{UAH} Terrorism in the United States: ATTENTION HANNAH OGWAPITTI

Hannah,

Here is a comprehensive list of all terrorist atrcocities that have
occurred in the USA between 1800 to date (June 2016) I feel so
frsutrated by the last post you sent, saying 90% of all terroristt
attacks in the USA have been carried out by white men. What is the
purpose of this line of arguement?

Dr Paul Mugerwa and myself have always been arguing that Islam is an
existential threat to human civilisation because it is the only
religion that legitmises and authorises violence, and specifically
brutal murders, as a method of achieving its glogbal aims

In no way do we deny that there have been other perpetrators of
terrorist violence, but what distingushes these terrorst actors from
Islamic terror is that, on the whole they are driven by considerations
that are not religious, but TEMPORAL. A few right wing groups and race
hate groups have tried to justify their actions under the banner of
Christianity, but no one seriously takes a black hate group like the
KKK as a "christian group" Anti abortionists, envrironmentalist,
jewish fascists, black nationalists, have all committed terrorist
acts, which in their view they regarded as legitimate means of
propagating their political agenda or fighting oppression

Equally, as this report shows, Left-wing, nationalist and
pro-independence groups have committed terrorist acts on USA soil,
many of them regarding such actions as legitimate acts of war. As a
communist, I am a supporter of revolutionary violence and hold firm to
the belief that ultimately, it is througg violence that humanity will
be liberated.

Please also note the appaling, barbaric and totally indiscriminate
nature of Islamic terrorism. It focuses on the weak and the most
vulnerable, whereas the other so-called terrorists hit selected
targets of military or political value and take all measures possible
to avoid civilian casaulties.

Lastly, you don't seem to have a clue at all about anarchy and the
violence associated with it. A majority of the socalled 90% of white
people who have carried out terrosit acts are actually anarchists,
people who are completely aleinated from capitalist society and simply
want to destry it in order to start afressh. You can not compare then
to Islamic terrorists, whose clear aim is to establsih an Islamic
Caliphate on earth and whose creed is clearly spelt out in the Koran.
No other major religion in the world today calls for the barbaric
murder of hundreds of thousands of people as a means of achieving its
global goals. It is only Islam which glorifies violence and uses it as
a weapon in its warped ideology of global supremacy.

If you still can't see my point, then I am sorry we are wasting out
time and I will end the debate forthwith. I will never accept useless
apologies for evil and barbarity. It is time the truth is told.

Bobby


Terrorism in the United States
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A common definition of terrorism is the systematic use or threatened
use of violence in order to intimidate a population or government and
thereby effect political, religious, or ideological change.[1][2] This
article serves as a list and compilation of acts of terrorism,
attempts of terrorism, and other such items pertaining to terrorist
activities within the domestic borders of the United States by
non-state actors or spies acting in the interests of or persons acting
without approval of state actors.


Contents
1 Attacks by date
1.1 1800–991.2 1900–591.3 1960s1.4 1970s1.5 1980s1.6 1990s1.7 2000s1.8
2010–present2 Attacks by type
2.1 Organized KKK violence2.2 Left-wing extremism and
anti-government2.3 White supremacy2.4 Antisemitism2.5 Puerto Rican
nationalism2.6 Palestinian militancy2.7 Black radicalism2.8 Jewish
extremism2.9 Right-wing extremism and anti-government2.10
Anti-abortion violence2.11 Islamic extremism3 Deadliest attacks4
Environmental terrorism5 Failed attacks6 Alleged and proven plots7

August 6-November 1, 1838: 1838 Mormon War — As Mormons began to pour
into Missouri (which Mormons considered their "promised land"), their
distinct theology and abolitionist tendencies were met with friction
by the locals, which soon escalated into accusations, recriminations,
and ultimately armed violence. After some skirmishing, the Mormon
Extermination Order was passed, and the murder of Mormons was
legalized in the state of Missouri. Eventually, Mormons were almost
completely driven from the state of Missouri.
May 21, 1856: Sacking of Lawrence – Pro-Slavery forces enter Lawrence,
Kansas to disarm residents and destroy the town's presses and the Free
State Hotel.
September 11, 1857: Mountain Meadows Massacre — During the Utah War,
Mormon militias, fueled by paranoia, attack the Baker–Fancher Party
wagon train, killing everyone older than 7. The party's 17 very young
children were kidnapped into Mormon families, and the party's property
was auctioned off to the Mormon community. Mormons attempt
unsuccessfully to blame the slaughter on Indians. Some 120 people were
murdered in cold blood, making this attack the single deadliest act of
terrorism on US soil until the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995.
October 16, 1859: Anti-slavery Pottawatomie massacre – In response to
the sacking of Lawrence, John Brown led a group of abolitionists to
murder five Kansas settlers from Tennessee, whom he presumed to be
pro-slavery.
April 14, 1865: Pro-slavery Abraham Lincoln assassination – Part of a
conspiracy by Confederate supporters John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Powell
and George Atzerodt to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln, Vice
President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward in
Washington, D.C. to create chaos for the purpose of overthrowing the
Federal Government. Booth succeeded in assassinating Lincoln at Ford's
Theatre, Seward suffered numerous stab wounds by Powell who stabbed
others as he was chased out of Seward's home, and Atzerodt failed to
carry out the planned murder of Johnson. Booth was killed by soldiers
when he failed to surrender. Eight conspirators were tried and
convicted for their role in the conspiracy by a military tribunal,
including Powell and Atzerodt. Four defendants were executed for their
roles including Powell, Azterodt and Mary Surratt, the first woman
ever to be hanged by the U.S. government, whom historians mostly
conclude was innocent.
May 4, 1886: Haymarket affair – An unknown person or persons at
Haymarket Square in Chicago detonated a bomb during a labor rally,
killing a police officer and prompting the police to open fire. In the
mayhem, an undetermined number of civilians and seven more police
officers were killed, mostly by the police shooting in response. Eight
anarchists were convicted of conspiracy, and four of them hanged the
next year. One killed himself, and the remaining three were later
pardoned.
October 28, 1893: Carter Harrison assassination-Patrick Eugene Joseph
Prendergast was upset that the Mayor of Chicago, Carter Harrison, Sr.,
advocated for the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890,
seeing it as an action against the citizenry and acting under the
influence of England, the Rothschild bankers of Europe, and Wall St.
Prendergast imagined this as part of a larger conspiracy that betrayed
the will of Jesus Christ. As a delusional newspaper man, he found
himself unable to influence policy in Washington or Chicago and
ultimately took it upon himself to change the course of history by
assassinating the powerful mayor. He felt that his inevitable
acquittal would establish a precedent wherein Christian law would be
established throughout the city. Prendergast was found sane by a jury
and hanged on July 14, 1894.[4]
1900–59[edit]September 6, 1901: President William McKinley was
assassinated by Michigan-born anarchist Leon Czolgosz, in Buffalo, New
York.[5]
December 30, 1905: Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg was killed
by a bomb in front of his Caldwell, Idaho home. The assassin, Harry
Orchard, turned state's evidence and accused the Western Federation of
Miners of having hired him to assassinate Steunenberg in retaliation
for breaking up miners' strikes. However, the labor leaders put on
trial due to his accusations were acquitted as defense attorneys
Clarence Darrow and Edmund F. Richardson successfully discredited
Orchard's testimony.[6]
October 1, 1910: Los Angeles Times bombing. The Los Angeles Times
building in Los Angeles was destroyed by dynamite, killing 21 workers.
The bomb was apparently placed due to the paper's opposition to
unionization in the city;[7] two labor organizers, the McNamara
brothers, were found guilty.
May 30, 1915: German agents blew up a barge carrying 15 tons of
refined gunpowder just off of Harbor Island, Seattle, Washington.[8]
July 2, 1915: Frank Holt (also known as Eric Muenter), a German
professor who wanted to stop American support of the Allies in World
War I, exploded a bomb in the reception room of the U.S. Senate. The
next morning he tried to assassinate J. P. Morgan, Jr. the son of the
financier whose company served as Great Britain's principal U.S.
purchasing agent for munitions and other war supplies. Muenter was
overpowered by Morgan in Morgan's Long Island home before killing
himself in prison on July 7.[9][10]
July 22, 1916: The Preparedness Day Bombing killed ten people and
injured 40 in San Francisco. Two radical labor leaders, Warren K.
Billings and Thomas Mooney, were convicted of the crime and sentenced
to hang, but with little evidence of their guilt both sentences were
commuted to life imprisonment. They were eventually pardoned, and the
actual bombers' identities remain unknown.
July 30, 1916: The Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey was
an act of sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents to
prevent the materiel from being used by the Allies in World War I.
November 24, 1917: A bomb exploded in a Milwaukee police station,
killing nine officers and a civilian. Anarchists were
suspected.[11][12]
1919 United States anarchist bombings: A series of package bombs were
mailed to prominent business and government leaders around the
country. Most were intercepted and did not go off, with only one
person killed. Italian Galleanist anarchists were suspected, but not
convicted.
1920 Wall Street bombing: A horse-drawn wagon filled with explosives
was detonated in front of the J. P. Morgan bank on Wall Street,
killing 38 and wounding 143. Galleanist anarchists were again
suspected, but the perpetrators were never caught.
May 31, 1921: During the Tulsa race riot, there were reports that
whites dropped dynamite from airplanes onto a black neighborhood in
Tulsa known as the Black Wall Street. The riot killed 39–300 people
and destroyed more than 1,100 homes and hundreds of businesses.[13]
May 18, 1927: The Bath School disaster (bombings) killed 45 people and
injured 58. Most of the victims were children in the second to sixth
grades (7–12 years of age) attending the Bath Consolidated School.
Their deaths constitute the deadliest act of mass murder in a school
in U.S. history. The perpetrator was school board member Andrew Kehoe.
October 10, 1933: A Boeing 247 was destroyed in mid-flight over
Indiana by a nitroglycerin bomb. All seven people aboard were killed.
This incident was the first proven case of air sabotage in the history
of aviation. The identity of the perpetrator and the motive for the
attack are unknown.
July 4, 1940: Two New York City policemen were killed and two
critically wounded while examining a bomb they had found at the
British Pavilion at the World's Fair.
1940–1956: George Metesky, the Mad Bomber, placed over 30 bombs in New
York City in public places such as Grand Central Station and The
Paramount Theatre injuring ten during this period in protest of the
high rates of a local electric utility. He also sent many threatening
letters to various high profile individuals.
1951: A wave of hate-related terrorist attacks occurred in Florida.
African-Americans were dragged and beaten to death, with 11
race-related bombings, the dynamiting of synagogues, and a Jewish
School in Miami and explosives found outside of Catholic Churches in
Miami.[14][15]
October 12, 1958: Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple
of Atlanta, Georgia. The acts were carried out by white supremacists.
1960s[edit]1960: The Sunday Bomber detonated a series of bombs in the
New York City Subway.[16][17][18] and ferries[19] during Sundays and
Holidays, killing one woman and injuring 51 other commuters.
August 1, 1966: Charles Whitman, the "Texas Tower Sniper", killed 16
and wounded 32 at the University of Texas before being killed by
police.
April 1968: Students at Trinity College hold the board of trustees
captive until their demands were met.[20]
April 23–30, 1968: During a student rebellion at New York's Columbia
University members of the New Left organization Students for a
Democratic Society and Student Afro-American Society held a dean
hostage, demanding an end to both military research on campus and
construction of a gymnasium in nearby Harlem.[21]
June 5, 1968: Senator Robert F. Kennedy while campaigning for U.S.
presidency during the 1968 United States Presidential election was
shot to death by Palestinian-Jordanian Sirhan Sirhan in the kitchen of
the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. (See Assassination of
Robert F. Kennedy)
November 1968: Officials of San Fernando State College held at knife
point by students.[20]
January 1, 1969 – April 15, 1970: 8200 Bombings, attempted bombings
and bomb threats attributed to "campus disturbances and student
unrest"[20]
February 1969: Secretary at Pomona College severely injured by bomb.[20]
March 1969: Student critically injured while attempting to bomb a San
Francisco State College classroom.[20]
August 7. 1969: Twenty were injured by radical leftist Sam Melville in
a bombing of the Marine Midland Building in New York City.
August 8, 1969: United States Department of Commerce offices in New
York City was damaged by bombing.
September 18, 1969: The Federal Building in New York City was bombed
by radical leftist Jane Alpert.[22]
October 7, 1969: Fifth floor of the Armed Forces Induction Center in
New York City was devastated by explosion attributed to radical
leftist Jane Alpert.
November 12, 1969: A bomb was detonated in the Manhattan Criminal
Court building in New York City. Jane Alpert, Sam Melville, and 3
other militant radical leftists are arrested hours later.[22][23]
1970s[edit]The most active perpetrators of terrorism in New York City
were Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN), a Puerto Rican
separatist group, responsible for 40 NYC attacks in this decade. The
Jewish Defense League (JDL), which engaged in attacks against targets
it perceived to be anti-Semitic, launched 27 attacks during this
period. Both the Independent Armed Revolutionary Commandos (CRIA),
another Puerto Rican separatist group, and Omega 7, an anti-Castro
Cuban organization, were also each responsible for 16 attacks during
this period.[24]
April 1970: At Stanford University over a period of several nights
bands of student radicals systematically set fires, break windows and
throw rocks.[20]
May 1970: In reaction to the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, Kent State
shootings, and Jackson State killings a Fresno State College computer
center was destroyed by a firebomb. While reaction to these three
events was massive, most were peaceful.[20]
August 24, 1970: Sterling Hall bombing at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison in protest of the Army Mathematics Research Center
and the Vietnam War, killing one. Bombers Karleton Armstrong, Dwight
Armstrong, David Fine, and Leo Burt claimed the death of physicist
Robert Fassnacht was unintentional but acknowledged that they knew the
building was occupied when they planted the bomb.
November 21, 1970: Bombing of the City Hall of Portland, Oregon in an
attempt to destroy the state's bronze Liberty Bell replica. The late
night explosion destroyed the display foyer, blew out the building
doors, damaged the council hall, and blew out windows more than a
block away. The night janitor was injured in the blast. The crime
remains unsolved, though a number of local anti-war and radical
leftist groups of the era remain the primary suspects.
1970: The Jewish Defense League was linked to a bomb explosion outside
of Aeroflot's New York City office in protest of the treatment of
Soviet Jews.
1971: The Jewish Defense League was linked to a detonation outside of
Soviet cultural offices in Washington, D.C. and rifle fire into the
Soviet mission to the United Nations.
March 1, 1971: The radical leftist group Weatherman exploded a bomb in
the United States Capitol to protest the U.S. invasion of Laos.
June 1, 1973: Yosef Alon, the Israeli Air Force attache in Washington,
D.C., was shot and killed outside his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
The Palestinian militant group Black September was suspected, though
the case remains unsolved.[25]
June 13, 1974: The 29th floor of the Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, was bombed with dynamite at 9:41 pm resulting in no
injuries. The radical leftist group Weatherman took credit, but no
suspects have ever been identified.[26]
Summer 1974: "Alphabet Bomber" Muharem Kurbegovich bombed the Pan Am
Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, killing three and
injuring eight. He also firebombed the houses of a judge and two
police commissioners as well as one of the commissioner's cars. He
burned down two Marina Del Rey apartment buildings and threatened Los
Angeles with a gas attack. His bomb defused at the Greyhound Bus
station was the most powerful the LAPD bomb squad had handled up until
that time. His personal vendetta against a judge and the commissioners
grew into demands for an end to immigration and naturalization laws,
as well as any laws about sex.[27]
December 29, 1975: LaGuardia Airport Bombing killed 11 and injured 75.
The bombing remains unsolved.[28]
January 24, 1975: A bomb was exploded in the Fraunces Tavern of New
York City, killing four people and injuring more than 50 others. The
Puerto Rico nationalist group FALN, the Armed Forces of Puerto Rican
National Liberation, which had other bomb incidents in New York in the
1970s, claimed responsibility. No one was ever prosecuted for the
bombing.
September 11, 1976: Croatian terrorists hijacked a TWA airliner and
diverted it to Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, and then Paris,
demanding a manifesto be printed. One police officer was killed and
three injured during an attempt to defuse a bomb that contained their
communiques in a New York City train station locker.[29] Zvonko Bušić
who served 32 years in prison for the attack, was released and
returned to Croatia in July 2008. In September 2013 Bušić shot himself
and was given a hero's funeral by the Croatian government.[30]
September 21, 1976: Orlando Letelier, a former member of the Chilean
government, was killed by a car bomb in Washington, D.C. along with
his assistant Ronni Moffitt. The killing was carried out by members of
the Chilean Intelligence Agency, DINA.
1980s[edit]June 3, 1980: Bombing of the Statue of Liberty. At 7:30 pm,
a time delayed explosive device detonated in the Statue of Liberty's
Story Room. Detonated after business hours, the bomb did not injure
anyone, but caused $18,000 in damage, destroying many of the exhibits.
The room was sealed off and left unrepaired until the Statue of
Liberty restoration project that began years later. FBI investigators
believed the perpetrators were Croatian seeking media coverage of
living conditions of Croats in Yugoslavia, though no arrests were
made.
July 22, 1980: Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian exile and critic of
Ayatollah Khomeni, was shot in his Bethesda, Maryland home. Dawud
Salahuddin, an American Muslim convert, was apparently paid by
Iranians to kill Tabatabai.[31]
August 26–27, 1980: Harvey's Casino Bombing in Stateline, Nevada. John
Birges, Sr. built and placed a 1,000-pound sophisticated bomb in the
casino in attempts to extort money from the casino in which he had
lost a great deal of money. FBI and local bomb technicians responded
to the event and during an attempt to render the device safe,
inadvertently detonated the device. No one was killed or injured,
however the casino suffered catastrophic damage.[32]
December 7, 1981: James W. von Brunn served 6 years in prison for
attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve at their
headquarters in Washington, D.C. He testified his motive was to raise
awareness of alleged "treacherous and unconstitutional" acts by the
Federal Reserve.[33]
January 28, 1982: Kemal Arikan, the Turkish Consul-General in Los
Angeles, was killed by members of the Justice Commandos Against
Armenian Genocide.
May 4, 1982: Turkish Honorary Consul Orhan Gunduz was assassinated in
his car in Somerville, Massachusetts by the Justice Commandos Against
Armenian Genocide.
November 7, 1983: U.S. Senate bombing. The Armed Resistance Unit, a
militant leftist group, bombed the United States Capitol in response
to the U.S. invasion of Grenada.[34]
1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack: In what is believed to be the first
incident of bioterrorism in the United States the Rajneesh movement
spreads salmonella in salad bars at 10 restaurants in The Dalles,
Oregon, to influence a local election which backfired as suspicious
residents came out in droves to prevent the election of Rajneeshee
candidates. Health officials say that 751 people were sickened and
more than 40 hospitalized. All but one of the establishments attacked
went out of business. Investigators believed that similar attacks had
previously been carried out in Salem, Portland and other cities in
Oregon.[35]
June 18, 1984: Alan Berg, Jewish lawyer-talk show host was shot and
killed in the driveway of his home on Capitol Hill, Denver, Colorado,
by members of a White Nationalist group called The Order. Berg had
stridently argued with a member of the group on the show earlier who
was convicted in his murder.
October 11, 1985: Alex Odeh, a prominent Arab-American, was killed by
a bomb in his office in Santa Ana, California. The case is unsolved,
but it is thought the Jewish Defense League was responsible.
December 11, 1985: computer rental store owner, Hugh Scrutton, was the
first fatality of the Unabomber's neo-luddite campaign.
March 1, 1989: 1989 firebombing of the Riverdale Press. The Riverdale
Press, a weekly newspaper in the Bronx, New York, was firebombed one
week after publishing an editorial defending author Salman Rushdie's
right to publish The Satanic Verses, which questioned the founding
story of Islam.[36][37]
1990s[edit]
Oklahoma City bombing aftermath on April 26, 1995November 5, 1990: El
Sayyid Nosair, a member of an Islamist terror cell led by Sheik Omar
Abdul-Rahman, disguises himself as an orthodox Jew in order to
assassinate politician and Rabbi Meir Kahane by shooting him at
point-blank range. Nosair is acquitted of Kahane's murder, but
convicted of other crimes. In prison, Nosair admits to Kahane's
murder.
January 25, 1993: CIA Shooting — Pakistani Mir Qazi (a/k/a Mir Aimal
Kansi), outraged by U.S. policy toward Palestinians, opens fire on
cars stopped at a traffic signal outside CIA Headquarters in Langley,
Virginia. He kills 2 and injures 3, then escapes to Pakistan. He is
subsequently apprehended, confesses, is tried and executed.
February 26, 1993: World Trade Center bombing — Ramzi Yousef, a member
of Al Qaeda, masterminds the truck-bombing of the World Trade Center.
The bomb is meant to destabilize the foundation of the building,
causing it to collapse and destroy surrounding buildings, leading to
mass casualties. It failed to do so, but the detonation killed 6
people and injured more than 1000.[38][39][40][41]
March 10, 1993: Murder of David Gunn — Army of God (United States)
member Michael F. Griffin ambushes and shoots gynecologist David Gunn
three times in the back outside the Pensacola Women's Medical Services
clinic. Before murdering Gunn, Griffin shouts, "Don't kill any more
babies!"
March 1, 1994: Brooklyn Bridge Shooting — Lebanese-born Rashid Baz
ambushes and shoots up a van full of Jewish students returning from a
visit with Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. One student dies, 3 are
injured.
July 29, 1994: Army of God (United States) member Rev. Paul Jennings
Hill murders gynecologist John Britton and Britton's bodyguard James
Barrett with a shotgun at close range, outside the Ladies Center
clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Hill admits to the murder, is tried,
convicted, and executed by lethal injection.
December 10, 1994: Advertising executive Thomas J. Mosser is killed by
a mail bomb sent by Unabomber. Mosser is the second person murdered by
Kaczynski.
December 30, 1994: Anti-abortion activist John C. Salvi III shoots and
kills 2 employees and injures 5 others in a rampage attack at a
Planned Parenthood clinic in Brookline, Massachusetts. Salvi escapes
and drives to Norfolk, Virginia, where Army of God (United States)
spokesman Rev. Donald Spitz resides.
December 31, 1994: Salvi attacks the Planned Parenthood clinic in
Norfolk, Virginia. A security guard returns fire and Salvi flees.
Salvi is apprehended shortly after, and has in his possession Army of
God (United States) spokesman Donald Spitz's name and unlisted
telephone number.
April 19, 1995: Oklahoma City bombing — Timothy McVeigh parks a truck
bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown
Oklahoma City which explodes killing 168 people, including 19
children. McVeigh and Terry Nichols are convicted in the bombing,
motivated by their outrage over the FBI's handling of the Waco Siege.
April 24, 1995: Timber industry lobbyist Gilbert P. Murray, is killed
in the third and final mailbomb attack by the Unabomber.
July 27, 1996: Centennial Olympic Park bombing Army of God (United
States) member Eric Robert Rudolph places a three pipe bombs in a
backpack, which he leaves in busy Centennial Olympic Park. The bomb is
discovered by security guard Richard Jewell who raises an alert. One
person is killed and 111 others are wounded in the explosion. Rudolph
escapes and becomes a fugitive for 10 years. Rudolph's bomb is
intended to force the cancellation of the Atlanta Olympics due to his
outrage over legal abortion.
January 16, 1997: Army of God (United States) member Eric Robert
Rudolph bombs a women's health clinic in Sandy Springs, Georgia. There
are two bombs; the first meant to kill people inside the clinic, the
second bomb placed in the parking lot and time-delayed to kill
first-responders. No one was harmed by the first bomb, but six people
were injured by the second.[42]
February 21, 1997: Army of God (United States) member Eric Robert
Rudolph bombs the Otherside Lounge, a gay bar in Atlanta, Georgia.
There are two bombs; the first left on the outdoor patio, the second
bomb left in the parking lot, time-delayed to kill first-responders.
The initial explosion injures five, the second bomb is discovered and
disposed of by the police bomb squad. Rudolph's motive for this
bombing was his outrage over the existence of homosexuality.[43]
February 24, 1997: Palestinian Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, opens fire on
tourists from an observation deck atop the Empire State Building. He
shoots 7 people, killing 1. He then kills himself.[44] A handwritten
note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against
the "enemies of Palestine".
January 29, 1998: Army of God (United States) member Eric Robert
Rudolph bombs a women's clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 1 and
critically injuring another.
August 10, 1999: Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting — white
supremacist Buford O. Furrow, Jr., armed with an Uzi-type sub-machine
gun, walked into the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center
in Granada Hills, California and began spraying bullets, wounding
five. Furrow escapes and then kills a postal worker for being a
minority and a federal employee.[45] Furrow surrendered himself to the
FBI, and plead guilty to avoid the death penalty.
December 31, 1999: Four members of the Earth Liberation Front start a
fire in Michigan State University's Agriculture Hall causing $1
million in damage.[46][47]
2000s[edit]
Statue of Liberty with the World Trade Center on fire on September 11,
2001.October 10, 2000: 2000 New York terror attack. Three young men of
Arab descent hurled crude Molotov cocktails at a synagogue in The
Bronx, New York to "strike a blow in the Middle East conflict between
Israel and Palestine".[36]
October 13, 2000: Firebombing of Temple Beth El (Syracuse)
May 21, 2001: The Center for Urban Horticulture at the University of
Washington burned by the Earth Liberation Front. Replacement building
cost $7 million ($9,355,000 today). Earth Liberation Front members
plead guilty.[48][49]
September 11, 2001: The September 11 attacks were carried out against
the United States by Al-Qaeda extremists, killing 2,507 civilians, 343
firefighters, 72 law enforcement officers, 55 military personnel, and
19 perpetrators. Four domestic commercial airliners were hijacked
simultaneously while flying within the Northeastern United States; two
flew directly into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New
York City, the third into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia,
and the fourth (thanks to the revolt by the passengers and crew
members) into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, during a failed
attempt to destroy its intended target in Washington, D.C., either the
White House or the United States Capitol. The Twin Towers were
ultimately destroyed, and the Pentagon received extensive damage in
the western side of the building. Building 7 of the World Trade Center
was also destroyed in the attack, though there were no casualties.
September 18 - November, 2001: 2001 anthrax attacks. Letters tainted
with anthrax killed five across the U.S., with politicians and media
officials as the apparent targets. On July 31, 2008, Bruce E. Ivins a
top biodefense researcher committed suicide.[50] On August 6, 2008,
the FBI concluded that Ivins was solely responsible for the attacks,
and suggested that Ivins wanted to bolster support for a vaccine he
helped create and that he targeted two lawmakers because they were
Catholics who held pro-choice views.[51] However, subsequent
evaluations have found that the FBI's investigation failed to provide
any direct evidence linking Ivins to the mailings.[52]
July 4, 2002: 2002 Los Angeles Airport shooting Hesham Mohamed
Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian national, killed two Israelis and
wounds four others at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles
International Airport.[53] The FBI concluded this was terrorism,
though they did not find evidence linking Hadayet to a terrorist
group.[54]
October 2002 Beltway sniper attacks: During three weeks in October
2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people and
critically injured 3 others in Washington D.C., Baltimore, and
Virginia. The pair were also suspected of earlier shootings in
Maryland, Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, and Washington
state.[55] No motivation was given at the trial, but evidence
presented showed an affinity to the cause of the Islamic jihad.
2003 Ohio highway sniper attacks A series of over 24 sniper attacks
concentrated along the Cap-City Beltway I-270 in the Columbus
Metropolitan Area caused widespread fear across Ohio and leaving one
dead.
March 5, 2006: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar injured 6 when he drove an
SUV into a group of pedestrians at UNC-Chapel Hill to "avenge the
deaths or murders of Muslims around the world".[56]
July 28, 2006: Seattle Jewish Federation shooting, Naveed Afzal Haq,
an American citizen of Pakistani descent, killed one woman and shoots
five others at the Jewish Federation building in Seattle. During the
shooting, Haq told a 911 dispatcher that he was angry with American
foreign policy in the Middle East.[57]
October 26, 2007: A pair of improvised explosive devices were thrown
at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were
filled with black powder, and detonated by fuses, causing very minor
damage. Police were investigating the connection between this and a
similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005.[58]
March 3, 2008: Four luxury woodland houses near Woodinville,
Washington were torched, leaving behind a message crediting the Earth
Liberation Front.[59]
March 6, 2008: A homemade bomb damaged a Recruiting Office in Times
Square.[60] In June 2013, The FBI and New York City police offered a
$65,000 reward for information in the case and revealed that
ammunition used for the bomb is the same as is used in the Iraq and
Afghanistan war zones.[61] On April 15, 2015, the F.B.I increased the
award to $115,000 and said they have persons of interest[62]
May 4, 2008: Multiple pipe bombs exploded at 1:40 am at the Edward J.
Schwartz United States Courthouse in San Diego causing "considerable
damage" to the entrance and lobby and sending shrapnel two blocks
away, but causing no injuries. The FBI is investigating links between
this attack and an April 25 explosion at the FedEx building also in
San Diego.[63]
April 8, 2009: According to a report in the Wall Street Journal,
intruders left malware in power grids, water, and sewage systems that
could be activated at a later date. While the attacks which have
occurred over a period of time seem to have originated in China and
Russia, it is unknown if they are state-sponsored[64] or errors in the
computer code.[65][66]
May 31, 2009: Assassination of George Tiller: Scott Roeder shoots and
kills Dr. George Tiller in a Wichita, Kansas church. Roeder, an
anti-abortion extremist who believes in justifiable homicide of
abortion providers, was arrested soon afterward. Roeder was convicted
of the crime and sentenced to 50 years in prison in 2010. Tiller, who
performed late-term abortions, had long been a target of anti-abortion
extremists; his clinic was firebombed in 1986 and Tiller was shot and
wounded five times in 1993 in a shooting attack by Shelley
Shannon.[67][68]
May 25, 2009: 17-year-old Kyle Shaw sets off a crude explosive device
at a Starbucks at East 92nd Street on the Upper East Side of
Manhattan, shattering windows and destroyed a bench at the coffee
shop. There were no injuries. The attack was a "bizarre tribute" of
the movie Fight Club, in an attempt to emulate "Project Mayhem", a
series of assaults on corporate America portrayed in the film. Shaw
took a plea agreement and was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in
November 2010.[69][70]
June 1, 2009: Arkansas recruiting office shooting: Abdulhakim Mujahid
Muhammad shot and killed one military recruiter and seriously wounded
another at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army/Navy Career Center in an act
of Islamic extremism. Muhammad, a convert to Islam, had visited Yemen
for sixteen months where he spent time in prison and became
radicalized. Muhammad, said he was part of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula and was upset over the U.S. Army's murder of Muslims in Iraq
and Afghanistan, like the Kandahar massacre and the Abu Ghraib prison
scandal.[71]
November 5, 2009: 2009 Fort Hood shooting: Nidal Malik Hasan, a US
Army Major serving as a Psychiatrist, opens fire at Fort Hood, Texas,
killing 13 and wounding 29. On August 23, 2013 Hasan was convicted by
a Military tribunal. Hasan acted as his own attorney and took
responsibility for the attack saying his motive was jihad to fight
"illegal and immoral aggression against Muslims".[72] On August 28
Hasan was sentenced to death.[73]
2010–present[edit]
Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013February 18, 2010: Austin
suicide attack: Andrew Joseph Stack III flying his single engine plane
flew into the Austin Texas IRS building killing himself and one IRS
employee and injuring 13 others. Stack left a suicide note online,
comparing the IRS to Big Brother from the novel 1984.
March 4, 2010: 2010 Pentagon shooting: John Patrick Bedell shot and
wounded two Pentagon police officers at a security checkpoint in the
Pentagon station of the Washington Metro rapid transit system in
Arlington County, Virginia.
September 1, 2010: Discovery Communications headquarters hostage
crisis: James J. Lee, armed with two starter pistols and an explosive
device, takes three people hostage in the lobby of the Discovery
Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland before being
killed by police. After nearly four hours, Lee was shot dead by police
and all the hostages were freed without injury. Lee had earlier posted
a manifesto railing against population growth and immigration.[74][75]
August 5, 2012: Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting: Six people were killed
and three others were injured, including a police officer who was
tending to victims at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The
gunman, 40-year-old Wade Michael Page, killed himself after being shot
by police.[76] The shooting is being treated by authorities as an act
of domestic terrorism.[77][78] While a motive has not been clearly
defined, Page had been active in white supremacist groups.[76]
April 15, 2013: Boston Marathon bombing: Two bombs detonated within
seconds of each other near the finish line of the Boston Marathon,
killing 3 and injuring more than 180 people.[79][80] Late in the
evening of April 18 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an MIT campus police
officer was shot and killed while sitting in his squad car. Two
suspects then carjacked an SUV and fled to nearby Watertown,
Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. A massive police chase ensued,
resulting in a shootout during which several IED's were thrown by the
suspects. A Boston transit police officer was critically wounded and
suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a Russian immigrant of Chechen ethnicity,
was killed. The second suspect, Tsarnaev's younger brother Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, escaped. A "Shelter in place" order was given for Boston,
Watertown, and the surrounding areas while house-to-house searches
were conducted, but the suspect remained at large. Shortly after the
search was called off Tsarnaev was discovered by a local resident
hiding inside a boat parked in the resident's driveway less than three
blocks from the scene of the shootout. He was taken into custody after
another exchange of gunfire and taken to nearby Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center in Boston, where he was treated for injuries received
during his pursuit and capture. Tsarnaev was arraigned on federal
terrorism charges from his hospital bed on April 22,
2013.[81][82][83][84] Preliminary questioning indicated the Tsarnaev
brothers had no ties to terrorist organizations.[85] A note written by
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the boat where he was captured said the bombings
were retaliation for US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan against
Muslims.[86] On April 8, 2015, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on
all 30 counts related to the bombing and shootout with police.[87] On
May 15, 2015, Tsarnaev was sentenced to death.[88]
April 16, 2013: April 2013 ricin letters: Two letters, sent to
Mississippi Republican Senator Roger Wicker and president Barack
Obama, were tested positive for ricin. Each letter contained the
message "I am KC and I approve this message". On April 27, 2013, a man
named Everett Dutschke was arrested.
November 1, 2013: 2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting:
Paul Anthony Ciancia entered the checkpoint at the Los Angeles
International Airport and fired his rifle, killing one Transportation
Security Administration officer and injuring six others. The
motivation behind the attack was Paul's inspiration of the
anti-government agenda, such as believing in the New World Order
conspiracy theory, and stating that he "wanted to kill TSA" and
described them as "pigs".
December 13, 2013: 2013 Wichita bomb attempt: 58-year-old avionics
technician, identified as Terry Lee Loewen, was arrested on December
13, 2013, for attempting a suicide bombing at Wichita Mid-Continent
Airport, where he was employed. Loewen became radicalized after
reading extremist Islamic material on the Internet. He was arrested
while driving a vehicle into the airport with what he believed to be
an active explosive device. Later sentenced to 20 years in Federal
prison.[89]
April 13, 2014: Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting: A pair
of shootings committed by a lone gunman occurred at the Jewish
Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom, a Jewish
retirement community, in Overland Park, Kansas. A total of three
people died in the shootings. One suspect, identified as Frazier Glenn
Miller, Jr., a neo-Nazi neo-Pagan, was arrested and charged with
capital murder, first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder,
and aggravated assault.
June 8, 2014: 2014 Las Vegas shootings: Two police officers and one
civilian died in a shooting spree in the Las Vegas Valley committed by
a couple, identified as Jerad and Amanda Miller, who espoused
anti-government views and were reportedly inspired by the outcome of
the Bundy standoff. The Millers both died during a gunfight with
responding police; Jerad Miller was fatally shot by officers, while
Amanda Miller committed suicide after being wounded.
October 23, 2014: 2014 New York City hatchet attack: Zale Thompson
injured two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers, once
critically at a Queens, New York City shopping district by striking
them with a hatchet. Four officers were posing for a photograph when
Thompson charged them. The police opened fire killing Thompson and
injuring a civilian. Thompson who converted to Islam 2 years before
the attack posted "anti-government, anti-Western, anti-white" messages
online.[90]
November 28, 2014: Austin, Texas: Right-wing and anti-government
extremist Larry Steven McQuilliams set a fire at the Mexican Consulate
and shot towards several government buildings. Police arrived on scene
and shot him dead. McQuilliams had a prior criminal history including
drug possession and robbery.
December 2014: "The Guardians of Peace" linked by the United States to
North Korea launched a cyber attack against SONY pictures.
Embarrassing private emails were published and the organization
threatened attacks against theaters that showed The Interview, a
satire which depicted the assassination of North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un. Following the refusal of theater chains to show the movie,
SONY Pictures withdrew release of the movie, a decision that was
criticized by President Obama and others. Obama said the USA will
respond. North Korea denied responsibility for the attack and proposed
a joint investigation with the U.S.[91][92][93]
December 20, 2014: Ismaaiyl Brinsley killed two New York City police
officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in the Bedford Stuyvesant
section of Brooklyn. Brinsley was reported to have walked up and fired
directly into the officers squad car. Other officers chased the
suspect into a nearby subway station, where he committed suicide.
Prior to the shooting, Brinsley had written Instagram messages calling
for revenge attacks in response to the police killings of Eric Garner
and Michael Brown. He also allegedly shot his girlfriend in Maryland
earlier that day.[94][95]
May 3, 2015: Curtis Culwell Center attack: Two gunmen opened fire
outside the Curtis Culwell Center during an art exhibit hosted by an
anti-Muslim group called the American Freedom Defense Initiative in
Garland, Texas. The center was hosting a contest for cartoons
depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Both gunmen were killed by
police. A Garland Independent School District (ISD) police officer was
injured by a shot to the ankle but survived. The attackers, Elton
Simpson and Nadir Soofi, were motivated by the Charlie Hebdo shooting
in France and the 2015 Copenhagen shooting in Denmark earlier in the
year. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility
for the attack through a Twitter post.[96]
June 17, 2015: Charleston church shooting: a mass shooting took place
at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston,
South Carolina. The church is one of the United States' oldest black
churches and has long been a site for community organization around
civil rights. Nine people were killed, including the senior pastor,
Clementa C. Pinckney, a state senator. A tenth victim was also shot,
but survived. 21-year old Dylann Roof was arrested and later confessed
that he committed the shooting in order to initiate a race war.
July 16, 2015: 2015 Chattanooga shootings: Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez
opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
He first committed a drive-by shooting at a recruiting center, then
traveled to a naval reserve center and continued firing. He was killed
by police in a gunfight. Four Marines were killed immediately, and
another Marine, a Navy sailor, and a police officer were wounded; the
sailor died from his injuries two days later. The motive of the
shootings is currently under investigation.[97]
August 30, 2015: Hospital Bomb Threat in Mississippi: An Iranian
national was arrested in Hancock County for allegedly making terrorist
threats and assaulting two sheriff's deputies. His actions and threats
led to a two-hour closure of the I-10 Interstate near Louisiana state
line. Subsequently, the subject was taken to a local hospital, where
he's still threatening to kill anyone who isn't a member of Islam or
Muslim.[98]
November 27, 2015: Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting:
Robert L. Dear, armed with an assault-style rifle opened fire at a
Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic. Two civilians and one
police officer were killed, and four civilians and five police
officers were wounded before the suspect surrendered. Dear told police
"No more baby parts" after being taken into custody.[99]
December 2, 2015: 2015 San Bernardino attack: A mass shooting occurred
at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, with 14
dead and 22 injured. Two suspects, Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik,
fled in an SUV, but were later killed.[100][101][102][103]
June 12, 2016: 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting: 49 people were killed
and 53 were injured in a terrorist attack at a gay nightclub in
Orlando, Florida. The nightclub shooting is currently the deadliest
mass shooting in modern United States history. The sole suspect behind
the slaughter was identified as Omar Mateen, an American-born citizen
with Afghan immigrant parents who was later killed.[104][105][106] The
FBI asserted his possible link to radical Islam.[107]
Attacks by type[edit]Organized KKK violence[edit]
George W. Ashburn assassinated for his pro-black sentiments.1865–77:
Over 3,000 Freedmen and their Republican Party allies were killed by a
combination of the Ku Klux Klan and well organized campaigns of
violence by local whites in a campaign of terrorist violence that
overthrew Reconstructionist governments in the south and reestablished
segregation.[108][109]
October 22, 1868: James M. Hinds, Arkansas congressional
representative, was assassinated by a member of the Ku Klux Klan in
Little Rock
November 10, 1898: In the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, white
supremacists overthrew the biracial Republican government of
Wilmington, North Carolina, killing at least 22 African Americans,
marking the beginning of the Jim Crow era in North Carolina.
1927: The Ku Klux Klan launched a wave of political terror in Alabama,
attempting to undermine African American rights.
December 25, 1951: Harry T. Moore state co-coordinator of the Florida
NAACP and his wife were killed by dynamite bomb in his Mims, Florida
home. Despite extensive FBI investigation no one was arrested but
Orlando KKK suspected.[14][15]
June 12, 1963: NAACP organizer Medgar Evers was killed in front of his
Mississippi home by member of the Ku Klux Klan.
September 16, 1963: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. A member of
the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four
girls.
June 21, 1964: In the Mississippi civil rights worker murders, three
civil rights workers were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi by the
Ku Klux Klan.
March 25, 1965: The Ku Klux Klan murdered Viola Liuzzo, a
Southern-raised white mother of five who was visiting Alabama from her
home in Detroit to attend a civil rights march. At the time of her
murder, Liuzzo was transporting Civil Rights Marchers.
January 10, 1966: Vernon Dahmer died in the firebombing of his own
home in Mississippi at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan.
November 3, 1979: Members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi
Party fired on meeting of members of a Communist group who were trying
to organize local African American workers in Greensboro, North
Carolina, killing five. See Greensboro massacre.
March 20, 1981: Michael Donald was randomly selected to be lynched by
two Ku Klux Klan members near his Alabama home. He was beaten, had his
throat slit, and was hanged.
Left-wing extremism and anti-government[edit]September 6, 1901:
President William McKinley assassinated by Michigan born
Russian-Polish anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, in Buffalo, New York.
October 1, 1910: Los Angeles Times bombing. The Los Angeles Times
building in Los Angeles was destroyed by dynamite, killing 21 workers.
The bomb was apparently placed due to the paper's opposition to
unionization of its employees;[7] the McNamara brothers were found
guilty.
November 24, 1917: A bomb explodes in a Milwaukee police station,
killing nine officers and a civilian. Anarchists were
suspected.[11][12]
1919 1919 United States anarchist bombings
1920 Wall Street bombing
1969-1987: Weather Underground, a radical socialist movement,
committed dozens of bombings and other terrorist activities over this
time period. List of Weatherman actions
August 7, 1969: Twenty were injured by radical leftist Sam Melville in
a bombing of the Marine Midland Building in New York City.
September 18, 1969: The Federal Building in New York City was bombed
by radical leftist Jane Alpert.[22]
October 7, 1969: Fifth floor of the Armed Forces Induction Center in
New York City was devastated by explosion attributed to radical
leftist Jane Alpert.
November 12, 1969: A bomb was detonated in the Manhattan Criminal
Court building in New York City. Jane Alpert, Sam Melville, and 3
other militant radical leftists were arrested hours later.[22][23]
1971 - 1975: The New World Liberation Front was a radical left-wing
group in the San Francisco area in the 70's who conducted multiple
bombings in the Bay area over a 3-year period. They claim almost 50
successful bombings.[110]
March 1, 1971: The radical leftist group Weather Underground exploded
a bomb in the United States Capitol to protest the U.S. invasion of
Laos.
June 13, 1974: The 29th floor of the Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, was bombed with dynamite at 9:41 pm resulting in no
injuries. The radical leftist group Weather Underground took credit,
but no suspects have ever been identified.[26]
November 7, 1983: U.S. Senate bombing. The Armed Resistance Unit, a
militant leftist group, bombed the United States Capitol in response
to the U.S. invasion of Grenada.
White supremacy[edit]1951: Wave of hate related terrorist attacks in
Florida. Blacks dragged and beaten to death, 11 race related bombings,
dynamiting of synagogues and a Jewish School in Miami and explosives
found outside of Catholic Churches in Miami.[14][15]
1988: Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. a Vietnam Veteran and who according to
the Southern Poverty Law Center founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan in the early 1980s served three years in Federal
penitentiary for trying to assassinate Morris Dees founder of the
Southern Poverty Law Center. The FBI found a cache of weapons in his
home after they used tear gas to drive him out and arrest him. He
testified against 14 White Supremacists as part of a plea bargain
deal.[111]
January 17, 2011: Spokane Bombing attempt
August 5, 2012: Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting: Wade Michael Page
killed 6 people at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin before being
killed by police officers. During the investigation of the crime,
police found out that Page was a member of white supremacist and
neo-Nazi organizations. With this evidence, the police concluded that
racial hatred was the main cause of the murders.
June 17, 2015: Charleston church shooting: a mass shooting took place
at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston,
South Carolina, United States. The church is one of the United States'
oldest black churches and has long been a site for community
organization around civil rights. Nine people were killed, including
the senior pastor, Clementa C. Pinckney, a state senator. A tenth
victim was also shot, but survived. The FBI has not classified the act
as terrorism, which was met with controversy.
Antisemitism[edit]October 12, 1958: Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent
Congregation Temple of Atlanta, Georgia. The acts were carried out by
white racists.
June 18, 1984: Alan Berg, Jewish lawyer-talk show host was shot and
killed in the driveway of his home on Capitol Hill, Denver, Colorado,
by members of a White Nationalist group called The Order. Berg had
stridently argued with a member of the group on the show earlier who
was convicted in his murder.
August 10, 1999: Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting in
Granada Hills, California of Los Angeles. 5 people were killed in the
Jewish community center and its daycare facility. The gunman, Buford
O. Furrow had antisemitic and anti-government views and was a member
of a Neo-Nazi group The Order. Shortly thereafter, Furrow murdered a
mail carrier, fled the state, and finally surrendered to
authorities.[112]
June 10, 2009: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting:
88-year-old James Wenneker von Brunn, a white supremacist and
neo-Nazi, walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C., shooting and mortally wounding Stephen Tyrone Johns,
a security guard. Von Brunn was wounded when other museum guards
immediately returned fire and on January 6, 2010, von Brunn died of
natural causes at a hospital near where he was imprisoned awaiting
trial.[113][114][115] During the investigation it was discovered that
von Brunn had planned to target White House senior adviser David
Axelrod leading to increased protection for Axelrod and other
steps.[116]
April 13, 2014 Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting: 3
killed 1 critically injured in shootings at Jewish Community Center of
Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom in Overland Park, Kansas.
Suspect is 74-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr..[111][117][118] On
April 27, 2015, Miller told the Associated Press he plans to plead
guilty and his motivation was to "put the Jews on trial where they
belong".[119]
Puerto Rican nationalism[edit]March 1, 1954: United States Capitol
shooting incident. Four Puerto Rican nationalists shoot and wound five
members of the United States Congress during an immigration debate.
October 14, 1969: The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), a
Puerto Rican nationalist group, claims responsibility for a small bomb
explosion at Macy's Herald Square
January 24, 1975: FALN bombs Fraunces Tavern in New York City, killing
four and injuring more than 50.
December 29, 1975: A bomb set off by FALN in East Harlem, New York,
permanently disables a police officer while causing him to lose an
eye.
August 3, 1977: FALN bombs exploded on the twenty-first floor of 342
Madison Avenue in New York City, which housed United States Department
of Defense security personnel, as well as the Mobil Building at 150
East Forty-Second Street, killing one. In addition the group warned
that bombs were located in thirteen other buildings, including the
Empire State Building and the World Trade Center resulting in the
evacuation of one hundred thousand people. Five days later a bomb
attributed to the group was found in the AMEX building.[120]
May 3, 1979: FALN exploded a bomb outside of the Shubert Theatre in
Chicago, injuring five people.
March 15, 1980: Armed members of FALN raided the campaign headquarters
of President Jimmy Carter in Chicago and the campaign headquarters of
George H. W. Bush in New York City. Seven people in Chicago and ten
people in New York were tied up as the offices were vandalized before
the FALN members fled. A few days later, Carter delegates in Chicago
received threatening letters from FALN.
May 16, 1981: One was killed in an explosion in the toilets at the Pan
Am terminal at New York's JFK airport. The bombing is claimed by the
Puerto Rican Resistance Army.[121]
December 31, 1982: FALN explodes bombs outside of the 26 Federal Plaza
in Manhattan, Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters and a
United States courthouse in Brooklyn. Three New York Police Department
police officers are blinded with one officer losing both eyes. All
three officers sustained other serious injuries trying to defuse a
second Federal Plaza bomb.[122][123]
Palestinian militancy[edit]March 4, 1973: A failed terrorist attack by
Palestinian group Black September, with car bombings in New York City
while Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir was visiting the city
June 1, 1973: Yosef Alon, the Israeli Air Force attache in Washington,
D.C., was shot and killed outside his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Palestinian militant group Black September is suspected, though the
case remains unsolved.[25]
July 1, 1973: Bethesda, MD, An Israeli diplomat is gunned down in his
driveway by Palestinian activist.
Black radicalism[edit]October 22, 1970: An antipersonnel time bomb
explodes outside a San Francisco church, showering steel shrapnel on
mourners of a patrolman slain in a bank holdup; no one is injured. The
Black Liberation Army is suspected.[124]
1971: During this year the Black Liberation Army is suspected of
killing three policemen one at his desk in San Francisco, shooting
four others and opening fire on three patrol cars and rolling a
grenade which heavily damages a police car and injures two officers.
An attempt is made to bomb a police station. These incidents happen in
various cities around the country. In August the group runs a
one-month-long guerrilla warfare school in Fayetteville, Georgia.
Seven are arrested in January 2007 in connection with the San
Francisco desk shooting incident.[124][125]
January 22, 1972: Two New York City policemen, Gregory Foster and
Rocco Laurie, are shot in the back by at least three persons; four
suspects in the case are members of the Black Liberation Army; one
suspect is later killed in a street battle with police; the recovered
pistol matches Laurie's.[124]
December 28, 1972: A Brooklyn, New York bartender is held for $12000
ransom by the Black Liberation Army.[124]
January 7, 1973: After shooting a police officer a week earlier Mark
Essex a former Black Panther party member shoots nineteen people, ten
of them police officers, in retaliation for police killings in and
around a Howard Johnson's hotel in New Orleans. He also set fires in
the hotel before being killed by police.
1973: A New York City transit detective is killed and ten law
enforcement personnel are shot four by machine gun during the year
mostly in and around New York City by the Black Liberation Army. Also
two members of that organization are arrested with a car full of
explosives. In the next few years there are a number of violent
incidents involving this organization but they are more criminal in
nature.[124]
December 7, 1993: The Long Island Rail Road massacre, a man guns down
white passengers on a train.
2006 Sears Tower plot
Jewish extremism[edit]see Jewish Defense League
Right-wing extremism and anti-government[edit]April 19, 1995: Oklahoma
City bombing: A truck bomb shattered the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. Right-wing
terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were convicted in the
bombing.
July 27, 1996: Centennial Olympic Park bombing by Eric Robert Rudolph
occurred in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Atlanta Olympics. One person
was killed and 111 injured. In a statement released in 2005 Rudolph
said the motive was to protest abortion and the "global socialist"
Olympic Movement.
May 2002: Lucas John Helder rigged pipe bombs in private mailboxes to
explode when the boxes were opened. He injured 6 people in Nebraska,
Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and Iowa. His motivation was to garner
media attention so that he could spread a message denouncing
government control over daily lives and the illegality of marijuana,
as well as promote astral projection.
July 27, 2008: Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting: Jim
David Adkisson enters the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist
Church in Knoxville, Tennessee with a shotgun, killing two and
injuring several congregants before being tackled to the ground.
Adkisson stated to the police and in a manifesto that he desired to
kill Democrats, liberals, African Americans and homosexuals. Adkisson
pleaded guilty to the crime in February 2009 and was sentenced to life
in prison without the possibility of parole.[126][127]
January 6, 2011: Three packages detonate in the mail rooms of two
Maryland state government buildings, causing minor injuries to the
fingers of two government workers.[128]
November 1, 2013 2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting:
23-year-old Paul Ciancia kills a Transportation Security
Administration agent and wounds 7 others, 3 of them TSA agents.
Ciancia was shot and taken into custody. A note found in Ciancia's
pocket said he believed he was a patriot and wanted to kill "patriot"
upset at former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and that
he wanted to kill "TSA and pigs".[129]
June 8, 2014: Two Las Vegas police officers while eating pizza in a
restaurant and one civilian were shot to death allegedly by Jerad and
Amanda Miller a married couple in a suicide attack. A Gadsden flag,
swastika and a note promising "revolution," was placed on the deceased
officers bodies. The couple were thrown out a patriot group defending
rancher Cliven Bundy. The Millers were both killed in a shootout with
police on the same day.[130][131]
September 16, 2014: Eric Matthew Frein described as a survivalist is
alleged to have killed a Pennsylvania State trooper and critically
wounded another at the Blooming Grove barracks. Life was disrupted in
the region during the ensuing manhunt. On October 30 Frein was
captured near an abandoned airport hangar and was shackled with the
handcuff belonging to the trooper he is accused of killing.
Prosecutors said they would pursue the death penalty.[132][133]
Anti-abortion violence[edit]Further information: Christian terrorism
and Anti-abortion violence in the United States
1982: Three men identifying as the Army of God kidnapped Hector
Zevallos (a doctor and clinic owner) and his wife, Rosalee Jean,
holding them for eight days.
1983: Joseph Grace set the Hillcrest clinic in Norfolk, Virginia
ablaze. He was arrested while sleeping in his van a few blocks from
the clinic when an alert patrol officer noticed the smell of kerosene.
1984: Two men entered a Birmingham, Alabama clinic on Mother's Day
weekend shortly after a lone woman opened the doors at 7:25 A.M.
Forcing their way into the clinic, one of the men threatened the woman
if she tried to prevent the attack while the other, wielding a
sledgehammer, did between $7,500 and $8,500 of damage to suction
equipment. The man who damaged the equipment was later identified as
Father Edward Markley. Father Markley is a Benedictine priest who was
the Birmingham diocesan "Coordinator for Pro-Life Activities". Markley
was convicted of first-degree criminal mischief and second-degree
burglary. His accomplice has never been identified. The following
month (near Father's Day), Markley entered a women's health center in
Huntsville, Alabama (see above).
1984: An abortion clinic and two physicians' offices in Pensacola,
Florida, were bombed in the early morning of Christmas Day by a
quartet of young people (Matt Goldsby, Jimmy Simmons, Kathy Simmons,
Kaye Wiggins) who later called the bombings "a gift to Jesus on his
birthday." The clinic, the Ladies Center, would later be the site of
the murder of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett in 1994 and a
firebombing in 2012.
1987: Eight members of the Bible Missionary Fellowship, a
fundamentalist church in Santee, California, attempted to bomb the
Alvarado Medical Center abortion clinic. Church member Cheryl
Sullenger procured gunpowder, bomb materials, and a disguise for
co-conspirator Eric Everett Svelmoe, who planted a gasoline bomb. It
was placed at the premises but failed to detonate as the fuse was
blown out by wind.
1989: A fire was started at the Feminist Health Center clinic in
Concord NH on the day U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Missouri law banning
funding of public facilities as related to abortion. The clinic was
set afire again in 2000.
1993: Blue Mountain Clinic in Missoula, Montana; at around 1 a.m., an
arsonist snuck onto the premises and firebombed the clinic. The
perpetrator, a Washington man, was ultimately caught, convicted and
imprisoned. The facility was a near-total loss, but all of the
patients' records, though damaged, survived the fire in metal file
cabinets.
1993: David Gunn was murdered by anti-abortion activist Michael F. Griffin
1993: Dr. George Tiller was shot outside of an abortion facility in
Wichita, Kansas. Shelley Shannon was charged with the crime and
received an 11-year prison sentence (20 years were later added for
arson and acid attacks on clinics).
1994: Abortion provider John Britton and James Barrett (both killed)
and his wife June (shot but not killed) became victims of Reverend
Paul Jennings Hill.
1994: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were
killed in two clinic attacks in Brookline, Massachusetts. 5 others
critically injured. John Salvi was arrested and confessed to the
killings. He died in prison and guards found his body under his bed
with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head. Salvi had also
confessed to a non-lethal attack in Norfolk, Virginia days before the
Brookline killings.
1996–98: anti-abortion extremist Eric Rudolph cited biblical passages
as his motivation for a series of bombings, including Atlanta's
Olympic Centennial Park, a Lesbian bar, and several abortion clinics.
Rudolph acknowledges his attacks were religiously motivated, but
denies that his brief association with the racist Christian Identity
movement was a motivation for his attacks.
1996: Dr. Calvin Jackson of New Orleans, Louisiana was stabbed 15
times, losing 4 pints of blood. Donald Cooper was charged with second
degree attempted murder and was sentenced to 20 years. "Donald
Cooper's Day of Violence", by Kara Lowentheil, Choice! Magazine,
December 21, 2004
1997: Dr. David Gandell of Rochester, New York was injured by flying
glass when a shot was fired through the window of his home by an
anti-abortion Christian extremist.
1997: Eric Rudolph admitted, as part of a plea deal for the Centennial
Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games to placing a pair of
bombs that exploded at the Northside Family Planning Services clinic
in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs.
1998: Three people were seriously injured when acid was poured at the
entrances of five abortion clinics in Miami, Florida.
1998: Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a
security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, was
killed when his workplace was bombed. Eric Rudolph admitted
responsibility; he was also charged with three Atlanta bombings: the
1997 bombing of an abortion center, the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park
bombing, and another of a lesbian nightclub. He was charged with the
crimes and received two life sentences as a result.
1998: Emily Lyons, a nurse, was severely injured, and lost an eye, in
the Christian extremist "anti-abortion" bombing which also killed
off-duty police officer Robert Sanderson.
1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot to death with a high-powered rifle
at his home in Amherst, New York. His was the last in a series of
similar shootings against providers in Canada and northern New York
State which were all likely committed by James Kopp. Kopp was
convicted of Slepian's murder after being apprehended in France in
2001.
1998: James Kopp killed at least one and went on a series of
anti-abortion shooting sprees, both in the U.S. and Canada.
1999: Martin Uphoff set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, causing US$100 worth of damage. He was later
sentenced to 60 months in prison.
2000: An arson at a clinic in Concord, New Hampshire, resulted in
several thousand dollars' worth of damage. The case remains unsolved.
This was the second arson at the clinic.
2000: John Earl, a Catholic priest, drove his car into the Northern
Illinois Health Clinic after learning that the FDA had approved the
drug RU-486. He pulled out an ax before being forced to the ground by
the owner of the building, who fired two warning shots from a shotgun.
2001: An unsolved bombing at a clinic in Tacoma, Washington, destroyed
a wall, resulting in $6,000 in damages.
2005: A clinic Palm Beach, Florida, was the target of an arson. The
case remains open.
2005: Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a
clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana. The device missed the building and no
damage was caused. In August 2006, Hughes was sentenced to six years
in prison, and Dunahoe to one year. Hughes claimed the bomb was a
"memorial lamp" for an abortion she had had there.
2006: David McMenemy of Rochester Hills, Michigan, crashed his car
into the Edgerton Women's Care Center in Davenport, Iowa. He then
doused the lobby in gasoline and started a fire. McMenemy committed
these acts in the belief that the center was performing abortions;
however, Edgerton is not an abortion clinic. Time magazine listed the
incident in a "Top 10 Inept Terrorist Plots" list.
2007: A package left at a women's health clinic in Austin, Texas,
contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or
death. A bomb squad detonated the device after evacuating the
building. Paul Ross Evans (who had a criminal record for armed robbery
and theft) was found guilty of the crime.
2007: An unidentified person deliberately set fire to a Planned
Parenthood clinic in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
2007: Chad Altman and Sergio Baca were arrested for the arson of Dr.
Curtis Boyd's clinic in Albuquerque. Baca's girlfriend had scheduled
an appointment for an abortion at the clinic.
2009: Matthew L. Derosia, 32, who was reported to have had a history
of mental illness rammed an SUV into the front entrance of a Planned
Parenthood clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota.
2009: Anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder killed George Tiller in Kansas.[134]
2012: Bobby Joe Rogers, 41, firebombed the American Family Planning
Clinic in Pensacola, Florida, with a Molotov cocktail; the fire gutted
the building. Rogers told investigators that he was motivated to
commit the crime by his opposition to abortion, and that what more
directly prompted the act was seeing a patient enter the clinic during
one of the frequent anti-abortion protests there. The clinic had
previously been bombed at Christmas in 1984 and was the site of the
murder of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett in 1994.
2012: A bomb exploded on the windowsill of a Planned Parenthood clinic
in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, resulting in a fire that damaged one of the
clinic's examination rooms. No injuries were reported.
2015: Robert Lewis Dear kills 3 people in a shooting at a Planned
Parenthood Clinic. At his court hearings Dear declared himself a
"warrior for the babies".[135]
Islamic extremism[edit]April 14, 1972 (New York, NY): Ten members of a
local mosque phone in a false alarm and then ambush responding
officers, killing one.
1973 - 1974 (Oakland, CA): Series of shootings by a radicalized group
claiming affiliation to "Nation of Islam".
March 9, 1977 (Washington, DC): Hanifi Muslims storm three buildings
including a B'nai B'rith to hold 134 people hostage. At least two
innocents were shot and one died.
January 25, 1993 (Langley, VA): A Pakistani with Mujahideen ties guns
down two CIA agents outside of the headquarters.
February 26, 1993 (New York, NY): Islamic terrorists detonate a
massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people
and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers.
March 1, 1994 (Brooklyn, NY): A Muslim gunman targets a van packed
with Jewish boys, killing a 16-year-old.
March 23, 1997 (New York, NY): A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish
suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State
building where he shoots seven people in a Fedayeen attack.
September 11, 2001 (New York, NY): Islamic hijackers steer two planes
packed with fuel and passengers into the World Trade Center, killing
hundreds on impact and eventually killing thousands when the towers
collapsed. At least 200 are seriously injured.
September 11, 2001 (Washington, DC): Nearly 200 people are killed when
Islamic hijackers steer a plane full of people into the Pentagon.
September 11, 2001 (Shanksville, PA): Forty passengers are killed
after Islamic radicals hijack the plane in an attempt to steer it into
the U.S. Capitol building.
June 25, 2006 (Denver, CO): Saying that it was 'Allah's choice', a
Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer.
July 28, 2006 (Seattle, WA): An 'angry' Muslim-American uses a young
girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six
women, one of whom dies.
June 1, 2009 (Little Rock, AR): A Muslim shoots a local soldier to
death inside a recruiting center explicitly in the name of Allah.
November 5, 2009 Ft. Hood, TX A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen
unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah.
September 11, 2011 (Waltham, MA): Three Jewish men have their throats
slashed by Muslim terrorists.
February 7, 2013 (Buena Vista, NJ): A Muslim targets and beheads two
Christian Coptic immigrants.
April 5, 2013 (Boston, MA): Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves
as 'very religious' detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at
the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to
lose limbs.
September 25, 2014 (Moore, OK): A Sharia advocate beheads a woman
after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading
photo.
July 16, 2015 Chattanooga, TN A Muslim stages a suicide attack on a
recruiting center at a strip mall and a naval center which leaves five
dead.
December 2, 2015 San Bernardino, CA A Muslim shoots up a Christmas
party with his wife, leaving fourteen dead.
June 12, 2016 Orlando, FL Omar Mateen shoots and kills 49 people and
injures 53 more at a gay bar.
[136][unreliable source?]

Deadliest attacks[edit]This list includes all known terrorist attacks
in the United States which have killed at least 10 people.

Date Fatalities Injuries Article Location
September 11, 2001 2,996 (including 19 perpetrators) 6,000+ September
11 attacks New York City, New York, Arlington, Virginia, Shanksville,
Pennsylvania
April 19, 1995 168 680+ Oklahoma City bombing Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
September 7-11, 1857 120+ ≥17 Mountain Meadows massacre Mountain
Meadows, Utah Territory
June 12, 2016 50 (including the perpetrator) 53 Orlando nightclub
shooting Orlando, Florida
May 18, 1927 45 (including the perpetrator) 58 Bath School disaster
Bath Township, Michigan
May 31, 1921 39 officially, estimated 55-300 >800 Tulsa race riot
Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma
September 16, 1920 38 143 Wall Street bombing New York City, New York
October 1, 1910 21 100+ Los Angeles Times bombing Los Angeles, California
August 1, 1966 17 (including the perpetrator) 32 University of Texas
Clock Tower shooting Austin, Texas
December 2, 2015 16 (including 2 perpetrators) 24 San Bernardino
attack San Bernardino, California
November 5, 2009 13 33 (including the perpetrator) 2009 Fort Hood
shooting Fort Hood, Texas
May 4, 1886 11 130+ Haymarket affair Chicago, Illinois
December 29, 1975 11 74 LaGuardia Airport bombing New York City, New York
July 22, 1916 10 40 Preparedness Day Bombing San Francisco, California
November 24, 1917 10 0 Milwaukee Police Department bombing Milwaukee, Wisconsin
October 2-22, 2002 10 3 Beltway Sniper attacks Maryland, Virginia and
Washington D.C.

Environmental terrorism[edit]see: Environmental terrorism

University of Washington firebombing incident
Failed attacks[edit]November 25, 1864: Confederate Army of Manhattan
Fires were set at 19 New York City hotels, P.T. Barnum's Museum, and 2
hay barges resulting in minor damage. Plot to burn down New York City
organized by Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Robert Martin failed
because the Greek fire incendiary devices were defective and the
Lincoln Administration had been tipped off by a double agent and
intercepted telegraph messages. After the conspirators found out the
plot had been discovered they escaped to Canada. Confederate Captain
Robert C. Kennedy became the only conspirator apprehended when he was
arrested following his return to the U.S. Kennedy was tried by a
military tribunal and hanged.[137][138]
September 16, 1920: The Wall Street bombing: A suspected attempt to
kill financier J.P. Morgan by exploding the first car bomb. Bomb was
created by putting scrap metal and 100 pounds of dynamite on a
horse-drawn cart and blowing it up on Wall Street. Morgan was out of
town but 38 people were killed. Responsibility for the attack has
never been firmly established.[139]
June 1940: Two dynamite bombs were discovered outside of the
Philadelphia Convention Hall during the Republican National
Convention. A total of seven bombs were discovered in the greater
Philadelphia area during this period.[140]
November 1, 1950: Assassination attempt on President Harry S. Truman
by members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party at the Blair House in
Washington, D.C.
1965 The Monumental Plot – New York Police thwart an attempt to
dynamite the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell, and the Washington
Monument by three members of the pro-Castro Black Liberation Front and
a Quebec Separatist.[141]
March 6, 1970: Three members of the Weather Underground are killed
when their "bomb factory" located in New York's Greenwich Village
accidentally explodes. WUO members Theodore Gold, Diana Oughton, and
Terry Robbins die in this accident. The bomb was intended to be
planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon
detonation. See Greenwich Village townhouse explosion.
April 1971: Pipe bombs found at the embassies of Vietnam, Cambodia and
Laos in Washington, D.C.[142]
1972: Two Jewish Defense League members were arrested and charged with
bomb possession and burglary in a conspiracy to blow up the Long
Island residence of the Soviet mission to the United Nations
March 7, 1972: 4.5 pounds of C-4 explosives found on a plane by New
York City Police Bomb Squad.
March 6, 1973: 1973 New York bomb plot Explosives found in the trunks
of cars were defused at the El Al air terminal at Kennedy Airport, the
First Israel Bank and Trust Company, and the Israel Discount Bank, in
New York City. The plot was foiled when the National Security Agency
intercepted an encrypted message sent to the Iraqi foreign ministry in
Baghdad to the Palestine Liberation Organization's office. The attacks
were meant to coincide with visit of Israeli Prime Minister Golda
Meir. Khalid Duhham al-Jawary of the Black September was convicted on
charges relating to the attacks in 1993 and was released to
immigration authorities in 2009.[143][144]
September 22, 1975: Sarah Jane Moore tries to assassinate President
Gerald Ford outside of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. The
attempt fails when a bystander grabs her arm and deflects the shot.
Moore has stated the motive was to create chaos to bring "the winds of
change" because the government had declared war on the left
wing.[145][146][147]
1984: According to Oregon law enforcement there was an abortive plot
by the Rajneeshee cult to murder United States Attorney for Oregon,
Charles Turner.[148][149]
April 1985: The FBI arrested several members of a Sikh terrorist group
who were plotting to kill Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi when he visited New
York in June.
April 12, 1988: Yū Kikumura, a member of the Japanese Red Army, is
arrested with three pipe bombs on the New Jersey Turnpike. According
to prosecutors, Kikumura planned to bomb a military recruitment office
in the Veteran's Administration building in lower Manhattan on April
14, the anniversary of the U.S. raid on Libya.
June 1993: New York City landmark bomb plot. Followers of radical
cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman were arrested while planning to bomb
landmarks in New York City, including the UN headquarters.
August 1994: Two right-wing extremists, Douglas Baker & Leroy Wheeler,
both members of the Minnesota Patriots Council, are arrested for
making ricin, a deadly toxin. The two will later be convicted of
attempting to poison federal agents.[150]
March 1995: Charles Ray Polk is arrested while attempting to buy a
quantity of plastic explosives and machine guns in order to
assassinate four police officers and a female judge, and to use in a
planned bombing of the IRS offices in Tyler, Texas.[151]
November 9, 1995: Willie Ray Lampley, a self-proclaimed Prophet, along
with his wife Cecilia and a family friend John Dare Baird, were
arrested for a plot to bomb numerous targets, including the Southern
Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, the Anti-Defamation League
offices in Dallas and Houston, Texas, as well as a number of gay bars
& abortion clinics.[152]
December 1995: Tax protesters Joseph Martin Bailie and Ellis Edward
Hurst attempt to blow up the Internal Revenue Service building in
Reno, Nevada with a 100-pound ANFO bomb.[153]
April 1996: Anti-government activist & survivalist Ray Hamblin is
arrested after authorities find 460 pounds of the high explosive
Tovex, 746 pounds of ANFO blasting agent, and 15 homemade hand
grenades on his property in Hood River, Oregon during an investigation
into a series of explosions in his storage sheds.[154]
July 1996: Twelve members of an Arizona militia group called the Viper
Team are arrested on federal conspiracy, weapons and explosive charges
after planning to bomb a number of Federal office buildings, including
one that houses the office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms and the FBI.[155]
July 1996: Washington State Militia leader John Pitner and seven
others are arrested on weapons and explosives charges in connection
with a plot to build pipe bombs for a confrontation with the federal
government. Pitner and four others will be convicted on weapons
charges, while conspiracy charges against all eight will end in a
mistrial.[156] Pitner will later be retried on that charge, convicted
and sentenced to four years in prison.[157]
October 1996: Seven members of the Mountaineer Militia are arrested in
a plot to blow up the FBI's national Criminal Justice Information
Services Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia. In 1998, leader Floyd
"Ray" Looker, will be sentenced to 18 years in prison.[158]
March 17, 1997: anti-abortion extremist Peter Howard puts 13 gas cans
and three propane tanks in his truck, and drives it through the door
of a California women's clinic in a failed attempt to fire bomb the
clinic.[159]
September 1999: anti-abortion extremist Clayton Lee Waagner was pulled
over by the Pennsylvania State Police, but fled into the woods and
evaded capture, leaving behind a stolen car that contained firearms,
explosives, fake ID, and a list of abortion clinics. Later in
September 1999, while on a self-described "Mission from God", he took
his wife and their nine children on a cross-country road trip headed
west in a stolen Winnebago, planning to murder various abortion
doctors, beginning with one in Seattle, Washington. However, after
crossing into Illinois his vehicle broke down, and Waagner was
arrested when Illinois State Police stopped to investigate. Waagner
was convicted on charges of interstate transportation of a stolen
motor vehicle and for being a convicted felon in possession of
firearms. Waagner later escaped and used a cross country crime spree
to continue to fund his anti-abortion mission.
January 1, 2000: 2000 millennium attack plots, plan to bomb LAX
Airport in Los Angeles
December 5, 2001: anti-abortion extremist Clayton Lee Waagner is
arrested in a Kinko's while he was preparing to fax bomb threats to a
mass list of abortion clinics.
December 12, 2001: 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 Congressman
Darrell Issa foiled.
December 22, 2001: British citizen and self-proclaimed Al Qaeda member
Richard Reid attempted to detonate the C-4 explosive PETN concealed in
his shoes while on a flight from Paris to Miami. He was subdued by
crew and passengers with the plane landing safely in Boston.
2004 financial buildings plot: Al-Qaeda plan to bomb the International
Monetary Fund, New York Stock Exchange, Citigroup and Prudential
buildings broken up after arrest of computer expert in Pakistan and
plotters in Britain.
2004 Columbus Shopping Mall bombing plot: A loosely organized group of
young men planned to carry out an attack on an unnamed shopping mall.
September 11, 2006: A man rammed his car into a women's clinic that he
thought was an abortion clinic and set it ablaze in Davenport, Iowa
causing $20,000 worth of damage to the building.[160]
April 25, 2007: A bomb was left in a women's clinic in Austin, Texas
but failed to explode.[161][162]
2009 2009 New York bomb plot
December 25, 2009: British and Nigerian citizen and self-described
Al-Qaeda member Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to blow
up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in flight over Detroit by igniting
his underpants which were filled with the C-4 explosive
PETN.[163][164] He has been indicted in a U.S. federal court; charges
include the attempted murder of 289 people.[165] Several days later,
Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen and Saudi Arabia claimed responsibility
for the attempted attack. Addressing America, the group threatened to
"come for you to slaughter."[166] On January 24, 2010 an audio tape
that US intelligence believes is authentic was broadcast in which
Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing. The
intelligence officials expressed doubt about the veracity of bin
Laden's claim.[167] On October 12, 2011 Abdulmutallab plead guilty to
all counts against him and read a statement to the court saying "I
attempted to use an explosive device which in the U.S. law is a weapon
of mass destruction, which I call a blessed weapon to save the lives
of innocent Muslims, for U.S. use of weapons of mass destruction on
Muslim populations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and beyond".[168]
May 1, 2010 2010 Times Square car bomb attempt and plot: An attempted
evening car bombing in crowded Times Square in New York City failed
when a street vendor saw smoke emanating from an SUV and called
police. The White House has blamed Tehrik-e-Taliban the Pakistani
Taliban for the failed attack and said Faisal Shahzad aged 30, an
American of Pakistani origin who has been arrested in relation to the
incident was working for the group.[169] In July 2010, the Pakistani
Taliban released a video featuring Shahzad in which he urged other
Muslims in the West to follow his example and to wage similar
attacks.[170] On May 3, Shahzad was arrested at Kennedy Airport as he
was preparing to fly to Dubai.[171] The device was described as crude
and amateurish but potent enough to cause casualties.[172] On May 13
the F.B.I. raided several locations in the Northeast and arrested 3 on
alleged immigration violations.[173] Several suspects were arrested in
Pakistan including the co-owner of a prominent catering firm used by
the US embassy.[174] On June 21 Shahzad plead guilty to 10 counts
saying he created the bomb to force the US military to withdraw troops
and stop drone attacks in a number of Muslim countries. Shahzad said
he chose the location to cause mass civilian casualties because the
civilians elected the government that carried out the allegedly anti
Muslim policies.[175] On October 4, 2010 Shahzad was sentenced to life
in prison.[176] During his sentencing, he threatened that "the defeat
of the U.S. is imminent" and that "we will keep on terrorizing you
until you leave our lands."[170] Shahzad planned on detonating a
second bomb in Times Square two weeks later.[177]
July 21, 2010: Bryon Williams captured after shootout with California
Highway Patrol with guns strapped on his body armor alleged to have
confessed that he was on his way to kill workers at the American Civil
Liberties Union and follow it up with and attack on Tides Center
allegedly was angry with left-wing politics and inspired by conspiracy
theories of Glenn Beck and hoped the attack would ignite a
revolution.[178]
January 17, 2011: Spokane bombing attempt: A small pipe bomb in a
backpack designed to be detonated by remote control and spread
shrapnel in a specific direction was discovered during a Martin Luther
King Day parade in Spokane, Washington. White supremacist Kevin
Harpham is convicted and sentenced to 32 years in federal
prison.[179][180]
April 8, 2013: Letters believed to contain the poison Ricin were sent
to President Barack Obama and Mississippi Republican Senator Roger
Wicker and a Mississippi Justice official. Tests on the granular
substance found in the letters tested positive for "low grade" ricin.
April 25, 2013: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston Marathon
bombing, told investigators that he and his brother discussed using
leftover explosives to attack Times Square.[181] According to NYC
Police commissioner Raymond Kelly the plan was conceived after they
attacked Boston and was foiled when their SUV ran out of gas as they
tried to escape from the Boston marathon bombing manhunt.[182]
January 15, 2015: Washington, DC. U.S. Capitol Terror Attack Stopped
By FBI. Investigators say a 20-year-old Ohio man now in FBI custody
wanted to set off pipe bombs at the U.S. Capitol as a way of
supporting ISIS. Federal authorities identified the man as Christopher
Lee Cornell, also known as Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah. Cornell, who lives
in the Cincinnati area, allegedly told an FBI informant they should
"wage jihad," and showed his plans for bombing the Capitol and
shooting people, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal
court. The FBI said Cornell expressed his desire to support the
Islamic State.[183] Authorities say Cornell was arrested Wednesday
after buying two semi-automatic rifles and about 600 rounds of
ammunition, but an FBI agent says the public was never in danger.
May 3, 2015: Garland, Texas. Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, roommates
from North Phoenix, Arizona, were killed by a security guard when they
started shooting at a building holding a Mohammad cartoon contest
sponsored by Stop Islamization of America. A school security helping
with security at the event was shot in the leg.[184]
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November 1864: Plan by Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Robert Martin
and the Copperheads organization Sons of Liberty to attack New York
City and disrupt elections collapsed when the Sons of Liberty backed
out upon seeing large numbers of Union troops.[137]
February 28, 1865 Dahlgren Affair: Alleged plot by Union General
Judson Kilpatrick to burn down Richmond, Virginia and kill Confederate
President Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet. Allegations based on papers
recovered by a 13-year-old member of the Confederate home guard. The
authenticity of the papers have been a matter of dispute.[185]
January 1940: The FBI shuts down the Christian Front after discovering
its members were arming themselves for a plot to "murder Jews,
communists, and 'a dozen Congressmen'" and establishing a government
modeled after Nazi Germany.[186][187]
March 31, 1943: Clarence Cull arrested and charged with attempting to
assassinate President Franklin D. Roosevelt by suicide bombing. Cull
blamed Roosevelt for lost convoys of Merchant Ships.
November 9, 1995: Oklahoma Constitutional Militia members arrested
while in the planning stages for bombings of Southern Poverty Law
Center, gay bars and abortion clinics.[188][189]
January 1, 1996: Members of the Viper Team militia are arrested after
they caught surveying government buildings in Arizona.[188]
July 13, 1996: John J. Ford, 47, of Bellport, Long Island, a former
court officer and president of the Long Island U.F.O. Network, and
Joseph Mazzachelli plotted to poison local politicians with radium and
shoot them if that did not work. They believed the government was
covering up knowledge of UFO landings.[190][191]
November 11, 1996: Seven members of the Mountaineer Militia are
arrested in a plot to blow up the FBI fingerprint records center in
West Virginia.[188]
July 4, 1997: Members of the splinter militia group the Third
Continental Congress are arrested while planning attacks on military
bases which they believed were being used to train United Nations
troops to attack U.S. citizens.[188]
July 30, 1997: Two men who were planning to bomb the New York City
subway the next day arrested. A resident of their apartment informed
police after he overheard the men discussing the plot.[192]
March 18, 1998: Members of the North American Militia are arrested in
plot to bomb Federal Buildings in Michigan, a television station and
an interstate highway intersection.[188]
December 5, 1999: Members of the San Joaquin Militia are arrested on
charges of plotting to bomb critical infrastructure locations in hopes
of sparking an insurrection. The leaders of the group plead guilty to
charges of plotting to kill a Federal judge.[188]
December 8, 1999: The leader of the Southeastern States Alliance
militia group is arrested in plot to bomb energy faculties with the
goal of causing power outages in Florida and Georgia.[188]
March 9, 2000: The former leader of the Texas Militia is arrested in a
plot to attack the Federal Building in Houston.[188]
February 8, 2002: Two members of Project 7 are arrested plotting to
kill judges and law enforcement officials in order to kick off a
revolution.[188]
May 8, 2002: José Padilla, accused by John Ashcroft of plotting to
attack the United States with a dirty bomb, declared as an enemy
combatant, and denied habeas corpus. No material evidence has been
produced to support the allegation.
July 26, 2002 2002 White supremacist terror plot: Two white
supremacists were convicted of conspiring to start a race war by
bombing landmarks associated with Jews and Blacks.[193]
September 3, 2002: An Idaho Mountain Militia Boys plot to kill a judge
and a police officer and break a friend out of jail is uncovered.[188]
April 24, 2003: William Krar is charged for his part in the Tyler
poison gas plot, a white supremacist related plan. A sodium cyanide
bomb was seized with at least 100 other bombs, bomb components,
machine guns, and 500,000 rounds of ammunition. He faces up to 10
years in prison.[194][195]
May 1, 2003: Iyman Faris pleads guilty to providing material support
to al-Qaeda and plotting to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge by cutting
through cables with blowtorches. He had been working as a double for
the FBI since March, but in October was sentenced to 20 years in
prison.
August 31, 2005 2005 Los Angeles bomb plot: Kevin James, Hammad
Samana, Gregory Patterson, and Levar Washington were indicted on
charges to wage war against the U.S. government through terrorism in
California. The men planned attacks against Jewish institutions and
American military locations in Los Angeles during the Yom Kippur
holiday.[196]
February 21, 2006: The Toledo terror plot where three men were accused
of conspiring to wage a "holy war" against the United States, supply
help to the terrorist in Iraq, and threatening to kill the US
president.
June 23, 2006: The Miami bomb plot to attack the Sears Tower where
seven men were arrested after an FBI agent infiltrated a group while
posing as an al-Qaeda member. No weapons or other materials were
found. On May 12, 2009 after two mistrials due to hung juries five men
were convicted and one acquitted on charges related to the plot.
Narseal Batiste, the groups ringleader, was convicted on four charges,
the only defendant to be convicted on all four charges brought against
the defendants.[197]
July 7, 2006: Three suspects arrested in Lebanon for plotting to blow
up a Hudson River tunnel and flood the New York financial district.
November 29, 2006: Demetrius Van Crocker a white supremacist from
rural Tennessee was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to
acquire Sarin nerve gas and C-4 explosives that he planned to use to
destroy government buildings.[198]
December 8, 2006: Derrick Shareef, 22, a Muslim convert who talked
about his desire to wage jihad against civilians was charged in a plot
to set off four hand grenades in garbage cans December 22 at the
Cherryvale Mall in Rockford, Illinois.[199]
March 5, 2007: A Rikers Island inmate offered to pay an undercover
police officer posing as a hit man to behead New York City police
commissioner Raymond Kelly and bomb police headquarters in retaliation
for the controversial police shooting of Sean Bell. The suspect wanted
the bombing to be considered a terrorist act.[200][201]
May 1, 2007: Five members of a self-styled Birmingham, Alabama area
anti-immigration militia were arrested for planning a machine gun
attack on Mexicans.[202]
May 7, 2007: Fort Dix attack plot. Six men inspired by Jihadist videos
arrested in a failed homegrown terrorism plot to kill soldiers. Plot
unravels when Circuit City clerk becomes suspicious of the DVDs the
men had created and report it to authorities who place an informant in
the group. In October 2008 one man pleaded guilty to charges related
to the plot. On December 22, 2008 five other men were convicted with
conspiracy to kill American soldiers but were acquitted of attempted
murder.[203] Dritan, Shain and Eljvir Duka were sentenced to life in
prison.[204]
June 3, 2007: John F. Kennedy International Airport terror plot. Four
men indicted in plot to blow up jet-fuel supply tanks at JFK Airport
and a 40-mile (64 km) connecting pipeline. One suspect is a U.S.
citizen and one, Abdul Kadir, a former member of parliament in Guyana.
The airport was targeted because one of the suspects saw arms
shipments and missiles being shipped to Israel from that locale. In a
recorded conversation one of the suspects allegedly told an informant
that "Anytime you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the
United States. To hit John F. Kennedy, wow.... They love JFK – he's
like the man". Plot unraveled when a person from law enforcement was
recruited.[205][206][207] On June 29, 2010 Abdel Nur plead guilty to
material support charges. Due to health reasons Kareem Ibrahim was
removed from the case and will be tried separately.[208] On August 2
Russell M. Defreitas and Abdul Kadir were convicted for their role in
the plot.[209]
March 26, 2008: Michael S. Gorbey who was detained in January 2008 for
carrying a loaded shotgun two blocks from the Capitol Building has
been charged planning to set off a bomb after a device containing can
of gunpowder duct-taped to a box of shotgun shells and a bottle
containing buckshot or BB pellets was found in the pickup truck he was
driving. The pickup truck was moved to a government parking lot where
for a three-week period the device inside it went unnoticed.[210]
Michael Gorbey gets 22 years prison, but he insisted that police
planted weapons.[211]
October 27, 2008: Federal agents claim to thwarted a plot by two white
power skinheads to target an African American High School and kill 88
blacks and decapitate 14 more (the numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic to
white supremacists) and although expecting to fail try to assassinate
Barack Obama.[212][213]
May 20, 2009: 2009 New York City bomb plot Three U.S. citizens and one
Haitian from Newburgh, New York were arrested in a plot to bomb a
Riverdale Temple and a Riverdale Jewish Center in The Bronx, New York
City in an alleged homegrown terrorist plot. It was also alleged that
they planned to shoot down military planes operating out of Stewart
Air National Guard Base also in Newburgh. One of the suspects whose
parents are from Afghanistan was said to be "unhappy that many Muslim
people were being killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by the United
States Military forces."[214][215][216] On October 18, 2010, the four
were convicted on most of the charges brought against them.[217] On
June 29, 2011 three of the men were sentenced to 25 years imprisonment
by a judge who criticized the governments handling of the
case.[218][219] A 2014 award-winning HBO documentary about the four,
The Newburgh Sting, claimed that it was a clear case of entrapment and
an egregious miscarriage of justice.[220][221]
September 2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot:
Najibullah Zazi of Denver was indicted on charges of trying to build
and detonate a weapon of mass destruction by purchasing hydrogen
peroxide, acetone and other chemicals. He and two others allegedly
planned to detonate the homemade explosives on the New York City
subway system.[222] On February 22, 2010 Zazi plead guilty to
conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit
murder in a foreign country and providing material support for a
terrorist organization. Zazi said he was recruited by al-Qaeda as part
of a "martyrdom plan".[223] Zazi agreed to cooperate with authorities
and has told them that the groups planned to walk into the Times
Square and Grand Central stations with backpack bombs at rush hour and
then choose which subway lines to attack.[224] Several days later Adis
Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay high school classmates of Zazi were
indicted and plead not guilty to charges of conspiracy to use weapons
of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country
and providing material support for a terrorist organization.[225] On
April 12 a fourth man was arrested in Pakistan.[224] On April 23
Prosecutors said that two Senior Al Queda officials who were
reportedly later killed in drone attacks ordered the attacks and
Zarein Ahmedzay pleaded guilty to plot related charges.[226] On July 7
five others were indicted including al-Qaeda leader Adnan Shukrijumah,
and it was alleged the United Kingdom was also a target of the
plot.[227] While in Pakistan, Zazi, Ahmedzay and Medunjanin were
allegedly recruited and directed by Shukrijumah, a former Florida
student who is designated as one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists,
to conduct a terrorist attack in the U.S.[228] On August 6 new charges
were brought against Medunjanin and 4 others including Shukrijumah.
Medunjanin pleaded not guilty.[229]
August – September 2009: On September 24, William Boyd and Hysen
Sherifi charged with "conducting reconnaissance of the Marine Corps
base at Quantico, Virginia and obtaining armor-piercing ammunition
with the intent to attack Americans". Boyd, two of his sons and
several other suspects had been charged on international terrorism
charges in August, but at the time there was no indication that they
wanted to plot a United States attack. An audio tape of Boyd decrying
the U.S. military, discussing the honor of martyrdom, and bemoaning
the struggle of Muslims was played at an August hearing. It is the
first case of a ring of homegrown terrorists having specific
targets.[230][231]
September 24, 2009: Michael Finton/Talib Islam a 29-year-old man from
Illinois charged with trying to kill federal employees by detonating a
car bomb at the federal building in Springfield, Illinois. Charges
based on F.B.I. sting operation.[230] He is said to idolize
American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh.[232]
September 24, 2009: Hosam Maher Husein Smadi a 19-year-old illegal
immigrant from Jordan charged with trying the bomb the 60 story
Fountain Place office tower in Dallas, Texas. Charges are based on
F.B.I. sting operation in which agents posed as members of an al-Qaeda
sleeper cell.[230][232]
January 7, 2010: Adis Medunjanin an alleged 2009 New York City Subway
plotter attempts a suicide attack by intentionally crashing his car on
the Whitestone Bridge in New York City. He is indicted for this on
July 7.[233] Medunjanin has since been charged for his role in an Al
Qaeda plot to conduct coordinated suicide bombings on New York's
subway system.[234]
May 2010: Paul Rockwood Jr. a meteorologist who took official weather
observations and his pregnant wife Nancy from King Salmon, Alaska
compiled a list of 20 targets, including members of the military and
media and had moved to the operational phase of their plan plead
guilty to lying to FBI about the list and making false statements to
the FBI. Under a plea agreement Mr. Rockwood will serve eight years in
prison and three years probation while Ms. Rockwood will serve
probation. Motive was revenge for alleged descecration of
Islam.[235][236]
September 20, 2010: Sami Samir Hassoun, 22, a Lebanese citizen living
in Chicago, was charged with one count each of attempted use of a
weapon of mass destruction and attempted use of an explosive device
after placing a backpack with what he thought was a bomb near Wrigley
Field. Alleged plot was foiled by FBI informant. Hassoun discussed
other ideas for mass destruction attacks with informant.[237][238]
October 27, 2010: Farooque Ahmed, 34, a naturalized U.S. citizen
indicted for conspiracy to bomb 4 Washington Metro stations with
people he thought were al-Qaeda.[239]
November 26, 2010: Mohamed Osman Mohamud a 19-year-old Somali-American
is alleged to have attempted a car bombing at a Christmas tree
lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. The device was a dud created by
the FBI.[240] Motive is reported to be Jihad.[241] On January 31, 2013
a jury found Mohamud guilty of the charge of trying to use a weapon of
mass destruction.[242]
December 8, 2010: Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain
arrested after a sting operation in an alleged plot to bomb a military
recruiting center in Catonsville, Maryland. The 21-year-old suspect is
an American who converted to Islam. The suspect was reported to be
upset that the military continues to kill Muslims.[243]
December 21, 2010: Internet radio broadcaster Hal Turner sentenced to
33 months in prison after he published the work addresses and
photographs of three judges who had upheld gun control laws and
advocated for their assassination.[244]
February 24, 2011: Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari a 20-year-old Saudi Arabian
student arrested for building bombs to use in alleged terrorist
attacks. Targets allegedly were home of George W. Bush, hydroelectric
dams, nuclear power plants, nightclubs and the homes of soldiers who
were formerly stationed at the Abu Ghraib prison. In Aldawsari's
journal he wrote he was inspired by the speeches of Osama bin Laden.
Alleged plot uncovered when supplier noticed suspicious
purchases.[245]
May 11, 2011: In the 2011 Manhattan terrorism plot, Ahmed Ferhani
resident of Queens, New York and native of Algeria and Mohamed Mamdouh
aged 20 also from Queens and Moroccan native arrested in a lone wolf
plot against a New York Synagogue that had yet to be chosen. It also
alleged that they hoped to attack the Empire State Building. The pair
were arrested after buying two Browning semi-automatic pistols, one
Smith & Wesson revolver, ammunition and one grenade. The pair
disguised themselves as Jewish temple goers and pretended to pray. The
suspects were said to be "committed to violent jihad".[246]
June 23, 2011: Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif and Walli Mujahidh of Long
Beach, California are arrested on charges of buying machine guns and
grenades and conspiring to attack a federal building housing a
Military Entrance Processing Station in Seattle, Washington.Plot was
uncovered by informent. Motive was to send message in protest of US
action abroad. On April 8, 2013 Walli Mujahidh apologized and was
sentenced to 17 years for his role in the plot.[247][248]
July 27, 2011: AWOL U.S. Army Private, and conscientious objector,
Naser Jason Abdo from Garland, Texas was arrested in an alleged plot
against Fort Hood, Texas. Materials for up to two bombs were found
with jihadist materials in Abdo's motel room. Investigation began when
owner of a local gun store called police after becoming suspicious
when Abdo asked questions indicating he did not know about the items
he was purchasing.[249][250]
September 28, 2011: Rezwan Ferdaus, a US citizen,was indicted for
allegedly plotting to use remote-controlled aircraft carrying
explosives to bomb the Pentagon and the US Capitol. He also allegedly
planned to hire people to shoot at people fleeing the Pentagon.
Ferdaus was said to be motivated by Al Queada videos and the alleged
plot was uncovered by an F.B.I. sting operation.[251] In July 2012 he
pleaded guilty to plotting an attack on the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol
and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. Under a plea
bargain, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison and then 10 years of
supervised release.[252]
October 11, 2011: Operation Red Coalition. Alleged plot that was
"conceived, sponsored and was directed from Iran" to assassinate the
Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States Adel al-Jubeir with a
bomb and bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C. It
is not known if Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had knowledge of the plot. The alleged
plot was disrupted by an FBI and DEA investigation. The investigation
began in May 2011 when an Iranian-American approached a DEA informant
seeking the help of a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the Saudi
ambassador. Iran has denied the allegations.[253]
October–November 2011: Georgia terrorist plot Four elderly men from a
Georgia militia arrested for plotting to buy ricin in preparation for
an attack they claimed would "save the Constitution". They allegedly
discussed blowing up IRS and ATF buildings, dispensing ricin from a
plane over Atlanta and other cities, and assassinating "un American"
politicians. Informant used to break up alleged plot.[254]
November 20, 2011: Jose Pimentel, aged 27, an American citizen and a
convert to Islam from New York City arrested and accused of being the
process of building pipe bombs (and one hour away from his building
his first bomb) to target post offices police cars and U.S. military
personnel returning from abroad in New York City and Bayonne, New
Jersey. Was said to be a follower of the late al-Qaeda leader Anwar
al-Awlaki. The FBI did not consider Pimentel who was said to be
radicalized via the internet by enough of a threat to investigate but
NYC police considered him a 2 on a threat scale of 1 to
5.[255][256][257]
January 7, 2012: Sami Osmakac a naturalized American from Kosovo
arrested in plot to create mayhem in Tampa, Florida by car bombing,
hostage taking and exploding a suicide belt. Allege bomb targets
included by night clubs in the Ybor City, a bar, and the operations
center of the sheriff's office and South Tampa businesses. Osmakac
allegedly told an FBI undercover agent "We all have to die, so why not
die the Islamic way?". Osmakac plead not guilty on February 8.[258]
2012 February 17: Amine El Khalifi a Moroccan man from Alexandria,
Virginia arrested in alleged suicide bombing plot of U.S. Capital. Was
arrested was a result of F.B.I. sting operation.[259] As a result of a
plea agreement El Khalifi was sentenced to 30 years in prison on
September 14.[260]
May 1, 2012: 5 self described anarchists were arrested in an alleged
plot to blow up a bridge in Cuyahoga Valley National Park in
Brecksville, Ohio. The group was being monitored as part of an F.B.I.
undercover operation and had considered other plots previously. One of
the suspects expressed a desire to cause financial damage to companies
while avoiding casualties.[261][262]
August 27, 2012: Four non-commissioned officers from Fort Stewart in
Georgia, along with five other men, were charged in an alleged plot to
poison an apple orchard and blow up a dam in Washington State, seize
control of Fort Stewart, set off explosives in a park in Savannah,
Georgia, and assassinate President Barack Obama. The alleged plot was
on behalf of the "FEAR" militia for the long term purpose of
overthrowing the government.[263][264]
2012 October 17: Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis age 21 arrested in plot
to bomb the Manhattan office of the Federal Reserve Bank on behalf of
"our beloved Sheikh Osama bin Laden". Motive was to destroy the
economy and possibly force cancellation of the Presidential election.
Suspect who has a student visa is a Bangladeshi national who come to
the U.S. to launch a terrorist attack. Arrest was result a joint
FBI-New York City police sting operation. Suspect was pulling
detonator on disabled 1000 pound van bomb when arrested.[265] On
August 9, 2013 Nafis was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Prior to his
sentencing Nafis wrote a letter apologizing to the people of America
and New York for his actions which he said were caused by personal and
family problems and said he is now pro American.[266][267]
November 29, 2012: Raees Alam Qazi and his brother Sheheryar Alam Qazi
of Florida naturalized citizens of Pakistani descent arrested for
being in the aspirational stages of a plot to attack New York City.
Raees Alam Qazi is alleged be inspired by Al Queda and of trying to
contact terrorists abroad.[268] On June 11, 2015 Reees and Sheheryar
were sentenced to 35 and 20 years respectively for the plot and
attacking federal officials while in custody.[269]
June 19, 2013: Two middle aged upstate New York men Scott Crawford and
Eric J. Feight arrested by FBI in alleged plot to target a political
figure reported to be President Obama and a Muslim group deemed
enemies of Israel by constructing and using an X-Ray Gun that was
described by the FBI as "useful and "functional". Obama was believed
by the pair to be allowing Muslims into the country without background
checks. Investigation was launched when a synagogue and the Ku Klux
Klan whom Crawford was a member of told authorities that Crawford
tried to recruit them to take part in the alleged plot.[270]
December 13, 2013: Terry Lee Loewen, an avionics technician, was
arrested for attempting to bomb the Wichita Mid-Continent
Airport.[271][272][273] A Muslim-convert inspired by Anwar Al-Awlaki,
he is alleged to have spent several months planning a suicide attack
with a car-load of explosives.[274]
2014: Brandon Orlando Baldwin and Olajuwon Ali Davis allegedly plotted
to kill St. Louis County, Missouri Prosecuting Attorney Robert
McCulloch and Ferguson, Missouri Police Chief Tom Jackson as well as
bomb the Gateway Arch in reaction to the shooting of Michael Brown.
The suspects were caught as a result of an undercover operation.[275]
March 26, 2015: Hasan R. Edmonds, an Illinois National Guardsman, and
his cousin, Jonas M. Edmonds, arrested in an alleged terrorist plot
against a Northern Illinois military base. The alleged plot involved
Hasan leaving the country and Jones using Hasan's uniform to gain
access. Motive was to bring "the flames of war to the heart" of
America. Alleged plot broken up by sting operation.[276]
April 2, 2015: Two women from Queens, New York, 28-year-old Noelle
Velentzas and 31-year-old Asia Siddiqui, arrested on charges of trying
to detonate explosives in the US. They had purchased propane tanks. It
is believed to be first case of a women only conceived terror plot in
the US. Suspected busted by sting operation. Siddiqui alleged to have
Al Quaeda contact.[277] On May 7, the two plead not guilty.[278]
April 10, 2015: the FBI arrested 63-year old Robert Rankin Doggart, of
Signal Mountain, Tennessee, who ran as a congressional candidate in
2014. He was wiretapped explaining plans to raise a militia to burn
down a mosque, school and cafeteria and gun down Muslims in an enclave
called Islamberg in New York. He planned to amass M4 carbines,
pistols, Molotov cocktails and machetes, saying "We will offer [our]
lives as collateral to prove our commitment to our God," and "We shall
be Warriors who inflict horrible numbers of casualties upon the
enemies," and "If it gets down to the machete, we will cut them to
shreds."[279] He has a Ph.D. from a diploma mill and an ordination
from an ordination mill.[280] He plead guilty on May 15, 2015.[281]
June 17, 2015: Fareed Mumuni, 21 of Staten Island and Munther Omar
Saleh, 20 of Queens arrested for allegedly trying to conspire to
assist ISIS in committing an attack in the New York area. Both
suspects allegedly charged at law enforcement trying to arrest them
with a knife.[282]
July 3–5, 2015: F.B.I. Director James Comey said his agency disrupted
multiple July 4 weekend terror plots.[283]
July 13, 2015: Alexander Ciccolo, 23, of Adams, Massachusetts a son of
a Boston police captain arrested in plot to attack a state college and
broadcast executions of students on the internet. Suspect who was
turned in by his father is said to be inspired by ISIS and reportedly
characterized America as "Satan" and "disgusting". Ciccolo has guns
and possible bomb making equipment.[284]

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