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188 How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa’ida
Table B.1—Continued
Date Location Description
September
11, 2001
Washington,
D.C., USA
American Airlines flight 77 bound for Los Angeles,
California, from Dulles International Airport was
hijacked and crashed into the helicopter-landing pad on
the west side of the Pentagon, killing 189, wounding 76,
and causing extensive damage to the structure of the
Pentagon.
September
11, 2001
April 11,
2002
October 28,
2002
November
28, 2002
Shanksville,
Pa., USA
New York,
N.Y., USA
New York,
N.Y., USA
Djerba
Island,
Tunisia
Amman,
Jordan
Mombasa,
Kenya
United Airlines flight 93 bound for San Francisco,
California, from Newark, New Jersey, was hijacked and
crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, shortly after it
turned in the direction of Washington, D.C., killing all 44
passengers on board.
American Airlines flight 11 bound for Los Angeles,
California, from Boston, Massachusetts, was hijacked
and crashed into the north tower of the World Trade
Center. The exact number of casualties that this attack
caused is unclear; the combined casualties of both World
Trade Center attacks were 2,823 deaths plus hundreds of
additional injuries.
United Airlines flight 175 bound for Los Angeles,
California, from Boston, Massachusetts, crashed into
the south tower of the World Trade Center. The exact
number of casualties that this attack caused is unclear;
the combined casualties of both World Trade Center
attacks were 2,823 deaths plus hundreds of additional
injuries.
A natural-gas truck exploded next to an historic
synagogue on the island of Djerba off the coast of
Tunisia, killing 15 and wounding 20.
Zarqawi’s al Qa’ida network killed Laurence Foley, an
officer for USAID in Amman, Jordan.
A shoulder-launched rocket or missile was fired at an
Israeli Arkya 757 civilian airliner as it departed Mombasa
for Tel Aviv; the rocket missed its target.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in the lobby of the
Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel, while two more suicide
attackers detonated a car bomb outside the hotel, killing
13 and wounding 80.