ALERT: Since 1979, 63% of attacks by radical Islamists against U.S. have occurred between Sept & Nov

Several located via Google search | Sept. 8, 2002 | Wolfstar, from several sources

[Wolfstar]

In the 23 years since the Iranian hostage crisis (and including that event), there have been 18 known fatal terrorist attacks against the United States perpetrated by radical Islamists. One, the anthrax attack last year, is of uncertain origin. Total dead numbers over 4200, with many more thousands injured. In the 19 years since 1983, they have attacked us at a rate of nearly once a year, and every year since 1998.

There has been a distinct pattern as to the time of year these attacks have occurred. Of the 19 total, 13 (68%) have occurred in the Fall and Winter months; 12 (63%) between September and December. Two each have occurred in April, June and August (and Iraq invaded Kuwait in August). See following table:

Nov. 4, 1979	52 Americans taken hostage, U.S. Embassy, Tehran, Iran (5 dead in Jimmy Carter's failed rescue attempt)
Apr. 18, 1983	U.S. Embassy bombing, Beirut, Lebanon, 63 dead
Oct. 23, 1983	U.S. Marine barracks bombing, Beirut, Lebanon, 241 dead
Dec. 12, 1983	U.S. Embassy bombing, Kuwait, 6 dead
Sept. 20, 1984	U.S. Embassy bombing, Beirut, Lebanon, 24 dead
Jun. 14, 1985	TWA Flight 847 hijacking, Cairo to Athens to Algiers to Beirut, 1 American dead
Aug. 8, 1985	U.S. Military base bombing, Frankfurt, Germany, 3 dead
Oct. 7, 1985	Achille Lauro hijacking, Mediterranean off Egyptian coast, 1 American dead
Dec. 18, 1985	Simultaneous suicide attacks, U.S. and Israeli check-in desks, Rome and Vienna airports, 20 dead
Apr. 5, 1986	Bombing of LaBelle discotheque, Berlin, Germany, 2 dead, 150 injured
Dec. 21, 1988	Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie, Scotland, 270 dead
Feb. 26, 1993	World Trade Center bombing, New York, 6 dead, 1042 injured
Nov. 13, 1995	Car bomb, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 7 dead including 5 Americans
Jun. 25, 1996	Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia, 19 dead, 515 wounded
Aug. 7, 1998	U.S. Embassy bombings, Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, 301 dead, over 5000 injured
Oct. 31, 1999	Egypt Air Crash, off Nantucket, Mass., 217 dead (Egyptian co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane)
Oct. 12, 2000	USS Cole, Aden, Yemen, 17 dead, 39 injured
Sept. 11, 2001	Attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, over 3000 dead
Sept.–Oct. 2001	Anthrax attacks, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Connecticut, 5 dead

Their 23-year-old pattern of preferring to attack in Fall and Winter, combined with resumed CAP flights over New York and DC, and news that threat "noise" has increased recently, there is a very strong possibility that an attempt will be made to attack us again soon.

[Wolfstar]

Alert to all FReepers. Not to be an alarmist, but the above comes under the heading of information we should know, but which the media and government won't tell us.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Good work. Sad Freegards....

[eno_]

Bravo. I expect some media to pick this up (without attribution, of course). Thanks for keeping Freepers ahead of the curve!

[EggsAckley]

The first thing that comes to mind for me is the fact that November is the month of Ramadan. Remember, last year we held off doing anything so as to "honor" their religious holiday. Perhaps that plays into the time of year....they know that we're dumb enough to fall for that Ramadan thing.

Just my rambling thoughts.

[EggsAckley]

Oh yeah, I forgot......GREAT WORK Wolfstar!! Bookmarking now.

[MizSterious]

FYI

[knighthawk]

I am giong to board a plane to NY in a few hours. And I am already very nervous.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Good except for one thing: There is no conclusion one way or another about the anthrax attacks.

[Abar]

Death to America

by Daniel Pipes
New York Post
September 8, 2002
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/460
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/56446.htm

America's war on terrorism did not begin in September 2001. It began in November 1979.

That was shortly after Ayatollah Khomeini had seized power in Iran, riding the slogan "Death to America" - and sure enough, the attacks on Americans soon began. In November 1979, a
militant Islamic mob took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran, the Iranian capital, and held 52 Americans hostage for the next 444 days.

The rescue team sent to free those hostages in April 1980 suffered eight fatalities, making them the first of militant Islam's many American casualties. Others included:

April 1983: 17 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut.

October 1983: 241 dead at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.

December 1983: five dead at the U.S. embassy in Kuwait.

January 1984: the president of the American University of Beirut killed.

April 1984: 18 dead near a U.S. airbase in Spain.

September 1984: 16 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut (again).

December 1984: Two dead on a plane hijacked to Tehran.

June 1985: One dead on a plane hijacked to Beirut.

After a let-up, the attacks then restarted: Five and 19 dead in Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996, 224 dead at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998 and 17 dead on the
USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000.

Simultaneously, the murderous assault of militant Islam also took place on U.S. soil:

July 1980: an Iranian dissident killed in the Washington, D.C. area.

August 1983: a leader of the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam killed in Canton, Mich.

August 1984: three Indians killed in a suburb of Tacoma, Wash.

September 1986: a doctor killed in Augusta, Ga.

January 1990: an Egyptian freethinker killed in Tucson, Ariz.

November 1990: a Jewish leader killed in New York.

February 1991: an Egyptian Islamist killed in New York.

January 1993: two CIA staff killed outside agency headquarters in Langley, Va.

February 1993: Six people killed at the World Trade Center.

March 1994: an Orthodox Jewish boy killed on the Brooklyn Bridge.

February 1997: a Danish tourist killed on the Empire State building.

October 1999: 217 passengers killed on an EgyptAir flight near New York City.

In all, 800 persons lost their lives in the course of attacks by militant Islam on Americans before September 2001 - more than killed by any other enemy since the Vietnam War. (Further, this
listing does not include the dozens more Americans in Israel killed by militant Islamic terrorists.)

And yet, these murders hardly registered. Only with the events of a year ago did Americans finally realize that "Death to America" truly is the battle cry of this era's most dangerous foe,
militant Islam.

In retrospect, the mistake began when Iranians assaulted the U.S. embassy in Tehran and met with no resistance.

Interestingly, a Marine sergeant present at the embassy that fateful day in November 1979 agrees with this assessment. As the militant Islamic mob invaded the embassy, Rodney V.
Sickmann followed orders and protected neither himself nor the embassy. As a result, he was taken hostage and lived to tell the tale. (He now works for Anheuser-Busch.)

In retrospect, he believes that passivity was a mistake. The Marines should have done their assigned duty, even if it cost their lives. "Had we opened fire on them, maybe we would only have
lasted an hour." But had they done that, they "could have changed history."

Standing their ground would have sent a powerful signal that the United States of America cannot be attacked with impunity. In contrast, the embassy's surrender sent the opposite signal -
that it's open season on Americans. "If you look back, it started in 1979; it's just escalated," Sickmann correctly concludes.

To which one of the century's great geostrategist thinkers, Robert Strausz-Hupé, adds his assent. Just before passing away earlier this year at the age of 98, Strausz-Hupé wrote his final
words, and they were about the war on terrorism: "I have lived long enough to see good repeatedly win over evil, although at a much higher cost than need have been paid. This time we have
already paid the price of victory. It remains for us to win it."


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[Wolfstar]

You are right, and I mentioned this above: "One, the anthrax attack last year, is of uncertain origin."

[Wolfstar]

Ooops. My title should read, "...occurred between between "Sept & Dec" instead of "Nov." Please forgive error caused by typing too fast and failing to doublecheck the title wording. Thanks.

[Wolfstar]

I noted the discrepancies in number of killed during some of these attacks, and think it may depend on the date of reporting in the source. My purpose in doing this today was to find the dates when these attacks occurred to see if there was any pattern. I did a fairly quick Google search looking for that info and noted that different web sources often gave conflicting death totals. I used info on what appeared to me to be credible sources.

[adam stevens]

BUMP!

[billhilly]

Jimmie Carter

[Dialup Llama]

So this is the Islamic equivalent of 'sliding into third.' Trying to hide behind the holy month of Ramadan. Well we all got over that last year, did we not?

[Eala]

The first thing that comes to mind for me is the fact that November is the month of Ramadan.

There's a memory that says their calendar is lunar, not sidereal, and so Ramadan moves w/r/t to our calendar, that in our calendar it could (and has) appear any time of the year.

[Abar]

I applaud your efforts. Only 'Joe America' can rid our country of this scourge. We each have to make our own contributions at the local level.

Not on either list but worthy of consideration is AA 587, 260 dead (Nov 12, 2001).

Given the FBI's history of coverups and unbelievable incompetence, the truth about this disaster will never be widely known.
Despite a NON-CITIZEN MUSLIM ARAB killing AMERICAN Jews at the El Al counter ON JULY 4TH, and after days of lead-in "be on the lookout" warnings, the FBI and state leaders REFUSED to acknowledge this was terrorism. They loosed several ludicrous theories (exactly like 587: birds, jetwash) and only now are acknowledging it "might" be terrorism.

My point being, keep up your efforts. Relying on incompetent, more concerned with political correctness than the security of our nation, incompetent, fedgov agencies is yet another disaster waiting to happen.

[GOPJ]

A somewhat odd comment:

but the above comes under the heading of information we should know, but which the media and government won't tell us.

[GOPJ]

You're right. This was a major blunder:

In retrospect, the mistake began when Iranians assaulted the U.S. embassy in Tehran and met with no resistance.

[SamAdams76]

From this, I conclude that we have a 37% chance of being attacked from December to August.