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1977 United States, March 9: Three buildings in Washington, DC, are seized by members of the militant African-American Muslim Hanafi sect and over 100 hostages taken. One bystander is shot and killed, and Washington city councilman Marion Barry is shot in the chest. After a two-day standoff all hostages are released from the District Building (city hall), B’nai B’rith headquarters, and the Islamic Center.

1979 Saudi Arabia, 2 November: Sunni militant group of 1,300 to 1,500 men seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
1979   United States, November 4: Iran Hostage Crisis takes place. Iranian Muslim students take over the American Embassy, taking 52 US diplomats hostage for 444 days. (Ended January 20, 1981)

1981 August 29: Machine gun and grenade attack on the Stadttempel synagogue in Vienna, killing two people and wounding 23. Marwan Hasan and Hesham Mohammed Rajeh were convicted.

1981 October 6: Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad.
1981 October 20: Attack on a synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium, killing three and wounding sixty.
1982 September 14: Assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel and twenty-five others in a car explosion at the Kataeb headquarters

1982 September 18: Four people are wounded when a synagogue in Brussels is attacked in a “shoot and run” incident. Guards were taken by surprise and the gunman, believed to be from the Abu Nidal Organization, escaped.

1982 October 9: Attack with grenades and machine guns on the central synagogue in Rome, Italy. A child dies, ten people are injured.
1983 and  United States April 18: 1983 United States Embassy bombing takes place. A stolen van carrying 2,000 pounds of explosives slammed into the U.S.

Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon killing 63 people including 18 Americans.

1983 and  United States and  France October 23: Marine Barracks Bombing occurs. A truck carrying 2500 pounds of explosives crashed through the gates of a US Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon killing 241 American servicemen and wounding 81. Hezbollah responsible. 58 French troops from the multinational force are also killed in a separate attack. Hezbollah also responsible.

1984 March 7: three killed and nine injured in the bombing of a civilian bus in Ashdod.
1984 April 2: 48 people are wounded by a machine gun attack on a crowded shopping mall in Jerusalem.
1984 September 20: U.S. embassy annex bombed in Beirut killing 20.

1984 October 31: Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. The killing was in retaliation for the Indian army’s entry into the Golden Temple at Amritsar to flush out Sikh extremists who were using the temple as a base for their operations.

1985 February 23: Paris Marks & Spencer shop, one bomb, one dead, 18 wounded, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah.
1985  March 9: Paris, Cinema Rivoli, 18 injured, pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah

1985 June 14: TWA Flight 847 skyjacking, Hezbollah, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists. Terrorists take passengers of an Athens-Rome flight hostage, murdering US Navy Seaman, Robert Stethem.

1985 July 22: Two near-simultaneous bombs in Copenhagen, at the Jewish synagogue and at the offices of Northwest Orient, explode, killing one and injuring

32. The bombers are interrupted while placing a third, more powerful, bomb, which they later dispose of in the city’s harbour. The bombs are later linked to Islamic Jihad.

1985 and and  United States October 7 – October 10: Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer, a 69 year-old wheelchair-bound Jewish American citizen, is shot dead and thrown overboard.

1985 November 23: EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacked by Abu Nidal group, flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.

1985 December 7: Paris, Galeries Lafayette and Printemps shops, two bombs, 51 injured, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hizbollah

1986 A bomb place on a bus in the West Bank kills one and severely injures three. A Jordanian Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta is arrested, extradited to Israel, convicted, sentenced to life in prison and freed by the Israeli Supreme Court. After the September 11 attacks, he was confused with ringleader Egyptian Mohammed Atta.[1]

1986 February 3: Paris, Claridge passage (Champs Élysées) seven injured, another bomb failed to explode in the Eiffel tower, pro-Iranian (Fouad Ali Saleh group)

1986  February 4: Paris, Gibert book shop, seven injured, Fouad Ali Saleh
1986 February 5: Paris, FNAC-sports, 15 injured
1986  March 17: TGV Paris, nine injured
1986 March 20: Paris, Galerie Point-Show bombed, two dead, 21 injured
1986 April 2: TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; four passengers (all of them American), including an infant, are killed.

1986 United States and  Germany April 5: 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing. A Berlin discotheque frequented by US servicemen was bombed, killing 3 people–A Turkish woman and two US servicemen–and injuring 230 including over 50 US servicemen. Libya was held responsible for this act.

1986 July 15: ETA Basque militant group bombs a Guardia Civil police truck, killing twelve.

1986 September 5: Pan Am Flight 73, an American civilian airliner, is hijacked; 22 people die when plane is stormed in Karachi, Pakistan. A total of 359 passengers and crew survive. The attack was carried out by Muslim extremists and was possibly sponsored by Libya.

1986 September 8: Paris town hall’s post office bombed, one dead, 16 injured
1986 September 12: Paris La Défense, Casino Supermarket’s restaurant bombed, 43 injured
1986 September 14: Paris, Pub Renault bombed, two dead, one injured
1986 September 15: Paris, police headquarters bombed, one dead, 45 injured
1986 September 17: Paris, Rue de Rennes a bomb explodes in the street, seven dead, 54 injured.
1986 December 25: Iraqi Airways Flight 163 is hijacked. The pro-Iranian group “Islamic Jihad” claimed responsibility.

1988 and  United States December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. At the time, it was the worst act of terrorism perpetrated against the United States, and involved the greatest number of peacetime fatalities (270) in the United Kingdom. Just over 12 years after the event, at the conclusion of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, a Libyan agent, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, was convicted on 270 counts of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Libya subsequently agreed to pay relatives of the Lockerbie bombing victims $2.7 billion ($10 million each) in compensation. 169 American passengers–including 41 American students–and 11 American crew members perished in the attack.

1988 Month Unk.: Jordanian terrorist detonates bomb on railroad tracks ahead of US Duty Train en route from West Germany to West Berlin while traversing East Germany. No significant injuries.

1989  July 9: Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others
1989 September 19: Suitcase-bomb destroys UTA Flight UT-772 en route to Paris, killing all 171 passengers and crew. Libyan intelligence involved.
1989 PLF attack in the beaches on Tel Aviv.
1989 PLO attack on the US embassy.

1989 November 5: Assassination of Meir Kahane head of Israel’s Koch party and founder of the American vigilante group the Jewish Defense League in a Manhattan, New York hotel lobby by early elements of Al Queda.

1992 February 5: Three civilians were killed and 29 injured by East Turkestan Islamic Movement two bus bombs in Urumqi (see: 5 February 1992 Urumqi Bombings)

1992 March 17: Israeli Embassy bombing by “Islamic Jihad” in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 killed, 242 injured.
1992 April 5, 1992: The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq-supported religious right group.

1993 United States, January 25: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fires an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, killing two and injuring three others, see FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

1993 United States, February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra’/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front,[5] see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ramzi Yousef.

1993 India, March 12: Mumbai car bombings leave 257 dead with 1,400 others injured.

1993 India, March 17: A bomb blast in Calcutta killed at least 50 people. Two apartment blocks came crashing down when the blast rocked central Calcutta’s Bowbazar locality shortly after midnight.

1993 India, March 19: A bomb exploded in Calcutta’s Sealdah rail terminus, killing one person and wounding a dozen others
1993 Israel, April 16: Hamas kill 2 in Mehola Junction bombing.

1994 Argentina, July 18: The umbrella organization of all Jewish institutions in the country, AMIA, is car-bombed, killing 85 people and injuring over 300. Attributed to Hezbollah.

1994 Panama, July 19: Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is bombed, killing 21. Generally attributed to Hezbollah.

1994 Philippines, December 11: A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. Authorities found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for his planned terrorist attack, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

1994 France Algeria, December 24: Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by GIA members who planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn’t succeed.

1995 Philippines, January 6: Oplan Bojinka plot to bomb eleven U.S. airliners is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila apartment by authorities after an apartment fire occurred in the apartment, by Jemaah Islamiyah/Konsojaya/Abu Sayyaf Group/Ramzi Yousef/Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

1995 Pakistan, United States, March 8: Terrorists in Karachi, armed with automatic rifles, murdered two American consulate employees and wounded a third as they traveled in the consulate shuttle bus. See Rewards for Justice.

1995 Latvia, May 6: A synagogue is bombed by terrorists in Riga.
1995 France, July–October: Bombings in France by a GIA unit led by Khaled Kelkal kill eight and injure more than 100.
1995 Saudi Arabia, November 13: Bombing of OPM-SANG building in Riyadh kills seven; five of them Americans and two of them Indians.
1995 Pakistan, Egypt, November 19: Bombing of Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad kills 19
1996 Israel, February 25 - March 4: A series of four suicide bombings leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within ten days.
1996 Egypt, April 18: 18 people are killed when Islamist gunmen fire on the Europa hotel in Cairo.[2]

1996 Saudi Arabia, June 25: Khobar Towers bombing – In all, 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi were killed and 372 wounded, by Hizballah Al-Hijaz (Saudi Hizballah) with Iranian support, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

1996 United States, July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing, killing two and wounding 111.
1996  France, October 17: The Algerian Armed Islamic Group bombs an underground train injuring 28 people. [4]

1997 United States, February 24: Ali Abu Kamal opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the “enemies of Palestine”. His widow claimed he became suicidal after losing $300,000 in a business venture. In a 2007 interview with the New York Daily News his daughter said her mother’s story was a cover crafted by the Palestinian Authority and that her father wanted to punish the United States for its support of Israel.[1]

1997 Egypt, November 17: Luxor Massacre – Islamist gunmen attack tourists at Deir el-Bahri in Luxor, killing 62 and injuring 24 people, most of them European and Japanese holidaymakers.

1998 India, January: Wandhama Massacre - 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by Kashmiri militants in the city of Wandhama in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

1998 Algeria, January 11: Sidi-Hamed massacre Between 120 and 400 people are killed when the Armed Islamic Group bombs a mosque in Haouche Sahraoui and opens fire on civilians in a cinema in Sidi Ahmen. [1]

1998 India, February 14: 1998 Coimbatore bombings - Bombings by suspected Islamic Jihadi groups on an election rally in the city of Coimbatore kill about 60 people.

1998 Tanzania, Kenya United States, August 7: U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000, by al-Qaeda, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

1999  Pakistan, January 3: Gunmen open fire on Shi’a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
1999 Jordan, December: Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US and Israeli tourists and pick up 28 suspects as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots

1999 United States, December 14: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States-Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots

1999 India, December 24: Indian Airlines Flight 814 from Kathmandu, Nepal, to Delhi is hijacked. One passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released in exchange for release of four terrorists.

2000  Hadera. Pipe bomb explodes in Hadera, wounds 20; Palestinian militants blamed.[7]

2000 Karachi. A powerful explosive device detonated in front of a sugarcane juice shop in Karachi. At least eight people were killed in the blast and fourteen injured. Al-Nawaz claimed responsibility for the blast. In their statement of claim, the group writes, “we will continue spreading the intense fear as a protest against the hijacking of our favorite leader Mohammad Nawaz Sharif’s elected government.”[8]

2000 Kashmir. Rocket attack kills 4, wounds 6; Harakat ul-Mujahedin responsible.[11]
2000 Istanbul. A bomb, which exploded in a bank, injured one man in the leg. The explosion occurred in the Levent neighborhood of Istanbul.[25]
2000 MILF conducts 3 bombings on buses, ferry, killing 49, injuring 50.[26]

2000 Basilan A restaurant was bombed in the Basilan capital town of Isabela. One person was killed and seventeen were wounded. On March 4, Philippine News Agency reported that the man suspected of masterminding this attack, a member of Abu Sayyaf, had been apprehended.[28]

2000 Istanbul Fifteen people were injured when unknown assailants opened fire at a sports facility in Istanbul. The assailants managed to escape after the attack.[37]

2000 Four people were injured in a bomb that went off at a hotel. The blasts come one day after Nawaz Sharif was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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