Islamic Terror Timeline

Although lengthy, the following timeline documents what terrorists are capable of when attempting to instill their radical ideologies on the world. Starting from the early 1970’s when terrorism became a modem for change until the end of 2006, you will find that these acts of terrorism have changed American and allied diplomacy through their violence of action.

Concentrating on Islamic Extremists and their acts of terrorism, the following acts amount to over 5,770 innocent people killed and over 11,300 wounded. The following acts do not incorporate European or South East Asian terrorism, unless specifically attributed to Islamic Radicals.

Islam is not a peaceful religion when practiced by religious zealots. There can be no negotiation with an enemy whose goal it is to kill all the infidels. Expressed goals of our enemy state that the Western Zionist Regimes must be destroyed. They have told us time and again with their actions and words what they desire. It is time to listen.

In 3/2/73, the US Ambassador to Sudan was assassinated in front of the Saudi Arabian Embassy.

Attack and Hijacking at Rome Airport in 12/17/73. Terrorist attacked and destroyed PanAm flight 707. Hijacked a Lufthansa jet and ended up flying to Kuwait. Terrorists murdered a total of 33 people in an effort to have 2 Arab terrorists released.

US Ambassador to Afghanistan taken hostage and later killed on 2/4/79

Iranian Hostage Crisis-Iranian radicals seized US Embassy taking 66 Americans hostage on 11/4/79

4/18/83, Islamic Jihad, used a suicide truck bomb to kill 63 people, including the CIA director in the Middle East and wound 120 others at the US Embassy in Beirut.

10/23/83, Islamic Jihad killed 242 Americans in a Marine barracks bomb attack in Beirut.

3/16/84, Islamic Jihad kidnapped and murdered political officer William Buckley in Beirut.

4/12/84, 18 soldiers were killed and 83 people wounded in a bomb attacked on a restaurant near a USAF base in Torrejon Spain.

4/14/85, TWA flight was hi-jacked by 2 Hezbollah terrorists and forced to fly to Beirut. 153 people we held hostage for 17 days, during which a US Navy sailor was murdered. Israel released 435 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners in return for the plane and passengers.

10/7/85, PLF terrorists hi-jack Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro taking 700 people hostage. They killed 1 US passenger before Egypt offered the terrorists safe haven.
12/23/85, PLF terrorists hi-jack a EryptAir plane carrying several US citizens

12/27/85, Abu Nidal Organization gunmen attacked the El Al ticket counters in Rome and Vienna with machine guns and hand grenades killing a total of 16 and wounding a total of 105.

3/30/86, Palestinian group bombed TWA flight 840 on approach killing four US citizens

4/5/86, Libyan bomb explodes in Germany night club killing 2 US soldiers and wounding 79 other soldiers.

2/17/88, Lt. Col. William Higgins was kidnapped and murdered by Hezbollah in S. Lebanon.

12/21/88, PanAm Flight 103 blown up killing all 259 on board. Bomb placed by Libyan terrorist.

1/18/91, Iraqi agents planted bombs at the US Ambassador to Indonesia’s home residence. As well as the US Information Service Library in Manilia.

2/26/93, Two Islamic terrorist who were followers of Umar Abd Al-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric from New York, bombed the World Trade Center killing 6 and wounding over 1,000.

4/14/93, Iraqi Intelligence service attempted to assassinate former President George Bush.

3/8/95, two gunmen killed two US diplomats and wounded a third in Karachi Pakistan.

8/21/95, HAMAS claimed responsibility for bombing a bus in Jerusalem that killed 6 and wounded 100.

12/13/95, The Islamic Movement of Change planted a bomb in a Riyadh military compound that killed over 40 people.

2/26/96, A HAMAS suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem killing 26 and injuring 80 others.

3/4/96, HAMAS and the Palestine Islamic Jihad both claimed responsibility for a bombing outside of Tel Aviv’s largest shopping mall killing 20 and injuring 75.

6/9/96, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was suspected of opening fire on a car and killing a US and Israeli citizens.

6/25/96, the US military Khobar Towers housing facility in Dhahran was bombed killing 19 US soldiers and wounding 515 people.
9/13/96, The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan kidnapped 7 people in Iraq

10/3/96, Algerian extremist were suspected of bombing the Paris subway killing 4 and injuring 86.

1/2/97, letter bombs were found in multiple locations including the Al-Hayat newspaper bureaus in Washington and New York. These letters were postmarked from Egypt.

2/23/97, A Palestinian sniper opened fire at the Empire State Building killing one and wounding several others. The sniper killed him and a note written by him before his suicide stated that this was a punishment attack against the enemies of Palestine.

10/30/97, 2 US citizens kidnapped in Yemen by Al-Sha’if terrorists and held for nearly a month

12/12/97, US citizen shot to death in Pakistan by Islamic militant group.

2/24/97: An armed man opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop theEmpire States Building in New York City, killing 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 claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine".

11/17/97: Luxor Massacre – Islamist gunmen attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 and injuring 24 people, most of them European and Japanese vacationers.

2/14/98: 1998 Coimbatore bombings - Bombings by suspected Islamic Jihadi groups on an election rally in Indian city of Coimbatore kill about 60 people.

8/7/98: U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000, by al-Qaeda


1/3/99: Gunmen open fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people injuring 25.

12/99: Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US and Israeli tourists in Jordan and pick up 28 suspects as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots

12/14/99: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States–Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots

12/24/99: Indian Airlines Flight 814 from Kathmandu, Nepal to Deli, India is hijacked. One passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released in exchange for release of four terrorists.

2000: The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.

10/12/00: USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors and wounds 40 off the port coast of Aden, Yemen, by al-Qaeda.

3/26/01: 10 months old Israeli infant Shalhevet Pass is intentionally and fatally shot in the head by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron.

6/1/01: 21 civilians, mostly teenagers from the former Soviet Union, are killed by a Hamas suicide bomber in the Dolphinarium massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel

8/9/01: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.

9/11/01: Attacks killed 2,997 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane, originally intended to hit an unknown, but likely prominent, Washington, D.C. target, crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers; by Al-Qaeda.

10/17/01: Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

12/12/01: Jewish Defense League plot by Chairman Irv Rubin and follower Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California and the office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell Issa, foiled.

12/22/01: Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.

3/27/02: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 and injures 140 during Passover festivities in a hotel in Netanya, Israel in the Passover massacre.

3/31/02: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 15 and injures over 40 in Haifa, Israel, in the Matza restaurant massacre.

4/11/02: A natural gas truck fitted with explosives is driven into a synagogue in Tunisia by an al-Qaeda member, killing 21 and wounding more than 30 in the Ghriba Synagogue Attack.

5/13/02: Twelve people are killed in the Jaunpur train crash in India, caused when Islamic extremists cut the rails.

6/18/02: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates himself on a bus in Jerusalem in the Patt junction massacre. The attack kills 19 people and wounds over 74.

7/4/02: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being killed himself.

10/6/02: Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen.

10/12/02: Bali bombing of holidaymakers kills 202 people, mostly Western tourists and local Balinese hospitality staff.

12/21/02: Hamas orchestrates the Jerusalem bus 20 massacre. Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated on a crowded bus in central Jerusalem.

12/21/02: Kurnool train crash, Islamic extremists derail a train and kill 20 people in India.

3/5/03: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 17 people and wounds 53 when he detonates a bomb hidden under his clothing in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.

3/23/03: SGT Hasan Akbar, USA, murdered two officers and wounded 14 soldiers in a grenade attack at an Army base in Iraq.

5/12/03: Bombings of United States expatriate housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Al-Qaeda blamed.

5/16/03: Casablanca Attacks by twelve bombers on five "Western and Jewish" targets in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead and over 100 injured. Attack attributed to a Moroccan al-Qaeda-linked group.

8/19/03: Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 22 people (including the top UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello) and wounds over 100.

8/19/03: Jerusalem bus 2 massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber detonates himself on a crowded bus carrying mostly Orthodox Jewish Israelis, including many children returning from the Western Wall. 23 people are killed and over 130 wounded.

10/4/03: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 21 and wounds 51 in a Haifa restaurant in the Maxim restaurant massacre.

10/15/03: A bomb is detonated by Palestinians against a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip, killing three Americans

1/29/04: Jerusalem bus 19 massacre: Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades orchestrate a suicide bombing on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel killing eleven people and wounding more than 50.

3/2/04: Ashoura Massacre: Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500 during the Ashura.

3/11/04: Coordinated bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500. Suspected Al-Qaeda authorship.

3/24/04: Israeli soldiers arrest Hussam Abdo, a 15 year-old Palestinian boy with explosives strapped to his chest at the Hawara Checkpoint. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades sent Abdo on a suicide mission to bomb the checkpoint.

5/1/04: 2004 Yanbu attack kills six Westerners and a Saudi in Saudi Arabia.

5/2/04: Pregnant Israeli commuter Tali Hatue and her four young children are gunned down at close range by militants from the Popular Resistance Committees and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

5/29/04: Al-Khobar massacres, in which Islamic militants kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.

10/7/04: Sinai bombings: Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 34 and wounding 171, many of them Israeli and other foreign tourists.

12/6/04: Suspected al Qaeda-linked group attacks U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing five local employees.

2/14/05: A car bomb kills former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 20 others in Beirut.

2/25/05: A suicide bomber in Tel Aviv kills five Israelis and undermines a weeks-old truce between the two sides.

6/1/05: A suicide bomber blows up in a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing 20 people.

6/12/05: Bombs explode in the Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Tehran, leaving ten dead and 80 wounded days before the Iranian presidential election.

7/7/05: London bombings – Bombs explode on one double-decker bus and three London Underground trains, killing 56 people and injuring over 700, occurring on the first day of the 31st G8 Conference. The attacks are believed by many to be the first suicide bombings in Western Europe.

7/12/05: Islamic Jihad takes responsibility for a suicide bombing in Netanya, Israel, which kills five people at a shopping mall.

7/21/05: Attempted London bombings - Small explosions in three London Underground stations and one double-decker bus. This was pronounced as a "major incident" rather than an attack, and only minor injuries were reported. These four bombs were designed to cause as much damage as the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but the explosives had deteriorated and failed to detonate.

8/4/05: Jewish settler in an IDF uniform opens fire on a bus in Shfaram, Israel, killing four Israeli Arabs and wounding five.

10/15/05: Two bombs exploded at a shopping mall in Ahvaz, Khuzestan in Iran. Six people died and over 100 were injured

10/24/05: Multiple car bombs explode outside the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 20. It is thought that the attacks were targeting journalists inside the Palestine Hotel and the Sheraton Ishtar.

10/26/05: A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates a bomb near a falafel stand in Hadera, Israel that kills himself and six others. Twenty-six people were also wounded.

2006: Qassam rockets fired by Hamas into Israel, especially the cities of Ashkelon and Sderot, injures many citizens.

2/22/06: Al Askari Mosque bombing ignites sectarian strife in Iraq.

3/2/06: Bombing in Karachi, Pakistan kills four, including a U.S. diplomat

3/3/06: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.

3/30/06: Palestinian suicide bomber kills himself and four others at Kedumim Junction in the West Bank

4/11/06: A suicide bomber explodes himself in Karachi, Pakistan, and kills 57 Sunni worshippers.

4/17/06: Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing eleven people and injuring 70.

6/25/06: Eliyahu Asheri, an Israeli citizen, was kidnapped and murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).

7/9/06: 40 Sunni civilians are massacred by Shia militants in Baghdad, Iraq.

7/17/06: Explosions and gunmen kill 48 people in a market in Mahmoudiya, Iraq

7/18/06: Car bombing near a Shiite shrine in Kufa, Iraq kills 53 and injures 103

7/28/06: An American Muslim of Pakistani descent opened fire inside the Jewish Federation of Seattle, killing one and wounding four.

7/31/06: Two suitcase bombs are discovered in trains near the German towns of Dortmund and Koblenz, undetonated due to an assembly error. Video footage from Cologne train station, where the bombs were put on the trains, led to the arrest of two Lebanese students in Germany, Youssef al-Hajdib and Jihad Hamad, and subsequently of three suspected co-conspirators in Lebanon. On 1 September 2006, Jörg Ziercke, head of the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Police), reports that the suspects saw the Muhammad cartoons as an "assault by the West on Islam" and the "initial spark" for the attack, originally planned to coincide with the 2006 Football World Cup in Germany

8/4/06: A suicide car bomber struck a market in Kandahar, Afghanistan killing 21 people

8/10/06: A major anti-terrorist operation disrupts an alleged bomb plot targeting multiple airplanes bound for the United States flying through Heathrow Airport, near London, UK.

8/20/06: Gunmen spray bullets on Shiites in Baghdad, killing 20 people and wounding more than 300.

9/12/06: Four attackers armed with grenades and machine guns attempt to storm the U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria. Three of the gunmen and one Syrian guard are killed during a battle between the attackers and Syrian security forces. One Syrian employee of the embassy and at least ten bystanders are wounded, among them, seven Syrian telephone company workers and a senior Chinese diplomat. Police recover a car laden with explosives and other IEDs. Syrian Ambassador to the United States Imad Moustapha announces that his government suspects a group called Jund al-Sham is responsible.

9/15/06: Four suicide bombers and a security guard are killed in early-morning attacks on the Safer refinery in Marib and the al-Dhabba terminal in Hadramout, Yemen. Although no group has claimed responsibility Islamic extremists are suspected.

9/18/06: Eleven people, including the presidents brother and six attackers, are killed in an assassination attempt on the Somalian president.

9/30/06: A suicide bomber detonates his explosives outside the interior ministry in Kabul. The attack kills twelve and wounds over 40

11/21/06: Assassination of Pierre Amine Gemayel, an anti-Syrian politician and scion of Lebanon’s most prominent Christian family blamed on Syria, Iran and Hezbollah despite their denials.11/23/06: A series of car bombs and motar attacks in Sadr City, Iraq kills at least 215 people and wounds a further 257.