LIST: ISLAMIC ATTACKS AGAINST AMERICA

U.S. Embassy in Lebanon, 1983		World Trade Center, 1993
USS Cole Attack, 2000		September 11, 2001

MAJOR ISLAMIC ATTACKS & PLOTS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES…BEFORE 9/11
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis: seizure of US Tehran Embassy, Iran (Nov 4, 1979 for 444 days) 1983 Bombing of US Beirut Embassy, Lebanon (April 18, 1983) 1983 Bombing of US Marine barracks, Beirut, Lebanon (Oct 23, 1983) 1983 Bombing of US Kuwait Embassy (Dec 12, 1983) 1984 Bombing of US Beirut Embassy (again) (Sept 20, 1984) 1984 Kuwait Airlines Flight 221 hijacked to Tehran – American passengers murdered (Dec 3, 1984) 1985 Hijacking TWA Flight 847 hijacked to Beirut (June 14, 1985) 1985 Hijacking cruise ship Achille Lauro, wheelchair-bound American is thrown overboard & killed (Oct 7, 1985) 1986 Bombing Berlin disco frequented by US servicemen (April 5, 1986) 1988 Bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, 100′s murdered (Dec 21, 1988) 1993 First bombing World Trade Center, New York City, 7 Killed, 1,042 wounded (Feb 26, 1993) 1993 Foiled NY Landmarks plot by Omar Abdel Rahman to blow up the Holland and Lincoln tunnels and other New York City landmarks 1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr. during visit to Kuwait (April 14, 1993) 1993 Black Hawk Down: shot down US helicopters in Mogadishu, Somalia, during Operation Restore Hope (Oct 3-4, 1993) 1994 Plot to assassinate President Clinton during visit to the Philippines 1995 Failed Project Bojinka by Ramzi Yousef to blow up a dozen US airliners over the Pacific (end in Jan 1995) 1995 Bombing US military headquarters, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Nov 13, 1995) 1996 Bombing Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia, housing U.S. foreign military personnel (Jun 25, 1996) 1998 Bombing U.S. Nairobi Embassy, Kenya, Africa (Aug 7, 1998) 1998 Bombing U.S. Dar es Salaam Embassy, Tanzania, Africa (Aug 7, 1998) 1999 Foiled LAX Millennium plot by Ahmed Ressam to bomb Los Angeles International Airport (Ressam was arrested at US Canadian border) 2000 Failed USS The Sullivans bombing that was refueling in the port of Aden, Yemen. (Jan 3, 2000) 2000 Bombing USS Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, 17 U.S. Navy sailors murdered (Oct 12, 2000) (The USS Cole was not engaged in any combat during this period) 2000 Bombing plaza across from US Manila Embassy (Dec 30, 2000) 2001 9/11 attacks: World Trade Center, Flight 93, Pentagon, 3000+ murdered (Sept 11, 2001)
40 TERROR PLOTS FOILED…SINCE 9/11 Via Heritage:
1. Richard Reid [a.k.a. the Shoe Bomber]—December 2001 2. Jose Padilla [a.ka. Abdullah al-Muhajir]—May 2002 3. Lackawanna Six—September 2002 4. Iyman Faris—May 2003 5. Virginia Jihad Network—June 2003 6. Nuradin M. Abdi—November 2003 7. Dhiren Barot—August 2004 8. James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj—August 2004 9. Yassin Aref and Mohammad Hossain—August 2004 10. Hamid Hayat—June 2005 11. Levar Haley Washington, Gregory Vernon Patterson, Hammad Riaz Samana, and Kevin James—Aug. 2005 12. Michael C. Reynolds [Found guilty in 2007 of attempting to provide material support to al-Qaeda]—Dec. 2005 13. Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, and Zand Wassim Mazloum—February 2006 14. Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee—April 2006 15. Narseal Batiste, Patrick Abraham, Stanley Grant Phanor, Naudimar Herrera, Burson Augustin, Lyglenson Lemorin, and Rotschild Augustine—June 2006 16. Assem Hammoud—July 2006 17. Liquid Explosives Plot—August 2006 18. Derrick Shareef—December 2006 19. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—March 2007 20. Fort Dix Plot—May 2007 21. JFK Airport Plot—June 2007 22. Hassan Abujihaad—March 2008 23. Christopher Paul [a.k.a. Abdulmalek Kenyatta]—June 2008 24. Synagogue Terror Plot—May 2009 25. Najibullah Zazi—September 2009 26. Hosam Maher Husein Smadi —September 2009 27. Michael Finton [a.ka. Talib Islam]—September 2009 28. Tarek Mehanna and Ahmad Abousamra—October 2009 29. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab [a.k.a. The Christmas Day Bomber]—2009 30. Raja Lahrasib Khan—March 2010 31. Faisal Shahzad—May 2010 32. Paul G. Rockwood, Jr. and Nadia Piroska Maria Rockwood [converts to Islam]—July 2010 33. Farooque Ahmed—October 2010 34. Air Cargo Bomb Plot—October 2010 35. Mohamed Osman Mohamud—November 2010 36. Antonio Martinez [a.k.a. Muhammad Hussain]—December 2010 37. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari—February 2011 38. Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh—May 2011 39. Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif and Walli Mujahidh—June 2011 40. Emerson Winfield Begolly [convert to Islam, a.k.a Abu Nancy]—August 2011.