Historical and current counter-US
activities seem to be focussing more
on hitting the .mil (and spyhqHHHembassies)
vs. airlines.
Members of the flying public appreciate
your new, more-to-the-point focus, Osama, and
your PR consultant should be praised.
See you in Utah...
By The Associated Press
A look at recent terrorist attacks against United States
interests.
July 8, 1998 -- U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed,
killing
224 people, 12 of whom were Americans.
June 25, 1996 -- Truck bomb explodes outside the Khobar Towers
housing complex near Dharan, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans
and
injuring more than 500 Americans and Saudis.
Nov. 13, 1995 -- Car bomb detonates at a U.S. military
headquarters in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing five Americans.
Sept. 13, 1995 -- Rocket-propelled grenade pierces wall of U.S.
Embassy in Moscow, but causes no injuries.
Dec. 21, 1988 -- Pan Am Boeing 747 explodes over Lockerbie,
Scotland
on a flight from London to New York, killing 270 people.
Sept. 5, 1986 -- Hijackers seize Pan Am jumbo jet carrying 358
people at
Karachi Airport. Twenty people killed when security forces storm
the
plane.
April 2, 1986 -- Four Americans killed when a bomb under a seat
explodes on a TWA airliner en route from Rome to Athens.
June 14, 1985 -- Shiite gunmen seize a TWA airliner and forced it
to
Beirut, Lebanon. U.S. Navy diver was killed and 39 Americans held
hostage for 17 days.
Sept. 20, 1984 -- Car bomb at U.S. Embassy annex in east Beirut,
Lebanon kills 16 and injures the ambassador.
Dec. 12, 1983 -- Shiite extremists set off car bombs in front of
the U.S.
and French embassies in Kuwait City, killing five people and
wounding
86.
Oct. 23, 1983 -- Shiite suicide bomber blows up U.S. Marine
barracks in
Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 Americans.
April 18, 1983 -- Suicide car-bomber blows up U.S. Embassy in
Beirut,
killing 17 Americans.
Nov. 4, 1979 -- Islamic students storm U.S. Embassy in Tehran,
Iran,
holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
