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  • . April 18, 1983 Bombing of U.S.
  • . Embassy in Beirut A suicide bomber in a pickup truck loaded with explosives rammed into the U.S.
  • . government took no military action in response to the embassy bombing, although, according to retired Marine Lt.
  • . 23, 1983 Bombing of Marine barracks in Beirut A suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives at a U.S.
  • . still lacks "actual knowledge of who did the bombing" of the Marine barracks.
  • . Four months after the Marine barracks bombing, U.S.
  • . 12, 1983 Bombing of the U.S.
  • . Embassy in Kuwait The American embassy in Kuwait was bombed in a series of attacks whose targets also included the French embassy, the control tower at the airport, the country's main oil refinery, and a residential area for employees of the American corporation Raytheon.
  • . Six people were killed, including a suicide truck bomber, and more than 80 others were injured.
  • . After a six-week trial in Kuwait, Badreddin was sentenced to death for his role in the bombings.



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  • . And finally Casey in 1985 worked out with the Saudis a plan to use a car bomb to kill Sheik [Mohammed Hussein] Fadlallah who they determined was one of the people behind, not only the Marine barracks [bombing], but was involved in the taking of American hostages in Beirut.
  • . We took the Marines out of Lebanon after the bombing.
  • . And Casey went off the books on his own, and worked it out with the Saudis to pay two million dollars to get...people to build this car bomb that killed eighty innocent people in Beirut [in 1985] and not Sheik Fadlallah.
  • . And they went for a stroll in the garden and they said, "We have to go off the books." And they agreed that the Saudis would put up the money to hire some professionals to try to car bomb Sheik Fadlallah.
  • . It was Casey on his own, saying, "I'm going to solve the big problem by essentially getting tougher or as tough as the terrorists in using their weapon"--the car bomb.
  • . And there was a feeling in the White House that the Iranians released the hostages because they feared Reagan would carpet bomb them if they didn't.



    SUICIDE CAR BOMB KILLS 23 AT ARMY POSITION IN BEIRUT - New York Times
  • Free 14-Day Trial Monday, June 19, 2006 SUICIDE CAR BOMB KILLS 23 AT ARMY POSITION IN BEIRUT AP Published: June 15, 1985 Two suicide bombers crashed a car loaded with explosives into a Lebanese Army position in West Beirut today, killing 23 people and wounding 36, the state radio said.
  • . [Reuters reported that an anonymous caller told a Christian radio station that the bombers were Sunni Moslems, with whom the Shiites have been in conflict for control of the Moslem section of Beirut.
  • . The last previous major explosion in Beirut occurred when a car bomb in Christian East Beirut killed 58 people and wounded about 200 on May 22.



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  • . October 12, 2000 - A terrorist bomb damages the destroyer USS Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors and injuring 39.
  • . August 7, 1998 - Terrorist bombs destroy the U.S.
  • . July 27, 1996 - A pipe bomb explodes during the Olympic games in Atlanta, killing one person and wounding 111.
  • . June 25, 1996 - A bomb aboard a fuel truck explodes outside a U.S.
  • . The bomb killed 19 U.S.
  • . November 13, 1995 - A car bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 7 people, 5 of them American military and civilian advisers for National Guard training.
  • . April 19, 1995 - A car bomb destroys the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and wounding over 600.
  • . 1993 - A bomb in a van explodes in the underground parking garage in New York's World Trade Center, killing 6 people and wounding 1, 042.
  • . December 21, 1988 - A bomb destroys Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
  • . April 1986 - A bomb destroys a West Berlin disco frequented by U.S.
  • . August 1985 - A car bomb at a U.S.

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  • . 12, 2000 - A terrorist bomb damages the destroyer USS Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors and injuring 39.
  • . 7, 1998 - Terrorist bombs destroy the U.S.
  • . July 27, 1996 - A pipe bomb explodes during the Olympic games in Atlanta, killing one person and wounding 111.
  • . June 25, 1996 - A bomb aboard a fuel truck explodes outside a U.S.
  • . 13, 1995 - A car-bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills seven people, five of them American military and civilian advisers for National Guard training.
  • . April 19, 1995 - A car bomb destroys the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and wounding over 600.
  • . February 1993 - A bomb in a van explodes in the underground parking garage in New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and wounding 1, 042.
  • . 21, 1988 - A bomb destroys Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
  • . As a result, two Libyan intelligence officers are charged with planting the bomb.
  • . April 5, 1986 - A bomb destroys the LaBelle discotheque in West Berlin.


    CNS - Major Conventional Terrorist Incidents 1980s to 2000
  • . Date: October 12, 2000 Target: Military Weapon Type: Suicide Bomber Summary: On October 12, 2000, a small boat (dingy) carrying explosives rammed the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen.
  • . Date: September 1999 Target: Private Residence Weapon Type: Bomb Summary: In September, 1999, bombs exploded in an apartment block in Moscow, Russia.
  • . Ninety-four people were killed and 152 people were injured as a result of the bombings.
  • . Date: August 15, 1998 Target: Government Weapon Type: Car Bomb Summary: On August 15, 1998, a 500-pound car bomb exploded outside a local courthouse in the central shopping district of Omagh, Northern Ireland.
  • . Authorities were in the process of clearing the shopping area around the courthouse when the bomb exploded.
  • . Date: August 7, 1998 Target: Government Embassy Weapon Type: Truck Bomb Summary: On August 7, 1998, a truck bomb exploded outside the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
  • . Date: August 7, 1998 Target: Government Embassy Weapon Type: Truck Bomb Summary: On August 7, 1998, a truck bomb exploded outside the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.


    A/40/985-S/17668 of 5 December 1985
  • . It is a compendium of bombings, kidnappings, assassinations, executions, coups, hijackings, border incursions, and outright war.


    Economist's View: History of the Car Bomb: "The poor man's air force" Part 2
  • | April 16, 2006 History of the Car Bomb: "The poor man's air force" Part 2 Here's part 2 of "Car Bombs with Wings" : : The CIA's Car Bomb University (the 1980s) The CIA officers that Yousef worked with closely impressed upon him one rule: never use the terms sabotage or assassination when speaking with visiting congressmen.-- Steve Coll, Ghost Wars Gunboat diplomacy had been defeated by car bombs in Lebanon, but the Reagan administration and, above all, CIA Director William Casey were left thirsting for revenge against Hezbollah.
  • . "he worked out with the Saudis a plan to use a car bomb to kill [Hezbollah leader] Sheikh Fadlallah who they determined was one of the people behind, not only the Marine barracks, but was involved in the taking of American hostages in Beirut… It was Casey on his own, saying, ‘I‘m going to solve the big problem by essentially getting tougher or as tough as the terrorists in using their weapon -- the car bomb.'" The CIA's own operatives, however, proved incapable of carrying out the bombing, so Casey subcontracted the operation to Lebanese agents led by a former British SAS officer and financed by Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar.

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    Lebanese Civil War 1985 - 1987
  • . January 21, 1985 Moustapha Saad, leader of the Nasserist Popular Organization, was seriously wounded in Saida by a car bomb that killed his daughter.
  • . During the meeting, the bombs were continuing to fall on Hazmieh and Achrafieh and kidnappings of innocent civilians were still taking place on various crossing roads in Beirut.
  • . Insane bombing continued in both sectors of the capital, crossing points had been closed illustrating the gravity of the situation, while 20, 000 Christians from South killing civilians and burning homes and churches June 17, 1985 The Damascus agreement put an end to the Camps War that caused, in four weeks, 700 deaths and 2, 500 injured.
  • . July 30, 1985 Syria delivered 46 tanks to the Amal movement while surprise bombardments continued in Beirut and civilians were still being kidnapped on the crossing points August 2, 1985 The Israeli aviation destroyed the headquarters of the Syrian Nationalist Party in Chtaura after the multiplication of car bombs in South Lebanon.


    Townhall.com :: Columns :: Winning the war with the car bomb by Charles Krauthammer - Oct 31, 2003
  • . Columns Winning the war with the car bomb It is possible to win a counterguerrilla war.
  • . It is far more difficult, however, to defeat the car bomb.
  • . It is on the car bomb, therefore, that the Saddam loyalists' hope for victory rides.
  • . The enemy plants the roadside bomb, and succeeds with the occasional ambush.
  • . Which is why the enemy has turned to the car bomb.
  • . The car bomb does not require a constituency.
  • . The car bomb is the nuclear weapon of guerrilla warfare.
  • . The 1983 car bomb attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 Americans, drove the U.S.
  • . But there was another car bomb in Beirut in the early 1980s that was just as significant.
  • . In 1982, a car bomb blew up Phalange Party headquarters, killing Bashir Gemayel, the newly elected pro-Western, pro-American, pro-Israeli president.
  • . The car bomb soon took care of business, wiping out an entire office building housing not just Gemayel but many top aides and government officials.


    A Chronology of Significant Terrorist Incidents, 1961-1996
  • . "Bloody Friday, " July 21, 1972: An Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb attacks killed 11 people and injured 130 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • . Ten days later, three IRA car bomb attacks in the village of Claudy left six dead.
  • . Domestic Terrorism, January 27-29, 1975: Puerto Rican nationalists bombed a Wall Street bar, killing four and injuring 60; 2 days later, the Weather Underground claims responsibility for an explosion in a bathroom at the U.S.
  • . Assassination of Former Chilean Diplomat, September 21, 1976: In Washington, exiled Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier was killed by a car bomb.
  • . Installation Bombing, August 31, 1981: The Red Army exploded a bomb at the U.S.
  • . Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, September 14, 1982: Premier Bashir Gemayel was assassinated by a car bomb parked outside his party's Beirut headquarters.
  • . Bombing of U.S.
  • . Embassy in Beirut, April 18, 1983: Sixty-three people, including the CIA's Middle East director, were killed, and 120 were injured in a 400-pound suicide truck-bomb attack on the U.S.


    U.S. Army - Timeline of Terrorism
  • . Pan Am 103 Bombing, December 21, 1988: Pan American Airlines Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, by a bomb believed to have been placed on the aircraft by Libyan terrorists in Frankfurt, West Germany.
  • . Embassy in Greece was killed when a car-bomb was detonated outside his home in Athens.
  • . Naples USO Attack, April 14, 1988: The Organization of Jihad Brigades exploded a car-bomb outside a USO Club in Naples, Italy, killing one U.S.
  • . Servicemen's Bar Attack, December 26, 1987: Catalan separatists bombed a Barcelona bar frequented by U.S.
  • . servicemen riding in a Greek Air Force bus near Athens were injured in an apparent bombing attack, carried out by the revolutionary organization known as November 17.
  • . Berlin Discothèque Bombing, April 5, 1986: Two U.S.
  • . soldiers were killed and 79 American servicemen were injured in a Libyan bomb attack on a nightclub in West Berlin, West Germany.
  • . military jets bombed targets in and around Tripoli and Benghazi.

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    History of Media & Terrorism

  • . August 31, 1981 : The Red Army exploded a bomb at the U.S.
  • . September 14, 1982: Lebanese Prime Minister Bashir Gemayel was assassinated by a car bomb parked outside his party's Beirut headquarters.
  • . April 18, 1983: Sixty-three people, including the CIA's Middle East director, were killed, and 120 were injured in a 400-pound suicide truck-bomb attack on the U.S.
  • . Beirut, October 23, 1983: Simultaneous suicide truck-bomb attacks were made on American and French compounds in Beirut, Lebanon.
  • . A 12, 000-pound bomb destroyed the U.S.
  • . ervicemen were killed, and 83 people were injured in a bomb attack on a restaurant near a U.S.
  • . June 23, 1985: A bomb destroyed an Air India Boeing 747 over the Atlantic, killing all 329 people aboard.
  • . Two cargo handlers were killed at Tokyo airport, Japan, when another Sikh bomb exploded in an Air Canada aircraft enroute to India.
  • . March 30, 1986: A Palestinian splinter group detonated a bomb as TWA Flight 840 approached Athens Airport, killing four U.S.


    Signaleer: 41 Reasons Why I Support the War on Terror
  • . The list begins with the event that initiated my own awakening to this problem, the bombing of the US Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983.
  • . October 23, 1983 -- Simultaneous suicide truck bombs on U.S.
  • . A 12, 000 lb bomb destroys a US Marine Corps base killing two hundred and forty one U.S.
  • . April 12, 1984 -- Eighteen US servicemen killed and eighty three people injured in bomb attack on restaurant near USAF base in Torrejon, Spain.
  • . Responsibility claimed by Hezbollah as revenge for March bombing in Beirut.
  • . September 20, 1984 -- Suicide bomb attack on US Embassy in East Beirut kills twenty three people, 8 of them US citizens, and injures twenty one others.
  • . June 6, 1985 -- Red Army Faction bomb explodes at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, killing three people.
  • . August 8, 1985 -- Three US servicemen are killed and seventeen injured in Red Army Faction bomb and gun attack on Rhine-Main airbase, Germany.
  • . March 30, 1986 -- A Palestinian splinter group detonated a bomb as TWA Flight 840 approached Athens Airport, killing four U.S.


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