Tuesday, April 16, 2013

TERROR ATTACKS TIMELINE IN THE UNITED STATES SHOULD INCLUDE RACIST TERRORIST ATTACKS ON AFRICAN-AMERICANS






Here's the list from the DAILY NEWS:

Jan. 17, 2011 — A backpack bomb is placed along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., but is found and disabled before it can explode. White supremacist Kevin Harpham is convicted and sentenced to 32 years.
May 10, 2010 — A pipe-bomb explodes inside a Jacksonville, Fla., mosque before evening prayer service. Miraculously, nobody is injured.

May 1, 2010 — A car bomb ignites in New York's Times Square, but fails to explode after two street vendors foil the alleged terrorist attack. Pakistan-born Faisal Shahzad, 30, receives a life sentence in prison.

 AMERICA'S RACIST TERROR ATTACKS:


1921
Second International Conference on Eugenics. (Brown and Stentiford, 530)
A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, nearly wipes out the entire negro area, including the “Black” Wall Street. (Brown and Stentiford, xxv)

1923
Rosewood Massacre in Florida. (Brown and Stentiford, 304)

The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963 as an act of racially motivated terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turning point in the U.S. 1960s Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.








DAILY NEWS LIST CONTINUED:
Dec. 25, 2009 — The so-called "underwear bomber," Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is subdued by passengers and crew after trying to blow up an airliner heading from Paris to Detroit using explosives hidden in his undergarments. He's sentenced to life in prison.
Sept. 11, 2001 — Al-Qaeda hijackers crash planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pa. Nearly 3,000 people die.

Jan 22, 1998 — Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole. His 1978-1995 spree killed three people and injured 23.
Jan. 20, 1998 — A bombing at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., kills one guard and injures a nurse. Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected in the case.
July 27, 1996 — A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during the Summer Games, killing two people and injuring more than 100. Eric Robert Rudolph is arrested in 2003. He pleads guilty and is sentenced to life in prison.
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April 19, 1995 — Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including, 19 children.
Feb. 26, 1993 — A truck bomb detonates below the North Tower of the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000. The attack is later tied to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the masterminds behind 9/11.
Nov. 7, 1983 — A bomb blows a hole in a wall outside the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington. No one is hurt. Two leftist radicals plead guilty.

May 16, 1981 — A bomb explodes in a men's bathroom at the Pan Am terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport, killing a man. A group calling itself the Puerto Rican Armed Resistance claims responsibility. No arrests are made.
Dec. 29, 1975 — A bomb hidden in a locker explodes at the TWA terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75. Palestinian, Puerto Rican and Croatian groups are suspected, but no arrests are made.
Jan. 29, 1975 — The State Department building in Washington, D.C., is bombed by the Weather Underground. No one is killed.

Jan. 24, 1975 — A bomb explodes inside Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan, killing four people and injuring more than 50. A Puerto Rican nationalist group, FALN, claims credit for the attack. No prosecutions are made.
Jan. 27, 1972 — A bomb wrecks the New York City office of impresario Sol Hurok, who had been booking Soviet artists. One person is killed and nine are injured, Hurok among them. A caller claiming to represent Soviet Jews claims responsibility, but no arrests are made.
March 1, 1971 — The Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., is bombed by the Weather Underground. No one is killed.

March 6, 1970 — Three members of the revolutionary Weather Underground accidentally blow themselves up in their townhouse in New York City's Greenwich Village while making bombs.
May 18, 1927 — 45 people — 38 of them children — are killed when a school district treasurer, Andrew Kehoe, lines the Bath Consolidated School near Lansing, Mich., with hundreds of pounds of dynamite, and blows it up. Investigators say Kehoe, who also died in the blast, thought he would lose his farm because he couldn't pay property taxes used to build the school.
Sept. 16, 1920 — More than 100 pounds of dynamite detonate on a horse-drawn wagon along New York's Wall Street. Thirty-eight people are killed and another 143 injured. The bombing was never solved, but believed to be tied to anti-capitalists.
Oct. 1, 1910 — The Los Angeles Times building is dynamited during a labor dispute, killing 20 people. Two leaders of the ironworkers union plead guilty.
May 4, 1886 — A bomb blast during a labor rally at Chicago's Haymarket Square kills 11 people, including seven police officers, and injures more than 100. Eight "anarchists" are tried for inciting riot. Four are hanged, one commits suicide and three win pardons after seven years in prison.

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