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The target of the attack was Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, a former leader and critic of the Nation of Islam, who mailed letters to the ministers of all fifty mosques criticizing Elijah Muhammad. Seven individuals of the Black Mafia were tried and convicted. Khaalis would later lead the Hanafi Siege in 1977 to bring awareness to the killings. [17]
The worst contamination at the Capitol was in the Hart Senate Office Building. In all, five people died, and 22 people became infected with variations of anthrax disease. [43] Of those who died, two were employees of American Media, two were postal workers and one was a New York hospital employee who worked near the mail room. [44]
Map of 2,872 terrorist incidents in the contiguous United States from 1970 to 2017. KEY: Orange: 2001–2017; Green: 1970–2000 Terrorism deaths in the United States In the United States, a common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a general climate of fear to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious ...
The Qahtaniyah bombings kills nearly 800; this was the Iraq War's most deadly car bomb attack during the period of major American combat operations. It was also the third deadliest act of terrorism in history, only being surpassed by the September 11 attacks in the United States and the Camp Speicher massacre in Iraq. August 25 44: 54 ...
The Oklahoma City bombing was a truck bomb attack by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols which killed 168 people on April 19, 1995 – one of the deadliest domestic-based terrorist attack in the history of the United States.
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Many assassination attempts, both successful and unsuccessful, were motivated by a desire to change the policy of the American government. [1] Not all such attacks, however, had political reasons. Many other attackers had questionable mental stability, and a few were judged legally insane.