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Terrorism has accompanied every civilisation since pre-history. Great leaders such as Alexander the Great were victims of terrorism, while others like Hannibal used it to their favour.
The International Centre for Terrorism reports around 1,000 acts of terrorism around the world between 1988 and 2001, but there were other high profile terrorist attacks before. These include the 1972 hijacking and killing of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
The United States has been the target of several terrorist attacks in recent years. Here is a list of the major attacks:
October 12, 2000: 17 American sailors are killed and 39 other wounded when a suicide bomber attacks USS Cole in Yemen's Aden harbour.
August 7, 1998: Twin bombings at the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, kill 224 people and wound thousands of others.
June 1996: 19 Americans killed and 500 people injured followng a bomb blast at the U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
November 13, 1995: A bomb at U.S. military headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills five U.S. service personnel.
April 19, 1995: A truck bomb at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, kills 168 and wounds more than 500 others.
February 26, 1993: Terrorist bombers strike the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
December 21, 1988: A bomb brings down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 on board and 11 on the ground. Malta involved in the case. Libyan found guilty
September 5, 1986: Hijackers take over a Pan Am jet at Karachi Airport. Twenty people are killed when security forces storm the plane.
June 14, 1985: Shiite Muslim gunmen hijack a TWA jet carrying 153 passengers and crew, mostly Americans, shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece. A U.S. serviceman, Robert Dean Stethem, 23, was killed and his body was thrown on the tarmac at the airport in Beirut, Lebanon. Thirty-nine others were held hostage for 17 days before being released.
September 20, 1984: 16 killed in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, Lebanon.
October 23, 1983: The bombing of U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, kills 241.
April 18, 1983: A car bomb at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, kills 17.
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