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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (151)	11/11/2001 12:42:54 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Attacks on Americans by Middle Eastern Terrorists -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. us-israel.org