Kenyan hotel bombing - Kenyan hotel bombing On November 28, 2002, the Kenyan hotel bombing terrorist attack took place. Three suicide bombers detonated themselves at a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, killing 13 other people, including three Israeli tourists who have been presumed to be the targets of the attack. At the same time two anti-aircraft missiles were fired at an Arkia Boeing 757 airliner, which only narrowly missed. The two attacks are suspected to be connected, and it is suspected that al-Qaeda may be involved in the attacks. 12 people were detained in connection with the hotel bombing, including six Pakistanis and four Somalis, as well as an American and her Spanish husband, both of whom were later released. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for this attack on the Jehad.net website,.
Jehad.net - the owner of a large financial services firm in Minnesota saw that Al Qaeda was using the website to claim responsibility for the attacks on an Israeli airliner and a hotel in Kenya. (See: Kenyan hotel bombing) He guessed the answer to the secret question of the MSN Hotmail account of Julliou Armani, the man listed as the contact for jehadonline.org The cracker proceeded to take Jehad.net and Jehadonline.org (configured to the same site) from the terrorist organization. Al Qaeda had earlier posted an audio message containing a threat to attack the United States in July of that year. October 2002 was the month when Al Qaeda posted on the website a claim of responsibility for the attack on a French oil tanker in Yemen. See: Limburg tanker bombing External Link.
Terrorism against Israel in 2002 - with Israeli license plates near Jenin. January 17: Six men and women are killed at a Bat-Mitzvah ceremony in Hadera by a Fatah (Al-Aqsa) gunman. January 22: Two women killed by a Fatah (Al-Aqsa Brigades) gunman in Jerusalem January 25: 20 people are injured in a suicide bombing in the Old Bus Station of Tel-Aviv. January 27: An elderly Israeli is killed and over 150 wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a woman associated with the Fatah movement. February (MDT: 19) February 6: An Israeli woman, her 11 year-old daughter and a soldier guarding them killed in a gun attack in the Israeli village of Hamra. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility. February 8: An Israeli woman stabbed to death by several Palestinian young men while walking in a.
November 2002 - 7, 2002 21 November 6, 2002 22 November 5, 2002 23 November 4, 2002 24 November 3, 2002 25 November 2, 2002 26 November 1, 2002 November 30, 2002 It is reported that the Provisional IRA may be about to make substantial concessions in order to re-start the stalled Northern Ireland peace process. November 28, 2002 Kenyan hotel bombing: Three suicide bombers detonated themselves at a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, killing a number of people, including Israeli tourists who have been presumed to be the targets of the attack. At the same time two anti-aircraft missiles were fired at a passenger aircraft, which only narrowly missed. The two attacks are suspected to be connected, and it is suspected that al-Qaeda may be involved in the attacks. Henry Kissinger has been appointed.
King David Hotel bombing - King David Hotel bombing On July 22, 1946, members of the Jewish underground military organization Irgun Tsvai-Leumi in the British Mandate of Palestine planted and exploded a bomb at the King David Hotel. The hotel was the base for the British Secretariat, the military command and a branch of the Criminal Investigation Division (police). 91 people were killed, most of them civilians: 28 British, 41 Arab, 17 Jewish, and 5 other. Around 45 people were injured. The attack was initially ordered by David Ben Gurion, who was in the United States, but he later changed his mind and ordered the bombing to be cancelled. But Menachem Begin, the head of Irgun, went ahead anyway. Both Ben Gurion and Begin would later become Israeli Prime Ministers. The attack was.
Brighton hotel bombing - Brighton hotel bombing The Brighton hotel bombing took place on October 12, 1984. The Provisional IRA detonated two large bombs in the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, which is where many politicians, including Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher were staying for the Conservative party conference. The bombs failed to kill Thatcher or any of her ministers, but did kill five people including Tory MP Anthony Berry and John Wakeham's wife Roberta Wakeham. Norman Tebbit's wife was left crippled. The bomb shredded Thatcher's bathroom barely two minutes after she had left it. The IRA claimed responsibility the next day, and said that they would try again. Their statement famously included the words Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to.
Canal Hotel Bombing - Canal Hotel Bombing The Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, in the afternoon of August 19, 2003, killed at least 24 people and wounded over 100. The explosion damaged a spinal cord treatment center hospital nearby and the shockwave was felt a mile away. The United Nations had been using the building as its Baghdad headquarters since 1991. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The bombing 2 Eyewitness accounts 3 List of victims (incomplete) 4 Suspects 5 Responses 6 See Also 7.
Dupont Plaza Hotel - Dupont Plaza Hotel The Dupont Plaza Hotel located in San Juan, Puerto Rico was famous for various things: It was so huge that it could be seen even from the insides of airplanes. This hotel was notorious among entertainers and sports stars (particularly boxing) This second paradise hosted many New Years Eve parties. On the night of December 31st of 1986, the Dupont Plaza became famous for something else: bombs. These were placed around the casino area, where the New Year's party always took place, causing a blast that killed 97 persons and injured hundreds of others. FACT: No bombs were place at the hotel, it was caused by flammable liquid placed in a storage room on the ground floor of the hotel. Networks from many countries such.
1998 U.S. embassy bombings - attacks. The bombings killed 213 people in Nairobi and a dozen in Dar es Salaam. An estimated 4000 were injured in the Kenyan capital and 85 in Dar es Salaam. The attacks were linked to local members of the al Qaeda terrorist group, headed by Osama bin Laden. It was this terrorist incident that first brought Bin Laden and Al Qaeda to international notoriety, and led to the FBI's placing him on the agency's Ten Most Wanted List. While the attacks were aimed at Americans, the vast majority of the victims were Africans: twelve Americans (in Nairobi) and 32 Kenyan and eight Tanzanian Embassy employees were killed. The remainder of the dead were visitors, passers-by, or people in neighbouring buildings: the Nairobi embassy lay in a busy downtown location, although that.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - Operation Bojinka plot, the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Bali nightclub bombings, the failed bombing of American Airlines Flight 63, the murder of Daniel Pearl, and other al-Qaeda attacks. Mohammed has used Ashraf Refaat Nabith Henin, Khalid Adbul Wadood, Salem Ali, Abdul Majid, Abdullah al-Fak'asi al-Ghamdior, and Fahd Bin Adballah Bin Khalid as several of his 27 total aliases. Some intelligence circles have called him the "Forrest Gump of terrorism", as he had been involved with almost every single terrorist plot related to Islamist organizations in the 1990's and early 2000's, up to his capture. On March 1, 2003, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was reported to have been arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He was previously reported arrested or killed in Pakistan on September 11, 2002. He.
Jemaah Islamiyah - the activities of Jemaah Islamiyah with al-Qaeda. Jemaah Islamiyah are suspected of having executed the October 12 2002 Bali car bombing in which 202 people, mainly holidaymakers, were killed. They are also suspected of committing the Zamboanga bombings. They have also been held responsible for funding the bombings in Metro Manila, in the Philippines, which killed 27 people and injured 90 on December 30, 2000. See Rizal Day bombings. History JI was established as a loose confederation of several Islamic groups. Sometimes around 1969, two men, Abu Bakar Bashir, and Abdullah Sungkar, began an operation to propogate the belief of Darul Islam, a conservative strain of Islam. Darul Islam was almost exterminated back in the 1950's after members belonging to that sect instigated a rebellion in an effort to create an.
John Wakeham - Commons in 1974. He became a minister after Margaret Thatcher's landslide in 1979. His first wife, Roberta, was killed in the Brighton hotel bombing and he himself was trapped in rubble for seven hours. During the late eighties he served as Leader of the House of Commons, in which capacity he was responsible for the first televisings of Parliament, and as Energy Secretary (1989-1992), where he drew up plans for the privatisation of electricity. He was appointed a life peer in 1992 by John Major, and then was Leader of the House of Lords until 1994. He became chairman of the Press Complaints Commission in 1995, retiring in 2001. Tony Blair appointed him in 1999 to head a Royal Commission on reform of the House of Lords - the result report.
July 22 - person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes. 1934 - Outside Chicago, Illinois's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents. 1937 - New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States. 1942 - Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins. 1946 - King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration killing 90. 1962 - Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed. 1977 - Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power. 1991 - Serial.
Idi Amin - dictatorial regime. He came to call himself "His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular." Idi Amin was initially welcomed both within Uganda and by the international community. He gave King Freddie a state burial, freed many political prisoners, and disbanded the Secret Police. However, at the same time Amin had 'killer squads' hunting down Obote's supporters. Military leaders who had not supported the coup were executed, many by beheading. "By 1974 his regime was murdering hundreds of thousands of its own people, and Amin fed the heads of opponents to crocodiles and boasted of eating human.
Irgun - fighters, it is also known by its Hebrew acronym Etzel. Its most well known activity was the bombing of King David Hotel in Jersualem in 1946, killing close to a hundred people. It branched off Haganah in Jerusalem under Avraham Tehomi in 1931. The reasons for their withdrawal was discontent with Haganah's policy of restraint when faced with Arab and British pressure. After a short independent period, Irgun re-joined the Haganah, but never integrated with it and quit once more in 1937 because of Arab riots. Irgun adopted the revisionist views of Zeev Jabotinsky. Irgun was secretly supported from 1936 by the Polish government, who hoped that establishing a Jewish state would help emigration of Jews from Poland, who by that time constituted one of the poorer segments of Polish society..
History of Somalia - which had declared its independence from the now basically irrelevant Ottomans, had delusions of grandeur about restoring its ancient power, and set its sights on East Africa. Unfortunately for those plans, the Sudanese did not cooperate and a major anti-Mahdist revolution there shattered any hope of a neo-Egyptian empire. The few advance troops that had made it to Somalia had to be rescued by the British, and escorted back to their own side of the fence. Surprisingly the biggest threat to European colonial ambitions in Somalia came from Ethiopian Emperor Mendik II who had successfully avoided having his own country occupied, and was planning to play another round of Ethiopia's favorite national past time, i.e. "lets go conquer the Somalis". By 1900 he had seized the Ogaden region in western Somalia,.
U2 (band) - and released on video in 1989. That album became a tribute to American music, when the band recorded at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis, performed with Bob Dylan and B.B. King, and sang about blues great Billie Holiday. After taking some time off, the band met in Berlin in late 1990 to begin work on their next studio album, once again with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois producing. The original sessions did not go well, but the band eventually emerged from the studio with a new album under its belt. In November of 1991, U2 released the heavily experimental and distorted Achtung Baby. In early 1992, U2 began its first American tour in more than four years. The multimedia event known as the "Zoo TV" tour confused audiences with hundreds.
Gillian Clark - 2003) was a Canadian aid worker who was killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Iraq. Ms Clark was working for the Christian Children's Fund (CCF) at the time. She was a graduate of the University of Guelph. Around 1988 she joined the British branch of Save the Children. For her work she visited many of the worlds most poor and hopeless places, like Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Indonesia and Afghanistan. The CCF hired Clark in January to manage its efforts to help Iraqi children as war loomed, but she wasn't able to enter the country till May. Part of her work was assessing the problems faced by Iraqis, checking how children were faring psychologically and deciding how to help. On her death, CCF spokeswoman Ellie Whinnery told in an interview:.
Fiona Watson - 2003) was a Scottish aid worker who was killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Iraq. Watson was working for the United Nations as a political analyst. She had a first class honours degree from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and a masters degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge..
December 30 - freeway: the Arroyo Seco Parkway. 1943 - Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair. 1944 - King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving his throne vacant 1947 - King Michael of Romania abdicates 1948 - The play Kiss Me Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances. 1953 - The first color television sets go on sale for about USD $1,175. 1965 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines 1972 - Vietnam War: The US halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam. 1976 - The Smothers Brothers play their last show (Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas). 1980 - After 25 years, the longest-running prime-time TV series The Wonderful World of Disney is cancelled by NBC. 1993 - Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations. 1996.
