Posted on 06/21/2006 1:27:32 PM PDT by Spokane
Does anyone have a source to a list of worldwide attacks attributed to Alqaeda or other terrorist groups?
I have a debate going with someone who feels that the US "deserved" 911. I'd like to run down a list, one by one, of terrorist attacks around the world to find whether they feel that they were also deserved, or whether they are biased against the US.
You're arguing a false premise. The people attacked on 9/11 were private individuals. Even if you buy into the notion that our leaders were somehow culpable for atrocities against muslims abroad, (and only an idiot would advance such an argument) that in no way justifies attacking innocent men, women and children.
Nobody "deserves" a 9/11
Why debate?...just punch him in the face the next time he says we deserved 911.
This is a PARTIAL list compiled and often posted for us by Diogenesis...
The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED
PARTIAL LIST OF ISLAMIC TERRORIST ACTIVITIES
1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on their terrorism has gone .........
Terrorist Bombs in London killing 52
Terrorist attacks in Spain. 201 murdered
Islamic terrorists killing 344 children in Beslan
Muslims kill 89 passengers in two Russian planes
129 killed in Moscow theatre
40 more killed another time in a Moscow subway
202 killed in Bali nightclubs
Iraqi insurgents killing thousands
Muslims kill 186 in the Philippines
Al Quaida
September 11
USS Cole. 17 US soldiers dead
Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie. 259 dead
1st attack on WTC
242 Ameicans killed at bombing of Marine barracks
Iranian Hostages
Etc, Etc and the list goes on
I'm sure your friend will argue: ABF
(All Bush's Fault)
It's one thing to debate with a liberal (or other mentally challenged person) how we ought to respond, plan and pay for security against terrorism. It's another thing altogether to even converse with anyone who believes this country DESERVED 9/11.
I guess I wonder why you would even have a conversation with a person who thinks the United States in any way "deserved" this attack.
Yep. Then tell him he deserved it and needs to apologize.
http://billroggio.com/ (link on right - Al Qaeda Attacks 1998 - 2005)
There is probably no finer source of accurate info regarding the truth of Islam.
Are you debating Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell? ;^)
Holy New Martyrs of Beslan, pray to Christ-God that our souls may be saved.
Lod Airport (Israel) Massacre. May 30, 1972.
On May 30, 1972 three members of the Japanese Red Army undertook a terrorist attack at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Because airport security was focused on the possibility of a Palestinian attack, the use of Japanese terrorists took guards by surprise, and the commitment to a suicide mission simplified planning.
Kozo Okamoto, Tsuyoshi Okudaira, and Yasuyuki Yasuda had been trained at Baalbek, Lebanon. They arrived at the airport aboard an Air France flight from Paris. Dressed conservatively and carrying slim cases they attracted little attention. Entering the waiting area, they produced automatic firearms from their cases and began to fire indiscriminately at airport staff and visitors. The trio quickly expended their ammunition and grenades and then either committed suicide or fell under the fire of airport security staff. They killed twenty-four people and injured seventy-eight others. The victims included twenty Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico, and professor Aharon Katzir, an internationally renowned protein biophysicist, whose brother, Ephraim Katzir, would be elected President of Israel the following year. Yasuda and Okudaira died at the scene, Yasuda from Israeli fire and Okudaira by his own hand - he had moved from the airport building onto the landing area, after firing at passengers disembarking from an El Al aircraft and committed suicide using a grenade. Okamoto was severely injured but survived to be tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in June 1972.
In the letter claiming official responsibility for the attack carried out by the Japanese Red Army, the PFLP referred to it as Operation Deir Yassin. This was to portray it as revenge for the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre by Jewish Irgun members on Palestinian civilians in the Deir Yassin village. The letter also stated that the operation was carried out by the Squad of the Martyr Patrick Arguello. Patrick Arguello had been shot and killed two years earlier, on September 6, 1970 on an Israeli El Al jet he had attempted to hijack together with PFLP member Leila Khaled.
Okamoto was released in 1985 with over a thousand other prisoners in an exchange for captured Israeli soldiers. He settled in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. He was arrested in 1997 but in 2000 was granted political refugee status in Lebanon. Four other JRA members arrested at the same time were extradited to Japan.
Your lists are fine, but the problem exists that Al Qaida is just one of the Islamist-Salafist-Jihadist terrorist groups that work in cooperation with one another, and have done so for the last twenty years. There is Al Qaida, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Gamaat al-Islamiya, a plethora of Algerian groups, Hamas, Abu Sayyaf, Ogaden Islamic Union, Jammah Islamiyya in Indonedsia, Malaysia and Thailand, etc., etc., etc. The Department of the Treasury has listed the terrorist organizations.
In the early 1990s, when their situation couldn't have been better, the many organizatons met at the Popular Arab and Islamic Conference meetings held in Khartoum. Since the last meeting held in 1995 no-one has able to bring together the various terrorist threads, although both Saddam Hussein and the Iranian government tried.
Absolve this individual from your life before you catch this disease.
Date Attack Dead Injured
8/7 Africa 220 4000
9/11 WTC 2986 6291
10/12 Bali 202 209
8/5 Marriot 12 150
3/11 Madrid 192 2050
7/7 London 56 700
11/9 Amman 60 115
9/9 Jakarta 11 140
I was composing an email with prime numbers as attack dates.....of course, are you arguing AQ attacks against the US, or AQ attacks against the West, or Muslim attacks against everyone?
"Members of Congress, I feel a most urgent sense of mission about today's world. September 11 was not an isolated event, but a tragic prologue, Iraq another act, and many further struggles will be set upon this stage before it's over." ...
"I know out there there's a guy getting on with his life, perfectly happily, minding his own business, saying to you, the political leaders of this country, "Why me? And why us? And why America?" And the only answer is, "Because destiny put you in this place in history, in this moment in time, and the task is yours to do."
Here is a great timeline:
http://cnparm.home.texas.net/911/Backg/Backg2.htm
You must have a lot of free time on your hands to waste it debating a mental midget. I'm with TopoGigio on this one.
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