CDR: thank you Mr. Bin Laden

[anonymous at openpgp.net]

Historical and current counter-US
activities seem to be focussing more
on hitting the .mil (and spyhqHHHembassies) 
vs. airlines.

Members of the flying public appreciate
your new, more-to-the-point focus, Osama, and
your PR consultant should be praised.

See you in Utah...


By The Associated Press

                     A look at recent terrorist attacks against United States interests.

                     July 8, 1998 -- U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed, killing
                     224 people, 12 of whom were Americans.

                     June 25, 1996 -- Truck bomb explodes outside the Khobar Towers
                     housing complex near Dharan, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans and
                     injuring more than 500 Americans and Saudis.

                     Nov. 13, 1995 -- Car bomb detonates at a U.S. military headquarters in
                     Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing five Americans.

                     Sept. 13, 1995 -- Rocket-propelled grenade pierces wall of U.S.
                     Embassy in Moscow, but causes no injuries.

                     Dec. 21, 1988 -- Pan Am Boeing 747 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland
                     on a flight from London to New York, killing 270 people.

                     Sept. 5, 1986 -- Hijackers seize Pan Am jumbo jet carrying 358 people at
                     Karachi Airport. Twenty people killed when security forces storm the
                     plane.

                     April 2, 1986 -- Four Americans killed when a bomb under a seat
                     explodes on a TWA airliner en route from Rome to Athens.

                     June 14, 1985 -- Shiite gunmen seize a TWA airliner and forced it to
                     Beirut, Lebanon. U.S. Navy diver was killed and 39 Americans held
                     hostage for 17 days.

                     Sept. 20, 1984 -- Car bomb at U.S. Embassy annex in east Beirut,
                     Lebanon kills 16 and injures the ambassador.

                     Dec. 12, 1983 -- Shiite extremists set off car bombs in front of the U.S.
                     and French embassies in Kuwait City, killing five people and wounding
                     86.

                     Oct. 23, 1983 -- Shiite suicide bomber blows up U.S. Marine barracks in
                     Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 Americans.

                     April 18, 1983 -- Suicide car-bomber blows up U.S. Embassy in Beirut,
                     killing 17 Americans.

                     Nov. 4, 1979 -- Islamic students storm U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran,
                     holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.