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They were the most lethal terrorist attacks in history, taking the lives of 3,000 Americans and international citizens and ultimately leading to far-reaching changes in anti-terror approaches and operations in the U.S. and around the globe.
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Amerithrax or Anthrax Investigation
Soon after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, letters laced with anthrax began appearing in the U.S. mail. Five Americans were killed and 17 were sickened in what became the worst biological attacks in U.S. history.
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In October 2002, two snipers terrorized the Washington, D.C. area, killing 10 people and critically injuring three before a multi-agency investigation tracked them down.
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On August 7, 1998, nearly simultaneous bombs blew up in front of the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Two hundred and twenty-four people died in the blasts, including 12 Americans, and more than 4,500 people were wounded.
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Between 1996 to 1998, bombs exploded four times in Atlanta and Birmingham, killing two and injuring hundreds and setting off what turned out to be a five-year manhunt for the suspected bomber Eric Robert Rudolph.
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Fawaz Younis/Operation Goldenrod
On September 13, 1987, Fawaz Younis became the first international terrorist to be apprehended overseas and brought back to the United States to stand trial.
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Mohammed Ali Hamadei and his accomplice hijacked TWA Flight 847 and murdered a U.S. Navy diver in 1985.
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Arrested in December 1999 as he was about to enter the country, Ahmed Ressam was convicted of planning to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the millennium celebrations.
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The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 was the deadliest act of homegrown terrorism in U.S. history, resulting in the deaths of 168 people.
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Osama bin Laden was a violent terrorist and founder of al Qaeda who killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children before his death in 2011.
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A wave of bombings in 1919 led to an ill-conceived roundup of radicals the following year.
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On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board—including 190 Americans—and 11 Scots on the ground.
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The kidnapping of the granddaughter of a newspaper magnate in 1974 becomes one of the strangest cases in FBI history.
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On October 12, 2000, suicide terrorists exploded a small boat alongside the USS Cole as it was refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden, killing 17 American sailors.
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The unsolved bombing of Wall Street in 1920, which killed 30 people and injured several hundred, remains a mystery to this day.
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The radical Weather Underground launched a bombing campaign across the United States beginning in the late 1960s.
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World Trade Center Bombing 1993
The bombing of the New York City World Trade Center in 1993 by Ramzi Yousef and his conspirators killed six people and injured thousands.
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U.S. Embassy Bombing in Nairobi in 1998
Bomb site of the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Africa, on August 7, 1998 by al Qaeda operatives.
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