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To: Rambi who wrote (176296)	8/12/2006 3:30:48 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793624

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..... 8888888888888 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 freerepublic.com