Attacks on Americans
by Middle Eastern Terrorists
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1970: Murder of American University of Beirut President, Malcolm Kerr, in Beirut, Lebanon.
September 1970: TWA #741 and Pan Am #93 hijacked by the PFLP and flown to Amman, Jordan.
March 1973: U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel & DCM George Moore murdered in Khartoum, Sudan.
June 1976: U.S. Ambassador, Francis Meloy and two other Americans killed in Lebanon.
1979-1980: U.S. Embassy in Iran seized, embassy officials held hostage for 14 months.
April 1983: U.S. Embassy in Beirut attacked by Hezbollah suicide bomber; 49 killed, 120 wounded.
October 1983: Marine barracks in Beirut carbombed; 241 U.S. Marines killed, hundreds injured.
June 1984: TWA #847 to Athens hijacked to Beirut; U.S. Navy diver, Robert Stethem murdered.
1980's: Several Americans in Beirut kidnaped and held hostage.
September 1984: William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut, kidnaped, tortured and murdered.
September 1984: U.S. embassy annex in East Beirut bombed; 2 Americans killed.
October 1985: Achille Lauro hijacked; Leon Klinghoffer murdered.
September 1986: Pan Am #73 hijacked to Karachi, Pakistan; 17 people killed, 150 wounded.
February 1988: William Higgins kidnaped in Lebanon and murdered.
December 1988: Pan Am #103 bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland; 270 people killed.
February 1993: World Trade Center in New York bombed; six killed, hundreds injured.
March 1995: American employees of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan killed in response to arrest of World Trade Center bombing suspect.
November 1995: U.S. troops attacked in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; five Americans killed.
June 1996: U.S. Marine barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia bombed; 19 Americans killed.
In addition to these specific attacks, a number of American citizens have been killed in terrorist attacks in Israel, the West Bank & Gaza. At the same time, the United States has also thwarted many planned attacks including a conspiracy by Egyptian Sheikh Rahman to blow up New York landmarks, a plot by Ramzi Yousef to blow up airliners over Pacific, and a number of other attempts to blow up U.S. airliners.
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