For the edification of the misguided Mr. Spot. A brief history of terrorism.
1. 1970 to 1975 several Americans were killed and kidnaped in Sudan and Lebanon. The Peoples Front for the Liberation of Palestine carried out a rocket attack on the American Embassy in Beirut.
No reprisals. 2. The Mujahedin-e Khalq killed several US military personal and civilians working in Iran.
3. 1974. The Revolutionary Peoples Struggle carried out bombings against US military facilities located in Greece.
4. 1979 Iranian students seized 52 American hostages and held them for 444 days.
One failed rescue attempt. On April 24th 1980, a 132 member rescue squad was to insert near Tehran on eight Sea Stallions from the USS Nimitz. Two were forced to return to the Nimitz due to mechanical problems. Six helicopters were enough to carry on but just barely. At a refueling point inside Iran a Sea Stallion pilot was following a flash light to a touch down point. The flash light did not belong to a ground controller. It belonged to a C-130 crewman inspecting his aircraft. The helicopters rotors struck the C-130 and ignited a fuel tank. 5 on the C-130, and three aboard the helicopter were killed.
5. 1983 Hezbollah sent a truck bomb in front of the American Embassy in Beirut that killed 63 and wounded 120.
No reprisals.
6.. 1983 another Hezbollah suicide bomber struck a Marine barracks killing 241, wounding 81.
The Marines were pulled out of Lebanon.
7. 1983 the American Embassy in Kuwait is bombed.
No reprisals.
8. 1983 CIA station chief William Buckley is kidnaped, tortured, and murdered by Hezbollah. Buckley is fourth American to be kidnaped in Beirut. Shortly after most of the agents and assets in the region were “neutralized.”
These kidnapings are what led Reagan to negotiate anti-tank missiles for hostages. (Iran- Contra.) The US sold 1,500 anti-tank missiles to Iran. We got 3 hostages back. These funds were redirected to the Contras in Nicaragua. An audio tape of Buckley screaming during torture was sent to the White House.
9. 1984 the US Embassy in Beirut was car bombed again.
Reagan okayed covert proxy retaliations by Lebanese Intelligence. They missed the Hezbollah target and killed 80 innocent people.
10. 1984 a Kuwaiti airliner is highjacked. Two Americans are murdered. The plane lands in Iran. The highjackers are arrested and then allowed to leave Iran.
Reagan administration offers 250,000 dollars for information. No takers.
11. 1985 Hezbollah highjacked TWA flight 847. They set down in Beirut. One American serviceman (Navy diver Robert Stethem) is murdered. His body tossed out on the tarmac. highjackers (Mohamed Ali Hamadi and Hassan Izz-al-din) demand hundreds of terrorists held by Israel be released.
Israel met the demands. Four highjackers were later captured, and only one stood trial in Germany.
12. 1985 the PLO take control of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. Four terrorists led by Majed Molqi boarded the ship at Port Said, Egypt. The plan was to take control of the ship at the next port of call. Israel. A ships steward stumbled into their stateroom while the terrorists were cleaning their automatic weapons. Molqi demanded the release of 50 PLO terrorists convicted in Israeli courts. On October 3, 1985 at 3 in the afternoon Molqi shot Leon Klinghoffer ( a wheel chair bound stroke victim) in the chest. Then in the head and threw him overboard. Two days later the Egyptian government announced that the terrorists had surrendered, and that no harm had been done to the passengers. The Egyptians put the four terrorists aboard an Egypt Air 737. Tail number 2843 bound for Tunis, Tunisia. Two F- 14's (Alert Cap) from the USS Saratoga along with an E-2C Hawkeye intercepted the 737 and forced it down at Sigonella, Sicily. The plane was surrounded by two SEAL platoons that were pre-positioned on Cyprus for a sea take down of the Achille Lauro. The SEAL’s were then surrounded by the Italian regular army. Some tense moments ensued. United States Navy SEAL’s discover that not only is Molqi on board but so is Abu Abbas. Abbas is Yasir Arafat right hand and thought to be the master mind of many terrorists plots including this one. When everything was said and done. The four highjackers were convicted in Italian courts. Magied al-Molqi: 30 years. Ibrahim abdel Atif: 20 years. Ahmed al-Hassan 15 years. Abdullah Ali-Hammad: Charges dropped. He was a minor at the time. Abu Abbas was taken off the 737 by the Italian government. Dressed in an Italian air force officers’ flight suit. Put on board a Yugoslav civilian airliner and flown to Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He lived out the rest of his life in Iraq.
The list of nations that helped terrorists. Egypt: aided terrorist by suppling air passage, aircraft, and threatened to defend that aircraft on the ground as Egyptian territory on the ground at Sicily. Egypt also put several 777 special forces commandos on board that aircraft. Italy: aided in the escape of a known terrorist that the United States wanted in connection in the murder of a US citizen. Attempted to block runways to allow the escape of Egypt Air 737. The attempt was blocked by US forces. Yugoslavia: for excepting a known fugitive wanted by the United States government, and aiding in his escape.
13. 1985, 5 Americans were among 20 deaths when terrorists attack the airports at Rome and Vienna with small automatic weapons and grenades.
14. 1986 a explodes in a West Berlin disco.
United States with F-111's and Navy aircraft attack military installations in two Libyan cities. One Qaddafi residence is hit killing some family members. F-111 flew out of Great Britain. France and Spain deny US forces access to their airspace.
15. 1986 Abu Nidal murders 3 Americans working at the American University in Beirut.
No US reprisals.
16. 1986 Abu Nidal’s group highjacks Pan Am flight 73 at Karachi Venezuela.
17. 1988 Libyans carry out the bombing of Pan AM flight 103. 270 killed. One convicted bomber has been released with terminal cancer to live out the rest of his days at home.
18. 1989, Alex Boncayao Brigade killed US Army Col. James Rowe in the Philippines.
19. 1990, the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Party Front killed two US military contractors and wounded an Air Force officer to protest the build up of US military in the Gulf.
20. 1990, the Sendero Luminoso attempted to car bomb the US Embassy in Peru.
21. 1992, Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Party Front launched rockets at the US Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
22. January 25, 1993 on Route 123 Virginia a Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi at a stop light filled with car containing CIA employees exits his vehicle with an AK-47 and kills two and wounds three. Kansi leaves the country and four years later is captured near the Pakistan- Afgan boarder. He is brought back to the USA and convicted. He was executed by lethal injection 2002. 23. 1993 a truck bomb explodes in the parking garage of the World Trade Center. 6 killed over 1000 injured. The plan was to topple one tower into the other, and envelop the area with sodium cyanide.
6 Muslims convicted and serving long terms. Investigations revealed the first emergence of al Qaida and Osama Bin Laden based in Sudan. No further action is taken.
24. 1993 Iraqi intelligence attempts to assassinate George Bush 41 while visiting Kuwait.
Clinton administration lobbies UN to retaliate. Without UN approval a few cruise missiles are fired into empty buildings in Baghdad.
25. 1994 Americans are killed in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, and Lebanon in terrorist operations not directed at the United States.
26. 1995 in Pakistan a van belonging to the US Consulate was hit by gunfire. Killing 2 and wounding 1.
27. 1995 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a car bomb exploded outside the residence of the US military personal. 5 were killed.
28. 1996 the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia was truck bombed. 19 US servicemen were killed. 240 wounded.
Clinton turned the matter over to the FBI.
29. 1998 the US Embassy in Beirut was attacked with grenades.
30. 1998 the Embassy of Kenya (Nairobi) and Tanzania (Dar es Salaam) were car bombed. 12 Americans were among the 200 killed.
A few more cruise missiles were launched.
31. 1998, an attack by Al-Jihad , an Egyptian group, on the US Embassy in Albania was thwarted.
32. 1999, while Prince was partying the Army for Liberation of Rwanda killed two US citizens at a game park on the Congo-Uganda border.
33. 2000, the USS Cole was attacked while refueling in Yemen. 17 United States sailors were killed. 39 wounded.
34. March 2000, Alex Boncayao Brigade strafed some Shell Oil offices in the Philippines.
35. September 11th. Over 3,000 killed. Thousands wounded.
36. 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl is kidnaped and murdered on videotaped in Pakistan. His captors decapitated him. His murderers offered Pearl a sedative before and he refused.
One involved is captured by Pakistan officials and turned over to the US.
37. 2002, two Americans are taken hostage in the Philippines. US buckles and pays ransom. On was killed in a rescue attempt, the other hostage was wounded.
38. July 2, 2002, an Egyptian born gunman kills 2 at the Israeli EL AL Airline ticket counter at Los Angles International Airport.
39. August 1st, 2002. Five Americans are killed in a remote control triggered bombing at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
40. October 27th, 2002. United States diplomat Larry Foley is shot and killed in Amman, Jordan.
41. December 29th, 2002. Three Americans missionary doctors at a hospital in Yemen. William Koehn, Martha Myers, and Kathleen Gariety were shot and killed by Muslim extremists.
42. May 11th, 2004. Nick Berg is decapitated on video tape by al Qaida in Iraq.
43. June, 15th, 2004. A Lockheed Martin employee working in Saudi Arabia is kidnaped. His captors demand the release of all al Qaida prisoners held in Saudi prisons. On June 18th American Paul M. Johnson Jr. is murdered. Photographs of his decapitation are shown on many websites. Three of his kidnappers are killed by Saudi security forces later that day in a fire fight in downtown Riyadh. Among them is Abdulaziz al Moqrin. The leader of al Qaida on the Arabian peninsula. Moqrin trained with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
44. June 15th, 2004. Kenneth Scroggs from Laconia New Hampshire was shot and killed the garage of his Riyadh home. As usual al Qaida claimed responsibility.
45. November 5, 2009. Nidal Malik Hasan an American born Muslim opens fire at Fort Hood, Texas. The Army psychiatrist, rank major, killed 13 and wounded 29.
And according to Mr. Spot I'm trolling on the subject. For standing up against terrorism I am accused of trolling? Mr. Spot really? Since 2009 many other terrorist incidents have happened. Stick your head in the sand along with Mr. Spot. Not me. My head is up and my weapon is cocked. Does that offend you? Mr. Spot. I say again its time we pound them till the rubble bounces. If you can't see that than you are part of the conga line of morons that are celebrating our downfall. I can't help you, and neither can anyone else. You are lost. You are an idiot and you don't even know it.
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