 am
false flag VIP
Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 444 Location: melbourne, Australia
Well said Alex! I agree 100% with you. Military twits make me puke always whining about what great bloody patriots they are. Because they can slaughter unarmed civillians and destroy everything the people of that country have built. Yeah real tough stuff bet it gives em a hard-on lining up some kids in the sights of their M16 rifle. I have family who are in the Australian navy and I always argue with them telling them they are no better than robots and that they are mindless servants of ZOG..geez wonder why they don't like seeing me much
Been playing that new Stalker game and must admit the best bit is shooting the soldiers who are always trying to shoot you up.
And to anybody in the millitary who reads this thread, the time has come for you to WAKE UP and stop being a servant of some pig sty dwelling mutants who don't even live in your country.
Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:59 pm
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I used to work at UofL cambus bar, The Granville Inn. I worked in the kitchen and got paid cash$!! But there would be many nights were fights would break out because some hot head/muscle fvck in the millitary would start running his mouth. Staking claims that he is deserved somthing for defending our freedoms. It was usually ugly and rediculous indeed.
The bar keep, my Brittish friend, while I must add, is awake, was tough and usually single handedly threw these jokes out of the bar. i remember one night after my shift, I was having my shift beer at the rear of the bar with a few regulars, next to the pool table. In came 3 army buffs, in uniform to shoot pool and whiskey. I at the time had a blue mohawk and hooped ear rings. We ignored there conversations and attempts to cause a stir until one of these guys called me a fag and threatend to "rip out those faggot ear rings, beat you to a pulp and piss on you till the blue bledds out of your hair, better yet, let the red of your blood run with the blue that maybe you would show patriotism." As soon as he said this to me, Ed (the bar keep) had this guy by the shoulders, dragging him through the bar, out the door, and rammed his head into the back of Ed's own car. His two buddies left in a hurry. later that night, they came back into the bar around close and one of them walked directly into the bar and started pissing on the floor, went outside and threw a brick through the window. About five of us chased them down, and beat the shite out of them.
I agree with Alex.
A good friend of mine, always saying that he wishes to create a stupid bomb, and killing off only the stupid.
I find it sad that both sides of "the divide" have fallen into the same traps of irrational "name calling" and general confrontation. Such approaches do nothing but perpetuate the very barriers that prevent us all from getting somewhere in trying to know reality. There are arseholes on all sides of all debates; there are also good people on all sides of all debates.
Whether we like it or not, we are all slaves under the grip of the elite. It matters not which view is closer to actual reality, as we are all under the same truth regardless. What does matter is whether the general approach is confrontational with those whom oppose, or trying to get constructive discussion out of it (it is not going to be the case that one side is 100% right and the other 100% wrong - even if one side did happen to hit the magical 100%-right, we would never realise it). We can fight all we want amongst ourselves (and "we", that is all non-elite creatures, are all on the same side [whether we like it, or know it, or not]).
In the event someone from an opposing faction is completely closed to discussion, well, then, just move on (there is no point wasting time arguing over nothing).
Just because someone kills, beats, censors, controls, or whatever, someone, or something, that I oppose does not make those actions laudable, correct, or otherwise positive. A negative action is a negative action regardless of who does it, and the same is true of positive ones.
