Good post, Euterpe...However, one thing regarding "attack on American soil"...Embassies, Ships, Marine Baraccks, etc are all considered American soil......to say nothing of the Americans who were murdered.
I just found this interesting list and it was just as of April 2002.....
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HELP- I am putting a list together of all terrorist attacks against the USA
April 30,2002 | Me
Posted on 04/30/2002 9:14:24 AM PDT by Kay Soze
List of attacks against the USA
*1979 Iranian revolutionaries seized The 52 American hostages were held 444 days
* April 1983: A car bomb at the U.S. killing 63.
* October 23, 1983: The bombing of U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, kills 241
* December '83: U.S. embassy in Kuwait bombed, killing 6.
* January '84: Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, assassinated.
* April '84: Hezbollah attacks the environs of a U.S. airbase in Spain, killing 18 servicemen.
*1984 September 20 A bombing at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, Lebanon, kills 16 and injures the ambassador.
* December '84: Two Americans murdered on a hijacked plane in Tehran.
* June '85: U.S. seaman killed on a hijacked plane in Beirut.
* October 1985 Four Palestinian terrorists hijack the Achille Lauro carrying more than 400 passengers and crew, and kill disabled American tourist Leon Klinghoffer.
*1988 December 21 The bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, kills 270, mostly Americans.
* 1993 February 26, Terrorist bombers strike the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
* 1995 November 13, A bomb at U.S. military headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills five U.S. service personnel.
* 1996 June: A bomb at U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, kills 19 Americans and injures 500 people.
* 1998 August 7 U.S. embassy Nairobi, Kenya * 1998 August 7 U.S. embassy Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, kill 224 people and wound
* October 12, 2000: A suicide bomber attack on the USS Cole in Yemen's Aden harbor kills 17 American sailors and wounds 39 others.
* 2001 Sept 11 World Trade Center struck by two hijacked commercial planes killing 3,000
* 2001 Sept 11 Pentagon struck by hijacked commercial plane killing 189
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