TRAINEE GUIDE - Recruit Training Command - The US Navy

TRAINEE GUIDE A-950-0001
INFORMATION SHEET 1-05-1 (continued)
(2) More recent examples of terrorism include:
(a) Beirut, Lebanon, 23 Oct 1983: Shiite suicide bombers
exploded a truck near U.S. military barracks killing
241 Marines.
(b) Beirut, Lebanon, 14 June 1985: An Athens to Rome
Trans World Airlines flight was forced to fly to
Beirut by Palestinian gunmen. A U.S. Navy diver was
executed.
(c) New York City, 26 February 1993: A terrorist car-bomb
exploded in the basement of the World Trade Center
killing 6 persons and injuring at least 1,000 others.
(d) Oklahoma City, 19 April 1995: A truck-bomb exploded
outside the Federal Building killing 166 persons.
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were later convicted
of the crime.
(e) Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 25 June 1996: An Islamic
militant group exploded a truck-bomb outside the
Khobar Towers U.S. military complex killing 19 service
members and injuring 515.
(f) Aden, Yemen, 12 October 2000: The U.S. Navy
destroyer, USS Cole, was heavily damaged when a small
boat carrying two terrorists pulled alongside the ship
and exploded killing seventeen sailors.
(g) New York City; Arlington, Virginia; and Shanksville,
Pennsylvania; 11 September 2001:
1 An American Airlines Boeing 767 and a United
Airlines Boeing 767 were hijacked and flown into
the North and South Towers of the World Trade
Center, New York City; both towers collapsed.
2 An American Airlines Boeing 757 was also hijacked
and crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington,
Virginia.
3 A United Airlines Boeing 757 was hijacked but
passengers overcame the hijackers; the plane
crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
4 There were 3,221 dead from the three incidents.
(h) London, England, 7 July 05: Islamic extremists bombed
three subway trains and a double-decker bus resulting
in 56 people killed and more than 700 wounded.
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