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The War on Terror Is A Faux Issue: No Worse Since 1968!
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Harrod's department store London bombed on December 16, by Northern Ireland terrorist organization Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). Bombing killed 5, including 1 American, and injured 91.
Sept 1984
14 killed, 70 wounded when van loaded with 400 pounds of explosives drove past checkpoint at the U.S. embassy annex in Awkar and were detonated, driver of the van killed by British security guards. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
June 1985
A bomb exploded on Air India flight over North Atlantic following departure from Canada, killing all 329 passengers on board. A 2nd bomb exploded at Narita Airport Japan, killing 2. Sikh extremists claimed responsibility.
July 1985
Abu Nidal terrorist's bombed British Airways ticket office in Madrid, killing 1 injuring 27. A TWA office also destroyed. The bombings in retaliation against President Reagan's threat the previous day to strike against terrorism.
Oct 1985
4 armed Palestinians hijacked Italian cruise ship "Achille Lauro" near Alexandria, Egypt, off the Syrian port of Tartus, terrorists killed wheelchair-bound American. Egypt & Italy negotiated return of ship and remaining passengers. U.S. fighter's intercepted Egyptian jet carrying hijackers forced it down at NATO base in Italy.
Nov 1985
An Egyptian jet hijacked to Malta. 59 passengers, including 1 American, killed when Egyptian troops stormed the plane in Malta on November 24.
April 1986
4 Americans killed and 9, including 5 Americans, injured when a bomb exploded aboard TWA flight 840 as it traveled from Rome to Athens. The aircraft landed safely at Athens airport.
April 1986
Le Belle Disco, a nightclub in West Berlin frequented by U.S. servicemen, was bombed, killing two American soldiers and one Turkish woman. Two hundred others were wounded in the bombing. Libya was implicated in the bombing.
Sept 1986
Twenty-one Jewish worshipers were killed in Istanbul during an attack on a synagogue by an Abu Nidal terrorist team.
June 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.
Nov 1987
Two North Korean agents, killing all 115 persons aboard, blew up Korean Air Lines Flight 858 over the Andaman Sea near Burma.
Nov 1987
Thirteen people were killed in the Northern Ireland town of Enniskillen when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) detonated a bomb during the town's observance of Remembrance Day.
Dec 1988
A bomb destroyed Pan Am Flight 103, outbound from London for New York with 259 people aboard, on December 21, 1988 while over Lockerbie, Scotland. All aboard killed, as were eleven persons on the ground at Lockerbie.
Sept 1989
UTA Flight 772 from Chad was blown up by bomb while flying over the Sahara desert in Niger, killing all 171 passengers and crew onboard.
Feb 1993
Terrorism came to U.S. soil for the first time in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, which killed six and injured 1,000. The mastermind was Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, a Pakistani militant trained in Afghanistan. Yousef captured in 1995 in Pakistan. When he was brought to New York for trial, he bragged to FBI agents that he could have destroyed the complex if he'd had sufficient funds and equipment.
March 1995
Terrorists used chemical weapons for first time when Aum Shinrikyo, also known as the Aum Supreme Truth, simultaneously released chemical nerve agent sarin on several Tokyo subway trains. Twelve people were killed and up to 6,000 injured.
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