List of Islamic attacks on America

Islam’s War With America
By Greg Crosby

President Bush finally, actually used the correct term, "Islamo-facist" in a speech last month and all hell broke loose. Arab groups screamed "racism." Liberals were apalled. And because of the uproar instigated by terrorist front groups like CAIR, the Bush administration caved under political correctness once again. No matter what you call the war we are engaged in, the truth is we are at war with radical Islam. Or more to the point, they are at war with us. They started it more than 30 years ago. Now, as we appoach the 5th anniversary of 9/11, let us once again review who it is that we are at war with and why — just in case some of us don’t know or have forgotten. The following represents just a sample of what the Arab and Islamic militants have done to Americans for over three decades.

March 2, 1973: U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Assassinated by Palestinian militants

Nov. 4, 1979: to Jan. 20, 198: Iran Hostage Crisis

April 18, 1983: Islamic Jihad Bombs the US Embassy in Beirut and kills 63 people

Oct. 23, 1983: Islamic Jihad bombs the Marine Barracks in Beirut and kills 242 Americans, while 58 French troops were killed in a separate attack

March 16, 1984: Islamic Jihad kidnaps and later murders U.S. Embassy official William Buckley in Beirut, Lebanon

April 12, 1984: Hezbollah bombs a restaurant in Spain killing 18 US servicemen

June 14, 1985: Hezbollah hijacks a TWA flight murdering a US Navy sailor

Oct. 7, 1985: Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacked by Palestinians, a wheelchair bound U.S. passenger is murdered and dumped overboard

Nov. 23, 1985: An EgyptAir airplane is hijacked by the Abu Nidal group with several US citizens aboard

March 30, 1986: Palestinians bomb TWA Flight 840 killing four US citizens

April 5, 1986: Libyans bomb a discotheque in Berlin killing 2 US soldiers and wounding 79

Feb. 17, 1988: Hezbollah kidnaps and murders US Marine Corps Lt. Col. W. Higgins while he was serving with the UN Truce Supervisory Organization (UNTSO) in southern Lebanon

Dec. 21, 1988: Libyans blow up Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 259 people

Feb. 26, 1993: first World Trade Center Bombing by Islamic terrorists kills 6 people and injures 1,000

Nov. 13, 1995: The Islamic Movement of Change plants a bomb in a Riyadh military compound that kills one US citizen and more than 40 others

June 25, 1996: Islamic terrorists attack the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 US military personnel and wounding 515 persons

Feb. 23, 1997: a Palestinian gunman opens fire at the Empire State Building killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the US, Argentina, Switzerland, and France; his handwritten note claimed this was punishment against the “enemies of Palestine”

Aug. 7, 1998: Osama bin Laden carries out the attacks on the US Embassies in East Africa. The attack at Nairobi, Kenya, kills 12 US citizens and 279 others, injuring about 5,000 Kenyans and six US citizens. The attack on the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, kills 10 Tanzanian citizens and injures one US citizen and 76 Tanzanians.

Oct. 12, 2000: al-Qaeda attacks the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen killing 17 sailors and injuring 39 others

Sept. 11, 2001: al-Qaeda attacks US Homeland killing thousands

Jan 23, 2002: Islamic militants kidnap US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan and slit his throat a week later

May 7, 2004: al-Qaeda’s Abu Musab al-Zarqawi personally saws the head off of US citizen Nick Berg and distributes the video