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Terror Attacks
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Bombing of the Hilton Hotel in Sydney
While hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting, a bomb placed in a garbage truck outside of the Hilton Hotel exploded. The explosion killed three people and left nine badly wounded. The domestic group called the Ananda Marga was accused of masterminding the attack. The reason for the attack was to target the Prime MInster along with eleven other government officials. -
Bombing of DAS Headquarters
Outside of of the Administrative Department of Security building in Bogota, Columbia, a bus that carrying dynamites exploded killing 45 people while injuring more than 400 people. The attack was said to be the work of a domestic group of drugs traffickers called Medellín Cartel. The purpose of their attack was to kill the director of the DAS, Miguel Maza Márquez. However, they have failed to do so. -
The First Bombing of the World Trade Center
Ramzi Yousef was the mastermind behind the bombing of the NYC World Trade Center garage. It was a foreign attack. The truck bomb killed 6 people and wounded over 1,000. There were seven suspects in total. The reasson for their attack was to take revenge for the Palestinians who were suffering because of U.S-aided Israel. -
The Matsumoto Sarin Incident
The Matsumoto incident occurred on evening of June 27 and lasted until the morning of June 28, 1994 in the city of Matsumoto, Japan. The incident was the responsibility of members from a religious domestic group called the Aum Shinrikyo. The attack resulted in the death of eight people and over 200 people were harmed due to the sarin gas that was released. The reason for the attack was to kill the judges who handled the fraud charges the Shinrikyo brought by Matsumoto landowners. -
Bombing of Jewish Community in Argentina
A suicide bomber drove a car bomb into the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in Buenos Aires, ArgentinaThe explosion cause 85 deaths and over 300 injuries. The AMIA is the home for the largest Jewish community in Latin America. It was said that the domestic group Hezbollah carried out what was planned by the Iranian government. -
Oklahoma CIty Bombing
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal was bombed by rental truck filled with a diesel-fuel-fertilizer bomb. The attack led to the death of 168 people and injured hundreds of more people. It was a domestic attack masterminded by Timothy McVeigh and associated with Terry Nichols. The two met in the military, where McVeigh shared his survivalist interests. Being influenced by events like the August 1992 shoot-out between federal agents survivalist Randy Weaver, McVeigh decided to bomb the federal building. -
St. Michel Subway Station Bombing
Rachid Ramda, the mastermind behind the bombing of the Saint Michel subway station in Paris, France killed nine people in injured 123 people. Ramda was an Algerian who had connections with the foreign Armed Islamic Group. The group's main motive was to overthrow the Algerian government. -
U.S Embassies Bombing in Africa
Outside of the U.S embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, at 10:30 a.m, a truck bomb exploded. Within minutes, another bomb exploded out of another U.S embassy in Dar es Salaam. The attack killed 224 and injured 4,500 people. The attack was blamed on the foriegn terrorist group Al-qaeda, masterminded by Osama bin Laden. The reason for the attack was due to the U.S interference in Saudi Arabia.
