Attacks Linked to Osama bin Laden

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Attacks Linked to Osama bin Laden

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• Publié par: ycyzadom
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• Langue: English

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Attacks Linked to Osama bin Laden This time line lists terrorist attacks with actual or suspected links to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network between 1992 and 2002. Study the time line. Then answer the questions that follow.

Dec. 1992 Nov. 1995 Aug. 7, 1998 Bombs in Aden, Yemen, Car bomb near center Truck bombs outside U.S. embassies kill two people, narrowly operated by U.S. troops in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, miss 100 U.S. troops; in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, kill 224 people; U.S. indicts bombers never caught kills ve Americans bin Laden

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Sept. 11, 2001 Hijacked jetliners crash into World Trade Center, Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania eld, killing more than 3,000

Feb. 1993 Oct. 1993 June 1996 Oct. 21, 2000 April 11, 2002 Oct. 12, 2002 Nov. 28, 2002 Bomb exploded by Ambush in Somalia Truck bomb outside  Explosives-laden Blast at synagogue  Bomb explodes Bomb at Israeli Islamic militants kills 18 U.S. troops; Khobar Towers in boat strikes  in Tunisia kills 17;  in Bali nightclub, hotel in Kenya under World Trade United States indicts Dhahran, Saudi destroyer USSCole 16; missile nearly 200 kills German minister  killing Center in New York Osama bin Laden Arabia, kills in Aden, killing  links attack to  narrowly misses kills six, wounds for training those 19 U.S. troops 17 crew members  Al Qaeda  Israeli plane hundreds involved

1. When was the first attack 2. On which date did the in the United States?  deadliest attack occur? A Dec. 1992 A Aug. 7, 1998 B Feb. 1993 B Sept. 11, 2001 C Oct. 2000 C Oct. 12, 2002

Think About It Why might only two of the attacks have taken place on U.S. soil?

Source: AP

3. How many of the attacks 4. How were the attacks of 5. How many years apart were in Saudi Arabia? Dec. 1992, Oct. 1993, and were the attacks on the A none June 1996 similar?  World Trade Center? B one A They targeted U.S. troops. A seven C two B They took place in Africa. B eight   C They killed U.S. troops. C nine

Get Writing Research one of the attacks on the time line. Then write a news story about that attack as if it had just happened.

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