Terrorist Attack: Past Incidents
- June 23, 1985
- A suit case bomb exploded on Air India Flight 182 and killed 329 people.
- December 21, 1988
- A bomb on Pan Am Flight 103 exploded while the aircraft was in flight, killing 270 people.
- November 28, 1989
- A bomb exploded on an Avianca aircraft in Bogotá, Colombia, killing 107 people.
- February 26, 1994
- A truck bomb exploded in the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, United States, killing six people and injuring 1,042.
- July 18, 1994
- A car bomb exploded and caused the seven-story Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association in Argentina to collapse. This attack killed forty-six people and injured 200.
- December 24, 1994
- A four men hijacked an Air Algerie airliner. Their plot to crash the airplane into Paris failed when they were killed along with four passengers.
- April 19, 1995
- A truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, United States. It killed 198 people and injured 250 more. News reports immediately accused Arab terrorists, but later Timothy McVeigh, a white male, was convicted for the bombing.
- January 31, 1996
- A truck with explosives rammed into the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, damaging several buildings while killing ninety people and injuring 1,400.
- June 25, 1996
- A truck bomb near U.S. Military Barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia exploded and killed nineteen people and injured 515.
- August 7, 1998
- A truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing eleven and injuring 87.
- August 7, 1998
- Another truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi Kenya, killling 212 and injuring 4,022.
- August 15, 1998
- A 500-pound car bomb killed twenty-nine and injured 330 in Omagh, Northern Ireland. The target was a local courthouse.
- September 1999
- Ninety-four people were killed and 152 were injured in a bombing in Moscow, Russia.
- October 2000
- A small boat with explosives rammed into the USS Cole in Adem, Yemen. The incident killed seventeen and injured 39.
- September 11, 2001
- Nineteen Al-Qaeda hijackers simultaneously took control of four U.S. airliners. Two planes crashed into each of the two Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City. Both towers collapsed within two hours. Another crashed into the Pentagon, the fourth one into a rural field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The attack killed 2,986 people and influenced United States domestic and foreign policy drastically.
- March 11, 2004
- A series of bombings against the commuter train system of Madrid Spain, killed 192 people and wounded 2,050.
- July 7, 2005
- A series of suicide bombings on London’s public transport system during the morning rush hour killed fifty-six and wounded about 700.
- October 1, 2005
- A series of explosives in south Bali, Indonesia, killed twenty-three people.
- March 7, 2006
- A series of bombings across the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, India killed twenty people and injured 100 more.
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