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Terrorism Timeline

Outline History of Terrorist Activity Targeting the U.S.

While the name al Qaeda is a household word in the U.S., the term Baluch still
means nothing to most Americans. But, with the exception of one Iraqi, all the
known terrorists in this chart are ethnic Baluch.

This simply indicates how little attention we were paying to the very real threat of
terrorism, as it emerged throughout the 1990s -- and how poorly it is understood
even now.

Year	Terrorist event	Terrorist (and current status)	Attribution
1993	World Trade Center Bombing	Ramzi Yousef - Nephew of KSM (convicted of terrorism) with Abdul Rahman Yasin - Iraqi, U.S. citizen (still at large, in Iraq)	NY Islamic militants (Sheikh Omar)
1993	Attempted assassination of former Pres. Bush	Iraq intelligence agency	Iraq
1995	Plot to bomb 12 U.S. commercial jetliners	Ramzi Yousef with Abdul Hakam Murad - a Baluch and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) (both are in U.S. custody)
1997	Khalid Shaikh Mohammed joins al Qaeda (in Afghanistan)
1998	Bombing of two U.S. Embassies	(Khalid Shaikh Mohammed?)
2000	Bombing of U.S.S. Cole	(Khalid Shaikh Mohammed?)
2001	9/11 Attacks - Mastermind	Khalid Shaikh Mohammed	Al Qaeda
2001	9/11 Attacks - Financing	Ali Abdul Aziz Ali - Nephew of KSM (in U.S. custody)	Al Qaeda
----	Al Qaeda mastermind	Abdul Monem - Nephew of KSM (At large)
----	Al Qaeda mastermind	Abdul Karim - Nephew of KSM (possibly in U.S. custody: aka Moussad Arouchi?)