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To: Grut
Yeah, really! Just because a few bad apples were responsible for:


The 90+ suicide bombings against Israel during last 2 or 3 years
9/11 – just under 3000 Americans killed
6/01 - Bombing of a disco in Tel Aviv, Israel killed 21 people, mostly teenagers
10/12/00 - Suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole (17 US sailors were killed)
8/7/98 - Nairobi, Kenya bombing (224 people were killed and almost 5,000 were injured)
6/25/96 - Truck bombing of Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a residence of US military personnel. 19 US military personnel were killed
11/13/95 - Truck bombing of US National Guard training center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 7 people killed
1995 - The Islamic Jihad organization bombed the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan 
1994 - Hizballah agents bombed an Israeli cultural center Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
2/26/93 – First WTC bombing (7 Killed)
12/29/92 –bombing of hotel in Aden, Yemen
1992 - Imad Mugniyah allegedly bombed a Christian center in Argentina. 
1992 - Hizballah agents bombed the Israeli embassy in Argentina.
12/23/88 - A bomb onboard 757 airliner Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270
4/5/86 - Terrorists working for the government of Libya bombed a disco in West Berlin, killing a Turkish woman and a US soldier, and injuring hundreds.
12/17/85 - Terrorists working for the government of Libya bombed the airports in Vienna and Rome, killing 20 people.
10/7/85 - Hijackers working for the government of Libya raided the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro near Egypt
6/14/85 - TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome was hijacked
12/3/84 - Kuwait Airways Flight 221 from Kuwait to Pakistan was hijacked and diverted to Tehran.
11/20/84 - Truck bomb exploded outside the Aukar, Lebanon annex of the US embassy in Beirut. 24 people killed
12/12/83 - Shiite suicide truck bomber working for the government of Iran crashed into the US embassy in Kuwait(6 killed)
10/23/83 Shiite suicide bombers from the Hizballah organization, with the support of the government of Iran, bombed barracks in Beirut, Lebanon where US Marines and French paratroopers were housed. 299 were killed, including 241 US Marines
4/18/83 - Hizballah suicide bomber with the support of Iran and Libya crashed a pickup truck full of explosives into the US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. 63 people killed
1981 - Members of the Al-Jihad organization assassinated President Anwar Sadat of Egypt
4/80 - 6 Islamic terrorists seized the Iranian embassy in London. They announced that they would kill a hostage every half hour, and killed two
11/4/79 - 80 Iranian students invaded the US embassy in Tehran, Iran and took 52 US citizens hostage
1972 - Terrorists attacked the Olympics in Munich, Germany, killed 2 athletes, and took hostages and a helicopter. One of the terrorists threw a hand granade into the helicopter and killed all the hostages.

Doesn't mean they're all bad.
21 posted on 03/09/2005 10:22:45 AM PST by SVeritas
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To: SVeritas
Yeah, really! Just because a few bad apples were responsible for...

I see you and raise you:

Supression of the Albigensians
Expulsion of Moors and Jews from Spain
Catholic Inquisition
Supression of the Hugenots
Thirty Year's War

...and so forth. Obviously, by your logic, Christianity is just an excuse for bloodletting.

26 posted on 03/09/2005 10:51:36 AM PST by Grut
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