ARE we in a World War? You be the judge...

US State Dept; wikipedia; UCal; multiple others ^ | 7/24/05

[Wolfstar]

An incredible number of attacks by Islamic jihadists have been planned over the last 35 years. Although many have been averted, far too many plots have succeeded:

Since 1970, jihadists carried out attacks in over 60 cities, in at least 41 countries, on five continents and Pacific islands. Jihadists have assassinated heads of state, ambassadors and military personnel, and killed thousands of men, women, and children of many ages, ethnicities and religions (including Muslims). They have sometimes deliberately targeted children and babies.

The 78 incidents listed below should not be taken as a complete list, merely a representative one. The listed attacks resulted in at least 7478 deaths (rate of over two attacks/death toll over 210 annually). They began 33 years before our invasion of Iraq.

Had just one of the biggest known aborted attacks been successful (e.g., Operation Bojinka), the death toll would have been in the tens of thousands, resulting in an annual rate of many hundreds killed. Luck, as much as intelligence and investigative skill, has prevented some massive attacks. Operation Bojinka was only discovered due to an apartment fire. However, the frequency and complexity of such attacks have continued to escalate since the 1970's.

We easily could have lost well over 10,000 on 9/11/01. Yet that was not the biggest known planned attack on New York City. The same cell which carried out the 1993 WTC attack intended to bomb the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, the UN building, and other NYC landmarks on one day. Had they succeeded, the death toll could have been beyond unthinkable. Similarly, had the plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport succeeded during New Year's, 2000, the death toll could have been horrendous. Sooner or later, we may run out of luck.

We know the jihadists train and carry out small test runs for much larger planned attacks. Was the 2001 anthrax bioweapons attack such a test run? We may never know — that is, we may never know until the day we're hit with a much larger bioweapons attack. We also know from captured terrorist documents, computers and equipment that the jihadist network wants to make or obtain chemical and nuclear weapons. They are already way too close to such weapons in Pakistan and Iran. Most importantly, we know they take a very long view of history. Their plots can and often do take years to execute.

If this list doesn't make clear that we are in a bona fide World War, what will? Yes, it's an unconventional war or, to use the current faddish term, an asymmetrical war. We are facing what amounts to a shadowy guerrilla army that operates worldwide, rather than massed armies openly fielded by nations. Nevertheless, for our own survival we need to come to grips with the fact that we are, indeed, in a World War such as has never been seen before. The enemy has been escalating the frequency and ferocity of his attacks over the past 35 years while we have been oblivious to the growing danger.

Year	Month	Day	Location	Description	Dead
1970	Feb	21	Zurich, Switzerland	SwissAir 330 bombed by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a member group of Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). All aboard were killed.	47
1970	Sept	6–7	Europe: Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, Zurich	First multiple aircraft hijackings: Five planes were hijacked. (Two landed at a desert airstrip in Jordan called Dawson's Field, giving the incident it’s name.) The PFLP was responsible.	2
1972	May	30	Tel Aviv, Israel	First known joint operation between jihadists and a terroristic Communist group. PFLP dispatches members of the Japanese Red Army to attack Lod Airport in Tel Aviv.	27
1972	Sept	5	Munich, Germany	Israeli athletes murdered at Munich Olympics by a group calling themselves "Black September," an arm of Fatah operating under Yasser Arafat's direct command. (The PLO was kicked out of Jordan and fled to Lebanon in September, hence the term "black.").	11
1973	Dec	17	Rome, Italy	Phosphorus bombs thrown aboard Pan Am 110. The terrorists were all members of Fatah, and Abu Nidal masterminded the attack.	30
1973	Mar	1	Khartoum, Sudan	Palestinian terrorists take over Saudi embassy. A Belgian and two Americans, were killed, including Cleo Noel, U.S. Amb. to Sudan.	3
1974	May	15	Ma'alot, Israel	One of the earliest known incidents when jihadists deliberately targeted children. PFLP broke into a high school where 14 to 16-year-olds were resting after an outing. They killed a security guard, detonated grenades and shot the children.	26
1974	Sept	8	Athens, Greece	TWA 841 explodes after takeoff killing all aboard. A youth group in Beirut claimed responsibility. Abu Nidal was the suspected mastermind.	88
1976	July	3–4	Entebbe, Uganda	Hijacking of Air France 139 and subsequent Operation Entebbe: Six terrorists and three hostages died. Ugandan forces opened fire on Israeli troops killing Col. Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu, the operation’s commander; 45 Ugandan soldiers were killed and Ugandan fighter planes sitting on the ramp were "put into non-flying condition."	55
1979	Nov	4	Tehran, Iran	A militant Islamic mob took over the U.S. embassy and held 52 Americans hostage for the next 444 days. A U.S. rescue attempt in April 1980 failed. The hostages were released Jan. 20, 1981.	8
1981	Oct	6	Cairo, Egypt	Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by the Egyptian branch of Islamic Jihad (a code name for Hezobllah).	1
1982	Sept	14	Lebanon	Lebanese Prime Minister Bashir Gemayel and 25 others were killed in a car bomb attack. Gemayel was seen by many Muslims as too "pro" Israel.	26
1983	Apr	18	Beirut, Lebanon	A van drove up to the U.S. embassy, parked under the portico and exploded. The front section of the embassy collapsed. Islamic Jihad was responsible.	63
1983	Dec	12	Kuwait City, Kuwait	A truck loaded with explosives crashed into the U.S. Embassy annex. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.	4
1983	Oct	23	Beirut, Lebanon	A truck drove to HQ, U.S. Marines. The driver gunned his engine, crashed through a barbed-wire fence, passed between two sentry posts, crashed through a gate, and barreled into the lobby. The Marine sentries did not have loaded weapons and were unable to shoot the driver. (According to one Marine, the driver was smiling as he sped past him.) The suicide bomber detonated his truck. The force collapsed the four-story cinder-block building.About 20 seconds later, an identical attack occurred on the French paratroop barracks.It was the deadliest single-day death toll for the American military since World War II. Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, were responsible.	299
1983	Sept	23	Abu Dhabi, UAE	Gulf Air 771 enroute from Abu Dhabi to Karachi exploded and crashed in the desert near Mina Jebel Ali, UAE, killing all aboard.	117
1985	Apr	12	Madrid, Spain	A bomb exploded in a restaurant where U.S. soldiers liked to eat.	18
1985	Dec	27	Rome, Italy & Vienna, Austria	Four terrorists walked to the ticket counter of El Al airlines at Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport and opened fire with assault rifles and grenades. Minutes later, an identical attack occurred at the Vienna International Airport. The Abu Nidal group was responsible.	20
1985	Nov	23	Valeta, Malta	EgyptAir 648 hijacked by Abu Nidal group. The plane was flown to Malta where Egyptian commandos stormed it.	60
1985	Oct	7	Port Said, Egypt	Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. Wheelchair-bound elderly man, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot and thrown overboard. Instructions for the attack originated from Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Tunis.	1
1986	Apr	2	Athens, Greece	A bomb exploded aboard TWA 840, sucking four American passengers, including a nine-month-old baby, to their deaths below. The "Arab Revolutionary Cells" claimed responsibility. The group was later connected to Yasser Arafat.	4
1986	Apr	6	Berlin, West Germany	The La Belle discotheque was bombed in an attack on U.S. servicemen. Libya was responsible.	3
1986	Sept	5	Karachi, Pakista	Pan Am 7 hijacked by four armed men (Abu Nidal). The leader ordered flight attendants to collect passports. Rajesh Kumar, a 29-year-old California resident who had recently become a naturalized U.S. citizen, was shot in the head, then heaved onto the tarmac. The terrorists positioned themselves in front and behind the crowd of passengers/crew. After reciting a martyrdom prayer in Arabic, they opened fire, throwing hand grenades into the crowd and spraying the trapped people with automatic weapons fire. A 2nd U.S. citizen was killed; the father of two young children who were next to their dad when he was shot. Scores of other passengers were injured.	21
1988	Dec	21	Lockerbie, Scotland	Pan Am 103 exploded over Lockerbie killing 270, including 11 people on the ground; 189 were Americans. The terrorists were traced to Libya.	270
1989	Sept	19	Sahara Desert	UTA 772, a French DC-10, exploded killing all aboard. The brother-in-law of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and five other Libyans were put on trial in absentia for the bombing. In 2003, Libya admitted responsibility and agreed to pay the families of the victims.	170
1992	Mar	17	Buenos Aires, Argentina	A car bomb exploded in front of the Israeli Embassy. Most victims were Argentine civilians, including children. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. In 1998, a telephone call intercepted from the Iranian embassy in Argentina proved Iran had been involved in the attack.	29
1993	Feb	26	New York	First World Trade Center bombing, which was planned by Ramzi Youssef.	6
1993	Jan	25	Langley, Virginia	Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fired an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of CIA HQ. He was captured in Pakistan and executed in the United States Nov 14, 2002.	2
1994	Dec	11	Near Okinawa, Japan	Small bomb on Philippines Airlines plane kills one, injures six. Authorities learned that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb as a test run for "Operation Bojinka."	1
1994	Dec	24	Algiers, Algeria	Air France 8969 was hijacked by GIA (Armed Islamic Group). The terrorists planned to crash the plane into the Eiffel Tower in Paris.	7
1994	July	18	Buenos Aires, Argentina	A powerful bomb made of ammonium nitrate was driven through the front gates of the seven-story Argentina-Israeli Mutual Association, leveling the building. The suicide bomber, Ibrahim Hussein Berro, a 29-year-old Shiite Muslim, has been honored with a plaque in southern Lebanon.	86
1994	July	19	Panama	A Panamanian commuter plane exploded killing all aboard. A group based in Lebanon claimed the attack, but it is believe Hezbollah was responsible, with backing from Iran.	29
1995	Jan	6–7	Manila, Philippines	Plans for "Operation Bojinka" were discovered on a laptop computer in Manila after an apartment fire. It was to be a large-scale attack on airliners in 1995, and was a precursor to the Sept 11 attacks. The plot was developed by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed while they were in Manila in 1994 and early 1995. Bombs were to be planted on 11 U.S.-bound airliners that had stopovers all around East Asia and Southeast Asia. The aircraft would have blown up over the Pacific and South China Sea almost simultaneously. If this plan worked, as many as 4000 would have perished and air travel would have been shut down worldwide.	0
1995	Nov	13	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	A car bomb exploded outside a joint HQ for U.S. and Saudi military. Three Islamic terror organizations claimed responsibility.	7
1995	Nov	19	Islamabad, Pakistan	Egyptian Embassy was bombed.	19
1996	Dec	3	Paris, France	A bomb exploded aboard a subway train killing four and injuring 86, including a U.S. citizen. No one claimed responsibility, but Algerian extremists were suspected.	4
1996	June	25	Dhahran, Saudi Arabia	Fuel truck carrying a bomb exploded outside the U.S. military's Khobar Towers housing facility. The Saudi branch of Hezbollah was responsible.	19
1997	Nov	17	Luxor, Egypt	Six gunmen emerged from desert cliffs into the Temple of Hatshepsut and opened fire with automatic weapons at dozens of tourists. The dead included Japanese, German, Swiss and Egyptian citizens.	71
1997	Sept	18	Cairo, Egypt	Three men calmly walked up to a tourist bus outside the Egyptian Museum, pulled weapons from a plastic bag, and unleashed an attack that killed 10, at least seven of them German tourists. One gunman, Saber Mohammed Farhat Abu el-Ulla, had carried out a similar attack four years earlier, killing two Americans and a French citizen.	10
1998	Aug	7	Nairobi, Kenya & Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania	Twin truck bomb attacks against U.S. embassies. At least 225 dead and more than 4000 wounded.	225
1999	Jan	3	Islamabad, Pakistan	Gunmen opened fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in a mosque.	16
1999	Dec	24	Kathmandu, Nepal	Indian Airlines 814 was hijacked by Taliban agents.	1
1999	Aug	31	Moscow, Russia	Multiple Russian apartment bombings by Chechen terrorists, killing at least 300.	300
2000	Oct	12	Aden, Yemen	Boat bomb attack on the USS Cole.	17
2001	Dec	13	New Delhi, India	Terrorists attack Indian Parliament building. Laskhar-e-Taiba, a radical Islamic group (affiliated with Al Qaeda), was thought responsible. A terrorist arrested in connection with the attack told investigators Al Qaeda had plans to attack the British and Australian Embassies, and Parliament.	12
2001	Sept	11	New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania	Hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. A fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3000 dead, including 265 on the planes; 343 firemen; 60 New York City and Port Authority police officers; 125 at the Pentagon.	2,985
2002	Oct	17–18	Zamboanga & Manila, Philippines	Two bombs exploded in the main shopping district of the mostly Christian city of Zamboanga. A day later, a bus was bombed in Manila. Jemaah Islamiyah, an Islamic extremist group affiliated with Al Qaeda, was responsible.	9
2002	Apr	11	Djerba, Tunisia	Car bomb attack against a synagogue on the resort island of Djerba. At least 21 dead.	21
2002	June	14	Karachi, Pakistan	Truck bomb attack against U.S. Consulate.	12
2002	May	9	Kaspiisk, Dagestan	A bomb explosion in kills at least 42 people and injures 130 or more during Victory Day festivities.	42
2002	Nov	28	Mombasa, Kenya	Attack on an Israeli-owned hotel. Surface-to-air missile launched at Israeli airliner the same day.	12
2002	Oct	12	Bali, Indonesia	Attacks against U.S. Consulate, Sari Club and Paddy's Bar. Most of the dead were Australian tourists.	202
2002	Oct	23	Moscow, Russia	Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue 3 days later.	160
2003	Apr	3	Russia	Chechen Islamists carry out 10 deadly suicide bombings across Russia and nearby provinces between Apr and Dec.	250
2003	Aug	19	Baghdad, Iraq	Canal Hotel Bombing (UN HQ) in Baghdad, Iraq kills 22 people including the top UN representative, Sergio Vieira de Mello.	22
2003	Aug	5	Indonesia	Car bomb attack against Marriott Hotel. At least 12 dead.	12
2003	Aug	1	Mozdok, Russia	The Russian hospital in Mozdok, North Ossetia, was bombed.	50
2003	May	12	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	Attacks at three compounds housing non-Saudi workers. At least 30 dead. Al Qaeda was responsible.	30
2003	May	16	Casablanca, Morocco	Multiple suicide bombings against Spanish and Jewish facilities, and involved 12 bombers and 5 targets. The Attack was attributed to a Moroccan Al Qaeda-linked group.	45
2003	May	12	Znamenskoye, Chechnya	Truck bomb attack on a government building.	59
2003	Nov	8	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	Car bomb attack against residential compound housing mainly workers from other Arab countries.	17
2003	Nov	15–20	Istanbul, Turkey	Two car bomb attacks at Jewish synagogues, plus car bomb attacks at HSBC Bank and the British Consulate.	60
2004	Feb	1	Arbil, Iraq	Two suicide bombings kill 109 Kurds.	109
2004	Mar	2	Iraq	Known as the Ashoura Massacre, Al Qaeda carries out suicide bombings at Shia holy sites killing 181 and wounding over 500.	181
2004	Aug	24	Russia	Multiple, nearly simultaneous Russian airplane bombings.	90
2004	Aug	31	Moscow, Russia	Suicide bombing near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow.	10
2004	Dec	12	Gen. Santos, Philippines	Bombing at Christmas market in General Santos, Philippines.	15
2004	Feb	6	Moscow, Russia	Bomb on Moscow subway.	41
2004	Feb	27	Philippines	Superferry 14 was bombed by Abu Sayyaf group.	116
2004	Mar	11	Madrid, Spain	Bomb attacks against four trains. Terrorists blew themselves up when confronted by police.	199
2004	May	1	Yanbu, Saudi Arabia	Attack on non-Saudi oil workers.	7
2004	May	29	Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia	Islamic terrorists kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.	22
2004	Oct	8	Taba, Egypt	Large explosions at Hilton Hotel in Taba and at two campsites in the Sinai area.	30
2004	Oct	7	Sinai, Egypt	Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 32 and wounding 114, most of them Israeli tourists.	32
2004	Sept	9	Jakarta, Indonesia	Car bomb outside Australian Embassy.	9
2004	Sept	1–3	Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia	Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia results in a massacre of children.	330
2004	Sept	9	Jakarta, Indonesia	The Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed.	8
2005	July	7	London, England	Four suicide bomb attacks in three tube trains and a bus. At least 56 dead.	56

[Publius6961]

I agree about Israel and would also include Southern Thailand.

How about East Timor?

To honor the dead, and to inform the living, we need to include them all and make sure a running total is maintained.

[michigander]

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[WestCoastGal]

Great thread Wolfstar.

Thanks for the ping grizzfan.

I've been wondering for months now, when do we say when?

When is enough enough??

Just like today the State Dept issues a warning to Americans about Egypt. Well Duh!!!

It does seem to me we allow the border to continue to be porous, we allow the imams to spew hatred and on and on.

Will we say enough after we are attacked again? The barn door is wide open and the horse is long gone.

[Smartass]

THANKS FOR     THE PING

[layman]

Organizing ourselves allows us to chuck all the BS

I don't know what is happening where you live but where I live most of us have acquired carry permits and do in fact carry weapons. An Islamofacist in my neighborhood would have a very short life expectancy.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Your list needs to go back to the Seventh Century A.D. which is when this WAR of islam against the entire non-islamic world started.

Our ancestors defeated these animal's ancestors on the field of battle many times in the past, OR THE WEST WOULD NOT EXIST NOW.

The lulls and pauses in this ongoing WAR are only indicative of times when islam was weak, and powerless, unable to harass the broader world outside their own fourth world sh!thole country homes.

So YES, WE, the ENTIRE NON-islamic world, are involved in a World WAR, a WAR forced on us by a cabal of seventh century sub-human animals, who presume to claim murder and hate as a "theology".

"Convert or Die", my Royal Irish A$$!

[Squeako]

Great addition! Would you recommend some resources so I can arm myself better when I next argue with a lib about Islamo-terror being "America's fault"?

[Squeako]

bookmark

[ladyinred]

With all due respect, I cannot agree with you that the immigration from the south is more dangerous than the Islamics.

[cwb]

Much of these resources are simply from history books. There is a great piece that can be found on Google called "What Arab Civilization?" from Peter BetBasoo, in response to a Hewlett Packard reps praise of Islam. It goes into some great detail on Islam's aggression and dispells the myth of an Islamic "Golden Age."

A further search directly on "Islamic conquests or imperialism" and the "History of Islam" reveals a lot of information. Even my Comptons Computer Encyclopedia had great info and timelines on Islam. The internets "CIA Factbook" is also loaded with info when you look for specific countries and their origins.

[Earthdweller]

BTTT

[Squeako]

Thanks a bunch!

[cwb]

Squeako, below is one of the articlea I was talking about. After reading this, I actually had several correspondence with the author, who directed me to several other resources. Read this. Peter is open to all questions:

http://www.ninevehsoft.com/fiorina.htm

[Clintonfatigued]

Thanks very much! : )

[Stu Cohen]

With all due respect, I cannot agree with you that the immigration from the south is more dangerous than the Islamics.

That's fine, reasonable people can disagree.

However, do you know how much crime has been committed on American soil by illegal Mexicans, and do you know how much has been committied by Islamics?

Just off the top of your head, which do you think is more, and what do you think the ratio is?

Tomorrow, do you think more crimes in the U.S. will be committed by Illegal Mexicans, or Islamics?

And one last question if I may - Do you think much stricter border control would lessen crime by both groups, and if we are in a "war on terror" or "war" on anything, why would we not secure the border?

[CHARLITE]

http://www.ninevehsoft.com/fiorina.htm

I commend you, cwb. This is an outstanding, informative letter. I've just sent it out to my formidable email list, with the recommendation that each recipient do the same. The public must have information of this high quality, in order to fully understand what "thieves and brigands" these islamists are now and always have been.

Islam is truly a horrifying cancer on the body of humanity and civilization. It is time that it be thoroughly and completely excised - once and for all!

Thanks so much for sharing this important piece with us.

Char

[cwb]

You're welcome.

[Wolfstar]

The object of the exercise ough not to be how conveniently short we can make the list of muslim atrocities; rather how complete we can make it. Excluding Israel is a slap in the face to the thousands of her dead; worse, in my opinion, than "focusing" on her alone.

It is beyond frustrating to read this paragraph. Did you read the piece? If so, what part of "representative list" do you not understand? If so, how did you miss the following:

February 21, 1970
September 6-7, 1970
May 30, 1972
May 15, 1974
July 3-4, 1976
December 27, 1985

If you have come across me at all on FR over these past several years, you would know that I make every effort to be respectful of the opinions of others. In that spirit, I have tried to be patient, understanding, and ultra explanatory to you and the few others who seem to feel that Israel has somehow been slighted. But your absolute refusal -- yes, refusal, not inability -- to acknowledge the purpose of what I posted disgusts me.

You do Israel's cause no benefit. Rather, you sustain every fool and anti-Semite out there who wants to lay the blame for all terrorism at the feet of the Jewish people. As far as I'm concerned, you are a mirror image of the likes of Pat Buchanan; opposite sides of the same obtuse coin.

[Wolfstar]

I've been wondering for months now, when do we say when?

I wonder that myself, WCG. Like most average folks on our side of the political aisle, I want much stronger control over our ports and borders, as well as our immigration and visa policies. I'm sick of political correctness. I wish we had hundreds of thousands of Americans demonstrating against it all. But we don't, and until the politicians feel the heat, nothing will change.

[Just A Nobody]

Thanks for this great post!