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Hussein becomes President
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US embassy in Iran was seized by Ayatolla supporters
62 Americans were held hostage until January 20, 1981 -
8 year war between Iran and Iraq over waterway began
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Pan am Flight 103
Bomb destroyed plane over Scotland, killing 270 people -
Soviet Union withdrew from Afganistan
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US led Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm
Drove Iraq out of Kuwait -
Car bombing at world trade centers
A car bomb went of in the parking garage underneath the World Trade Center in New York, killing 6 amd injuring 1,000. -
Bin Laden declared war against US
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Truck Bomb
19 US soldiers were killed in Saudi Arabia -
Embassies
Kenyan and Tanzanian embassies were bombed, killing 190 and wounding 5,000 -
USS Cole
While in the port of Aden, Yemen, it was bombed, killing 17 US service personel. -
US invasion ends Taliban Rule
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9/11
Al-Qaeda
Flew two planes into the twin towers and one in the Pentagon -
US led attack to depose Sadam Hussein
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Al-Qaeda car bombs kill 35 in Saudi Arabia
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Al-Qaeda Truck bombs in Turkey kill 29 at two synagogues
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Al-Qaeda attacks oil companies in Saudi Arabia
Killed 22 -
London subway train Bombing
56 deaths -
Egypt resort hotels
88 deaths, done by Al-Qaeda -
Al-Qaeda Bombing of three American owned Hotels in Amman Jordan
60 deaths
