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Chronology of Attacks on U.S. Targets
Following is a chronology of attacks on U.S. targets compiled by Reuters news service.
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1983
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April
A suicide car bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut kills 63 people, including 17 Americans.
October
A suicide bombing attack by radical Muslims at the headquarters of the U.S. peacekeeping force in Lebanon kills 241 U.S. servicemen. A simultaneous attack on a French base in Beirut kills 58.
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1984
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November
A bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, kills a passerby. The explosion follows death threats against U.S. officials from drug traffickers.
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1985
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April
A bomb explodes in a restaurant near an American air base in Madrid, Spain, killing 18, all Spaniards, and injuring 82, including 15 Americans.
June
A Trans World Airlines plane is hijacked in the Mediterranean, the start of a two-week hostage drama. The last 39 of the passengers taken hostage are released in Damascus after being held at various points in Beirut.
In El Salvador, four U.S. marines and two American businessmen are among 13 people killed in a machine gun attack at a San Salvador cafe.
August
A car bomb kills two and injures 20 at a U.S. military base in Frankfurt. A U.S. soldier murdered for his identity papers is found the day after the blast.
October
Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly, wheelchair-bound New Yorker, is killed and thrown overboard from the hijacked cruise liner Achille Lauro, which was taken over by Palestinians a few days after Israeli warplanes attacked the Tunis, Tunisian, headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
November
Hijackers of an Egyptair plane kill an American passenger on board. The hijacking later ends in a bloodbath as Egyptian commandos storm the plane in Malta at the cost of 60 lives.
December
An Arab suicide hit squad attacks U.S. and Israeli check-in desks at international airports in Rome and Vienna simultaneously. The attacks claim a total of 20 lives, including four guerrillas.
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1986
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April
An explosion rips a hole in a TWA plane as it makes its descent near Athens, killing four passengers as they are sucked out of the plane.
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1988
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December
A bomb explodes on a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 as it flies over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 people on board and 11 on the ground.
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1993
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February
Six people are killed and more than 1,000 injured when a bomb in a van explodes under the twin 110-story towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
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1995
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April
A truck bomb destroys the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. Two men were convicted in the attack.
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1996
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June
A fuel truck bomb kills 19 American soldiers and wounds nearly 400 people at a U.S. military complex in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, near the oil city of Dhahran.
July
A bomb explodes at a concert during the Olympic Games in Atlanta, killing two and wounding 110.
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1998
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June
Rocket-propelled grenades explode near the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
August
Two huge bombs explode within minutes of each other at U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 224 and wounding more than 5,000.
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