Date, Place
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Type of Attack
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Casualities
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Who
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Feb 29 1993:
USA, NYC, World Trade Center
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A bomb planted in an undergournd car parked at the World Trade Center
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6 killed, 1000 injured
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Four Muslim fundamentalists are convicted of conspiracy and other charges related to the bombing, thought to have been ordered by Saudi terror master Osama Bin Laden. In 1998, the so-called mastermind, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, is convicted and sentenced to life plus 240 years in prison.
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July 1993:
Lima, Peru
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Bomb explodes in bus outside embassy
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Shining Path guerrillas suspected
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March 1995:
Karachi, Pakistan, U.S. Consulate
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Murder
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Two American diplomats killed
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Possible retliation for World Trade Center bombing conviction
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April 19 1995:
USA, Oklahoma City
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Car bomb left outside a federal building
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168 killed, 600 injured
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Timothy McVeigh, 33, a member of an anarchist group hostile to the federal government, is convicted of the attack in 1997 and is exicuted in June 2001.
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September 1995:
Moscow, U.S. Embassy
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Rocket-propelled grenade
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Minor damage
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No suspects
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Oct 1995:
USA, train travelling between Miami & Los Angeles and derailed in Arizona
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Derailed by sabotage. Two of the bolts on one of the joints of the track were removed.
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Previously unknown group calling themselves "The Sons of the Gestapo".
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November 1995:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, U.S. military headquaters
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Bomb
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Seven killed
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Four anti-royal Saudi Arabian dessidents, possible connections to Party of God an Iran; beheaded in Saudi Arabia
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February 1996:
Athens, U.S. Embassy
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Anti-tank missile attack
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No injuries
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National Struggle
terrorist group
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June 1996:
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia,
Khobar Towers
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Truck bomb
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19 U.S. airmen killed
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Unknown
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July 1996:
USA, Centerary Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Olympic Games
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Bomb
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Unknown
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November 1997:
Karachi, Pakistan
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Murder of American oil- company employees
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five killed
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Possible revenge for U.S. conviction of Pakistani for murders of two CIA agents
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May 1998:
Unabomber sentenced to life
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Parcel bombings
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Theodore Kaczynski, alias the "Unabomber", is sentenced to life imprisonment for an 18-year campaign of parcel bombings as a part of an "anti-modernist" crusade
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June 1998:
Lebanon, U.S. Embassy
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Rocket-propelled grenades
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No injuries
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August 1998:
Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, U.S. embassies
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Simultanious bombings
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263 killed, 5000 injured
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Possibly Osama Bin Laden, Saudi financier
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October 2000:
The Destroyer USS Cole in Yemeni port of Aden
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Bomb blast
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17 killed
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September 11, 2001:
USA, NYC, World Trade Center, Pentagon, Pensylvania
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Airplane crashes
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Over 6000 killed, 1000 injured
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Possibly Ossama Bin Laden with the help of the Taliban and international cells and states.
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