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Terrorist Attacks
Against Free Citizens

DATE:	CRIME:
9/5/72	Munich Olympic Massacre. 11 Israeli athletes and 5 Palestinians dead in a botched rescue attempt.
4/18/83	U.S. Embassy in Beirut blown up by suicide bomber. Sixty-three people killed. (17 U.S. citizens)
10/9/83	16 Korean officials killed by terrorist bomb in Rangoon, Burma.
10/23/83	241 U.S. service people killed when a suicide bomber destroys Marine Headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. Almost at the same time.
9/24/84	U.S. Embassy in East Beirut is attacked. Suicide bomber is killed by a British security guard before he can drive into the embassy garage. The car explodes outside the building; 23 are killed, 71 injured.
10/12/84	IRA terrorists explode a bomb in the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England while the British Conservative Party was holding its convention.
1984-1985	Six Americans and two others were taken hostage in Beirut, including Terry Anderson, Terry Wait, Thomas Sutherland, Joseph Cicippio, Alan Steen, Geoffrey Vernon Nash, William Buckley and William Higgins. Terry Anderson was the bureau chief of the Associated Press in West Beirut. Nash was released in 1985. All others were freed in 1991, except Buckley and Higgins who died in captivity.
6/14/85	Shiite Moslems hijack TWA Flight 847 with more than 150 people on board. The hijackers force the plane to fly back and forth between Athens, Beirut and Algiers. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem (pronounced 'steethem") was beaten and killed. The hijackers demanded release of 700 Shiite Moslems imprisoned or detained in Israel. After 17 days, the hostages were released.
10/85	The cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. One American, Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly man who was confined to a wheel chair was was killed and thrown overboard.
7/88	Video tape of apparent hanging of kidnap victim and hostage Lt. Col. William Higgins released to American media and aired on U.S. network news programs. Death threats are made against fellow hostages Joseph Cicippio (held for two years) and a TV drama followed which included pleas from Mrs. Cicippio and daily interviews with families, all of which obscured the security issues involved.
12/21/88	Iran-sponsored terrorist downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerby, Scotland. Bomb Destroys Pan Am 103, all 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground are killed.
2/26/93	World Trade Center bombed. Six killed, more than 1000 injured.
3/19/95	Tokyo Sarin attack in subway. Five dead, 565 hospitalized.
4/14/95	Oklahoma City Bombing 169 killed. Hundreds injured.
9/19/95	Unabomber Manifesto Published.
6/96	Khobar Towers complex in the U.S. Military Base in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 19 Servicemen killed; 500 injured Americans and Saudis killed.
6/96	Olympic Park Bombing.
8/7/98	U.S. Embassy bombed in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar Esselaam, Tanzania.
11/10/00	USS Cole bombed in the harbor at Aden, Yemen. 17 Sailors killed, 39 injured.
9/11/01	World Trade Center destroyed by two terrorist-controlled airliners; more than 3000 killed and hundreds injured. Pentagon attacked, fourth plane forced to crash in Pennsylvania.

Read Sgt. Evan's essay on 9/11/2001 below.
Top Respond

LEST WE FORGET

WE must never be complacent!

I sat in a movie theater watching "Schindler's List," asked myself,
"Why didn't the Jews fight back?"

Now I know why.

I sat in a movie theater, watching "Pearl Harbor" and asked myself,
"Why weren't we prepared?"

Now I know why.

Civilized people cannot fathom, much less predict, the actions of evil people.

On September 11, dozens of capable airplane passengers allowed themselves to be overpowered by a handful of poorly armed terrorists because they did not comprehend the depth of hatred that motivated their captors.

On September 11, thousands of innocent people were murdered because too many Americans naively reject the reality that some nations are dedicated eagleCry

to the dominance of others. Many political pundits, pacifists and media personnel want us to forget the carnage. They say we must focus on the bravery of the rescuers and ignore the cowardice of the killers. They implore us to understand the motivation of the perpetrators. Major television stations have announced they will assist the healing process by not replaying devastating footage of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers.

I will not be manipulated.
I will not pretend to understand.
I will not forget.

I will not forget the liberal media who abused freedom of the press to kick
our country when it was vulnerable and hurting.

I will not forget that CBS anchor Dan Rather preceded President Bush's address to the nation with the snide remark, "No matter how you feel about him, he is still our president."

I will not forget that ABC TV anchor Peter Jennings questioned President Bush's motives for not returning immediately to Washington, DC and commented, "We're all pretty skeptical and cynical about Washington."

And I will not forget that ABC's Mark Halperin warned if reporters weren't informed of every little detail of this war, they aren't "likely -- nor should they be expected -- to show deference."

I will not isolate myself from my fellow Americans by pretending an attack on the USS Cole in Yemen was not an attack on the United States of America.

I will not forget the Clinton administration equipped Islamic terrorists and their supporters with the world's most sophisticated telecommunications equipment and encryption technology, thereby compromising America's ability to trace terrorist radio, cell phone, land lines, faxes and modem communications.

I will not be appeased with pointless, quick retaliatory strikes like those perfected by the previous administration.

I will not be comforted by "feel-good, do nothing" regulations like the silly "Have your bags been under your control?" question at the airport.

I will not be influenced by so called,"antiwar demonstrators" who exploit the right of expression to chant anti-American obscenities.

I will not forget the moral victory handed the North Vietnamese by American war protesters who reviled and spat upon the returning Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors and Marines.

I will not be softened by the wishful thinking of pacifists who chose reassurance over reality.

I will embrace the wise words of Prime Minister Tony Blair who told Labor Party conference, "They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the innocent. If they could have murdered not 7,000 but 70,000, does anyone doubt they would have done so and rejoiced in it?

There is no compromise possible with such people, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must!"

NYC Firemen Raising Flag

I will force myself to:

- hear the weeping
- feel the helplessness
- imagine the terror
- sense the panic
- smell the burning flesh
- experience the loss
- remember the hatred.

I sat in a movie theater, watching "Private Ryan" and asked myself, "Where did they find the courage?"

Now I know.

We have no choice. Living without liberty is not living.

~~ Ed Evans, MGySgt., USMC (Ret.)
Not as lean, Not as mean, But still a Marine.

I scanned this from my gldpros email, felt compelled to post.
~~ mrm