Attacks on Americans
by Middle Eastern Terrorists
1970: Murder of American University of Beirut
President, Malcolm Kerr, in Beirut, Lebanon.
September 1970: TWA #741 and Pan Am #93 hijacked
by the PFLP and flown to Amman, Jordan.
March 1973: U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel &
DCM George Moore murdered in Khartoum, Sudan.
June 1976: U.S. Ambassador, Francis Meloy and
two other Americans killed in Lebanon.
1979-1980: U.S. Embassy in Iran seized, embassy
officials held hostage for 14 months.
April 1983: U.S. Embassy in Beirut attacked
by Hezbollah suicide bomber; 49 killed, 120 wounded.
October 1983: Marine barracks in Beirut carbombed;
241 U.S. Marines killed, hundreds injured.
June 1984: TWA #847 to Athens hijacked to Beirut;
U.S. Navy diver, Robert Stethem murdered.
1980's: Several Americans in Beirut kidnaped
and held hostage.
September 1984: William Buckley, CIA station
chief in Beirut, kidnaped, tortured and murdered.
September 1984: U.S. embassy annex in East Beirut
bombed; 2 Americans killed.
October 1985: Achille Lauro hijacked; Leon Klinghoffer
murdered.
September 1986: Pan Am #73 hijacked to Karachi,
Pakistan; 17 people killed, 150 wounded.
February 1988: William Higgins kidnaped in Lebanon
and murdered.
December 1988: Pan Am #103 bombed over Lockerbie,
Scotland; 270 people killed.
February 1993: World Trade Center in New York
bombed; six killed, hundreds injured.
March 1995: American employees of the U.S. consulate
in Karachi, Pakistan killed in response to arrest of
World Trade Center bombing suspect.
November 1995: U.S. troops attacked in Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia; five Americans killed.
June 1996: U.S. Marine barracks in Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia bombed; 19 Americans killed.
In addition to these specific attacks, a number of
American citizens have been killed in terrorist attacks
in Israel, the West Bank & Gaza. At the same time,
the United States has also thwarted many planned attacks
including a conspiracy by Egyptian Sheikh Rahman to
blow up New York landmarks, a plot by Ramzi Yousef to
blow up airliners over Pacific, and a number of other
attempts to blow up U.S. airliners.
Source: American
Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
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