Significant Terrorist Incidents, 1961-2001: A Chronology

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[stumpy]

It seems that the majority of these attacks were perpetrated by PALESTINIANS. Time to remove them.

[Twodees]

When the attacks weren't pulled off by Palestinians, they were done by other jihadis using the Palestinian cause as the pretext for their atrocities. This crap has been allowed to go on for too long.

[NYC GOP Chick]

I remember that (the ESB gunman) as well, but nothing about the palestinian angle. Hmm...

[hellinahandcart]

It's the difference between my life pre-FR and now. I didn't have a computer in 1997. I do remember being told the guy was Palestinian, and I remember witnesses saying that he had asked a number of people "Are you Egyptian?" as he was firing, but at least here in NY it was very quickly a story about a deranged soul acting alone, and "how could a disturbed indivdual buy a gun legally in another state, gotta have uniform gun control across the U.S. and then this won't happen anymore".

Today I'd be asking questions like "If he lost all his money, how was he supporting himself for two months in the U.S.? What was he doing all that time? Who did he see? What was the significance of his arival on Christmas Eve?" and so on.

In one of the articles I posted, the widow was appealing to Arafat to launch an invetigation into the "mysterious circumtances" of her husband's death (!). Very familiar "denial" routine. The whole thing makes me sick. I almost wish he'd turned himself into a bomb instead, at least we'd have been talking about the proper thing.

[kidd]

Arabs and Islam. Islam and Arabs.

What this world needs is more Icelandic terrorists. And Norway - where are all the Norwegian terrorists? And its high time for New Zealand to become a hot bed of hate. Sheesh.

[Elkiejg]

Fantastic article. I intend to send it out to all kinds of media and directly to Brit Hume, O'Reilly and John Gibson at FoxNews since they are about the only network that will use it. But before I do, I firmly believe the OK City bombing, TWA 800 and the Eygptian Airline crash out of NY were all terrorist backed - shouldn't they be added to the list???? Would appreciate your comments - want to send this out today. Thanks

[hellinahandcart]

Maybe stick to incidents where there's a clear somebody-with-a-name responsible. But since we got almost no help at all from Egypt in the EgyptAir investigation, why not. I've always thought the pilot was trying to commit homicide, not suicide.

[Elkiejg]

Thanks for your reply - maybe I'll put those incidents in date order but with a big question mark.