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Tehran, Iran
Iranian radical students seized te U.S. embassy, taking 66 hostages, 14 were later released. The remaining 52 were freed after 444 days on the day of President Reagan's Inauguration -
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Beirut, Lebanon
U.S. embassy destroyed in suicide car-bomb attack; 63 dead, including 17 Americans. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. -
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Shiite truck bombers attacked the U.S. embassy and other targets killing 5 and injuring 80. -
New York City, New York, U.S.A
Bomb exploded in basement garage of World Trade Center, killing 6 and injuring at least 1,040 others. In 1995, militant Islamist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman asnd 9 others were convicted of conspiracy charges, and in 1998, Ramiz Yousef, believed to have been the mastermind, was convicted of the bombing. Al-Qaeda involvment is suspected -
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
Cab bomb exploded outside federal office building, collapsing wall and floors. 168 people were killed including 19 children and 1 person who died in recue effort. Over 220 buildings sustained damage. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas later convicted in the antigovernment plot to avenge the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Tx, exactly 2 years earlier. -
9-11-01: New York City, NY; Arlington, VA; Shanksville, PA
Hijackers crashed 2 commercial jets into twin towers of World Trade Center; 2 more hijacked jets were crashed into the Pentagon and a field in rural PA. Total dead and missing numbered 2,992: 2,749 in NYC, 184 at the Pentagon, 40 in PA, and 19 hijackers. Islamic Al-Qaeda terrorist group blamed. -
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
A Nigerian man on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit attempted to ignite an explosive device hidden in his underwear. The explossive device that failed to detonate was a mixture of powder and liquid that did not alert security personnel in the airport. The alleged bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, told officials later that he was directed by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. The suspect was already on the government's watch list when he attempted the bombing. -
Iraq
A suicide bomber kills eight American civilians, 7 of them CIA agents, at a base in Afghanistan. It's the deadliest attack on the agency since 9/11. The attacker is reportedly a double agent from Jordan who was acting on behalf of Al-Qaeda. -
New York City, New York, U.S.A.
After discovering a bomb in a smoking vehicle parked in Time Square, authorities arrest Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistinian who recently became a naturalized US citizen and charge him with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and several other federal charges. American officials later announce that the Pakistinian Taliban likely played a role in the bomb plot, including Shahzad.
