List of anti-American terrorist incidents

• 1812 - Barbary pirates kidnap American sailors on USS Philadelphia, demand ransom payments

• 1865 - Former confederate agent assassinates US President Abraham Lincoln

• 1901 - President William McKinley assassinated by Russian-Polish anarchist, Leon Czolgosz

• 1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists fail to assassinate President Truman

• 1964 - John F. Kennedy assassinated by communist sympathizer, Lee Harvey Oswald(Although this is still open to debate in some circles)

• 1968 - Robert Kennedy assassinated by Jordanian, Sirhan Sirhan

• 1970 - The first mass hijacking occurred in 1970, the so-called Dawson's Field hijackings, when the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine seized control of two American planes and one Swiss airliner, all bound from Europe to the United States, to punish the United States for supporting Israel. The Pan Am, TWA and Swissair planes were blown up on the ground in Jordan and Egypt.

• 1975 - FALN bomb the Fraunces Tavern, killing four and injuring more than 50

• 1975 - CIA's Athens station chief was shot by Greek terrorist group, Revolutionary Organization 17 November. The group has committed further assassinations, often using a .45 calibre handgun, and around fifty other attacks. Initial attacks were aimed at American and Greek officials but the range of operations was expanded in the 1980s and 1990s to include bombings and EU targets.

• 1979 - US Embassy in Pakistan attacked by mob mistakenly blaming the US for radical Islamic faction hostage crisis in Mecca

• 1979 - Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days

• 1980 - Iranians seized the Iranian embassy in London, taking twenty-six people hostage. Two hostages were killed on May 5. Special forces stormed the embassy in Operation Nimrod, rescuing the remaining hostages and killing five of the six terrorists. Much of the embassy was destroyed by fire.

• 1983 - Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut, April 18, 1983

• 1983 - Bombing of Marine Barracks, Beirut, Oct 23,1983

• 1984 - Twenty-two people were killed (2 of them American) and seventy were wounded when a van loaded with four hundred pounds of explosives exploded in front of the U.S. Embassy annex in Awkar, Lebanon. Islamic Jihad (code name of Hezbollah) claimed responsibility for the bombing in a call to the media.

• 1985 - TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver killed

• 1985 - Achille Lauro hijacking, wheel-chair bound American killed by Palestinian terrorists

• 1986 - Four Americans were killed and nine people, including five Americans, were injured when a bomb exploded aboard TWA Flight 840 as it traveled from Rome to Athens. The aircraft was able to land safely at Athens airport.

• 1986 - Berlin discotheque bombing

• 1987 - A car bomb exploded outside the back gate of the U.S. Embassy in Rome and rockets were fired at the compound from across the street. One passerby was injured in the attacks.

• 1988 - April 14 at 8pm, a car bomb exploded in front of the USO Club in Naples, Italy. Five people died and fifteen were injured, including four U.S. servicemen. Junzo Okudaira, a Japanese Red Army (JRA) member, was indicted in the United States on April 9, 1993 for the Naples bombing. Okudaira is also a suspect in the June 1987 car bombing and mortar attack against the U.S. Embassy in Rome.

• 1988 - Pan Am Flight 103, outbound from London for New York with 259 people aboard, was destroyed by a bomb on December 21, 1988 while over Lockerbie, Scotland. All aboard the aircraft were killed as were eleven persons on the ground.

• 1993 - First World Trade Center bombing, February 26: 6 Killed, 1,000 injured

• 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: A truck bomb shattered the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people-including children playing in the building's day care center. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols launched the attack in protest of the US government

• 1995 - Killing of two US Diplomats in Pakistan, March 8, 1995

• 1996 - Khobar Towers bombing: 19 American servicemen killed

• 1998 - US embassy bombings: U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 214 killed (12 Americans); U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 10 killed

• 1999 - Millennium terror plot foiled. Plan by Al Qaeda related groups to attack Los Angeles International Airport, the USS The Sullivans, and tourist sites in Jordan

• 2000 - USS Cole attacked, 17 U.S. Navy sailors killed

• 2001 - World Trade Center attacked and the Pentagon attacked by airplanes, 2995 killed

• 2002 - Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and beheaded

• 2002 - Karachi consulate attack

• 2002 - 2 Marines shot, 1 killed in Kuwait

• 2003 - Riyadh Compound Bombings kill 9 Americans, among 35 others

• 2004 - Civilians Nicholas Berg, Jack Hensley, and Eugene Armstrong kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq

• 2004 - Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr, civilian working in Saudi Arabia, kidnapped and beheaded; 5 other Americans die in attacks in Saudi Arabia in 2004

See also: List of terrorist incidents, aircraft hijacking, suicide bombing, List of massacres, assassinations, Anti-American sentiment

External links, resources, references

• Terrorism Time Line (http://www.disaster-timeline.com/ttl.html)
• History of Terrorism (http://www.crimsonbird.com/terrorism/timeline.htm): Timeline of terrorist acts - chronology
• Thinkquest: Timeline of Terror (http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212088/tertime.htm)
• Time.com: A Timeline of Terror Terrorism (http://www.time.com/time/2001/underthreat/timeline/) Hits and Misses
• Infoplease: Terrorist Attacks on Americans (http://www.infoplease.com/spot/terrorism6.html)
• Infoplease: Terrorist Attacks (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001454.html) (within the United States or against Americans abroad)
• Frontline: Terrorist Attacks on Americans (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html)