r.gonzales:
I think it is much more than paranoia…
11/4/1979, Iranian radicals seize the US Embassy in Tehran, taking sixty-six American diplomats hostage.
4/18/1983, Sixty three people are killed and 120 injured in a suicide truck bomb attack on the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Islamic Jihad claims responcibility.
10/23/1983, Simultaneous suicide truck bombs on American and French compounds in Beirut, Lebanon. Two hundred and forty one Americans and fifty eight Frenchmen are killed. Islamic Jihad claims responcibility.
12/12/1983, US Embassy in Kuwait targeted by Iraqi Shia terrorists who attempted to destroy the building with a truck bomb. The attack was foiled by guards and the device exploded in the Embassy fore-court killing five people.
3/16/1984, CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, William Buckley, was kidnapped by the Iranian backed Islamic Jihad. He was tortured and then executed by his captors.
9/20/1984, Suicide bomb attack on US Embassy in East Beirut kills twenty three people and injures twenty one others. Attributed to the Iranian backed Hezbollah.
3/16/1985, US journalist Terry Anderson is kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon, by Iranian backed Islamic radicals. He is released in December 1991.
6/9/1985, US academic, Thomas Sutherland, at the American University, Beirut, Lebanon kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and held until November 18, 1991.
6/14/1985, A Trans World Airlines flight was hijacked en route to Rome from Athens by two Lebanese Hizballah terrorists and forced to fly to Beirut. The eight crew members and 145 passengers were held for 17 days, during which one American hostage, a U.S. Navy diver, was murdered.
9/12/1985, US academic at the American University in Beirut, Joseph Cicippio, seized in Beirut by Iranian backed Islamic terrorists. He is released on December 1, 1991.
10/7/1985, Four Palestinian Liberation Front terrorists seized an Italian cruise liner in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, taking more than 700 hostages. One U.S. passenger was murdered before the Egyptian Government offered the terrorists safe haven in return for the hostages’ freedom.
10/21/1985, American businessman Edward Tracy kidnapped in Lebanon by Islamic terrorists and held for almost five years until August 11, 1991
3/30/1986, A Palestinian splinter group detonated a bomb as TWA Flight 840 approached Athens Airport, killing four U.S. citizens.
4/5/1986, Two U.S. soldiers were killed, and 79 American servicemen were injured in a Libyan bomb attack on a nightclub in West Berlin, West Germany.
1/24/1987, American citizens Jesse Turner and Alann Steen were seized in Beirut by Islamic terrorists. Turner was held until October 22, 1991 and Steen is released on 3 December 3, 1991.
2/17/1988, US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel W. Higgens, kidnapped and murdered by the Iranian backed Hezbollah while serving with the United Nations Truce Supervisory Organisation in southern Lebanon.
4/14/1988,The Organization of Jihad Brigades exploded a car bomb outside a USO Club in Naples, Italy, killing one U.S. sailor.
8/8/198, Pakistan president Zia Al Haq and US ambassador are killed, along with thirty seven other people, when a bomb explodes on a C-130 Hercules aircraft just after take off from Bahawalpu, Pakistan.
12/12/1988, Pan Am Boeing 747 blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland. All 259 people on the aircraft were killed by the blast.
2/16/1983, World Trade Center in New York, USA, attacked by a massive bomb planted by Islamic terrorists.
4/14/1983, Iraqi intelligence service attempt to assassinate former US President, George Bush, during a visit to Kuwait.
3/8/1995, Two U.S. diplomats and wounded a third in Karachi, Pakistan.
8/21/1995, Hamas claimed responsibility for the detonation of a bomb in Jerusalem that killed six and injured over 100 persons, including several U.S. citizens.
11/13/1995, Seven foreigners, including a number of US servicemen, are killed in bomb attack on National Guard training centre at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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