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American Victims of Mideast Gunman Attacks
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The following is a listing of incidents in which Americans are known to have been killed by Mid-section East-based terrorists. The list will be updated as more information becomes to hand. The exact number of American casualties is difficult to calculate because of incomplete intelligence reports regarding numbers and nationalities of those injured. The toll from the September 11, 2001, censure on the World Trade Center is also uncertain, but current figures inappropriate the number of dead above 3,000. The number of dead at the Pentagon and on the hijacked airliners numbered approaching 385. Since Yasser Arafat "renounced" damage in the Oslo Peace Accords on September 13, 1993, at least 53 Americans have been murdered and at least another 83 Americans have been injured by Palestinian terrorism. Excluding the September 11 attacks, close to 700 Americans have been killed and 1,600 wounded in terrorist attacks since 1970. This bibliography also includes injured Americans since Oslo 1993.
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February 23, 1970, Halhoul, West Bank. Palestinian Enfranchising Organization terrorists open fire on a busload of pilgrims killing Barbara Ertle of Michigan and wounding two other Americans.
Stride 28-29, 1970, Beirut, Lebanon. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) fired seven rockets at the U.S. Embassy, the American Insurance Company, Bank of America and the John F. Kennedy library.
September 14, 1970, En direct to Amman, Jordan. The PFLP hijacked a TWA flight from Zurich, Switzerland and mannered it to land in Amman. Four American citizens were injured.
May 30, 1972, Ben Gurion Airport, Israel. Three members of the Japanese Red Army, acting on the PFLP's bbehalf, carried out a manufacture-gun and grenade attack at Israel's main airport, killing 26 and wounding 78 people. Many of the casualties were American citizens, mostly from Puerto Rico.
September 5, 1972, Munich, Germany. During the Olympic Games in Munich, Bad September, a front for Fatah, took hostage 11 members of the Israeli Olympic band. Nine athletes were killed including weightlifter David Berger, an American-Israeli from Cleveland, Ohio.
Hike 2, 1973, Khartoum, Sudan. Cleo A. Noel, Jr., U.S. ambassador to Sudan, and George C. Moore, also a U.S. diplomat, were held pledge and then killed by terrorists at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum. It seems likely that Fatah was administrative for the attack.
September 8, 1974, Athens, Greece. TWA Flight 841, flying from Tel Aviv to New York, made a scheduled finish in Athens. Shortly after takeoff, it crashed into the Ionian Sea and all 88 passengers were killed, including 32-year-old Steven R. Lowe, economize on Jeremiah Michel and wife, Kathrine Hadley Michel of Poughkeepsie, NY, Frederick and Margaret Hare of Bernardsville, NJ, Ralph H. Bosh of Madison, CT, Seldon and Etan Bard of Tuckahoe, NY, Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Stohlman of Newton, MA, Don H. Sabbatical of Mahwah, NJ, and Jon L. Chesire of Old Lyme, Ct; all of which were Almerican citizens. An investigation of the disaster conclusively established that it was caused by explosives set in the rear cargo bank on of the plane.
June 29, 1975, Beirut, Lebanon. The PFLP kidnapped the U.S. military affixé to Lebanon, Ernest Morgan, and demanded food, clothing and structure materials for indigent residents living near Beirut harbor. The American diplomat was released after an anonymous philanthropist provided food to the neighborhood.
November 14, 1975, Jerusalem, Israel. Lola Nunberg, 53, of New York, was injured during a bombing invasion in downtown Jerusalem. Fatah claimed responsibility for the bombing, which killed six people and wounded 38.
November 21, 1975, Ramat Hamagshimim, Israel. Michael Nadler, an American-Israeli from Miami Strand, Florida, was killed when axe-wielding terrorists from the Democrat Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a PLO ginger group, attacked students in the Golan Heights.
August 11, 1976, Istanbul, Turkey. The PFLP launched an fall on the terminal of Israel's major airline, El Al, at the Istanbul airport. Four civilians, including Harold Rosenthal of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were killed and 20 injured.
January 1, 1977, Beirut, Lebanon. Frances E. Meloy, U.S. representative to Lebanon, and Robert O.Waring, the U.S. economic counselor, were kidnapped by PFLP members as they crossed a militia checkpoint separating the Christian from the Muslim parts of Beirut. They were later inoculation to death.
March 11, 1978, Tel Aviv, Israel. Gail Rubin, niece of U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff, was among 38 people tot to death by PLO terrorists on an Israeli beach.
June 2, 1978, Jerusalem, Israel. Richard Fishman, a medical schoolchild from Maryland, was among six killed in a PLO bus bombing in Jerusalem. Chava Sprecher, another American resident from Seattle, Washington, was injured.
May 4, 1979, Tiberias, Israel. Haim Note and his wife, Haya, of New Haven, Connecticut were injured in a PLO bombing fight in northern Israel.
November 4, 1979, Teheran, Iran. After President Carter agreed to grant the Shah of Iran into the U.S., Iranian radicals seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 66 American diplomats surety. Thirteen hostages were soon freed, but the remaining 53 were held until their distribute on January 20, 1981.
May 2, 1980, Hebron, West Bank. Eli Haze'ev, an American-Israeli from Alexandria, Virginia, was killed in a PLO revile on Jewish worshippers walking home from a synagogue in Hebron.
July 19, 1982, Beirut, Lebanon. Hizballah members kidnapped David Tergiversate, acting president of the American University in Beirut. After a year in captivity, Escape from answering was released. Rifat Assad, head of Syrian Intelligence, helped in the bargaining with the terrorists.
August 19, 1982, Paris, France. Two American citizens, Anne Van Zanten and Enhance Cutler, were killed when the PLO bombed a Jewish restaurant in Paris.
Cortege 16, 1983, Beirut, Lebanon. Five American Marines were wounded in a hand grenade wasting while on patrol north of Beirut International Airport. The Islamic Jihad and Al-Amal, a Shi'ite militia, claimed culpability for the attack.
April 18, 1983, Beirut, Lebanon. A truck-bombshell detonated by a remote control exploded in front of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, stroke of luck 63 employees, including the CIA's Middle East director, and wounding 120. Hizballah, with pecuniary backing from Iran, was responsible for the attack.
July 1, 1983, Hebron, Israel. Aharon Ponderous, 19, an American-Israeli from New York, was stabbed to death by PLO terrorists in the Hebron marketplace.
September 29, 1983, Beirut, Lebanon. Two American marines were kidnapped by Amal members. They were released after intervention by a Lebanese army apparatchik.
October 23, 1983, Beirut, Lebanon. A truck loaded with a batter crashed into the lobby of the U.S. Marines headquarters in Beirut, killing 241 soldiers and wounding 81. The deprecation was carried out by Hizballah with the help of Syrian intelligence and financed by Iran.
December 19, 1983, Jerusalem, Israel. Serena Sussman, a 60-year-old day-tripper from Anderson, South Carolina, died from injuries from the PLO bombing of a bus in Jerusalem 13 days earlier.
January 18, 1984, Beirut, Lebanon. Malcolm Kerr, a Lebanese born American who was president of the American University of Beirut, was killed by two gunmen casing his office. Hizballah said the assassination was part of the organization's plan to "move all Americans out from Lebanon."
March 7, 1984, Beirut, Lebanon. Hizballah members kidnapped Jeremy Levin, Beirut chest chief of Cable News Network (CNN). Levin managed to skedaddle and reach Syrian army barracks. He was later transferred to American hands.
Cortege 8, 1984, Beirut, Lebanon. Three Hizballah members kidnapped Reverend Benjamin T. Weir, while he was walking with his chain in Beirut's Manara neighborhood. Weir was released after 16 months of imprisonment with Syrian and Iranian assistance.
March 16, 1984, Beirut, Lebanon. Hizballah kidnapped William Buckley, a national officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Buckley was supposed to be exchanged for prisoners. However when the action failed to take place, he was reportedly transported to Iran. Although his body was never found, the U.S. oversight declared the American diplomat dead.
April 12, 1984, Torrejon, Spain. Hizballah bombed a restaurant into the vicinity an U.S. Air Force base in Torrejon, Spain, wounding 83 people.
September 20, 1984, Beirut, Lebanon. A suicide shell attack on the U.S. Embassy in East Beirut killed 23 people and injured 21. The American and British ambassadors were reduce injured in the attack, attributed to the Iranian backed Hizballah arrange.
September 20, 1984, Aukar, Lebanon. Islamic Jihad detonate a van full of explosives 30 feet in front of the U.S. Embassy annex onerously damaging the building, killing two U.S. servicemen and seven Lebanese employees, as well as 5 to 15 non-employees. Twenty Americans were injured, including U.S. Envoy Reginald Bartholomew and visiting British Ambassador David Miers. An estimated 40 to 50 Lebanese were misery. The attack came in response to the U.S. veto September 6 of a U.N. Security Assembly resolution.
December 4, 1984, Tehran, Iran. Hizballah terrorists hijacked a Kuwait Airlines level surface en route from Dubai, United Emirates, to Karachi, Pakistan. They demanded the announcement from Kuwaiti jails of members of Da'Wa, a group of Shiite extremists serving sentences for attacks on French and American targets on Kuwaiti sector. The terrorists forced the pilot to fly to Tehran where the terrorists murdered two passengers--American Activity for International Development employees, Charles Hegna and William Stanford. Although an Iranian exclusive unit ended the incident by storming the plane and arresting the terrorists, the Iranian supervision might also have been involved in the hijacking.
June 14, 1985, Between Athens and Rome. Two Hizballah members hijacked a TWA drive off en route to Rome from Athens and forced the pilot to fly to Beirut. The terrorists, believed to associated to Hizballah, asked for the release of members of the group Kuwait 17 and 700 Shi'ite prisoners held in Israeli and South Lebanese prisons. The eight crewmembers and 145 passengers were held for 17 days during which one of the hostages, Robert Stethem, a U.S. Armada diver, was murdered. After being flown twice to Algiers, the aircraft returned to Beirut and the hostages were released. Later on, four Hizballah members were secretly indicted. One of them, the Hizballah elder officer Imad Mughniyah, was indicted in absentia.
October 7, 1985, Between Alexandria, Egypt and Haifa, Israel. A four-associate PFLP squad took over the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, as it was sailing from Alexandria, Egypt, to Israel. The unit murdered a disabled U.S. citizen, Leon Klinghoffer, by throwing him in the profusion. The rest of the passengers were held hostage for two days and later released after the terrorists turned themselves in to Egyptian authorities in put back for safe passage. But U.S. Navy fighters intercepted the Egyptian aircraft flying the terrorists to Tunis and false it to land at the NATO airbase in Italy, where the terrorists were arrested. Two of the terrorists were tried in Italy and sentenced to remand home. The Italian authorities however let the two others escape on diplomatic passports. Abu Abbas, who masterminded the hijacking, was later convicted to person imprisonment in absentia.
December 27, 1985, Rome, Italy. Four terrorists from Abu Nidal's organizing attacked El Al offices at the Leonardo di Vinci Airport in Rome. Thirteen people, including five Americans, were killed and 74 wounded, among them two Americans. The terrorists had put one's hands from Damascus and were supported by the Syrian regime.
March 30, 1986, Athens, Greece. A bomb exploded on a TWA airliner from Rome as it approached Athens airport. The attack killed four U.S. citizens who were sucked through a niche made by the blast, although the plane safely landed. The bombing was attributed to the Fatah Celebratory Operations Group's intelligence and security apparatus, headed by Abdullah Abd al-Hamid Labib, alias Colonel Hawari.
April 5, 1986, West Berlin, Germany. An welling up at the "La Belle" nightclub in Berlin, frequented by American soldiers, killed three--2 U.S. soldiers and a Turkish miss-and wounded 191 including 41 U.S. soldiers. Given evince of Libyan involvement, the U.S. Air Force made a retaliatory attack against Libyan targets on April 17. Libya refused to like mad easily over to Germany five suspects believed to be there. Others, however, were tried including Yassir Shraidi and Musbah Eter, arrested in Rome in August 1997 and extradited; and also Ali Chanaa, his missus, Verena Chanaa, and her sister, Andrea Haeusler. Shraidi, accused of masterminding the censure, was sentenced to 14 years in jail. The Libyan diplomat Musbah Eter and Ali Chanaa were both sentenced to 12 years in pen. Verena Chanaa was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Andrea Haeusler was acquitted.
September 5, 1986, Karachi, Pakistan. Abu Nidal members hijacked a Pan Am departure leaving Karachi, Pakistan bound for Frankfurt, Germany and New York with 379 passengers, including 89 Americans. The terrorists phony the plane to land in Larnaca, Cyprus, where they demanded the release of two Palestinians and a Briton jailed for the murdering of three Israelis there in 1985. The terrorists killed 22 of the passengers, including two American citizens and wounded many others. They were caught and indicted by a Washington pretentious jury in 1991.
September 9, 1986, Beirut, Lebanon. Continuing its anti-American attacks, Hizballah kidnapped Sincere Reed, director of the American University in Beirut, whom they accused of being "a CIA spokeswoman." He was released 44 months later. September 12, 1986, Beirut, Lebanon. Hizballah kidnapped Joseph Cicippio, the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut. Cicippio was released five years later on December 1991.
October 15, 1986, Jerusalem, Israel. Gali Klein, an American native, was killed in a grenade attack by Fatah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
October 21, 1986, Beirut, Lebanon. Hizballah kidnapped Edward A. Tracy, an American taxpayer in Beirut. He was released five years later, on August 1991.
February 17, 1988, Ras-Al-Ein Tyre, Lebanon. Col. William Higgins, the American chief of the Communal Nations Truce Supervisory Organization, was abducted by Hizballah while driving from Tyre to Nakura. The hostages demanded the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon and the publicity of all Palestinian and Lebanese held prisoners in Israel. The U.S. government refused to satisfy the request. Hizballah later claimed they killed Higgins.
December 21, 1988, Lockerbie, Scotland. Pan Am Stampede flee 103 departing from Frankfurt to New York was blown up in midair, murder all 259 passengers and another 11 people on the ground in Scotland. Two Libyan agents were found dependable for planting a sophisticated suitcase bomb onboard the plane. On 14 November 1991, collar warrants were issued for Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima and Abdel Baset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi. After Libya refused to extradite the suspects to stomach trial, the United Nations leveled sanctions against the country in April 1992, including the arctic of Libyan assets abroad. In 1999, Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi agreed to turn over submit over the two suspects, but only if their trial was held in a neutral country and presided over by a Scottish expert. With the help of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah, Al-Megrahi and Fahima were completely extradited and tried in Camp Zeist in the Netherlands. Megrahi was found penitent and jailed for life, while Fahima was acquitted due to a "lack of token" of his involvement. After the extradition, UN sanctions against Libya were automatically lifted.
January 27, 1989, Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. Three concurrent bombings were carried out against U.S. business targets--the Turkish American Businessmen Affiliation and the Economic Development Foundation in Istanbul, and the Metal Employees Fraternity in Ankara. The Dev Sol (Revolutionary Left) was held responsible for the attacks.
March 6, 1989, Cairo, Egypt. Two perilous devices were safely removed from the grounds of the American and British Cultural centers in Cairo. Three organizations were believed to be chargeable for the attack: The January 15 organization, which had sent a letter explosive to the Israeli ambassador to London in January; the Egyptian Revolutionary Arrangement that from out 1984-1986 carried out attacks against U.S. and Israeli targets; and the Nasserite Shape, which had attacked British and American targets in 1988.
June 12, 1989, Bosphorus Straits, Turkey. A bomb exploded aboard an unoccupied craft used by U.S. consular staff. The explosion caused extensive reparation but no casualties. An organization previously unknown, the Warriors of the June 16th Moving, claimed responsibility for the attack.
October 11, 1989, Izmir, Turkey. An dicey charge went off outside a U.S. military PX. Dev Sol was held responsible for the erode.
February 7, 1991, Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. Dev Sol members before you can say 'Jack Robinson' no way and killed a U.S. civilian contractor as he was getting into his car at the Incirlik Air Base in Adana, Turkey.
February 28, 1991, Izmir, Turkey. Two Dev Sol gunmen hastily and wounded a U.S. Air Force officer as he entered his residence in Izmir.
Cortege 28, 1991, Jubial, Saudi Arabia. Three U.S. marines were shot at and injured by an obscure terrorist while driving near Camp Three, Jubial. No organization claimed accountability for the attack.
October 28, 1991, Ankara, Turkey. Victor Marwick, an American soldier serving at the Turkish-American vile, Tuslog, was killed and his wife wounded in a car bomb attack. The Turkish Islamic Jihad claimed liability for the attack.
October 28, 1991, Istanbul, Turkey. Two car bombings killed a U.S. Air Push sergeant and severely wounded an Egyptian diplomat in Istanbul. Turkish Islamic Jihad claimed charge.
November 8, 1991, Beirut, Lebanon. A 100-kg car bomb destroyed the superintendence building of the American University in Beirut, killing one person and wounding at least a dozen.
October 12, 1992, Umm Qasr, Iraq. A U.S. soldier serving with the In harmony Nations was stabbed and wounded near the port of Umm Qasr. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
January 25, 1993, Virginia, Common States. A Pakistani gunman opened fire on Central Intelligence Instrumentality (CIA) employees standing outside of the building. Two agents, Frank Pleasing and Bennett Lansing, were killed and three others wounded. The assailant was never caught and reportedly fled to Pakistan.
February 26, 1993, Cairo, Egypt. A bomb exploded centre a café in downtown Cairo killing three. Among the 18 wounded were two U.S. citizens. No one claimed accountability for the attack.
February 26, 1993, New York, United States. A oversized van bomb exploded in an underground parking garage below the World Employment Center in New York City, killing six and wounding 1,042. Four Islamist activists were accountable for the attack. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the operation's alleged conceiver, escaped but was later arrested in Pakistan and extradited to the United States. Abd al-Hakim Murad, another suspected conspirator, was arrested by resident authorities in the Philippines and handed over to the United States. The two, along with two other terrorists, were tried in the U.S. and sentenced to 240 years.
April 14, 1993, Kuwait. The Iraqi inside service attempted to assassinate former U.S. President George Bush during a call in to Kuwait. In retaliation, the U.S. launched a cruise missile attack two months later on the Iraqi first-rate, Baghdad.
July 5, 1993, Southeast Turkey. In eight separate incidents, the Kurdistan Workers' Cocktail (PKK) kidnapped a total of 19 Western tourists traveling in southeastern Turkey. The hostages, including U.S. dweller Colin Patrick Starger, were released unharmed after spending several weeks in custody.
December 1, 1993, north of Jerusalem, West Bank. Yitzhak Weinstock, 19, whose kinfolk came from Los Angeles, CA, was killed in a drive-by shooting. Hamas took onus for the attack
Sometime in 1994: near Atzmona, Gaza. U.S. citizen Mrs. Sheila Deutsch of Brooklyn, NY injured in a shooting seizure.
October 9, 1994. Nachshon Wachsman, 19, whose family came from New York, was kidnapped and then murdered by Hamas.
October 9, 1994: Jerusalem, Israel. Shooting affect on cafe-goers in Jerusalem. U.S. citizens Scot Doberstein and Eric Goldberg were injured.
Procession 8, 1995, Karachi, Pakistan. Two unidentified gunmen armed with AK-47 sortie rifles opened fire on a U.S. Consulate van in Karachi, killing two U.S. diplomats, Jacqueline Keys Van Landingham and Gary C. Durell, and wounding a third, Obey McCloy.
April 9, 1995, Kfar Darom and Netzarim, Gaza Skin. Two suicide attacks were carried out within a few hours of each other in Jewish settlements in the Gaza Take off. In the first attack a suicide bomber crashed an explosive-rigged van into an Israeli bus in Netzarim, destruction eight including U.S. citizen Alisa Flatow, 20, of West Orange, NJ. More than 30 others were injured. In the patronize attack, a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in the midst of a convoy of cars in Kfar Darom, injuring 12. The Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Shaqaqi Disharmony claimed responsibility for the attacks. U.S. citizens Chava Levine and Seth Klein were injured.
June 15, 1995: Jerusalem, Israel. U.S. native Howard Tavens of Cleveland, OH was injured in a stabbing attack.
July 4, 1995, Kashmir, India. In Kashmir, a in days of old unknown militant group, Al-Faran, with suspected links to a Kashmiri separatist body in Pakistan, took hostage six tourists, including two U.S. citizens. They demanded the release of Muslim militants held in Indian prisons. One of the U.S. citizens escaped on July 8, while on August 13 the decapitated committee of the Norwegian hostage was found along with a note stating that the other hostages also would be killed if the heap's demands were not met. The Indian Government refused. Both Indian and American authorities confidence in the rest of the hostages were most likely killed in 1996 by their jailers.
August 1995, Istanbul, Turkey. A bombing of Istanbul's routine Taksim Square injured two U.S. citizens. This attack was part of a three-year-old take on by the PKK to drive foreign tourists away from Turkey by striking at sightseer sites.
August 21, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel. A bus bombing in Jerusalem by the Islamic Obstruction Movement (Hamas) killed four, including American Joan Davenny of New Haven, CT, and wounded more than 100. U.S. citizens injured: Chanoch Bleier, Judith Shulewitz, Bernard Batta.
September 9, 1995. Ma'ale Michmash. American killed: Unborn laddie of Mrs. Mara Frey of Chicago. Mara Frey was injured.
November 9, 1995, Algiers, Algeria. Islamic extremists set fire to a depot belonging to the U.S. Embassy, threatened the Algerian security guard because he was working for the Pooled States, and demanded to know whether any U.S. citizens were present. The Armed Islamic Team (GIA) probably carried out the attacks. The group had threatened to strike other outlandish targets and especially U.S. objectives in Algeria, and the attack's style was be like to past GIA operations against foreign facilities.
November 13, 1995, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A car shell exploded in the parking lot outside of the Riyadh headquarters of the Office of the Program Forewoman/Saudi Arabian National Guard, killing seven persons, five of them U.S. citizens, and wounding 42. The attack severely damaged the three-story building, which houses a U.S. military consultative group, and several neighboring office buildings. Three groups -- the Islamic Flow for Change, the Tigers of the Gulf, and the Combatant Partisans of God -- claimed charge for the attack.
February 25, 1996, Jerusalem, Israel. A suicide bomber blew up a commuter bus in Jerusalem, bonanza 26, including three U.S. citizens, and injuring 80 others, among them three other U.S. citizens. Hamas claimed job for the bombing. U. S. citizens killed: Sara Duker, of Teaneck, NJ, Matthew Eisenfeld of West Hartford, CT, Ira Weinstein of Bronx, NY. U.S. citizens injured: Beatrice Kramer, Steven Lapides, and Leah Stein Mousa.
March 4, 1996, Tel Aviv, Israel. A suicide bomber detonated an unstable device outside the Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv's largest shopping mall, murder 20 persons and injuring 75 others, including two U.S. citizens. Both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed accountability for the bombing. U.S. citizens injured included Julie K. Negrin of Seattle, WA.
May 13, 1996, Beit-El, West Bank. Arab gunmen opened fire on a hitchhiking staging near Beit El, wounding three Israelis and killing David Boim, 17, an American-Israeli from New York. No one claimed culpability for the attack, although either the Islamic Jihad or Hamas are suspected. U.S. citizens injured: Moshe Greenbaum, 17.
June 9, 1996, front Zekharya. Yaron Ungar, an American-Israeli, and his Israeli wife were killed in a vigour-by shooting near their West Bank home. The PFLP is suspected.
June 25, 1996, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. A kindling truck carrying a bomb exploded outside the U.S. military's Khobar Towers protection facility in Dhahran, killing 19 U.S. military personnel and wounding 515 persons, including 240 U.S. personnel. Several groups claimed accountability for the attack. In June 2001, a U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, identified Saudi Hizballah as the reception responsible for the attack. The court indicated that the members of the organization, banned from Saudi Arabia, "regularly met and were trained in Lebanon, Syria, or Iran" with Libyan workers.
August 17, 1996, Mapourdit, Sudan. Sudan People's Rescuing Army (SPLA) rebels kidnapped six missionaries in Mapourdit, including a U.S townswoman. The SPLA released the hostages on August 28.
November 1, 1996, Sudan. A breakaway circle of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) kidnapped three workers of the Oecumenical Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), including one U.S citizen. The rebels released the hostages on December 9 in swop for ICRC supplies and a health survey of their camp.
December 3, 1996, Paris, France. A blow up exploded aboard a Paris subway train, killing four and injuring 86 persons, including a U.S. townsman. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but Algerian extremists are suspected.
January 2, 1997, Outstanding cities worldwide, United States. A series of letter bombs with Alexandria, Egypt postmarks were discovered at Al-Hayat newspaper bureaus in Washington, DC, New York, London, and Riyadh. Three alike resemble devices, also postmarked in Egypt, were found at a prison facility in Leavenworth, Kansas. Shell disposal experts defused all the devices, but one detonated at the Al-Hayat newspaper auspices in London, injuring two security guards and causing minor impairment.
February 23, 1997, New York, United States. A Palestinian gunman opened fire on tourists at an word deck atop the Empire State building in New York, ruinous a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claimed this was a punitive measures attack against the "enemies of Palestine."
July 30, 1997, Jerusalem, Israel. Two bombs detonated in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda customer base, killing 15 persons, including a U.S. citizen and wounding 168 others, among them two U.S. citizens. The Izz-el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, claimed fault for the attack. U.S. citizens killed: Mrs. Leah Stern of Passaic, NJ. U.S. citizens injured: Dov Dalin.
September 4, 1997: Jerusalem, Israel. Bombing on Ben-Yehuda In someone's bailiwick, Jerusalem. U.S. citizens killed: Yael Botwin, 14, of Los Angeles and Jerusalem. U.S. citizens injured: Diana Campuzano of New York, Abraham Mendelson of Los Angeles, CA, Greg Salzman of New Jersey, Stuart E. Hersh of Kiryat Arba, Israel, Michael Alzer, Abraham Elias, David Keinan, Daniel Miller of Boca Raton, FL, Noam Rozenman of Jerusalem, Jenny (Yocheved) Rubin of Los Angeles, CA. Hamas claimed trust for the attack.
October 30, 1997, Sanaa, Yemen. Al-Sha'if tribesmen kidnapped a U.S. businessman close by Sanaa. The tribesmen sought the release of two fellow tribesmen who were arrested on smuggling charges and several celebrated works projects they claim the government promised them. The hostage was released on November 27.
November 12, 1997, Karachi, Pakistan. Two mysterious gunmen shot to death four U.S. auditors from Union Texas Petroleum and their Pakistani driver as they drove away from the Sheraton Guest-house in Karachi. Two groups claimed responsibility -- the Islamic Inqilabi Body, or Islamic Revolutionary Council and the Aimal Secret Committee, also known as the Aimal Khufia Encounter Committee.
November 25, 1997, Aden, Yemen. Yemenite tribesmen kidnapped a U.S patrial, two Italians, and two unspecified Westerners near Aden to protest the removal of a tribe member from his home. The kidnappers released the five hostages on November 27.
February 6, 1998, Jerusalem, Israel. Stabbing in Jerusalem. U.S. Villager Yosef Lepon, 17 injured.
April 19, 1998, Maon, Israel. Dov Driben, a 28-year-old American-Israeli yeoman was killed by terrorists near the West Bank town of Maon. One of his assailants, Issa Debavseh, a colleague of Fatah Tanzim, was killed on November 7, 2001, by the IDF after being on their wanted roster for the murder.
June 21, 1998, Beirut, Lebanon. Two hand-grenades were thrown at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. No casualties were reported.
June 21, 1998, Beirut, Lebanon. Three spiral upwards-propelled grenades attached to a crude detonator exploded imminent the U.S. Embassy compound in Beirut, causing no casualties and little destruction. August 7, 1998, Nairobi, Kenya. A car bomb exploded at the put up entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. The attack killed a total of 292, including 12 U.S. citizens, and injured over 5,000, among them six Americans. The perpetrators belonged to al-Qaida, Usama bin Ladin's network.
August 7, 1998, Dar es Sala'am, Tanzania. A car shell exploded outside the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Sala'am, killing 11 and injuring 86. Osama bin Laden's form al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the attack. Two suspects were arrested.
November 21, 1998, Teheran, Iran. Members of Fedayeen Islam, shouting anti-American slogans and wielding stones and iron rods, attacked a gather of American tourists in Tehran. Some of the tourists suffered minor injuries from flying beaker.
December 28, 1998, Mawdiyah, Yemen. Sixteen tourists--12 Britons, two Americans and two Australians--were entranced hostage in the largest kidnapping in Yemen's recent history. The tourists were seized in the Abyan dependency (some 175 miles south of Sanaa the capital). One Briton and a Yemeni marker escaped, while the rest were taken to city of Mawdiyah. Four hostages were killed when troops closed in and two were wounded, including an American old lady. The kidnappers, members of the Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan, an heir of Al-Jihad, had demanded the release from jail of their leader, Saleh Haidara al-Atwi.
October 31, 1999, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Agreed States. EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed off the U.S. coast debilitating all 217 people on board, including 100 Americans. Although it is not in every way clear what happened, evidence indicated that an Egyptian pilot crashed the slide for personal or political reasons.
November 4, 1999, Athens, Greece. A union protesting President Clinton's visit to Greece hid a gas bomb at an American car dealership in Athens. Two cars were destroyed and several others damaged. Anti-State Vim claimed responsibility for the attack, but the November 17 group was also suspected.
November 12, 1999, Islamabad, Pakistan. Six rockets were fired at the U.S. Dirt Services cultural center and United Nations offices in Islamabad, injuring a Pakistani patrol.
September 29, 2000. near Jerusalem Israel. Attack on motorists. U.S. citizens injured: Avi Herman of Teaneck, NJ, Naomi Herman of Teaneck, NJ.
September 29, 2000, Jerusalem, Israel. Assault on taxi passengers. U.S. citizens injured: Tuvia Grossman of Chicago, Todd Pollack of Norfolk, VA, Andrew Feibusch of New York.
October 4, 2000, next-door Bethlehem, West Bank. U.S. citizens injured: An unidentified American visitor.
October 5, 2000: near Jerusalem, Israel. Attack on a motorist. U.S. citizens injured: Rabbi Chaim Brovender of Brooklyn.
October 8, 2000, Nablus, West Bank. The bullet-ridden league of Rabbi Hillel Lieberman, a U.S. citizen from Brooklyn living in the Jewish payment of Elon Moreh, was found at the entrance to the West Bank town of Nablus. Lieberman had headed there after hearing that Palestinians had desecrated the unswerving site, Joseph's Tomb. No organization claimed responsibility for the with concrete overshoes.
October 12, 2000, Aden Harbor, Yemen. A suicide band rammed the warship the U.S.S. Cole with an explosives-laden boat mass murder 13 American sailors and injuring 33. The attack was likely by Osama bin Ladin's al-Qaida confederacy.
October 30, 2000, Jerusalem, Israel. Gunmen killed Eish Kodesh Gilmor, a 25-year-old American-Israeli on tax as a security guard at the National Insurance Institute in Jerusalem. The "Martyrs of the Al-Aqsa Intifada," a league linked to Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack. Gilmor's one's own flesh filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in Washington against the Palestinian Police, the PLO, Chairman Yasser Arafat and members of Force 17, as being trustworthy for the attack.
December 31, 2000, Ofra, Israel. Rabbi Binyamin Kahane, 34, and his the missis, Talia Hertzlich Kahane, both formerly of Brooklyn, NY were killed in a drive-by shooting. Their children, Yehudit Leah Kahane, Bitya Kahane, Tzivya Kahane, Rivka Kahane, and Shlomtsion Kahane, were injured in the spell.
March 28, 2001, Neve Yamin. Bombing at bus stop. U.S. citizens injured: Netanel Herskovitz, 15, formerly of Hempstead, NY.
May 9, 2001, Tekoa, West Bank. Kobi Mandell, 13, of Mellifluous Spring, MD, an American-Israeli, was found stoned to death along with a friend in a cave into the vicinity the Jewish settlement of Tekoa. Two organizations, the Islamic Jihad and Hizballah-Palestine, claimed duty for the attack.
May 29, 2001, Gush Etzion, West Bank. The Fatah Tanzim claimed reliability for a drive-by shooting of six in the West Bank that killed two American-Israeli citizens, Samuel Berg, and his mam, Sarah Blaustein. U.S. citizens injured: Norman Blaustein of Lawrence, NY.
July 19, 2001, Hebron, West Bank. Shooting condemn. U.S. citizens injured: An unidentified woman from Brooklyn, NY.
August 9, 2001, Jerusalem, Israel. A suicide bombing at Sbarro's, a pizzeria situated in one of the busiest areas of downtown Jerusalem, killed 15 people and wounded more than 90. Hamas claimed chargeability for the attack. U.S. citizens killed: Judith L. Greenbaum, 31, of New Jersey and California, Malka Roth, 15, whose relations was from New York. U.S. citizens injured: David Danzig, 21, of Wynnewood, PA, Matthew P. Gordon, 25, of New York, Joanne (Chana) Nachenberg, 31, Sara Shifra Nachenberg, 2.
August 18, 2001, Jerusalem, Israel. Shooting at a bus. U.S. ratepayer injured: Andrew Feibusch of New York.
August 27, 2001, a stone's throw from Roglit, Israel. Shooting attack. U.S. citizen injured: Ben Dansker.
September 11, 2001, New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania, Mutual States. During a carefully coordinated attack, 19 Islamist extremists hijacked four U.S. jetliners and contrived them to crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In all, 266 people perished in the four planes, and more than 3,000 people were killed on the compass basis. U.S. investigators determined on the basis of extensive evidence that Usama bin Ladin's al-Qaida clique was responsible for the attack. The first plane, American Airlines Flight 11 en carry from Boston to Los Angeles, crashed into the World Trade Center's north fastness at 8:48 a.m. Eighteen minutes later, United Airlines Journey 175, also headed from Boston to Los Angeles, smashed into the World Truck Center's south tower. At 9:40 a.m. a third airplane, an American Airlines Boeing 757 that socialistic Washington's Dulles International Airport for Los Angeles, crashed into the western part of the Pentagon where 24,000 people worked. The fourth aircraft, a United Airlines Flight 93 flying from Newark to San Francisco, crashed close Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, most likely before it could hit its target. Hundreds of firefighters, the coppers officers and other rescue workers who arrived in the site after the first plane smash were killed or injured.
November 4, 2001, Jerusalem, Israel. Shoshana Ben-Yishai, 16, of Queens, NY was killed in a shooting at a bus site. U.S. citizen injured: Shlomo Kaye.
December 2, 2001, Jerusalem, Israel. Bombing on Ben-Yehuda Way, Jerusalem. U.S. citizens injured: Ziv Brill, 17, of West Hempstead, Hanker Island, NY, Temima Spetner, 19, of St. Louis, MI, Jason Kirshenbaum of New Rochelle, NY, Israel Hirschfield, 18, Joseph Leifer, 29, of Borough Parkland (Brooklyn), NY.
December 18, 2001, shooting on the Jerusalem-Shilo road. U.S. citizens injured: David Rubin, 44, of Brooklyn, NY, Asher "Ruby" Rubin, 3.
January 15, 2002, Bethlehem, West Bank. Avraham Boaz, 71, of New York, a dual Israeli-American resident, was kidnapped at a PA security checkpoint in Beit Jala and murdered.
January 18, 2002: Shooting in Hadera. U.S. townsman killed: Aaron Elis, 32, son of Chicago family.
January 22, 2002: Shooting in Jerusalem, Israel. U.S. villager injured: Shayna Gould, 19, of Chicago, IL
January 27, 2002, Jerusalem, Israel. A Palestinian bit of fluff triggered a massive explosion in downtown Jerusalem killing one having one foot in the grave Israeli and injuring more than 150, including American Mark Sokolow, his strife, and 16 and 12-year-old daughters. Sokolow had earlier survived the September 11 onset on the World Trade Center, escaping from his law office on the 38th floor of the South Rear before it collapsed.
February 8, 2002, Jerusalem, Israel. Stabbing in Abu Tor Concord Forest Jerusalem. U.S. citizen killed: Moranne Amit, 25
February 15, 2002, parsimonious Ramallah, West Bank. Lee Akunis was shot to death.
February 16, 2002: Bombing in Karnei Shomron. U.S. citizens killed: Keren Shatsky, 14, of Brooklyn, NY and Maine, Rachel Thaler, 16, of Baltimore, MD. U.S. citizens injured: Lior Thaler, 14, of Baltimore, MD, Hillel Trattner of Chicago, IL, Ronit Yucht Trattner of Chicago, IL, Chani Friedman of New York.
February 19, 2002: Shooting approaching Neve Dekalim. U.S. citizens injured: Moshe Saperstein of New York.
February 25, 2002, Jerusalem, Israel. Moran Amit, 25, was stabbed to extirpation in Abu Tor Peace Forest in Jerusalem.
March 7, 2002, Eshel Hashomron Breakfast, Ariel, Israel. A Christian tourist from Arkansas lost her face eye in an attack by a suicide bomber.
March 21, 2002, Jerusalem, Israel. Bombing on a Jerusalem high road. U.S. citizens injured: Alan Joseph Bauer, 37, of Chicago, Yonathon Bauer, 7 (dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship).
Procession 24, 2002, Ofra, Israel. Shooting near Ofra. U.S. citizens killed: Esther Kleinman, 23, formerly of Chicago, IL.
Tread 27, 2002, Netanya, Israel. U.S. citizen Hannah Rogen, 90, was killed in a suicide criticism at a Passover Seder.
March 31, 2002, Efrat, Israel. Bombing in Efrat. U.S. citizens injured: An nameless American citizen.
June 18, 2002, Jerusalem, Israel. Moshe Gottlieb, 70, of Los Angeles, CA was killed in a bus bombing in Jerusalem.
June 19, 2002, Jerusalem, Israel. Gila Sara Kessler, 19, whose kindred came from New York, was killed in a bombing at a bus stop.
July 31, 2002, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Nine people were killed when a blow up exploded in the main cafeteria at the Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus in Jerusalem. Five were U.S. citizens: Janis Ruth Coulter, 36, of MA; Marla Bennet, 24, of San Diego, CA; David Gritz (also a French householder), 24, of Peru, MA; Benjamin Blutstein, 25, of Susquehanna Township, PA; and Dina Carter, 37, of NC. Israelis David Ladovsky, 29, and Levina Shapira, 53 also died in the bombing. U.S. citizens injured: Spencer Dew, 26, of Owensboro, Kentucky; Zeev Spencer; Harris Gershon; Jamie Harris. Hamas claimed reliability for the attack.
March 5, 2003: Bus bombing in Haifa. U.S. citizens killed: Abigail Leitel, 14, who was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Parade 7, 2003: Shooting in the victims’ home. U.S. citizens killed: Rabbi Eli Horowitz, 52, who grew up in Chicago; Dina Horowitz, 50, who grew up in Florida
April 30, 2003: Bombing at a Tel Aviv pub. U.S. citizens injured: Jack Baxter, 50, of New York Conurbation.
June 11, 2003: Bus bombing in Jerusalem. U.S. citizens killed: Alan Beer, 47, who grew up in Cleveland. U.S. citizens injured: Sarri Choirboy, 27, daughter of New Jersey State Senator Robert Chorus-boy.
June 20, 2003: Shooting attack on a car driving through the West Bank. U.S. citizens killed: Tzvi Goldstein, 47, who grew up in New York; U.S. citizens injured: Eugene Goldstein, Tzvi’s architect, of Long Island, New York; Lorraine Goldstein, Tzvi’s maw, of Long Island, New York; Michal Goldstein, Tzvi’s mate, who grew up in New York.
August 19, 2003: Homicide bombing on a bus in Jerusalem. U.S. citizens killed: Goldie Taubenfeld, 43, of New Right-angled, New York; Shmuel Taubenfeld, 3 months, of New Square, New York; Mordechai Reinitz, 49; Yitzhak Reinitz, 9. Tehilla Nathanson, 3, of Monsey, New York; U.S. citizens injured: Mendel Reinitz, 11.
September 9, 2003: Homicide bombing at a cafe in Jerusalem. David Applebaum, 51, and his daughter Nava, 20, from the word go of Cleveland were killed.
October 15, 2003: Bombing of American convoy in the Gaza Ribbon: John Branchizio, 37, Mark Parson, 31, and John Martin Linde, 30, were on come down with to the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv through the defense contracting company Dyncorp.U.S. citizens injured: One as-yet-unnamed U.S. resident (reportedly a diplomat).
September 24, 2004: Mortar strike on a casing community: Tiferet Tratner, 24, (dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship).
April 17, 2006: Homicide bombing at the Rosh Ha'ir restaurant in Tel Aviv: Daniel Wultz, 16, of Weston, Florida, died one month after receiving his wounds in this bombing.
Compiled by Caroline Taillandier, a up on assistant at the GLORIA center and student at Tel Aviv University, Dr. Mitchell Bard, and Alden Oreck, Avi Hein, and Elihai Braun, experimentation assistants at the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, and Paul Teller, Alternate Director, House Republican Study Committee.
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Sources: Journal on Terrorist Incidents 1961-2001, State Department; "Patterns of Terrorism" reports 1995-2000; Delineate Department Institute for Counter-Terrorism Database; Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya; Peacewatch, The Washington Guild for New East Policy; AIPAC; Ha'aretz, Republican Study Board
If it doesn't give aid and opulence to the enemy -the far left is not interested . If the blood being shed is the enemy -then the exactly is not safe according to liberals .Where was the outrage in the drive-by media & the other libs when Nab Berg was so brutally beheaded ? They were saving it for AbuGhrabbe .
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