Al Qaeda morphed from the Mujahadeen in Bush's daddy's administration. Trying to shove the tragedy into the realm of the Reagan Admin. is a low down and dirty cheap shot!
Oh, okay ... Reagan: 1-81 thru 12-88 ---------------
April 18, 1983 A suicide bomb attack by the Islamic Jihad on the United States Embassy in Beirut kills 63 and wounds another 120.
October 23, 1983 The Islamic Jihad sends two suicide truck bombers into the Marine Barracks and French Barracks in Beirut. The truck bomb crashing into the Marine barracks kills 241 while the French lose 58 in their attack.
November 15, 1983 A U.S. Naval Officer is assassinated by the November 17 terrorist group in Athens, Greece.
March 16, 1984 The Islamic Jihad kidnaps and kills U.S. Political Officer William Buckley in Beirut.
June 14, 1985 TWA flight 847 from Athens to Rome is hijacked by Hezbollah terrorists. 153 are held hostage for seventeen days. One passenger, a United States Navy sailor is killed by the terrorists.
October 7, 1985 The Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by four Palestine Liberation Front terrorists kills one U.S. citizen as his wheelchair bound body is dumped into the sea.
April 2, 1986 Palestinian terrorists calling themselves the Arab Revolutionary Cells detonates a bomb on TWA flight 840 as it approaches the Athens airport, opening up a hole in the cabin and sucking out four United States citizens, including one infant.
April 5, 1986 Libyan terrorists bomb a discotheque in Berlin, killing 3 U.S. servicemen and injuring 230 others.
***In response to this, the United States bombs Tripoli and Benghazi, attempting to kill the Libyan dictator Moammar al-Qadhafi.***
December 26, 1987 A Barcelona bar known as a U.S. military hang out is bombed, killing one U.S. citizen.
February 17, 1988 A U.S. Marine is kidnapped and killed by Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon.
April 14, 1988 The Organization of Jihad Brigades explodes a car bomb at a USO club in Naples, Italy killing one U.S. sailor.
December 21, 1988 Pan Am flight 103 is bombed by suspected Libyan terrorists and crashes in Lockerbie, Scotland killing 259 people.
GHW Bush: 1-89 through 12-92 ------------------------
April 21, 1989 A U.S. Army Colonel is assassinated in Manila, Philippines by the New Peoples Army
January 15, 1990 The Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement bombs the United States Embassy in Lima, Peru.
May 13, 1990 The New People's Army (NPA) kills two Air Force personnel near Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines.
Whatever you say. Don't let the facts get in your way.