11/24/2004
Islomanazi Terrorism Since 1968
Great article, here.
What is shocking is this long list, which by no means counts all instances. I have added a few that I know about that weren’t on the list.
A list of the attacks by Islamic terrorists since 1968 makes grim reading. Such a list is displayed below.
Arab Christians increasingly fled the Middle East, while Jews arrived in greater numbers from the late 19th century on. When Israel was founded in 1948, the Islamic world became fixated on destroying the nation of infidels in their midst. Despite an overwhelming population and military advantage, Arab armies failed in repeated attempts to invade Israel. After the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which lasted on six days, more and more Muslims turned to terrorism. Many of the attacks were inside Israel, or the Palestinian areas occupied by Israel after the 1967 war (because no Arab leaders were willing to negotiate a peace with Israel.) The list below includes the incidents of international terrorism by Islamic radicals. Most attacks were against Christians and Jews, but some targeted Muslims as well.
There is much discussion in the Muslim world about why there should be this much terrorism, and there is no agreement on the reasons, other than that the Arabs are incapable of effective military operations, rational thought or political compromise, and are only capable of terrorist attacks against real or imagined enemies. Other groups (Sikhs, Tamils, fundamentalist Christians, political radicals) have been responsible for terrorist attacks during this period, but these groups eventually gave it up, and their death toll, combined, does not match the number killed of Islamic groups.
Most Notable Islamic Terror Attacks
1968
June 5 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert Kennedy murdered by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, in Los Angeles, which causes further terrorist attacks, as Arab terrorist groups demanded his release.
1969
Feb. 18 - Boeing 707 attacked at Zurich, Switzerland, killing the pilot and 3 passengers.
Aug. 29 - TWA 707 hijacked from Rome to Damascus, released with only wounded.
Nov. 27- El Al office in Athens, Greece attacked. Innocent bystanders killed.
1970
Feb. 21 - Swiss airliner blown up over Switzerland, killing all 47 people on board.
Feb. 23 - PLO terrorists open fire on a busload of Christian pilgrims killing 1 and wounding 2 Americans.
April 21- Bomb explodes aboard a Philippines airliner. All 36 aboard are killed.
Sept. 6 - “Skyjack Sunday” in Jordan. 3 planes (TWA, Swissair, Pan Am) en route to the U.S. hijacked, 400+ hostages, planes blown up in Jordan, Governments agreed to PFLP’s demands, released terrorists from jails and hostages released.
Sept. 14 - The PFLP hijacked TWA flight to Ammon, 4 Americans injured.
1971
Nov. 28 - Jordanian prime minister Tal killed by terrorists at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.
Dec. - Jordanian ambassador to London, England is shot by hit squad.
1972
Jan. 26 - Bomb explodes on a Yugoslav plane killing all but one passenger.
May 30 - Ben Gurion Airport, Israel attack killed 26, and wounded 78 U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico.
Sept. 5 - Palestinian terrorists seize 11 athletes in the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, 9 hostages and 5 terrorists killed, plus David Berger from Cleveland.
1973
March 2 - Khartoum, Sudan. Cleo Noel, Jr., U.S. ambassador, and George C. Moore, U.S. diplomat, were held hostage and then killed by terrorists at the U.S. Embassy.
Aug. 5 - Suicide squad attacks Athens airport, Greece, killing 3 civilians and injuring 55.
Dec. 17 - Bomb explodes at Pan Am office at Rome, Italy killing 32 and injuring 50+. The terrorists take 7 Italian policemen hostage and hijack an aircraft to Athens, Greece, killing one of them.
1974
March 1 - Diplomats taken hostage from Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, 2 that are killed are American’s.
April 11 - Kiryat Shmona Massacre at an apartment building killing 18 people, 9 were children.
Sept. 8 - Athens, Greece. TWA Flight 841 exploded from bomb in cargo hold, all 88 passengers killed, including 32-year-old Steven Lowe, an American citizen.
Nov. 23 - British DC-10 hijacked at Dubai, UAE, flown to Tunisia where a German passenger was killed.
1975
Jan. 19 - Arab terrorists attack Orly airport, Paris, France, seizing 10 hostages from a bathroom. French provided the terrorists with a plane to fly them to safety in Baghdad, Iraq.
Sept. 30 - Hungarian airplane explodes killing all 64 persons on board.
Dec. 21 - Carlos “The Jackal” holds 11 oil ministers and 59 civilians hostage during the OPEC meeting in Vienna, Austria. Flew to Algeria, got $300,000,000 in ransom money, Carlos and his Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists escape.
1976
Jan. 1 - 82 innocent travelers are killed aboard a Lebanese plane.
June 27 - Air France airliner hijacked, forced to fly to Uganda. Some 258 passengers and crew are held hostage. 3 passengers killed. July 4th, Israeli commandos rescue the remaining hostages.
Aug. 11 - Terrorists attack Istanbul airport, Turkey, killing 4 civilians (1 from U.S.) and injuring 20.
Dec. 4 - Terrorists occupied the Indonesian Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands, 1 official killed.
Dec. 14 - Passenger train hijacked and passengers were kept hostage, 3 were killed.
1977
Jan. 1 - F.E. Melov U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, and Robert O.Waring, the U.S. economic counselor, kidnapped and later killed in Beirut.
Oct. 13 - Palestinian terrorists hijack a Lufthansa Flight 181 Boeing 737 and order it to fly around a number of Middle East destinations for four days, pilot is killed by the terrorists, 90 hostages rescued.
1978
March 11 - Gail Rubin, niece of U.S. Senator Ribicoff, among 38 people shot to death by terrorists on a beach near Tel Aviv.
June 2 - A bomb kills 2 people at the CHOGM meeting in Sydney Australia.
1979
July 29 - Terrorist bombs two railway stations in Madrid, kills 7.
Nov. 4 - Terrorists seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 66 American diplomats hostage. 13 freed, but the remaining 53 were held until their release on January 20, 1981 - 444 days - at the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan.
1980
April 30 - Terrorists took over the Iranian Embassy in London, holding 26 hostages, 2 of whom died on May 5th after being tortured. Much of the embassy was destroyed by fire.
1981
April 19 - 13 people killed, 177 injured in a terrorist attack in Davao Philippines.
May 13 - Pope John Paul II seriously wounded in assassination attempt in Rome, Italy, by terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca.
Oct. 6 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat machine gunned dead by Islamic Jihad in Cairo for working for peace. 7 others killed, 28 wounded. The assassins are later executed.
1982
Beginning of the 8 years of terrorism in Lebanon.
July 19 - David Dodge, President of the American University in Beirut kidnapped, spends one year in captivity.
Aug. 19 - Two American citizens, Anne Van Zanten and Grace Cutler, were killed along with 6 others when the PLO bombed a Kosher restaurant in Paris, France.
Sept. 14 - Lebanon’s President Gemayel and 26 others assassinated by a massive car bomb in Beirut.
1983
Mar. 16 - 5 Marines wounded in hand grenade attack on Beirut International Airport.
April 18 - CIA’s Middle East Director, and 83 others are killed, 120 injured in truck bomb on the US Embassy in Lebanon.
Sept. 29 - Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, explodes killing all 166 aboard.
Oct. 23 - Simultaneous suicide truck bombs in Lebanon: 1st crashed into lobby of US Marine Corps Headquarters, 241 Marines dead, 82 seriously injured - and 2nd was French compounds killing 58 paratroopers.
Dec. 12 - US Embassy in Kuwait targeted to destroy the building with a truck bomb, attack foiled by guards and the device killed 5 people and injured 80.
1984
Jan. 18 - Malcolm Kerr, President of the American University of Beirut, was killed by two Hizballah gunmen.
Mar. 8 - Rev. Weir and wife kidnapped in Lebanon and held for 16 months.
Mar. 9 - Car bomb kills 80 (22 Americans) and wounds more than 200 civilians when it drove past the checkpoint at the U.S. Embassy in Awkar.
Mar. 16 - Hizballah kidnapped, tortured and killed William Buckley, an officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
Apr. 12 - Hizballah bombed restaurant adjacent to US Air Force base in Torregon Spain, 18 servicemen killed and 83 Americans wounded.
Sept. 20- US embassy in the Beirut is bombed - 2 servicemen and 23 employees are killed, 21 Americans injured including the U.S. and British Ambassadors. 50+ Lebanese were injured.
Dec. 4 - Terrorists hijacked Kuwait Airlines Flight 221 and demanded the release from Kuwaiti jails of some members, serving sentences for attacks on French and American targets. 2 Americans murdered.
1985
March 16 - US journalist Terry Anderson kidnapped in Lebanon, finally released in Dec. 1991 - 6 years later.
April 5 - Bomb explodes outside Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut killing 80 people.
April 12 - Bombing of U.S. soldier’s favorite restaurant in Madrid, killing 18 and injuring 82.
June 14 - TWA Boeing 727 Flight 847 hijacked en route to Rome, 8 crew and 145 passengers were held for 17 days, U.S. Navy diver was murdered. After being flown twice to Algiers, the hostages were released after the US pressured to release 435 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.
Sept. 30 - Four Soviet diplomats kidnapped in Lebanon, 1 killed but other three released unharmed after a relative of the terrorist leader’s was kidnapped and killed by the Soviet KGB.
Oct. 7 - Terrorists seize the Italian cruise liner, Achille Lauro, during a cruise in the Mediterranean, taking more than 700 people hostage for 3 days. Disabled U.S. citizen, Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered in front of other hostages by throwing him in the ocean, before the Egyptian Government offered the terrorists safe haven in return for the hostages’ freedom.
Nov. 23 - 98 passengers and crew of an Egyptair Flight 648 are held hostage by Palestinian terrorists in Malta. 5 passengers shot, 2 died, later 57 additional passengers killed when the terrorists set off explosives in the aircraft.
Dec. 27 - Suicide grenade and gun attacks in passenger terminals at Rome and Vienna, Italy airports results in 16 people being killed plus 5 Americans and more than 100 civilians injured.
1986
March 30-April 2nd - A bomb exploded on a TWA flight 840 from Rome as it approached Athens airport. The attack killed 4 U.S. citizens who were sucked through a hole made by the blast, 1 infant, and 9 injured, although the plane safely landed.
April 6 - An explosion at the “La Belle” nightclub in Berlin, U.S. soldiers’ hang-out, was bombed, killing 3 and injuring 230 people, including 79 U.S. soldiers.
Sept. 5 - Pan Am Boeing 747 Flight 73 en route to Frankfurt and on to New York hijacked by Palestinian terrorists, with 379 passengers, including 89 Americans, 22 hostages killed, 127 wounded.
Sept. 9 - Hezballah kidnapped Frank Reed, President of American University in Beirut, and held for 44 months, and Joseph Cicippio, and Edward Tracy who were each held for 5 years.
Sept. 17 - A 10-month series of terrorist bomb attacks in France begins. One bomb in Paris kills 5 and injures 52.
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.
1988
Feb. 5 - US Marine Corps Lt. Colonel Higgens, Chief of the U.N. Truce Force kidnapped and murdered by Hezbollah.
March 16 - 4000+ Kurdish civilian bodies found after Saddam Hussein ordered nerve gas attack (weapon of mass destruction) in northern Iraq, after they revolted against his rule from Baghdad. 1.5 million relocated, 200,000 disappeared.
April 5 - 122 held hostage after a Kuwaiti Boeing 747 was hijacked and diverted to Iran, then Cyprus. Kuwait refused requests by hijackers to release 17 convicted terrorists. After 15 days the hijackers were granted asylum in Algeria and released their hostages.
June 26 - US Naval Attaché killed in Athens, Greece.
Dec. 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 - Boeing 747 from London to New York, blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, by a bomb. All 259 passengers and 11 on the ground were killed, including 35 Syracuse University students and many U.S. military personnel.
1989
June 12 - A bomb exploded aboard an unoccupied boat used by U.S. consular staff.
Sept. 19 - 171 passengers killed when French UTA flight 772 explodes in mid-air over Niger.
October 11 - Izmir, Turkey. A bomb went off outside a U.S. military PX.
1990
Feb. - Attack of tour bus in Egypt killing 11.
1991
Feb. 7 - Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, U.S. civilian contractor shot as he was getting into his car.
Oct. 28 - Ankara, Turkey. Victor Marwick, an American soldier serving at the Turkish-American base, Tuslog, was killed and his wife wounded in a car bomb attack.
Oct. 28 - Two car bombings killed a U.S. Air Force Sergeant and severely wounded an Egyptian diplomat in Istanbul.
Nov. 8 - Bomb destroyed part of the American University in Beirut, killing 1 and wounding 12.
1992
March 17 - Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, destroyed by bomb killing 29, injuring 60.
Hotel in Yemen bombed and U.S. servicemen killed, Operation Restore Hope.
1993
Jan. 25, Virginia, U.S.A. A Pakistani terrorist opened fire with AK-47 on CIA employees standing outside the building. Two agents, Frank Darling and Bennett Lansing, were killed and 3 others wounded.
Feb. 26 - World Trade Center in New York badly damaged by a massive bomb by Islamic terrorists. The van bomb was planted in an underground garage and left 6 people dead and 1042 injured and almost ½ billion dollars in damage.
Feb. 26 - A bomb exploded inside a café in downtown Cairo killing 3, 18 wounded, 2 U.S. citizens.
July 5 - In 8 separate incidents, 19 Western tourists traveling in southeastern Turkey were kidnapped, including U.S. citizen Starger, after weeks in captivity, they were released.
Oct - Killing of U. S. soldiers in Somalia.
1994
July 18 - 86 civilians killed and 300 wounded in bomb attack on Jewish social centre in Buneos Aires, Argentina.
July 26 - Israeli Embassy in London is car-bombed, wounding 20.
Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked to crash the plane in Paris but didn’t succeed.
A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman.
1995
Jan. 22 - Islamic Jihad militants blow themselves up amid a group of soldiers near Netanya, killing 21. Operation Bojinka is discovered on a laptop in a Manila, Philippines apartment, in which Osama bin Laden was planning to blow up 12 planes as they flew to the U.S., plus kill the Pope.
March 8 - Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan.
April 9 - Islamic Jihad suicide bomber attacks military convoy in Gaza, killing 7 soldiers and an American tourist.
May 5 - Five foreign oil workers murdered by Islamic GIA terrorists in Algeria.
June 26 - Assassination attempt made against Egyptian President Honsi Mubarak by Islamic radicals who ambushed his motorcade.
July 4 - Six tourists, including two U.S. citizens taken hostage in Kashmir, India. Terrorists demanded the release of Muslim militants held in Indian prisons. On Aug. 13 the decapitated body of the Norwegian hostage was found with a note stating that the other hostages also would be killed if the group’s demands were not met. They were not and all other hostages were killed in 1996 by the terrorists.
July 25 - Islamic terrorists explode bomb in metro station in Paris, France, killing 7 people and injuring 84.
Nov. 13 - Car bomb exploded at US Army Office of the Program Manager for Saudi Arabian National Guard Modernization, in Saudi Arabia, killing seven, five of them U.S. citizens, and wounding nearly a hundred.
Nov. 19 - Islamic radicals plant bomb in Egyptian embassy in Pakistan killing 17.
Dec. 11 - 15 concurrent car bombings in Algiers kill 15 civilians and over 200 injured.
1996
Feb. 11 - Terrorists explode car bomb in Algiers killing 17. The following month, 2 more killed in another bomb and 10 are killed in a train ambush in western Algeria.
Feb. 25 - A suicide bomber blew up a commuter bus in Jerusalem, killing 26, including 3 U.S. citizens, and injuring 80 others, among them another two U.S. citizens.
April 19 - Eighteen Greek tourists were gunned down near the historic Pyramids in Egypt by Islamic terrorists aiming to destroy the country’s tourist industry.
May - Osama bin Laden unites the Islamic Fundamentalists worldwide in their Jihad against Jews and Western Gentiles, such as al-Qaeda, Palestinian Authority, Hezbollah, Hamas, Mujahideen, using the Taliban’s organization to help fund the operations.
June 25 - Terrorists explode a truck bomb next to a USAF Khobar Towers housing facility at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 American servicemen and 515 injured including 240 U.S. personnel.
Islamic terrorists attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 71 people, most of them vacationers.
Aug. 26 - Sudan Airways A310 Airbus airliner hijacked en route to Jordan and diverted to England. British authorities negotiate with hijackers who release all the 13 crew and 180 passengers unharmed.
Dec. 3 - A bomb exploded aboard a Paris subway train, killing four and injuring 86 persons, including a U.S. citizen.
A terrorist opened fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the US, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself.
Dec. 23 - A car bomb in the Algerian capital, Algiers, kills three and injures 70 people in cafe near the port. Again a week later, a car bomb kills 28 people and injures 35 people. 3rd car bomb in the past two weeks, killing additional 13 people and injuring more than 250.
1997
Jan. 2 - Major cities worldwide and U.S. get letter bombs with Egyptian postmarks at newspaper bureaus in DC, New York, London, Riyadh, S.A., and Leavenworth, KN. Experts defused all but the 1 in London, injuring 2.
Jan. 7 to 21st - Islamic terrorist rampage during these 14 days with car bombs and beheadings in Algiers, total of 238 dead, 139 wounded.
Feb. 23 - Palestinian gunman opened fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State building in New York, killing 1 and wounding over a dozen visitors before turning the gun on himself.
March 7 - Two killed in bus bomb attack in Beijing, China.
April - Terrorists behead innocent civilians this whole month with a total of 272 murdered and over 100 injured. Knives, axes and chainsaws were used and many of the bodies were burned while still alive.
Sept. 18- 9 German tourists killed when Muslims fire bombed bus in Cairo, Egypt.
Nov. 12 - 2 Terrorists shot to death 4 U.S. auditors of a Texas petroleum company and their driver at a Sheraton Hotel in Karachi, Pakistan.
Nov. 17 - 58 western tourists killed and 30 injured in gun attack at historic monuments in southern Egypt. 6 of the Islamic terrorists are killed in shoot out with police.
1998
Jan. 15 - U.S. Embassy bombing in Peru.
Published February 23, 1998 - Statement signed by many Islamic Jihad Leaders from most Muslim countries, first by Sheikh Osamah Bin-Ladin: “…In compliance with God’s order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims:
The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies–civilians and military–is an individual duty for every Muslim who can, in any country in which it is possible… We — with Allah’s help — call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded, to comply with Allah’s order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. Unless you go forth, Allah will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place.”
Aug. 7 - Simultaneous bombs in US Embassies in Kenya, and Tanzania, heavily damaged by massive attacks. In the Nairobi attack 292 people were killed, including 12 Americans, and 5,000 injured. 10 people were killed and 86 injured in Tanzania incident for a total of 302 dead, 5086 injured within an hour.
Aug. 25 - 3 people killed and 25 injured in bomb attack on Planet Hollywood restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa.
Dec. 28 - 16 Western tourists kidnapped, 12 Britons, 2 U.S. citizens, and 2 Australians on the main road to Aden, Yemen. Four victims were killed during a rescue attempt the next day.
1999
Aug. 31 to Sept. 22nd - Russian apartment bombings kill almost 300 and injured 100.
Oct. 31 - EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed off the U.S. coast of Massachusetts, killing all 217 people on board, including 100 Americans.
Nov. 12 - Six rockets were fired at the U.S. and U.N. offices in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Dec. - Millennium terror plots foiled as customs agents arrest a man smuggling in explosives. Plan to attack Los Angeles airport and other sites intercepted by CIA. Also Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US tourists in Jordan, pick up 28 suspects.
Indian Airlines Flight 814, en route to Delhi, India is hijacked, 1 passenger is killed. After negotiations with the Taliban, the hostages are released.
2000
The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.
Oct. 12 - A suicide boat exploded next to the U.S.S. Cole (guided-missile destroyer), blowing a hole 40 feet in diameter, killing 17 American sailors and injuring 39.
2001
Feb. 5 - A bomb blast in Moscow’s Byelorusskaya subway station injures 15 people.
March 28 - Bombing at bus stop in Yemen. U.S. citizens injured including a 15 year old boy from NY.
Aug. 9 - Bombing at Sbarro’s pizzeria, killed 15 and wounded over 90, 2 of which were U.S. citizens.
Sept. 11 - 4 U.S. jetliners hijacked and forced to crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon like missiles, and 1 crashed in Pennsylvania on the way to the Capital Building in D.C. In all, 266 people perished in the four planes, 2602 people were killed on the ground, plus 343 firefighters, and 184 people at the Pentagon. Almost 5000 injured, 500 rescue workers now have respiratory ailments. 7 buildings collapsed in NY and 23 damaged, plus 4 subway stations.
Paris embassy terrorist attack plot foiled
Oct. 27 - Darya Khanah bombed
Dec. 13 - Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
Dec. - Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.
2002
Jan. 27 - A Palestinian woman triggered a massive explosion in Jerusalem killing 1 Israeli and injuring more than 150, including American Mark Sokolow, his wife, and both teenage daughters. Sokolow had survived the 9-11 attack on the World Trade Center, escaping from his law office on the 38th floor of the South Tower before it collapsed.
Feb. 16 - Bombing in Karnei Shomron, in a group of teenage girls from the U.S. 2 killed, 4 wounded. Singapore embassies terrorist attack plot foiled March 24 - 20 people die and 93 injured in 3 bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.
April - Explosion at most historic synagogue in Tunisia left 21 dead, most are German tourists.
Israeli senior citizens and their small grandchildren were slaughtered when a Palestinian terrorist blew up the Park Hotel in Netanya, killing 29 Jews in what’s referred to as the Passover Massacre.
May 9 - A bomb exploded in Dagestan kills 42 people and injures 130 during Victory Day festivities.
French oil tanker Limburg bombing off Yemen
Kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl
Oct. 12 - Bali car bombing of holidaymakers in a nightclub kills 202 Australian citizens.
Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines
Oct. 19 - Car bomb explodes at McDonald’s restaurant in Moscow, killing 1 person and wounding 5.
Oct. 23 - Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue 3 days later.
Nov. - Kenyan hotel suicide bombing kills 16 safari tourists.
Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2003
May 10- Suicide bombers killed 36 (10 U.S. citizens), at housing compounds for westerners in Riyadh, S.A. Many wounded.
May 12 - attack outside U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 12.
May 14 - 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern Chechnya.
May - 4 bombs killed 33 tourists (8 U.S. citizens) in Casablanca, Morocco.
July 5 - 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow.
Aug. 1 - An explosion at the Russian hospital in North Ossetia kills 50 people and injures 76.
Aug. - Suicide car bomb killed 12 and injured over 150 at Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Sept. 3- A bomb on a passenger train in southern Russia kills 7 people and injures 90.
Oct. 15 - Bombing of US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip: 3 U.S. citizens killed.
Nov. - Explosions rocked a Riyadh, S.A. housing compound, killing 17.
Nov. - Truck bombs detonated at London bank and British consulate in Istanbul kills 26, injures 22.
Dec. 5 - Suicide bombers kill 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia.
Dec. 9 - A blast in the center of Moscow kills 6 people and wounds at least 11.
Bombings of United States expatriate housing compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160.
Attacks in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead. The attack involved 12 bombers and 5 targets. The targets were “Western and Jewish”.
Istanbul Bombings: Within five days, truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey
2004
109 Kurds are killed in 2 suicide bombings in Arbil, Iraq Feb. 6 - Bomb on Moscow subway kills 41.
Feb. 27 - Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116.
March 11 - 10 Simultaneous bombings of busiest rush hour commuter trains in Madrid, Spain kills 202 people and injures more than 1,400.
April 21 - Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 5.
May 2 - Tali Hatuel, an 8-month pregnant mother and her 4 young daughters are gunned down in their car while it was traveling on the road that leads to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif.
May 11 - Nick Berg beheading
May 29 - Al-Khobar massacres–Islamic terrorists kill 22 people and one American at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.
June 8, 2004 Robert Jacobs, a US defense contractor employee is assassinated at his home in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Al-Qaeda terrorists.
June 11 - Terrorists kidnap and behead Paul Johnson, Jr. in Riyadh.
Aug. 24 - Russian airplane bombings kill 90.
August 31 A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills 10 people and injures 33.
Sept. 1 - 3 Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia results in over 330 dead.
Sept. 9 - Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing 9 people.
Oct. 7 - 3 car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula hotel, killing 32 and wounding 114, most of them tourists.
Nov. 2 - Dutch Filmmaker, Theo Van Gogh, killed by shooting and throat slit in Amsterdam, after his release of the short film “Submission”.
Nov. 15 - Margaret Hassan, CARE Director in Iraq and wife of an Iraqi national, a resident of Iraq an helper to the Iraqi people for over 30 years, is killed by a bullet to the head while she is bound and blindfolded. Her body (torso) is found, with hands and feet cut, disembowelled.
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November 24th, 2004 at 6:59 am
Here’s what kills me. France, or the French, are targeted 6 times by extremists and Chirac embraced Arafat? The guy’s a friggin *********. There’s something very, very wrong with him.
November 24th, 2004 at 7:14 am
Agreed. This list is so long I just don’t understand that people are making deals with the likes of Arafat. I mean Clinton met with him 23 times. I think Clinton helped him to re-tool his image from a killing murdering terrorist to a statesman. Makes me want to hurl.
August 5th, 2005 at 4:10 pm
Keep educating the public,good work!!
December 23rd, 2006 at 12:46 am
“kyjack Sunday” in Jordan. 3 planes (TWA, Swissair, Pan Am) en route to the U.S. hijacked, 400+ hostages, planes blown up in Jordan, Governments agreed to PFLP’s demands, released terrorists from jails and hostages released.
Sept. 14 - The PFLP hijacked TWA flight to Ammon, 4 Americans injured.”
Whoa there, dude, the PFLP was headed by George Habbash, a Palestinian Christian.
December 23rd, 2006 at 6:33 am
The “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” was led by a Palestinian Christian???? Riiight..I love how marxists twist things around. The skiy is black, liberation is oppression, etc. What’s more ridiculous is that’s all you can say out of all those examples of Islamonazi terrorism since 1968!!!
Wikipedia’s lengthy entry doesn’t mention George Habash as being a Palestinian Christian, although it does mention that “On a 1969 congress, the PFLP re-designated itself a Marxist-Leninist movement, and has remained a Communist organization ever since.”
I’m certain that Christianity doesn’t coexist with the marxist ideology, but nice try.
By the way, what are you doing commenting on an entry from 2004? I’m going to have to install that plugin that automatically shuts down older entries to comments.
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:00 pm
I’m commenting because Kathy Shaidle linked to this the other day.
You better read the Wikipedia entry on the PFLP more closely — it does mention that Habash is a Palestinian Christian and that one of the sources of PFLP electoral support is from Christian areas in Palestine.
By the way, I’m Catholic, not Marxist.
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:04 pm
“What’s more ridiculous is that’s all you can say out of all those examples of Islamonazi terrorism since 1968!!!”
The PFLP example stood out like a sore thumb. If this is typical of your “scholarship” then I’m not going to waste my time on the rest but I’m severely skeptical at this point.
FYI, Shaidle’s link is http://relapsedcatholic.blogspot.com/2006/12/earl-that-was-my-dads-name-he-was-jerk.html
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:12 pm
LMAO sj — this thread is TWO YEARS OLD … {banging head on keyboard}
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Hey, people are still linking to it. Be proud and get your head off the keyboard.
December 23rd, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Actually, Cindy Sheehan is hanging with the marxists of Code Pink and is actually a member herself, and she’s catholic.
I’m saying the Christian ideology–the real one, not the National Council of Churches one that doesn’t even care about the suffering of Christians-doesn’t fit in with the marxist ideology. And those that say the kind of **** you’re saying, whether they know it or not, are acting as the hard left’s “useful idiots”.
December 23rd, 2006 at 9:19 pm
“And those that say the kind of **** you’re saying”
so that’s what you’re reduced to. ohhkaaaay.
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:12 pm
Put your cursor over the stars in my comment so you can read the whole thing. The stars indicate that I might have said a bad word. In case you’re not aware of it, the plugin that I recently installed makes comments more ‘polite’, but you can still see what’s there if you actually look for it.
Looks to me as though you have nothing to say in response, so now you’re attempting subtle sneering elitist type insults. I haven’t been ‘reduced’ to anything, but it seems like you have this need to look down on me for some reason. Now why would that be? Does it make you feel big to do that?
December 24th, 2006 at 1:01 am
The cursor trick doesn’t work for Macs.
More importantly, what you’re reduced to is calling me a Marxist or one of their useful idiots, simply because I pointed out that PFLP terrorist attacks couldn’t be ascribed to Islamic terror because the PFLP was founded by a Palestinian Christian (by heritage if not ideology). Now I’d be happy to clarify that Habash and the PFLP seem to have operated on the basis of a Marxist ideology and not a Christian one if that’s what’s bugging you but I think that leaves my point untouched, that the list of “Islamic terrorist attacks since 1968″ contains seriously erroneous information.
I would say that you seem to be the one who isn’t able to respond except in insults.
December 24th, 2006 at 5:31 am
“Seriously erroneous information” does not include the PFLP, in my opinion, so the list is accurate. Get a clue: the PFLP roots for Islamic headhackers. The PFLP joined Arafat’s PLO, the umbrella organization of the Palestinian national movement, in 1968, becoming the second-largest faction after Yassir Arafat’s Fatah. Arab Nationalism, my dear fellow, whether you want to acknowledge it or not, involves sharia law, because they don’t recognize ’separation of church and state’. In Arab society, sharia law is the ruling law of their lands. And you wouldn’t call that Islamic? What are you. Nuts? Saddam Hussein was supposedly ’secular’, but he sure did speak the rhetoric of a jihadi. If it looks like a duck, acts like a duck and walks like a duck, it’s just got to be a duck.
George Habash inspired some of the most gruesome terrorist acts in modern history. He trained and promoted “Carlos the Jackal”. You remember him, don’t you? His name was originally Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka “Carlos the Jackal”, one of the most famous modern terrorists. His career took him from South America to the Middle East, Europe and Africa. He was implicated in some of the most gruesome and effective terrorist attacks in the 20th century. His story is detailed in earlier timeline segments. Somewhere along the way, the Marxist murderer became a Muslim murderer. The Jackal converted to Islam and has since written a book on Islam in which he praises Osama bin Laden and 9/11.
The PFLP began life as a Marxist organization and over time became Muslim. Like the PLO, the PFLP was an outgrowth of the Arab League. As such Habash’s organization was originally called the Arab National Movement. It was formed in Lebanon, where George Habash had studied medicine at the American University in Beirut. The ANM formed underground branches in Libya, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. In June 1967, the ANM merged with Youth for Revenge, the Palestinian Liberation Army, and Ahmed Jibril’s Syrian-backed Palestine Liberation Front to form the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. By early 1968, under Dr. Habash’s leadership, the PFLP trained several thousand terrorists, most of them Islamic jihadists in bases in Syria and Jordan. And they did not let this training go to waste.
You know what you’re reminding me of? The Islamists who try to claim that Hitler was a Christian. It’s just ******* laughable.
So in other words, by September of 1970 (the date of the PFLP attack in the above timeline), the PFLP had merged with Yasser Arafat’s PLO. And what was it you were saying again? Your point has completely been buried by facts!
The entire premise for the PFLP was the ‘liberation of Palestine’, just like Arafat (a premier terrorist), Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, Zawahiri, and the rest of the Islamist terrorist groups; even CAIR which has its roots in HAMAS. Pro Palestinian groups who are looking to drive the Jews into the sea speak the same rhetoric as the Islamists, so what is your point? Maybe George Habash converted! We’ve seen many examples of that, maybe he just didn’t broadcast it to the world. Or maybe the Wikipedia entry left it out. Surely a Christian hanging with Islamic head hackers whose holy book tells them to ‘kill the mushrikeen (unbelievers) wherever you find them’ would have found himself beheaded or something worse.
The PFLP was designated a terrorist organization by the US, the EU, Canada, and Israel. But as far as I can tell, it doesn’t even exist today because it was swallowed up by the Islamic jihadis who want to blow themselves up for allah.
I don’t consider someone who is a marxist but simultaneously claims to be a Christian while looking to achieve the destruction of the Jewish state just like the holocaust denier Ahmadinajad, holding to the tenants of Christianity. The PFLP is affiliated with the PLO, which is also hardly a Christian organization.
So Joe, don’t you have something better to do than to attack me for putting this lengthy post up when all you can do is pick on one point from one part of it? That’s not ’seriously erroneous’, and this list has been published elsewhere, so why don’t you find its originator if you have such a serious problem with nit picking?
The PFLP participated in the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006 as the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa List winning 4.2% of the popular vote. Naahhh, a group that renames itself after an Islamist martyr for an election shouldn’t be labelled Islamist.
In 2001, after Abu Ali Mustafa (the guy who replaced George Habash) was killed by Israeli forces, the PFLP renamed itself the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades.
The PFLP’s Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades has carried out attacks on both civilians and military targets during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. Some of these attacks are:
Duh. Get your head out of your ***.
December 24th, 2006 at 6:38 am
I don’t see any evidence at all of how Habash was a Christian, considering he trained thousands of Islamic terrorists including the infamous Carlos the Jackal, and the PFLP was an outgrowth of the Arab League and merged with Arafat’s PLO in 1968 (two years before the incident in the above timeline).
I’m curious how you can say he was Christian ‘by heritage’ and not ‘ideology’. That doesn’t make any sense. So John Walker Lindh doesn’t qualify as an Islamic terrorist, then, in your view? John Walker Lindh was baptised catholic. So which is he, a Christian ‘by heritage’, or an Islamist because he converted? I would venture to say the terrorists think he’s a muslim.
Nor does Azzam the American qualify as an Islamic terrorist? Adam Gadahn’s father was named Pearlman, a Jew. But his father converted to christianity and after Adam was born, changed his last name to Gadahn a derivation of the biblical name “Gideon”. So which is he, Joe…er uh…Kathy, a Christian or a Jew, or an Islamic terrorist?
December 24th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Cao, a lot of obfuscation on your part to cover up the fact that the list includes as examples of Islamic terror attacks that were committed by an organization that was clearly and explicitly secular and non-Islamic. Habash was born a Christian — there is no evidence that he has ever converted to Islam. Given the fact that Islamic ideology was not much of a factor in Palestinian and pan-Arab nationalism until the rise of Amal and Hizbollah during the Lebanese civil war, it’s very, very unlikely that Islam played any role in the 1970 hijackings. Given that PFLP’s strength is now located in Christian areas on the West Bank, it’s very likely that it remains non-Islamic.
Arab nationalist and Marxist movements from the 50s through the 70s were often alluring to Arab Christians as they offered an ideology that transcended what were then perceived as the backwardism of the dominant traditional Islamism.
Marxism, as it has elsewhere, has been largely discredited since the 1980s in the Middle East. Islamic ideologies have harnessed a lot of the impulses that used to be bound up in Marxism. But that doesn’t mean you can go back and retroactively assign credit to Islam for deeds that were committed in the name of secular left ideologies by persons who were clearly not Muslims.
What makes you think Abu Ali Mustapha was an Islamist martyr? The fact that his Muslim parents gave him a traditionally Islamic name? I guess that means you concede that GEORGE Habash was a Christian.
Clearly, your modus operandi is to assume that all Arabs are Muslims and any terror committed by an Arab is therefore Islamic. This is the kind of dumb *** thinking that leads to some of our current mishaps.
The name is Steve, by the way. Merry Christmas.
December 24th, 2006 at 11:45 am
We don’t know that he didn’t convert, and according to the rules of Islam, if those groups like the PLO had found him out, he would have surely been killed by them. I don’t think there’s obfuscation there, there’s fact.
So prove me wrong. Produce proof that he was a Christian. I can prove that the PFLP and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades are what I say they are.
I will ask it again.
What are John Walker Lindh and Azzam the American? Does their heritage as a Catholic and a Jew turned Christian trump their decisions to convert to Islam and pick up the sword?
Abu Ali Mustafa was martyred (killed by Israeli forces), my dear, the jihadis celebrate and are raised for death. Don’t you know what a martyr is? In the Arab world, they love death. Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated,
Pay attention, there will be a test at the end.
The PFLP began life as a Marxist organization and over time became Muslim. Like the PLO, the PFLP was an outgrowth of the Arab League. As such Habash’s organization was originally called the Arab National Movement. It was formed in Lebanon, where George Habash had studied medicine at the American University in Beirut. The ANM formed underground branches in Libya, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. In June 1967, the ANM merged with Youth for Revenge, the Palestinian Liberation Army, and Ahmed Jibril’s Syrian-backed Palestine Liberation Front to form the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. By early 1968, under Dr. Habash’s leadership, the PFLP trained several thousand terrorists, most of them Islamic jihadists in bases in Syria and Jordan. And they did not let this training go to waste.
So how can you call it a secular organization when it was pumping out Islamic terrorists two years before the attack in the list above?
From the San Francisco Chronicle
December 24th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
There is no mistaking that symbol. They are about the destruction of Israel. Christians - even Eastern Orthodox ones like Habash shouldn’t be advocating the genocide of the very people who produced our Lord and Savior. Not unless they’ve turned their backs on their faith, which is what I suspect. You can watch how someone who claims to be a Christian lives his life to see if he really lives by the principles taught int he bible, they’re really very simple.
As far as I can tell, the secular movement of the PFLP was swallowed up by Islamic jihadists in 1968, becoming a part of Arafat’s FATAH. So the PFLP that you’re referring to (the alleged “secular” one) didn’t exist anymore by the time of the attack on the above-mentioned attack by the PFLP in September of 1970.
It’s plain and simple common sense and math.
Can you really be serious by saying that Arab Nationalists are not Islamic? If the PFLP is an extention of the Arab League, then where are we? Being that the PFLP was funded by the Russians and that region of the world was run by Russian Islamists, I really see no need to continue the debate. Chechnya, anyone?
Marxists and Maoists today (just like before) join with the Jihadis in their ’struggle’ to destroy America. How do I say that? Well for one thing, consider their 10 euro campaign when they were sending money to the terrorists in Fallujah. They hate Christians, Christianity and the Jews and Judaeism, but embrace Islam and Islamists, just like Hitler did. The Arab Nationalist movement goes all the way back to Hitler and the nazis. The Grand Mufti was indicted by Yugoslavia for war crimes, but escaped prosecution. The Mufti was never tried at Nuremberg because the Allies were afraid of the storm in the Arab world if the hero of Arab nationalism was treated as a war criminal. There was a muslim faction of the SS, in fact. Saddam Hussein’s Uncle was a nazi, and Saddam Hussein carried an arabic version of Mein Kempf in his back pocket. But Saddam Hussein also admired Stalin, Engels and Marx. So it is with leftists, peas in a pod. Who says leftists are secular? They’ve finally found a religion that supports totalitarian dictators.
Christians living in Arab countries live as dhimmis, forced to show submission to Islam by paying the jizyah, if they survive at all. The Mayor of Bethlehem, is in fact a Christian, but he’s bowing to the Islamists. Christians have left Jeruselum, the city of Christ’s birth. The percentage of Christians who still hang on is about 13% of the population, and more are leaving. I needn’t wonder why that is. Christians who bow to Islam and don’t hold to their faith or read their bibles give power to the Arab propagandists who make life difficult. Brigitte Gabriel was raised a Christian and influence by that, you should read her book called “Because They Hate”.